Verse 2.2.128

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.2.128:

तस्य पुत्र इव ब्रह्मा श्रूयते न हि भिद्यते ।
ब्रह्मैव लीलया तत्र मूर्तिभ्यां भाति नो मतम् ॥ १२८ ॥

tasya putra iva brahmā śrūyate na hi bhidyate |
brahmaiva līlayā tatra mūrtibhyāṃ bhāti no matam || 128 ||

tasya–of Him; putraḥ–the son; iva–like; brahmā–Brahmā; śrūyate–it is heard; na–not; ca–indeed; bhidyate–is divided; brahmā–Brahmā; eva–indeed; līlayā–by a pastime; tatra–there; mūrtibhyām–with two forms; bhāti–shines; naḥ–our; matam–opinion.

“The Śrutis tell us that Brahmājī is like the son of that Mahā-puruṣa, and thus there is no difference between them. It is our opinion that it is Śrī Brahmā who manifests in these two forms as a pastime.”

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

(By Śrīla Sanātana Gosvāmī himself including a deep purport of that commentary)

Śrī Gopa-kumāra might object, “If the Supreme Lord of the universe, Śrī Jagadīśvara, is directly present in Satyaloka, how can you glorify Śrī Brahmā as the master and supreme authority of that planet?”

To address this, Sanaka and other great sages speak this verse beginning with tasya. In the first line, they use the word iva, meaning ‘like,’ to indicate: “It is traditionally accepted and we have heard from the Śrutis that Śrī Brahmā is like a son to that thousand-headed Personality of Godhead, but there is no proof of this. We are all his sons, and so we are junior to him. We have not seen his birth; we have only heard about it.”

The doubt could be furthered, “If Brahmā is the son of the Supreme Person, then it is clear that there has to be a difference between the two of them. A son regards his father with reverence, so one is the worshiper and the other is the worshiped.”

The sages reply, “We are not of that opinion. Brahmā alone, as part of his self-determined activities, has manifested two forms of the Personality of Godhead: Catur-mukha, the Lord with four heads, and Sahasra-śīrṣā Mahā-puruṣa, the Lord with a thousand heads. Śrī Brahmā also possesses the qualities of the Lord of the universe. So our firm conclusion is that they are nondifferent.”