SRIMAD BHAGAVATAM - Prabhupada

18 Srbnad-Bhigavabun [Canto 7, Ch. 1kalam-time; carantam-moving; srjati-creates; 00-theSupreme Personality of Godhead; asrayam-shelter; pradhiina-for thematerial energy; pumbhyam-and the living entity; nara-deva-0ruler of men; satya-true; krt-creator.TRANSLATION0 great King, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controllerof the material and spiritual energies, who is certainly thecreator of the entire cosmos, creates the time factor to allow thematerial energy and the living entity to act within the limits oftime. Thus the Supreme Personality is never under the time factornor under the material energy.PURPORTOne should not think that the Lord is dependent on the time factor. Heactually creates the situation by which material nature acts and by whichthe conditioned soul is placed under material nature. Both the conditionedsoul and the material nature act within the time factor, but theLord is not subject to the actions and reactions of time, for time has beencreated by Him. To be more clear, Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti 'fhakurasays that creation, maintenance and annihilation are all under thesupreme will of the Lord.In Bhagavad-gitti (4. 7) the Lord says:yada yada hi dharmasyagliinir bhavati bhiirataabhyutthiinam adharmasyatadatmanam srjamy aham"Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, 0 descendantof Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion-at that time Idescend Myself." Since KrQa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, isthe controller of everything, when He appears He is not within thelimitations of material time (janma karma ca me divyam). In this versethe words kalam carantam srjansa asrayam indicate that although theLord acts within time, whether sattva-gury,a, rajo-gury,a or tamo-gury,a isprominent, one should not think that the Lord is under time's control.