1086 Strimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 26

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visvam atma-gatam vyaiijan
kittastho jagad-ankurah

sva-tejasdpibat tivram
atma-prasvapanam tamah

visvam—the universe; Gtma-gatam—contained within itself; vyarijan—
manifesting; kiita-sthah—unchangeable; jagat-ankurah—the root of all
cosmic manifestations; sva-tejasa—by its own effulgence;apibat—swallowed
up; tivram—dense; Gtma-prasvapanam—which had covered the mahat-
tattva; tamah—darkness.

TRANSLATION

Thus, after manifesting variegatedness, the effulgent mahat-tattva, which
contains all the universes within itself, which is the root of all cosmic
manifestations and which is not destroyed at the time of annihilation,
swallows up the darkness which covered the effulgence at the time of
dissolution.

PURPORT

Since the Supreme Personality of Godhead is ever existing, all-blissful
and full of knowledge, His different energies are also ever existing in the
dormant stage. Thus when the mahat-tattva was created, it manifested
the material ego and swallowed up the darkness which covered the cosmic
manifestation at the time of dissolution. This idea can be further explained.
A person at night remains inactive, covered by the darkness of night, but
when he is awakened in the morning, the covering of night, or the forgetful-
ness of the sleeping state, disappears. Similarly, when the mahat-tattva
appears after the night of dissolution, the effulgence is manifested to
exhibit the variegatedness of this material world.

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