Srimad-Bhagavatam

First Canto
(Part Two-Chapters 8-12)

with the original Sanskrit text, its Roman trans
literation, word-for-word synonyms, translation
and elaborate purports by

His Divine Grace
AC. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Founder-Acarya of the International Society
for Krishna Consciousness

292 pages
13 color illustrations

EXPLANATION OF THE COVER

of 1. The original spiritual planet, which resembles the whorl
_ of a huge lotus flower, is called Goloka Vrndavana. It is the
abode of Lord Krsna, the original Personality of Godhead.
2. This original planet Goloka throws off a spiritual ray of
* effulgence called brahmajyoti which is the ultimate goal of
the impersonalists.
3. Within this unlimited brahmajyoti there are unlimited
a numbers of spiritual planets, as there are innumerable
material planets within the sun rays of the material universes.
These spiritual planets are dominated by plenary expansions
, of Lord Krsna, and the inhabitants there are ever liberated
; living beings. They are all four-handed. The Lord is known
there as Narayana, and the planets are known as Vaikunthas.
4.‘Sometimes a spiritual cloud overtakes a corner of the
spiritual sky of brahmajyoti, and the covered portion is
called the mahat-tattva. The Lord then, by His portion as
E Maha-Visnu, lies down in the water within the mahat-
tattva. The water is called the Causal Ocean (karana-ja/a).

5. As He sleeps within the Causal Ocean, innumerable
universes are generated with His breathing. These floating
universes are scattered all over the Causal Ocean. They stay
during a breath of Maha-Visnu.

6. In each and every universal globe the same Maha-Visnu,
enters again as Garbhodakasayi Visnu and lies there on the
Garbha Ocean on the serpentine Sesa incarnation. From His
navel-abdomen sprouts a lotus stem, and on the lotus,
Brahma, the lord of the universe, is born. Brahma creates
all living beings of different shapes in terms of desire within
the universe. He also creates the sun, moon and other demi-

gods.

(continued on back flap)
