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Entanglement in Fruitive Activities
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path one can be freed from the contamination of the material modes of nature; by that path one can enter into the kingdom where the completely perfect Personality of Godhead resides. The words  puruṣam viśvato-mukham  mean the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-perfect. All living entities other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead are very small, although they may be big by our calculation. Everyone is infinitesimal, and therefore in the  Vedas  the Supreme Lord is called the Supreme Eternal amongst all eternals. He is the proprietor of the material and spiritual worlds and the supreme cause of manifestation. Material nature is only the ingredient because actually the manifestation is caused by His energy. The material energy is also His energy; just as the combination of father and mother is the cause of childbirth, so the combination of the material energy and the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the manifestation of the material world. The efficient cause, therefore, is not matter, but the Lord Himself.
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द्विपरार्धावसाने यः प्रलयो ब्रह्मणस्तु ते । तावदध्यासते लोकं परस्य परचिन्तकाः ॥ ८ ॥
dvi-parārdhāvasāne yaḥ pralayo brahmaṇas tu te tāvad adhyāsate lokam parasya para-cintakāḥ
dvi-parārdha—two parārdhas; avasāne—at the end of; yaḥ—which; pralayaḥ—death; brahmaṇaḥ—of Lord Brahmā; tu—indeed; te—they; tāvat—so long; adhyāsate—dwell; lokam—on the planet; parasya—of the Supreme; para-cintakāḥ—thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TRANSLATION
Worshipers of the Hiraṇyagarbha expansion of the Personality of Godhead remain within this material world until the end of two parārdhas, when Lord Brahmā also dies.
PURPORT
One dissolution is at the end of Brahmā's day, and one is at the end of Brahmā's life. Brahmā dies at the end of two  parārdhas , at which time the