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After the Lord disappeared, O brāhmaṇa, the banyan tree, the great water and the dissolution of the universe all vanished …

This chapter describes Mārkaṇḍeya Ṛṣi’s vision of the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s illusory energy.

mahānti bhūtāny atha bhautikāny asau kālaṁ ca nānā-yuga-kalpa-kalpanam yat kiñcid anyad vyavahāra-kāraṇaṁ dadarśa viśvaṁ sad ivāvabhāsitam

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

himālayaṁ puṣpavahāṁ ca tāṁ nadīṁ nijāśramaṁ yatra ṛṣī apaśyata viśvaṁ vipaśyañ chvasitāc chiśor vai bahir nirasto nyapatal layābdhau

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

tasmin pṛthivyāḥ kakudi prarūḍhaṁ vaṭaṁ ca tat-parṇa-puṭe śayānam tokaṁ ca tat-prema-sudhā-smitena nirīkṣito ’pāṅga-nirīkṣaṇena

atha taṁ bālakaṁ vīkṣya netrābhyāṁ dhiṣṭhitaṁ hṛdi abhyayād ati-saṅkliṣṭaḥ pariṣvaktum adhokṣajam

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

tāvat sa bhagavān sākṣād yogādhīśo guhā-śayaḥ antardadha ṛṣeḥ sadyo yathehānīśa-nirmitā

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

tam anv atha vaṭo brahman salilaṁ loka-samplavaḥ tirodhāyi kṣaṇād asya svāśrame pūrva-vat sthitaḥ

After the Lord disappeared, O brāhmaṇa, the banyan tree, the great water and the dissolution of the universe all vanished …

Thus end the purports of the humble servants of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda to the Twelfth Canto, …

Satisfied by the prayers Śrī Mārkaṇḍeya had offered, the Supreme Lord told him to ask for a benediction, and the …

Inside the boy’s body, Mārkaṇḍeya was amazed to see the entire universe just as it had been before the annihilation. …

sūta uvāca saṁstuto bhagavān itthaṁ mārkaṇḍeyena dhīmatā nārāyaṇo nara-sakhaḥ prīta āha bhṛgūdvaham

Sūta Gosvāmī said: The Supreme Lord Nārāyaṇa, the friend of Nara, was satisfied by the proper glorification offered by the …

śrī-bhagavān uvāca bho bho brahmarṣi-varyo ’si siddha ātma-samādhinā mayi bhaktyānapāyinyā tapaḥ-svādhyāya-saṁyamaiḥ

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Mārkaṇḍeya, you are indeed the best of all learned brāhmaṇas. You have …