1230 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 29

Devahiti requests her glorious son, Kapila Muni, to explain about this
continued journey to impress upon the conditioned souls that they are
undergoing a path of degradation by not understanding the path of
bhakti-yoga, devotional service.

TEXT 4

MOVIES TW awa 7!
wet Ta Fahd Tad: FAS Fa HV II

kalasyesvara-riipasya
paresam ca parasya te

svariipam bata kurvanti
yad-dhetoh kusalam janah

kalasya—of time;isvara-ripasya—a representation of the Lord; paresam—
of all others; ca—and; parasya—the chief; te—of You; sva-ripam—the
nature; bata—oh; kurvanti—perform; yat-hetoh—by whose influence;
kusalam—pious activities; janadh—people in general.

TRANSLATION

Please also describe eternal time, which is a representation of Your
form and by whose influence people in general engage in the performance
of pious activities.

PURPORT

However ignorant one may be regarding the path of good fortune and
the path down to the darkest region of ignorance, everyone is aware of the
influence of eternal time, which devours all the effects of our material
activities. The body is born at a certain time, and immediately the influence
of time acts upon it. From the date of the birth of the body, the influence
of death is also acting; the advancement of age entails the influence of
time on the body. If a man is thirty or fifty years old, then the influence
of time has already devoured thirty or fifty years of the duration of his
life.

Everyone is conscious of the last stage of life, when he will meet the
cruel hands of death, but some consider their age and circumstances,
concern themselves with the influence of time, and thus engage in pious
activities so that in the future they will not be put into a low family or an
