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Śrimad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 23]
TRANSLATION
This great machine, consisting of the stars and planets, resembles the form of a śiśumāra [dolphin] in the water. It is sometimes considered an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva. Great yogīs meditate upon Vāsudeva in this form because it is actually visible.
PURPORT
Transcendentalists such as  yogīs  whose minds cannot accommodate the form of the Lord prefer to visualize something very great, such as the  virāṭa-puruṣa . Therefore some  yogīs  comtemplate this imaginary  śiśumāra  to be swimming in the sky the way a dolphin swims in water. They meditate upon it as the  virāṭa-rūpa , the gigantic form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
TEXT 5
यस्य पुच्छाग्रेऽवाक्शिरसः कुण्डलीभूतदेहस्य ध्रुव उपकल्पितस्तस्य लाङ्गूले प्रजापतिरग्निरिन्द्रो धर्म इति पुच्छमूले धाता विधाता च कद्र्यां सप्तर्षयः । तस्य दक्षिणावर्तकुण्डलीभूतशरीरस्य यान्युदगयनानि दक्षिणपार्श्वे तु नक्षत्राण्युपकल्पयन्ति दक्षिणायनानि तु सव्ये । यथा शिशुमारस्य कुण्डला- भोगसन्निवेशस्य पार्श्वयोरुभयोरप्यवयवाः समसंख्या भवन्ति । पृष्ठे त्वजवीथी आकाशगङ्गा चोदरतः ॥ ५ ॥
yasya pucchāgre 'vākśirasaḥ kuṇḍalī-bhūta-dehasya dhruva upakalpitas tasya lāṅgūle prajāpatir agnir indro dharma iti puccha- mūle dhātā vidhātā ca kaṭyāṁ saptarṣayaḥ. tasya dakṣiṇāvarta- kuṇḍalī-bhūta-śarīrasya yāny udagayanāni dakṣiṇa-pārśve tu nakṣatrāṇy upakalpayanti dakṣiṇāyanāni tu savye. yathā śiśumārasya kuṇḍalā-bhoga-sanniveśasya pārśvayor ubhayor apy avayavāḥ samasaṅkhyā bhavanti. pṛṣṭhe tv ajavīthī ākāśa-gaṅgā codarataḥ.
yasya —of which;  puccha-agre —at the end of the tail;  avāk- śirasaḥ —whose head is downward;  kuṇḍalī-bhūta-dehasya —whose body, which is coiled;  dhruvaḥ —Mahārāja Dhruva on his planet, the polestar;  upakalpitaḥ —is situated;  tasya —of that;  lāṅgūle —on the tail;