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Virat-Purusha

विराट्पुरुष

Also known as वैराजः पुरुषः · विश्वमूर्तिः · विश्वतनुः · सहस्रशीर्षा · Sahasranghri · सहस्राङ्घ्रि

The Virat-Purusha, or Vairaja Purusha, is the Lord's gross universal form in which the entire cosmos is His body — the Puranic expansion of the Purusha-sukta tradition. At SB 2.1.23-38 Shukadeva presents it as the first support for concentration: one whose mind cannot yet rest on the subtle should fix it on this grossest body. Its structure is given from the feet upward — Patala the soles (26), the sky His navel (27), the luminaries His chest and Satyaloka His head (28), the sun His eye and day and night His eyelids (30), clouds His hair and the moon His mind (34), and the four varnas from the brahmana as His face to the shudra at His feet (37). SB 2.1.25 identifies His body with the cosmic egg girt in seven sheaths.

Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa 2.1.23 — Sanskrit Wikisource (pinned oldid=332515)