CC Madhya 6.181
Bengali
স্বাগমৈঃ কল্পিতৈস্ত্বঞ্চ জনান্ মদ্বিমুখান্ কুরু ।
মাঞ্চ গোপয় যেন স্যাৎ সৃষ্টিরেষোত্তরোত্তরা ॥ ১৮১ ॥
মাঞ্চ গোপয় যেন স্যাৎ সৃষ্টিরেষোত্তরোত্তরা ॥ ১৮১ ॥
Verse text
svāgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaṁ ca
janān mad-vimukhān kuru
māṁ ca gopaya yena syāt
sṛṣṭir eṣottarottarā
janān mad-vimukhān kuru
māṁ ca gopaya yena syāt
sṛṣṭir eṣottarottarā
Synonyms
sva-āgamaiḥ — with your own theses; kalpitaiḥ — imagined; tvam — you; ca — also; janān — the people in general; mat-vimukhān — averse to Me and addicted to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge; kuru — make; mām — Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca — and; gopaya — just cover; yena — by which; syāt — there may be; sṛṣṭiḥ — material advancement; eṣā — this; uttara-uttarā — more and more.
Translation
“[Addressing Lord Śiva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said:] ‘Please make the general populace averse to Me by imagining your own interpretation of the Vedas. Also, cover Me in such a way that people will take more interest in advancing material civilization just to propagate a population bereft of spiritual knowledge.’
Purport
This is a quotation from the Padma Purāṇa, Uttara-khaṇḍa (62.31).