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internal potency, free from the action of the external energy, His eyes were not completely closed.
The Lord lay down for four thousand yuga cycles in His internal potency. When the living entities who were merged within the body of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu were ready to reenter the material world, the Lord saw His transcendental body as bluish. Although Lakṣmī-devī, the eternal consort of the Lord, sat massaging His lotus feet, He took no help from her for the purpose of creation. Instead He fixed His gaze upon the subtle material nature. Thereafter the form of the sum total of all the living entities' fruitive activities pierced through the abdomen of the Lord in the shape of a lotus bud. Into that universal lotus bud, Lord Viṣṇu personally entered as the Supersoul, after which the personality of Vedic wisdom, Lord Brahmā, was generated. At first Brahmā could not understand his identity, purpose, or origin, but after proper austerities and meditation executed over a long time, everything was revealed to him. Realizing himself to be the Lord's eternal servant, Brahmā engaged himself in the matter of secondary creation in fulfillment of the Lord's plan.