TRANSLATION

"Addressing Lord Siva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said, 'Please make the general populace averse to Me by imagining your own interpretation of the Vedas. Also, cover Me in such a way that people will take more interest in advancing material civilization just to propagate a population bereft of spiritual knowledge.'

This is a quotation from the Padma Purana, Uttara-khanda (62.31).

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