Text 17]
The Lord in the Heart
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na yatra kālo 'nimiṣām paraḥ prabhuḥ kuto nu devā jagatām ya īśire na yatra sattvam na rajas tamaś ca na vai vikāro na mahān pradhānam
na—not; yatra—wherein; kālaḥ—destructive time; animiṣām—of the heavenly demigods; paraḥ—superior; prabhuḥ—controller; kutaḥ—where is there; nu—certainly; devāḥ—the demigods; jagatām—the mundane creatures; ye—those; īśire—rules; na—no; yatra—therein; sattvam—mundane goodness; na—nor; rajaḥ—mundane passion; tamaḥ—mundane ignorance; ca—also; na—nor; vai—certainly; vikāraḥ—transformation; na—nor; mahān—the material causal ocean; pradhānam—material nature.
TRANSLATION
In that transcendental state of labdhopaśānti there is no supremacy of devastating time, which controls even the celestial demigods (and what to speak of the demigods themselves?) who are empowered to rule over mundane creatures. Nor is there the mode of material goodness, nor passion, nor ignorance, nor even the false ego, nor the material Causal Ocean, nor the material nature.
PURPORT
Devastating time, which controls even the celestial demigods by its manifestations of past, present and future, does not act on the transcendental plane. The influence of time is exhibited by the symptoms of birth, death, old age and disease, and these four principles of material conditions are present everywhere in any part of the material cosmos up to the planet Brahmaloka, where the duration of life of the inhabitants appears to us to be fabulous. Insurmountable time even brings about the death of Brahmā, so what to speak of other demigods like Indra, Candra, Sūrya, Vāyu, Varuṇa, etc.? The astronomical influence directed by the different demigods over mundane creatures is also conspicuous by its absence. In the material existence, the living entities are afraid of Satanic influence, but for a devotee on the transcendental plane there is no such fear at all. The living entities change their material bodies in different shapes and forms under the influence of the different modes of material nature, but in the transcendental state the devotee is  guṇātīta , or above the material modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, and as such the false ego of “I am the