Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana Book 3 Chapter 26:64-72

Book 3: Chapter 26

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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 3: Chapter 26: Verses 64-72
The process of evolution of the Mahat-tattva andother fundamental principles

The sun-god entered His eyes along with the sense of sight; but the Cosmic Being failed to get up even then. The Digdevatas entered His ears along with the auditory sense; but the Cosmic Being could not be stirred into activity even then. The herbs and annual plants (the deities presiding over the skin) entered the skin along with the hair on the body; but the Cosmic Being refused to get up even then. The god presiding over the waters entered His organ of generation along with the faculty of procreation; but the Cosmic Being would not rise even then. The god of death entered His anus along with the organ of defecation; but the Cosmic Being could not be spurred into activity even then. The god Indra entered the hands along with their power (of grasping and dropping things); but the Cosmic Being would not get up even then. Lord Visnu entered His feet along with the faculty of locomotion; but the Cosmic Being refused to stand up even then. The rivers entered His blood vessels along with blood (the power of circulation); but the Cosmic Being could not be made to stir even then. The ocean entered His abdomen along with hunger and thirst; but the Cosmic Being refused to rise even then. The moon-god entered the heart along with the mind; but the Cosmic Being would not be roused yet. Brahma too entered the heart along with reason (Buddhi); but even then the Cosmic Being could not be prevailed upon to get up. Lord Rudra also entered the heart along with the ego; but even then the Cosmic Being could not be made to rise. When, however, the Inner Controller, the deity presiding over Citta (reason),entered the heart along with reason, that very moment the Cosmic Being rose from the causal waters. Even as Prana (the vital air), the Indriyas (the senses of perception as well as the organs of action), the mind as well as the understanding are unable to awaken an embodied soul, who is fast asleep, by their own power, without the presence of the Inner Controller, similarly they could not do so in the case of the .Cosmic Being. Therefore, through Devotion, dispassion and spiritual wisdom acquired through a concentrated mind one should contemplate on that Inner Controller as present in this very body, though apart from it.

Thus ends the twenty-sixth discourse, forming part of the teaching of Lord Kapila on the nature of the fundamental principles, in Book Three of the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana, otherwise known as the Paramahamsa-Samhita.
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