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The Activities of the Pracetās
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“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows, yielding all desires, in abodes built with spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of purpose-trees. He is always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of  lakṣmīs , or  gopīs .” (Bs. 5.29) Because this prayer was offered by Lord Brahmā, we follow him by reciting this prayer. That is the easiest way to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The pure devotee never attempts to reach the Supreme Lord directly. The most important way to worship the Lord is to go through the disciplic succession of devotees. The prayers offered by Lord Śiva to the Supreme Personality of Godhead were thus repeated by the Pracetās, who were thus very successful in pleasing the Supreme Lord.
Here the Supreme Personality of Godhead is described as  purañjana . According to Madhvācārya, the living entity is called  purañjana  because he has become an inhabitant of this material world, and, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, he is forced to live within it. The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates this material world ( pura ), and He also enters within it.  Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham . The Lord enters within the heart of the living entity and within the atom; therefore both the living entity and the Lord are called  purañjana . One  purañjana , the living entity, is subordinate to the supreme  purañjana ; therefore the duty of the subordinate  purañjana  is to satisfy the supreme  purañjana . That is devotional service. Lord Rudra, or Lord Śiva, is the original  ācārya  of the Vaiṣṇava  sampradāya  called the Rudra-sampradāya.  Rudra-gītena  indicates that under the disciplic succession of Lord Rudra, the Pracetās achieved spiritual success.
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दशवर्षसहस्रान्ते पुरुषस्तु सनातनः । तेषामाविरभूत्कृञ्छं शान्तेन शमयन् रुचा ॥ ४ ॥
daśa-varṣa-sahasrānte puruṣas tu sanātanaḥ teṣām āvirabhūt kṛcchram śāntena śamayan rucā
daśa-varṣa—ten years; sahasra-ante—at the end of a thousand; puruṣaḥ—the Supreme Person; tu—then; sanātanaḥ—eternal; teṣām—of the Pracetās; āvirabhūt—appeared; kṛcchram—the severe austerity; śāntena—satisfying; śamayan—mitigating; rucā—by His beauty.