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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.13.44
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 44
- vidhunvatā vedamayaṁ nijaṁ vapur
- janas-tapaḥ-satya-nivāsino vayam
- saṭā-śikhoddhūta-śivāmbu-bindubhir
- vimṛjyamānā bhṛśam īśa pāvitāḥ
vidhunvatāwhile shaking — while shaking; vedapersonified Vedas-mayampersonified Vedas — personified Vedas; nijamown — own; vapuḥbody — body; janaḥthe Janaloka planetary system — the Janaloka planetary system; tapaḥthe Tapoloka planetary system — the Tapoloka planetary system; satyathe Satyaloka planetary system — the Satyaloka planetary system; nivāsinaḥthe inhabitants — the inhabitants; vayamwe — we; saṭāhairs on the shoulder — hairs on the shoulder; śikhasustained by the tip of the hair-uddhūtasustained by the tip of the hair — sustained by the tip of the hair; śivaauspicious — auspicious; ambuwater — water; bindubhiḥby the particles — by the particles; vimṛjyamānāḥwe are thus sprinkled by — we are thus sprinkled by; bhṛśamhighly — highly; īśaO Supreme Lord — O Supreme Lord; pāvitāḥpurified — purified.
O Supreme Lord, undoubtedly we are inhabitants of the most pious planets—the Jana, Tapas and Satya lokas—but still we have been purified by the drops of water sprinkled from Your shoulder hairs by the shaking of Your body.
Ordinarily the body of a hog is considered impure, but one should not consider that the hog incarnation assumed by the Lord is also impure. That form of the Lord is the personified Vedas and is transcendental. The inhabitants of the Jana, Tapas and Satya lokas are the most pious persons in the material world, but because those planets are situated in the material world, there are so many material impurities there also. Therefore, when the drops of water from the tips of the Lord's shoulder hairs were sprinkled upon the bodies of the inhabitants of the higher planets, they felt purified. The Ganges water is pure because of its emanating from the toe of the Lord, and there is no difference between the water emanating from the toe and that from the tips of the hair on the shoulder of Lord Boar. They are both absolute and transcendental.