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[Canto 8, Ch. 24]
of these places. Although the air sometimes carries the odor of a filthy place, the air has nothing to do with such a place. Similarly, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, being all-good and all-auspicious, is never affected by the material qualities like an ordinary living entity.  Puruṣaḥ prakṛti-stho hi bhuṅkte prakṛtiyān guṇān  (Bg. 13.21). When the living entity is in the material nature, he is affected by its qualities. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, however, is not affected. Disrespectfully, one who does not know this considers the Supreme Personality of Godhead an ordinary living being ( avajānanti māṁ mūḍhāḥ ).  Paraṁ bhāvam ajānantaḥ : such a conclusion is reached by the unintelligent because they are unaware of the transcendental qualities of the Lord.
TEXT 7
आसीदतीतकल्पान्ते ब्राह्मो नैमित्तिको लयः । समुद्रोपप्लुतास्तत्र लोका भूरादयो नृप ॥ ७ ॥
āsīd atīta-kalpānte brāhmo naimittiko layaḥ samudropaplutās tatra lokā bhūr-ādayo nṛpa
āsīt—there was; atīta—past; kalpa-ante—at the end of the kalpa; brāhmaḥ—of Lord Brahmā's day; naimittikaḥ—because of that; layaḥ—inundation; samudra—in the ocean; upaplutāḥ—were inundated; tatra—there; lokāḥ—all the planets; bhūḥ-ādayaḥ—Bhūḥ, Bhuvaḥ and Svaḥ, the three lokas; nṛpa—O King.
TRANSLATION
O King Parikṣit, at the end of the past millennium, at the end of Brahmā's day, because Lord Brahmā sleeps during the night, annihilation took place, and the three worlds were covered by the water of the ocean.
TEXT 8
कालेनागतनिद्रस्य धातुः शिशयिषोर्बली । मुखतो निःसृतान् वेदान् हयग्रीवोऽन्तिकेऽहरत् ॥ ८ ॥