SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 20

yojayitva tu tany eva pravivesa svayam guham
guham praviste tasmims tu jivatma pratibudhyate [20]

Translation: Amalgamating all those disjointed elements, He manifested endless mundane universes and personally entered into the guha, that is, He entered the inner region of the aggregate of universal forms. At that time, the jivas who slept at the cataclysm were awakened.

Purport: The word guha has been given many interpretations in the scriptures. In certain places the unmanifest pastimes of the Lord have been referred to as guha, and elsewhere the place of location of the individual Supersoul of each universe has been referred to as guha; also in many places, the innermost recess of each jiva’s heart has been called guha. The basic point is that any place that is unrevealed to the general observer is known as guha.

In the previous millennium, all the jivas that were merged in the body of the Supreme Lord Hari during the great universal devastation that occurred at the end of Lord Brahma’s lifetime were again manifest in the world in positions according to the impulses of their previous worldly actions or karma (jivatma pratibudhyate).

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