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Creation of the Universal Form
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TRANSLATION
When the twenty-three principal elements were set in action by the will of the Supreme, the gigantic universal form, or the viśva-rūpa body of the Lord, came into existence.
PURPORT
The  virāṭa-rūpa  or  viśva-rūpa , the gigantic universal form of the Lord, which is very much appreciated by the impersonalist, is not an eternal form of the Lord. It is manifested by the supreme will of the Lord after the ingredients of material creation. Lord Kṛṣṇa exhibited this  virāṭa  or  viśva-rūpa  to Arjuna just to convince the impersonalists that He is the original Personality of Godhead. Kṛṣṇa exhibited the  virāṭa-rūpa ; it is not that Kṛṣṇa was exhibited by the  virāṭa-rūpa . The  virāṭa-rūpa  is not, therefore, an eternal form of the Lord exhibited in the spiritual sky; it is a material manifestation of the Lord. The  arca-vigraha , or the worshipable Deity in the temple, is a similar manifestation of the Lord for the neophytes. But in spite of their material touch, such forms of the Lord as the  virāṭa  and  arca  are all nondifferent from His eternal form as Lord Kṛṣṇa.
TEXT 5
परेण विशता स्वसिन्मात्रया विश्वसृग्गणः । चुक्षोभान्योन्यमासाद्य यस्मिँल्लोकाश्वराचराः ॥ ५ ॥
pareṇa viśatā svasmin mātrayā viśva-sṛg-gaṇaḥ cukṣobhānyonyam āsādya yasmil lokāś carācarāḥ
pareṇa —by the Lord;  viśatā —thus entering;  svasmin —by His own self;  mātrayā —by a plenary portion;  viśva-sṛk —the elements of universal creation;  gaṇaḥ —all;  cukṣobha —transformed;  anyonyam —one another;  āsādya —having obtained;  yasmin —in which;  lokāḥ —the planets;  carā-acarāḥ —movable and immovable.
TRANSLATION
As the Lord, in His plenary portion, entered into the elements of the universal creation, they transformed into the gigantic form in which all the planetary systems and all movable and immovable creations rest.