Ananta is the lord of snakes, that you see in the above picture. Ananta means infinite. Ananta has infinite heads, representing infinite perspectives. Mind always points to only one perspective, and gets trapped. When mind is trapped it creates external world and looks outside always reasoning about or searching something in one direction at a time. As you can see in the above picture, Ananta is looking inwards towards it's body, which represents Mind looking inwards. Infinite heads represent a Mind with infinite perspectives.
A Mind with infinite perspectives is no mind, it is actually void. When you look inwards at your real Self you are actually looking at God. Similarly, Ananta with infinite heads turns inwards and is looking at God in the above picture.
When one finds his real Self, he is said to be at complete rest. That state is an effortless state. It is pure consciousness and that has no movement at all and is in absolute rest. Lord Padmanabha resting in the above picture represent that completely effortless state.
Animate and in-animate take birth from pure consciousness alone. That means creator of world takes birth from pure consciousness. Brahma connected to Lord Padmanabha by an umbellical cord represents creator and creation taking birth from pure consciousness alone.
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