1. ISKCON Hawaii Friday, 2014 April 25 Hanumatpresaka Swami ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada ISKCON Founder-Acharya Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

2. SB 2.5.22 kālād gun ̣ a-vyatikarah ̣ parin ̣ āmah ̣ svabhāvatah ̣ karman ̣ o janma mahatah ̣ purus ̣ ādhis ̣ t ̣ hitād abhūt 2

3. SYNONYMS kālātkālāt — from eternal time; gun ̣ agun ̣ a-vyatikarah ̣ — transformation of the modes by reaction;vyatikarah ̣ parin ̣ āmah ̣ parin ̣ āmah ̣ — transformation; svabhāvatah ̣ svabhāvatah ̣ — from the nature; karman ̣ ah ̣ karman ̣ ah ̣ — of activities; janmajanma — creation; mahatah ̣ mahatah ̣ — of the mahat-tattva; purus ̣ apurus ̣ a-adhis ̣ t ̣ hitāt — because of the purus ̣ a incarnation of the Lord;adhis ̣ t ̣ hitāt abhūtabhūt — it took place karman ̣ ah ̣ karman ̣ ah ̣ — of activities; janmajanma — creation; mahatah ̣ mahatah ̣ — of the mahat-tattva; purus ̣ apurus ̣ a-adhis ̣ t ̣ hitāt — because of the purus ̣ a incarnation of the Lord;adhis ̣ t ̣ hitāt abhūtabhūt — it took place 3

4. TRANSLATION After the incarnation of the first purus ̣ a [Kāran ̣ ārn ̣ avaśāyī Vis ̣ n ̣ u], the mahat-tattva, or the principles of material creation, take place, and then time is manifested, and in course of time the three qualities appear. Nature means the three qualitative appearances. They transform into activities. 4

5. 5 After the incarnation of the first purus ̣ a, the Mahat-tattva, or the principles of material creation, take place, and then Time is manifested, and in course of time the Three qualities appear. Nature means the three qualitative appearances. They transform into activities.

6. 6 By the omnipotency of the Supreme Lord, the whole material creation evolves by the process of trans- formation and reactions one after another (parin ̣ āmah ̣ ), and by the same omnipotency, they are wound up again one after another and conserved in the body of the Supreme. Kāla, or time, is the synonym of nature and is the transformed manifestation of the principles of material creation.

7. 7 As such, kāla may be taken as the first cause of all creation, and by transformation of nature different activities of the material world become visible. These activities may be taken up as the natural instinct of each and every living being, or even of the inert objects, and after the manifestation of activities there are varieties of products and by- products of the same nature.

8. 8 Originally these are all due to the Supreme Lord. The Vedānta-sūtras and the Bhāgavatam thus begin with the Absolute Truth as the beginning of all creations (janmādy asya yatah ̣ [SB 1.1.1]).

9. 9 SB 2.5.17-22 : Inspired by Him only, I discover what is already created by Him [Nārāyan ̣ a] under His vision as the all- pervading Supersoul, and I also am created by Him only. The Supreme Lord is pure spiritual form, transcendental to all material qualities, yet for the sake of the creation of the material world and its maintenance and annihilation, He accepts through His external energy the material modes of nature called goodness, passion and ignorance. These three modes of material nature, being further manifested as: 1.Matter (dravya) 2.Knowledge and (jñāna) 3.Activities ( kartr ̣ tve, kriyāśrayāh ̣ ) Put the eternally transcendental living entity under conditions of cause and effect and make him responsible for such activities.

10. 10 O Brāhman ̣ a Nārada, the Superseer, the transcendent Lord, is beyond the perception of the material senses of the living entities because of the above-mentioned three modes of nature. But He is the controller of everyone, including me. The Lord, who is the controller of all energies, thus creates, by His own potency, 1.Eternal time, the 2.Fate of all living entities, and their 3.Particular nature, (kālam karma svabhāvam) for which they were created, and He again merges them independently. After the incarnation of the first purus ̣ a [Kāran ̣ ārn ̣ avaśāyī Vis ̣ n ̣ u], the mahat-tattva, or the principles of material creation, take place, and then time is manifested, and in course of time the three qualities appear. Nature means the three qualitative appearances. They transform into activities.

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