Text 42] The Appearance of Lord Varaha 521
TEXT 42
area Tatahe arate |
ft ae TAT AE ATT
Tat sansa: Wee
samsthapayainam jagatam satasthusam
lokaya patnim asi mataram pita
vidhema casyai namasa saha tvaya
yasyam svatejo ‘gnim ivaranav adhah
samsthapaya enam—raise up this earth; jagatam—both the moving and;
satasthusam—nonmoving; lokaya—for their residence; patnim—wife; asi—
You are; mataram—the mother; pita—the father; vidhema—do we offer; ca
—also; asyai-unto the mother; namasa—with all obeisances; saha—along
with; tvaya—with You; yasyam—in whom; sva-tejah—by Your own poten-
cy; agnim—fire; iva—likened; aranau—in the arani wood; adhah—invested.
TRANSLATION
O Lord, for the residential purposes of all inhabitants, both moving and
nonmoving, this earth is Your wife, and You are the supreme father. We
offer our respectful obeisances unto You, along with mother earth, in
whom You have invested Your own potency, just as an expert sacrificer
puts fire in the arani wood.
PURPORT
The so-called law of gravitation which sustains the planets is described
herein as the potency of the Lord. This potency is invested by the Lord in
the way that an expert sacrificial brahmana puts fire in the arani wood by
the potency of Vedic mantras. By this arrangement the world becomes
habitable for both the moving and nonmoving creatures. The conditioned
souls who are residents of the material world are put in the womb of
mother earth in the same way as the seed of a child is put by the father in
the womb of the mother. This conception of the Lord and the earth as
father and mother is explained in Bhagavad-gita (Bg. 14.4). Condi-
tioned souls are devoted to the motherland in which they take their
birth, but they do not know their father. The mother is not independent
in producing children. Similarly, material nature cannot produce living
creatures unless in contact with the supreme father, the Supreme
