Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 12 - Chapter 7

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 17 Sanskrit: नैमित्तिक: प्राकृतिको नित्य आत्यन्तिको लय: ।संस्थेति कविभि: प्रोक्तश्चतुर्धास्य स्वभावत: ॥ १७ ॥ ITRANS: naimittikaḥ prākṛtikonitya ātyantiko layaḥsaṁstheti kavibhiḥ proktaścaturdhāsya svabhāvataḥ Translation: There are four types of cosmic annihilation — occasional, elemental, continuous and ultimate — all of which are effected by the inherent potency of the Supreme Lord. Learned scholars have designated this topic dissolution. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 18 Sanskrit: हेतुर्जीवोऽस्य सर्गादेरविद्याकर्मकारक: ।यं चानुशायिनं प्राहुरव्याकृतमुतापरे ॥ १८ ॥ ITRANS: hetur jīvo ’sya sargāderavidyā-karma-kārakaḥyaṁ cānuśāyinaṁ prāhuravyākṛtam utāpare Translation: Out of ignorance the living being performs material activities and thereby becomes in one sense the cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of the universe. Some authorities call the living being the personality underlying the material creation, while others say he is the unmanifest self....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 19 Sanskrit: व्यतिरेकान्वयो यस्य जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्तिषु ।मायामयेषु तद् ब्रह्म जीववृत्तिष्वपाश्रय: ॥ १९ ॥ ITRANS: vyatirekānvayo yasyajāgrat-svapna-suṣuptiṣumāyā-mayeṣu tad brahmajīva-vṛttiṣv apāśrayaḥ Translation: The Supreme Absolute Truth is present throughout all the stages of awareness — waking consciousness, sleep and deep sleep — throughout all the phenomena manifested by the illusory energy, and within the functions of all living entities, and He also exists separate from all these....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 20 Sanskrit: पदार्थेषु यथा द्रव्यं सन्मात्रं रूपनामसु ।बीजादिपञ्चतान्तासु ह्यवस्थासु युतायुतम् ॥ २० ॥ ITRANS: padārtheṣu yathā dravyaṁsan-mātraṁ rūpa-nāmasubījādi-pañcatāntāsuhy avasthāsu yutāyutam Translation: Although a material object may assume various forms and names, its essential ingredient is always present as the basis of its existence. Similarly, both conjointly and separately, the Supreme Absolute Truth is always present with the created material body throughout its phases of existence, beginning with conception and ending with death....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 21 Sanskrit: विरमेत यदा चित्तं हित्वा वृत्तित्रयं स्वयम् ।योगेन वा तदात्मानं वेदेहाया निवर्तते ॥ २१ ॥ ITRANS: virameta yadā cittaṁhitvā vṛtti-trayaṁ svayamyogena vā tadātmānaṁvedehāyā nivartate Translation: Either automatically or because of one’s regulated spiritual practice, one’s mind may stop functioning on the material platform of waking consciousness, sleep and deep sleep. Then one understands the Supreme Soul and withdraws from material endeavor....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 22 Sanskrit: एवंलक्षणलक्ष्याणि पुराणानि पुराविद: ।मुनयोऽष्टादश प्राहु: क्षुल्लकानि महान्ति च ॥ २२ ॥ ITRANS: evaṁ lakṣaṇa-lakṣyāṇipurāṇāni purā-vidaḥmunayo ’ṣṭādaśa prāhuḥkṣullakāni mahānti ca Translation: Sages expert in ancient histories have declared that the Purāṇas, according to their various characteristics, can be divided into eighteen major Purāṇas and eighteen secondary Purāṇas. Purport:

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 23-24 Sanskrit: ब्राह्मं पाद्मं वैष्णवं च शैवं लैङ्गं सगारुडं ।नारदीयं भागवतमाग्नेयं स्कान्दसंज्ञितम् ॥ २३ ॥भविष्यं ब्रह्मवैवर्तं मार्कण्डेयं सवामनम् ।वाराहं मात्स्यं कौर्मं च ब्रह्माण्डाख्यमिति त्रिषट् ॥ २४ ॥ ITRANS: brāhmaṁ pādmaṁ vaiṣṇavaṁ caśaivaṁ laiṅgaṁ sa-gāruḍaṁnāradīyaṁ bhāgavatamāgneyaṁ skānda-saṁjñitam Translation: The eighteen major Purāṇas are the Brahma, Padma, Viṣṇu, Śiva, Liṅga, Garuḍa, Nārada, Bhāgavata, Agni, Skanda, Bhaviṣya, Brahma-vaivarta, Mārkaṇḍeya, Vāmana, Varāha, Matsya, Kūrma and Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇas....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 12 - Chapter 1 - Verse 25 Sanskrit: ब्रह्मन्निदं समाख्यातं शाखाप्रणयनं मुने: ।शिष्यशिष्यप्रशिष्याणां ब्रह्मतेजोविवर्धनम् ॥ २५ ॥ ITRANS: brahmann idaṁ samākhyātaṁśākhā-praṇayanaṁ muneḥśiṣya-śiṣya-praśiṣyāṇāṁbrahma-tejo-vivardhanam Translation: I have thoroughly described to you, O brāhmaṇa, the expansion of the branches of the Vedas by the great sage Vyāsadeva, his disciples and the disciples of his disciples. One who listens to this narration will increase in spiritual strength. Purport: