परावरेषां भूतानामात्मा य: पुरुष: पर: । स एवासीदिदं विश्वं कल्पान्तेऽन्यन्न किञ्चन ॥ ८ ॥
paravaresam bhutanam atma yah purusah parah sa evasid idam visvam kalpante ’nyan na kincana
- para-avaresam
- of all living entities, in higher or lower statuses of life
- bhutanam
- of those who have taken material bodies (the conditioned souls)
- atma
- the Supersoul
- yah
- one who is
- purusah
- the Supreme Person
- parah
- transcendental
- sah
- He
- eva
- indeed
- asit
- was existing
- idam
- this
- visvam
- universe
- kalpa-ante
- at the end of the millennium
- anyat
- anything else
- na
- not
- kincana
- anything whatsoever.
The transcendental Supreme Person, the Supersoul of all living entities, who are in different statuses of life, high and low, existed at the end of the millennium, when neither this manifested cosmos nor anything else but Him existed.