Verse 3.1.253

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 3.1.253:

মুঞি নীলাচল-চন্দ্র কপিল, নৃসিংহ দৃশ্যাদৃশ্য সব মোর চরণের ভৃঙ্গ ॥ ২৫৩ ॥

मुञि नीलाचल-चन्द्र कपिल, नृसिंह दृश्यादृश्य सब मोर चरणेर भृङ्ग ॥ २५३ ॥

muñi nīlācala-candra kapila, nṛsiṃha dṛśyādṛśya saba mora caraṇera bhṛṅga || 253 ||

muni nilacala-candra kapila, nrsimha drsyadrsya saba mora caranera bhrnga (253)

English translation:

(253) “I am Nīlācala-candra, I am Kapila, and I am Nṛsiṃha. All visible and invisible beings are servants of My lotus feet.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The phrase nīlācala-candra refers to the Supreme Lord, Śrī Jagannātha. In the śrutis it is stated:

vāsudevaḥ saṅkarṣaṇaḥ pradyumno ‘niruddho ‘haṃ matsyaḥ kūrmo varāho narasiṃho vāmano rāmo rāmo rāmaḥ kṛṣṇo buddhaḥ kalkir ahaṃśatadhāhaṃ sahasradhāham amito ‘ham ananto ‘haṃ naivaite jāyante naivaite mriyante naiṣām ajñāna-bandho na muktiḥ sarva eva hy ete pūrṇā ajarā amṛtāḥ paramāḥ paramānandāḥ.

“I am Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha. I am Matsya, Kūrma, Varāha, Narasiṃha, Vāmana, the three Rāmas [Rāmacandra, Paraśurāma, and Balarāma], Kṛṣṇa, Buddha, and Kalki. Immeasurable and unlimited, I appear in hundreds and thousands of forms, none of which ever takes birth or dies. These forms of Mine are not bound by ignorance, nor do they have to strive for liberation. They are all complete, free from old age, immortal, supreme, and supremely blissful.” In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.40.17-22) it is stated:

namaḥ kāraṇa-matsyāya pralayābdhi-carāya ca hayaśīrṣṇe namas tubhyaṃ madhu-kaiṭabha-mṛtyave

akūpārāya bṛhate namo mandara-dhāriṇe kṣity-uddhāra-vihārāya namaḥśūkara-mūrtaye

“I offer my obeisances to You, the cause of the creation, Lord Matsya,

who swam about in the ocean of dissolution, to Lord Hayagrīva, the killer of Madhu and Kaiṭabha, to the immense tortoise [Lord Kūrma], who supported Mandara Mountain, and to the boar incarnation [Lord Varāha], who enjoyed lifting the earth.

namas te ‘dbhuta-siṃhāya sādhu-loka-bhayāpaha vāmanāya namas tubhyaṃ krānta-tribhuvanāya ca

“Obeisances to You, the amazing lion [Lord Nṛsiṃha], who removed Your saintly devotees’ fear, and to the dwarf Vāmana, who stepped over the three worlds.

namo bhṛguṇāṃ pataye dṛpta-kṣatra-vana-cchide namas te raghu-varyāya rāvaṇānta-karāya ca

“Obeisances to You, Lord of the Bhṛgus, who cut down the forest of the conceited royal order, and to Lord Rāma, the best of the Raghu dynasty, who put an end to the demon Rāvaṇa.

namas te vāsudevāya namaḥ saṅkarṣaṇāya ca pradyumnāyaniruddhāya sātvatāṃ pataye namaḥ

“Obeisances to You, Lord of the Sātvatas, and to Your forms of Vāsudeva, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Pradyumna, and Aniruddha.

namo buddhāya śuddhāya daitya-dānava-mohine mleccha-prāya-kṣatra-hantre namas te kalki-rūpiṇe

“Obeisances to Your form as the faultless Lord Buddha, who will bewilder the Daityas and Dānavas, and to Lord Kalki, the annihilator of the meat-eaters posing as kings.”

Also in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.2.40) it is stated:

matsyāśva-kacchapa-nṛsiṃha-varāha-haṃsa- rājanya-vipra-vibudheṣu kṛtāvatāraḥ

tvaṃ pāsi nas tri-bhuvanaṃ ca yathādhuneśa bhāraṃ bhuvo hara yadūttama vandanaṃ te

“O supreme controller, Your Lordship previously accepted incarnations as a fish, a horse, a tortoise, Narasiṃhadeva, a boar, a swan, Lord Rāmacandra, Paraśurāma and, among the demigods, Vāmanadeva, to protect the entire world by Your mercy. Now please protect us again by Your mercy by diminishing the disturbances in this world. O Kṛṣṇa, best of the Yadus, we respectfully offer our obeisances unto You.”

The Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (7.9.38) also states:

itthaṃ nṛ-tiryag-ṛṣi-deva-jhaṣāvatārair lokān vibhāvayasi haṃsi jagat pratīpān

dharmaṃ mahā-puruṣa pāsi yugānuvṛttaṃ channaḥ kalau yad abhavas tri-yugo ‘tha sa tvam

“In this way, my Lord, You appear in various incarnations as a human being, an animal, a great saint, a demigod, a fish, or a tortoise, thus maintaining the entire creation in different planetary systems and killing the demoniac principles. According to the age, O my Lord, You protect the principles of religion. In the age of Kali, however, You do not assert Yourself as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore You are known as Triyuga, or the Lord who appears in three yugas.”

It is further said in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.8.13):

āsan varṇās trayo hy asya gṛhṇato ‘nuyugaṃ tanūḥ śuklo raktas tathā pīta idānīṃ kṛṣṇatāṃ gataḥ

“Your son Kṛṣṇa appears as an incarnation in every millennium. In the past, He assumed three different colors—white, red, and yellow—and now He has appeared in a blackish color. [In another Dvāpara-yuga, He appeared (as Lord Rāmacandra) in the color of śuka, a parrot. All such incarnations have now assembled in Kṛṣṇa.]”

In the Padma Purāṇa (Uttara-khaṇḍa) it is stated:

dāsa-bhūtam idaṃ tasya brahmādya sakalaṃ jagat

dāsa-bhūtam idaṃ tasya jagat sthāvara-jaṅgamam

“Everyone in this universe, beginning with Brahmā, is meant to serve Him. This whole universe, with all moving and nonmoving beings, is meant to serve Him.”

In his commentary on Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (5.10.11) Śrī Madhvācārya has stated: svāmitvaṃ tu harer eva mukhyam anyatra bhṛtyatā—“Only Hari is in the position of real master. Everyone else is a dependent servant.”

One should also see Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.68.37).