Text 136] Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya Offers Prasada to the Lord 71

TRANSLATION

“Lord Jagannatha is the Supreme Lord Himself in the form of wood, and the
River Ganges is the Supreme Lord Himself in the form of water.

PURPORT

The Vedas enjoin, sarvarn khalv idarn brahma: everything is the energy of the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Brahman or Pararn Brahman.
Parasya brahmanah Saktis tathedam akhilam jagat: everything is a manifestation of
the energy of the Supreme Brahman. Since the energy and energetic are identical,
actually everything is Krsna, Pararn Brahman. Bhagavad-gita (9.4) confirms this:

maya tatam idam sarvarm
jagad avyakta-martina

mat-sthani sarva-bhétani
na caharn tesv avasthitah

“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are
in Me, but | am not in them.”

Krsna is spread throughout the whole universe in His impersonal form. Since
everything is a manifestation of the Lord’s energy, the Lord can manifest Himself
through any energy. In this age, the Lord is manifest through wood as Lord Jagan-
natha, and He is manifest through water as the River Ganges. Therefore Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered the two brothers—Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya and
Vidya-vacaspati—to worship Lord Jagannatha and the River Ganges.

TEXT 136

ACoOla, FA “HI PAM-algN ee |
Ato=rifS, SA SASCHA CHAM | SOw tl

sarvabhauma, kara ‘daru-brahma’-aradhana
vacaspati, kara jala-brahmera sevana

SYNONYMS

sarvabhauma—O Sarvabhauma; kara—be engaged in; ddadru-brahma—of
wooden Brahman; drédhana—worship; vacaspati—and you, Vacaspati; kara—
do; jala-brahmera—of Pararn Brahman manifested in water; sevana—worship.

TRANSLATION

“Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, you should engage in the worship of Lord
Jagannatha Purusottama, and Vacaspati should worship mother Ganges.”’
