The massive Brahmanda is the outer shell covering our small material universe deep inside the Brahmanda.
Our small material universe is encased by 7 material layers that make up the surrounding Brahmanda.
Billions of these Brahmanda universes are coming from the Bodily pores and breathing of the sleeping Maha-Visnu.
Each of the millions of Brahmanda universes has a secondary universe within it that are all different sized with each having a different number of planetary systems.
This is based on how many heads the Lord Brahma has in each of the secondary material universes.
For example in our inner universe called Bhu-Mandala Brahma has four heads, while in other universes inside their Brahmanda they have 10, 20, 50, 200, 10,000 or could have a million heads according to the 5th Canto of Srimad Bhagavatam.
The material creation is a multi-universe spread throughout the creation that takes up 1/4 of the spiritual sky.
The other 3/4 of the spiritual sky is the perpetual abodes of Vaikuntha where the four armed Visnu resides, and the central planet known as Goloka-Vrindavana, the home of Krsna the Supreme Personality of Godhead and cause of all causes.
From Garbhodakashayi Visnu deep inside the surrounding Brahmanda as seen in the painting, a stem grows from His naval with a lotus flower at its end. This is where Lord Brahma resides.
As said above, in our material universe that is deep within the surrounding massive Brahmanda shell, Brahma creates or builds the 14 different planetary systems that all exist within the lotus stem growing from Garbhodakashayi Visnu's naval.
The universal space within the lotus stem is simultaneously where our 4 billion mile diameter material universe exists that houses the 14 planetary systems collectively called Bhu-Mandala.
It is important to understand that each "secondary material universe" inside the Brahmanda, like our Bhu-Mandala universe with its 14 different planetary systems, are encased and surrounded by that greater universal body called a Brahmanda.
The outer Brahmanda covering of our inner small 4 billion mile diameter material universe is made up of 7 massive material layers
1 - Earth,
2 - Water,
3 - Fire,
4 - Air,
5 - Sky,
6 - Total material energy (mahat-tattva),
7 - False ego.
That all collectively reveal the size of our Brahmanda shell that is 44 quadrillion 444 trillion 444 billion miles in diameter as seen in the below painting, or double that size if measured from the outer edge of the inner material secondary universe.
Srila Prabhupada - "Beginning with the covering of earth, each covering is ten times greater than the previous one. Thus we can only imagine how great each universe (Brahmanda shell) is, and there are many millions of universes." (SB Canto 6 Chapter 16 Text 37)
Srimad Bhagavatam - "This universal egg, or the universe in the shape of an egg (Brahmanda shell), is called the manifestation of material energy. Its layers of water, air, fire, sky, ego and mahat-tattva increase in thickness one after another. Each layer is ten times bigger than the previous one, and the final outside layer is covered by pradhāna. Within this egg (deep inside the Brahmanda shell) is the universal form of Lord Hari, of whose body the fourteen planetary systems are parts."
Srila Prabhupada's purport - "There are seven coverings (of the Brahmanda shell), each one ten times greater than the one preceding it. The layer of water (although, inother places in Bhagavatam, it says earth layer is first layer) is ten times greater than the diameter of the (inner) universe (4 billion miles in diameter), and the layer of fire is ten times greater than that of water. Similarly, the layer of air is ten times greater than that of fire.
From Garbhodakashayi Visnu deep inside the surrounding Brahmanda as seen in the painting, a stem grows from His naval with a lotus flower at its end. This is where Lord Brahma resides.
As said above, in our material universe that is deep within the surrounding massive Brahmanda shell, Brahma creates or builds the 14 different planetary systems that all exist within the lotus stem growing from Garbhodakashayi Visnu's naval.
The universal space within the lotus stem is simultaneously where our 4 billion mile diameter material universe exists that houses the 14 planetary systems collectively called Bhu-Mandala.
It is important to understand that each "secondary material universe" inside the Brahmanda, like our Bhu-Mandala universe with its 14 different planetary systems, are encased and surrounded by that greater universal body called a Brahmanda.
The outer Brahmanda covering of our inner small 4 billion mile diameter material universe is made up of 7 massive material layers
1 - Earth,
2 - Water,
3 - Fire,
4 - Air,
5 - Sky,
6 - Total material energy (mahat-tattva),
7 - False ego.
That all collectively reveal the size of our Brahmanda shell that is 44 quadrillion 444 trillion 444 billion miles in diameter as seen in the below painting, or double that size if measured from the outer edge of the inner material secondary universe.
Srila Prabhupada - "Beginning with the covering of earth, each covering is ten times greater than the previous one. Thus we can only imagine how great each universe (Brahmanda shell) is, and there are many millions of universes." (SB Canto 6 Chapter 16 Text 37)
Srimad Bhagavatam - "This universal egg, or the universe in the shape of an egg (Brahmanda shell), is called the manifestation of material energy. Its layers of water, air, fire, sky, ego and mahat-tattva increase in thickness one after another. Each layer is ten times bigger than the previous one, and the final outside layer is covered by pradhāna. Within this egg (deep inside the Brahmanda shell) is the universal form of Lord Hari, of whose body the fourteen planetary systems are parts."
Srila Prabhupada's purport - "There are seven coverings (of the Brahmanda shell), each one ten times greater than the one preceding it. The layer of water (although, inother places in Bhagavatam, it says earth layer is first layer) is ten times greater than the diameter of the (inner) universe (4 billion miles in diameter), and the layer of fire is ten times greater than that of water. Similarly, the layer of air is ten times greater than that of fire.
These dimensions are all inconceivable to the tiny brain of a human being. It is also stated that this description is of only one egg (Brahmanda shell) like universe. There are innumerable universes besides this one, and some of them are many, many times greater. It is considered, in fact, that this universe (our Brahmanda shell) is the smallest; therefore the predominating superintendent, or Brahmā, has only four heads for management.
In other universes, which are far greater than this one, Brahmā has more heads. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is stated that all these Brahmās were called one day by Lord Kṛṣṇa on the inquiry of the small Brahmā, who, after seeing all the larger Brahmās." (SB Canto 3 Chapter 26 Text 52)
The painting below does not reveal the correct size of our small 4 billion mile diameter inner Bhu-Mandala universe that is deep inside our massive outer surrounding Brahmanda.
If it did, you would not even see our smaller inner material universe because the surrounding Brahmanda shell is so massive in size.
In other universes, which are far greater than this one, Brahmā has more heads. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is stated that all these Brahmās were called one day by Lord Kṛṣṇa on the inquiry of the small Brahmā, who, after seeing all the larger Brahmās." (SB Canto 3 Chapter 26 Text 52)
The painting below does not reveal the correct size of our small 4 billion mile diameter inner Bhu-Mandala universe that is deep inside our massive outer surrounding Brahmanda.
If it did, you would not even see our smaller inner material universe because the surrounding Brahmanda shell is so massive in size.
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