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The Process of Creation
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TEXT 10
अन्विकित्सितमेतन्मे ब्रवीतु भगवान् यथा ।  
 शाब्दे ब्रह्मणि निष्णातः परस्मिन्ध भवान्त्वलु ॥१०॥
vicikitsitam etan me 
  bravītu bhagavān yathā 
  śābde brahmaṇi niṣṇātaḥ 
  parasmiṁś ca bhavān khalu
vicikitsitam—doubtful inquiry; etat—this; me—of me; bravītu—just clear up; bhagavān—powerful like the Lord; yathā—as much as; śābde—sound transcendental; brahmaṇi—Vedic literature; niṣṇātaḥ—fully realized; parasmiṁ—in transcendence; ca—also; bhavān—your good self; khalu—as a matter of fact.
TRANSLATION
Kindly clear up all these doubtful inquiries, because you are not only vastly learned in the Vedic literatures and self-realized in transcendence, but you are also a great devotee of the Lord, and therefore you are as good as the Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
In the  Brahma-saṁhitā  it is said that the Supreme Absolute Truth, Govinda, the Personality of Godhead, although one without a second, is infallibly expanded by innumerable forms nondifferent from one another, and although He is the original person, He is still ever young with permanent youthful energy. He is very difficult to be known simply by learning the transcendental science of the  Vedas , but He is very easily realized by His pure devotees.
The expansion of different forms of the Lord, as from  Kṛṣṇa  to  Baladeva  to  Saṅkarṣaṇa , from  Saṅkarṣaṇa  to  Vāsudeva , from  Vāsudeva  to  Aniruddha , from  Aniruddha  to  Pradyumna  and then again to second  Saṅkarṣaṇa  and from  Him  to the  Nārāyaṇa-Puruṣāvatāras , and innumerable other forms, which are compared to the constant flowing of the uncountable waves of a river, are all one and the same. They are like lamps of equal power which kindle from one lamp to another. That is the transcendental potency of the