PLATE EIGHT

Modern scientists guess that the universe was created by an exploding
chunk, a mass of gas, or some other inanimate source. But from the
Vedas, the reservoir of infallible knowledge, we learn of the real source of
creation—Lord Krsna. Here we see Lord Krsna’s partial expansion
Maha-Visnu lying in the Causal Ocean. While He sleeps in that ocean,
millions of universes are generated as He exhales. A second expansion,
Garbhodakasayi Visnu, enters all the universes to create diversities in
each of them. From the navel of Garbhodakasayi Visnu springs the stem
of a lotus flower, the birthplace of Brahma, who is the father of all living
beings and the master of all the demigod-engineers. It is Lord Brahma
who creates each universe, using his fine intelligence to manipulate the
gross elements supplied by Krsna and His expansions. (pp. 2/2-28)
