20250126 Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.28

mūkaṁ karoti vācālaṁ paṅguṁ laṅghayate girim
yat-kṛpā tam ahaṁ vande śrī-guruṁ dīna-tāraṇam
paramānandaṁ mādhavaṁ śrī caitanya iśvaram
hariḥ oṁ tat sat

Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya
Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.28

ghrāṇena pṛthvyāḥ padavīṁ vijighran
kroḍāpadeśaḥ svayam adhvarāṅgaḥ
karāla-daṁṣṭro ’py akarāla-dṛgbhyām
udvīkṣya viprān gṛṇato ’viśat kam

Translation: He was personally the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu and was therefore transcendental, yet because He had the body of a hog, He searched after the earth by smell. His tusks were fearful, and He glanced over the devotee-brāhmaṇas engaged in offering prayers. Thus He entered the water.

Purport: We should always remember that although the body of a hog is material, the hog form of the Lord was not materially contaminated. It is not possible for an earthly hog to assume a gigantic form spreading throughout the sky, beginning from the Satyaloka. His body is always transcendental in all circumstances; therefore, the assumption of the form of a boar is only His pastime. His body is all Vedas, or transcendental. But since He had assumed the form of a boar, He began to search out the earth by smelling, just like a hog. The Lord can perfectly play the part of any living entity. The gigantic feature of the boar was certainly very fearful for all nondevotees, but to the pure devotees of the Lord He was not at all fearful; on the contrary, He was so pleasingly glancing upon His devotees that all of them felt transcendental happiness.

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Jayapatākā Swami: This was very interesting how Varāhadeva manifested out of the nose of Lord Brahmā. Just like if we sneeze, a piece of phlegm comes from our nose. And small Varāhadeva, the size of a thumb, He came out of Brahmā’s nostril. And while the conditioned soul, Brahmā, he was looking. And he saw the small Varāhadeva getting bigger and bigger and started becoming bigger like an elephant. Then He became even bigger. And His body, form spread throughout Satyaloka to Maharloka, etc. So then all the brāhmaṇas and paṇḍitas were offering their prayers to Lord Boar. So, Kṛṣṇa He can come in any millennium if He wishes to come. He spoke in the Bhagavad-gītā that I come millennium after millennium. So, Kṛṣṇa’s form is transcendental. That is why He can become big or become small.

The earth had fallen into the depths of the ocean. Lord Brahmā, he was thinking how to bring up the earth from the depths of the water. And then in the midst of this he sneezed. And from his sneeze, from his nostril, Lord Varāha appeared. Kṛṣṇa can appear in any form. These forms are not material, they are the internal potency of the Lord. Śrīla Prabhupāda said, the material bodies cannot perform things like rescuing a whole planet! Kṛṣṇa creates all these bodies, and He can act, when He comes like a boar He acts like a boar. He sniffs, He is looking in the mud like a boar looks in the mud! This planet, half of it is water. So somehow the planet was taken out of its orbit and fell to the bottom of the universe. The Lord, He may come in any form, but all are transcendental. And like that although there are different forms, they are not different. So He was looking for the earth in the muck of the universe. In the world today, we are taking oil, coal, out of the earth. We don’t know what could happen if we keep taking like this, if the earth can fall from its orbit! As is said that the USA has the most oil reserves on the planet. President Donald Trump says we will exploit it. But can he lift the earth up if it falls over? In our planet, we are having the climate changes due to heating of the earth. So, we should be so impressed by the Lord’s unlimited potency!

So for this reason, we should take shelter of the Lord! He actually comes primarily to save His devotees. Like He came to protect Prahlāda and satisfy him. He came to protect Devakī from Kaṁsa. He came to save the earth from Hiraṇyākṣa. So, different kinds of avatāras come as predicted in the śāstras. Some are puruṣa-avatāras, some are līlā-avatāras, some are saktya-avatāras, some are guṇa-avatāras, some are manvantara-avatāras, some are yuga-avatāras. In our temple we have the arcā-avatāra. So, actually these arcā-avatāras may apparently be made of material things but they are non-different from Kṛṣṇa. In the book we read by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, he says we should fix our mind on some avatāra of Kṛṣṇa. We fix the mind of Kṛṣṇa as the source of all avatāras. In the Age of Kali, He comes as a channa-avatāra, as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu! Gaurāṅga! And He always comes with Lord Nityānanda! Nityānanda!

Lord Caitanya, He doesn’t kill the demons – He kills their demoniac nature. We all have godly and demoniac natures. Lord Caitanya, He purifies us and our demoniac prvarti [?] gets destroyed. Kṛṣṇa, He is merciful, but He doesn’t give love of Himself, kṛṣṇa-prema to anyone easily. And Lord Caitanya, He spread the saṅkīrtana movement and gave the rarest gift of kṛṣṇa-prema, easily. So, we should take this mercy given by Lord Caitanya. And Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu the mercy that He is giving, by that mercy one can get love of Kṛṣṇa within one lifetime. You know the paṇḍitas, it takes them many, many births to get devotion for Lords Kṛṣṇa. In the śāstras it says that even after thousands of births, thousands of yajñas and puṇya-karmas, you cannot get devotion for Kṛṣṇa. So, by Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s we can get devotion to Lord Kṛṣṇa very quickly. But we will have to expect, we have to really try for it, we can get it in one lifetime, but it may take twenty years, thirty years, forty years, we don’t know how long it takes. A person Śrīla Prabhupāda said, if you really cry out for Kṛṣṇa, very, very, from your heart, then you can awaken your Kṛṣṇa consciousness in one moment! Haribol!

So, when we hear about Lord Varāhadeva, these appearances of the Lord in the form of Varāhadeva or Lord Narasiṁhadeva this is very wonderful! So if Lord Caitanya is Lord Kṛṣṇa, why does He comes in this form? So every devotee should know that.

I heard that 41,000 devotees visited yesterday. And at 1.30 pm I was coming back from the Kolkata Bhakti-vṛkṣa, there were so many devotees outside of the Rādhā Mādhava Pañca-tattva temple because the temple closes at 1 pm. So we went to the Bhakti-vṛkṣa pandal at 11.30 am. When we returned at 1.30 pm the temple was closed, and devotees were standing there. Because I had a co-directors meeting, I was a bit delayed. But at certain times we can see a lot of crowd and at that time we can do a lot of book distribution, harināma-saṅkīrtana and other things. Yesterday was Ṣaṭ-tilā Ekādaśī. I asked the devotees upstairs on the roof top, at night how many ways you used sesame seeds yesterday? They said, “None, none!” Then I distributed some tilā! In the daytime I used the tilā all the six ways. The easiest way is to eat some tilā! I gave out maybe 50 tilā-laḍḍus! It says you use it for bathing, malish, these things, So you can use the tilā in different ways, for bathing, for massaging. One devotee, he caught the dung before it hit the ground and used it for making some laḍḍus with tilā, but not for eating! He offered it for yajña. So there are a lot of festivals in Māyāpur, but we should take advantage of each of them.