Awaken from ignorance's slumber through hearing Krishna's holy names with sincere faith and guidance.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.20 — December 29, 1974, Bombay 741229SB-BOMBAY [36:33 Minutes] SB-03.26.20_741229SB-BOMBAY Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [Prabhupāda and devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] viśvam ātma-gataṁ vyañjan kūṭa-stho jagad-aṅkuraḥ sva-tejasāpibat tīvram ātma-prasvāpanaṁ tamaḥ [SB 3.26.20] [break] [02:40] "Thus, after manifesting variegatedness, the effulgent mahat-tattva, which contains all the universes within itself, which is the root of all cosmic manifestations and which is not destroyed at the time of annihilation, swallows up the darkness which covered the effulgence at the time of dissolution." Prabhupāda: viśvam ātma-gataṁ vyañjan kūṭa-stho jagad-aṅkuraḥ sva-tejasāpibat tīvram ātma-prasvāpanaṁ tamaḥ [SB 3.26.20] Viśvam ātma-gatam.
This body, everyone's body, is also a small universe. Whatever the arrangement is there in this body, the similar arrangement is there in the whole universe. The principle is the same. The same arrangement is within the seed of a banyan tree.
We have got practical experience that a small seed of banyan tree, very small, but the potency within the seed is there, the big tree. So these universes are also coming like a small seed. Therefore innumerable universes: yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambya [Bs. 5.48]. From the breathing of Mahā-Viṣṇu, the small particles are coming, and they are developing into big manifestation of universal form. Similarly, our desire is also very small.
We are very small, one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Still, we have got desires and everything. And according to the desire, as soon as there is creation, everything fructifies, everything comes out. It is called suptotthita-nyāya.
Suptotthita-nyāya means just like one man is sleeping, and in the morning, when he is awakened... In the sleeping stage he forgot himself. He is wandering in dream, some other part of the world. He forgot this body and the bodily circumstances, everything.
But as soon as he is awakened, he remembers everything. That darkness of ignorance, covering, is immediately gone, and he remembers that "I will have to do this. I will have to do that. I will have to go to my office or my business place." But when sleeping, he forgot everything. Similarly, in the dormant stage after annihilation, we living entities, we forget everything.
Just like at night we are forgetting everything of this bodily activities, and again, during daytime, we are forgetting everything of the night dream. This is going on. Similarly, at the time of annihilation, prakṛtiṁ yānti māmikām. Kalpa-kṣaye.