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== Srimad-Bhagavatam ==

=== SB Canto 3 ===

<span class="SB-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:SB 3.33.2|SB 3.33.2, Purport]]:''' Brahmā is also named Aja, "he who is unborn." Whenever we think of someone's birth, there must be a material father and mother, for thus one is born. But Brahmā, being the first living creature within this universe, was born directly from the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is known as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Viṣṇu form lying down in the ocean at the bottom of the universe. Devahūti wanted to impress upon the Lord that when Brahmā wants to see Him, he has to meditate upon Him. "You are the seed of all creation," she said. "Although Brahmā was directly born from You, he still has to perform many years of meditation, and even then he cannot see You directly, face to face. Your body is lying within the vast water at the bottom of the universe, and thus You are known as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu."</span>

== Sri Caitanya-caritamrta ==

=== CC Adi-lila ===

<span class="CC-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:CC Adi 1.11|CC Adi 1.11, Translation]]: I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose secondary part is the Viṣṇu lying in the ocean of milk. That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of all living entities and the maintainer of all the universes. Śeṣa Nāga is His further subpart.'''</span>

<span class="CC-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:CC Adi 5.109|CC Adi 5.109, Translation]]: I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose secondary part is the Viṣṇu lying in the ocean of milk. That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of all living entities and the maintainer of all the universes. Śeṣa Nāga is His further subpart.'''</span>

== Lectures ==

=== Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Lectures ===

<span class="LEC-statistics">'''[[Vanisource:Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.11 -- Mayapur, April 4, 1975|Lecture on CC Adi-lila 1.11 -- Mayapur, April 4, 1975]]:''' 

Nitāi: "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose secondary part is the Viṣṇu lying in the ocean of milk. That Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is the Supersoul of all living entities and the maintainer of all the universes. Śeṣa Nāga is His further subpart."

Prabhupāda:
:yasyāṁśāṁśāṁśaḥ parātmākhilānāṁ
:poṣṭā viṣṇur bhāti dugdhābdhi-śāyī
:kṣauṇī-bhartā yat-kalā so 'py anantas
:taṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye
:[Cc. Ādi 1.11]
So all these Viṣṇu descriptions beginning from Kāraṇodakaśāyī, Mahā-Viṣṇu, who is producing universes... Then next Viṣṇu is Garbhodakaśāyī, means the same Mahā-Viṣṇu entering in each and every universe. Then again, the same Viṣṇu, for maintenance of this material world, is lying on the kṣīrabdhi, ocean of milk. And the same Viṣṇu, Kṣīrabdhiśāyī Viṣṇu, is maintaining not only these universal affair, but also He is entering in each and every living being's heart, even within the atom. This is the expansion of Viṣṇu-tattva, Viṣṇu-tattva within this material world.</span>