TEXT 8
vama urav adhisritya
daksinanghri-saroruham
apasritarbhakasvattham
akrsam tyakta-pippalam
SYNONYMS
vameon the left; urauthigh; adhisrityaplaced on; daksina-anghri-saroruhamthe right lotus foot; apasritataking rest against; arbhakayoung; asvatthambanyan tree; akrsamcheerful; tyaktahaving left; pippalamhousehold comforts.
TRANSLATION
The Lord was sitting, taking rest against a young banyan tree, with His right lotus foot on His left thigh, and although He had left all household comforts, He looked quite cheerful in that posture.
PURPORT
According to Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura, the Lords sitting posturekeeping His back against the newly grown banyan treeis also meaningful. Asvattha, the banyan tree, is so called because the tree does not die very quickly; it continues to live for many, many years. His legs and their energies are the material ingredients, which are five in all: earth, water, fire, air and sky. The material energies represented by the banyan tree are all products of His external potency and are therefore kept to His back. And because this particular universe is the smallest of all, the banyan tree is therefore designated as small, or as a child. Tyakta-pippalam indicates that He had now finished His pastimes in this particular small universe, but since the Lord is absolute and eternally blissful, there is no difference between His leaving or accepting something. The Lord was now prepared to leave this particular universe and go into another, just as the sun rises on one particular planet and sets in another simultaneously but does not change its own situation.

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