HV 3.2
प्रजाः सृजेति व्यादिष्टः पूर्वं दक्षः स्वयंभुवा । यथा ससर्ज भूतानि तथा शृणु महीपते ॥
prajāḥ sṛjeti vyādiṣṭaḥ pūrvaṃ dakṣaḥ svayaṃbhuvā | yathā sasarja bhūtāni tathā śṛṇu mahī-pate
'Create creatures!' — thus commanded by Svayaṃbhū in the beginning, Dakṣa, and how he created beings — hear, O earth-lord.
The Living Words
*Prajāḥ sṛjeti vyādiṣṭaḥ*, 'ordered "create creatures"'. *Dakṣaḥ svayaṃbhuvā pūrvam*, 'Dakṣa, by Svayaṃbhū, in the beginning'. *Yathā sasarja bhūtāni*, 'how he created beings'.
The Heart of It
The verse names the chain-of-command at creation. *Prajāḥ sṛjeti vyādiṣṭaḥ* — 'ordered: create'. Creation is itself a command received and obeyed. The Varkari tradition's teaching: even the Prajāpati creates under *vyādeśa*, order from above. Jñāneśvar's Haripāṭh's teaching that no creative work is self-originated — that every creator creates *vyādiṣṭaḥ*, ordered from above — has HV 3.2 as its Sanskrit ground. The bhakta's own creative work is also this: not self-generated but commanded.