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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 24]
TEXT 65
स एष लोकानतिचण्डवेगो 
    विकर्षसि त्वं खलु कालयानः । 
    भूतानि भूतैरनुमेयतत्त्वो 
    घनावलीवायुरिवाविषह्यः ॥६५॥
sa eṣa lokān ati-caṇḍa-vego 
    vikarṣasi tvaṁ khalu kālayānaḥ 
    bhūtāni bhūtair anumeya-tattvo 
    ghanāvalīr vāyur ivāviṣahyaḥ
saḥ—that; eṣaḥ—this; lokān—all the planetary systems; ati—very much; caṇḍa-vegaḥ—the great force; vikarṣasi—destroys; tvaṁ—Your Lordship; khalu—however; kālayānaḥ—in due course of time; bhūtāni—all living entities; bhūtaiḥ—by other living entities; anumeya-tattvaḥ—the Absolute Truth can be guessed; ghana-āvalīḥ—the clouds; vāyuḥ—air; iva—like; aviṣahyaḥ—unbearable.
TRANSLATION
My dear Lord, Your absolute authority cannot be directly experienced, but one can guess by seeing the activities of the world that everything is being destroyed in due course of time. The force of time is very strong, and everything is being destroyed by something else—just as one animal is being eaten by another animal. Time scatters everything, exactly as the wind scatters clouds in the sky.
PURPORT
The process of destruction is going on according to the law of nature. Nothing within this material world can be permanent, although scientists, philosophers, workers and everyone else are trying to make things permanent. One foolish scientist recently declared that eventually life will be made permanent through science. Some so-called scientists are also trying to manufacture living entities within the laboratory. Thus in one way or another everyone is busy denying the existence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and rejecting the supreme authority of the Lord. However, the Lord is so powerful that He destroys everything in the form of death. As Kṛṣṇa says in  Bhagavad-gītā:mṛtyuḥ sarva-haraś cāham . “I am all-devouring death.” (Bg. 10.34) The Lord is just like death to the atheists, for He takes away everything they accumulate in the material world. Hiraṇyakaśipu, the father of Prahlāda, always denied the existence of the Lord, and he