SB 3.8.20

TEXT 20

TEXT

तमस्यपारे विदुरात्मसर्गं विचिन्वतो ऽभूत्सुमहांस्त्रिणेमिः ।
यो देहभाजां भयमीरयाणः परिक्षिणोत्यायुरजस्य हेतिः ॥ २० ॥

tamasy apare viduratma-sargam

vicinvato 'bhut sumahams trinemih

yo deha-bhajam bhayam irayanah

pariksinoty ayur ajasya hetih

tamasi apare-because of an ignorant way of searching; vidura-O Vidura; atma-sargam-the cause of his creation; vicinvatah-while contemplating; abhut-it so became; sumahan-very great; trinemih-time of three dimensions; yah-which; deha-bhajam-of the embodied; bhayam-fearfulness; irayanah-generating; pariksinoti-diminishing the one hundred years; ayuh-duration of life; ajasya-of the self-born; hetih-the wheel of eternal time.

TRANSLATION

O Vidura, while searching in that way about his existence, Brahma reached his ultimate time, which is the eternal wheel in the hand of Visnu and which generates fear in the mind of the living entity like the fear of death.

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