Text 42] Calculation of Time, from the Atom 439

TEXT 42

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tad ahur aksaram brahma
sarva-karana-karanam

visnor dhama param saksat
purusasya mahatmanah

tat—that; ahuh—is said; aksaram—infallible; brahma—the supreme;
sarva-karana—all causes; karanam—the supreme cause; visnoh dhama—the
spiritual abode of Visnu; param—the supreme; saksat—without doubt;
purusasya—of the purusa incarnation; mahatmanah—of the Maha-Visnu.

TRANSLATION

The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, is therefore said to be
the original cause of all causes. Thus the spiritual abode of Visnu is eternal
without a doubt, and it is also the abode of Maha-Visnu, the origin of all
manifestation.

PURPORT

Lord Maha-Visnu, who is resting in yoga-nidra on the Causal Ocean and
creating innumerable universes by His breathing process, only temporarily
appears in the mahat-tattva for the temporary manifestation of the
material worlds. He is a plenary portion of Lord Sri Krsna, and thus
although He is nondifferent from Lord Krsna, His formal appearance in the
material world as an incarnation is temporary. The original form of the
Personality of Godhead is actually the svarupa or real form, and He
eternally resides in the Vaikuntha world (Visnuloka). The word mahat-
manah is used here to indicate Maha-Visnu, and His real manifestatien is
Lord Krsna, who is called parama, as confirmed in the Brahma-samhita:

isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
anadir adir govindah sarva-karana-karanam
“The Supreme Lord is Krsna, the original Personality of Godhead known

as Govinda. His form is eternal, full of bliss and knowledge, and He is the
original cause of all causes.”

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta Purports of the Third Canto, Eleventh
Chapter, of the Srimad-Bhagavatam, entitled “Calculation of Time, from
the Atom.”
