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Chapter 20: Conversation Between Maitreya and Vidura

Verse 15 of 53
SB 3.20.15

सो ऽशयिष्टाब्धिसलिले आण्डकोशो निरात्मकः साग्रं वै वर्षसाहस्रमन्ववात्सीत्तमीश्वरः

so 'śayiṣṭābdhi-salile āṇḍakośo nirātmakaḥ sāgraṁ vai varṣa-sāhasram anvavātsīt tam īśvaraḥ

Synonyms

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.

Purport

From this verse it appears that all the universes are floating in the Causal Ocean.

Verse 15 of 53