Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana Book 3 Chapter 13:42-50

Book 3: Chapter 13

Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 3: Chapter 13: Verses 42-50 The Lord's Descent as the Divine Boar (Kindly) place this mother of the entire animate and inanimate creation, who is Your spouse, firmly (on water) in order to make her habitable for all; for You are their Father. Then we shall make obeisance to You as well as to her, in whom You have deposited Your seed (in the form of sustaining power) even as the sacrificer invokes the sacrificial fire in the Arani (the piece of wood used for kindling of. fire by attrition with the chanting of sacred formulas). Who else than You, 0 Lord, could venture to lift up the earth, that had sunk into the lowest depths of water? This is, however, nothing miraculous for You, the abode of all wonders, who have created this most marvelous universe by Your Maya (wonderful creative energy). When You shook Your body composed of the Vedas, we, the inhabitants of the Janaloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka, got splashed and thoroughly depurated by the drops of holy water flying from the end of Your mane. Alas! he has verily lost his wits, who seeks to know Your endless exploits in their totality. O Lord, bring happiness to the whole universe, which stands deluded through contact with the objects of senses, brought about by Your Yogamaya. Maitreya resumed : While being thus extolled by those sages through verses closely resembling the Vedic hymns, the Protector of the universe (in the form of the Boar) placed the earth on the surface of the water, which supported His hoofs. Having thus placed on the water the earth, which He had sportfuly lifted up from its depths, the almighty Lord Sri Hari, the Protector of all beings, went out of sight. Lord janardana is uickly pleased inHis hear of hearts with him who thus listens to or narrates with devotion the blissful and charming story of Sri Hari the veryd thought on whom rids one of all sorrws and sins and whose sportful activities are all worth recounting. What is hard to obtain when He who is capable of granting all our desires is pleased? So have don with such blessings as are of little value. For, on those who dore Him with their mind exclusively fied on Him, that supreme Lord, who is seated in the heeart of all , confers His highest state of His own accord. having known the real worth of all the objects of human pursuit an having once quaffed with the cup of once's ears the nectar of the Lord's stories, sifted from among other old legends - the nectar which ends the cycle of births and daeaths-who in this world would feel sufeited, unless he is other than a human being? Thus ends the thirteenth discourse in Book Three, narrating among other things the descent of the Dvine boar, of the great and glorious Bhagavata-Purana, oterwise known as the Pramahamsa-Samhita.