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    "name":"SB 3.20.8",
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    "label":"Text 8",
    "title":"Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 3.20.8",
    "description":"Sūta Gosvāmī continued: Vidura, the descendant of Bharata, was delighted to hear the story of the Lord, who, having assumed by His own divine potency the form of a boar, had enacted the sport of lifting the earth from the bottom of the ocean and indifferently killing the demon Hiraṇyākṣa. Vidura then spoke to the sage as follows."
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====== SB 3.20.8 ======

> सूत उवाच
> हरेर्धृतक्रोडतनोः स्वमायया निशम्य गोरुद्धरणं रसातलात् ।
> लीलां हिरण्याक्षमवज्ञया हतं सञ्जातहर्षो मुनिमाह भारतः ॥८॥

===== Text =====

> sūta uvāca
> harer dhṛta-kroḍa-tanoḥ sva-māyayā
> niśamya gor uddharaṇaṁ rasātalāt
> līlāṁ hiraṇyākṣam avajñayā hataṁ
> sañjāta-harṣo munim āha bhārataḥ

===== Synonyms =====

[[synonyms:s:sūtaḥ]] [[synonyms:u:uvāca]]---Sūta said; [[synonyms:h:hareḥ]]---of the Lord; [[synonyms:d:dhṛta]]---who had assumed; [[synonyms:k:kroḍa]]---of a boar; [[synonyms:t:tanoḥ]]---body; [[synonyms:s:sva]]-[[synonyms:m:māyayā]]---by His divine potency; [[synonyms:n:niśamya]]---having heard; [[synonyms:g:goḥ]]---of the earth; [[synonyms:u:uddharaṇam]]---uplifting; [[synonyms:r:rasātalāt]]---from the bottom of the ocean; [[synonyms:l:līlām]]---sport; [[synonyms:h:hiraṇyākṣam]]---the demon Hiraṇyākṣa; [[synonyms:a:avajñayā]]---neglectfully; [[synonyms:h:hatam]]---killed; [[synonyms:s:sañjāta]]-[[synonyms:h:harṣaḥ]]---being overjoyed; [[synonyms:m:munim]]---to the sage (Maitreya); [[synonyms:ā:āha]]---said; [[synonyms:b:bhārataḥ]]---Vidura.

===== Translation =====

**Sūta Gosvāmī continued: Vidura, the descendant of Bharata, was delighted to hear the story of the Lord, who, having assumed by His own divine potency the form of a boar, had enacted the sport of lifting the earth from the bottom of the ocean and indifferently killing the demon Hiraṇyākṣa. Vidura then spoke to the sage as follows.**

===== Purport =====

It is stated here that the Lord assumed the form of a boar by His own potency. His form is not actually the form of a conditioned soul. A conditioned soul is forced to accept a particular type of body by the higher authority of material laws, but here it is clearly said that the Lord was not forced to accept the form of a boar by the external power. In //Bhagavad-gītā// the same fact is confirmed; when the Lord descends to this earth, He assumes a form by His own internal potency. The form of the Lord, therefore, can never consist of material energy. The Māyāvāda version that when Brahman assumes a form the form is accepted from //māyā// is not acceptable, because although //māyā// is superior to the conditioned soul, she is not superior to the Supreme Personality of Godhead; she is under the control of the Supreme Godhead, as confirmed in //Bhagavad-gītā. Māyā// is under His superintendence; //māyā// cannot overcome the Lord. The Māyāvāda idea that the living entity is the Supreme Absolute Truth but has become covered by //māyā// is invalid, because //māyā// cannot be so great that it can cover the Supreme. The covering capacity can be employed on the part and parcel of Brahman, not on the Supreme Brahman.