306 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 7

PURPORT

The Vedic hymns are generally meant for sacrifices to be performed by
the fruitive workers who also want to satisfy the demigods to achieve their
fruitive result. But the Lord is the personified sacrifices and personified
Vedic hymns. Therefore one who is directly a devotee of the Lord is a
person who has automatically both served the purposes of sacrifices and
pleased the demigods. The devotees of the Lord may not perform any
sacrifice or may not please the demigods as per Vedic injunctions, and still
the devotee is on a higher level than the fruitive workers or the worshipers
of different demigods.

TEXT 12

WA WAY AaaTey:
aoa fataaaratarna aa: |
frdfaaaena ates gard
HE at Praene & AAMT 22

matsyo yuganta-samaye manunopalabdhah
ksonimayo nikhila-jiva-nikaya-ketah

visramsitan uru-bhaye salile mukhan me
adaya tatra vijahara ha veda-margan

matsyah—incarnation of the fish; yuga-anta—at the end of the millen-
nium; samaye—at the time of; manuna—the would-be Vaivasvata Manu;
upalabdhah—seen; ksonimayah—up to the earthly planets; nikhila—all;
jiva—living entities; nikaya-ketah—shelter for; visramsitan—emanating from;
uru—great; bhaye—out of fear; salile—in the water; mukhat—from the
mouth; me-- mine; ddaya—having taken to; tatra—there; vijahdra— enjoyed;
ha—certainly; veda-margan—all the Vedas.

TRANSLATION

At the end of the millennium, the would-be Vaivasvata Manu, of the
name Satyavrata, would see that the Lord in the fish incarnation is the
shelter of all kinds of living entities, up to those in the earthly planet. Out
