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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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मैत्रेय उवाच तस्मा एवं जगत्स्रष्ट्रे प्रधानपुरुषेश्वरः व्यज्येदं स्वेन रूपेण कञ्जनाभस्तिरोदधे
maitreya uvāca tasmā evaṁ jagat-sraṣṭre pradhāna-puruṣeśvaraḥ vyajyedaṁ svena rūpeṇa kañja-nābhas tirodadhe
WORD BY WORD
maitreyaḥ uvāca the sage Maitreya said; tasmai unto him; evam thus; jagat-sraṣṭre unto the creator of the universe; pradhāna-puruṣa-īśvaraḥ the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead; vyajya idam after instructing this; svena in His person; rūpeṇa by the form; kañja-nābhaḥ the Personality of Godhead Nārāyaṇa; tirodadhe disappeared.;
TRANSLATION
| The sage Maitreya said: After instructing Brahmā, the creator of the universe, to expand, the primeval Lord, the Personality of Godhead in His personal form as Nārāyaṇa, disappeared.
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PURPORT
| Before his activity in creating the universe, Brahmā saw the Lord. That is the explanation of the catuḥ-ślokī Bhāgavatam. When the creation awaited Brahmā’s activity, Brahmā saw the Lord, and therefore the Lord existed in His personal form before the creation. His eternal form is not created by the attempt of Brahmā, as imagined by less intelligent men. The Personality of Godhead appeared as He is before Brahmā, and He disappeared from him in the same form, which is not materially tinged.
| | Thus end the purports by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Svāmi Prabhupāda of the Third Canto, Ninth Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Brahmā’s Prayers for Creative Energy.”
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