Text 47] Dhruva Maharaja Leaves Home for the Forest 325
not say that. Rather, he gives the description of the Lord from authorita-
tive sources. He is himself an authority, and he is able to go to Vaikuntha-
loka and see the Lord personally; therefore his description of the bodily
features of the Lord is not imagination. Sometimes we give instructions to
our students about the bodily features of the Lord, and they paint Him.
Their paintings are not imaginary. The description is given through
disciplic succession, just like that given by Narada Muni, who sees the
Lord and describes His bodily features. Therefore, such descriptions should
be accepted, and if they are painted, that is not imaginative painting.
TEXT 47
FG TOY TAM
AIATE TIT TH fory |
TRIMANAM AAI =U
Srivatsankam ghana-syamam
purusam vana-mdlinam
sankha-cakra-gada-padmair
abhivyakta-caturbhujam
§rivatsa-ankam—the mark of Srivatsa on the chest of the Lord;
ghana-syamam—deeply bluish; purusam—the Supreme Person; vana-
mdlinam—with a garland of flowers; sankha—conchshell; cakra—wheel;
gadaé—club; padmaih—lotus flower; abhivyakta—manifested; catur-bhujam—
four-handed.
TRANSLATION
The Lord is further described as having the mark of Srivatsa, or the
sitting place of the goddess of fortune, and His bodily hue is deep bluish.
The Lord is a person, He wears a garland of flowers, and He is eternally
manifest with four hands, which hold [ beginning from the lower left hand]
aconchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower.
PURPORT
Here in this verse the word purusam is very significant. The Lord is
never female. He is always male (purusa). Therefore the impersonalist who
imagines the Lord’s form as that of a woman is mistaken. The Lord appears
in female form if necessary, but His perpetual form is purusa because He is
originally male. The feminine feature of the Lord is displayed by goddesses
of fortune—Laksmi, Radharani, Sita, etc. All these goddesses of fortune
are servitors of the Lord; they are not the Supreme, as falsely imagined by
the impersonalist. Lord Krsna in His Narayana feature is always four-
