Srimad Bhagavatam — Dvadasha Skandha, Shloka 67
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श्रीयाज्ञवल्क्य उवाच ॐ नमो भगवते आदित्यायाखिलजगतामात्मस्वरूपेण कालस्वरूपेण चतुर्विधभूतनिकायानां ब्रह्मादिस्तम्बपर्यन्तानामन्तर्हृदयेषु बहिरपि चाकाश इवोपाधिनाव्यवधीयमानो भवानेक एव क्षणलवनिमेषावयवोपचितसंवत्सरगणेनापामादान विसर्गाभ्यामिमां लोकयात्रामनुवहति ॥ ६७ ॥
śrī-yājñavalkya uvāca oṁ namo bhagavate ādityāyākhila-jagatām ātma-svarūpeṇa kāla-svarūpeṇa catur-vidha-bhūta-nikāyānāṁ brahmādi-stamba-paryantānām antar-hṛdayeṣu bahir api cākāśa ivopādhināvyavadhīyamāno bhavān eka eva kṣaṇa-lava-nimeṣāvayavopacita-saṁvatsara-gaṇenāpām ādāna- visargābhyām imāṁ loka-yātrām anuvahati.
Śrī Yājñavalkya said: I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead appearing as the sun. You are present as the controller of the four kinds of living entities, beginning from Brahmā and extending down to the blades of grass. Just as the sky is present both inside and outside every living being, you exist both within the hearts of all as the Supersoul and externally in the form of time. Just as the sky cannot be covered by the clouds present within it, you are never covered by any false material designation. By the flow of years, which are made up of the tiny fragments of time called kṣaṇas, lavas and nimeṣas, you alone maintain this world, drying up the waters and giving them back as rain.
This prayer is not offered to the sun-god as an independent or autonomous entity but rather to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, represented by His powerful expansion the solar deity.
FAQs
This verse offers obeisances to the Lord as Āditya, identifying Him as the Self of all worlds and the very form of Time that sustains cosmic order.
He acknowledges that the same Supreme Lord is present within all hearts as the indwelling Self and also governs externally as Time, moving the universe through measurable cycles.
It encourages humility and urgency in spiritual practice—recognizing every moment as governed by the Lord and using time responsibly for devotion and self-purification.