SB 12.10.41
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 41
etat kecid avidvāṁso
māyā-saṁsṛtir ātmanaḥ
anādy-āvartitaṁ nṟṇāṁ
kādācitkaṁ pracakṣate
SYNONYMS
etat—this; kecit—some persons; avidvāṁsaḥ—who are not learned; māyā-saṁsṛtiḥ—the illusory creation; ātmanaḥ—of the Supreme Soul; anādi—from time immemorial; āvartitam—repeating; nṟṇām—of conditioned living beings; kādācitkam—unprecedented; pracakṣate—they say.
TRANSLATION
Although this event was unique and unprecedented, some unintelligent persons compare it to the cycle of illusory material existence the Supreme Lord has created for the conditioned souls—an endless cycle that has been continuing since time immemorial.
PURPORT
Mārkaṇḍeya's being drawn into the Lord's body by His inhalation and expelled again by His exhalation should not be considered a symbolic description of the perennial cycles of material creation and annihilation. This portion of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam describes a real, historical event experienced by a great devotee of the Lord, and those trying to relegate this story to mere symbolic allegory are here declared to be unintelligent fools.