Text 30] The First Step in God Realization 47

PURPORT

The description of the gigantic form of the Personality of Godhead made
in the eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad-gita is further explained here in the
Srimad-Bhagavatam. The description in the Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 11.30) runs
as follows: “O Visnu, I see You devouring all people in Your blazing
mouths and covering all the universe by Your immeasurable rays. Scorching
the worlds, You are manifest.” In that way, Srimad-Bhagavatam is the
postgraduate study for the student of the Bhagavad-gita. Both of them are
the science of Krsna, the Absolute Truth, and so they are interdependent.

The conception of the virdta-purusa or the gigantic form of the Supreme
Lord is said to include all the dominating demigods as well as the domi-
nated living beings. Even the minutest part of a living being is controlled by
the empowered agency of the Lord. Since the demigods are included in the
gigantic form of the Lord, worship of the Lord whether in His gigantic
material conception or in His eternal transcendental form as Lord Sri
Krsna also appeases the demigods and all the other parts and parcels, as
much as watering the root of the tree distributes energy to all other parts.
Therefore, for a materialist also, worship of the universal gigantic form of
the Lord leads one to the right path. One need not risk being misled by
approaching many demigods for fulfillment of different desires. The real
entity is the Lord Himself, and all others are imaginary, for everything is
included in Him only.

TEXT 30

qeatin fe net oa a |

AMIsSa aa w Ua fear oll

dyaur aksini caksur abhiit patangah
paksmani visnor ahani ubhe ca

tad-bhri-vijrmbhah paramesthi-dhisn yam
apo’sya tali rasa eva jihva
