The texts speak of universes beyond counting — koṭis upon koṭis — each a bubble from the Divine, each with its own Brahmā.
Innumerable brahmāṇḍas (cosmic eggs / universes) emerge like bubbles from the pores of Mahā-Viṣṇu, each with its own presiding Brahmā.
— Brahma-saṁhitā 5.40; Bhāgavata Purāṇa 6.16.37
If our vast universe is but one bubble among endless others, how large must the Source of them all be? Let that thought stretch your sense of the Divine past every boundary you have set for it — and notice that this same infinite Source dwells, whole and undivided, in your own heart.
A poetic teaching to sit with and contemplate.
Sanātana Dharma is unusually at ease with plurality. Rather than a single world, the texts describe innumerable brahmāṇḍas — cosmic eggs — streaming forth like bubbles from the pores of Mahā-Viṣṇu, each a complete universe with its own presiding Brahmā, each cycling through its own creation and dissolution. Creation is not a one-time act but an endless, effortless overflowing of the Divine.
The purpose of this vision is devotional and theological, not merely a picture of size. It magnifies the Source: if a single universe already exceeds our imagining, what then of the One from whom countless universes arise as casually as breath? Such vastness is meant to humble pride and enlarge the heart. And there is a deeper turn — the same infinite Reality that pours out worlds without number is not distant but intimate, present whole in every atom and in the seeker's own awareness. Infinitude without and the Self within are, in the end, one.