न यत्र कालोऽनिमिषां पर: प्रभु: कुतो नु देवा जगतां य ईशिरे । न यत्र सत्त्वं न रजस्तमश्च न वै विकारो न महान् प्रधानम् ॥ १७ ॥
na yatra kalo ’nimisam parah prabhuh kuto nu deva jagatam ya isire na yatra sattvam na rajas tamas ca na vai vikaro na mahan pradhanam
- na
- not
- yatra
- wherein
- kalah
- destructive time
- animisam
- of the heavenly demigods
- parah
- superior
- prabhuh
- controller
- kutah
- where is there
- nu
- certainly
- devah
- the demigods
- jagatam
- the mundane creatures
- ye
- those
- isire
- rules
- na
- not
- yatra
- therein
- sattvam
- mundane goodness
- na
- nor
- rajah
- mundane passion
- tamah
- mundane ignorance
- ca
- also
- na
- nor
- vai
- certainly
- vikarah
- transformation
- na
- nor
- mahan
- the material Causal Ocean
- pradhanam
- material nature
In that transcendental state of labdhopasanti, there is no supremacy of devastating time, which controls even the celestial demigods who are empowered to rule over mundane creatures (And what to speak of the demigods themselves?) Nor is there the mode of material goodness, nor passion, nor ignorance, nor even the false ego, nor the material Causal Ocean, nor the material nature.