Srimad Bhagavatam 8.24.6-7

[makarand]

TEXT 6

uccāvaceṣu bhūteṣu

caran vāyur iveśvaraḥ

noccāvacatvaṁ bhajate

nirguṇatvād dhiyo guṇaiḥ

SYNONYMS

ucca-avaceṣu—having higher or lower bodily forms; bhūteṣu—among the living entities; caran—behaving; vāyuḥ iva—exactly like the air; īśvaraḥ—the Supreme Lord; na—not; ucca-avacatvam—the quality of higher or lower grades of life; bhajate—accepts; nirguṇatvāt—because of being transcendental, above all material qualities; dhiyaḥ—generally; guṇaiḥ—by the modes of material nature.

TRANSLATION

Like the air passing through different types of atmosphere, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although appearing sometimes as a human being and sometimes as a lower animal, is always transcendental. Because He is above the material modes of nature, He is unaffected by higher and lower forms.

TEXT 7

āsīd atīta-kalpānte

brāhmo naimittiko layaḥ

samudropaplutās tatra

lokā bhūr-ādayo nṛpa

SYNONYMS

āsīt—there was; atīta—past; kalpa-ante—at the end of the kalpa; brāhmaḥ—of Lord Brahmā’s day; naimittikaḥ—because of that; layaḥ—inundation; samudra—in the ocean; upaplutāḥ—were inundated; tatra—there; lokāḥ—all the planets; bhūḥ-ādayaḥ—Bhūḥ, Bhuvaḥ and Svaḥ, the three lokas; nṛpa—O King.

TRANSLATION

O King Parīkṣit, at the end of the past millennium, at the end of Brahmā’s day, because Lord Brahmā sleeps during the night, annihilation took place, and the three worlds were covered by the water of the ocean.