कालोपलक्षणात्परिवर्तितेन वयसा रंहसा हरत आब्रह्मतृणस्तम्बादीनां भूताना
मनिमिषतो मिषतां वित्रस्तहृदयस्तमेवेश्वरं कालचक्रनिजायुधं साक्षाद्भगवन्तं
यज्ञपुरुषमनादृत्य पाखण्डदेवताः कङ्कगृध्रबकवटप्राया आर्यसमयपरिहृताः
साङ्केत्येनाभिधत्ते ॥२९॥
kadÄcid Ä«Å›varasya bhagavato viṣṇoÅ› cakrÄt paramÄṇv-Ädi-dvi-parÄrdhÄpavarga-kÄlopalaká¹£aṇÄt parivartitena vayasÄ raá¹hasÄ harata Äbrahma-tṛṇa-stambÄdÄ«nÄá¹ bhÅ«tÄnÄm animiá¹£ato miá¹£atÄá¹ vitrasta-há¹›dayas tam eveÅ›varaá¹ kÄla-cakra-nijÄyudhaá¹ sÄká¹£Äd bhagavantaá¹ yajña-puruá¹£am anÄdá¹›tya pÄkhaṇá¸a-devatÄḥ kaá¹…ka-gá¹›dhra-baka-vaá¹a-prÄyÄ Ärya-samaya-parihá¹›tÄḥ sÄá¹…ketyenÄbhidhatte
kadÄcit - sometimes; Ä«Å›varasya - of the Supreme Lord; bhagavataḥ - of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; viṣṇoḥ - of Lord Viṣṇu; cakrÄt - from the disc; paramÄṇu-Ädi - beginning from the time of minute atoms; dvi-parÄrdha - the duration of the life of BrahmÄ; apavarga - ending; kÄla - of time; upalaká¹£aṇÄt - having the symptoms; parivartitena - revolving; vayasÄ - by the chronological order of ages; raá¹hasÄ - swiftly; harataḥ - taking away; Ä-brahma - beginning from Lord BrahmÄ; tṛṇa-stamba-ÄdÄ«nÄm - down to the small clumps of grass; bhÅ«tÄnÄm - of all living entities; animiá¹£ataḥ - without blinking the eyes (without fail); miá¹£atÄm - before the eyes of the living entities (without their being able to stop it); vitrasta-há¹›dayaḥ - being afraid in the heart; tam - Him; eva - certainly; Ä«Å›varam - the Supreme Lord; kÄla-cakra-nija-Äyudham - whose personal weapon is the disc of time; sÄká¹£Ät - directly; bhagavantam - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; yajña-puruá¹£am - who accepts all kinds of sacrificial ceremonies; anÄdá¹›tya - without caring for; pÄkhaṇá¸a-devatÄḥ - concocted incarnations of God (man-made gods or demigods); kaá¹…ka - buzzards; gá¹›dhra - vultures; baka - herons; vaá¹a-prÄyÄḥ - like crows; Ärya-samaya-parihá¹›tÄḥ - who are rejected by authorized Vedic scriptures accepted by the Ä€ryans; sÄá¹…ketyena - by concoction or with no basis of authority indicated by scripture; abhidhatte - he accepts as worshipable.
The personal weapon used by Lord Kṛṣṇa, the disc, is called hari-cakra, the disc of Hari. This cakra is the wheel of time. It expands from the beginning of the atoms up to the time of BrahmÄ’s death, and it controls all activities. It is always revolving and spending the lives of the living entities, from Lord BrahmÄ down to an insignificant blade of grass. Thus one changes from infancy, to childhood, to youth and maturity, and thus one approaches the end of life. It is impossible to check this wheel of time. This wheel is very exacting because it is the personal weapon of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes the conditioned soul, fearing the approach of death, wants to worship someone who can save him from imminent danger. Yet he does not care for the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose weapon is the indefatigable time factor. The conditioned soul instead takes shelter of a man-made god described in unauthorized scriptures. Such gods are like buzzards, vultures, herons and crows. Vedic scriptures do not refer to them. Imminent death is like the attack of a lion, and neither vultures, buzzards, crows nor herons can save one from such an attack. One who takes shelter of unauthorized man-made gods cannot be saved from the clutches of death.
It is stated: hariá¹ vinÄ má¹›tiá¹ na taranti. No one can save himself from the cruel hands of death without being favored by Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. In Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ it is stated, mÄm eva ye prapadyante mÄyÄm etÄá¹ taranti te: whoever fully surrenders unto Kṛṣṇa can be saved from the cruel hands of material nature. The conditioned soul, however, sometimes wants to take shelter of a demigod, man-made god, pseudo incarnation or bogus svÄmÄ« or yogÄ«. All these cheaters claim to follow religious principles, and all this has become very popular in this Age of Kali. There are many pÄá¹£aṇá¸Ä«s who, without referring to the Å›Ästras, pose themselves as incarnations, and foolish people follow them. Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, has left behind Him ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam and Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ. Not referring to these authorized scriptures, rascals take shelter of man-made scriptures and try to compete with Lord Kṛṣṇa. That is the greatest difficulty one encounters when trying to promote spiritual consciousness in human society. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying its best to bring people back to Kṛṣṇa consciousness in its pure form, but the pÄá¹£aṇá¸Ä«s and atheists, who are cheaters, are so numerous that sometimes we become perplexed and wonder how to push this movement forward. In any case, we cannot accept the unauthorized ways of so-called incarnations, gods, cheaters and bluffers, who are described here as crows, vultures, buzzards and herons.
