svarūpaṁ bata kurvanti
pareṣāṁ ca parasya te
svarūpaṁ bata kurvanti
yad-dhetoḥ kuśalaṁ janāḥ
Please also describe the nature of time, a form of power, one of your forms, controlling even great persons like Brahmā, out of whose fear people perform auspicious acts.
Also explain about time, which is one of your forms (te). By fear of time people perform auspicious acts.
|| 3.29.5 ||
lokasya mithyābhimater acakṣuṣaś
ciraṁ prasuptasya tamasy anāśraye
śrāntasya karmasv anuviddhayā dhiyā
tvam āvirāsīḥ kila yoga-bhāskaraḥ
You, the sun, the revealer of the lotus of bhakti, jñāna and yoga, have appeared in this world for destroying the denseness of material identity, giving light to the blind, waking up those sleeping in saṁṣara, and drying up the pool of exhaustion caused by thoughts of attachment to action.
For destroying the false material identity (mithyābhimateḥ) for giving enlightenment (acakṣusaḥ), for destroying darkness of sleep in material life (tamasi prasuptasya), for drying up the pool of exhaustion caused by thoughts of attachment to action, you, the revealer of the lotus of bhakti, jñāna and yoga, have appeared.
|| 3.29.6 ||
maitreya uvāca
iti mātur vacaḥ ślakṣṇaṁ
pratinandya mahā-muniḥ
ābabhāṣe kuru-śreṣṭha
prītas tāṁ karuṇārditaḥ
Maitreya said: O best of the Kurus, Vidura! Welcoming the gentle words of his mother, being pleased, and filled with compassion, Kapila spoke to her.
|| 3.29.7 ||
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
bhakti-yogo bahu-vidho
mārgair bhāvini[260] bhāvyate
svabhāva-guṇa-mārgeṇa
puṁsāṁ bhāvo vibhidyate
The Lord said: Bhakti appears in many forms by particular actions in a person according to his intentions. The intentions of men are classed by the actions of the guṇas arising from one’s nature.
Kapila has already spoken of pure bhakti beyond the guṇas:
devānāṁ guṇa-liṅgānām ānuśravika-karmaṇām
sattva evaika-manaso vṛttiḥ svābhāvikī tu yā
animittā bhāgavatī bhaktiḥ siddher garīyasī
Bhakti to the Supreme Lord without material desires, composed of actions of the senses to reveal senses objects related to the Lord and which conform to guru’s instructions, with mind dedicated exclusively to the Lord, and which include actions on the spontaneous level, is superior to liberation. SB 3.25.32
Now Kapila begins to speak about bhakti which is contaminated by the guṇas. Bhakti-yoga, of one nature, is known to have many forms with particular methods, according to the intention of the particular person (bhāvini). That intention becomes classified by differing actions of the guṇas arising from one’s nature. Though bhakti in its essential nature is beyond the guṇas, it becomes called tamasic bhakti etc. when it is contaminated by one’s natural guṇas such as tamas.
|| 3.29.8 ||
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