Text 29]
Bhāgavatam is the Answer
583
was born out of the abdominal hole of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu as a separate body, and the same principle is followed even in the birth of any ordinary body. The body of the child develops from the body of the mother, and when the child is separated from the body of the mother, it is separated by cutting the navel joint. And that is the way the Supreme Lord manifested Himself as separated many. The living entities are therefore separated parts, and thus they have no independence.
TEXT 29
आदित्सोरन्नपानानामासन् कुश्यन्त्रनाडयः । नद्यः समुद्राश्च तयोस्तुष्टिः पुष्टिस्तदाश्रये ॥२९॥
āditsor anna-pānānām āsan kukṣy-antra-nāḍayah nadyah samudrāś ca tayos tuṣṭiḥ puṣṭis tad-āśraye
āditsoḥ—desiring to have; anna-pānānām—of food and drink; āsan—there became; kukṣi—abdomen; antra—intestines; nāḍayah—and the artery; nadyah—the rivers; samudrāḥ—seas; ca—also; tayoḥ—of them; tuṣṭiḥ—sustenance; puṣṭiḥ—metabolism; tat—of them; āśraye—the source.
TRANSLATION
When there was desire to have food and drink, the abdomen and the intestines and also the arteries became manifested. The rivers and the seas are the source of their sustenance and metabolism.
PURPORT
The controlling deities of the intestines are rivers, and those of the arteries, the seas. Fulfillment of the belly with food and drink is the cause of sustenance, and the metabolism of the food and drink replaces the waste of the bodily energies. Therefore, the body's health is dependent on healthy actions of the intestines and the arteries. The rivers and the seas, being the controlling deities of the two, keep the intestines and the arteries in healthy order.