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Thursday, Febuary 26, 2009
That gigantic form.
That gigantic form.
These Vishnu, Karanodakasayi, Garbhodakasayi, and Ksirodakasayi, these are little technical. Try to understand. Now this universe, which you find just like a big ball, there are innumerable universes like this, and they are floating in water. That water is called Causal Ocean. So that Causal Ocean there is, I mean to say, completely in the whole ocean, big gigantic body is lying down there. That is known as Karanodakasayi Vishnu.
The Vishnu in that gigantic form is sleeping within the water of that Causal Ocean, and by His inhaling and exhaling, breathing, there are bubbles. And those bubbles are manifested as universes.
This is stated in Brahma-samhita: yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah [Bs. 5.48]. That breathing, exhaling and inhaling… Just like we also do that. So we have inherited that exhaling-inhaling, from that Vishnu.
Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.1-3
by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
San Francisco, March 28, 1968