394 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 10

purchased with millions of dollars, and therefore even a moment of time
lost without profit must be calculated as the greatest loss in life. Time is
not subject to any form of psychology, nor are the moments objective
realities in themselves, but they are dependent on particular experiences.

Therefore, Srila Jiva Gosvami concludes that the time factor is inter-
mixed with the activities—actions and reactions—of the external energy of
the Lord. The external energy or material nature works under the superin-
tendence of the time factor as the Lord Himself, and that is why material
nature appears to have produced so many wonderful things in the cosmic
manifestation. Bhagavad-gita confirms this conclusion as follows (Bg. 9.10):
mayadhyaksena prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram hetunanena kaunteya jagad
vipanvartate.

TEXT 12

fra tama dad feat |
fata oihert aearermaiar ie

visvam vat brahma-tan-matram
samsthitam visnu-mayaya

ifvarena paricchinnam
kalenavyakta-murtina

visvam—the material phenomenon; vai—certainly ; brakma—the Supreme;
tat-matram—the same as; samsthitam—situated; visnu-mayaya—by the
energy of Visnu; isvarena—by the Personality of Godhead; paricchinnam—
separated; kalena—by the eternal time; avyakta—unmanifested; murtina—
by such a feature.

TRANSLATION

This cosmic manifestation is separated from the Supreme Lord as
material energy by means of kala, which is the unmanifested impersonal
feature of the Lord. lt is situated as the objective manifestation of the
Lord under the influence of the same material energy of Visnu.

PURPORT

Asstated previously by Narada before Vyasadeva (Bhag.1.5.20), idarit hi
visvam bhagavan ivetarah: this unmanifested world is the selfsame Person-
ality of Godhead, but it appears to be something else beyond or besides
the Lord. It appears so because of its being separated from the Lord by
means of kala. It is something like the tape recorded voice of a person who
