श्रीशुक उवाच तस्य मूलदेशे त्रिंशद्योजनसहस्रान्तर आस्ते या वै कला भगवतस्तामसी समाख्यातानन्त इति सात्वतीया द्रष्टृदृश्ययो: सङ्कर्षणमहमित्यभिमानलक्षणं यं सङ्कर्षणमित्याचक्षते ॥ १ ॥
sri-suka uvaca tasya mula-dese trimsad-yojana-sahasrantara aste ya vai kala bhagavatas tamasi samakhyatananta iti satvatiya drastr-drsyayoh sankarsanam aham ity abhimana-laksanam yam sankarsanam ity acaksate.
- sri-sukah uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said
- tasya
- of the planet Patala
- mula-dese
- in the region beneath the base
- trimsat
- thirty
- yojana
- eight-mile units of measurement
- sahasra-antare
- at an interval of one thousand
- aste
- remains
- ya
- which
- vai
- indeed
- kala
- an expansion of an expansion
- bhagavatah
- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- tamasi
- related to darkness
- samakhyata
- called
- anantah
- Ananta
- iti
- thus
- satvatiyah
- the devotees
- drastr-drsyayoh
- of matter and spirit
- sankarsanam
- the drawing together
- aham
- I
- iti
- thus
- abhimana
- by self-conception
- laksanam
- symptomized
- yam
- whom
- sankarsanam
- Sankarsana
- iti
- thus
- acaksate
- learned scholars describe
Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said to Maharaja Pariksit: My dear King, approximately 240,000 miles beneath the plane Patala lives another incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is the expansion of Lord Visnu known as Lord Ananta or Lord Sankarsana. He is always in the transcendental position, but because He is worshiped by Lord Siva, the deity of tamo-guna or darkness, He is sometimes called tamasi. Lord Ananta is the predominating Deity of the material mode of ignorance as well as the false ego of all conditioned souls. When a conditioned living being thinks, I am the enjoyer, and this world is meant to be enjoyed by me this conception of life is dictated to him by Sankarsana. Thus the mundane conditioned soul thinks himself the Supreme Lord.