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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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मैत्रेय उवाच इत्युपस्थीयमानोऽसौ मुनिभिर्ब्रह्मवादिभिः सलिले स्वखुराक्रान्त उपाधत्तावितावनिम्
maitreya uvāca ity upasthīyamāno ’sau munibhir brahma-vādibhiḥ salile sva-khurākrānta upādhattāvitāvanim
WORD BY WORD
maitreyaḥ uvāca the sage Maitreya said; iti thus; upasthīyamānaḥ being praised by; asau Lord Boar; munibhiḥ by the great sages; brahma-vādibhiḥ by the transcendentalists; salile on the water; sva-khura-ākrānte touched by His own hooves; upādhatta placed; avitā the maintainer; avanim the earth.;
TRANSLATION
| The sage Maitreya said: The Lord, being thus worshiped by all the great sages and transcendentalists, touched the earth with His hooves and placed it on the water.
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PURPORT
| The earth was placed on the water by His inconceivable potency. The Lord is all-powerful, and therefore He can sustain the huge planets either on the water or in the air, as He likes. The tiny human brain cannot conceive how these potencies of the Lord can act. Man can give some vague explanation of the laws by which such phenomena are made possible, but actually the tiny human brain is unable to conceive of the activities of the Lord, which are therefore called inconceivable. Yet the frog-philosophers still try to give some imaginary explanation.
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