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why lord expands himself?

Posted by 315ejxlibhknh on May 19, 2018 at 3:39pm in Krishna

hare krsna devotees

sb 1.3.1 says

Sūta said: In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the puruṣa incarnation and manifested all the ingredients for the material creation. And thus at first there was the creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the purpose of creating the material universes.
here it is written that lord frst expanded himself in purusa incarnation so wht it means, lord is somethinng else( he is not purusa) he exapanded in purusa form. person form is just an incarnation . actual lord is something else ?
my question here is tht why lord expand himself. 
also here it is mentioned 16 principles of material action. what are these?
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  • Gayatri May 23, 2018 at 11:30am

    Material creations of every description are more or less due to the development of the mode of passion (rajas). The mahat-tattva is the principle of material creation, and when it is agitated by the will of the Supreme at first the modes of passion and goodness are prominent, and afterwards the mode of passion, being generated in due course by material activities of different varieties, becomes prominent, and the living entities are thus involved more and more in ignorance. (reference 2.5.23) purport.

    At the will of Supreme lord the material principle mahatatva in the mode of passion gets aggitated to produce offsprings.

    Pls. refer the purport of 2.5.23. details explained.

  • Walter Cloud ShaktimanahDasa May 22, 2018 at 10:38pm
    Purusa (ahdi) Purusha
    & to further enjoy He creats us, thus we get the redemptive Oppertunity to rectify our relationship with Him & Hi's Creations. Within this one life-time & from now on. It's resippracal the reasoning!
    • Walter Cloud ShaktimanahDasa > Walter Cloud ShaktimanahDasa May 23, 2018 at 5:15am
      Also * your "innuendo that Krishna is a secondary incarnation, of Vishnu & that because Vishnu, because he reincarnated as a nother feature to sastane all that He had just created, disqualifies Him as something other than a person, is offensive for you to say!
      If He having acomplished all this is not a person "but something ealse. Who & what does that make you fu who are you to define any one or thing. & really what good is to anyone that you hear or know the answers to any of the questions you seek to have answered. I.e of what value is knowledge afforded to someone who hasn't yet learned to acknowledge the unphanthumabal subjects you seek to discuss. Your compliments are filled with insults & eggnorence. What or who do you think you serv in this way. Not cul.
    • Walter Cloud ShaktimanahDasa > Walter Cloud ShaktimanahDasa May 22, 2018 at 10:46pm
      & this chanting opportunity when done properly Rectifys the understandings of our Otherwise materealy / annamalistic MINDs
      Offering Clearafacation of our mind's understanding of respect & Hi's worthiness.This gift of Life is a greater boon to/for us than it is pleasure able for Him i'd imagine if they wpuld be measured. Therefore a wonderful gratuities binnadiction at the end of the day.
  • Gayatri May 22, 2018 at 10:13pm

    During dissolution, souls who are vimukh (have their backs) toward God remain in a state of suspended animation within the body of Maha Vishnu. The material energy, prakṛiti, also lies unmanifest in God’s mahodar (big stomach). When he desires to activate the process of creation, he glances at prakṛiti. It then begins to unwind, and sequentially, the entities mahān, ahankār, pañch-tanmātrās, and pañch-mahābhūta are created. Also, with the help of the secondary creator Brahma, the material energy creates various life forms, and God casts the souls into appropriate bodies, determined by their past karma.

    Jai Sri Krishna.

  • Gayatri May 22, 2018 at 10:08pm

    SB 2.5.35 — The Lord [Mahā-Viṣṇu], although lying in the Causal Ocean, came out of it, and dividing Himself as Hiraṇyagarbha, He entered into each universe and assumed the virāṭ-rūpa, with thousands of legs, arms, mouths, heads, etc

    SB 2.5.35
    The expansions of the planetary systems within each and every universe are situated in the different parts of the virāṭ-rūpa (universal form) of the…
  • Gayatri May 22, 2018 at 10:07pm

    BG 14.3-4: The total material substance, prakṛiti, is the womb. I impregnate it with the individual souls, and thus all living beings are born. O son of Kunti, for all species of life that are produced, the material nature is the womb, and I am the seed-giving Father.

    Lord expands to Virat purusha form.

    SB 2.5.22 — After the incarnation of the first puruṣa [Kāraṇārṇavaśāyī Viṣṇu], the mahat-tattva, or the principles of material creation, take place, and then time is manifested, and in course of time the three qualities appear. Nature means the three qualitative appearances. They transform into activities.
    SB 2.5.23 — Material activities are caused by the mahat-tattva’s being agitated. At first there is transformation of the modes of goodness and passion, and later — due to the mode of ignorance — matter, its knowledge, and different activities of material knowledge come into play.
    SB 2.5.24 — The self-centered materialistic ego, thus being transformed into three features, becomes known as the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance in three divisions, namely the powers that evolve matter, knowledge of material creations, and the intelligence that guides such materialistic activities. Nārada, you are quite competent to understand this.
    SB 2.5.25 — From the darkness of false ego, the first of the five elements, namely the sky, is generated. Its subtle form is the quality of sound, exactly as the seer is in relationship with the seen.
    SB 2.5.26-29 — Because the sky is transformed, the air is generated with the quality of touch, and by previous succession the air is also full of sound and the basic principles of duration of life: sense perception, mental power and bodily strength. When the air is transformed in course of time and nature’s course, fire is generated, taking shape with the sense of touch and sound. Since fire is also transformed, there is a manifestation of water, full of juice and taste. As previously, it also has form and touch and is also full of sound. And water, being transformed from all variegatedness on earth, appears odorous and, as previously, becomes qualitatively full of juice, touch, sound and form respectively.
    SB 2.5.30 — From the mode of goodness the mind is generated and becomes manifest, as also the ten demigods controlling the bodily movements. Such demigods are known as the controller of directions, the controller of air, the sun-god, the father of Dakṣa Prajāpati, the Aśvinī-kumāras, the fire-god, the King of heaven, the worshipable deity in heaven, the chief of the Ādityas, and Brahmājī, the Prajāpati. All come into existence.
    SB 2.5.31 — By further transformation of the mode of passion, the sense organs like the ear, skin, nose, eyes, tongue, mouth, hands, genitals, legs, and the outlet for evacuating, together with intelligence and living energy, are all generated.
    SB 2.5.32 — O Nārada, best of the transcendentalists, the forms of the body cannot take place as long as these created parts, namely the elements, senses, mind and modes of nature, are not assembled.
    SB 2.5.33 — Thus when all these became assembled by force of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, this universe certainly came into being by accepting both the primary and secondary causes of creation.
    SB 2.5.34 — Thus all the universes remained thousands of aeons within the water [the Causal Ocean], and the Lord of living beings, entering in each of them, caused them to be fully animated.
    SB 2.5.22
    By the omnipotency of the Supreme Lord, the whole material creation evolves by the process of transformation and reactions one after another, and by…
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