Dasakam: 005 -- Shlokam: 02
काल: कर्म गुणाश्च जीवनिवहा विश्वं च कार्यं विभो चिल्लीलारतिमेयुषि त्वयि तदा निर्लीनतामाययु: । तेषां नैव वदन्त्यसत्त्वमयि भो: शक्त्यात्मना तिष्ठतां नो चेत् किं गगनप्रसूनसदृशां भूयो भवेत्संभव: ॥२॥
kaalaH karma guNaashcha jiivanivahaa vishvaM cha kaaryaM vibhO chilliilaaratimeyuShi tvayi tadaa nirliinataamaayayuH | teShaaM naiva vadantyasattvamayi bhOHshaktyaatmanaa tiShThataaM nO chet kiM gaganaprasuunasadR^ishaaM bhuuyO bhavetsambhavaH ||2
Oh Guruvayoorappa! Before Pralaya time everything in the Universe viz. Kala (time), Karma(action), Guna (mood), the Jivathmas (individual souls ) all lay merged in Thy supremeform. The effects of the three qualities of'Sathwa', 'Rajas' and 'Tamas' were neutralisedby keeping them in equilibrium.The Lord alone was there as the supreme bliss and consciousness. The very concept of "Time",the sum-total of "Karmas"and the three 'Gunas', all the 'Jivas'and the whole Universe were absorbed in the Pure-Bliss-Consciousness. The Srutis do not declare them as being non existent. They remained in causal form. Otherwise, like the non existence of the flowers in the sky, how could they come into existence again.