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TEXT 12
catur-yuganam ca sahasram apsu
svapan svayodiritaya sva-saktya
kalakhyayasadita-karma-tantro
lokan apitan dadrse sva-dehe
SYNONYMS
catuhfour; yuganamof the millenniums; caalso; sahasramone thousand; apsuin the water; svapandreaming in sleep; svayawith His internal potency; udiritayafor further development; sva-saktyaby His own energy; kala-akhyayaby the name kala; asaditabeing so engaged; karma-tantrahin the matter of fruitive activities; lokanthe total living entities; apitanbluish; dadrsesaw it so; sva-dehein His own body.
TRANSLATION
The Lord lay down for four thousand yuga cycles in His internal potency, and by His external energy He appeared to be sleeping within the water. When the living entities were coming out for further development of their fruitive activities, actuated by the energy called kala-sakti, He saw His transcendental body as bluish.
PURPORT
In the Visnu Purana, kala-sakti is mentioned as avidya. The symptom of the influence of the kala-sakti is that one has to work in the material world for fruitive results. The fruitive workers are described in Bhagavad-gita as mudhas, or foolish. Such foolish living entities are very enthusiastic to work for some temporary benefit within perpetual bondage. One thinks himself very clever throughout his life if he is able to leave behind him a great asset of wealth for his children, and to achieve this temporary benefit he takes the risk of all sinful activities, without knowledge that such activities will keep him perpetually bound by the shackles of material bondage. Due to this polluted mentality and due to material sins, the aggregate combination of living entities appeared to be bluish. Such an impetus of activity for fruitive result is made possible by the dictation of the external energy of the Lord, kala.
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