Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 12 Chapter 4 Verse 22

Canto 12: The Age of Deterioration | Chapter 4: The Four Categories of Universal Annihilation

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 12.4.22

layaḥ prākṛtiko hy eṣa

puruṣāvyaktayor yadā

śaktayaḥ sampralīyante

vivaśāḥ kāla-vidrutāḥ

SYNONYMS

layaḥ — the annihilation; prākṛtikaḥ — of the material elements; hi — indeed; eṣaḥ — this; puruṣa — of the Supreme Lord; avyaktayoḥ — and of His material nature in its unmanifest form; yadā — when; śaktayaḥ — the energies; sampralīyante — merge totally; vivaśāḥ — helpless; kāla — by time; vidrutāḥ — disarrayed.

TRANSLATION

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.

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