So Garbhodakasayi Visnu; then next Visnu, the third incarnation, is Ksirodakasayi Visnu. Within this universe there is a planet near the polestar which is called Ksirodakasayi planet, and there Lord Visnu in His incarnation of antaryami, Supersoul... He is acting as the Supersoul. And He is the universal form. When you think of universal form of the Lord, that is the manifestation of this Ksirodakasayi Visnu. And that Ksirodakasayi Visnu as Paramatma, Supersoul, is situated in everyone's heart, even within the atom also. Andantara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham [Bs. 5.35]. Paramanu means atom. Within the atom also. We think of God as very great, universal form, but God can take also form less than the atom. That is God's power. He is not only great, greatest, but He is the smallest. Anor aniyan mahato mahiyan. Mahato mahiyan means greatest of the great, and anor aniyan, the smallest of the small. We cannot think how small He can become. That is His inconceivable potency. So within this material world, He is within the atom, and He is within everyone's heart, in everywhere, all-pervading, and at the same time universal form, the biggest form.

Now, He is the maintainer of... Whatever we are enjoying, it is due to His mercy. In the Kathopanisad, er, Mandukyopanisad, it is stated, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam, eko bahunam vidadhati kaman (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). Now, He is the supplier whatever we want. So as palana-karta, as the maintainer, as the Supersoul, He is supplying. He is supplying whatever you want: "All right." So we should not approach God as supplying agent. That is the lowest stage. He is supplying even to the cats and dogs. Then what is the difference between human being and the cats and dogs? Just like a small child, he is supplied all necessities by the father, but when the child is grown, he wants to serve the father, similarly, to make God as order-supplier, "O God, give us this. Give us that..." God is giving. You ask or not ask, He will give you because, after all, you are all children. So He takes care of His children. But you may say that "Why the childrens are differently treated? Somebody is supplied sumptuously, and somebody is not. Why this difference of treatment?" That difference of treatment is also for good. How? Just like a mother has got five children. One of them is suffering from fever, is ill. Now, very nice foodstuff is prepared. All the children come, and mother is supplying. And when the feverish child comes, "Oh, you don't sit here. You cannot take." "Why?" "Oh, you are diseased. You cannot take." Do you think that mother is partial to this child and that child? No. Anyone who is not supplied as he wants, that is due to his own disease, chronic. So if God does not supply him sufficiently, it is good for him. Therefore, in spiritual advancement a poor man is in more advantage because he can think of God. Provided he is virtuous, he will think of God. Catur-vidha bhajante mam sukrtino 'rjuna.

Now I described about the three purusa incarnations. What is that? Maha-Visnu... Yes. Karanarnavasayi Visnu, or Maha-Visnu; then Garbhodakasayi, or Hiranyagarbha; Ksirodakasayi or the Supersoul, antaryami. The three Visnu incarnation description is finished. Now He is trying to explain lilavatara, pastimes. God has got all propensities. So if He wants to fulfill some propensity, then He comes here to exhibit, to manifest that. Just like God comes here, just Ramacandra, Lord Ramacandra. And what was the main function of Lord Ramacandra? He fought with Ravana, His enemy. So this is called lila. What is that lila, lila pastime? When God wants to have some desire to fulfill, that "I should fight..." Sometimes you sometimes feel mock fighting with friends or with your children. Similarly, wherefrom this desire comes unless the desire is in God? Because He is the origin of all, everything. So don't you feel sometimes, mock fighting? That is enjoyment, fighting with friends, boxing. That is not fighting. That is enjoyment. Similarly, God wants to enjoy by fighting. So Vaikuntha, there is no fighting because nobody can be found there enemy. Everyone is obedient servant. Therefore He comes here to find out some enemy. The two functions are served. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]. He satisfies His fighting spirit; at the same time, He protects the devotees and protects that enemy also by killing him. Because when a demon is killed by the Supreme Lord, he is at once liberated. The liberation which he had to achieve after many, many births, he at once achieves. That is the advantage. So He saves the enemy and saves the devotee, and at the same time, He satisfies His fighting desire. So God is good. So any fight, that is also good. It is not that Krsna is inducing, inciting Arjuna, fight. There is a plan, big plan. So foolish people who criticize, "Oh, Krsna is inciting war. We are very good men, nonviolence." So this "good man" has no value. That fighting has much value. But there is a plan, good plan. So this is called pastime, lila, lilavatara.

Some of the principal avataras, they are mentioned. Matsyavatara. During Vaivasvata Manu there was devastation, and in that devastation, Lord took Matsyavatara, incarnation of fish, and He protected the Vedas.

The poet Jayadeva, a great devotee poet, is singing that "In the devastation, my Lord Kesava, You have assumed the form of fish." A great muni was sitting. He was meditating. And after taking his bath in the ocean, in the sea, he brought one pot of kamandalu. Kamandalu, that pot, you have seen. He found a little fish there. Then, within few seconds, that fish covered all the pot, and the muni thought, "Oh, He is growing so rapidly. All right, let Him have some big pot." So he gave Him big pot. Then again He became full. Then in this way he had to put it in the ocean, and He became oceanlike. Then he understood that He is God. So this is Godly power. He can take the shape... As the ocean is big, so He'll take and take this bigger-than-the-ocean form. But He is the maker of all forms. He has made ocean. But is it very difficult to understand how God becomes fish? That does not mean that every fish is God. No. So there is Matsyavatara.

Similarly, He took the incarnation of tortoise, Kurma. There was a churning of the ocean, and the churning rod must be rested on something solid. So He became the churning rod, resting. And the hill, Mandara Hill, was placed, and He was feeling some itching sensation. So it was nicely itched by churning rod. So this is... He is Kurmavatara. Then Raghunatha. Raghunatha. Raghunatha, this Rama, Lord Rama, He came to kill that dasanana, who had ten faces. Vitarasi diksu rane dik-pati-kamaniyam. So in this way there are innumerable incarnation of pastime. Nrsimha. Nrsimha.

Nrsimha. Nrsimha means half-lion and half-man, and this shape was assumed by the Lord to kill Hiranyakasipu, the father of Prahlada. Prahlada was a great devotee of Lord, and his only fault was that he was a great devotee. His father wanted to kill him. So it is very dangerous also to become devotee. Even the father will be prepared to kill you. You see? The mother will be prepared to kill you. And what to speak of others, complaining, "O Swamiji, you are disturbing our sleep."