svÄgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaá¹ ca
janÄn mad-vimukhÄn kuru
mÄá¹ ca gopaya yena syÄt
sṛṣṭir eá¹£ottarottarÄ

 sva-Ägamaiḥ - with your own theses; kalpitaiḥ - imagined; tvam - you; ca - also; janÄn - the people in general; mat-vimukhÄn - averse to Me and addicted to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge; kuru - make; mÄm - Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca - and; gopaya - just cover; yena - by which; syÄt - there may be; sṛṣṭiḥ - material advancement; eá¹£Ä - this; uttara-uttarÄ - more and more.


Text

“[Addressing Lord Śiva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said:] ‘Please make the general populace averse to Me by imagining your own interpretation of the Vedas. Also, cover Me in such a way that people will take more interest in advancing material civilization just to propagate a population bereft of spiritual knowledge.’

Purport

This is a quotation from the Padma PurÄṇa, Uttara-khaṇá¸a (62.31).