Devanagari
सत्त्वं रजस्तम इति गुणास्तद्वृत्तयश्च या: ।
त्वय्यद्धा ब्रह्मणि परे कल्पिता योगमायया ॥ १३ ॥
Verse text
sattvam rajas tama iti
guṇās tad-vṛttayaś ca yāḥ
tvayy addhā brahmaṇi pare
kalpitā yoga-māyayā
Synonyms
sattvam rajaḥ tamaḥ iti
—
known as goodness, passion and ignorance
;
guṇāḥ
—
the modes of material nature
;
tat
—
their
;
vṛttayaḥ
—
functions
;
ca
—
and
;
yāḥ
—
which
;
tvayi
—
within You
;
addhāḥ
—
manifestly
;
brahmaṇi
—
within the Absolute Truth
;
pare
—
supreme
;
kalpitāḥ
—
arranged
;
yoga
—
māyayā — by Yoga-māyā (the internal potency of the Supreme Lord that facilitates His pastimes) .
Translation
The modes of material nature — namely goodness, passion and ignorance — together with all their functions, become directly manifest within You, the Supreme Absolute Truth, by the arrangement of Your Yoga-māyā.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The modes of material nature—namely goodness, passion and ignorance—together with all their functions, become directly manifest within You, the Supreme Absolute Truth, by the arrangement of Your Yogamāyā.
KB 10.85.13
“The three qualities of material nature—sattva, rajas and tamas—and the result of their interaction are linked up with You by Your agency of yogamāyā. They are supposed to be independent, but actually the total material energy rests upon You, the Supersoul. Since You are the supreme cause of everything, the interactions of the material manifestation—birth, growth, existence, transformation, deterioration and annihilation—are all absent in You. Your supreme energy, yogamāyā, is acting in variegated manifestations, but because yogamāyā is Your energy, You are therefore present in everything.”
Purport
Vasudeva’s description of how the Supreme Lord expands Himself into the products of the three material modes may possibly be misunderstood to imply that He is touched by the modes, or even that He is subject to destruction. To negate these misunderstandings, Vasudeva states here that the three modes and their products function by the arrangement of the Lord’s creative energy, Yoga-māyā, who is always completely under His control. Thus the Lord is never tainted in the least by any material contact.
Purport (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
"If I am pradhana then I will be subject to change just as the pradhana transforms into objects of this world, as pradhana is the cause of the universe." The counterargument is given in two verses.
"The three gunas which are also called pradhana, and which undergo transformations such as mahat tattva(vrttayah), all of these have been produced by your inconceivable spiritual energy yogamaya, within you, who are beyond the gunas (pare). They are not actually within you, they have been produced under your glance."
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
“Because of the variety of śaktis, by their faults I also will be considered faulty.” The guṇas are produced by you acintya-śakti (yoga-māyā) inherent in your svarūpa. Though the guṇas are within you, you are not touched by them.
mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā
mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na cāhaṁ teṣv avasthitaḥ
By me, in my unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in me, but I am not in them. BG 9.4
na ca mat-sthāni bhūtāni paśya me yogam aiśvaram
bhūta-bhṛn na ca bhūta-stho mamātmā bhūta-bhāvanaḥ
And yet everything that is created does not rest in me. Behold my mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities and although I am everywhere, I am not a part of this cosmic manifestation, for I am the very source of creation. BG 9.5
Purport (Sanatana Goswami)
“Since the śaktis like the glow of the moon are my śaktis, why are they temporary? If they are temporary why I am not temporary?” Two verses explain. Though the supreme Brahman is not produced, by your acintya-śakti (yoga-māyayā), they are directly (addhā) produced. Or they are produced in you, though you are the supreme Lord. They are not produced directly within your personal form, but in your form of Brahman. By the power of the Lord things related to the Lord are eternal. If there is only oneness in Brahman, it would mean that things related to you would be false.