Canto 3: The Status QuoChapter 26: Fundamental Principles of Material Nature

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.26.70

cittena hṛdayaḿ caityaḥ

kṣetra-jñaḥ prāviśad yadā

virāṭ tadaiva puruṣaḥ

salilād udatiṣṭhata

SYNONYMS

cittena — along with reason, consciousness; hṛdayam — the heart; caityaḥ — the deity presiding over consciousness; kṣetra-jñaḥ — the knower of the field; prāviśat — entered; yadā — when; virāṭ — the virāṭ-puruṣa; tadā — then; eva — just; puruṣaḥ — the Cosmic Being; salilāt — from the water; udatiṣṭhata — arose.

TRANSLATION

However, when the inner controller, the deity presiding over consciousness, entered the heart with reason, at that very moment the Cosmic Being arose from the causal waters.

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