Text 33] Prahlada Pacifies the Lord with Prayers 239

awakened from the samadhi (yogic trance); nabheh—from the navel;
abhit—appeared; sva-kanika—from the seed; vata-vat—like the great
banyan tree; mahd-abjam—the great lotus of the worlds (has similarly
grown).

TRANSLATION

This cosmic manifestation, the material world, is also Your body.
This total lump of matter is agitated by Your potent energy known
as kala-Sakti, and thus the three modes of material nature are
manifested. You awaken from the bed of Sesa, Ananta, and from
Your navel a small transcendental seed is generated. It is from this
seed that the lotus flower of the gigantic universe is manifested,
exactly as a banyan tree grows from a small seed.

PURPORT

The three different forms of Maha-Visnu—namely Karanodakaésayi
Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu, who are the
origin of creation and maintenance—are gradually being described.
From Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakasadyi Visnu is generated, and from
Garbhodakasayi Visnu, Ksirodakasayi Visnu gradually expands. Thus
Maha-Visnu is the original cause of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, and from
Garbhodakasayi Visnu comes the lotus flower from which Lord Brahma
is manifested. Thus the original cause of everything is Visnu, and conse-
quently the cosmic manifestation is not different from Visnu. This is
confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (10.8), wherein Krsna says, ahar sarvasya
prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate: “I am the source of all spiritual and
material worlds. Everything emanates from Me.” Garbhodakasayi Visnu
is an expansion of Karanodakasdyi Visnu, who is an expansion of
Sankarsana. In this way, Krsna is ultimately the cause of all causes
(sarva-kadrana-kaéranam). The conclusion is that both the material world
and spiritual world are considered to be the body of the Supreme Lord.
We can understand that the material body is caused by the spiritual body
and is therefore an expansion of the spiritual body. Thus when one takes
up spiritual activities, one’s entire material body is spiritualized.
Similarly, in this material world, when the Krsna consciousness move-
ment expands, the entire material world becomes spiritualized. As long
