SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 16

ahankaratmakam visvam tasmad etad vyajayata [16]

Translation: This world of mundane ego has been born of Sambhu. This is Sambhu’s function in relationship with the jivas.

Purport: The most original unadulterated entity is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the all-truth, free from any conception of separate egoism. The separate masculine organic egoism, that is, the separate symbolic existence that appears in the mundane world, is only an illusory reflection of that pure existence; and represented by the original Sambhu, that existence unites with the distorted representation of Ramadevi, the mayik, or mundane, female womb receptacle principle; at that point, Sambhu is represented as the efficient cause only in terms of elementary matter. Again, when in the course of evolution all the universes are manifest the evolved conception of Rudra also appears within the entity of Sambhu who is, as previously explained, born from the brow of Maha-Vishnu; however, the entity of Sambhu is constitutionally egoistic (ahankaratmaka) in all circumstances.

When the endless jivas—who are sparks of chit, or transcendental consciousness, emanating from the chit rays of Paramatman—identify themselves in the (pure) ego of exclusive servitors of the Supreme Lord, their relationship with the mayik world no longer endures; they become members of the Vaikuntha world. When they forget that ego and want to become enjoyers of Maya, the egoistic principle of Sambhu enters their existence and gives them the frame of reference of being separate enjoyers.

Thus, Sambhu is the basic truth underlying the egoistic world and the mundane bodily ego of the jivas.

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