what was there before creation? Supreme personality of godhead, Lord Krishna who is beyond material creation exists before creation and after annihilation. Period after annihilation and before creation all living entities are dormant in the form of the Lord. [SB 3.5.23]
The compassion of the Lord towards living entities: Lord is mercifully putting so much endeavour from His side to reclaim conditioned beings, creating universe, residing as super soul in heart to guide and sanction Jiva’s desires, maintaining and winding the universe, sending acharyas to reclaim fallen souls and so on. [SB 3.5.3] The Lord felt incomplete without His plenary expansions and unsatisfied, so he desired to create the manifestation. The material potency was dormant. [SB 3.5.24] bhuta-matrendriya-dhiyam janma sarga udahrtah brahmano guna-vaisamyad visargah paurusah smrtah SB 2.10.3 The elementary creation of sixteen items of matter—namely the five elements [fire, water, land, air and sky], sound, form, taste, smell, touch, and the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, skin and mind—is known as sarga, whereas subsequent resultant interaction of the modes of material nature is called visarga. nirodho ’syanusayanam atmanah saha saktibhih muktir hitvanyatha rupam sva-rupena vyavasthitih SB 2.10.6 The merging of the living entity, along with his conditional living tendency, with the mystic lying down of the Maha-Visnu is called the winding up of the cosmic manifestation. Liberation is the permanent situation of the form of the living entity after he gives up the changeable gross and subtle material bodies. puruso ’ndam vinirbhidya yadasau sa vinirgatah atmano ’yanam anvicchann apo ’sraksic chucih sucih SB 2.10.10 After separating the different universes, the gigantic universal form of the Lord [Maha-Visnu], which came out of the causal ocean, the place of appearance for the first purusa-avatara, entered into each of the separate universes, desiring to lie on the created transcendental water [Garbhodaka]. antah sarira akasat purusasya vicestatah ojah saho balam jajne tatah prano mahan asuh SB 2.10.15 >From the sky situated within the transcendental body of the manifesting Maha-Visnu, sense energy, mental force and bodily strength are all generated, as well as the sum total of the fountainhead of the total living force. pranenaksipata ksut trd antara jayate vibhoh pipasato jaksatas ca pran mukham nirabhidyata SB 2.10.17 The living force, being agitated by the virat-purusa, generated hunger and thirst, and when He desired to drink and eat, the mouth opened. mukhatas talu nirbhinnam jihva tatropajayate tato nana-raso jajne jihvaya yo ’dhigamyate SB 2.10.18 >From the mouth the palate became manifested, and thereupon the tongue was also generated. After this all the different tastes came into existence so that the tongue can relish them. vivaksor mukhato bhumno vahnir vag vyahrtam tayoh jale caitasya suciram nirodhah samajayata SB 2.10.19 When the Supreme desired to speak, speeches were vibrated from the mouth. Then the controlling deity Fire was generated from the mouth. But when He was lying in the water, all these functions remained suspended. nasike nirabhidyetam dodhuyati nabhasvati tatra vayur gandha-vaho ghrano nasi jighrksatahSB 2.10.20 Thereafter, when the supreme purusa desired to smell odors, the nostrils and respiration were generated, the nasal instrument and odors came into existence, and the controlling deity of air, carrying smell, also became manifested. yadatmani niralokam atmanam ca didrksatah nirbhinne hy aksini tasya jyotis caksur guna-grahah SB 2.10.21 Thus when everything existed in darkness, the Lord desired to see Himself and all that was created. Then the eyes, the illuminating god Sun, the power of vision and the object of sight all became manifested. SB 2.10.23 vastuno mrdu-kathinya- laghu-gurv-osna-sitatam jighrksatas tvan nirbhinna tasyam roma-mahi-ruhah tatra cantar bahir vatas tvaca labdha-guno vrtah When there was a desire to perceive the physical characteristics of matter, such as softness, hardness, warmth, cold, lightness and heaviness, the background of sensation, the skin, the skin pores, the hairs on the body and their controlling deities (the trees) were generated. Within and outside the skin is a covering of air through which sense perception became prominent. SB 2.10.25 gatim jigisatah padau ruruhate ’bhikamikam padbhyam yajnah svayam havyam karmabhih kriyate nrbhih Thereupon, because of His desiring to control movement, His legs became manifested, and from the legs the controlling deity named Visnu was generated. By His personal supervision of this act, all varieties of human being are busily engaged in dutiful occupational sacrifice. SB 2.10.26 nirabhidyata sisno vai prajanandamrtarthinah upastha asit kamanam priyam tad-ubhayasrayam Thereupon, for sexual pleasure, begetting offspring and tasting heavenly nectar, the Lord developed the genitals, and thus there is the genital organ and its controlling deity, the Prajapati. The object of sexual pleasure and the controlling deity are under the control of the genitals of the Lord. SB 2.10.27 utsisrksor dhatu-malam nirabhidyata vai gudam tatah payus tato mitra utsarga ubhayasrayah Thereafter, when He desired to evacuate the refuse of eatables, the evacuating hole, anus, and the sensory organ thereof developed along with the controlling deity Mitra. The sensory organ and the evacuating substance are both under the shelter of the controlling deity. SB 2.10.28 asisrpsoh purah purya nabhi-dvaram apanatah tatrapanas tato mrtyuh prthaktvam ubhayasrayam Thereafter, when He desired to move from one body to another, the navel and the air of departure and death were combinedly created. The navel is the shelter for both, namely death and the separating force. SB 2.10.29 aditsor anna-pananamasan kuksy-antra-nadayah nadyah samudras ca tayos tustih pustis tad-asraye When there was a desire to have food and drink, the abdomen and the intestines and also the arteries became manifested. The rivers and seas are the source of their sustenance and metabolism. SB 2.10.30 nididhyasor atma-mayam hrdayam nirabhidyata tato manas candra iti sankalpah kama eva ca When there was a desire to think about the activities of His own energy, then the heart (the seat of the mind), the mind, the moon, determination and all desire became manifested. SB 2.10.31 tvak-carma-mamsa-rudhira- medo-majjasthi-dhatavah bhumy-ap-tejomayah sapta prano vyomambu-vayubhih The seven elements of the body, namely the thin layer on the skin, the skin itself, the flesh, blood, fat, marrow and bone, are all made of earth, water and fire, whereas the life breath is produced by the sky, water and air. SB 2.10.32 gunatmakanindriyani bhutadi-prabhava gunah manah sarva-vikaratma buddhir vijnana-rupini The sense organs are attached to the modes of material nature, and the modes of material nature are products of the false ego. The mind is subjected to all kinds of material experiences (happiness and distress), and the intelligence is the feature of the mind’s deliberation. SB 2.10.33 etad bhagavato rupam sthulam te vyahrtam maya mahy-adibhis cavaranair astabhir bahir avrtam Thus by all this, the external feature of the Personality of Godhead is covered by gross forms such as those of planets, which were explained to you by me. SB 2.10.34 atah param suksmatamam avyaktam nirvisesanam anadi-madhya-nidhanam nityam van-manasah param Therefore, beyond this [gross manifestation] is a transcendental manifestation finer than the finest form. It has no beginning, no intermediate stage and no end; therefore, it is beyond the limits of expression or mental speculation and is distinct from the material conception. SB 2.10.41 sattvam rajas tama iti tisrah sura-nr-narakah tatrapy ekaikaso rajan bhidyante gatayas tridha yadaikaikataro ’nyabhyam sva-bhava upahanyate According to the different modes of material nature—the mode of goodness, the mode of passion and the mode of darkness—there are different living creatures, who are known as demigods, human beings and hellish living entities. O King, even a particular mode of nature, being mixed with the other two, is divided into three, and thus each kind of living creature is influenced by the other modes and acquires its habits also. 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