Chapter
7:
Further
questions by Vidura.
(9) Maitreya said:
' Saying that of the Supreme Lord one is of illusion,
that of the ever liberated of His Lordship there would be
insufficiency or the idea of bondage, one becomes
logically contradictory.
Chapter
8:
Manifestation
of Brahmâ from Garbhodakasâyî Vishnu.
(16) And in that water
situated on the whorl of the lotus the [Brahmâ
of the] world was not able to see and wandered around
with spying eyes in the four directions thus achieving
its heads ['the four heads' of Brahmâ].
Chapter
9:
Brahmâ's
Prayers for Creative Energy.
(14)
Let me bring my obeisances unto You, who are this
Supreme, who in enjoying pastimes in the matter of the
cosmic creation, maintenance and destruction, for sure is
distinguished by the glories of the eternal original
form: all glory to the intelligence of the selfknowledge
after Your Transcendence of the illusory
conception.
Chapter
10:
Divisions
of the Creation.
(8)
Entering into that whorl of the lotus, in his activities
encouraged by the Supreme Lord, he divided the one into
three worlds and from that He could create the fourteen
of them [see also 2.5.42].
Chapter
11:
Division
of time expanding from the atom.
(3)
And thus, to the
subtle as well as the gross forms, can time be measured,
my best, by the motion of the combination of atoms of
which the Supreme unmanifest Lord is the great force
controlling all physical action.
Chapter
12
Creation
of the Kumâras and Others
(7) In spite of
controlling it by meditation, from between the eyebrows
of the original father his anger, instantly a child was
born of a color mixed of red [for passion] and
blue [for ignorance].
