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“stick,” and vat means “like.” It is not that one should simply say,
‘‘dandavat.”’ Rather, one must fall down. Thus Brahmi fell down, touch-
ing his foreheads to the lotus feet of Krsna, and his crying in ecstasy is to
be regarded as an abhiseka bathing ceremony of Krsna’s lotus feet.

He who appeared before Brahma as a human child was in fact the Ab-
solute Truth, Parabrahman (brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabd-
yate). The Supreme Lord is nardkrti; that is, He resembles a human
being. It is not that He is four-armed (catur-bahu). Narayana is catur-
bahu, but the Supreme Person resembles a human being. This is also
confirmed in the Bible, where it is said that man was made in the image
of God.

Lord Brahma saw that Krsna, in His form as a cowherd boy, was
Parabrahman, the root cause of everything, but was now appearing as a
human child, loitering in Vrndavana with a morsel of food in His hand.
Astonished, Lord Brahma hastily got down from his swan carrier and let
his body fall to the earth. Usually, the demigods never touch the ground,
but Lord Brahma, voluntarily giving up his prestige as a demigod, bowed
down on the ground before Krsna. Although Brahma has one head in
each direction, he voluntarily brought all his heads to the ground and
touched Krsna’s feet with the tips of his four helmets. Although his in-
telligence works in every direction, he surrendered everything before
the boy Krsna.

It is mentioned that Brahma washed the feet of Krsna with his tears,
and here the word sujalaih indicates that his tears were purified. As soon
as bhakti is present, everything is purified (sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam).
Therefore Brahma’s crying was a form of bhakty-anubhava, a transfor-
mation of transcendental ecstatic love.

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utthayotthaya krsnasya
cirasya padayoh patan

dste mahitvam prdg-drstam
smrtvd smrtva punah punah
