Text 8] Entanglement in Fruitive Activities 1375

path one can be freed from the contamination of the material modes of
nature; by that path one can enter into the kingdom where the completely
perfect Personality of Godhead resides. The words purusam visvato-mukham
mean the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-perfect. All living
entities other than the Supreme Personality of Godhead are very small,
although they may be big by our calculation. Everyone is infinitesimal,
and therefore in the Vedas the Supreme Lord is called the Supreme Eternal
amongst all eternals. He is the proprietor of the material and spiritual
worlds and the supreme cause of manifestation. Material nature is only
the ingredient because actually the manifestation is caused by His energy.
The material energy is also His energy; just as the combination of father
and mother is the cause of childbirth, so the combination of the material
energy and the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause
of the manifestation of the material world. The efficient cause, therefore,
is not matter, but the Lord Himself.

TEXT 8

fiouaizaa a: seat aad 2 |
MATA BWR Wea qaeaa ll cil

dvi-parardhavasane yah
pralayo brahmanas tu te

tavad adhyasate lokam
parasya para-cintakah

dvi-parérdha—two parardhas; avasdne—at the end of; yah—which;
pralayah—death; brahmanah—of Lord Brahma; tu—indeed; te—they; tavat—
so long; adhydsate— dwell; lokam—on the planet; parasya—of the Supreme;
para-cintakah—thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

TRANSLATION

Worshipers of the Hiranyagarbha expansion of the Personality of
Godhead remain within this material world until the end of two parardhas,
when Lord Brahmi also dies.

PURPORT

One dissolution is at the end of Brahma’s day, and one is at the end of
Brahma’s life. Brahma dies at the end of two parardhas, at which time the
