Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.63.35-36
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
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puruṣaḥ loka-kalpaḥ
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the original person, creator of the worlds
Compound: puruṣa (Person) + loka-kalpa (world-fashioner). Śiva names Kṛṣṇa as ādi-puruṣa — the Person from whom the universal form (Viṣvarūpa, Gītā 11) issues. Gauḍīyas read this as Śiva himself testifying to Kṛṣṇa's primacy.
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ātmā aham
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I am Your ego
Śiva places himself in the cosmic puruṣa as ahaṅkāra-tattva. The verse stages a precise theological humility: the lord of Kailāsa names his own ontological coordinates as a limb of Bhagavān's form. Gauḍīyas cite this when answering Śiva-Viṣṇu-aikya questions.
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viriñcaḥ dhiṣaṇā
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Brahmā is the intelligence
Compound apposition: Viriñca (Brahmā) = dhiṣaṇā (intelligence). Brahmā as the buddhi-organ of the Virāṭ-puruṣa. The Gauḍīya hierarchy is named in body-language: Brahmā is buddhi, Śiva is ahaṅkāra, both are organs — Kṛṣṇa is the puruṣa.
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hṛdayam yasya dharmaḥ
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whose heart is dharma
Compound: hṛdaya (heart) + dharma. Dharma sits in Bhagavān's hṛdaya — the verse's most fragile and central claim. Gauḍīyas note: dharma is not external rule for Kṛṣṇa, it is His own heartbeat; this is why bhakti is dharma's deepest expression.
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samudraḥ jaṭharam
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the ocean is the abdomen
Compound apposition. The cosmic geography mapped onto Bhagavān's body. Gauḍīyas read this catalogue (Puruṣa-sūkta's expansion) as proof of acintya-bhedābheda — the worlds are simultaneously one with the puruṣa (His limbs) and different (mappable as objects).
Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains that just as the tiny bugs living inside a fruit cannot comprehend the fruit, so we tiny living beings cannot understand the Supreme Absolute Truth, in whom we exist. It is difficult to understand the cosmic manifestation of the Lord, what to speak of His transcendental form as Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we should surrender in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and the Lord Himself will help us understand.
"You are directly brahman and all others including myself are your vibhutis." This is the idea expressed in this verse. "The ether is your navel; earth is your feet; the sun is your eyes; I, siva, am your ego; Indra is your arms; the herbs are your hairs; brahma is your intellect (dhisana); prajapati is your genital (visarga); dharma is your heart." The repetition of the word yasya is to make clear that they are all belonging to Krsna. "All visible things are the parts of your body of eternity , knowledge and bliss in the sense that they are your vibhutis." "You create the worlds (loka kalpah)." This means "You create the material ether, fire etc. from your spiritual navel, mouth etc."
You are made the object of worship by all the fourteen worlds (loka-kalpah). Or the puruṣa, the universal form, composed of the fourteen worlds, is you. You are the foundation of the universal form.
Every other cause and effect is a portion of portion you. They are limbs of the universal form with their presiding deities. This is explained in two verses. The puruṣa is a form of cause and effect consisting of the worlds because he is non-different from that universal form. Vai means famous. The list is not in order. The order does not depend on the higher or lower nature of the limbs. You are accomplished by the worlds, by the cause and effect present in the fourteen worlds (loka-kalpaḥ). Or the Lord is composed of the fourteen worlds, which is non-different from its controller.
- Which element of nature, when contemplated, draws me closest to remembering Kṛṣṇa?
- How would my day shift if I treated the natural world as the Lord's own body?
Like a king whose dominion is so total that every river, every wind, every star can be mapped onto a limb of his body, Kṛṣṇa is the puruṣa of the worlds — sky as navel, sun as eye, Brahmā as intelligence. Śiva names himself the Lord's ahaṅkāra: even ego, properly placed, is one of His organs.
My note
Source: vedabase.io