Devanagari
द्विपरार्धावसाने य: प्रलयो ब्रह्मणस्तु ते ।
तावदध्यासते लोकं परस्य परचिन्तका: ॥ ८ ॥
Verse text
dvi-parārdhāvasāne yaḥ
pralayo brahmaṇas tu te
tāvad adhyāsate lokaṁ
parasya para-cintakāḥ
Synonyms
dvi
—
parārdha — two parārdhas
;
avasāne
—
at the end of
;
yaḥ
—
which
;
pralayaḥ
—
death
;
brahmaṇaḥ
—
of Lord Brahmā
;
tu
—
indeed
;
te
—
they
;
tāvat
—
so long
;
adhyāsate
—
dwell
;
lokam
—
on the planet
;
parasya
—
of the Supreme
;
para
—
cintakāḥ — thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead .
Translation
Worshipers of the Hiraṇyagarbha expansion of the Personality of Godhead remain within this material world until the end of two parārdhas, when Lord Brahmā also dies.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
They remain on Satyaloka meditating on Brahmā until the end of Brahmā’s life of two parārdhas.
Brahmā is just a guṇāvatāra of the Supreme Lord. The worshippers of Hiraṇyagarbha by bhakti-miśra-jṣāna gradually attain liberation along with Brahmā. Śruti [Note: This is a smṛti reference, not śruti.] says:
brahmaṇā saha te sarve samprāpte pratisaṣcare
parasyānte kṛtātmānaḥ praviśanti paraṁ padam
Those who are on Brahma-loka with exalted status at the time of dissolution go directly to the supreme abode, along with Lord Brahmā. Kūrma Purāṇa 1.11.284
However, if they worship only Hiraṇyagarbha without bhakti for Viṣṇu, then they do not attain liberation when Brahmā is liberated. That is explained in three verses. Loka refers to Brahmaloka. They meditate on Brahmā (parasya).
Purport
One dissolution is at the end of Brahmā’s day, and one is at the end of Brahmā’s life. Brahmā dies at the end of two
parārdhas,
at which time the entire material universe is dissolved. Persons who are worshipers of Hiraṇyagarbha, the plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, do not directly approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead in Vaikuṇṭha. They remain within this universe on Satyaloka or other higher planets until the end of the life of Brahmā. Then, with Brahmā, they are elevated to the spiritual kingdom.
The words
parasya para-cintakāḥ
mean “always thinking of the Supreme Personality of Godhead,” or being always Kṛṣṇa conscious. When we speak of Kṛṣṇa, this refers to the complete category of
viṣṇu-tattva.
Kṛṣṇa includes the three
puruṣa
incarnations, namely Mahā-Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, as well as all the incarnations taken together. This is confirmed in the
Brahma-saṁhitā.
Rāmādi-mūrtiṣu kalā-niyamena tiṣṭhan:
Lord Kṛṣṇa is perpetually situated with His many expansions, such as Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Vāmana, Madhusūdana, Viṣṇu and Nārāyaṇa. He exists with all His plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions, and each of them is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The words
parasya para-cintakāḥ
mean those who are fully Kṛṣṇa conscious. Such persons enter directly into the kingdom of God, the Vaikuṇṭha planets, or, if they are worshipers of the plenary portion Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, they remain within this universe until its dissolution, and after that they enter.