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Chapter 11: Calculation of Time, from the Atom

Verse 13 of 42
SB 3.11.13

ग्रहर्क्षताराचक्रस्थः परमाण्वादिना जगत्संवत्सरावसानेन पर्येत्यनिमिषो विभुः

graha-rkṣa-tārā-cakra-sthaḥ paramāṇvādinā jagat saṁvatsarāvasānena paryety animiṣo vibhuḥ

Synonyms

grahainfluencing planets like the moon; ṛkṣaluminaries like Aśvinī; tārāstars; cakra-sthaḥin the orbit; parama-aṇu-ādināalong with the atoms; jagatthe entire universe; saṁvatsara-avasānenaby the end of one year; paryeticompletes its orbit; animiṣaḥthe eternal time; vibhuḥthe Almighty..

Translation

Influential stars, planets, luminaries and atoms all over the universe are rotating in their respective orbits under the direction of the Supreme, represented by eternal kāla.

Purport

In the Brahma-saṁhitā it is stated that the sun is the eye of the Supreme and it rotates in its particular orbit of time. Similarly, beginning from the sun down to the atom, all bodies are under the influence of the kāla-cakra, or the orbit of eternal time, and each of them has a scheduled orbital time of one saṁvatsara.

Verse 13 of 42
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