14 Teachings of Lord Chaitanya

spiritual energy: it is so powerful that it can do anything and everything.
It has full independence.

From each pore of the body of Maha Vishnu these Universes emanate,
seedlike, and then they develop. They are exhaled when He breathes also.
Just as when a man is diseased the infection is carried by perspiration, by
breathing and by touching: that is a scientific fact. If a man is infected with
smallpox bacteria, you can simply touch his perspiration and become infected.
This occurs even in this material world. So this is all possible. It is not impos-
sible. It simply requires some intellectual capacity to understand. From Maha
Vishnu’s Spiritual Body so many Universes emanate. When He exhales they
come out, and when He inhales the whole thing is gone. This is the material
Universe. Just imagine: the existence of each and every Universe is contained
in one breath of Vishnu. That is stated in the Brahma Samhita. We have cal-
culated the age of Brahma, but actually you cannot conceivably calculate
even one day of Maha Vishnu. 4,200,000,000 years is only twelve hours of
Brahma. And the whole life of Brahma is just within the period of one breath
of Maha Vishnu. Just consider what is the breathing power of the Supreme
Lord. That Maha Vishnu is the plenary partial representation of Krishna.

Next comes the Garbodakshayee Vishnu, from Whom Brahma is born.
Within that lotus stem from this Vishnu’s navel there are so many Universes.
And just as the mother increases the family members, similarly Brahma was
first created by Garbodakshayee Vishnu, and Brahma created the whole
human society, animal society—everything. Maha Vishnu’s plenary expansion
is Garbodakshayee Vishnu, and His plenary expansion is Kshirodakshayee
Vishnu. In this way, in each and every Universe, there is one Garbodakshayee
Vishnu and one Kshirodakshayee Vishnu. That Kshirodakshayee Vishnu lies
on the milk ocean, within this Universe, and He is the Controller and the
Maintainer of the Universe. Brahma is the Creator, Vishnu is Maintainer,
and when it will be required to annihilate the Universe, then Shiva will
come and finish everything.

So far, Krishna Das Kaviraj has discussed Lord Chaitanya and Lord
Nityananda, and now he describes Adwaita Acharya. In our morning prayers
we sing the Names of Lord Chaitanya and His Associates:

Sri Krishna Chaitanya, Prabhu Nityananda, Sri Adwaita, Gadadhar, Srivas

adi Gour bhaktavrinda.

They are all expansions of the same One. So Adwaita Acharya is an expansion
of Maha Vishnu. You have seen the picture of Maha Vishnu lying on the
Causal Ocean and breathing out innumerable universes. That Maha Vishnu
