Adi-lila, Chapter 5 461

TEXT 120

CHE & ‘WAG’ ‘Cty’ —SH-aqSHz |
Baca cna fae ale eter Stan seen

sei ta’ ‘ananta’ ‘Sesa’——bhakta-avatdra
isvarera sevda vind nahi jane dra

SYNONYMS

sei ta’—that; ananta—Lord Ananta; sesa—the incarnation Sesa; bhakta-avatdra—
incarnation of a devotee; i$varera seva—the service of the Lord; vingd—without; nahi—
not; /@ne—knows; dra—anything else.

TRANSLATION

That Ananta-Sesa is the devotee incarnation of Godhead. He knows nothing but
service to Lord Krsna.
PURPORT

Srila Jiva Gosvamt, in his Krsna-sandarbha, has described Sesa Naga as follows:
“Srt Anantadeva has thousands of faces and is fully independent. Always ready to
serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He waits upon Him constantly. Safkarsana
is the first expansion of Vasudeva, and because He appears by His own will, He is
called svarat, fully independent. He is therefore infinite and transcendental to all
limits of time and space. He Himself appears as the thousand-headed Sesa.” In the
Skanda Purana, in the Ayodhya-mahatmya Chapter, the demigod Indra requested
Lord Sesa, who was standing before him as Laksmana, ‘Please go to Your eternal
abode, Visnuloka, where Your expansion Sesa, with His serpentine hoods, is also
present.” After thus dispatching Laksmana to the regions of Patala, Lord Indra
returned to his abode. This quotation indicates that the Sankarsana of the quadruple
form descends with Lord Rama as Laksmana. When Lord Rama disappears, Sesa
again separates Himself from the personality of Laksmana. Sesa then returns to His
own abode in the Patala regions, and Laksmana returns to His abode in Vaikuntha.

The Laghu-bhdagavatamrta gives the following description: ‘‘The Sanhkarsana of
the second group of quadruple forms appears as Rama, taking with Him Sesa, who
bears the global spheres. There are two features of Sesa. One is the bearer of the
globes, and the other is the bedstead servitor. The Sesa who bears the globes is a
potent incarnation of Safkarsana, and therefore He is sometimes also called
Sartkarsana. The bedstead feature of Sesa always presents himself as an eternal
servitor of the Lord.”

TEXT 121

NEB-ATCA SCA FWO tia |
farrate el stra, ore ate MYA HN SR9 0
