Some of
the Time quotes in
S'rîmad
Bhâgavatam and Bhagavad
Gîtâ:
S.B.
1.8: 28 / I consider You
the personification of Eternal Time,
the Lord without a beginning or an
end, the All-pervasive One who
distributes His mercy everywhere,
equally, among the beings who live
in mutual dissent.
S.B.
1.13: 49 / He, the Father of all
creation, the Supreme Lord, has
now, oh great King, descended in
this world in the form of [death,
the all-devouring] Time, in order
to eliminate everyone inimical to
the enlightened souls.
S.B.
2.1: 24 / His personal body is
this gross material world in which
we experience all that belongs to
the past, the present and the
future of this universe in
existence.
S.B.
2.1: 33-34 /
His
veins are the rivers and the plants
and trees are the hairs on the body
of the Universal Form, oh King. The
air is His omnipotent breathing, the
passing of the ages, Time, is His
movement and the constant operation
of the modes of material nature is
His activity.
Let
me tell you that the hairs on the
head of the Supreme One are the
clouds, oh best of the Kurus, and
that the intelligence of the
Almighty One is the prime cause of
the material creation, so one
says. His mind, the reservoir of
all changes, is known as the moon.
S.B.
2.5:11 / All of the world
that I created was created from the
effulgence [the
brahmajyoti]
of His existence, just like it is with the
fire, the sun, the moon, the planets
and the stars
[that radiate from His effulgence].
S.B.
2.5: 21-22 / The Lord of Control by
the potency of His material energy
thus, from the independent will of
His divine self, arrived at many
appearances, taking upon Himself
their karma, [being subjected to]
time and their particular natures. (22) Because of the
superintendence of the Original
Person the creation of the mahat-tattva
[the 'greater reality'] took place,
from eternal time there was the
transformation of the modes and from
the modification of the original
nature the different activities
found their existence.
S.B.
3.4: 16 /
Even
though You have no desires You
engage in all kinds of activities,
even though You are unborn You still
take birth, being the controller of
eternal Time You nevertheless take shelter of the fortress
out of fear for Your enemies and
despite enjoying within Yourself,
You lead a household life in the
association of women; this bewilders
the intelligence of the scholars in
this world.
S.B.
3.5: 33-36 / (33) Material energy
is a partial [local] mixture of
time [the time of expanding and
contracting]. The Supreme Lord
glancing this over from the
ether, thus being contacted,
created the transformation of
that touch in the form of air
[gasses].
(34)
The air, also transformed by the
extremely powerful ether, gave [in
contraction] rise to the form of the
light [of the fire of the sun and
the stars] and [the bio-electricity]
of sense perception by which the
world is perceived.
(35) With the interaction of air and
light [fire] there was, with
the glance of the Lord [of the
ether] mixing time with the external
energy, a
transformation that created water in combination with
its taste.
(36) With the partly
[local] uniting of the material energy
with eternal time, the by the light produced
water, that was
thus created
as a consequence of the transformation
of the Supreme Spirit [of God]
glancing over the earth, led to the
creation of the quality of smell.
S.B.
3.6: 15 / Eyes appeared in the
gigantic body that offered a
position to Tvashthâ, the director
of light and the power of sight by
which forms can be seen.
S.B.
3.6: 24 / Next the heart of the
Universal Being manifested in
which Candra, the god of the moon
took his position with the
function of mental activity
because of which one is lost in
thoughts.
S.B. 3.11: 11-15 / The
aggregate of such a 'day' and
'night' is called an ancestral
[traditional or solar] month with
two of them forming a season. There
are six of them [respectively 'cold'
or hemanta, 'dew' or s'is'ira,
'spring' or vasanta, 'warm' or
grîshma, 'rainy' or varshâs and
'autumn' or s'arad, counting from
December 22] corresponding to the
movement of the sun going through
the southern and northern sky.
(12) This movement of the sun is
said to form one day of the demigods
and is called a vatsara [a tropical
year] of twelve months. The duration
of life of the human being is
estimated to be of a great number [a
hundred] of those years [see also
the 'full calendar of order'].
(13) The infinitesimal particles and
their combinations, the planets, the
heavenly bodies [like the moon] and
the stars, all rotate in the
universe, to complete their orbit in
a year of the Almighty [cyclic
order, the command] of eternal
time.
(14) We speak about an orbit of the
sun, about an orbit of the other
planets, the orbit of the stars [in
our galaxy around Sagittarius A in
the sky], the orbit of the moon, oh
Vidura, and the orbit of the earth
as being a single [but differently
named] year [respectively a
celestial year, a planetary year, a
galactic year, a lunation and a
tropical year].
(15) With attention for
all His five different types of
years, one should be of respect
for the One [Lord of Time] who,
differing from all that was
created, moves under the name of
Eternal Time and who with His energy
in different ways invigorates the
seeds of creation while during the
day dissipating the darkness of the
living entities. By thus performing
sacrifices one develops quality in
one's material existence.'
S.B.
3.11:39 / This eternal
time, beginning from the atom up to
the final duration of two parârdhas,
is never capable of controlling the
Supreme Lord, it is the controller of
those souls who are identified with
their body.
S.B.
3.12: 39 / The Itihâsas -
the separate histories - and the
collections of classical stories, the
Purânas, who together are
known as the fifth Veda, manifested
from all the mouths of him looking in
every direction.
S.B.
3.15: 3 / The
demigods said: 'You, oh mighty one,
must be knowing about this darkness
we are so very afraid of. Your
supreme divinity is not affected by
time and thus nothing is hidden for
you.
S.B.
3.21: 16 / Oh
original father of all, the
conditioned souls in the grip of
desire are all bound by the rope of
the words of You, the Lord of the
living beings. I, following their
example, also offer my oblations to
You, oh light of eternal time.
S.B.
3.21: 18 / The wheel
of the universe that with a
tremendous speed spins around the
axle of Your imperishable [nature,
Brahman] with three naves [of the
sun, moon and stars], the [twelve
to] thirteen spokes [of the lunar
months], the three hundred and sixty
joints [of the days in a demigod
year], the six rims [of the
seasons], and innumerable leaves
[that are the moments], may be
cutting short the life-span of the
universe but not the lives of the
devotees. (updates
October 19, 2020)
B.G. 4:
2 / Thus one following the other, the
saintly kings received this science
understanding it that way but in
the course of time in this world
this great way of connecting oneself
was scattered, o subduer of the
enemies.
B.G. 4:
7 / Whenever and wherever it is sure
that one weakens in righteousness and
a predominance of injustice does
manifest, o descendant of Bharata, at
that time I do manifest Myself.
B.G. 8:
7 / Therefore go on remembering Me
at all times and fighting with
your mind and intelligence surrendered
to Me, certainly you will attain Me
without doubt.
B.G.
10: 30 / Of the Daitya's [non-theist
sons of Diti who churned the ocean] I
am Prahlâda, of what rules I am
the Time, of the animals the
lion and of the birds I am Garuda
[Vainateya].
B.G. 10: 33 / Of the letters I am the
first one [the A], of the compound
words I am the dual one and certainly
am I the eternal of Time and
the Creator facing all directions
[Brahmâ].
B.G.
11: 7 / See here and now the universe
completely, all at the same time,
with all that moves and not moves, in
this body of Mine, o conqueror of
sleep, and also whatever else you wish
to see.
B.G.
11: 32 / Time I am, the great
destroyer of the worlds engaged here
in destroying all people, except for
you [brothers] only, will all the
soldiers who are situated on both
sides, find their end.
B.G.
13: 31 / When one following that tries
to see that the diversity of the
living beings is resting in oneness
and that it expanded to that reality,
at that time one attains the
Absolute of the Spirit.
B.G.
14: 11 / When to all the gates of the
body the enlightenment of knowledge
develops, at that time one
says is the mode of goodness
prevailing.
B.G.
17: 20 / Donations given dutifully,
irrespective the return, at the
proper time and place and to
suitable persons - that giving is
considered to be of goodness.
B.G.
17: 22 / That charity which is given
at the wrong place, the wrong time
and to unworthy persons and as well is
given without respect and proper
attention - that is said to be in the
mode of ignorance.
B.G.
18: 61 / The Supreme Master resides in
the heart of all living entities, o
Arjuna, directing each creature subject
to the mechanical of time and
matter.