SB 3.20.15

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Third Canto - Chapter 20: Conversation Between Maitreya and Vidura

SB 3.20.14 - SB 3.20.16

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 15

so 'śayiṣṭābdhi-salile

āṇḍakośo nirātmakaḥ

sāgraṁ vai varṣa-sāhasram

anvavātsīt tam īśvaraḥ

SYNONYMS

saḥ—it; aśayiṣṭa—lay; abdhi-salile—on the waters of the Causal Ocean; āṇḍa-kośaḥ—egg; nirātmakaḥ—in an unconscious state; sāgram—a little more than; vai—in fact; varṣa-sāhasram—a thousand years; anvavātsīt—became situated; tam—in the egg; īśvaraḥ—the Lord.

TRANSLATION

For over one thousand years the shiny egg lay on the waters of the Causal Ocean in the lifeless state. Then the Lord entered it as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu.

PURPORT

From this verse it appears that all the universes are floating in the Causal Ocean.

SB 3.20.14 - SB 3.20.16