Text 9] The Island of Jambidvipa

TEXT 9

ARASH Ti ATATATARTTON SS STC aT T aT TATA
AA TTA ISEAANTIS AM CAIIATHETMN aTserataacta
TKaT

bharate ‘pi varse bhagavan nara-narayanakhya akalpantam upacita-
dharma-jndna-vairdgyaisvaryopasamoparamatmopalambhanam
anugrahadyatmavatam anukampayéa tapo ’vyakta-gatis carati.

bharate—in Bharata; api—also; varse—the tract of land;
bhagavan—the Supreme Personality of Godhead; nara-ndrdyana-
akhyah—known as Nara-Narayana; a-kalpa-antam—up to the end of
the millennium; upacita—increasing; dharma—religion; jridna—
knowledge; vairadgya—renunciation or nonattachment: aisvarya—
mystic opulences; upasama—control of the senses; uparama—freedom
from false ego; dtma-upalambhanam—self-realization; anugrahdya —
to show favor; atma-vataém—unto persons interested in self-realization;
anukampaya—by causeless mercy; tapah—austerities; avyakta-gatih—
whose glories are inconceivable; carati—executes.

TRANSLATION

[Sukadeva Gosvami continued:] The glories of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead are inconceivable. He has appeared in the
form of Nara-Narayana in the land of Bharata-varsa, at the place
known as Badarikasrama, to favor His devotees by teaching them
religion, knowledge, renunciation, spiritual power, sense control
and freedom from false ego. He is advanced in the opulence of
spiritual assets, and He engages in executing austerity until the
end of this millennium. This is the process of self-realization.

PURPORT

People in India may visit the temple of Nara-Nardyana at
Badarikasrama just to learn how the Supreme Personality of Godhead in
His incarnation as Nara-Narayana engages in austerities to teach the peo-
ple of the world how to achieve self-realization. It is impossible to realize
