SB 3.26.20
TEXT 20
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TEXT
विश्वमात्मगतं व्यञ्जन् कूटस्थो जगदङ्कुरः ।
स्वतेजसापिबत्तीव्रम् आत्मप्रस्वापनं तमः ॥ २० ॥ visvam atma-gatam vyanjan
kutastho jagad-aṅkurah
sva-tejasapibat tivram
atma-prasvapanam tamah
visvam-the universe; atma-gatam-contained within itself; vyanjan-manifesting; kuta-sthah-unchangeable; jagat-aṅkurah-the root of all cosmic manifestations; sva-tejasa-by its own effulgence; apibat-swallowed up; tivram-dense; atma-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.
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 forgetfulness 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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