Text 29] Bhagavatam is the Answer 583

was born out of the abdominal hole of Garbhodakasayi Visnu as a separate
body, and the same principle is followed even in the birth of any ordinary
body. The body of the child develops from the body of the mother, and
when the child is separated from the body of the mother, it is separated
by cutting the navel joint. And that is the way the Supreme Lord mani-
fested Himself as separated many. The living entities are therefore
separated parts, and thus they have no independence.

TEXT 29

AUT FLTAAST: |
aa: aga aaale: geaqray 281

aditsor anna-pananam
dsan kuksy-antra-naddayah
nadyah samudras ca tayos
tustih pustis tad-asraye

aditsoh—desiring to have; anna-panadnam—of food and drink; @san—there
became; kuksi—abdomen; antra—intestines; nadayah—and the artery;
nadyah—the rivers; samudrah—seas; ca—also; tayoh—of them; tustih—
sustenance; pustth— metabolism; tat—of them; asraye—the source.

TRANSLATION

When there was desire to have food and drink, the abdomen and the
intestines and also the arteries became manifested. The rivers and the seas
are the source of their sustenance and metabolism.

PURPORT

The controlling deities of the intestines are rivers, and those of the
arteries, the seas. Fulfillment of the belly with food and drink is the
cause of sustenance, and the metabolism of the food and drink replaces
the waste of the bodily energies. Therefore, the body’s health is dependent
on healthy actions of the intestines and the arteries. The rivers and the seas,
being the controlling deities of the two, keep the intestines and the arteries
in healthy order.
