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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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तल्लोकपद्मं स उ एव विष्णुः प्रावीविशत्सर्वगुणावभासम् तस्मिन्स्वयं वेदमयो विधाता स्वयम्भुवं यं स्म वदन्ति सोऽभूत्
tal loka-padmaṁ sa u eva viṣṇuḥ prāvīviśat sarva-guṇāvabhāsam tasmin svayaṁ vedamayo vidhātā svayambhuvaṁ yaṁ sma vadanti so ’bhūt
WORD BY WORD
tat that; loka universal; padmam lotus flower; saḥ He; u certainly; eva factually; viṣṇuḥ the Lord; prāvīviśat entered into; sarva all; guṇa-avabhāsam reservoir of all modes of nature; tasmin in which; svayam in person; veda-mayaḥ the personality of Vedic wisdom; vidhātā controller of the universe; svayam-bhuvam self-born; yam whom; sma in the past; vadanti do say; saḥ he; abhūt generated;
TRANSLATION
| Into that universal lotus flower Lord Viṣṇu personally entered as the Supersoul, and when it was thus impregnated with all the modes of material nature, the personality of Vedic wisdom, whom we call the self-born, was generated.
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PURPORT
| This lotus flower is the universal virāṭ form, or the gigantic form of the Lord in the material world. It becomes amalgamated in the Personality of Godhead Viṣṇu, in His abdomen, at the time of dissolution, and it becomes manifest at the time of creation. This is due to Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, who enters into each of the universes. In this form is the sum total of all the fruitive activities of the living entities conditioned by material nature, and the first of them, namely Brahmā, or the controller of the universe, is generated from this lotus flower. This first-born living being, unlike all the others, has no material father, and thus he is called self-born, or svayambhū. He goes to sleep with Nārāyaṇa at the time of devastation, and when there is another creation, he is born in this way. From this description we have the conception of three — the gross virāṭ form, the subtle Hiraṇyagarbha and the material creative force, Brahmā.
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