Verse 2.2.141

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 2.2.141:

निद्रा-लीलां प्रभुर् भेजे लोक-पद्मेऽस्य नाभिजे ।
सृष्टि-रीतिं विधिर् वीक्ष्य स्व-कृत्यायाभवद् बहिः ॥ १४१ ॥

nidrā-līlāṃ prabhur bheje loka-padme'sya nābhije |
sṛṣṭi-rītiṃ vidhir vīkṣya sva-kṛtyāyābhavad bahiḥ || 141 ||

nidrā–of sleep; līlām–pastimes; prabhuḥ–the Lord; bheje–revealed; loka–which contains all the planets; padme–in the lotus flower; asya–His; nābhi-je–born from His navel; sṛṣṭi-rītim–the process of creation; vidhiḥ–Brahmā; vīkṣya–after understanding; sva-kṛtyāya–for the performance of his own duties; abhavat–he became situated; bahiḥ–in the external world.

O brāhmaṇa, thereafter, the Lord exhibited His pastime of sleep. Śrī Brahmā meanwhile studied the lotus that had emanated from the Lord’s navel and was able to acquire the knowledge required for generating the material universe. Then he left to perform his duty of creation.

Commentary: Dig-darśinī-ṭīkā with Bhāvānuvāda

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

The brāhmaṇa may ask, “Then what happened? What pastime did the Lord manifest?”

Śrī Gopa-kumāra replies in this verse beginning with nidrā. He says, “The Lord performed the pastime of sleeping.” Factually, though, Śrī Bhagavān, who is the embodiment of consciousness, never sleeps. “The lotus emanating from the navel of the Lord contains the fourteen planetary systems in their essential forms. Śrī Brahmā studied that lotus and was thereby able to understand the process of fulfilling his duty of creating the universe and how to complete the work quickly. Thereafter, to execute his duties, he left the abode of Bhagavān and went to his own residence.”