SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 17

atha tais trividhair vesair lilam udvahatah kila
yoganidra bhagavati tasya srir iva sangata [17]

Translation: Thereafter, that Supreme Personality of Godhead, having entered the universe in the guises of Vishnu, Brahma and Sambhu, enacts His pastimes of sustenance, creation and annihilation. These pastimes pertain to the mundane world; thus, since they are of a lower order, the Lord remains aloof, consorting with His Yoganidra, who is an aspect of His divine potency in His inherent existence as Vishnu. She is the female embodiment of His trance of intrinsic divine ecstasy.

Purport: As separated parts (vibhinnamsa) of the entity of the Lord, both Prajapati and Sambhu are within the purview of separate egoism and thus each consort with their own alternate potencies in the forms of Savitri and Uma. Only Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead Vishnu, is the Lord of the divine, or chit, potency personified in the form of Rama or Sri.

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