Text 40] The Appearance of Lord Varaha 519

being situated in everyone’s heart, instructs the devotee regarding pure
devotional service so that he may ultimately achieve the association of the
Lord. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita as follows:

tesam satata-yuktanam bhajatam priti-purvakam
dadami buddhi-yogam tam yena mam upayanti te

“To one who constantly engages in the devotional service of the Lord
with faith and love, the Lord certainly gives the intelligence to achieve
Him at the ultimate end.” (Bg.10.10)

One has to conquer the mind, and one may do it by following the
Vedic rituals and by performing different types of sacrifice. The ultimate
end of all those performances is to attain bhakti, or the devotional service
of the Lord. Without bhakti one cannot understand the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. The original Personality of Godhead or His
innumerable expansions of Vignu are the only objects of worship by all
the Vedic rituals and sacrificial performances.

TEXT 40
arama wider va
Rid ERE AT!
TM Taya AA IA
AARNTA ATTA elt

damstragra-kotya bhagavams tvaya dhrta
virajate bhu-dhara bhih sa-bhudhara

yatha vanan nihsarato data dhrta
matangajendrasya sa-patra-padmini

damstra-agra—the tips of the tusks; kofya—by the edges; bhagavan—
O Personality of Godhead; tvaya—by You; dhrta—sustained; virajate—
is so beautifully situated; bhu-dhara—O lifter of the earth; bhuh—the
earth; sa-bhudhara—with mountains; yatha—as much as; vanat—from the
water; nihsaratah—coming out; data—by the tusk; dhrta—captured; matan-
gajendrasya—infuriated elephant; sa-patra—with leaves; padmini—the lotus
flower.

TRANSLATION

O lifter of the earth, the earth with its mountains, which You have
lifted with Your tusks, is situated as beautifully as a lotus flower with
leaves sustained by an infuriated elephant just coming out of the water.
