TIME "Happiness
is a choice that requires effort at
times." Ok
Murphy, now it's your turn.
As
you grow older, you stand for more and fall
for less. You
can only be young once, but you can be
immature forever. Many
use their youth to make their old age
miserable The
sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to
catch up. Take a
little time to do whatever makes a happy
you. Dawn:
the time when people of reason go to
bed.
Indecision becomes decision with
time. A garden
is a friend you can visit any
time. When
time has run its course, honorable men will
triumph. Every
time you lend money to a friend you damage his
memory. We learn
to love that to which we give our
time. It takes
a long time to grow an old
friend. Every
time we open our mouths, men look into our
minds. It
usually takes a long time to find a shorter
way. Don't
plant seeds: it is time to
harvest. A
stitch in time would have confused
Einstein. Time
ripens all things. No man is born
wise. The way
to kill time profitably is to work it to
death. Time
flies, but remember: you are the
navigator. Wake up
- the time is Now! Wasting
time is an important part of
life. Worry
takes as much time as work and pays
less. Time is
ready cash - use it wisely. If you
aim for nothing, you'll hit it every
time. The time
I know myself is the time
natural unknown
The
trouble with our times is that the future is
not what it used to be.
Paul
Valery The
year turns about in its own
course. (Het
jaar draait in zijn eigen spoor
rond.) (Vergilius,
Georgica) "The
moment has no time"
Leonardo
Da Vinci Leonardo
Da Vinci, Notebooks iX Vyâsadeva
in the Srîmad
Bhâgavatam
on
time:
CANTO
1 S.B.
1.6:8-9 While
attending the school of the learned, I, being
only five years old, lived depending on her,
having no experience with the direction of
time and the country.When once she went out
at night for milking a cow, she was bitten in
the leg by a snake on the path and thus she
fell victim of the supreme time.
S.B.
1.8: 28 I
consider You to be the eternal time that is
without a beginning or an end - the
all-pervasive one distributing your mercy
everywhere equally among the beings living in
the dissent of social intercourse.
S.B.
1.9: 14 All
this, I think, is the result of the workings
of time, as also with you, however detestable
the rulers might be, the time rules as
everywhere - just like the wind carrying a
line of clouds. S.B.
1.9: 15 And
where there is Yudhisthira, the son of the
ruler of religion, Bhîma with his
mighty club, Arjuna carrying his
Gândiva and our well-wisher
LordKrishna, the effect of time is a
reversal. S.B.
1.13:17-20 Insurmountable,
imperceptible eternal time supremely
surpasses all those who are mad and engrossed
in their thoughts of attachment to family
affairs.Vidura, knowing this well, said to
Dhrtarâstra: 'O king, please withdraw
yourself from here without delay, just see
how fear has taken over. In this material
world there is no remedy of any measure or
anyone as that fear concerns the Supreme Lord
of eternal time who arrives for all of us.
When a person has to give up life dear as it
is to everyone, because it is certainly
overtaken by the pull of this time - then
what to think of the other things he has
acquired? S.B.
1 .13:46 How
can this body and mind made up of the five
elements [fire, water, air, earth and
ether] that is under the control of time,
action and the material modes of nature
[kâla, karma and guna's]
protect others when it is as well bitten by
that snake as all others? S.B.
1 :13.49 That
unborn one, the father of creation, has , O
king at present descended in this world in a
form of time, in order to eliminate all those
who are against His will. S.B.
1:14: 3 He
saw a fearful reversal of the direction of
eternal time, observed seasonal
irregularities and saw that the people in
their human sins turned to anger, greed and
falsehood in heartening their means of
livelihood. S.B.
1:14: 5 Seeing
these serious causes and bad omens in the
course of time preparing humanity at large
greed and irreligious habits, the king spoke
to his younger brother. S.B.
1.14: 8 Is
it so, as Nârada instructed, that the
eternal time has arrived that the Supreme
Personality will quit from the manifestation
out of His own will? S.B.
1.15: 27 Now
I am attracted to the remembrance of the
words spoken by the Lord of pleasure,
Govinda, which extinguish the burning of the
heart by impregnating it with importance
according space and time. S.B.
1.16: 24 Please
inform me, o reservoir of all riches, about
the reason of your tribulations that reduced
you to such weakness. Is it mother, that your
good fortune that was even adored by the
godly, was forcibly taken away by the very
powerful influence of
time?' S.B.
1-18: 37 Because
of breaking the etiquette, a snakebird, at
the seventh day, will for certain bite the
wretched one of the dynasty who offended my
father. S.B.
1:19: 4 While
he [Parîkchit] thought like
this he came to hear of the curse of death of
the sages son, which he accepted as well and
good to happen in the nearby future as the
fire of the snakebird caused by the
indifference of one who is too attached.
CANTO
2 S.B.
2.1: 14 O,
member of the Kuru-family, therefore also
your life's duration limited to seven days
should inspire you to perform everything that
traditionally belongs to the rituals for a
next life. S.B.
2.1: 24 His
personal body is this gross material of all
matter wherein all those phenomena are
experienced of the resultant past, future and
present of the universe. S.B.
2.1: 34 Let
me tell you that the hairs on the head of the
Supreme Controller are the clouds, o best of
the Kuru's, and that the intelligence of the
Almighty is the prime cause of the material
creation, so one says. His mind , the
reservoir of all changes, is known as the
moon. S.B.
2.2: 15 Whenever
one desires to give up one's body, o king,
one should as a sage without being disturbed,
comfortably seated with the mind unperturbed
by matters of time and place, control the
senses by the mind in conquering the breath
of life. S.B.
2.2: 17: Therein
one will not find the supremacy of time that
for sure controls the godly who direct the
worldy creatures with their demigods, nor
will one find there mundane goodness, passion
or ignorance, nor any material change or
causality of its nature. S.B.
2.2:18 Knowing
what and what not relates to the divine of
the supreme feet, those desiring to avoid the
godless give up the perplexities [of
aguing to time and place] completely in
the absolute of the good will taking the
worshipable lotus feet in their heart at
every moment. S.B.
2.2: 24 -25: In
control of the divinity of fire one reaches,
following the movements in the sky, through
the gracious passage of breath [the
Susumna], the pure spirit
[Brahmaloka, place of the Creator]
that is illuminating and washing off the
contaminations, thereafter upwards reaching
the circle [the cakra, the wheel], o
king, called Sisumara [meaning: dolphin,
to the form of the Milky Way, galactic
time].That navel of the universe is the
pivot of the Maintainer [Vishnu]
which due to the ones purified by discipline
alone is worshipable by the living entity and
those transcendentalists who for a certain
period can rejoice in the soul reaching
it. S.B.
2.5:11 From
the light of the radiating world [called
brahmajyoti] I do manifest just like the
sun and the fire, as well as the moon as also
the firmament with its planets among the
stars. S.B.
2-5:21-22 [The
Lord of] Eternal Time, the controller of
the deluding potency of matter
[mâyâ] that sets the
workload [karma] as also the specific
nature [- or svabhâva - of the
living entity], by the energy of its
[His] own Self appears, independently
merged, employing different
forms. From
that eternal time it so happened that because
of the transformation of the activities
created by the modes of nature, the original
person His modification of the principle
reality [the maha tattva] took place.
S.B.
2-5: 26-29: Of
the transformation to the sky one came
through the quality of the air in touch with
the previous in succession to the full of
sound [oral tradition] and thus also
to a life of discrimination and the might of
strength. Likewise transforming to that air
time as a reaction to the past naturally
generated the element of fire duly giving
form, touch and sound also [in books
e.g.]. Of that fire of being transformed
it also happened that one came in touch with
the juices and taste of the element of water
which, like seen before, also gave sound in
succession [tears, saliva, semen,
blood]. But by the variegatedness of that
transformation of water next in succession
became the odorous [of the earth
element] of the juice taking the form of
the qualities of touch and
sound. S.B.
2-5:32: For
the time that all these elements of the
senses and the mind to the modes of nature
remained separate, for that time the body
[of man and mankind] could not be
formed, o [Nârada] best one in
knowledge. S.B.
2-5: 34 Countless
millennia that universal reality remained
drowned in the [causal] waters until
the individual soul [jiva or the
Lord] of the action of eternal time to
the modes of nature caused the non-animated
to be animated. S.B.
Text 2.6: 24: For
the performance of sacrifices, the sacrificed
such as flowers and leaves with the burning
material [such as straw] is needed
together with an altar as also the great of
time in following the modes of
nature CANTO
3 Uddhava
said: 'The sun of Krishna has set being
swallowed by the great snake of what is
the past. What else can I say about our
wellbeing with the disappearance of the
house of my family? S.B.
3.4: 16 Although
without desires You engage in all kinds
of activities, although unborn You
still take birth, although the
controller of eternal time, You take
shelter of the fortress out of fear for
Your enemies and although You enjoy in
yourself You lead a household life in
the association of woman; this
bewilders the intelligence of the
learned in this world.
S.B.
3.4: 17 Although
you are never divided under the
influence of time, You call me in for
consultation asking me in your eternal
intelligence o master, as if You are
bewildered while that is never so; that
is boggling my mind, o
Lord. 3.5:
26-28 The
Supreme Living Being, by the
incarnation of the Original Person,
which is the plenary expansion of the
original soul, impregnated through the
seeds of the living entities, under the
influence of time, the external energy
in being the Transcendence to the modes
of mâyâ.
Thereafter
came about, by the interaction of time,
from the unmanifested, the sum total of
unalloyed goodness that could root in
the embodied to manifest the supreme
light of complete universes.(28) Dat
eindtotaal, welk eveneens moet worden
beschouwd als een volkomen expansie van
de ziel naar de geaardheid en de tijd,
differentiëerde, als het
vergaarbekken van de wezens in wording,
zich in de vele verschillende vormen
van het bereik van het gezicht van de
Persoonlijkheid van God en hiervan het
voortbrengen van de vervalsing
ermee. That
sum total, which must as well be
considered a plenary expansion of the
soul to the mode and time,
differentiated as the reservoir of the
becoming entities into the many
different forms of the range of sight
of the Personality of Godhead and of
this one saw the generation of its
falsification. S.B.
3.5: 33-36 The
Supreme Lord glancing over the sky as
[cyclic] time mixing the
external energy, created from the touch
of contacting with the sky the
air. The
air, also transformed by the extremely
powerful sky then gave rise to the
lightening [bio-electricity] of
sense perception and thus the light of
the world to see. The
interacting of the air and the glance
of the Supreme with that electricity
created of the time mix of the material
energy the taste [of life] in
water. Electrified
water subsequently, due to the
transforming glancing over by the
Supreme of the earth, achieved to the
quality of smell in the partial mixture
of cyclic [eternal] time with
the external energy.
S.B.
3.6: 15 As
His eyes, the sun, the lokal ruler of
light entered the gigantic of which to
the forms the experience of the part of
the eyesight came into
being. S.B.
3.6: 24 Also
the heart of the Universal Being Candra
manifested, the rule of the moon, that
entered as the controlling power over
the mental activity by which the living
entity decides and
transacts. S.B.
3.7: 33 How
are the periodical offerings of respect
regulated, o brahmin, to the created of
the forefathers and how are the
timedurations determined to the
planets, the stars and
luminaries? S.B.
3.8: 11 He,
from within the body of transcendence
kept the subtle material elements as
the soul of time [kâla] ,
giving life and energy residing in the
water, from His own position, the way
the power of fire is contained in
firewood S.B.
3.8: 20 Because
of looking in ignorance, o Vidura,
contemplating the cause of the
creation, thus it came to the dominance
of three-dimensional [material or
linear] time which to the embodied
generates fearfulness and the
diminishing of the lifespan to a
hundred years in relating to the
self-born and the wheel
[sisumâra cakra or
galactic] of eternal time
[compare 2.2.:
24-25]. S.B.
3.9: 17 As
long as the people in general engaged
in unwanted activities, are negligent
of your benificial activities in their
acts of being fixed on their own
business, will the struggle for
existence of these people be very tough
and all run into shambles; let there me
My obeisances to Him who operates as
the eternal of time. S.B.
3.10: 10-14 Vidura
said:' You spoke to the variety of
different forms of the Lord, the
wonderful actor, of the eternal of
time, o brahmin; can you please
describe us what the factual appeanace
of it is, o Lord? Maitreya
said: 'It is the source of the
interactions to the modes of nature, it
is undivided and unlimited and the
instrument of the Original Person who
created the material life of the soul
through His pastimes
The
phenomenal which for sure is situated
as the same energy of Vishnu separated
itself from the Spirit by the Supreme
Lord in the form of time
[kâla], which is
considered His unmanifested
[impersonal]
feature. To
the creation there are nine different
kinds to the eternal of time: by the
three material modes of nature
[goodness, passion, and
ignorance], the three qualities of
matter [knowledge, movement and
inertia] and the three kinds of
annihilation [the end of the
universe, the ending in the Lord and
the end of ones own material
life]. S.B.
3.11:
11-13 This
movement of the sun is said to form
one day of the demigods and is
called a vatsara [a tropical
year] of twelve months. The
duration of life of the human being
is estimated to be of a great many
of those years [see also
the
'full calendar of
order']. The
planets, the heavenly bodies
[like the moon] and the
stars all rotate along with the
atoms in the universe completing
their orbits as a conclusion of
years in the Almighty [or
cyclic] of the eternal of time.
S.B.
3.11: 39 This
eternal time beginning from the atom
up to the final duration of two
parârdha's, for sure is never
the controller; it is only capable
to exercise control as Lord of the
earth over those who are of
body-consciousness. The
histories, the purâna's or the
fifth Veda came for sure all of them
forth from the mouths of him who can
see all of time all
around. S.B.
3.15: 3 The
godly said: 'Of this darkness that you
know, o mighty one, we are very afraid
because we are not unmanifested as you
are; your Supreme divine ways are
unaffected by the touch of
time. S.B.
3.21: 16 Under
the direction of You as the father of
all living beings, o my Lord are all
these who are victim of their desire
bound by the rope of their conditions
and do I, conditioned like them, offer
You my oblations, o embodiment of
religion who operates as the eternal of
time. S.B.
3.21: 18 The
universe that with a tremendous speed
wheels around the axle of the
imperishable of You [Brahman]
with three naves [sun, moon and
stars], [twelve to]
thirteen spokes [as lunar
months] three hundred and sixty
joints [as days in a demi-god
year], six rims, [as
seasons] and innumerable leaves
[moments], does not at all
diminish the lives of the
devotees. S.B.
3.24: 33 I
surrender myself to Lord Kapila, who is
the transcendental supreme personality,
the origin of the world and full
cognizance of the time and the three
modes of nature; the maintainer of all
the worlds, who in Himself after His
own potency dissolved His
manifestations and who is the power of
independence. S.B.
3.26: 15 Thus
are of the spirit the material
qualities enumerated as they indeed are
arranged by Me, to which time is spoken
of as the
twenty-fifth. S.B.
3.26: 16 The
influence of the Original Personality
of God is said to be in the time factor
from which some do fear in being
deluded by the ego of contacting the
material nature of individual
existence. S.B.
3.26: 17 The
movement of material nature without its
interaction of the modes and its
specific qualities, o daughter of Manu,
is the time from which we here know
Him, the Supreme
Lord. S.B.
3.26: 18 He
who exists from within, in the form of
the original person and from without in
the form of time, is He, the Supreme
Lord by all His potencies to all
[the elements] of
life. S.B.
3.26: 22 Being
of clarity, undistracted and serenity
are thus the characteristic traits of
[Krishna- or natural time-]
consciousness called alike the natural
state of pure water. S.B.
3.26: 35 From
the ethereal evolving from the subtle
of sound, does under the transforming
impulse of time the evolution of the
subtle element of touch take place and
thus is the air found, the senseorgan
for it and of that sense the
perception. S.B.
3.26: 50 When
these [in the beginning] were
unmixed, did all the seven of the
primal complete [the five material
elements, the total energy
(mahat-tattva) and the false ego]
enter from the origin of the creation;
in fact from the association with the
time, the karma and the three modes of
nature. (51) Then by and by [with
Him as the time] from these seven
principles, roused into activity, an
egg-shape united with no consciousness,
from which the celebrated Cosmic Being
[or original person, the virat
purusha] arose. S.B.
3 -28: 12 When
ones own thinking is purified and
controlled by the practice of yoga, one
should meditate the Supreme Lord His
form and measure of time [a
mechanical or waterclock fixed on the
sun's summit with the division of time
according the Bhagavatam], looking
at the tip of ones
nose. S.B.
3.29: 4 And
oh, what about Eternal Time, the form
that represents the Supreme Ruler and
of Your nature is the lead of all the
other rulers, under the influence of
which the people in general act
piously? S.B.
3.29: 37 The
divinity of time, as the cause of the
transformation thus known of the forms
of the living entities originating from
the Supreme Spirit, is the reason
because of which those who see
themselves as separate live in
fear. S.B.
3.29: 38 He
who from within enters the living
entities, annihilates by living
entities and of everyone is the
support; He is named Vishnu, the
enjoyer of all sacrifices who is that
time-factor which is the master of all
masters. S.B.
3.29: 40-45 Of
whom out of fear the wind blows and out
of fear this sun is shining, of whom
out of fear rains are sent by God and
of whom out of fear the heavenly bodies
are shining, because of whom the trees
and the creepers do fear and the herbs
each in their own time bear flowers as
also fruit appears, the fearful rivers
flow, and the oceans do not overflow,
because of whom the fire burns and the
earth with its mountains doesn't sink
out of fear for Him, of whom the sky
gives air to the ones who breathe,
under the control of whom the universe
expands its body of the complete
reality [maha tattva] with its
seven layers [the seven kosa's with
their states of consiousness at the
level of the physical, fysiological,
psychological intellectual, the
enjoying, the consiousness and the true
self], out of fear for whom the
gods in charge of the modes of nature
of this world concerning the matters of
the creation carry out their functions
according to the yuga's [see
3-11], of whom all these beings
animate and inanimate are under
control; that infinite final operator
of beginningless Time is the
unchangeable creator creating people
out of people and ending the rule of
death by means of
death. S.B.
3.30: 1 Kapila
said: 'Despite of its great strength do
people not know about the time factor
and are they carried away by it, just
like a mass of clouds is by the
powerful wind.' S.B.
3. 32-37 CANTO
4 S.B.
4.29: 21-22 The
time of a year was called Candavega, to which
the days and nights of this life are
understood to be taken away as symbolized by
the roaming of the three hundred and sixty
men and woman from heaven above. [see 27:
13]. The old age of all living beings was
directly the daughter of Time who was welcome
to no one and whom the king of the Yavana's,
who was for death and destruction, accepted
as his sister-in-law. [see 27:
19-30]. S.B.
4.29: 54 ...The
group of tigers in front of it are like all
the moments of the days and nights that,
unnoticed in one's enjoying the household,
take away one's span of life. And from the
back sure not to be seen follows behind the
hunter, the superintendent of death whose
arrow in this world pierces one's heart. You
should in this see yourself as the one whose
heart is pierced, o King. S.B.
4.29: 69 With
a mind of being of single goodness with the
Supreme Lord, one has a constant association,
like still having a moon while it is
eclipsed, and thus being connected does one
see this universe as it
is. S.B.
4.30: 28 You
compassionate, thus so surely by Your
expansions visible to the humble devotees,
are with the necessary repect of time always
remembered by ones devotional service, o
destroyer of all
inauspiciousness. CANTO
5 S.B.
5.8: 9 'Alas!
[he thought to himself], is by the
Controller turning the wheel of time, this
one deprived of its kin, friends and
relatives and has it finding me for its
shelter, me only as a father, mother, brother
and like belonging to the herd. Surely having
no one else it puts great faith in the person
of me to rely on and is it fully dependent on
me for its learning, sustenance, love and
protection; without a grudge I should know
what the fault is of neglecting someone who
has taken shelter and act
accordingly. S.B.
5.9:6 S.B.
5.9: 20 Oh,
Vishnudatta ['protected by Vishnu';
Parîkchit], this is not a
great wonder to the ones not perplexed
who, of no enmity and of goodness to
all, by the Supreme Lord of the
invincible time who carries the best of
all weapons [the Sudarshana
disc], directly are fully liberated
from the very strong and tight knot in
the heart of a false bodily concept of
life. Even though threatened by
decapitation, have those liberated
souls and devotees who are of full
surrender and who are protected at His
lotus feet, nothing to fear and are
they never upset by these kinds of
moods of the
Divinity. S.B.
5.11:11 By
the elements, by nature itself, by the
culture, by the karma and by time are
all these eleven of the mind modified
into the hundreds, thousands and
millions who do not follow from one
another nor from themselves, but from
the knower of the
field. S.B.
5.12: 10 Thus
being meager, fat, tiny or big,
existing as individual entities,
inanimate matter or whatever natural
phenomenon else is all impermanence in
name of a certain disposition, time and
activity, which you should understand
to be of the operating of natures
duality. S.B.
5.14: 9 Sometimes
does he also, in the dark of night,
driven by a momentary whirlwind of
passion, mount an alluring woman; in
total neglect of the higher vision does
he then, blinded by the strength of
that passion, notwithstanding the
divinities of sun and moon lose all
notion in being overcome by a mind full
of lust. S.B.
5.14: 29 It
so happens that of the Controller, the
Supreme Lord Vishnu His cakra or disc
of Time, stretching from the first
expansion of atoms to the duration of
the complete life of Brahmâ, one
has to suffer the symptoms of its
cycling of which in due course swiftly
before ones eyes, without a blink, all
lives of the entities, from
Brahmâ to the simplest blade of
grass, are spent. Directly of Him, the
Controller whose personal weapon is the
disc of Time, is one for sure afraid at
heart ['the lion']. Not caring
for the Supreme Lord, the Original
Person of Sacrifice, does he, with
self-made gods who are denied by the
scriptures of civilization and are like
buzzards, vultures, herons and crows,
accept the unfounded as
worshipable. S.B.
5.18:
30 'My
Lord, our respects for You, as the
Supreme Lord in the form of a tortoise,
You are the transcendental good of all;
unto You whose position cannot be
discerned, our homage. You, although
the oldest, are unaffected by time; my
reverence for You as the great One
reaching everywhere; again and again I
bow for the shelter of all - our
respectful obeisances are for You!
5.18:
33 In
You, who art innumerable in the
particular of names and forms, of
different bodily features, have the
learned ones this idea of numbers, the
truth of which they extract through
observation; unto Him, You who thus
discloses Himself in analysis, my
obeisances. S.B.
5.20: 12 'By
His own effulgence does He divide the
time into the light and dark period of
the month [sukla and krsna];
may He, that divinity of the moon as
well as of the grain to be distributed
to the forefathers and the gods, that
King of All People, remain favorable
towards us.' S.B.
5-20: 30 Within
that Dvîpa there is the one
[mountainrange] named
Manasottara marking indeed the inner
and outer side of the lands there; it
has, being as great as 10.000 yojana's
high and wide, in its four directions
the cities of the local rulers, the
demigods headed by Indra. On its
highest point cirumabulating mount Meru
moves around the chariot of the sun in
an orbit that by the days and nights of
the demigods consists of one whole year
[a samvatsara
]. S.B.
5.21: 7 (...)
At all of these four sides of Meru thus
making for the sunrise, the sunset, the
noon and the midst of night causes he
the particular times of the living
beings to be active or to cease
activity. S.B.
5.21: 13 It
[the chariot the sungod] has
only one wheel [a solar year]
with twelve spokes [the
months], six segments [the
seasons] and three pieces to its
hub [the four month-periods],
that in its entirety is known as a
tropical year [samvatsara]; its
axle is fixed on the top of Meru with
Mânasottara at the other end. The
wheel of the chariot of the sun is
fixed there rotating on the mountain
range of Mânasottara like a wheel
of an oil-pressing
machine. S.B.
5.22: 2 To
that he [Suka] clearly stated:
'Just as it with the movements of small
ants, on a potters wheel turning
around, is sure that due to their
changing locations there is a different
experience, so too is that relative to
Meru and Dhruvaloka [the central
heap of stars and the galaxy
center]: with the stars, that go
around with the great wheel of time,
they are located at the right, but of
the individual motions by the planets
lead by the sun upon that spinning
wheel of time, is the movement to the
stars and signs for sure observed
differently. S.B.
5.22: 3 That
cause, this supremely powerful original
person directly seen as
Nârâyana the Supersoul of
the three Veda's, who is there for the
benefit and karmic purification of all
the worlds, is the cause which all the
saintly and all vedic knowing is
inquiring after; He arranges for the
twelve divisions of the year and,
according to what was enjoyed before,
for the different qualities to the
sixfold of the seasons beginning with
spring. S.B.
5.22: 5 Therefore
is He this living force of all the
three worlds that between the upper and
lower of the universe are positioned in
outer space on the wheel of time; in
twelve months passing through signs
that accordingly divide the solar year,
is there a month with two fortnights
that are like the day and night and
indeed that portion of the year that is
remembered as a season covering one
sixth of the orbit or two and a quarter
constellation by stellar calculation
[thus one speaks of twelve or more
constellations]. S.B.
5.22: 11 [More
than] two hundred thousand yojana's
behind [the moon], leaving Meru
to the right are there, together with
the many stars by the Controller
attached to the wheel of time, the
twenty-eight stars headed by
Abhijit. S.B.
5.23: 1-3 Srî
Suka said: 'Beyond them [the
sages] one finds 1.3 million
yojana's further up [astronomy: at
26 thousand lightyears from the
earth] that supreme abode, praised
in the Rg veda mantra's, which is of
Vishnu, the source of life of all
entities that live from now up to the
end of creation. There indeed remains
the great devotee Dhruva, the son of
Uttânapâda whose greatness
of following devoted I already
described; and around it, keeping it to
the right do Âgni, the fire-god,
Indra the king of heaven, the founding
father the Prajâpati and Kasyapa
as well as Dharmarâja, in their
concern of time always full of respect
keep to their image [see
4-9].(2) To all the restless
luminaries such as the planets and the
stars is that place indeed there as
the, by the Controller established,
incandescent radiating pivot of which
the inconceivable, all-powerful force
by the factor of time is known as the
cause of their revolving.(3) Like three
bulls that for threshing rice are yoked
to a central pole, do the luminaries
keep their proper places moving in
their orbits fixed on inner and outer
circles of the wheel of time, the same
way as the planets around the sun keep
their positions. Holding on to
Dhruvaloka till the end of creation,
they revolve as driven by the wind in
the sky, just like heavy clouds and big
birds that controlled by the air move
their bodies around according their
previous positions. So do the
luminaries which, by the combined
effort of material nature and the
Original Person, consequential act to
their previous existence, never collide
with the earth. S.B.
5. 23:4 Some
imagine this great wheel of planets and
stars to be a s'is'umâra [a
dolphin] and do, concentrated in
yoga, describe it as [the visible
of] the Supreme Lord Vâsudeva
[see also a
picture
of the celestial
sky
as factually seen in a
telescope].
S.B.
5.23: 8 This
[form of S'is'umâra]
indeed is for sure the form of the
Supreme Lord, of Lord Vishnu who
consists of all the demigods; observing
it each morning, noon and evening one
should in worship meditate controlling
ones words as follows: 'Our obeisances
unto this resting place of all the
luminous worlds, unto the master of the
demigods, the great Personality in the
form of Time, upon whom we meditate'
['namah jyotih-lokâya
kâlâyanâya
animisâm pataye
mahâ-purusâya
abhidhîmahi',]
5.24:
3 The
Supreme Lord around for the protection
of both operates by the supreme
presence of the wheel of time [the
Sudarsana Cakra] which is deemed
the dearmost devoted and most favorite
weapon that by its power and unbearable
heat makes Râhu, with its fearful
mind and frightened heart, flee away
from that position of being around for
almost an hour and of which the people
thus speak of a solar eclipse.
5.24:
11 For
certain is one there of no anxiety
about the divisions of time to the
operations of night and day.
5.24:
14 No
way can any of the virtuous or death
itself influence them, except for the
weapon of the Lord His powerful wheel
of time. 5.24:
15 It
is practically always out of fear for
the Lord his cakra-order that the wives
of the godless lose their fetuses in
miscarriage. 5.24:
28 Below
Sutala in the world of Talâtala
rules the dânava [demon]
king named Maya; by the most powerful
Tripurâri [Shiva], the
Lord of the three cities, were,
desiring the good fortune of the three
worlds, his cities burnt; but by the
grace of mercy did he obtain a kingdom
as the master of all sorcery and thus
being protected by Mahâdeva
[the great god that is Shiva],
he thinks he need not fear the
Sudarsana Cakra [the acute presence
of the Lord in the form of Time]
that is worshiped. 5.26:
8
There
is the person who, but having taken the
money, the wife or another man's
children away, is sure, by the most
terrible men of death to be bound with
the ropes of time and by force to be
thrown into the hell of Tâmisra
['the darkness'] where he has
to starve, crave for water, is beaten
up with sticks and is scolded at; the
living entity by the severe punishments
received there certainly at times loses
his consciousness having gotten into
that most dark condition.
CANTO
6 6.1:
42 The
divinity of the sun, the fire, the sky, the
air, the gods, the moon, the evening, the day
and the night, the directions, the water and
the land; all these are Dharma personified
verily thus bearing witness to the embodied
living entity. 6.1;
47 Just
as the present time is evidence of the past
and an indication for the future, is even so
this birth indicative of the dharma and
adharma of ones past and future
births. 6.3:
27 Never
be after them, the godly and perfected to the
pure narrations of which the devotees are
singing who with an equal vision are of
surrender to the Supreme Lord; because they
are fully protected by the club of the Lord
is it us, just as the time itself, not given
to punish them. 6.5:
11 The
earth was the field of action, the
designation of the living being, which,
existing since time immemorial, is the cause
of his bondage; what use of timebound labor
would there be not seeing its finality?
6.5:
19 kâla-cakram
bhrami tîksnam sarvam
niskarsayaj jagat svatantram
abudhasyeha kim
asat-karmabhir bhavet The
so very sharp, revolving wheel of time drives
all the world according its own rule; what
use is it to endeavor in desiring profit in
this world not knowing about this [this
order of time]? 6.8:
20-23 May
Kesava with His club protect me in the
morning, may Govinda holding His flute do so
in the afternoon, may Nârâyana
protect me in the late afternoon and may for
the fourth part of the day Lord Vishnu, the
ruler with the disc, be the controller of all
forces [see also 5.21.10]. (21) May
Lord Madhusûdhana with the fearful bow
Sârnga protect me in the early evening.
May Mâdhava, the Lord of Brahmâ,
Vishnu and Shiva, protect me in the late
evening and may Lord Hrisikesa protect me in
the early night. May around midnight Lord
Padmanâbha [the Lord from whose
navel the universe sprang] be my only
protector. (22) May the Lord with the
Srîvatsa-mark be the controller after
midnight, may Janardhana, the Lord with the
sword in His hand be the controller over the
end of the night, may Lord Dâmodara
protect me at dawn and may the Controller of
the Universe, the Supreme Lord that is the
personification of time rule over the early
morning [**]. Please
let the sharp rimmed disc operated by the
Lord [His order of time, the cyclic of
natural time], that at the end of the age
is as the fire of devastation, with its
moving around the entirety of worlds, burn to
ashes the enemy forces just like a blazing
fire with its friend the wind would do
instantly with dry grass. 6.9:
31 The
godly said: 'Unto You o Lord of the Sacrifice
do we, although You are the one to round it
all up, bring our obeisances as You are
indeed the one using the cakra [the disc,
the cyclic, the order of time] as a
weapon; all our respect for You who is known
by so many transcendental names.
6.9:
35 In
that respect therefore we wonder whether your
Lordship is like an ordinary human being
bound to action in the material world, that
has fallen under the influence of the modes
in dependence on time, space, activities and
nature and is forced to accept the good and
bad results of what he does oneself; or
whether You are completely self-satisfied,
self-controlled of nature, never missing the
spiritual potency and the ever neutral
witness. Here we are sure not to understand
You. 6.9:42 Therefore
o Supreme Lord, being like sparks to the
original fire, of what extent or special
necessity would it be that You, who art
directly the Supreme Absolute Truth, are
informed by us? You being the cause of all
creation, maintenance, and destruction of the
material world, in Your amusement with the
spiritual energy, are as well present in the
core of the hearts of all the hordes of
living entities as outside of them, as well
as of the Supersoul beyond them. By the
external elements of Your forms and the
particulars according the circumstance, time,
sort of body and material position is there
through You, as the exhibitor of all material
causes, as the witness of all that is going
on, as the witnessing itself, the eternal
memory of the whole universe [the
âkâshic
record]. 6.15:
3 Just
as grains of sand come together and move
apart by the force of the waves, are they,
the embodied, similarly united and separated
by time [compare B.G. 2.13 ].
6.17:
21 He
is the One Supreme Lord, who by His potencies
creates the conditioned life of all the
beings as well as the life of liberation; the
happiness and distress at the one hand and
the position above time at the other.
Canto
7 7.1:
11-12 O
Ruler of Man, the true Creator, Controller in
Person of the matter and Shelter for the
beings is the Time that by its movements
conditions [see also B.G 11:32 ]. It
is but with this Time that the Supreme Lord
His glories are widespread, o King, by which
to sattva the certainty of the numbers of
gods is furthered and hence with those who
are covered by rajas and tamas the inimical
if found whereto He as the friend of the
enlightened destroys the
unenlightened. 7.1:
23 Sri
Nârada said: 'In order to experience
insults, praise, honor and dishonor without
discrimination has the Supreme of the Primary
Nature [pradhâna] created this
vehicle of time, o King [see also B.G.
2:14 ,12:18-19 ]. 7.2:
42 This
body of the person born of ignorance is just
as separate from him as the material of a
house is to its indweller; just as the
conditioned soul with water, earth and fire
by time took birth is he also by time
transformed and overcome. 7.3:
31 Without
being affected by it yourself are you verily
the Time ever wakeful, that reduces the
duration of life of all beings with each of
its segments; of this material world are you
the Great Self and Supreme Controller unborn
as well as the essential cause of
life. 7.8:
8 He
the controller, the time-factor, is the
unique Lord who is the one strength of mind
and life, the steady of ones physical power
and senses; He, the Real of the self, is by
all His potencies indeed the Supreme One
Master of the natural modes who creates,
maintains and winds up again the entire
universe. 7.8:
52 The
keepers of the wealth said: 'We, the foremost
among Your servants will right now try to
please You with our services; by the son of
Diti we were forced to carry his palanquin
but he caused the poverty of each and
everyone; thus we acknowledge You as You are
the one that has put him to death, o
twenty-fifth principle [that is the time,
see 3.26: 10-15 ]. ' 7.9:
5 With
him, such a little boy, fallen at His
lotusfeet was the godhead merciful greatly
moved and with the raising of His lotushand
placed on his head, He dispelled the fear
from all minds about the snake of time
[to its four physical necessities of
âhâra, nidrâ, bhaya and
maithuna; eating, sleeping, fearing or
defending and mating].
7.9:
21-24 The
illusory of matter is a creation of the mind
[that is lived as a fixation] that
produces endless actions of desire that are
conditioned by the Time that stirs the three
modes of nature and then is one, permitted by
the glance of God under the influence of the
Veda's, less victorious offered the sixteen
spokes [senses, the elements and
mind] of the wheel of rebirth, o Unborn
One; who can get out of this missing the best
of You [see also B.G. 9.25]? (22) You
are indeed that one element of Time, by which
one in ones intelligence, through Your
personal energy, eternally is conquered; as
material energy in all effects and causes
brought under Your cyclic control am I thrown
into loss, o Controller, and am I crushed
under the wheel with the sixteen spokes;
please help me out of it, o Mightiest, as I
am of full surrender. (23) I witnessed o
Almighty One, how all the higher placed state
leaders in their desire for lifespan,
opulence and glory all in that by our father
with his sarcastic laughs with the single
wink of an eye were baffled, yet was he by
You completely vanquished. (24) Therefore,
knowing where all the sensegratification of
all that longevity, opulence and fineness of
all the ones embodied, from Brahmâ on
to the smallest ant, leads to, have I no want
for being subjected by You who art so
powerful as the Master of Time; please kindly
lead me to the association of your faithful
servants. 7.9:
33 From
Your slumber on the bed of Ananta in the
causal waters having awakened appeared the
great lotus of all the worlds from Your navel
like a bananatree does from its seed and that
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