Text 5] Creation of the Universal Form 225
TRANSLATION
When the twenty-three principal elements were set in action by the will
of the Supreme, the gigantic universal form, or the visva-rupa body of the
Lord, came into existence.
PURPORT
The virata-rupa or visva-rupa, the gigantic universal form of the Lord,
which is very much appreciated by the impersonalist, is not an eternal
form of the Lord. It is manifested by the supreme will of the Lord after
the ingredients of material creation. Lord Krsna exhibited this virata or
visva-rupa to Arjuna just to convince the impersonalists that He is the
original Personality of Godhead. Krsna exhibited the virata-rupa; it is not
that Krsna was exhibited by the virata-rupa. The virata-rupa is not,
therefore, an eternal form of the Lord exhibited in the spiritual sky; it is a
material manifestation of the Lord. The arca-vigraha, or the worshipable
Deity in the temple, is a similar manifestation of the Lord for the
neophytes. But in spite of their material touch, such forms of the Lord as
the virata and arca are all nondifferent from His eternal form as Lord
Krsna.
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parena visata svasmin
matraya visva-srg-ganah
cuksobhanyonyam asadya
yasmil lokas caracarah
parena—by the Lord; visata—thus entering; svasmin—by His own self;
matraya—by a plenary portion; visva-srk—the elements of universal
creation; ganah—all; cuksobha—transformed; anyonyam—one another;
asadya—having obtained; yasmin—in which; lokah—the planets; cara-
acarah—movable and immovable.
TRANSLATION
As the Lord, in His plenary portion, entered into the elements of the
universal creation, they transformed into the gigantic form in which all the
planetary systems and all movable and immovable creations rest.
