Krishna reveals Himself only to His devotees through bhakti; mental speculation cannot reach the spiritual platform.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Anantarām Śāstrījī: [Chants slokas] Aiṁ kṛṣṇaika-ceta mada-moha-vināśa-kārin mad-dṛṣṭi-gocara prabho prabhupāda-svāmin doṣā vivṛddhi-pariduṣita-manda-buddheḥ sañcintayāmi caraṇau tava bhakti-hetoḥ O lord, O Prabhupāda, may you always be the object of my vision. Only the name of Kṛṣṇa can destroy my pride and illusion. Although my mind and intelligence are contaminated by ever increasing faults and wicked inclinations, I meditate upon your lotus feet in causeless devotion. śrī baṅga-bhūmi jana bhūṣaṇa gauralīlā gaurāṇga bhāva parisārana mātraśīla rādhā-mukunda pādapadma manovilāsin ānanda kanda gurudeva namo namaste I offer my respectful obeisances to my ever blissful spiritual master who is the creast jewel of the inhabitants of Bengal, who is always following and propagating Lord Gaurāṅga's intention and pastimes, and who, in his heart, is relishing the lotus feet of Their Lordships Śrī Rādhā Mukunda. [Prayers to Śrīla Prabhupāda by Anantarām Śāstrījī.] Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya.
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya. [devotees repeat] [chants mantras; chants verse word by word; devotees respond; chants verse] tat-sambhavaḥ kavir ato 'nyad apaśyamānas tvāṁ bījam ātmani tataṁ sa bahir vicintya nāvindad abda-śatam apsu nimajjamāno jāte 'ṅkure katham uhopalabheta bījam [SB 7.9.34] Prabhupāda: Read, somebody. Why the signboard was not...? What is this management, so many deviations? Hṛdayānanda: [chants verse] Prabhupāda: Anyone more?
Go on. Puṣṭa Kṛṣṇa: [chants synonyms] [break] [04:32] Translation: "From that great lotus flower from which Brahmā is generated, certainly Brahmā could not see anything else except the big lotus flower. Therefore Lord Brahmā, diving within the water, executed austerity and penance for one hundred years but still could not get any trace of You. The reason is that when a seed is fructified, the original seed cannot be seen." Prabhupāda: tat-sambhavaḥ kavir ato 'nyad apaśyamānas tvāṁ bījam ātmāni tataṁ sa bahir vicintya nāvindad abda-śatam apsu nimajjamānaḥ jāte 'ṅkure katham uhopalabheta bījam [SB 7.9.34] So from the beginning of the creation the same illusion is continued. Brahma, when he was born, created, he was created not by ordinary father and mother, but he was created on a lotus flower stem which grew from the navel of Maha Viṣṇu, er, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu.
Therefore Brahmā's another name is Aja. He's not born like ordinary human being. Svayambhū. He's also known as Svayambhū.
Everyone is born by father and mother, but he was born... Of course, father was there, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, but he did not come through the womb of mother. This is omnipotency. Lord Viṣṇu is lying on the Śeṣa bed, and Lakṣmījī is engaged in the service of massaging the lotus feet of Viṣṇu, but Viṣṇu did not take the help of Lakṣmījī to beget Brahmā.
He personally begot from the navel. Therefore we should understand that the Supreme Personality of Godhead can perform anything He likes from any part of His body. That we chant always, aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti [Bs 5.32]. We have got knowledge, experience, that when a child is born it has got a different source of being born, but Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu wanted the child be born from the navel and not from the mother of the navel—there was no mother—but the father Himself.
This is called aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti. Every part of the body, every limb, has got the potency to act like other parts of the body. We can see only with the eyes, but God can see with His finger. That is God. We can eat through mouth, but God can eat from any part of His body.