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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.10.17
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 17
- prāṇenākṣipatā kṣut tṛḍ
- antarā jāyate vibhoḥ
- pipāsato jakṣataś ca
- prāṅ mukhaṁ nirabhidyata
prāṇenaby the living force — by the living force; ākṣipatābeing agitated — being agitated; kṣuthunger — hunger; tṛṭthirst — thirst; antarāfrom within — from within; jāyategenerates — generates; vibhoḥof the Supreme — of the Supreme; pipāsataḥbeing desirous to quench the thirst — being desirous to quench the thirst; jakṣataḥbeing desirous to eat — being desirous to eat; caand — and; prākat first — at first; mukhamthe mouth — the mouth; nirabhidyatawas opened — was opened.
The living force, being agitated by the virāṭ-puruṣa, generated hunger and thirst, and when He desired to drink and eat, the mouth opened.
The process by which all living beings in the womb of the mother develop their sense organs and sense perceptions appears to follow the same principles in the case of the virāṭ-puruṣa, the sum total of all living entities. Therefore the supreme cause of all generation is not impersonal or without desire. The desires for all kinds of sense perception and sense organs exist in the Supreme, and thus they take place in the individual persons. This desire is the nature of the supreme living being, the Absolute Truth. Because He has the sum total of all mouths, the individual living entities have mouths. Similarly with all other senses and sense organs. Here the mouth is the symbolic representation of all sense organs, for the same principles apply to the others also.