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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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gaṇaṁ sāṁvartakaṁ nāma
meghānāṁ cānta-kārīṇām
indraḥ pracodayat kruddho
vākyaṁ cāheśa-māny uta
WORD BY WORD
TRANSLATION
 | Angry Indra sent forth the clouds of universal destruction, known as Sāṁvartaka. Imagining himself the supreme controller, he spoke as follows.
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PURPORT
| | The word īśa-mānī here is very significant. Indra arrogantly considered himself to be the Lord, and thus he exhibited the typical attitude of a conditioned soul. Many thinkers in the twentieth century have noted the exaggerated sense of individual prestige characteristic of our culture; indeed, writers have even coined the phrase “the me generation.” Everyone in this world is more or less guilty of the syndrome called īśa-māna, or proudly considering oneself the Lord.
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