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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.12.18
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 18
- tapa ātiṣṭha bhadraṁ te
- sarva-bhūta-sukhāvaham
- tapasaiva yathā pūrvaṁ
- sraṣṭā viśvam idaṁ bhavān
tapaḥpenance — penance; ātiṣṭhabe situated — be situated; bhadramauspicious — auspicious; teunto you — unto you; sarvaall — all; bhūtaliving entities — living entities; sukhabringing happiness-āvahambringing happiness — bringing happiness; tapasāby penance — by penance; evaonly — only; yathāas much as — as much as; pūrvambefore — before; sraṣṭāwill create — will create; viśvamthe universe — the universe; idamthis — this; bhavānyourself — yourself.
My dear son, you had better situate yourself in penance, which is auspicious for all living entities and which will bring all benediction upon you. By penance only shall you be able to create the universe as it was before.
In the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation, the three deities Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara, or Śiva, are respectively in charge. Rudra was advised not to destroy while the period of creation and maintenance was going on, but to situate himself in penance and wait for the time of dissolution, when his services would be called for.