Devanagari
पुराण्यनेन सृष्टानि नृतिर्यगृषिदेवता: ।
शेते जीवेन रूपेण पुरेषु पुरुषो ह्यसौ ॥ ३७ ॥
Verse text
purāṇy anena sṛṣṭāni
nṛ-tiryag-ṛṣi-devatāḥ
śete jīvena rūpeṇa
pureṣu puruṣo hy asau
Synonyms
purāṇi
—
residential places or bodies
;
anena
—
by Him (the Supreme Personality of Godhead)
;
sṛṣṭāni
—
among those creations
;
nṛ
—
man
;
tiryak
—
other than human beings (animals, birds, etc)
;
ṛṣi
—
saintly persons
;
devatāḥ
—
and demigods
;
śete
—
lies down
;
jīvena
—
with the living entities
;
rūpeṇa
—
in the form of Paramātmā
;
pureṣu
—
within these residential places or bodies
;
puruṣaḥ
—
the Supreme Lord
;
hi
—
indeed
;
asau
—
He (the Personality of Godhead) .
Translation
The Supreme Personality of Godhead has created many residential places like the bodies of human beings, animals, birds, saints and demigods. In all of these innumerable bodily forms, the Lord resides with the living being as Paramātmā. Thus He is known as the puruṣāvatāra.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
The Lord has created bodies for the jīvas in human, animal, sage and devatā forms. The Lord resides as Paramātmā in all their bodies.
One can directly offer to the Lord at the time of his descent. At other times one should offer to the devotees since it was already said that the devotee is the real recipient of offerings (sat-pātram) in verse 27. Then one should worship all living beings.
Purport
In
Bhagavad-gītā
(18.61)
it is said:
īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
hṛd-deśe ’rjuna tiṣṭhati
bhrāmayan sarva-bhūtāni
yantrārūḍhāni māyayā
“The Supreme Lord is situated in everyone’s heart, O Arjuna, and is directing the wanderings of all living entities, who are seated as on a machine, made of the material energy.” The living entity, who is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, exists on the mercy of the Lord, who is always with him in any form of body. The living entity desires a particular type of material enjoyment, and thus the Lord supplies him with a body, which is like a machine. Just to keep him alive in that body, the Lord remains with him as the
puruṣa
(Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu). This is also confirmed in
Brahma-saṁhitā
(5.35)
:
eko ’py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ
yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ
aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
“I worship the Personality of Godhead, Govinda, who enters the existence of every universe and every atom by one of His plenary portions and thus manifests His infinite energy throughout the material creation.” The living entity, being part and parcel of the Lord, is known as
jīva.
The Supreme Lord
puruṣa
remains with the
jīva
to enable him to enjoy material facilities.