Equating Krsna with garbhodasayi visnu, Brahma speaks "As you are mother to the universe, you are also a mother to me. Therefore you should forgive my offenses. When the child in the womb kicks the mother, the mother does not take offense. The universe which is proved true or false through argumentation, is certainly within you. Therefore I also am within you. Therefore I am like your son. Therefore you should forgive my offense." This is similar to the phrase pitamahasya jagato mata dhata pitamaha. I am the mother, father, creator, grandfather of the universe.

Moreover, offense cannot actually be committed to you by persons like me, for though you are the master of billions of universes, being merciful to me, you also keep this universe (of which I am the secondary creator) in your stomach like a mother. Brahmā praises the second puruṣa, Hiraṇyagarbha antaryāmī (monitor of the totaliy of jīvas), known as Pradyumna. Adhokṣaja means “he who has the power of the senses under his control.” O Adhokṣaja! Since I am under your control, though I am foolish and a wretch, you should not take offense. Kukṣeḥ (in the womb) refers to the Lord with a body of inconceivable energy in the form of Hiraṇyagarbha, the subtle body of the universal form, the totality of jīvas, pervading the gross body of the universal form. Garbhagatasya means “entering the womb,” a state of being very deep within. I am like that. How can the kicking of the child in the womb produce an offense to the mother? It does not. Rather it creates joy for the mother, who thinks, “I have a child, and it is living.” You should not consider this an offense. “The child is in the mother’s womb. But are you in my womb?” The Mīmāṁsakas say “The world exists.” The followers of Sāṅkhya say “The world does not exist.” Followers of atheistic Sāṅkhya say, “It is like a son of a barren woman, ornamented with false designations.” To what extent is whatever is revealed by these philosophers through senses perception as existent or non-existent outside (anantaḥ) the puruṣa known as Hiraṇyagarbha antaryāmī (kukṣeḥ)? Nothing is outside, since you oversee everything. I am inside of you. Therefore you should forgive my offense. Nothing, including me and all others who are glorified by their philosophies which are continually appear and disappear, exists outside of your womb. Asti means birth and nāsti means destruction. Thus asti-nāsti means “philosophies which continue without decay, being constantly born and destroyed.”

Moreover the offense I committed does not affect you. O Lord who appeared as if born again under the axel of the cart! This is explained in Hari-vaṁśa, by Nārada: adho ‘nena śayānena śakaṭāntara cāriṇā rākṣasī nihatā raudrā śakuṇī-veśa-dhāriṇī pūtanā nāma ghorā sā mahākāyā mahābalā visa-dagdhaṁ stanaṁ kṣudrā prayacchantī janaṛdane dadṛśur nihatāṁ tatra rākṣasīṁ vana-gocarāḥ punar jāto ‘yam ityāhur uktas tasmaḍ adhokṣajaḥ An angry Rākṣasī, entering the cart, was killed as Kṛṣṇa slept beneath the cart’s axel. Fierce Pūtanā with great strength and huge body, dressing herself auspiciously, gave her poisonous breast to Kṛṣṇa. Seeing that she was killed, the cowherds said “He has been born again.” Therefore he was called Adhokṣaja (beneath the axe –adhokṣa and born again--ja). The name indicates the young son of Nanda, with his great pastimes. It suggests that Kṛṣṇa should not consider his offense. It is seen in this world that playful people forgive great offenses like stealing of a great offender and even give mercy. Therefore you should forgive my offense.