brahma haite janme viśva, brahmete jīvaya
sei brahme punarapi haye yÄya laya
brahma haite - from the Supreme Brahman; janme - emanates; viÅ›va - the whole cosmic manifestation; brahmete - in the Absolute Truth; jÄ«vaya - exists; sei - that; brahme - in the Absolute Truth; punarapi - again; haye - being; yÄya - goes; laya - to annihilation.
“Everything in the cosmic manifestation emanates from the Absolute Truth, remains in the Absolute Truth, and after annihilation again enters the Absolute Truth.
In the TaittirÄ«ya Upaniá¹£ad (3.1) it is said, yato vÄ imÄni bhÅ«tÄni jÄyante: “The entire material cosmic manifestation is born of the Supreme Brahman.†Also, the Brahma-sÅ«tra begins with the verse janmÄdy asya yataḥ: “The Absolute Truth is that from whom everything emanates.†(Bs. 1.1.2) That Absolute Truth is Kṛṣṇa. In the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (10.8), Kṛṣṇa says, ahaá¹ sarvasya prabhavo mattaḥ sarvaá¹ pravartate: “I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me.†Therefore Kṛṣṇa is the original Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Again, Kṛṣṇa states in the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (9.4), mayÄ tatam idaá¹ sarvaá¹ jagad avyakta-mÅ«rtinÄ: “By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded.†And as confirmed in the Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.37), goloka eva nivasaty akhilÄtma-bhÅ«taḥ: “Although the Lord always stays in His abode, Goloka Vá¹›ndÄvana, He is still all-pervading.†His all-pervasive feature is understood to be impersonal because one does not find the form of the Lord in that all-pervasiveness. Actually, everything is resting on the rays of His bodily effulgence. The Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.40) also states:
yasya prabhÄ prabhavato jagad-aṇá¸a-koá¹i-
koá¹iá¹£v aÅ›eá¹£a-vasudhÄdi-vibhÅ«ti-bhinnam
Due to the rays of the Lord’s bodily effulgence, millions of universes are created, just as planets are created from the sun.
