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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.7.39
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 39
- sarge tapo 'ham ṛṣayo nava ye prajeśāḥ
- sthāne 'tha dharma-makha-manv-amarāvanīśāḥ
- ante tv adharma-hara-manyu-vaśāsurādyā
- māyā-vibhūtaya imāḥ puru-śakti-bhājaḥ
sargein the beginning of the creation — in the beginning of the creation; tapaḥpenance — penance; ahammyself — myself; ṛṣayaḥsages — sages; navanine — nine; yethose who would generate prajeśāḥthose who would generate — those who would generate; sthānein the middle while maintaining the creation — in the middle while maintaining the creation; athacertainly — certainly; dharmareligion — religion; makhaLord Viṣṇu — Lord Viṣṇu; manuthe father of mankind — the father of mankind; amarathe demigods deputed to control the affairs of maintenance — the demigods deputed to control the affairs of maintenance; avanīśāḥand the kings of different planets — and the kings of different planets; anteat the end — at the end; tubut — but; adharmairreligion — irreligion; haraLord Śiva — Lord Śiva; manyusubjected to anger-vaśasubjected to anger — subjected to anger; asuraatheists, the enemies of the devotees-ādyāḥatheists, the enemies of the devotees — atheists, the enemies of the devotees; māyāenergy — energy; vibhūtayaḥpowerful representatives — powerful representatives; imāḥall of them — all of them; puruof the supreme powerful Lord-śaktiof the supreme powerful Lord-bhājaḥof the supreme powerful Lord — of the supreme powerful Lord.
At the beginning of creation there are penance, myself [Brahmā], and the Prajāpatis, the great sages who generate; then, during the maintenance of the creation, there are Lord Viṣṇu, the demigods with controlling powers, and the kings of different planets. But at the end there is irreligion, and then Lord Śiva and the atheists full of anger, etc. All of them are different representative manifestations of the energy of the supreme power, the Lord.
The material world is created by the energy of the Lord, which is manifested in the beginning of the creation by the penance of Brahmājī, the first living being in the creation, and then there are the nine Prajāpatis, known as great sages. In the stage when the creation is maintained, there are devotional service to Lord Viṣṇu, or factual religion, the different demigods, and the kings of different planets who maintain the world. At last, when the creation is preparing to wind up, there is first the principle of irreligion, then Lord Śiva along with the atheists, full of anger. But all of them are but different manifestations of the Supreme Lord. Therefore Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Mahādeva (Śiva) are different incarnations of the different modes of material nature. Viṣṇu is the Lord of the mode of goodness. Brahmā is the lord of the mode of passion, and Śiva is the lord of the mode of ignorance. Ultimately, the material creation is but a temporary manifestation meant to give the chance of liberation to the conditioned souls, who are entrapped in the material world, and one who develops the mode of goodness under the protection of Lord Viṣṇu has the greatest chance of being liberated by following the Vaiṣṇava principles and thus being promoted to the kingdom of God, no more to return to this miserable material world.