SB 3.13.35

TEXT 35

TEXT

रूपं तवैतन्ननु दुष्कृतात्मनां दुर्दर्शनं देव यदध्वरात्मकम् ।
छन्दांसि यस्य त्वचि बर्हिरोमस्व् आज्यं दृशि त्वङ्घ्रिषु चातुर्होत्रम् ॥ ३५ ॥

rupam tavaitan nanu duskrtatmanam

durdarsanam deva yad adhvaratmakam

chandamsi yasya tvaci barhi-romasv

ajyam drsi tv aṅghrisu catur-hotram

rupam-form; tava-Your; etat-this; nanu-but; duskrta-atmanam-of souls who are simply miscreants; durdarsanam-very difficult to see; deva-O Lord; yat-that; adhvara-atmakam-worshipable by performances of sacrifice; chandamsi-the Gayatri mantra and others; yasya-whose; tvaci-touch of the skin; barhih-sacred grass called kusa; romasu-hairs on the body; ajyam-clarified butter; drsi-in the eyes; tu-also; aṅghrisu-on the four legs; catuh-hotram-four kinds of fruitive activities.

TRANSLATION

O Lord, Your form is worshipable by performances of sacrifice, but souls who are simply miscreants are unable to see it. All the Vedic hymns, Gayatri and others, are there in the touch of Your skin. In Your bodily hairs is the kusa grass, in Your eyes is the clarified butter, and in Your four legs are the four kinds of fruitive activities.

PURPORT

There is a class of miscreants who are known in the words of Bhagavad-gita as Veda-vadi, or so-called strict followers of the Vedas. They do not believe in the incarnation of the Lord, what to speak of the Lord's incarnation as the worshipable hog. They describe worship of the different forms or incarnations of the Lord as anthropomorphism. In the estimation of Srimad-Bhagavatam these men are miscreants, and in Bhagavad-gita (7.15) they are called not only miscreants but also fools and the lowest of mankind, and it is said that their knowledge has been plundered by illusion due to their atheistic temperament. For such condemned persons, the Lord's incarnation as the gigantic hog is invisible. These strict followers of the Vedas who despise the eternal forms of the Lord may know from Srimad-Bhagavatam that such incarnations are personified forms of the Vedas. Lord Boar's skin, His eyes and His bodily hair holes are all described here as different parts of the Vedas. He is therefore the personified form of the Vedic hymns, specifically the Gayatri mantra.

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