Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 7.9.33

tasyaiva te vapur idam nija-kāla-śaktyā

sañcodita-prakriti-dharmana ātma-gūdham

ambhasy ananta-śayanād viramat-samādher

nābher abhūt sva-kanikā-vatavan-mahābjam

SYNONYMS

tasya — of that Supreme Personality of Godhead; eva — certainly; te — of You; vapuh — the cosmic body; idam — this (universe); nija-kāla-śaktyā — by the potent time factor; sañcodita — agitated; prakriti-dharmanah — of Him, by whom the three gunas, or qualities of material nature; ātma-gūdham — dormant in Yourself; ambhasi — in the water known as the Causal Ocean; ananta-śayanāt — from the bed known as Ananta (another feature of Yourself); viramat-samādheh — having awakened from the samādhi (yogic trance); nābheh — from the navel; abhūt — appeared; sva-kanikā — from the seed; vata-vat — like the great banyan tree; mahā-abjam — the great lotus of the worlds (has similarly grown).

TRANSLATION

This cosmic manifestation, the material world, is also Your body. This total lump of matter is agitated by Your potent energy known as kāla-śakti, and thus the three modes of material nature are manifested. You awaken from the bed of Śesha, Ananta, and from Your navel a small transcendental seed is generated. It is from this seed that the lotus flower of the gigantic universe is manifested, exactly as a banyan tree grows from a small seed.

PURPORT

The three different forms of Mahā-Vishnu — namely Kāranodakaśāyī Vishnu, Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu and Kshīrodakaśāyī Vishnu, who are the origin of creation and maintenance — are gradually being described. From Mahā-Vishnu, Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu is generated, and from Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu, Kshīrodakaśāyī Vishnu gradually expands. Thus Mahā-Vishnu is the original cause of Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu, and from Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu comes the lotus flower from which Lord Brahmā is manifested. Thus the original cause of everything is Vishnu, and consequently the cosmic manifestation is not different from Vishnu. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (10.8), wherein Krishna says, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate: "I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me." Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu is an expansion of Kāranodakaśāyī Vishnu, who is an expansion of Sańkarshana. In this way, Krishna is ultimately the cause of all causes (sarva-kārana-kāranam [Bs. 5.1]). The conclusion is that both the material world and spiritual world are considered to be the body of the Supreme Lord. We can understand that the material body is caused by the spiritual body and is therefore an expansion of the spiritual body. Thus when one takes up spiritual activities, one's entire material body is spiritualized. Similarly, in this material world, when the Krishna consciousness movement expands, the entire material world becomes spiritualized. As long as we do not realize this, we live in the material world, but when we are fully Krishna conscious we live not in the material world but in the spiritual world.

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