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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 8]
work for some temporary benefit within perpetual bondage. One thinks himself very clever throughout his life if he is able to leave behind him a great asset of wealth for his children, and to achieve this temporary benefit he takes the risk of all sinful activities, without knowledge that such activities will keep him perpetually bound by the shackles of material bondage. Due to this polluted mentality and due to material sins, the aggregate combination of living entities appeared to be bluish. Such an impetus of activity for fruitive result is made possible by the dictation of the external energy of the Lord,  kāla .
TEXT 13
तस्यार्थस्याभिनिविष्टरे-
रन्तर्गतोऽर्थो रजसा तनीयान् ।
गुणेन कालानुगतेन विद्धः
मुष्यंस्तदाभिद्यत नाभिदेशात् ॥१३॥
tasyārthasūkṣmābhiniviṣṭa-drṣṭer
antar-gato'rtho rajasā tanīyān
guṇena kālānugatena viddhaḥ
sūṣyams tadābhidyata nābhideśāt
tasya —His;  artha —subject;  sūkṣma —subtle;  abhiniviṣṭa-drṣṭeḥ —of one whose attention was fixed;  antaḥ-gataḥ —internal;  arthaḥ —purpose;  rajasā —by the mode of passion of material nature;  tanīyān —very subtle;  guṇena —by the qualities;  kāla-anugatena —in due course of time;  viddhaḥ —agitated;  sūṣyaḥ —generating;  tat —that;  abhidyata —pierced into;  nābhideśāt —from the abdomen.
TRANSLATION
The subtle subject matter of creation, on which the Lord's attention was fixed, was agitated by the material mode of passion, and thus the subtle form of creation pierced through His abdomen.
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स पपकोशः सहसोदतिष्ठत्
कालेन कर्मप्रतिबोधनेन ।
स्वरोचिषा तत्सलिलं विशालं
विद्योतयमर्क श्वात्मयोनिः ॥१४॥