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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 4.7.46

त्वं पुरा गां रसाया महासूकरो दंष्ट्रया पद्मिनीं वारणेन्द्रो यथा । स्तूयमानो नदल्लीलया योगिभि- र्व्युज्जहर्थ त्रयीगात्र यज्ञक्रतु: ॥ ४६ ॥
tvaṁ purā gāṁ rasāyā mahā-sūkaro
[tvam puraa gaam rasaayaa mahaa-sookaro]
daṁṣṭrayā padminīṁ vāraṇendro yathā
[damshtrayaa padmineem vaaranendro yathaa]
stūyamāno nadal līlayā yogibhir
[stooyamaano nadal leelayaa yogibhir]
vyujjahartha trayī-gātra yajña-kratuḥ
[vyujjahartha trayee-gaatra yajna-kratuh]
Word-for-word
tvam — You purā — in the past gām — the earth rasāyāḥ — from within the water mahā-sūkaraḥ — the great boar incarnation daṁṣṭrayā — with Your tusk padminīm — a lotus vāraṇa-indraḥ — an elephant yathā — as stūyamānaḥ — being offered prayers nadan — vibrating līlayā — very easily yogibhiḥ — by great sages like Sanaka, etc. vyujjahartha — picked up trayī-gātra — O personified Vedic knowledge yajña-kratuḥ — having the form of sacrifice.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tvaṁ purā gāṁ rasāyā mahā-sūkaro
tvam
You
purā
in the past
gām
the earth
rasāyāḥ
from within the water
mahā-sūkaraḥ
the great boar incarnation
daṁṣṭrayā padminīṁ vāraṇendro yathā
daṁṣṭrayā
with Your tusk
padminīm
a lotus
vāraṇa-indraḥ
an elephant
yathā
as
stūyamāno nadal līlayā yogibhir
stūyamānaḥ
being offered prayers
nadan
vibrating
līlayā
very easily
yogibhiḥ
by great sages like Sanaka, etc.
vyujjahartha trayī-gātra yajña-kratuḥ
vyujjahartha
picked up
trayī-gātra
O personified Vedic knowledge
yajña-kratuḥ
having the form of sacrifice.
Dear Lord, O personified Vedic knowledge, in the past millennium, long, long ago, when You appeared as the great boar incarnation, You picked up the world from the water, as an elephant picks up a lotus flower from a lake. When You vibrated transcendental sound in that gigantic form of a boar, the sound was accepted as a sacrificial hymn, and great sages like Sanaka meditated upon it and offered prayers for Your glorification.
Purport

A significant word used in this verse is trayī-gātra, which means that the transcendental form of the Lord is the Vedas. Anyone who engages in the worship of the Deity, or the form of the Lord in the temple, is understood to be studying all the Vedas twenty-four hours a day. Simply by decorating the Deities of the Lord, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, in the temple, one very minutely studies the injunctions of the Vedas. Even a neophyte devotee who simply engages in the worship of the Deity is understood to be in direct touch with the purport of Vedic knowledge. As confirmed in Bhagavad-gītā (15.15) , vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyaḥ: the purport of the Vedas is to understand Him, Kṛṣṇa. One who worships and serves Kṛṣṇa directly has understood the truths of the Vedas.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
In the past, in the form of the great boar, praised by the sages, you easily lifted up the earth from the water with your tusk, like an elephant lifts a lotus, while you roared. O form of the Vedas (trayī-gātra)! This explains the Lord as the form of sacrifice.
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Personal Guidance
The Lord, as boar, lifted the earth like an elephant lifts a lotus and His own roar was a sacrificial hymn. Even seemingly mundane actions of the Lord are scripture in motion; reality itself can be read as Veda.
Reflection Questions
  • Which of my recent 'mundane' acts could be re-read as a small sacred lifting?
  • Where am I dismissing my own roar — my honest voice — when it could be hymn?
📝 My note

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