Text 182] The Liberation of Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya 303
svagamaih kalpitais tvam ca
jandn mad-vimukhan kuru
mam ca gopaya yena syat
srstir esottarottara
SYNONYMS
sva-4gamaih—with your own theses; kalpitaih—imagined; tvam—you; ca—
also; janan—the people in general; mat-vimukhan—averse to Me and addicted
to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge; kuru—make; maém—Me, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca—and; gopaya—just cover; yena—by
which; syat—there may be; srstih—material advancement; es4—this; uttarot-
tard—more and more.
TRANSLATION
“Addressing Lord Siva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said, ‘Please
make the general populace averse to Me by imagining your own interpretation
of the Vedas. Also, cover Me in such a way that people will take more interest
in advancing material civilization just to propagate a population bereft of
spiritual knowledge.’
PURPORT
This is a quotation from the Padma Purana, Uttara-khanda (62.31).
TEXT 182
WR ARAARTAS AHR CABABITT |
maa fafews cafe sea arargf emi I se I
mayavadam asac-chastram
pracchannam bauddham ucyate
mayaiva vihitarh devi
kalau brahmana-mértina
SYNONYMS
mayavadam—the philosophy of Mayavada; asat-sdstram—false scriptures;
pracchannam—covered; bauddham—Buddhism; ucyate—it is said; mayé—by
me; eva—only; vihitam—executed; devi—O goddess of the material world;
kalau —in the age of Kali; brahmana-mdrtina—having the body of a brahmana.
TRANSLATION
“Lord Siva informed the goddess Durga, the superintendent of the material
world, ‘In the age of Kali, | take the form of a brahmana and explain the Vedas
through false scriptures in an atheistic way, similar to Buddhist philosophy.’ ”
