TEXT 27
bahums ca mandara-gireh parivartanena
nirnikta-bahu-valayan adhiloka-palan
sancintayed dasa-sataram asahya-tejah
sankham ca tat-kara-saroruha-raja-hamsam
SYNONYMS
bahunthe arms; caand; mandara-girehof Mount Mandara; parivartanenaby the revolving; nirniktapolished; bahu-valayanthe arm ornaments; adhiloka-palanthe source of the controllers of the universe; sancintayetone should meditate on; dasa-sata-aramthe Sudarsana disc (ten hundred spokes); asahya-tejahdazzling luster; sankhamthe conch; caalso; tat-karain the hand of the Lord; saroruhalotuslike; raja-hamsamlike a swan.
TRANSLATION
The yogi should further meditate upon the Lords four arms, which are the source of all the powers of the demigods who control the various functions of material nature. Then the yogi should concentrate on the polished ornaments, which were burnished by Mount Mandara as it revolved. He should also duly contemplate the Lords discus, the Sudarsana cakra, which contains one thousand spokes and a dazzling luster, as well as the conch, which looks like a swan in His lotuslike palm.
PURPORT
All departments of law and order emanate from the arms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The law and order of the universe is directed by different demigods, and it is here said to emanate from the Lords arms. Mandara Hill is mentioned here because when the ocean was churned by the demons on one side and the demigods on the other, Mandara Hill was taken as the churning rod. The Lord in His tortoise incarnation became the pivot for the churning rod, and thus His ornaments were polished by the turning of Mandara Hill. In other words, the ornaments on the arms of the Lord are as brilliant and lustrous as if they had been polished very recently. The wheel in the hand of the Lord, called the Sudarsana cakra, has one thousand spokes. The yogi is advised to meditate upon each of the spokes. He should meditate upon each and every one of the component parts of the transcendental form of the Lord.

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