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The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama

Cc Ādi 5.99-101
Text
tāṅhāi prakaṭa kaila vaikuṇṭha nija-dhāma
śeṣa-śayana-jale karila viśrāma
Synonyms

tāṅhāi-there; prakaṭa-manifestation; kaila-did; vaikuṇṭha-the spiritual world; nija-dhāma-His own abode; śeṣa-of Lord Śeṣa; śayana-on the bed; jale-on the water; karila-did; viśrāma-rest.

Translation

There He manifested Vaikuṇṭha as His own abode and rested in the waters on the bed of Lord Śeṣa. ananta-śayyāte -on Lord Ananta as a bed; tāṅhā -there; karila śayana -lay down; sahasra -thousands; mastaka -heads; tāṅra -His; sahasra vadana -thousands of faces; sahasra -thousands; caraṇa -legs; hasta -hands; sahasra-nayana -thousands of eyes; sarva-avatāra-bīja -the seed of all incarnations; jagat-kāraṇa -the cause of the material world. He lay there with Ananta as His bed. Lord Ananta is a divine serpent having thousands of heads, thousands of faces, thousands of eyes and thousands of hands and feet. He is the seed of all incarnations and is the cause of the material world.

Purport

In the reservoir of water first created by the perspiration of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, the Lord lies on the Śeṣa plenary expansion of Viṣṇu, who is described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and in the four Vedas as follows: