Chapter 11, Verse 38
Part of 11: Viśhwarūp Darśhan Yog — विश्वरूपदर्शनयोगत्वमादिदेवः पुरुषः पुराण स्त्वमस्य विश्वस्य परं निधानम्। वेत्तासि वेद्यं च परं च धाम त्वया ततं विश्वमनन्तरूप॥
tvam ādi-devaḥ puruṣhaḥ purāṇas tvam asya viśhvasya paraṁ nidhānam vettāsi vedyaṁ cha paraṁ cha dhāma tvayā tataṁ viśhvam ananta-rūpa
You are the primal God, the ancient Purusha, the supreme refuge of this universe, the knower, the knowable, and the supreme Abode. Through You, the universe is pervaded, O Being of infinite forms.
Primal God, because the Lord is the creator of the universe. Purusha, because the Lord lies in the body (Puri Sayanat). Nidhaanam That in which the world rests during the great deluge or cosmic dissolution. The pot comes out of the clay and gets merged in clay. Even so the world has come out of the Lord and gets dissolved or involved in the Lord. So the Lord is the material cause of the world. Therefore? He is the primal God and the supreme refuge also. Vetta Knower of the knowable things. As the Lord is omniscient? He knows all about the world, and He is the instrumental or the efficient cause of this world. Param Dhama Supreme Abode of Vishnu. Just as the rope (the substratum for the superimposed snake) pervades the snake, so also Brahman or Vishnu through His Nature as ExistenceKnowledgeBliss Absolute pervades the whole universe. Moreover --