like perspiration

These innumerable Universes are being produced from the pores on the body of Maha Vishnu. It is also said that, as innumerable atoms are coming and going through the holes in a window, so from the pores of the body of Maha Vishnu innumerable Universes emanate. From His breathing also innumerable Universes are being produced and annihilated. All His energies are spiritual-they have nothing to do with the material energy. In the Brahma Samhita [5.48] this fact is stated also. In the fifth Chapter, 54th verse, it is said that the predominating deity of each Universe, Brahma, lives only during one breath of Maha Vishnu. Maha Vishnu again is the original Supersoul of all the Universes, and He is also the Master of all the Universes. That is the description of the first incarnation, known as Maha Vishnu.    (More...)

Brahma is born from the navel of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, who is but a partial manifestation of the Maha-Visnu. Countless universes reside like seeds within the skin pores of the Maha-Visnu, and when He exhales, they all are manifest. In the material world we have no experience of such a thing, but we do experience a perverted reflection in the phenomenon of perspiration. We cannot imagine, however, the duration of one breath of the Maha-Visnu, for within one breath all of the universes are created and annihilated. Lord Brahma only lives for the duration of one breath, and according to our time scale 4,320,000,000 years constitute only twelve hours of Brahma, and Brahma lives one hundred of his years. Yet the whole life of Brahma is contained within one breath of the Maha-Visnu. Thus it is not possible for us to imagine the breathing power of the Supreme Lord. That Maha-Visnu is but a partial manifestation of Krsna.    (More...)