Text 52] Chanting the Song Sung by Lord Siva 1089
TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, Your two lotus feet are so beautiful that they appear
like two blossoming petals of the lotus flower which grows during the
autumn season. Indeed, the nails of Your lotus feet emanate such a great
effulgence that they immediately dissipate all the darkness in the heart of
a conditioned soul. My dear Lord, kindly show me that form of Yours
which always dissipates all kinds of darkness in the heart of a devotee. My
dear Lord, You are the supreme spiritual master of everyone; therefore all
conditioned souls covered with the darkness of ignorance can be
enlightened by You as the spiritual master.

PURPORT

Lord Siva has thus described the bodily features of the Lord authori-
tatively. Now he wants to see the lotus feet of the Lord. When a devotee
wants to see the transcendental form of the Lord, he begins his meditation
on the Lord’s body by first looking at the feet of the Lord. Srimad-
Bhagavatam is considered to be the transcendental sound form of the Lord,
and the twelve cantos are divided in accordance with the transcendental
form of the Lord. The First and Second Cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam are
called the two lotus feet of the Lord. It is therefore suggested by Lord Siva
that one should first try to see the lotus feet of the Lord. This also means
that if one is serious about reading Srimad-Bhagavatam, he must begin by
seriously studying the First and Second Cantos.

The beauty of the lotus feet of the Lord is compared to the petals of a
lotus flower which grows in the autumn season. By nature’s law, in autumn
the dirty or muddy waters of rivers and lakes become very clean. At that
time the lotus flowers growing in the lakes appear very bright and beautiful.
The lotus flower itself is compared with the lotus feet of the Lord, and the
petals are compared with the nails of the feet of the Lord. The nails of the
feet of the Lord are very bright, as Brahma-samhita testifies. Ananda-
cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya: every limb of the transcendental body of
the Lord is made of ananda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala. Thus every limb
is eternally bright. As sunshine dissipates the darkness of this ma-
terial world, the effulgence emanating from the body of the Lord
immediately dries up the darkness in the heart of the conditioned
soul. In other words, everyone serious about understanding the transcen-
dental science and seeing the transcendental form of the Lord must first of
all attempt to see the lotus feet of the Lord by studying the First and
Second Cantos of Srimad-Bhagavatam. When one sees the lotus feet of
the Lord, all kinds of doubts and fears within the heart are vanquished.
