Srimad Bhagavatam

Lord's Inconceivable Power Transcends Logic, Material Science Ignores Superior Energy

📅 February 26, 1977 📍 Mayapur ⏱ 27 min
God's inconceivable power transcends material logic; science ignores the superior spiritual energy animating all existence.
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Devotee: ...sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhutākhilāśubhaḥ [break] [continues leading chanting of verse, but he and devotees stumble over pronunciation]

Prabhupāda: Tat-kara-sparśa-dhuta-akhila-aśubhaḥ.

Devotee: [chants, but devotees still having problems with pronunciation]

Prabhupāda: You can divide the syllables: sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhuta-akhila-aśubhaḥ. You cannot pronounce combinedly, just divide. Sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhuta-akhila-aśubhaḥ, like that. Anyway, chant.

[Pradyumna continues chanting, devotees chant slowly] There is no board writing. Why? So many men, could not write the board? They cannot see.

Go on. [devotees attempt to chant verse] Hmm. That's all right. Difficult. Pradyumna: saḥ—he [Prahlāda Mahārāja]; tat-kara-sparśa—because of being touched on the head by the lotus hand of Nṛsiṁhadeva; dhuta—being cleansed; akhila—all; aśubhaḥ—inauspiciousness or material desires; sapadi—immediately; abhivyakta—manifested; para-ātma-darśanaḥ—realization of the Supreme Soul [spiritual knowledge]; tat-pāda-padmam—Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva's lotus feet; hṛdi—within the core of the heart; nirvṛtaḥ—full of transcendental bliss; dadhau—captured; hṛṣyat-tanuḥ—having transcendental ecstatic bliss manifested in the body; klinna-hṛt—whose heart was softened due to transcendental ecstasy; aśru-locanaḥ—with tears in his eyes. Translation: "By the touch of Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva's hand on Prahlāda Mahārāja's head, Prahlāda was completely freed of all material contaminations and desires, as if he had been thoroughly cleansed.

Therefore he at once became transcendentally situated, and all the symptoms of ecstasy became manifest in his body. His heart filled with love, and his eyes with tears, and thus he was able to completely capture the lotus feet of the Lord within the core of his heart." Prabhupāda: sa tat-kara-sparśa-dhutākhilāśubhaḥ sapady abhivyakta-parātma-darśanaḥ tat-pāda-padmaṁ hṛdi nivṛto dadhau hṛṣyat-tanuḥ klinna-hṛd-aśru-locanaḥ [SB 7.9.6] So Prahlāda Mahārāja, tat-kara-sparśa, "touch of the lotus palm of Nṛsiṁhadeva," the same palm where there is nail. Tava kara kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-sṛṅgam. The same palm with nakha adbhuta...

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