TEXT 15

vamangad asrjad visnum
daksinangat prajapatim
jyotir-linga-mayam sambhum
kurca-desad avasrjat

WORD FOR WORD

vama-angat--from His left limb; asrjat--He created; visnum-- Lord Vishnu; daksina-angat--from His right limb; prajapatim-- Hiranyagarbha Brahma; jyotih-linga--the divine masculine manifested halo; mayam--comprising; sambhum--Sambhu; kurca-desat--from the space between His two eyebrows; avasrat--He created.

TRANSLATION

The same Maha-Visnu created Visnu from His left limb, Brahma, the first progenitor of beings, from His right limb and, from the space between His two eyebrows, Sambhu, the divine masculine manifested halo.

PURPORT

The divine purusa, lying in the ocean of milk, the same who is the regulator of all individual souls, is Sri Visnu; and Hiranyagarbha, the seminal principle, the portion of the Supreme Lord, is the prime progenitor who is different from the four-faced Brahma. This same Hiranyagarbha is the principle of seminal creating energy of every Brahma belonging to each of the infinity of universes. The divine masculine manifested halo, Sambhu, is the plenary manifestation of his prototype Sambhu, the same as the primary divine masculine generative symbol Sambhu whose nature has already been described. Vishnu is the integral subjective portion of Maha-Visnu. Hence He is the great Lord of all the other lords. The progenitor (Brahma) and Sambhu are the dislocated portions of Maha-Visnu. Hence they are gods with delegated functions. His own potency being on the left side of Godhead, Vishnu appears in the left limb of Maha-Visnu from the unalloyed essence of His spiritual (cit) potency. Vishnu, who is Godhead Himself, is the inner guiding oversoul of every individual soul. He is the Personality of Godhead described in the Vedas as being of the measure of a thumb. He is the nourisher. The karmis (elevationists) worship Him as Narayana, the Lord of sacrifices, and the yogis desire to merge their identities in Him as Paramatma, by the process of their meditative trance.