Text 26] The Residents of Jambiadvipa Offer Prayers 199
TRANSLATION
I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, who is pure transcendence. He is the origin of all life,
bodily strength, mental power and sensory ability. Known as Mat-
syavatara, the gigantic fish incarnation, He appears first among all
the incarnations. Again I offer my obeisances unto Him.
PURPORT
Srila Jayadeva Gosvami sings:
pralayo payodhi-jale dhrtavan asi vedam
vihita-vahitra-caritram akhedam
kesava dhrta-mina-Sarira jaya jagad-isa hare
Soon after the cosmic creation, the entire universe was inundated with
water. At that time Lord Krsna (KeSava) incarnated as a gigantic fish to
protect the Vedas. Therefore Manu addresses Lord Matsya as
mukhyatama, the first incarnation to appear. Fish are generally con-
sidered a mixture of the modes of ignorance and passion, but we must
understand that every incarnation of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is completely transcendental. There is never any deterioration
of the Supreme Lord’s original transcendental quality. Therefore the
word sattvdya is used here, meaning pure goodness on the transcenden-
tal platform. There are many incarnations of the Supreme Lord: Varaha
mirti (the boar form), Karma marti (the tortoise form), Hayagriva marti
(the form of a horse) and so on. Yet we should never think any of Them
material. They are always situated on the platform of suddha-sattva,
pure transcendence.
TEXT 26
S EN
Heathen aaarwnss-
Tezeml «= fratequer: |
a sawed | et TASAT
APM Ta rea aes FaTT REI
