450 Sri Caitanya-caritameta

TRANSLATION

There He manifested Vaikuntha as His own abode and rested in the waters on the
bed of Lord Sesa.

TEXTS 100-101

SAGIBCS Sial SHAM “yA |
FEY TIS SA AGT AHA Il Seo tl

AEA-FA-SB, NEA |
MA-VIASlA-Fiey, HAS- lA 1 So Wi

ananta-Sayyate tanhd karila $ayana
sahasra mastaka tahra sahasra vadana

sahasra-carana-hasta, sahasra-nayana
sarva-avatara-bija, jagat-karana

SYNONYMS

ananta-Sayyadte—on Lord Ananta as a bed; taf#hd—there; karila Sayana—lay down;
sahasra—thousands; mastaka—heads; ta@nra—His; sahasra vadana—thousands of faces;
sahasra—thousands; carana—legs; hasta—hands; sahasra-nayana—thousands of eyes;
sarva-avatdra-bija—the seed of all incarnations; jagat-kdrana—the cause of the ma-
terial world.

TRANSLATION

He lay there with Ananta as His bed. Lord Ananta is a divine serpent having
thousands of heads, thousands of faces, thousands of eyes and thousands of hands
and feet. He is the seed of all incarnations and is the cause of the material world.

PURPORT

In the reservoir of water first created by the perspiration of Garbhodakasayi
Visnu, the Lord lies on the Sesa plenary expansion of Visnu, who is described in the
Srimad-Bhdgavatam and in the four Vedas as follows:

sahasra-Sirsd purusah sahasraksah sahasra-pat
sa bhiimirh visvato vrtvatyatisthad dasangulam

“The Visnu form called Ananta-Sayana has thousands of hands and legs and thousands
of eyes, and He is the active generator of all the incarnations within the material
world.”’
