yasyamsamsamsa-bhagena

 visvotpatti-layodayah

bhavanti kila visvatmams

 tam tvadyaham gatim gata

 

Translation: 

 

O Soul of all that be, the creation, maintenance and destruction of the universe are all carried out by a fraction of an expansion of an expansion of Your expansion. Today I have come to take shelter of You, the Supreme Lord.

 

Purport: 

 

Srila Sridhara Svami explains this verse as follows: The Lord of Vaikuntha, Narayana, is but one expansion of Sri Krsna. Maha-Visnu, the first creator, is Lord Narayana’s expansion. The total material energy emanates from Maha-Visnu’s glance, and of that total material energy the three modes of nature are divided portions. Thus it is Sri Krsna, acting through His expansions, who generates, sustains and dissolves the universe.