514 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 3, Ch. 13

Lord because of His assuming the form of a boar in order to lift the earth.
That is the clear understanding of sages and great personalities like Brahma
and other residents of the higher planetary systems.

TEXT 35

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rupam tavaitan nanu duskrtatmanam
durdarsanam deva yad adhvaratmakam

chandamsi yasya tvaci barhi-romasv
ajyam drsi tv anghrisu catur-hotram

rupam—form; tava—Your; etat—this; nanu—but; duskrta-atmanam-—of
souls who are simply miscreants;durdarsanam—very difficult to see; deva—
O Lord; yat—that; adhvara-atmakam—worshipable by performances of
sacrifice; chandamsi—the Gayatri mantra and others; yasya—whose; tvaci—
touch of the skin; barhih—sacred grass called kusa; romasu—hairs on the
body; ajyam—clarified butter; drsi—in the eyes; tu—also;anghrisu—on the
four legs; catuh-hotram—four kinds of fruitive activities.

TRANSLATION

O Lord, Your form is worshipable by performances of sacrifice, but
souls who are simply miscreants are unable to see it. All the Vedic hymns,
Gayatri and others, are there in the touch of Your skin. In Your bodily
hairs is the kuga grass, in Your eyes is the clarified butter, and in Your four
legs are the four kinds of fruitive activities.

PURPORT

There is a class of miscreants who are known in the words of Bhagavad-
gita as Veda-vadi, or so-called strict followers of the Vedas. They do not
believe in the incarnation of the Lord, what to speak of the Lord’s incarna-
tion as the worshipable hog. They describe worship of the different forms
or incarnations of the Lord as anthropomorphism. In the estimation of
Srimad-Bhagavatam these men are miscreants, and in Bhagavad-gita (7.15)
they are called not only miscreants but also fools and the lowest of man-
kind, and it is said that their knowledge has been plundered by illusion due
