Bhagavatapurana 3.32.8.p1

3.32.8.p1

kṣmāmbho-'nalānila-viyan-mana-indriyārtha- $ bhūtādibhiḥ parivṛtaṃ pratisañjihīrṣuḥ &

9--10. When Brahma who is characterised by the three qualities, having enjoyed the period of Parārdha, enters the Avyakrita (the unmanifest Supreme Being), with the purpose of withdrawing the Brahmanda composed of Earth, water, fire, air, ether (the sky) the mind, the senses and their objects and the principle of Ahankara; the Yogins who have control over their breath and mind and eschewed all desires and who, having thus gone very far (have reached the high stage of Yoga) and entered along with Hiranyagarbha (Brahma) into the glorious Hiranyagarbha, they reach Brahman the ancient Person and the cause of all; for (till then) they are not rid of attachments.

Verse 7. पुरुषं D. God under the name of Manava परावरेशं D. The Lord of the universe consisting of both the Muktas and the Amuktas. 8. Till the time of *Pralaya*, which will come about at the end of the second half of Brahma's life Dwiparardha, those who (worship and) contemplate Hiranyagarbha (Brahma) keeping only the Supreme Being in view (*i.e.* contemplate the Lord through the medium of Hiranyagarbha) dwell in the region of the latter.