Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.25.2
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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sāṁvartakam nāma
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named Sāṁvartaka
The pralaya-clouds reserved for cosmic dissolution. Their use here is grotesquely disproportionate — Prabhupāda highlights this as the signature of īśa-māna: a finite controller treating personal injury as universe-ending.
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anta - kāriṇām
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which effect the end (of the universe)
Compound from anta (end) + kāriṇām (makers). The clouds whose role is the destruction of the cosmos — released here against a village of gopas. Gauḍīya reading: misused śakti is the marker of an offender, not a master.
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īśa - mānī
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falsely thinking himself the supreme controller
Compound īśa (controller) + mānin (one who imagines himself to be). The exact diagnosis of conditioned consciousness — taking delegated power for svayam-īśvaratva. The whole chapter is Kṛṣṇa's medicine for this single disease.
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kruddhaḥ
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angry
From √krudh. In Gauḍīya psychology krodha is the second-stage outgrowth of unfulfilled kāma (Bg 2.62); here, Indra's interrupted enjoyment of worship instantly becomes wrath. The līlā stages this scripture-truth in weather.
The word īśa-mānī here is very significant. Indra arrogantly considered himself to be the Lord, and thus he exhibited the typical attitude of a conditioned soul. Many thinkers in the twentieth century have noted the exaggerated sense of individual prestige characteristic of our culture; indeed, writers have even coined the phrase “the me generation.” Everyone in this world is more or less guilty of the syndrome called īśa-māna, or proudly considering oneself the Lord.
This verse describes Indra’s anger. Samvartaka refers to those clouds used at the time of final devastation. Ca indicates that the seven winds of destruction such as avaha nd pravaha were also sent by him. Indra was proud, thinking himself the controller (isamani).
The clouds were used especially for destruction of the universe and were thus called sāṁvartakam (destructive of the universe). The word ca means eva (just for this). Or, the word ca indicates other clouds like āvaha and pravaha clouds as well. He sent the clouds (pra-- codayat) while instilling them with enthusiasm for destruction because of his pride. The word uta means “indeed” indicating his despicable conduct, unbecoming for the leader of the devatās.
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The Sāṁvartaka clouds are the boilers of cosmic dissolution; Indra opens their seals out of season and aims them at one village of cowherds. When a small ego inherits a large weapon, even ordinary anger borrows the language of apocalypse.
My note
Source: vedabase.io