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TEXT 6 maharsayah sapta purve
SYNONYMS  maha-rsayah--the
great sages; sapta--seven; purve--before; catvarah--four;
manavah--Manus; tatha--also; mat-bhavah--born of Me;
manasah--from the mind; jatah--born; yesam--of them;
loke--the planets; imah--all this; prajah--population.
TRANSLATION The seven
great sages and before them the four other great sages and the Manus [progenitors
of mankind] are born out of My mind, and all creatures in these planets
descend from them.
PURPORT The Lord is
giving a genealogical synopsis of the universal population. Brahma is the
original creature born out of the energy of the Supreme Lord known as Hiranyagarbha.
And from Brahma all the seven great sages, and before them four other great
sages, namely Sanaka, Sananda, Sanatana and Sanat-kumara, and the Manus,
are manifest. All these twenty-five great sages are known as the patriarchs
of the living entities all over the universe. There are innumerable universes
and innumerable planets within each universe, and each planet is full of
population of different varieties. All of them are born of these twenty-five
patriarchs. Brahma underwent penance for one thousand years of the demigods
before he realized by the grace of Krsna how to create. Then from Brahma
Sanaka, Sananda, Sanatana and Sanat-kumara came out, then Rudra, and then
the seven sages, and in this way all the brahmanas and ksatriyas
are born out of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Brahma
is known as Pitamaha, the grandfather, and Krsna is known as the Prapitamaha,
the father of the grandfather. That is stated in the Eleventh Chapter of
the Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 11.39).
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