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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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प्राणेनाक्षिपता क्षुत्तृडन्तरा जायते विभोः पिपासतो जक्षतश्च प्राङ्मुखं निरभिद्यत
prāṇenākṣipatā kṣut tṛḍ antarā jāyate vibhoḥ pipāsato jakṣataś ca prāṅ mukhaṁ nirabhidyata
WORD BY WORD
prāṇena by the living force; ākṣipatā being agitated; kṣut hunger; tṛṭ thirst; antarā from within; jāyate generates; vibhoḥ of the Supreme; pipāsataḥ being desirous to quench the thirst; jakṣataḥ being desirous to eat; ca and; prāk at first; mukham the mouth; nirabhidyata was opened;
TRANSLATION
| The living force, being agitated by the virāṭ-puruṣa, generated hunger and thirst, and when He desired to drink and eat, the mouth opened.
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PURPORT
| The process by which all living beings in the womb of the mother develop their sense organs and sense perceptions appears to follow the same principles in the case of the virāṭ-puruṣa, the sum total of all living entities. Therefore the supreme cause of all generation is not impersonal or without desire. The desires for all kinds of sense perception and sense organs exist in the Supreme, and thus they take place in the individual persons. This desire is the nature of the supreme living being, the Absolute Truth. Because He has the sum total of all mouths, the individual living entities have mouths. Similarly with all other senses and sense organs. Here the mouth is the symbolic representation of all sense organs, for the same principles apply to the others also.
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