TQK Chapter Five: […] Namah pankaja-maline. From Krishna comes the wonderful lotus flower that contains the seed of the entire universe. But He is not the source of only one such flower. Krishna is not so poor that He simply produces one lotus flower and then is finished. No. Just as there may be a garland with many flowers, Krishna is the source of innumerable universes, which may be compared to a big garland of lotuses.
This is God. Yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya/ jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathah (Brahma-samhita 5.48). Krishna is unlimited. We are very much concerned with this one planet, but Krishna’s creation contains an unlimited number of planets. We cannot count how many planets there are, any more than one can count how many hairs there are on one’s head.
This is the nature of Krishna’s creation. To give another example, on one tree there is an unlimited number of leaves. Similarly, there is an unlimited number of planets, and there are unlimited universes. Therefore, Krishna is unlimited.
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