निवासीनि शरीराणि गृह्णाति परमेश्वरः ।विश्वरचनामयक्रीडास्वभावेन, दुःखरूपतया वेदयिष्यमाणानि नरके, अथवा दुःखं वेदयिष्यमाणं नरके येषु तानि मायात्मकनियतिशक्तिवशात् पापकर्मकारीणि इह शरीराणि गृह्णाति, तथा नरक एवार्णवः तत्कुक्षावगाधभीषणे निवासीनि सन्ति तत्कर्मफलैः संबन्धमागमिष्यन्ति ।परमेश्वरो नरकेऽपि स एवास्ते, नतु तदतिरिक्तः कश्चिदस्तीत्यैक्यमेव स्थिरीकृतम् ॥ ३६ ॥एतदेव लौकिकदृष्टान्तेनाहयथा नृपः सार्वभौमः प्रभावामोदभावितः ॥ ३७ ॥
In plain words
bodies dwelling there, the Supreme Lord takes on. ‘In play’: by his nature, which is play made of the shaping of the universe. ‘To be felt as painful’: to be felt in hell as having the form of pain; or else, those in which pain is to be felt in hell. Such bodies, doing evil karma, through the power of niyati, whose nature is māyā, he takes on here; and so, in hell, which is itself the ocean, in its belly, fathomless and terrible, they are ‘dwelling’, and they will come into connection with the fruits of that karma. The Supreme Lord himself is there even in hell, and there is no one besides him: in this way oneness alone is made firm. This same thing he says by an example from the world: Just as a king who rules the whole earth, filled with the delight of his majesty,