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Sūta Gosvāmī said: O wise Śaunaka, thus satisfied by Mārkaṇḍeya’s praise and worship, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, smiling, replied, …

Thinking always of his desire to see the Lord’s illusory energy, the sage remained in his āśrama, meditating constantly upon …

O brāhmaṇa Śaunaka, best of the Bhṛgus, one day while Mārkaṇḍeya was performing his evening worship on the bank of …

That wind created a terrible sound and brought in its wake fearsome clouds that were accompanied by lightning and roaring …

Then the four great oceans appeared on all sides, swallowing up the surface of the earth with their wind-tossed waves. …

The sage saw all the inhabitants of the universe, including himself, tormented within and without by the harsh winds, the …

Even as Mārkaṇḍeya looked on, the rain pouring down from the clouds filled the ocean more and more until that …

The water inundated the earth, outer space, heaven and the celestial region. Indeed, the entire expanse of the universe was …

Tormented by hunger and thirst, attacked by monstrous makaras and timiṅgila fish and battered by the wind and waves, he …

At times he was engulfed by the great whirlpools, sometimes he was beaten by the mighty waves, and at other …

Countless millions of years passed as Mārkaṇḍeya wandered about in that deluge, his mind bewildered by the illusory energy of …

Once, while wandering in the water, the brāhmaṇa Mārkaṇḍeya discovered a small island, upon which stood a young banyan tree …

Upon a branch of the northeast portion of that tree he saw an infant boy lying within a leaf. The …

The infant’s dark-blue complexion was the color of a flawless emerald, His lotus face shone with a wealth of beauty, …

As Mārkaṇḍeya beheld the child, all his weariness vanished. Indeed, so great was his pleasure that the lotus of his …

Just then the child inhaled, drawing Mārkaṇḍeya within His body like a mosquito. There the sage found the entire universe …

The sage saw the entire universe: the sky, heavens and earth, the stars, mountains, oceans, great islands and continents, the …

He saw before him the Himālaya Mountains, the Puṣpabhadrā River, and his own hermitage, where he had had the audience …

In that vast sea he again saw the banyan tree growing on the tiny island and the infant boy lying …

At that moment the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the original master of all mysticism and who is hidden …