Category:God's Exhaling
Theme Analysis
The philosophical essence of this category vividly illustrates the inconceivable, immense scale of the Supreme Personality of Godhead's creative power. In the Vedic understanding, the creation and annihilation of the entire material cosmos are intrinsically linked to the simple breathing process of the Lord's expansion known as Mahā-Viṣṇu (or Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu). As Mahā-Viṣṇu lies in the Causal Ocean (Kāraṇārṇava) in His mystic slumber (yoga-nidrā), His mere exhalation generates millions of universes (brahmāṇḍas) that emanate from His transcendental skin pores like molecular seeds. These universes expand and exist solely for the duration of His exhaling breath. When the Lord inhales, all the universes, along with their respective chief administrators (the Brahmās), re-enter His body and are completely annihilated. This staggering reality completely shatters the petty, mundane conceptions of God as a cheap magician or a human-like figure. It establishes the Absolute Truth as the ultimate master of all creations, whose effortless physiological functions dictate the grand, cyclic epochs of cosmic time (mahā-kalpas).
- The Breath of Creation: The material universe is not a permanent fixture, nor is it created through strenuous labor. It is manifested effortlessly when Mahā-Viṣṇu exhales, and it is entirely dissolved back into His body when He inhales.
- Seeds from Transcendental Pores: The universes do not emerge fully formed; they emanate as tiny, seed-like molecular particles from the skin pores of Mahā-Viṣṇu, expanding into massive cosmic manifestations as they enter the material energy.
- The Lifespan of Brahmā: Lord Brahmā is the supreme manager and creator within each individual universe. However, his incredibly long lifespan—which constitutes billions of earthly years—is equal to just one exhalation of Mahā-Viṣṇu.
- Agitating the Material Energy: Mahā-Viṣṇu's breathing is the catalyst for all material activity. His exhalation agitates the total material energy (mahat-tattva), setting the three modes of material nature (guṇas) into motion to build the cosmos.
- Defeating Mundane Conceptions: Understanding the scale of God's breathing cures the conditioned soul of accepting cheap imitations. A true manifestation of God produces universes with a breath, a feat completely beyond any ordinary mystic or magician.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: God's Exhaling - The Cosmic Breath of Mahā-Viṣṇu.
Pages in category "God's Exhaling"
The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
A
- All the Brahmas, the heads of the universes, live only for the period of His exhaling, after the universes are generated from the pores of His transcendental body
- All the universes are born with the exhalation of the Lord as He lies on Sesa Naga, and all of them are annihilated with His inhalation. Due to these functions of creation, maintenance, and annihilation, the Lord is celebrated by the name Jagan-nivasa
- All these universes are thus created by the exhalation of Maha-Visnu, and when Maha-Visnu inhales, they re-enter His body. The unlimited opulences of Maha-Visnu are completely beyond material conception
B
- Because all the universes are produced simultaneously by the exhalation of the Maha-Visnu, no one can begin to calculate how many Manus are manifest at one time
- Brahma & other lords of the mundane worlds, appear from the pores of hair of Maha-Visnu, remain alive as long as the duration of His one exhalation. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, of whose subjective personality Maha-Visnu is the portion of a portion
I
- In Brahma-samhita it is stated, yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya jivanti loma-vila-ja jagad-anda-nathah: many millions of universes come out of God's body when He exhales, and they again disappear when He inhales
- It is said in the Vedic literature that innumerable universes issue forth when Maha-Visnu exhales in His yoga-nidra and that innumerable universes enter His body when He inhales
- It is stated that from the skin pores of the Maha-Visnu, all the universes are emanating. In each universe there is a Brahma, a supervisor, who is the supreme creature and manager. These managers live only as long as the Maha-Visnu exhales
M
- Maha-Visnu has placed Himself in this material energy, maha-tattva, and by His nisvasa, by His inhaling and exhaling, the material energy is agitated. Then the three gunas are there. Then, by interaction, counteraction, the whole creation takes place
- Maha-visnu lies on the Causal Ocean, and when He exhales, millions of brahmandas, or universes, come from the pores of His body. Then, when Maha-visnu inhales, all these brahmandas disappear
T
- That exhaling and inhaling (of Karanodakasayi Visnu) is the duration of this material existence. When Visnu exhales, whole creation takes place
- The Brahmas and other lords of the mundane worlds appear from the pores of Maha-Visnu and remain alive for the duration of His one exhalation. I adore the primeval Lord, Govinda, of whom Maha-Visnu is a portion of a plenary portion
- The Brahmas live only during the breathing period of Maha-Visnu. So the exhaling and inhaling of Visnu are maha-kalpas, and all these are due to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, for no one else is the master of all creations
W
- When He exhales, all the universes are created, and when He inhales, they all return into His body. In this way so many universes and Brahmas are coming and going
- When Maha-Visnu exhales, the spiritual seeds of the universes emanate from Him in the form of molecular particles like those that are visible, three times the size of an atom, when sunlight is diffused through a small hole
- With the exhaling, universes are coming out, and inhaling, universes are going within the nostril of God. We understand that is God, not a magician you call Him