Srimad Bhagavatam — Dashama Skandha, Shloka 26
Kṛṣṇa Defeats Bāṇāsura and Receives Śiva’s Prayers
The Śoṇitapura Battle and the Jvara Episode
कालो दैवं कर्म जीव: स्वभावो द्रव्यं क्षेत्रं प्राण आत्मा विकार: । तत्सङ्घातो बीजरोहप्रवाह- स्त्वन्मायैषा तन्निषेधं प्रपद्ये ॥ २६ ॥
kālo daivaṁ karma jīvaḥ svabhāvo dravyaṁ kṣetraṁ prāṇa ātmā vikāraḥ tat-saṅghāto bīja-roha-pravāhas tvan-māyaiṣā tan-niṣedhaṁ prapadye
时间、天命、业力、个体灵魂及其习性；微细物质、身体之“田”、生命气、虚我、诸根与其总和——如种子与苗芽无尽流转——皆是你的物质幻能玛雅。我皈依于你，唯你能否定并超越此玛雅。
The word bīja-roha-pravāha is explained as follows: The conditioned soul accepts a material body, with which he attempts to enjoy the material world. That body is the seed ( bīja ) of future material existence because when a person acts with that body he creates further reactions ( karma ), which grow ( roha ) into the obligation to accept another material body. In other words, material life is a chain of actions and reactions. The simple decision to surrender to the Supreme Lord releases the conditioned soul from this futile repetition of material growth and reaction.
FAQs
This verse explains that time, destiny, karma, the jīva’s conditioned nature, the body-world (kṣetra), and material transformations form a single chain of causation—called the Lord’s māyā—and liberation comes by taking shelter of Kṛṣṇa for its cessation.
After Kṛṣṇa’s victory in the Bāṇāsura episode, Śiva offers prayers acknowledging Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme controller; he identifies the entire material causal network as Kṛṣṇa’s māyā and seeks freedom from it through surrender.
See life’s changing conditions—success, loss, and fate—as movements within māyā, and practice steady surrender through bhakti (hearing, chanting, and remembering Kṛṣṇa), aiming for inner detachment and God-centered action.