PLATE EIGHT
Modern scientists guess that the universe was created by an exploding chunk, a mass of gas, or some other inanimate source. But from the  Vedas , the reservoir of infallible knowledge, we learn of the real source of creation—Lord Kṛṣṇa. Here we see Lord Kṛṣṇa's partial expansion Mahā-Viṣṇu lying in the Causal Ocean. While He sleeps in that ocean, millions of universes are generated as He exhales. A second expansion, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, enters all the universes to create diversities in each of them. From the navel of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu springs the stem of a lotus flower, the birthplace of Brahmā, who is the father of all living beings and the master of all the demigod-engineers. It is Lord Brahmā who creates each universe, using his fine intelligence to manipulate the gross elements supplied by Kṛṣṇa and His expansions. ( pp. 212-28 )