SB 2.5.5

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Second Canto - Chapter 5: The Cause of All Causes

SB 2.5.4 - SB 2.5.6

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 5

ātman bhāvayase tāni

na parābhāvayan svayam

ātma-śaktim avaṣṭabhya

ūrṇanābhir ivāklamaḥ

SYNONYMS

ātman (ātmani) — by the self; bhāvayase — manifest; tāni — all those; na — not; parābhāvayan — being defeated; svayam — yourself; ātma-śaktim — self-sufficient power; avaṣṭabhya — being employed; ūrṇa-nābhiḥ — the spider; iva — like; aklamaḥ — without help.

TRANSLATION

As the spider very easily creates the network of its cobweb and manifests its power of creation without being defeated by others, so also you yourself, by employment of your self-sufficient energy, create without any other's help.

PURPORT

The best example of self-sufficiency is the sun. The sun does not require to be illuminated by any other body. Rather, it is the sun which helps all other illuminating agents, for in the presence of the sun no other illuminating agent becomes prominent. Nārada compared the position of Brahmā to the self-sufficiency of the spider, who creates its own field of activities without any other's help by employment of its own energetic creation of saliva.

SB 2.5.4 - SB 2.5.6