Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 11.15.12
परमाणुमये चित्तं भूतानां मयि रञ्जयन् ।
कालसूक्ष्मार्थतां योगी लघिमानमवाप्नुयात् ॥ १२ ॥
paramāṇu-maye cittaṁ
[paramaanu-maye chittam]
bhūtānāṁ mayi rañjayan
[bhootaanaam mayi ranjayan]
kāla-sūkṣmārthatāṁ yogī
[kaala-sookshmaarthataam yogee]
laghimānam avāpnuyāt
[laghimaanam avaapnuyaat]
Word-for-word
parama-aṇu-maye
—
in the form of atoms
cittam
—
his consciousness
bhūtānām
—
of the material elements
mayi
—
in Me
rañjayan
—
attaching
kāla
—
of time
sūkṣma
—
subtle
arthatām
—
being the substance
yogī
—
the yogī
laghimānam
—
the mystic perfection laghimā
avāpnuyāt
—
may obtain.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
paramāṇu-maye cittaṁ
parama-aṇu-maye
in the form of atoms
cittam
his consciousness
bhūtānāṁ mayi rañjayan
bhūtānām
of the material elements
mayi
in Me
rañjayan
attaching
kāla-sūkṣmārthatāṁ yogī
kāla
of time
sūkṣma
subtle
arthatām
being the substance
yogī
the yogī
laghimānam avāpnuyāt
laghimānam
the mystic perfection laghimā
avāpnuyāt
may obtain.
I exist within everything, and I am therefore the essence of the atomic constituents of material elements. By attaching his mind to Me in this form, the yogī may achieve the perfection called laghimā, by which he realizes the subtle atomic substance of time.
Purport
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam elaborately explains that kāla, or time, is the transcendental form of the Lord that moves the material world. Since the five gross elements are composed of atoms, the atomic particles are the subtle substance or manifestation of the movements of time. More subtle than time is the Personality of Godhead Himself, who expands His potency as the time factor. By understanding all these things clearly the yogī obtains laghimā-siddhi, or the power to make himself lighter than the lightest.
— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
By attaching his mind to me as the atoms of matter, the yogī may achieve the perfection called laghimā, a form which is as light as the smallest portion of time.
Concentrating the mind on me in the form of the atoms of elements like air, the yogī attains a form which is as light as the smallest portion of time (kāla-sūkṣma arthatām). It is said:
sa kālaḥ paramāṇur vai yo bhuṅkte paramāṇutām
sato ’viśeṣa-bhug yas tu sa kālaḥ paramo mahān
The time expended for the sun to pass over a paramāṇu is called a paramāṇu of time and the time expended from one dissolution to the next is called parama-mahān time. SB 3.11.4
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Personal Guidance
The Lord is the essence of atomic constituents, and attaching the mind to Him in that form yields laghimā — realizing the subtle atomic substance of time. Even time has an atomic structure within the Lord.
Reflection Questions
- What does meditating on the Lord as essence of atoms — and even time — do for my sense of scale?
- How does it humble or enlarge me?
My note
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