Category:Bhagavatam Verses Spoken by the Prajapatis - Vaniquotes
- The Prajāpatis are the 81st top speakers of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam with 16 verses at Vanisource. They speak only in the 7th (1 verse) and 8th canto (15 verses).
Theme Analysis
- Relief from Tyranny: The Prajāpatis offer profound gratitude to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva for killing the demon Hiraṇyakaśipu, who had strictly forbidden them from fulfilling their universal duty of generating good, pious progeny.
- Shelter from the Fiery Poison: When the deadly kālakūṭa poison emerges from the churning of the milk ocean, threatening to annihilate the three worlds, the terrified Prajāpatis rush to Mount Kailāsa to beg Lord Śiva for protection.
- The Universal Form of Mahādeva: In their majestic prayers, the progenitors poetically map the entire cosmos—including the sun, oceans, mountains, and the Vedas—directly onto the physical features of Lord Śiva's universal form.
- Defending Lord Śiva's Character: The Prajāpatis defend Mahādeva against the foolish accusations of those who consider him lusty for associating with Umā, or ferocious for wandering in crematoriums, explaining that his transcendental activities are beyond material logic.
- The Inconceivable Reality: Concluding their prayers, the progenitors humbly admit that even Lord Brahmā and the demigods cannot fully comprehend Lord Śiva's actual identity, offering their praises simply to the best of their limited ability.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: The Prajāpatis Offer Majestic Prayers to Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva and Lord Śiva.
Pages in category "Bhagavatam Verses Spoken by the Prajapatis - Vaniquotes"
The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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- All drugs, creepers and vegetables are the hairs on your body, the Vedic mantras like Gayatri are the seven layers of your body, and the Vedic religious system is the core of your heart
- All the Vedic literatures, which are full of verses, are emanations from you because their compilers wrote the various scriptures after receiving your glance
- As far as we are concerned, we are creatures of Lord Brahma's creation. Under the circumstances, therefore, we cannot offer you adequate prayers, but as far as our ability allows, we have expressed our feelings
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- Even personalities like Lord Brahma and other demigods cannot understand your position, for you are beyond the moving and nonmoving creation. Since no one can understand you in truth, how can one offer you prayers? It is impossible
- Exalted, self-satisfied persons who preach to the entire world think of your lotus feet constantly within their hearts
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- O father of all planets, learned scholars know that fire is your mouth, the surface of the globe is your lotus feet, eternal time is your movement, all the directions are your ears, and Varuna, master of the waters, is your tongue
- O greatest of all rulers, your actual identity is impossible for us to understand. As far as we can see, your presence brings flourishing happiness to everyone. Beyond this, no one can appreciate your activities. We can see this much, and nothing more
- O Lord Girisa, since the impersonal Brahman effulgence is transcendental to the material modes of goodness, passion and ignorance, the various directors of this material world certainly cannot appreciate it or even know where it is
- O lord, the five important Vedic mantras are represented by your five faces, from which the thirty-eight most celebrated Vedic mantras have been generated. Your Lordship, being celebrated as Lord Siva, is self-illuminated
- O lord, the sky is your navel, the air is your breathing, the sun is your eyes, and the water is your semen. You are the shelter of all kinds of living entities, high and low. The god of the moon is your mind, and the upper planetary system is your head
- O lord, you are self-effulgent and supreme. You create this material world by your personal energy, and you assume the names Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara when you act in creation, maintenance and annihilation
- O lord, you are the original source of Vedic literature. You are the original cause of material creation, the life force, the senses, the five elements, the three modes and the mahat-tattva
- O lord, you are the three Vedas personified. The seven seas are your abdomen, and the mountains are your bones
- O lord, your shadow is seen in irreligion, which brings about varieties of irreligious creations. The three modes of nature - goodness, passion and ignorance - are your three eyes
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- The prajapatis offered their prayers as follows: O Supreme Lord, Lord of even Brahma and Siva, we, the prajapatis, were created by You to execute Your orders, but we were forbidden by Hiranyakasipu to create any more good progeny
- The prajapatis said: O Mahadeva, Supersoul of all living entities and cause of their happiness and prosperity, we have come to the shelter of your lotus feet. Now please save us from this fiery poison, which is spreading all over the three worlds
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- What then is to be said of your destroying the Daksa-yajna, Tripurasura and the kalakuta poison? Such activities cannot be subject matters for prayers offered to you
- When annihilation is performed by the flames and sparks emanating from your eyes, the entire creation is burned to ashes. Nonetheless, you do not know how this happens
- When persons who do not know your austerity see you moving with Uma, they misunderstand you to be lusty, or when they see you wandering in the crematorium they mistakenly think that you are ferocious and envious. Certainly they are shameless
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- You are (lord Siva) the cause of bondage and liberation of the entire universe because you are its ruler. Those who are advanced in spiritual consciousness surrender unto you, and therefore you are the cause of mitigating their distresses
- You are eternal time, determination and the two religious systems called truth (satya) and truthfulness (rta). You are the shelter of the syllable om, which consists of three letters a-u-m
- You are the cause of all causes, the self-effulgent, inconceivable, impersonal Brahman, which is originally Parabrahman. You manifest various potencies in this cosmic manifestation