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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.5.34
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 34
- varṣa-pūga-sahasrānte
- tad aṇḍam udake śayam
- kāla-karma-svabhāva-stho
- jīvo 'jīvam ajīvayat
varṣamany years-pūgamany years — many years; sahasraof thousands of years-anteof thousands of years — of thousands of years; tatthat — that; aṇḍamthe universal globe — the universal globe; udakein the causal water — in the causal water; śayambeing drowned — being drowned; kālaeternal time — eternal time; karmaaction — action; svabhāvaaccording to the modes of nature-sthaḥaccording to the modes of nature — according to the modes of nature; jīvaḥthe Lord of the living beings — the Lord of the living beings; ajīvamnonanimated — nonanimated; ajīvayatcaused to be animated — caused to be animated.
Thus all the universes remained thousands of eons within the water [the Causal Ocean], and the Lord of living beings, entering in each of them, caused them to be fully animated.
The Lord is described here as the jīva because He is the leader of all other jīvas (living entities). In the Vedas He is described as the nitya, the leader of all other nityas. The Lord's relation with the living entities is like that of the father with the sons. The sons and the father are qualitatively equal, but the father is never the son, nor is the son ever the father who begets. So, as described above, the Lord as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu or Hiraṇyagarbha Supersoul enters into each and every universe and causes it to be animated by begetting the living entities within the womb of the material nature, as confirmed in the Bhagavad-gītā (BG 14.3, Not yet available in the library. Try the live source.). After each annihilation of the material creation, all the living entities are merged within the body of the Lord, and after creation they are again impregnated within the material energy. In material existence, therefore, the material energy is seemingly the mother of the living entities, and the Lord is the father. When, however, the animation takes place, the living entities revive their own natural activities under the spell of time and energy, and thus the varieties of living beings are manifested. The Lord, therefore, is ultimately the cause of all animation in the material world.