436 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 11
PURPORT

The great sage Maitreya has given a considerable description of the time
of different dimensions, beginning from the atom up to the duration of the
life of Brahma. Now he attempts to give some idea of the time of the
unlimited Personality of Godhead. He just gives a hint of His unlimited
time by the standard of the life of Brahma. The entire duration of the life
of Brahma is calculated to be less than a second of the Lord’s time, and it
is explained in the Brahma-samhita as follows:

yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya
Jivanti loma-vilaja jagadanda-nathah
visnur mahan sa tha yasya kala-viseso
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami (3s. 5.48)

“I worship Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all
causes, whose plenary portion is Maha-Visnu. All the heads of the innumer-
able universes [the Brahmas] live only by taking shelter of the time occu-
pied by one of His breaths.” The impersonalists do not believe in the
form of the Lord, and thus they would hardly bclieve in the Lord’s
sleeping. Their idea is obtained by a poor fund of knowledge; they cal-
culate everything in terms of man’s capacity. They think that the exis-
tence of the Supreme is just the opposite of active human existence; be-
cause the human being has senses, therefore the Supreme must be without
sense perception; because the human being has a form, therefore the
Supreme must be formless; and because the human being sleeps, therefore
the Supreme must not sleep. Srimad-Bhagavatam, however, does not agree
with such impersonalists. It is clearly stated herein that the Supreme Lord
rests in yoga-nidra, as previously discussed. And because He sleeps,
naturally He must breathe, and the Brahma-samhita confirms that within
His breathing period innumerable Brahmas take birth and die.

There is complete agreement between Srimad-Bhagavatam and the
Brahma-samhita. Eternal time is never lost along with the life of Brahma.
It continues, but it has no capacity to control the Supreme Personality of
Godhead because the Lord is the controller of time. In the spiritual world
there is undoubtedly time, but it has no control over activities. Time is
unlimited, and the spiritual world is also unlimited, since everything there
exists on the absolute plane.

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