506 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 13
TEXT 26
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tesam satam veda-vitana-murtir
brahmavadharyatma-gunanuvadam
vinadya bhuyo vibudhodayaya
gajendra-lilo jalam avivesa
tesam—of them; satam—of the great devotees; veda—all knowledge;
vitana-murtih—the form of expansion; brahma—Vedic sound; avadharya—
knowing it well; atma—of Himself; gundnuvadam—transcendental glorifica-
tion; vinadya—resounding; bhiiyah—again; vibudha—of the transcendentally
learned; udaydya—for the elevation or benefit; gajendra-lilah—playing like
an elephant; jalam—the water; dvivesa—entered.
TRANSLATION
Playing like an elephant, He entered into the water after roaring again in
reply to the Vedic prayers by the great devotees. The Lord is the object of
the Vedic prayers, and thus He understood that the devotees’ prayers were
meant for Him.
PURPORT
The form of the Lord in any shape is always transcendental and full of
knowledge and mercy. The Lord is the destroyer of all material contamina-
tion because His form is personified Vedic knowledge. All the Vedas wor-
ship the transcendental form of the Lord. In the Vedic mantras the
devotees request the Lord to remove the glaring effulgence because it
covers His real face. That is the version of the Isopanisad. The Lord has no
material form, but His form is always understood in terms of the Vedas.
The Vedas are said to be the breath of the Lord, and that breath was in-
haled by Brahma, the original student of the Vedas. The breathing from
the nostril of Brahma caused the appearance of Lord Boar, and therefore
the boar incarnation of the Lord is the personified Vedas. The glorifica-
tion of the incarnatién by the sages on the higher planets consisted of
factual Vedic hymns. Whenever there is glorification of the Lord, it is to be
understood that Vedic mantras are being rightly vibrated. The Lord was
