Garbhodaksayi Vishnu

Garbhodakashayi-Vishnu with Lakshmi. He is lying on Garbhodaka ocean, and from His navel lotus is sprout where Brahma is born. Brahma is secondary creator of planets in one material universe

Garbhodakshayi Vishnu is second in the hierarchy of Vishnu avatars in the mahā tattvas (material universes). In Gauḍīya Vaishnavism, a school of Vaishnavism, the Sātvata-tantra describes three different forms, or aspects, of Vishnu as Mahā Vishnu, Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Vishnu (Paramātmā), with each form having a different role in the maintenance of the Universe and its inhabitants:

"For material creation, Lord Krishna's plenary expansion assumes three Vishnus. The first one, Maha-Vishnu, creates the total material energy, known as the mahat-tattva. The second, Garbhodakaśāyī Vishnu, enters into all the universes to create diversities in each of them. The third, Kshirodakasayi Vishnu, is diffused as the all-pervading Supersoul in all the universes in heart of every living being and is known as Paramātmā. He is present even within the atoms. Real object of meditation in Yoga is this Paramātmā. Anyone who knows these three Vishnus can be liberated from material entanglement."

Garbhodakashayi Vishnu is an expansion of Mahavishnu (expansion of Sankarshana of second caturvyūha, that, which expands from Nārāyaṇa in Vaikuṇṭhaloka), and also later realized as expansion of Pradyumna.

See also

• Ksirodakasayi Vishnu
• Mahavishnu
• Narayana
• Padmanabha
• Asvina

External links

• Vishnu, the form of the quality of goodness (srimadbhagavatam.com)
• Thousand names of the Supreme (Vishnu Sahasranama Stotram)