SB 04 17 34-35 - Devamrita Swami - Los Angeles 2006-11-11.mp3	8.3 MB
SB 04 17 35 - Hara Das Prabhu - ISKCON Juhu 2009-06-13.mp3	11.1 MB

apam upasthe mayi navy avasthitah

praja bhavan adya riraksisuh kila

sa vira-murtih samabhud dhara-dharo

yo mam payasy ugra-saro jighamsasi

 

Translation by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 

 

My dear Lord, in this way You once protected me by rescuing me from the water, and consequently Your name has been famous as Dharadhara — He who holds the planet earth. Yet at the present moment, in the form of a great hero, You are about to kill me with sharpened arrows. I am, however, just like a boat on the water, keeping everything afloat.

 

Purport by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada: 

 

The Lord is known as Dharadhara, meaning “He who keeps the planet earth on His tusks as the boar incarnation.” Thus the planet earth in the shape of a cow is accounting the contradictory acts of the Lord. Although He once saved the earth, He now wants to upset the earth, which is like a boat on water. No one can understand the activities of the Lord. Due to a poor fund of knowledge, human beings sometimes think the Lord’s activities contradictory.