Text 4] The Activities of the Pracetas 1489
“I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending
the cows, yielding all desires, in abodes built with spiritual gems and sur-
rounded by millions of purpose-trees. He is always served with great
reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of laksmis, or gopis.”’
(Bs. 5.29) Because this prayer was offered by Lord Brahma, we follow him
by reciting this prayer. That is the easiest way to satisfy the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead. The pure devotee never attempts to reach the Supreme
Lord directly. The most important way to worship the Lord is to go through
the disciplic succession of devotees. The prayers offered by Lord Siva to
the Supreme Personality of Godhead were thus repeated by the Pracetas,
who were thus very successful in pleasing the Supreme Lord.

Here the Supreme Personality of Godhead is described as purafijana.
According to Madhvacarya, the living entity is called purafijana because
he has become an inhabitant of this material world, and, under the influence
of the three modes of material nature, he is forced to live within it. The
Supreme Personality of Godhead creates this material world (pura), and
He also enters within it. Anddntara-stha-paramanu-cayantara-stham. The
Lord enters within the heart of the living entity and within the atom;
therefore both the living entity and the Lord are called purafijana. One
purafijana, the living entity, is subordinate to the supreme purafijana;
therefore the duty of the subordinate purajfijana is to satisfy the supreme
purajijana. That is devotional service. Lord Rudra, or Lord Siva, is the
original dcarya of the Vaisnava sampradaya called the Rudra-sampradaya.
Rudra-gitena indicates that under the disciplic succession of Lord Rudra,
the Pracetas achieved spiritual success.

TEXT 4
TIAA «FR aaa! |
TMAMATTHSS Medd VAI SAT ll 2 II
da§a-varsa-sahasrante
purusas tu sandtanah
tesdm avirabhit krechram
Santena Samayan ruca

daga-varsa—ten years; sahasra-ante—at the end of a thousand; purusah—
the Supreme Person; tu—then; sandtanah—eternal; tesam—of the Pracetas;
dvirabhiit— appeared; krcchram—the severe austerity; §antena—satisfying;
samayan— mitigating; rucad—by His beauty.
