Time (Kala) Is the Supreme Personality Who Agitates the Neutral Gunas of Prakrti to Manifest Creation

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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.17 — December 26, 1974, Bombay 741226SB-BOMBAY [33:54 Minutes] SB-03.26.17_741226SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] [devotees repeat] prakṛter guṇa-sāmyasya nirviśeṣasya mānavi ceṣṭā yataḥ sa bhagavān kāla ity upalakṣitaḥ [SB 3.26.17] [break] [01:48] "O My dear mother, O daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu, the time factor, as I have explained, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, from whom the creation begins as a result of the agitation of the neutral, unmanifested nature." Prabhupāda: prakṛter guṇa-sāmyasya nirviśeṣasya mānavi ceṣṭā yataḥ sa bhagavān kāla ity upalakṣitaḥ [SB 3.26.17] Now Bhagavān Kapiladeva is describing what is the kāla, time factor. Time factor is another manifestation or feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Kāla... The beginning of creation, that is the beginning of kāla.

So that beginning is started by the Supreme Personality of Godhead: sa aikṣata. These are the Vedic information. "The Lord glanced over the mahat-tattva," sa asṛjata, "and in this way creation began." Creation is not without the touch of the Supreme Puruṣa, Person. Paraṁ brahma paraṁ dhāma pavitraṁ paramaṁ bhavān, puruṣam [Bg. 10.12].

There is puruṣa. The prakṛti, woman, strī, if she is not in contact with a puruṣa, then there is no creation. There is... Sāmyasya.

Prakṛter guṇa-sāmyasya. Without the touch of puruṣa, prakṛti remains guṇa-sāmya, no manifestation of the three guṇas. Prakṛter guṇa-sāmyasya nirviśeṣasya. At the time of nirviśeṣa...

Nirviśeṣa means without varieties. Without varieties. Nirviśeṣasya mānavi, addressing His mother, Devahūti. Devahūti is the daughter of Svāyambhuva Manu, and Svāyambhuva Manu brought the daughter before...

What is Kapiladeva's father's name? Devotees: Kardama Muni. Prabhupāda: Kardama Muni. Kardama Muni was a great mystic yogī, but he desired to marry, and immediately Svāyambhuva Manu... The Svāyambhuva Manu is also paramparā, is the son of sun-god, Svāyambhuva Manu. Imaṁ vivasvate yogaṁ proktavān aham avyayam, vivasvān manave prāha [Bg. 4.1].

So this Manu is one of our predecessor guru. Vivasvān manave prāha manur ikṣvākave 'bravīt. Evaṁ paramparā-prāptam imaṁ rājarṣayo viduḥ [Bg. 4.2]. So the spiritual science was spoken to Vivasvān, the sun-god.

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