Srimad Bhagavatam Dictations 10.14.1 – October 31, 1977, Vṛndāvana

Krsna expanded as everything; therefore their affection increased

Prabhupada: ...for one year stolen and hidden, but they could not understand that for one year He remained like that. [break] ...naturally sleeping. "As You were not here, we could not eat. Now You have come, let us take tiffin." [indistinct] that "For one year You are absent," and now they are speaking that "You were not here; we could not eat." [break]

Pradyumna: ...suta... [break]

Prabhupada: ...returned home. [break] ...the sitting place of ajagara skin was spoken to Nanda Maharaja that Krsna has killed this ajagara. What is called? Python?

Devotees: Python.

Prabhupada: Hmm. [break] One year late, still you have taken as continuous. [break] Krsna expanded as everything; therefore their affection increased. Now this chapter is ended after describing how their affection was overflowed on account of Krsna's expansions. [break] Everyone has got affection for Krsna, Paramatma. [break] Hmm.

Pradyumna: Number one.

Prabhupada: Summary?

Pradyumna: Summary finished. Is finished chapter summary. [break] He begins to describe Lord Krsna. He does not begin to praise at first, but just to describe Krsna's form.

Prabhupada: And [indistinct]? [break]

Pradyumna: ...began to speak: "O my Lord, who alone of all living entities are worthy to be praised," iḍya [break]

Prabhupada: Now become the son of Nanda Maharaja. Hmm? [break]

Pradyumna: "Your body is just like the color of a raincloud, of a bluish raincloud, and Your dress is just like the lightning."

Prabhupada: Ah.

Pradyumna: [indistinct]

Prabhupada: Description of the body, description of the hair. Hmm.

Pradyumna: He had a avatamsa, er, earrings... [break] ...seed, and with peacock... [break] Whose face is brightly shining. Peacock feathers around His crown and on His ears, and then it says, gala dese vanamali. [break] It was the source of all sac-cid-ananda forms. He is the original sac-cid-ananda form. And then his bhakti, his devotion, was aroused in this Krsna, so then he began to pray. So he says nikhila... [break] ... section he is... [break]

Prabhupada: Son of Nanda Maharaja, the source of all transcendental pleasure. [break]

Pradyumna: ...saksat anu bhūya tatraiva udbhūta bhakti nisthah[?]. His bhakti.

Prabhupada: As soon as the senses awaken with bhakti for Krsna also become enlivened.

Pradyumna: Therefore tam eva vidya varnayati. Iti ya brahma[?].

Prabhupada: Yes. This is Brahma he's describing Him, about this feature of the Lord. [break]

Pradyumna: ...sa naumi, "I am praising You," he iḍya, [break] stutya, "who is to be praised." So he says, "You who are..." [break]

Prabhupada: What You are being praised?

Pradyumna: Īḍya.

Prabhupada: Īḍya.

Pradyumna: Īḍya, "worthy of being praised."

Prabhupada: Hmm.

Pradyumna: He said, "You have just been praised by all of these, beginning from Brahma down to all creatures. I have just seen You praised, all Your forms." So he says, adhuna he stutya... [break] ...praised by all beings. Vasudeva sa hun… [break]

Prabhupada: Sa [indistinct]: ultimately to be worshiped. [break]

Jayadvaita: Hmm. Supreme worshipful. [break]

Pradyumna: The word here is, it says te stomi enaumi te[?], so there is grammatical meaning that will come to mean that "I praise You to obtain something." So he says, "What is that?" [break]

Prabhupada: It means "I offer my respectful obeisances."

Pradyumna: Hmm. Using that with te it means tvam eva praptam prasada etam va tvam naumi[?].

Prabhupada: Yes. "First of all I worship, then I offer You my obeisances." [break]

Pradyumna: "...Your body just like a cloud, a bluish cloud, and You have a dress just like the lightning." And he says by these descriptions Krsna is like a cloud, and the dress is like the lightning in the cloud. Two things are mentioned. [break] ...that He takes away all the trouble, the affliction from the surface of the earth, and he says: avrtaḥ bhakta cataka jivana tvam ca[?].

Prabhupada: [indistinct Sanskrit] "You are..."

Pradyumna: Taking away, removing.

Prabhupada: Yes. "You are the taker-awayer of all kinds of [indistinct] material affliction." [break]

Pradyumna: Just like a cloud, compared with a cloud with lightning, so bhakta cataka jivanam, jivanatha tvam ca[?].

Prabhupada: "There is a cataka bird, they are engladdened by seeing the cloud. Similarly, the bhaktas also become enlivened by seeing Your bodily features." [break]

Pradyumna: ...description of Krsna's form, that He has peacock feather, so he says that this indicates..., this is asar dharana laksanam[?]. He says that the...

Prabhupada: Uncommon. Uncommon symptoms.

Jayadvaita: Uncommon symptoms.

Pradyumna: So he says that Krsna is iḍya, "You are the best to be praised." And then he describes that Krsna has these symptoms, how he draws the conclusion that "Your form of Vrndavana is even higher than Vaikuntha form." He says, vaikuntha... [break] ...kunja and this peacock feather from Vrndavana, and that is even much higher than this vaikuntha ratna, ratna 'lahkara, decoration of jewels, etc.

Prabhupada: We should stop and listen. [end]