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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 10, Ch. 13]
“stick,” and  vat  means “like.” It is not that one should simply say, “ daṇḍavat .” Rather, one must fall down. Thus Brahmā fell down, touching his foreheads to the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and his crying in ecstasy is to be regarded as an  abhiṣeka  bathing ceremony of Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet.
He who appeared before Brahmā as a human child was in fact the Absolute Truth, Parabrahman ( brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate ). The Supreme Lord is  narākṛti ; that is, He resembles a human being. It is not that He is four-armed ( catur-bāhu ). Nārāyaṇa is  catur-bāhu , but the Supreme Person resembles a human being. This is also confirmed in the Bible, where it is said that man was made in the image of God.
Lord Brahmā saw that Kṛṣṇa, in His form as a cowherd boy, was Parabrahman, the root cause of everything, but was now appearing as a human child, loitering in Vṛndāvana with a morsel of food in His hand. Astonished, Lord Brahmā hastily got down from his swan carrier and let his body fall to the earth. Usually, the demigods never touch the ground, but Lord Brahmā, voluntarily giving up his prestige as a demigod, bowed down on the ground before Kṛṣṇa. Although Brahmā has one head in each direction, he voluntarily brought all his heads to the ground and touched Kṛṣṇa’s feet with the tips of his four helmets. Although his intelligence works in every direction, he surrendered everything before the boy Kṛṣṇa.
It is mentioned that Brahmā washed the feet of Kṛṣṇa with his tears, and here the word  sujalaiḥ  indicates that his tears were purified. As soon as  bhakti  is present, everything is purified ( sarvopādhi-vinirmuktam ). Therefore Brahmā’s crying was a form of  bhakty-anubhāva , a transformation of transcendental ecstatic love.
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उत्थायोत्थाय कृष्णस्य चिरस्य पादयोः पतन् ।
आस्ते महित्वं ग्राग्दृष्टं स्मृत्वा स्मृत्वा पुनः पुनः॥६३॥
utthāyotthāya kṛṣṇasya cirasya pādayoḥ patan āste mahitvaṁ prāg-dṛṣṭam smṛtvā smṛtvā punaḥ punaḥ