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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 6, Ch. 9]
smile of sympathy, and by the sweet, nectarean words emanating from Your beautiful face, free us from the anxiety caused by this Vṛtrāsura, who always pains the cores of our hearts.
PURPORT
Lord Brahmā is considered the father of the demigods, but Kṛṣṇa, or Lord Viṣṇu, is the father of Brahmā because Brahmā took birth from the lotus flower growing from the Lord's abdomen.
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अथ मगवंस्तवास्माभिरविलजगदुत्पत्तिस्थितित्यनिमित्तायमानदिव्यमाया- विनोदस्यसकलजीवनिकायानामन्तर्हृदयेषु बहिरपि च ब्रह्मप्रत्यगात्मस्वरूपेण प्रधानरूपेण च यथादेशकालदेहावस्थानविशेषं तदुपादानोपत्तम्भकतयानुभवतः सर्वप्रत्ययसाक्षिण आकाशशरीरस्य साक्षात्परब्रह्मणः परमात्मनः क्रियानिह वार्थविशेषो विज्ञापनीयः स्याद् विस्फुलिङ्गादिभिरिव हिरण्यरेतसः ॥ ४२ ॥
atha bhagavaṁs tavāsmābhir akhila-jagad-utpatti-sthiti-laya- nimittāyamāna-divya-māyā-vinodasya sakala-jīva-nikāyānām antar- hṛdayeṣu bahir api ca brahma-pratyag-ātma-svarūpeṇa pradhāna- rūpeṇa ca yathā-deśa-kāla-dehāvasthāna-viśeṣaṁ tad- upādānopalambhakatayānubhavataḥ sarva-pratyaya-sākṣiṇa ākāśa- śarīrasya sākṣāt para-brahmaṇaḥ paramātmanaḥ kiyān iha vārtha- viśeṣo vijñāpanīyaḥ syād visphulingādibhir iva hiraṇya-retasaḥ.
atha—therefore; bhagavan—O Lord; tava—of You; asmābhiḥ—by us; akhila—all; jagat—of the material world; utpatti—of the creation; sthiti—maintenance; laya—and annihilation; nimittāyamāna—being the cause; divya-māyā—with the spiritual energy; vinodasya—of You, who amuse Yourself; sakala—all; jīva-nikāyānām—of the hordes of liv- ing entities; antaḥ-hṛdayeṣu—in the cores of the hearts; bahiḥ api—ex- ternally also; ca—and; brahma—of impersonal Brahman, or the Ab- solute Truth; pratyak-ātma—of the Supersoul; sva-rūpeṇa—by Your forms; pradhāna-rūpeṇa—by Your form as the external ingredients; ca—also; yathā—according to; deśa-kāla-deha-avasthāna—of country, time, body and position; viśeṣaṁ—the particulars; tat—of them;