kadācit — sometimes; īśvarasya — of the Supreme Lord; bhagavataḥ — of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; viṣṇoḥ — of Lord Viṣṇu; cakrāt — from the disc; paramāṇu-ādi — beginning from the time of minute atoms; dvi-parārdha — the duration of the life of Brahmā; apavarga — ending; kāla — of time; upalakṣaṇāt — having the symptoms; parivartitena — revolving; vayasā — by the chronological order of ages; raṁhasā — swiftly; harataḥ — taking away; ā-brahma — beginning from Lord Brahmā; tṛṇa-stamba-ādīnām — down to the small clumps of grass; bhūtānām — of all living entities; animiṣataḥ — without blinking the eyes (without fail); miṣatām — before the eyes of the living entities (without their being able to stop it); vitrasta-hṛdayaḥ — being afraid in the heart; tam — Him; eva — certainly; īśvaram — the Supreme Lord; kāla-cakra-nija-āyudham — whose personal weapon is the disc of time; sākṣāt — directly; bhagavantam — the Supreme Personality of Godhead; yajña-puruṣam — who accepts all kinds of sacrificial ceremonies; anādṛtya — without caring for; pākhaṇḍa-devatāḥ — concocted incarnations of God (man-made gods or demigods); kaṅka — buzzards; gṛdhra — vultures; baka — herons; vaṭa-prāyāḥ — like crows; ārya-samaya-parihṛtāḥ — who are rejected by authorized Vedic scriptures accepted by the Āryans; sāṅketyena — by concoction or with no basis of authority indicated by scripture; abhidhatte — he accepts as worshipable.
Translation
The personal weapon used by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the disc, is called hari-cakra, the disc of Hari. This cakra is the wheel of time. It expands from the beginning of the atoms up to the time of Brahmā’s death, and it controls all activities. It is always revolving and spending the lives of the living entities, from Lord Brahmā down to an insignificant blade of grass. Thus one changes from infancy, to childhood, to youth and maturity, and thus one approaches the end of life. It is impossible to check this wheel of time. This wheel is very exacting because it is the personal weapon of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes the conditioned soul, fearing the approach of death, wants to worship someone who can save him from imminent danger. Yet he does not care for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose weapon is the indefatigable time factor. The conditioned soul instead takes shelter of a man-made god described in unauthorized scriptures. Such gods are like buzzards, vultures, herons and crows. Vedic scriptures do not refer to them. Imminent death is like the attack of a lion, and neither vultures, buzzards, crows nor herons can save one from such an attack. One who takes shelter of unauthorized man-made gods cannot be saved from the clutches of death.
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