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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 32]
karṭṛtvāt saguṇam brahma puruṣam puruṣarṣabham
sa saṁsṛtya punaḥ kāle kāleneśvara-mūrtinā jāte guṇa-vyatikare yathā-pūrvam prajāyate
aiśvaryam pārameṣṭhyam ca te 'pi dharma-vinirmitam niṣevya punar āyānti guṇa-vyatikare sati
ādyaḥ—the creator, Lord Brahmā; sthira-carāṇām—of the immobile and mobile manifestations; yaḥ—he who; veda-garbhaḥ—the repository of the Vedas; saha—along with; rṣibhiḥ—the sages; yoga-tśvaraiḥ—with great mystic yogīs; kumāra-ādyaiḥ—the Kumāras and others; siddhaiḥ—with the perfected living beings; yoga-pravartakaiḥ—the authors of the yoga system; bheda-drṣṭyā—because of independent vision; abhimānena—by misconception; niḥsaṅgena—nonfruitive; api—although; karmaṇā—by their activities; karṭṛtvāt—from the sense of being a doer; sa-guṇam—possessing spiritual qualities; brahma—Brahman; puruṣam—the Personality of Godhead; puruṣa-rṣabham—the first puruṣa incarnation; saḥ—he; saṁsṛtya—having attained; punaḥ—again; kāle—at the time; kālena—by time; tśvara-mūrtinā—the manifestation of the Lord; jāte guṇa-vyatikare—when the interaction of the modes arises; yathā—as; pūrvam—previously; prajāyate—is born; aiśvaryam—opulence; pārameṣṭhyam—royal; ca—and; te—the sages; api—also; dharma—by their pious activities; vinirmitam—produced; niṣevya—having enjoyed; punaḥ—again; āyānti—they return; guṇa-vyatikare sati—when the interaction of the modes takes place.
TRANSLATION
My dear mother, someone may worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead with a special self-interest, but even demigods such as Lord Brahmā, great sages such as Sanat-kumāra, and great munis such as Marīci have to come back to the material world again at the time of creation. When the interaction of the three modes of material nature begins, Brahmā, who is the creator of this cosmic manifestation and who is full of Vedic knowledge, and the great sages, who are the authors of the