varsa-puga-many years; sahasra-ante-of thousands of years; tat-that; andam-the universal globe; udake-in the causal water; sayam-being drowned; kala-eternal time; karma-action; svabhava-sthah-according to the modes of nature; jivah-the Lord of the living beings; ajivam-non-animated; ajivayat-caused to be animated.