Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.70.4-5

brahme muhurta utthaya

vary upasprsya madhavah

dadhyau prasanna-karana

atmanam tamasah param

ekam svayam-jyotir ananyam avyayam

sva-samsthaya nitya-nirasta-kalmasam

brahmakhyam asyodbhava-nasa-hetubhih

sva-saktibhir laksita-bhava-nirvrtim

SYNONYMS

brahme muhurte -- during the most suitable period of the day for spiritual activity, before sunrise; utthaya -- rising; vari -- water; upasprsya -- touching; madhavah -- Lord Krsna; dadhyau -- meditated; prasanna -- clear; karanah -- His mind; atmanam -- upon Himself; tamasah -- ignorance; param -- beyond; ekam -- exclusive; svayam-jyotih -- self-luminous; ananyam -- without another; avyayam -- infallible; sva-samsthaya -- by His own nature; nitya -- perpetually; nirasta -- dispelling; kalmasam -- contamination; brahma-akhyam -- known as Brahman, the Absolute Truth; asya -- of this (universe); udbhava -- of creation; nasa -- and destruction; hetubhih -- by the causes; sva -- His own; saktibhih -- energies; laksita -- manifest; bhava -- existence; nirvrtim -- joy.

TRANSLATION

Lord Madhava would rise during the brahma-muhurta period and touch water. With a clear mind He would then meditate upon Himself, the single, self-luminous, unequaled and infallible Supreme Truth, known as Brahman, who by His very nature ever dispels all contamination, and who through His personal energies, which cause the creation and destruction of this universe, manifests His own pure and blissful existence.

PURPORT

Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura points out that the word bhava in this verse indicates the created beings. Thus the compound word laksita-bhava-nirvrtim means that Lord Krsna gives pleasure to the created beings through His various energies. Of course, the soul is never created, but our material, conditioned existence is created by the interaction of the Lord's energies.

One who is favored by the Lord's internal potency can understand the nature of the Absolute Truth; this understanding is called Krsna consciousness. In Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna explains that His energies are divided into inferior and superior, or material and spiritual, potencies. The Brahma-samhita further explains that the material potency acts like a shadow, following the movements of the spiritual reality, which is the Lord Himself and His spiritual potency. When one is favored by Lord Krsna, He reveals Himself to the surrendered soul, and thus the same creation that formerly covered the soul becomes an impetus for spiritual enlightenment.

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