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TEXTS 67
yac canyad api krsnasya
bhavan bhagavatah prabhoh
sravah susravasah punyam
purva-deha-kathasrayam
bhaktaya me nuraktaya
tava cadhoksajasya ca
vaktum arhasi yo duhyad
vainya-rupena gam imam
SYNONYMS
yatwhich; caand; anyatother; apicertainly; krsnasyaof Krsna; bhavanyour good self; bhagavatahof the Supreme Personality of Godhead; prabhohpowerful; sravahglorious activities; su-sravasahwho is very pleasing to hear about; punyampious; purva-dehaof His previous incarnation; katha-asrayamconnected with the narration; bhaktayaunto the devotee; meto me; anuraktayavery much attentive; tavaof you; caand; adhoksajasyaof the Lord, who is known as Adhoksaja; caalso; vaktum arhasiplease narrate; yahone who; aduhyatmilked; vainya-rupenain the form of the son of King Vena; gamcow, earth; imamthis.
TRANSLATION
Prthu Maharaja was a powerful incarnation of Lord Krsnas potencies; consequently any narration concerning his activities is surely very pleasing to hear, and it produces all good fortune. As far as I am concerned, I am always your devotee as well as a devotee of the Lord, who is known as Adhoksaja. Please therefore narrate all the stories of King Prthu, who, in the form of the son of King Vena, milked the cow-shaped earth.
PURPORT
Lord Krsna is also known as avatari, which means, one from whom all the incarnations emanate. In Bhagavad-gita (10.8) Lord Krsna says, aham sarvasya prabhavo mattah sarvam pravartate: I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. Thus Lord Krsna is the origin of everyones appearance. As far as this material world is concerned, Lord Brahma, Lord Visnu and Lord Siva are all emanations from Krsna. These three incarnations of Krsna are called guna-avataras. The material world is governed by three material modes of nature, and Lord Visnu, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva respectively take charge of the modes of goodness, passion and ignorance. Maharaja Prthu is also an incarnation of those qualities of Lord Krsna by which one rules over conditioned souls.
In this verse the word adhoksaja, meaning beyond the perception of the material senses, is very significant. No one can perceive the Supreme Personality of Godhead by mental speculation; therefore a person with a poor fund of knowledge cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Since one can form only an impersonal idea on the strength of ones material senses, the Lord is known as Adhoksaja.
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