Some
of the Time quotes in
S'rîmad
Bhâgavatam
and Bhagavad
Gîtâ:
S.B.
1.8: 28 / I consider You to be the eternal
time that is without a beginning or an end -
the all-pervasive one distributing your mercy
everywhere equally among the beings living in
the dissent of social intercourse.
S.B.
1.13: 49 / That unborn one, the father of
creation, has, o king at present descended in
this world in a form of time, in order to
eliminate all those who are against His
will.
S.B.
2.1: 24 / His personal body is this gross
material of all matter wherein all those
phenomena are experienced of the resultant
past, future and present of the
universe.
S.B.
2.1: 34 / Let me tell you that the hairs on the
head of the Supreme Controller are the clouds, o
best of the Kurus, and that the intelligence of
the Almighty is the prime cause of the material
creation, so one says. His mind, the
reservoir of all changes, is known as the
moon.
S.B.
2.5:11 / From the light of the radiating world
[called brahmajyoti] I do manifest just
like the sun and the fire, as well as the moon
as also the firmament with its planets among the
stars.
S.B.
2.5:21-22 / [The Lord of] Eternal
Time, the controller of the deluding potency
of matter [mâyâ] that sets
the workload [karma] as also the
specific nature [- or svabhâva - of
the living entity], by the energy of its
[His] own Self appears, independently
merged, employing different forms. 22 - From
that eternal time it so happened that
because of the transformation of the activities
created by the modes of nature, the original
person His modification of the principle reality
[the maha tattva] took place.
S.B.
3.4: 16 / Although without desires You engage in
all kinds of activities, although unborn You
still take birth, although the controller of
eternal time, You take shelter of the
fortress out of fear for Your enemies and
although You enjoy in yourself You lead a
household life in the association of women; this
bewilders the intelligence of the learned in
this world.
S.B.
3.5: 33-36 / 33- The Supreme Lord glancing over
the sky as [cyclic] time mixing the
external energy, created from the touch of
contacting with the sky the air. 34- The air,
also transformed by the extremely powerful sky
then gave rise to the lightening
[bio-electricity] of sense perception
and thus the light of the world to see. 35- The
interacting of the air and the glance of the
Supreme with that electricity created of the
time mix of the material energy the taste
[of life] in water. 36- Electrified
water subsequently, due to the transforming
glancing over by the Supreme of the earth,
achieved to the quality of smell in the partial
mixture of cyclic [eternal] time with
the external energy.
S.B.
3.6: 15 / As His eyes, the sun, the lokal ruler
of light entered the gigantic of which to the
forms the experience of the part of the eyesight
came into being.
S.B.
3.6: 24 / Also the heart of the Universal Being
Candra manifested, the rule of the moon, that
entered as the controlling power over the mental
activity by which the living entity decides and
transacts.
S.B.
3.11:
11-13 /
The
aggregate of such a 'day' and 'night' is called
an ancestral [traditional and solar]
month with two of them forming a season of which
there are six [resp. 'cold' or hentanta,
'dew' or shirshira, 'spring' or vasanta, 'warm'
or grishma, 'rainy' or varsha and 'autumn' or
sarad, counted from the 22 of dec.]
according the movement of the sun going through
the southern and the northern sky
This
movement of the sun is said to form one day of
the demigods and is called a vatsara [a
tropical year] of twelve months. The
duration of life of the human being is estimated
to be of a great many of those years [see
also the
'full calendar of
order'].
The
planets, the heavenly bodies [like the
moon] and the stars all rotate along with
the atoms in the universe completing their
orbits as a conclusion of years in the Almighty
[or cyclic] of the eternal of time.
S.B.
3.11:39 /
This
eternal time beginning from the atom up to the
final duration of two parârdhas, for sure
is never the controller; it is only capable to
exercise control as Lord of the earth over those
who are of body-consciousness.
S.B.
3.12: 39
/ The
histories, the purânas or the fifth Veda
came for sure all of them forth from the mouths
of him who can see all of time all
around.
S.B.
3.15: 3 /
The
godly said: 'Of this darkness that you know, o
mighty one, we are very afraid because we are
not unmanifested as you are; your Supreme divine
ways are unaffected by the touch of
time.
S.B.
3.21: 16
/ Under
the direction of You as the father of all living
beings, o my Lord are all these who are victim
of their desire bound by the rope of their
conditions and do I, conditioned like them,
offer You my oblations, o embodiment of religion
who operates as the eternal of
time.
S.B.
3.21: 18
/ The
universe that with a tremendous speed wheels
around the axle of the imperishable of You
[Brahman] with three naves [sun,
moon and stars], [twelve to]
thirteen spokes [as lunar months] three
hundred and sixty joints [as days in a
demi-god year], six rims, [as
seasons] and innumerable leaves
[moments], does not at all diminish the
lives of the devotees.
B.G.
4: 2 / Thus one following the other, the saintly
kings received this science understanding it
that way but in the course of time in
this world this great way of connecting oneself
was scattered, o subduer of the
enemies.
B.G.
4: 7 / Whenever and wherever it is sure that one
weakens in righteousness and a predominance of
injustice does manifest, o descendant of
Bharata, at that time I do manifest
Myself.
B.G.
8: 7 / Therefore go on remembering Me at all
times and fighting with your mind and
intelligence surrendered to Me, certainly you
will attain Me without doubt.
B.G.
10: 30 / Of the Daitya's [non-theist sons of
Diti who churned the ocean] I am
Prahlâda, of what rules I am the
Time, of the animals the lion and of the
birds I am Garuda [Vainateya].
B.G. 10: 33 / Of the letters I am the first one
[the A], of the compound words I am the
dual one and certainly am I the eternal of
Time and the Creator facing all directions
[Brahmâ].
B.G.
11: 7 / See here and now the universe
completely, all at the same time, with
all that moves and not moves, in this body of
Mine, o conqueror of sleep, and also whatever
else you wish to see.
B.G.
11: 32 / Time I am, the great destroyer
of the worlds engaged here in destroying all
people, except for you [brothers] only,
will all the soldiers who are situated on both
sides, find their end.
B.G.
13: 31 / When one following that tries to see
that the diversity of the living beings is
resting in oneness and that it expanded to that
reality, at that time one attains the
Absolute of the Spirit.
B.G.
14: 11 / When to all the gates of the body the
enlightenment of knowledge develops, at that
time one says is the mode of goodness
prevailing.
B.G.
17: 20 / Donations given dutifully, irrespective
the return, at the proper time and place
and to suitable persons - that giving is
considered to be of goodness.
B.G.
17: 22 / That charity which is given at the
wrong place, the wrong time and to
unworthy persons and as well is given without
respect and proper attention - that is said to
be in the mode of ignorance.
B.G.
18: 61 / The Supreme Master resides in the heart
of all living entities, o Arjuna, directing each
creature subject to the mechanical of
time and matter.
