Srimad Bhagavatam

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Canto2 The Cosmic Manifestation Chapter 6
The Hymn of the Original Person Confirmed

Chapter 6
The Hymn of the Original Person Confirmed

SB 2.6.1

Lord Brahma said ,fire is Cosmic Lords mouth , the origin of voice, and the seven tissues of His body are the source of vedic hymns while His tongue is the relisher of sacred oblations to gods and manes..

SB 2.6.2
Life breath and the air outside represent his nose and his power of olfaction does Represent the fragrant medicinal herbs of longevity and related As'vin demigods

SB 2.6.3
His vision indeed, is the source of all of forms and illuminations His eyes are like the sun and the heavenly planets of the universe His ears hear from all sides and are receptacles for all the Vedas, And Lo! His sense of hearing is the source of sound. of all kinds

SB 2.6.4
His cosmic form constitutes the fountain of all wealths and opportunities and is also the field where the fruits of ones works ,are reaped while His skin of moving airs forms the touch that leads to all kinds of holy offerings. On any planet, specially earth, the terrain is His skin, a source of wealth, auspicious And ,the lush greenery , where available, are his body hairs for apt sacrifices

SB 2.6.5
On any planet, specially earth ,the vegetation,where available,are hairs On his body , apt for sacrifices, while hairs on head is cumulo nimbus and his nails are the mineral stones, ores and even lightning of the skies

SB 2.6.6
His arms, as Gods and demigods, Secure n protect the general mass.

SB 2.6.7

His steps shelter the upper, lower and heavenly planets, His lotus feet serve as solace for all kinds of fear and hopes

SB 2.6.8
The source of water and the regenerative fluids arise from His genitals That offer happiness in union for creating farm produce and offsprings

SB 2.6.9
Oh Nrada, the seat of Yama, the deity of death is the anal orifice of the Cosmic Lord and of Mitra, is at His rectum where envy, misfortune, death and hell are remembered.

SB 2.6.10
Frustration, immorality and ignorance again, reside in his adorable anal orifice while the rivers and streams make for His veins n the mountains for His bones.

SB 2.6.11
The unmanifest part of the Lord is the abode of great oceans, and His belly is waiting place for the souls, His heart is the abode of the subtle , say the sages ,of living beings

SB 2.6.12
His soul is the abode of righteousness and religiosity of yours, mine and of sages Sanat Kumaras ,also it is the eternal seat of Truth and Spiritual light and bliss

SB 2.6.13-16
Beginning from me ,Brahm, down to you and Bhava Lord iva, all the great sages who were born before you, the demigods, the demons, the Ngas, the human beings, the birds, the beasts, as well as the reptiles, etc., and all phenomenal manifestations of the universes, namely the planets, stars, asteroids, luminaries, lightning, thunders, and the inhabitants of the different planetary systems, namely the Gandharvas, Apsars, Yakshas, Rakas, Bhutaganas, Uragas, Pasus, Pitas, Siddhas, Vidydharas, Caranas, and all other different varieties of living entities, including the birds, beasts, trees and everything that be, are all covered by the universal form of the Lord at all times, namely past, present and future, although He is transcendental to all of them always eternally existing in a form not exceeding nine inches in his aboriginal measures .

SB 2.6.13-17
As sun spreads its rays illumines and creates internal vitality and strength all sides the expansion of the Universal Form also vitalizes from both the inside and outside

SB 2.6.18
He is the abode and controller of eternal life and fearlessness , to death, transcendental , And of the fruitive duties of anyone and so, Nrada, His glories are thus immeasurable

SB 2.6.19
Know that the a fourth of the Supreme Being is the reservoir of all beings and of prosperity while Eternal life ,prosperity and refuge for all is beyond the three- worlds and materiality .

SB 2.6.20
The rest three fourths of Him is the place for those who will never be reborn. Within ,three -worlds, heaven, purgatory and hell, are for those to- be -reborn Who do not strictly follow the vow of celibacy being attached to life mundane

SB 2.6.21
Thus the Maintainer rules over the devotion of the nescient ones As well as the ones enlightened, and thus both, as master, He runs

SB 2.6.22
Very much as the Absolute evolved from its primitive embryo to its gigantic proportions with elements n senses qualitatively, He is aloof from manifestations, like sun n its rays.

SB 2.6.23
I had nothing,when I was born from the lotus flower like ethereal- sprout Off His navel than the limbs of the Cosmic Person to do sacrifices best

SB 2.6.24
Sacrifices to Him needs animals , flowers and leaves auspicious time,an altar and the sacred Darbha Grass*, * Halfa Grass

SB 2.6.25
Also Utensils, grains, ghee for fire ,honey,'gold , hearth', water, the vedic scriptures and at least four officiating persons are required for this, oh my son, pure n pious !

SB 2.6.26
It also involves the invocation of holy names and mantras and the settling of tithe to priests, taking oaths concerning the specific godhead presiding And for the purpose of each of them there is a particular vedic injunction .

SB 2.6.27
To progress to the ultimate goal I thus organized these essential ingredients , which of course belong to the body of the Lord so as to complete my sacrifice

SB 2.6.28
Thus well-equipped I worshiped, engaging with all the ingredients, the expressions of the Original Person, the Supreme Personality, the original enjoyer of all sacrifices.

SB 2.6.29
Following my example, Narada, your divine brothers, the nine masters of beings, offered sacrifice for His manifest and non-manifest personalities.

SB 2.6.30
Thereon, schools of demigods including Manus, the fathers of mankind, from whom the name man* came in due course ,did worship to please Him, and so did then, sages, forefathers, scholars, asuras, and mankind at all time * authors addition

SB 2.6.31
By the will of Lord Narayana, the Godhead, all these great manifestations, accepted the illusion of form in the universe, found their universal duties in creation, maintenance and dissolution, though Lord is in self-sufficience .

SB 2.6.32
So according to His will, I create while under His subordination Siva dissolves He Himself acts thereto as the Unified Trinity and controls the entire universe.

SB 2.6.33
Thus I explained upon your request my dear son, all this to you, whatever you brood of, whether as cause or effect, there is nothing that has its existence beyond the Lord.

SB 2.6.34
Oh Nrada, this attitude always proved itself to be correct as my heart in zeal greatly holds to the Lord, neer wandering in untruth nor degraded in chasms of temporality.

SB 2.6.35
Though as Brahma, I am The Vedas, austerity, as well as the worshippable master of all the forefathers, I could not fathom Him from whom I myself am born, my Sire

SB 2.6.36
I therefore worship the all-auspicious feet of the Lord as other surrendered souls do which stop transmigration and grant bliss, I cant estimate the potency of His energies , just as sky cannot see its own limit, how can it be known by others ?

SB 2.6.37
Since neither I, nor you oh sons, nor Lord Siva have an idea of the true nature of His movements, one cannot expect that the other demigods would do any better,with one's intelligence clouded by His illusory energies,one sees only as far as one's abilties

SB 2.6.38
We offer Him, the Supreme Lord, our respectful obeisances, whose incarnation and activities we glorify, though even by divinities, like us He is not fully known

SB 2.6.39
He, the Primal Person , in each millennium creates within Himself, by Himself, His own transcendental presence, maintaining Himself for some time and reabsorbing all again

SB 2.6.40-41
Without any material stain, pure and perfect in knowledge and all-pervading in fullness He is situated in truth as the absolute without beginning and end, free from the modes of nature and in a position where He is eternally unrivaled, Oh wise one, great thinkers can only understand this with a pacified self and their senses under cover, as otherwise

it will certainly be beyond their scope and be distorted by tainted , untenable arguments.

SB 2.6.42
The first avatra of the Absolute Lord is the Original Person,with Him as Mahvishnu or Karanodakasayi Vishnu, forming the basis of spacetime or kala svabhavah Vishnu the original nature of time, cause, effect, the elements, the modes, as also through the ego, the senses and the mind, and the diversity of the whole indeed constitute all that moves and does not move of the Lord also called Garbhodakasayi Vishnu

SB 2.6.43-45
Myself as Brahm, the Lord Siva as Destroyer and the Lord Vishnu as Maintainer; all the fathers of the living beings like Daksha and Manu, you yourself and the other sons the leaders of the higher worlds, the celestials, beings of the earth and the lower worlds the leaders of the denizens of heaven as Ghandarva, Vidydhara and lesser gods of Carana worlds ,leaders of the demons the Yakshas, Rkshasas and Uragas and the underworld; the primal sages, the forefathers, the atheists, the specially gifted ones, the uncivilized ones and the dead; the evil spirits, the Jinn and the Kooshmaand other evil spirits, including all the great aquatics, beasts and birds , in other words each and every entity in the world who is of power to a special degree or kind or of mental or perceptual skill or exceptional strength, forgiveness, beauty of mind body, modesty, opulence, intelligence or breeding, exists as a reflection of the Lord the Supreme Personality, and so devotion to Him will erase the stain accumulated in your mind and ears; hence I will relate these stories, that give pleasure to be heard, one after the other the way they are present in my heart, for you to be very pleased