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carnated in four sanas [Sanaka, Sanatkumara, Sanandana and Sanatana].
In the previous creation the spiritual truth was devastated, but the four
sanas explained it so nicely that the truth at once became clearly per-
ceived by the sages.

PURPORT

In the Visnu-sahasra-nama prayers there is a mention of the Lord’s
name as sanat and sandtanatama. The Lord and the living entities are both
qualitatively sandtanam, or eternal, but the Lord is sandtanatama or the
eternal in the superlative degree. The living entities are positively
sandtanam, but not superlatively because the living entities are apt to fall
to the atmosphere of noneternity also. Therefore, the living entities are
quantitatively different from the superlative sandtana, the Lord.

The word san is also used in the sense of charity; therefore when every-
thing is given up in charity unto the Lord, the Lord reciprocates by giving
Himself unto the devotee. This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita also
(Bg. 4.11): ye yatha mam prapadyante. Brahmaji wanted to create the
whole cosmic situation as it was in the previous millennium, and
because, in the last devastation, knowledge of the Absolute Truth was
altogether erased from the universe, he desired that the same know-
ledge again be -renovated; otherwise there would be no meaning in
the creation. Because there is prime necessity for transcendental knowledge,
the ever-conditioned souls are given a chance for liberation in every
millennium of creation. This mission of Brahmaji was fulfilled by the
grace of the Lord when the four sanas, namely Sanaka, Sanatkumara,
Sanandana, and Sanatana, appeared as his four sons. These four sanas
were incarnations of the knowledge of the Supreme Lord, and as such
they explained transcendental knowledge so explicitly that all the sages
could at once assimilate this knowledge without the least difficulty. By
following in the footsteps of the four Kumaras, one can at once see the
Supreme Personality of Godhead within oneself.

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