The Three Transcendental Potencies of God

0:00: Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 20.255–281 Type: Caitanya-caritamrta Dated: December 18th 1966 Location: New York Audio file: 661218CC-NEW-YORK.mp3

Divine energies and spiritual creation

0:06CC Madhya 20.255ক্রিয়াশক্তিপ্রধান সঙ্কর্ষণ বলরাম ।প্রাকৃতাপ্রাকৃত-সৃষ্টি করেন নির্মাণ ॥ ২৫৫ ॥kriyā-śakti-pradhāna saṅkarṣaṇa balarāmaprākṛtāprākṛta-sṛṣṭi karena nirmāṇa“Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa is Lord Balarāma. Being the predominator of the creative energy, He creates both the material and the spiritual world.

0:13Prabhupāda: So out of three transcendental propensities of the Supreme Lord, icchā-śakti, jñāna-śakti and kriyā-śakti, the kriyā-śakti, that is represented by..., or the controller of the kriyā-śakti is Saṅkarṣaṇa, Balarāma.

0:42And with that potency, kriyā-śakti potency, the creation, both material creation and spiritual creation, are effected. CC Madhya 20.256অহঙ্কারের অধিষ্ঠাতা কৃষ্ণের ইচ্ছায় ।গোলোক, বৈকুণ্ঠ সৃজে চিচ্ছক্তিদ্বারায় ॥ ২৫৬ ॥ahaṅkārera adhiṣṭhātā kṛṣṇera icchāyagoloka, vaikuṇṭha sṛje cic-chakti-dvārāya“That original Saṅkarṣaṇa [Lord Balarāma] is the cause of both the material and the spiritual creation. He is the predominating Deity of egotism, and by the will of Kṛṣṇa and the power of the spiritual energy, He creates the spiritual world, which consists of the planet Goloka Vṛndāvana and the Vaikuṇṭha planets.

1:04Cic-chakti-dvārāya. The spiritual potency is manifested in the spiritual world, Goloka Vṛndāvana and spiritual planets. CC Madhya 20.257যদ্যপি অসৃজ্য নিত্য চিচ্ছক্তিবিলাস ।তথাপি সঙ্কর্ষণ-ইচ্ছায় তাহার প্রকাশ ॥ ২৫৭ ॥yadyapi asṛjya nitya cic-chakti-vilāsatathāpi saṅkarṣaṇa-icchāya tāhāra prakāśa“Although there is no question of creation as far as the spiritual world is concerned, the spiritual world is nonetheless manifested by the supreme will of Saṅkarṣaṇa. The spiritual world is the abode of the pastimes of the eternal spiritual energy.

1:22Actually, there is no creation in the spiritual world. The creation means it begins at a certain time and ends at a certain time, but in the spiritual world there is no such beginning.

1:40But because we find the creation of this material world by the kriyā-śakti potency of Lord, therefore it is understood that the spiritual world is also manifested by the same potency, with the help of His spiritual energy.

2:19CC Madhya 20.258সহস্রপত্রং কমলং গোকুলাখ্যং মহৎপদম্ ।তৎকর্ণিকারং তদ্ধাম তদনন্তাংশসম্ভবম্ ॥ ২৫৮ ॥sahasra-patraṁ kamalaṁgokulākhyaṁ mahat padamtat-karṇikāraṁ tad-dhāmatad anantāmśa-sambhavam“ ‘Gokula, the supreme abode and planet, appears like a lotus flower that has a thousand petals. The whorl of that lotus is the abode of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. This lotus-shaped supreme abode is created by the will of Lord Ananta.’

2:25That original planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, is described here in the Brahma-saṁhitā "just like a lotus flower." CC Madhya 20.259মায়া-দ্বারে সৃজে তেঁহো ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের গণ ।জড়রূপা প্রকৃতি নহে ব্রহ্মাণ্ড-কারণ ॥ ২৫৯ ॥māyā-dvāre sṛje teṅho brahmāṇḍera gaṇajaḍa-rūpā prakṛti nahe brahmāṇḍa-kāraṇa“By the agency of the material energy, this same Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa creates all the universes. The dull material energy — known in modern language as nature — is not the cause of the material universe.

Matter as a divine instrument

2:34Now, so far this material creation is concerned, it is said here that "By His material potency, He manifests this material world and unlimited universes within the material world." Ah, nobody should think that the material world has come out of nothing, out of void.

3:10No. This is confirmed in all Vedic literature and especially in the Brahma-saṁhitā, and in the Bhagavad-gītā also it is stated, mayādhyakṣeṇa prakṛtiḥ sūyate sa-carācaram [Bg 9.10].

3:30So material nature is not independent. It is a misunderstanding, a wrong conception, that matter is working out of its own accord. Matter has no power to work.

3:46It is a jaḍa-rūpā. Jaḍa-rūpā means it has no moving capacity or, what is called, initiative. Matter has no initiative. Therefore matter cannot manifest in such a way without the direction of the Supreme Lord.

4:13Māyā-dvāre sṛje teṅho brahmāṇḍera gaṇa. Actually, it is His direction, but material potency is help only. That's all. CC Madhya 20.260জড় হৈতে সৃষ্টি নহে ঈশ্বরশক্তি বিনে ।তাহাতেই সঙ্কর্ষণ করে শক্তির আধানে ॥ ২৬০ ॥jaḍa haite sṛṣṭi nahe īśvara-śakti vinetāhātei saṅkarṣaṇa kare śaktira ādhāne“Without the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s energy, dull matter cannot create the cosmic manifestation. Its power does not arise from the material energy itself but is endowed by Saṅkarṣaṇa.

4:29Jaḍa haite, from matter, there is no possibility of any creation. The Saṅkarṣaṇa, He is manifestation of Saṅkarṣaṇa, Balarāma. He is the director of this material creation.

4:55CC Madhya 20.261ঈশ্বরের শক্ত্যে সৃষ্টি করয়ে প্রকৃতি ।লৌহ যেন অগ্নিশক্ত্যে পায় দাহ-শক্তি ॥ ২৬১ ॥īśvarera śaktye sṛṣṭi karaye prakṛtilauha yena agni-śaktye pāya dāha-śakti“Dull matter alone cannot create anything. The material energy produces the creation by the power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Iron itself has no power to burn, but when iron is placed in fire, it is empowered to burn.

5:00"Just like it is, in contact with the fire, the iron becomes red hot and it become fire, similarly, in contact with Saṅkarṣaṇa, this material energy gets potency, and thereby the material manifestation is there."

Incarnations and the causal ocean

5:33CC Madhya 20.262এতৌ হি বিশ্বস্য চ বীজযোনীরামো মুকুন্দঃ পুরুষঃ প্রধানম্ ।অন্বীয় ভূতেষু বিলক্ষণস্যজ্ঞানস্য চেশাত ইমৌ পুরাণৌ ॥ ২৬২ ॥etau hi viśvasya ca bīja-yonīrāmo mukundaḥ puruṣaḥ pradhānamanvīya bhūteṣu vilakṣaṇasyajñānasya ceśāta imau purāṇau“ ‘Balarāma and Kṛṣṇa are the original efficient and material causes of the material world. As Mahā-Viṣṇu and the material energy, They enter into the material elements and create the diversities by multi-energies. Thus They are the cause of all causes.’

5:39In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, in the Tenth Canto, it is stated that "This Rāma and Kṛṣṇa"—Rāma means Balarāma, and Kṛṣṇa—"They are the root of this material creation.

5:51And both of Them enters into each and every universe and maintains that." Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham This is mentioned in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

6:04CC Madhya 20.263সৃষ্টি-হেতু যেই মূর্তি প্রপঞ্চে অবতরে ।সেই ঈশ্বরমূর্তি ‘অবতার’ নাম ধরে ॥ ২৬৩ ॥sṛṣṭi-hetu yei mūrti prapañce avataresei īśvara-mūrti 'avatāra' nāma dhare“The form of the Lord that descends into the material world to create is called an avatāra, or incarnation.

6:11"For material creation, the expansion of the Supreme Lord for the purpose of material creation is called incarnation. That is called avatāra." CC Madhya 20.264মায়াতীত পরব্যোমে সবার অবস্থান ।বিশ্বে অবতরি’ ধরে ‘অবতার’ নাম ॥ ২৬৪ ॥māyātīta paravyome sabāra avasthānaviśve avatari' dhare 'avatāra' nāma“All the expansions of Lord Kṛṣṇa are actually residents of the spiritual world. But when they descend into the material world, they are called incarnations [avatāras].

6:38"So all Viṣṇu expansion, they are in the spiritual world, and they all of them reside there.

6:44But when they come into this material world, it is called incarnation." Actually, avatāra... This Sanskrit name is avatāra. Avatāra means who comes down from the spiritual world. Avatāratī. Avatāratī means descends.

7:05Descends. They are not born of this material energy. They descend from the spiritual world. CC Madhya 20.265সেই মায়া অবলোকিতে শ্রীসঙ্কর্ষণ ।পুরুষরূপে অবতীর্ণ হইলা প্রথম ॥ ২৬৫ ॥sei māyā avalokite śrī-saṅkarṣaṇapuruṣa-rūpe avatīrṇa ha-ilā prathama“To glance over that material energy and empower her, Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa first incarnates as Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu.

7:23Now, puruṣa-rūpe, the first incarnation for this material creation, the Mahā-Viṣṇu, sa aikṣata. Simply by His glance, this material world begins its activity.

7:39CC Madhya 20.265সেই মায়া অবলোকিতে শ্রীসঙ্কর্ষণ ।পুরুষরূপে অবতীর্ণ হইলা প্রথম ॥ ২৬৫ ॥sei māyā avalokite śrī-saṅkarṣaṇapuruṣa-rūpe avatīrṇa ha-ilā prathama“To glance over that material energy and empower her, Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa first incarnates as Lord Mahā-Viṣṇu.CC Madhya 20.266জগৃহে পৌরুষং রূপং ভগবান্মহদাদিভিঃ ।সম্ভূতং ষোড়শকলমাদৌ লোকসিসৃক্ষয়া ॥ ২৬৬ ॥jagṛhe pauruṣaṁ rūpaṁbhagavān mahad-ādibhiḥsambhūtaṁ ṣoḍaśa-kalamādau loka-sisṛkṣayā“ ‘In the beginning of the creation, the Lord expanded Himself in the form of the puruṣa incarnation, accompanied by all the ingredients of material creation. First He created the sixteen principal energies suitable for creation. This was for the purpose of manifesting the material universes.’

7:57Ādau loka-sisṛkṣayā: "Just before the creation the Mahā-Viṣṇu, He takes His incarnation, and He puts His glance on the material energy, and the creation begins."

8:24CC Madhya 20.267আদ্যোঽবতারঃ পুরুষঃ পরস্য কালঃ স্বভাবঃ সদসন্মনশ্চ ।দ্রব্যং বিকারো গুণ ইন্দ্রিয়াণি বিরাট্ স্বরাট্ স্থাস্নু চরিষ্ণু ভূম্নঃ ॥ ২৬৭ ॥ādyo 'vatāraḥ puruṣaḥ parasyakālaḥ svabhāvaḥ sad-asan manaś cadravyaṁ vikāro guṇa indriyāṇivirāṭ svarāṭ sthāsnu cariṣṇu bhūmnaḥ“ ‘Kāraṇābdhiśāyī Viṣṇu [Mahā-Viṣṇu] is the first incarnation of the Supreme Lord, and He is the master of eternal time, space, cause and effects, the mind, the elements, the material ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form of the Lord, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and the sum total of all living beings, both moving and nonmoving.’

8:30So ādyo avatāra, the first puruṣāvatāra, Mahā-Viṣṇu, is very vast. Just imagine how much great He is, His body is, that from His breathing all these universes are generating.

8:51CC Madhya 20.268সেই পুরুষ বিরজাতে করেন শয়ন ।‘কারণাব্ধিশায়ী’ নাম জগৎকারণ ॥ ২৬৮ ॥sei puruṣa virajāte karena śayana'kāraṇābdhiśāyī' nāma jagat-kāraṇa“That original Personality of Godhead, named Saṅkarṣaṇa, first lies down in the river Virajā, which serves as a border between the material and the spiritual world. As Kāraṇābdhiśāyī Viṣṇu, He is the original cause of the material creation.

8:56"That puruṣāvatāra, the first incarnation of puruṣa, He lies down in the water of Causal Ocean, and His name is Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu." CC Madhya 20.269কারণাব্ধি-পারে মায়ার নিত্য অবস্থিতি ।বিরজার পারে পরব্যোমে নাহি গতি ॥ ২৬৯ ॥kāraṇābdhi-pāre māyāra nitya avasthitivirajāra pāre paravyome nāhi gati“The Virajā, or Causal Ocean, is the border between the spiritual and the material world. The material energy is situated on one shore of that ocean, and it cannot enter onto the other shore, which is the spiritual sky.

9:19Kāraṇābdhi-pāre. Just on the other side of the ocean, kāraṇa, Causal Ocean, this material energy is situated. Virajāra pāre paravyome nāhi gati. And this material energy has no entrance in the spiritual kingdom.

9:42CC Madhya 20.270প্রবর্ততে যত্র রজস্তমস্তয়োঃসত্ত্বষ্ণ মিশ্রং ন চ কালবিক্রমঃ ।ন যত্র মায়া কিমুতাপরে হরে-রনুব্রতা যত্র সুরাসুরার্চিতাঃ ॥ ২৭০ ॥pravartate yatra rajas tamas tayoḥsattvaṁ ca miśraṁ na ca kāla-vikramaḥna yatra māyā kim utāpare hareranuvratā yatra surāsurārcitāḥ“ ‘In the spiritual world, there is neither the mode of passion, the mode of ignorance nor a mixture of both, nor is there adulterated goodness, the influence of time or māyā herself. Only the pure devotees of the Lord, who are worshiped both by demigods and by demons, reside in the spiritual world as the Lord’s associates.’

Eternal qualities of the spiritual world

9:57Now, the description of the spiritual world is that there is no rajas-tamaḥ. These modes of passion and modes of ignorance is not there.

10:13Śuddha-sattva. Śuddha-sattva means simply goodness, pure goodness, without any tinge of passion and ignorance.

10:24So pravartate yatra rajas tamas tayoḥ sattvaṁ ca miśraṁ na ca kāla-vikramaḥ. There is no mixed goodness; simple goodness.

10:37And na ca kāla-vikramaḥ: "And there is no influence of time." This is the description of the spiritual world: "There is no modes of passion, and there is no modes of ignorance, and there is no influence of time." That means there is simply the pure goodness.

11:04And in pure goodness we can understand our constitutional position, we can understand what is God, what is creation, everything. These are... Goodness means prakāśa. Prakāśa means knowledge comes out.

11:20And so long we are in ignorance and passion, there is no knowledge. In ignorance there is no knowledge at all, in passion there is some glimpse of knowledge, and in goodness there is full knowledge.

11:38So the living entities there, they are full of knowledge. Therefore they do not come into this material world.

11:47And na yatra kāla-vikramaḥ: and because there is no influence of time, therefore there is no past, present and future. In this material world there is influence of time.

12:03Therefore we have got this past, present and future. So these things, of course theoretically we have to understand. But these are authentic explanation from scriptures, Vedic literatures.

12:19At least we have to accept them theoretically. The spiritual world means that there is no ignorance, there is no passion and there is no influence of time.

12:36Na yatra māyā kim utāpare: "And this māyā, this illusion, is also absent." Kim utāpare harer anuvratā yatra surāsurārcitāḥ: "And there, in the spiritual planets, all the living entities, they are all surrendered souls, or followers of the Supreme Lord." There is no misconception that "I am Lord; I am God." There is no such misconception.

13:10They are all clear of this nonsense ignorance. Anuvratā: they are always following. Therefore there is unity, oneness. That is oneness. God is one, and the living entities there, they are all followers, obedient of God.

13:26There is no influence of time, no influence of ignorance, no influence of passion. So that is perfect. That is spiritual kingdom, the description of spiritual world. This is from Bhāgavatam.

13:42And there are other verses in this chapter where this verse appears that there, I have read it, that there are aeroplanes also. And the devotees... And the woman, they are just like lightning.

14:03So it appears there are men, there are women, there are aeroplane, there are... Everything is there. Simply difference is that there is no influence of time.

14:14Influence of time there is no—that means there is no past, future and present, and there is no death. Death is the influence of time. A old man like me is going to die.

14:30Death means the influence of time is being acted on this body. So after a few days or few years, this must vanquish. So there is no influence of time.

14:43So there is no death, there is no birth, there is no ignorance, and everyone is obedient, everyone is happy. And their features of body is also exactly like God.

14:59In the spiritual planets, all of a sudden if you go, you cannot distinguish who is God and who is not. Yes. So... Just like here also, when Kṛṣṇa comes, He appears just like one of us. So man is made after God.

15:20So, so far features are concerned, there is no difference between God and man. But the difference is only that God has no material body; we have got this material body subjected to the influence of time.

15:35When Kṛṣṇa comes, He does not become old. He remains just like a boy, even when He is great-grandfather, because on His body there is no influence of time.

15:51Because His body is spiritual, therefore there is no influence of time.

Material energy and living entities

15:58CC Madhya 20.271মায়ার যে দুই বৃত্তি — ‘মায়া’ আর ‘প্রধান’ ।‘মায়া’ নিমিত্তহেতু, বিশ্বের উপাদান ‘প্রধান’ ॥ ২৭১ ॥māyāra ye dui vṛtti — 'māyā' āra 'pradhāna''māyā' nimitta-hetu, viśvera upādāna 'pradhāna'“Māyā has two functions. One is called māyā, and the other is called pradhāna. Māyā refers to the efficient cause, and pradhāna refers to the ingredients that create the cosmic manifestation.

16:05This material energy is divided into two: pradhāna and upādāna. Pradhāna and upādāna. The whole, total material energy is called pradhāna, and the material elements are called ingredients, upādāna.

16:25CC Madhya 20.272সেই পুরুষ মায়া-পানে করে অবধান ।প্রকৃতি ক্ষোভিত করি’ করে বীর্যের আধান ॥ ২৭২ ॥sei puruṣa māyā-pāne kare avadhānaprakṛti kṣobhita kari' kare vīryera ādhāna“When the Supreme Personality of Godhead glances over the material energy, she becomes agitated. At that time, the Lord injects the original semen of the living entities.

16:31Now, in the Bhagavad-gītā you have read that mahad-yonir mahad-brahma tāsām... It is stated there that ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā [Bg 14.4]:

16:46"I implement the seeds of living entities into the matter." So in the matter the living..., the seeds of living entities, as we are, they are impregnated.

17:01As the father impregnates the mother, similarly, this material nature is just like mother, and therefore material nature is worshiped as mother, goddess, mother goddess, Durgā, Kālī. Yes.

17:17And this worship of the country, nationalism, that is also the same matter-worship. Yasyātma-buddhiḥ kuṇape tri-dhātuke SB 10.84.13*.* So, so long we are not enlightened, we are worshiper of this matter, energy.

17:40And when we are advanced in knowledge, then we are worshiper of the Supreme. So Kṛṣṇa consciousness means advanced stage of knowledge. It is not in the material platform.

17:54Therefore anyone who is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness appropriately and thoroughly, he is liberated from material consciousness. CC Madhya 20.273স্বাঙ্গ-বিশেষাভাসরূপে প্রকৃতি-স্পর্শন ।জীব-রূপ ‘বীজ’ তাতে কৈলা সমর্পণ ॥ ২৭৩ ॥svāṅga-viśeṣābhāsa-rūpe prakṛti-sparśanajīva-rūpa 'bīja' tāte kailā samarpaṇa“To impregnate with the seeds of the living entities, the Lord Himself does not directly touch the material energy, but by His specific functional expansion He touches the material energy, and thus the living entities, who are His parts and parcels, are impregnated into material nature.

18:14In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there is this evidence: CC Madhya 20.274দৈবাৎ ক্ষুভিতধর্মিণ্যাং স্বস্যাং যোনৌ পরঃ পুমান্‌ ।আধত্ত বীর্যং সাহসূত মঽত্তত্ত্বং হিরণ্ময়ম্‌ ॥ ২৭৪ ॥daivāt kṣubhita-dharmiṇyāṁsvasyāṁ yonau paraḥ pumānādhatta vīryaṁ sāsūtamahat-tattvaṁ hiraṇmayam“ ‘At a time beyond memory, after agitating the material nature into three qualities, the Supreme Personality of Godhead placed the semen of innumerable living entities within the womb of that material nature. Thus material nature gave birth to the total material energy, known as the hiraṇmaya-mahat-tattva, the original symbolic representation of the cosmic manifestation.’

18:27So from this version of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that the living entities as seeds, they are coming from the spiritual world. They are not product of the matter.

18:46Therefore it is not possible to produce living entity with material chemicals and material elements. It is not possible.

18:57As some of the modern scientists they claim that "We shall now give life," or they advertise in that way, so from this verse we can understand that it is not possible.

19:12Because these living entities, they are just like seeds, and they are coming from the spiritual world, from the body of the Supreme.

19:25Those spiritual, I mean to say, living entities are desirous of enjoying sense gratification, they are allowed to this material world; others, they are in the spiritual world.

19:46CC Madhya 20.275কালবৃত্ত্যা তু মায়ায়াং গুণময্যামধোক্ষজঃ ।পুরুষেণাত্মভূতেন বীর্যমাধত্ত বীর্যবান্‌ ॥ ২৭৫ ॥kāla-vṛttyā tu māyāyāṁguṇa-mayyām adhokṣajaḥpuruṣeṇātma-bhūtenavīryam ādhatta vīryavān“ ‘In due course of time, the Supreme Personality of Godhead [Mahā-Vaikuṇṭhanātha], by the agency of an expansion of His personal self [Mahā-Viṣṇu], placed the seed of the living entities entities within the womb of material nature.’

19:55So there is another verse, that how the seeds are given within this material world. CC Madhya 20.276তবে মহত্তত্ত্ব হৈতে ত্রিবিধ অহঙ্কার ।যাহা হৈতে দেবতেন্দ্রিয়ভূতের প্রচার ॥ ২৭৬ ॥tabe mahat-tattva haite trividha ahaṅkārayāhā haite devatendriya-bhūtera pracāra“First the total material energy is manifested, and from this arise the three types of egotism, which are the original sources from which all demigods [controlling deities], senses and material elements expand.Now, here is a short description of the creation.

20:15First, material energy; then the seeds of the living entities are impregnated into that material energy; and then mahat-tattva, from the material energy, this ego, false ego, comes out.

20:34First, first manifestation of this material world is this false ego, mahat-tattva. Trividha ahaṅkāra. Yāhā haite devatendriya-bhūtera pracāra: "And from that ego, all these human beings or demigods or other living entities, they are coming out."

Universal manifestation and cyclic creation

21:01CC Madhya 20.277সর্ব তত্ত্ব মিলি’ সৃজিল ব্রহ্মাণ্ডের গণ ।অনন্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড, তার নাহিক গণন ॥ ২৭৭ ॥sarva tattva mili' sṛjila brahmāṇḍera gaṇaananta brahmāṇḍa, tāra nāhika gaṇana“Combining all the different elements, the Supreme Lord created all the universes. Those universes are unlimited in number; there is no possibility of counting them.

21:01"In this way, the Lord created unlimited number of universes." This one universe which you have seen, that is one only; but there are innumerable universes that is created.

21:28CC Madhya 20.278ইঁহো মহৎস্রষ্টা পুরুষ — ‘মহাবিষ্ণু’ নাম ।অনন্ত ব্রহ্মাণ্ড তাঁর লোমকূপে ধাম ॥ ২৭৮ ॥iṅho mahat-sraṣṭā puruṣa — 'mahā-viṣṇu' nāmaananta brahmāṇḍa tāṅra loma-kūpe dhāma“The first form of Lord Viṣṇu is called Mahā-Viṣṇu. He is the original creator of the total material energy. The innumerable universes emanate from the pores of His body.

21:29"Now, the expansion of Kṛṣṇa who is doing all this material expansion, He is known as Mahā-Viṣṇu. Mahā-Viṣṇu."

21:40CC Madhya 20.279-80গবাক্ষে উড়িয়া যৈছে রেণু আসে যায় ।পুরুষ-নিশ্বাস-সহ ব্রহ্মাণ্ড বাহিরায় ॥ ২৭৯ ॥পুনরপি নিশ্বাস-সহ যায় অভ্যন্তর ।অনন্ত ঐশ্বর্য তাঁর, সব — মায়া-পার ॥ ২৮০ ॥gavākṣe uḍiyā yaiche reṇu āse yāyapuruṣa-niśvāsa-saha brahmāṇḍa bāhirāyapunarapi niśvāsa-saha yāya abhyantaraananta aiśvarya tāṅra, saba — māyā-pāra“These universes are understood to be floating in the air that Mahā-Viṣṇu exhales. They are like atomic particles that float in sunshine and pass through the holes of a screen. All these universes are thus created by the exhalation of Mahā-Viṣṇu, and when Mahā-Viṣṇu inhales, they re-enter His body. The unlimited opulences of Mahā-Viṣṇu are completely beyond material conception.

21:54Now here is a nice example. You have seen the sunshine entering your room through a hole of your window, and you will find so many atomic demonstration.

22:11So these brahmāṇḍas, the so many universes, they are emanating from the breathing of Mahā-Viṣṇu in that way.

22:23CC Madhya 20.279-80গবাক্ষে উড়িয়া যৈছে রেণু আসে যায় ।পুরুষ-নিশ্বাস-সহ ব্রহ্মাণ্ড বাহিরায় ॥ ২৭৯ ॥পুনরপি নিশ্বাস-সহ যায় অভ্যন্তর ।অনন্ত ঐশ্বর্য তাঁর, সব — মায়া-পার ॥ ২৮০ ॥gavākṣe uḍiyā yaiche reṇu āse yāyapuruṣa-niśvāsa-saha brahmāṇḍa bāhirāyapunarapi niśvāsa-saha yāya abhyantaraananta aiśvarya tāṅra, saba — māyā-pāra“These universes are understood to be floating in the air that Mahā-Viṣṇu exhales. They are like atomic particles that float in sunshine and pass through the holes of a screen. All these universes are thus created by the exhalation of Mahā-Viṣṇu, and when Mahā-Viṣṇu inhales, they re-enter His body. The unlimited opulences of Mahā-Viṣṇu are completely beyond material conception.

22:30In this way all the universes, they enter into the body of Mahā-Viṣṇu after the creation is over, and again comes out. In this way it is coming and going, coming... Bhūtvā bhūtvā pralīyate [Bg 8.19].

22:44In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that they are coming and going within. This is the way of material nature. And here is another evidence from Brahma-saṁhitā:

22:59BS 5.48यस्य एक निश्वशित् कालम् अथ अवलम्ब्यजीवन्ति लोम बिलजा जगन्दण्ड् नाथाः |विष्णुः महान् स इह यस्य कला विशेषोगोविन्दम् आदि पुरुषं तमहं भजामि ॥ ४८ ॥yasyaika-niśvasita-kālam athāvalambyajīvanti loma-vilajā jagad-aṇḍa-nāthāḥviṣṇur mahān sa iha yasya kalā-viśeṣogovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmiBrahmā and other lords of the mundane worlds, appearing from the pores of hair of Mahā-Viṣṇu, remain alive as long as the duration of one exhalation of the latter [Mahā-Viṣṇu]. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whose subjective personality Mahā-Viṣṇu is the portion of portion.

23:14Now, such a vast, gigantic Mahā-Viṣṇu, of whose breathing producing this universes and whose inhaling, annihilating all the universes—such vast Mahā-Viṣṇu is only part and part of the expansion of Kṛṣṇa, Govinda.

23:36So Brahmā says, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. So just we have to imagine how much potential is the Lord Kṛṣṇa. Thank you very much. [end]