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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 3, Ch. 13]
TEXT 26
तेषां सतां वेदवितानपूर्ति- 
  ब्रह्मावधार्यत्यगुणानुवादम् । 
  विनद्य भूयो विबुधोदयाय 
  गजेन्द्रलीलो जलमाविवेश ॥२६॥
teṣām satām veda-vitāna-mūrtir 
  brahmāvadhāryātma-guṇānuvādam 
  vinadya bhūyo vibudhodayāya 
  gajendra-ūlo jalam āviveśa
teṣām —of them;  satām —of the great devotees;  veda —all knowledge;  vitāna-mūrtiḥ —the form of expansion;  brahma —Vedic sound;  avadhārya —knowing it well;  ātma —of Himself;  guṇānuvādam —transcendental glorification;  vinadya —resounding;  bhūyaḥ —again;  vibudha —of the transcendentally learned;  udayāya —for the elevation or benefit;  gajendra-ūlaḥ —playing like an elephant;  jalam —the water;  āviveśa —entered.
TRANSLATION
Playing like an elephant, He entered into the water after roaring again in reply to the Vedic prayers by the great devotees. The Lord is the object of the Vedic prayers, and thus He understood that the devotees' prayers were meant for Him.
PURPORT
The form of the Lord in any shape is always transcendental and full of knowledge and mercy. The Lord is the destroyer of all material contamination because His form is personified Vedic knowledge. All the  Vedas  worship the transcendental form of the Lord. In the  Vedic mantras  the devotees request the Lord to remove the glaring effulgence because it covers His real face. That is the version of the  Īśopaniṣad . The Lord has no material form, but His form is always understood in terms of the  Vedas . The  Vedas  are said to be the breath of the Lord, and that breath was inhaled by Brahmā, the original student of the  Vedas . The breathing from the nostril of Brahmā caused the appearance of Lord Boar, and therefore the boar incarnation of the Lord is the personified  Vedas . The glorification of the incarnatiōn by the sages on the higher planets consisted of factual Vedic hymns. Whenever there is glorification of the Lord, it is to be understood that Vedic  mantras  are being rightly vibrated. The Lord was