CC Madhya 6.181
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 181
- svāgamaiḥ kalpitais tvaṁ ca
- janān mad-vimukhān kuru
- māṁ ca gopaya yena syāt
- sṛṣṭir eṣottarottarā
SYNONYMS
sva-āgamaiḥ — with your own theses; kalpitaiḥ — imagined; tvam — you; ca — also; janān — the people in general; mat-vimukhān — averse to Me and addicted to fruitive activities and speculative knowledge; kuru — make; mām — Me, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca — and; gopaya — just cover; yena — by which; syāt — there may be; sṛṣṭiḥ — material advancement; eṣā — this; uttara-uttarā — more and more.
TRANSLATION
“[Addressing Lord Śiva, the Supreme Personality of Godhead said:] ‘Please make the general populace averse to Me by imagining your own interpretation of the Vedas. Also, cover Me in such a way that people will take more interest in advancing material civilization just to propagate a population bereft of spiritual knowledge.’
PURPORT
This is a quotation from the Padma Purāṇa, Uttara-khaṇḍa (62.31).