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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.6

నిరోధోఽస్యానుశయనమాత్మన: సహ శక్తిభి: । ముక్తిర్హిత్వాన్యథారూపం స్వరూపేణ వ్యవస్థితి: ॥ ౬ ॥
nirodho ’syānuśayanam
[nirodho ’syaanushayanam]
ātmanaḥ saha śaktibhiḥ
[aatmanah saha shaktibhih]
muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ
[muktir hitvaanyathaa roopam]
sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ
[sva-roopena vyavasthitih]
nirodhaḥ — the winding up of the cosmic manifestation asya — of His anuśayanam — the lying down of the puruṣa incarnation Mahā-Viṣṇu in mystic slumber ātmanaḥ — of the living entities saha — along with śaktibhiḥ — with the energies muktiḥ — liberation hitvā — giving up anyathā — otherwise rūpam — form sva-rūpeṇa — in constitutional form vyavasthitiḥ — permanent situation.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
nirodho ’syānuśayanam
nirodhaḥ
the winding up of the cosmic manifestation
ātmanaḥ saha śaktibhiḥ
asya
of His
muktir hitvānyathā rūpaṁ
anuśayanam
the lying down of the puruṣa incarnation Mahā-Viṣṇu in mystic slumber
ātmanaḥ
of the living entities
saha
along with
śaktibhiḥ
with the energies
muktiḥ
liberation
sva-rūpeṇa vyavasthitiḥ
hitvā
giving up
anyathā
otherwise
rūpam
form
sva-rūpeṇa
in constitutional form
vyavasthitiḥ
permanent situation.
The merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Mahā-Viṣṇu is called the winding up of the cosmic manifestation. Liberation is the permanent situation of the form of the living entity after he gives up the changeable gross and subtle material bodies.

As we have discussed several times, there are two types of living entities. Most of them are ever liberated, or nitya-muktas, while some of them are ever conditioned. The ever-conditioned souls are apt to develop a mentality of lording over the material nature, and therefore the material cosmic creation is manifested to give the ever-conditioned souls two kinds of facilities. One facility is that the conditioned soul can act according to his tendency to lord it over the cosmic manifestation, and the other facility gives the conditioned soul a chance to come back to Godhead. So after the winding up of the cosmic manifestation, most of the conditioned souls merge into the existence of the Mahā-Viṣṇu Personality of Godhead, lying in His mystic slumber, to be created again in the next creation. But some of the conditioned souls, who follow the transcendental sound in the form of Vedic literatures and are thus able to go back to Godhead, attain spiritual and original bodies after quitting the conditional gross and subtle material bodies. The material conditional bodies develop out of the living entities’ forgetfulness of their relationship with Godhead, and during the course of the cosmic manifestation, the conditioned souls are given a chance to revive their original status of life with the help of revealed scriptures, so mercifully compiled by the Lord in His different incarnations. Reading or hearing of such transcendental literatures helps one become liberated even in the conditional state of material existence. All the Vedic literatures aim at devotional service to the Personality of Godhead, and as soon as one is fixed upon this point, he at once becomes liberated from conditional life. The material gross and subtle forms are simply due to the conditioned soul’s ignorance and as soon as he is fixed in the devotional service of the Lord, he becomes eligible to be freed from the conditioned state. This devotional service is transcendental attraction for the Supreme on account of His being the source of all pleasing humors. Everyone is after some pleasure of humor for enjoyment, but does not know the supreme source of all attraction ( raso vai saḥ rasaṁ hy evāyaṁ labdhvānandī bhavati ). The Vedic hymns inform everyone about the supreme source of all pleasure: the unlimited fountainhead of all pleasure is the Personality of Godhead. And one who is fortunate enough to get this information through transcendental literatures like Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam becomes permanently liberated to occupy his proper place in the kingdom of God.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Nirodha refers to the merging of the jīva along with his material identity into the Lord at the time of final devastation of the universe. Mukti means the jīva’s attainment of his form as pure ātmā or as an associate of the Lord after giving up gross and subtle material bodies.
Commentary

Nirodha refers to the sleeping (merging) of jīva along with his subtle coverings following after the Lord’s sleep. This refers to the jīva’s merging into the Lord after the protection period (sthiti) is completed. Mukti refers to the condition in which the jīva remains in his pure form or in the form of an associate of the Lord in some cases, after giving up the gross and subtle bodies of māyā (anyathā-rūpam). Thus the nine topics related to the jīva, starting with his attaining a material body, have been described.

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