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Divisions of the Creation
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is now separated from the voice. As the tape recording is situated on the tape, so the whole cosmic manifestation is situated on the material energy and appears separate by means of  kāla . The material manifestation is therefore the objective manifestation of the Supreme Lord and exhibits His impersonal feature so much adored by impersonalist philosophers.
TEXT 13
यथेदानीं तथाग्रे च पश्चादप्येतदीदृशम् ॥१३॥
yathedānīm tathāgre ca paścād apy etad īdṛśam
yathā —as it is;  idānīm —at present;  tathā —so it was;  agre —in the beginning;  ca —and;  paścāt —at the end;  api —also;  etat īdṛśam —it continues to be the same.
TRANSLATION
This cosmic manifestation is as it is now, it was the same in the past, and it will continue in the same way in the future.
PURPORT
There is a systematic schedule for the perpetual manifestation, maintenance and annihilation of the material world, as stated in  Bhagavad-gītā  (Bg. 9.8):  bhūta-grāmam imam kṛtsnam avaśam prakṛter vaśāt . As it is created now and as it will be destroyed later on, so also it existed in the past and again will be created, maintained and destroyed in due course of time. Therefore, the systematic activities of the time factor are perpetual and eternal and cannot be stated to be false. The manifestation is temporary and occasional, but it is not false as claimed by the Māyāvādī philosophers.
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सर्गो नवविधस्तस्य प्राकृतो वैकृतस्तु यः। कालद्रव्यगुणैरस्य त्रिविधः प्रतिसंक्रमः ॥१४॥
sargo navavidhas tasya prākṛto vaikṛtas tu yaḥ