Live the Bhāgavatam · SB 12.4.22
Nirodha· Winding upTime Dissolves the Material Energies
“This is the annihilation called prākṛtika, during which the energies belonging to the Supreme Person and His unmanifest material nature, disassembled by the force of time, are deprived of their potencies and merge together totally.”
What the purport teaches
- This dissolution is called prākṛtika annihilation.
- The energies belong to the Supreme Person and His unmanifest material nature. They are disassembled by the force of time.
- Deprived of their potencies, these energies merge together totally.
Try this today
Take a quiet moment to acknowledge that material energies belong to the Supreme Person, rather than existing independently.
Ask yourself
How does remembering that these energies belong to the Supreme Person change my view of material nature?
Carry the question through the day, then answer it in your own words before sleep.
From Canto 10, chapter 14 onward, the translation and purports were completed by Śrīla Prabhupāda's disciples after his departure, and published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.