Verse 1.3.2: The first purusa is the Karanodakshayi Vishnu. From His skin holes innumerable universes have sprung up. In each and every universe, the purusa enters as the Garbhodashayi Vishnu. He is lying within the half of the universe which is full with the water of His body. And from the navel of Garbhodashayi Vishnu has sprung the stem of the lotus flower, the birthplace of Brahmä, who is the father of all living beings and the master of all the demigod engineers engaged in the perfect design and working of the universal order. Within the stem of the lotus there are fourteen divisions of planetary systems, and the earthly planets are situated in the middle. Upwards there are other, better planetary systems, and the topmost system is called Brahmaloka or Satyaloka. Downwards from the earthly planetary system there are seven lower planetary systems inhabited by the asuras and similar other materialistic living beings.
From Garbhodashayi Vishnu there is expansion of the Ksirodakshayi Vishnu, who is the collective Paramätmä of all living beings. He is called Hari, and from Him all incarnations within the universe are expanded.
It is also explained in this verse that material nature has no power to create without the power of the purusa, just as a prakrti, or woman, cannot produce a child without the connection of a purusa, or man. The purusa impregnates, and the prakrti delivers.
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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