SB 10.6.21

TEXT 21

TEXT

gAAepya: s$aMs$pa{í"s$ailalaA
@NelSau k(r"yaAe: pa{Tak,(
nyasyaAtmanyaTa baAlasya
baIjanyaAs$amaku(vaRta

gopyah samsprsta-salila

aṅgesu karayoh prthak

nyasyatmany atha balasya

bija-nyasam akurvata

gopyah-the gopis; samsprsta-salilah-touching a cup of water and drinking; aṅgesu-on their bodies; karayoh-on their two hands; prthak-separately; nyasya-after placing the letters of the mantra; atmani-on their own; atha-then; balasya-of the child; bija-nyasam-the process of mantra-nyasa; akurvata-executed.

TRANSLATION

The gopis first executed the process of acamana, drinking a sip of water from the right hand. They purified their bodies and hands with the nyasa-mantra and then applied the same mantra upon the body of the child.

PURPORT

Nyasa-mantra includes acamana, or first drinking a sip of water kept in the right hand. There are different visnu-mantras to purify the body. The gopis, and in fact any householders, knew the process for being purified by chanting Vedic hymns. The gopis executed this process first to purify themselves and then to purify the child Krsna. One executes the process of aṅga-nyasa and kara-nyasa simply by drinking a little sip of water and chanting the mantra. The mantra is preceded with the first letter of the name, followed by anusvara and the word namah: om namo 'jas tavaṅghri avyat, mam mano manimams tava januni avyat, and so on. By losing Indian culture, Indian householders have forgotten how to execute the aṅga-nyasa and are simply busy in sense gratification, without any advanced knowledge of human civilization.