SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 13

tad-roma-bila-jalesu bijam sankarsanasya cha
haimany-andani jatani mahabhutavrtani tu [13]

Translation: The divine seeds of Sankarsana are born from the pores of Maha-Vishnu as infinite golden egg-cells; those golden cells are covered by the five predominant material elements.

Purport: Such is the colossal magnitude of the function of the primal avatara Personality who reclines on the waters of the causal ocean. Infinite billions of ‘seeds,’ each a universe, are produced from the cavities of His bodily pores. Those universes are copies of the infinite abode of the spiritual world; as long as they remain within the body of the purusavatara, they are, as a lower or hazy aspect of divinity (chidabhasa), something like golden eggs; but when Maha-Vishnu decides to bring about the creation of this world, the subtle existence of the predominant material elements—which participates as a factor of the mayik instrumental and efficient causes—envelops them. Those golden ‘cosmic eggs’ emanate with the exhalation of the Supreme Personality, and when they enter into the unlimited womb-chamber of Maya they are augmented by the unamalgamated five mundane elements (earth, water, fire, air and ether).

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