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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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सोऽशयिष्टाब्धिसलिले आण्डकोशो निरात्मकः साग्रं वै वर्षसाहस्रमन्ववात्सीत्तमीश्वरः
so ’śayiṣṭābdhi-salile āṇḍakośo nirātmakaḥ sāgraṁ vai varṣa-sāhasram anvavātsīt tam īśvaraḥ
WORD BY WORD
saḥ it; aśayiṣṭa lay; abdhi-salile on the waters of the Causal Ocean; āṇḍa-kośaḥ egg; nirātmakaḥ in an unconscious state; sāgram a little more than; vai in fact; varṣa-sāhasram a thousand years; anvavātsīt became situated; tam in the egg; īśvaraḥ the Lord;
TRANSLATION
| For over one thousand years the shiny egg lay on the waters of the Causal Ocean in the lifeless state. Then the Lord entered it as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu.
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PURPORT
| From this verse it appears that all the universes are floating in the Causal Ocean.
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