Creation flows from divine consciousness through Vishnu, not from mindless matter exploding in the void.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 1.9 — April 2, 1975, Māyāpur 750402CC-MAYAPUR [31:02 Minutes] CcAdi-01.009_750402CC-MAYAPUR Nitāi: Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [leads chanting of verse, etc.] māyā-bhartājāṇḍa-saṅghāśrayāṅgaḥ śete sākṣāt kāraṇāmbhodhi-madhye yasyaikāṁśaḥ śrī-pumān ādi-devas taṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye [Cc. Ādi 1.9] [break] [00:53] "I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Śrī Nityānanda Rāma, whose partial representation called Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, lying on the Kāraṇa Ocean, is the original puruṣa, the master of the illusory energy and the shelter of all the universes." Prabhupāda: māyā-bhartājāṇḍa-saṅghāśrayāṅgaḥ śete sākṣāt kāraṇāmbhodhi-madhye yasyaikāṁśaḥ śrī-pumān ādi-devas taṁ śrī-nityānanda-rāmaṁ prapadye [Cc. Ādi 1.9] Yesterday we discussed about pūrṇāiśvarya, saṅkarṣaṇākhyam, nityānanda-rāmam, the Deity, the superintending Deity of the spiritual world.
Here also, anywhere, the master is Kṛṣṇa in His different form. So just like for management we expand some secretaries, or personal representative, similarly there is good management also in Kṛṣṇa's affairs. The original person is Kṛṣṇa, and His expansions, they are also as good as Kṛṣṇa, but departmental. So we have discussed yesterday that in the spiritual world, Saṅkarṣaṇa is the supreme manager. And so far the material world is concerned, the same person is the Supreme, but His name is different, Kāraṇābdhiśāyī.
In the spiritual world, the name is Saṅkarṣaṇa, and the material world, the supreme superintendent is also the same person, but name is different—Kāraṇābdhiśāyī. This Kāraṇābdhiśāyī is māyā-bhartā. Bhartā means husband. Just like a husband begets children in the womb of the wife, similarly, all these universes are impregnated in the total material energy, māyā, by Kāraṇābdhiśāyī Viṣṇu. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gītā: ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā. sarva-yoniṣu kaunteya sambhavanti mūrtayo yāḥ tāsāṁ mahad-yonir brahma ahaṁ bīja-pradaḥ pitā [Bg. 14.4] The bīja-pradaḥ pitā, the father, is the seed-giving person, and the mother is receiving the seed, and then she is impregnated and they develops the body.
As we have got experience, the creation, the creative energy, this is going on, the same process, everywhere. So this Kāraṇābdhiśāyī Viṣṇu—we have already discussed to some extent—is the origin of this material creation. That, the scientists says, that... I do not know exactly what is their theory, but so far I have heard, that...
There are so many theories. One of them is, "There was a chunk, and from that, this material world..." They have no idea what is material world or spiritual world. But in that way a creation took place. Can anyone say what is the theory or..., of creation?
Can any one of you say? What do they say about the creation? Trivikrama: Their one theory is that there's a big chunk, and then from that, everything else came. Jagadīśa: It exploded. Rūpānuga: An explosion, a big bang. Prabhupāda: Eh? Rūpānuga: A big bang. An explosion. Haṁsadūta: There were some chemicals. Prabhupāda: So wherefrom the chunk came? Rūpānuga: They don't tell us. Prabhupāda: Then that is not the... That is their brain fag, that they are simply trying to get everything from matter.
That is their material brain. But we see here that the origin is not matter. Origin is Viṣṇu, Mahā-Viṣṇu. So Mahā-Viṣṇu is the supreme soul, mahā, Mahā-Viṣṇu.