prāk-kalpa-viṣayām etāṁ smṛtiṁ te muni-sattama na hy eṣa vyavadhāt kāla eṣa sarva-nirākṛtiḥ
Synonyms
prāk—prior; kalpa—the duration of Brahma's day; viṣayām—subject matter; etām—all these; smṛtim—remembrance; te—your; muni-sattama—oh the great sage; na—not; hi—all these; eṣaḥ—certainly; vyavadhāt—made any difference; kālaḥ—course of time; eṣaḥ—all these; sarva—all; nirākṛtiḥ—annihilation.
Translation
Oh the great sage, the time annihilates everything in due course and how it so happened that subject matter which happened prior to this duration of Brahma's day is still afresh in your remembrance without being disturbed by time.
Purport
As spirit does not annihilate ever after the annihilation of the material body so also spiritual conciousness does not annihilate. Sri Narada developped this spiritual consciousness even when he had the material body in the previous Kalpa. Consciousness of the material body means spiritual consiousness expressed, through the medium of material body. This consciousness is inferior, destructible and perverted. But super consciousness of the supramind in the spiritual plane is as good as the spirit soul and is never annihilated.