🪷 ŚB 2.5.21

Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.

Sanskrit

कालं कर्म स्वभावं च मायेशो मायया स्वया ।
आत्मन् यद‍ृच्छया प्राप्तं विबुभूषुरुपाददे ॥ २१ ॥

Transliteration

kālaṁ karma svabhāvaṁ ca
māyeśo māyayā svayā
ātman yadṛcchayā prāptaṁ
vibubhūṣur upādade

Synonyms

kālam — eternal time; karma — the fate of the living entity; svabhāvam — nature; ca — also; māyā — potency; īśaḥ — the controller; māyayā — by the energy; svayā — of His own; ātman (ātmani) — unto His Self; yadṛcchayā — independently; prāptam — being merged in; vibubhūṣuḥ — appearing differently; upādade — accepted for being created again.

Translation

The Lord, who is the controller of all energies, thus creates, by His own potency, eternal time, the fate of all living entities, and their particular nature, for which they were created, and He again merges them independently.

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