Pralaya Payodhi Jale

Pralaya-payodhi-jale dhṛtavān asi vedam. This is a song sung by great Vaiṣṅava poet Jayadeva Gosvāmī. The purport is that when there was devastation, the whole universe was flooded with water. The ultimate dissolution of this material world will be, first of all, there will be no water, all water on the earth will be dried up by scorching heat of the sun. The sun will become twelve times stronger as it is at the present moment. In that way, evaporate all the waters, the seas and the oceans will be all evaporate.

Therefore all living creatures on the Earth will die, and then, due to scorching heat, practically everything will be turned into ashes. Then there will be rain for a hundred years, torrents of rain, like the trunk of the elephant, and thus the whole universe will be filled with water. That is called pralaya-payodhi. At the time of devastation, pralaya, the whole universe will be just like it is now filled with air, at that time it will be filled up with water.

So at that time Vedas will be saved by the Lord on a boat, and the boat will be stuck up in the wings of the great fish. That great fish is the incarnation of Kṛṣṅa. Therefore he is worshiping, keśava dhṛta-mīna-śarīra jaya jagadīśa. So mīna-śarīra. The next is kṣitir iha vipulatare tiṣṭhati tava pṛṣṭhe dharaṅi-dharaṅa-kiṅa-cakra-gariṣṭhe. So there will be churning, next incarnation is tortoise. On the back of the tortoise the meru-parvata will be fixed up, or the world will rest on the back of the tortoise. This is second incarnation. First fish, and then tortoise.

Then varāha-avatāra. One demon, Hiraṅya, Hiraṅyakaśipu and Hiraṅyākṣa. So he'll, by his demonic activities will throw the Earth on the Garbho Sea. There is a sea within this universe. Half of the globe is filled up with Garbhosamudra, on which Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṅu is there, and from Him a lotus stem comes out wherein Brahmā takes birth. So all the planets are hanging as different stems of this original stem coming out from the abdomen of Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṅu. So one demon of the name Hiraṅyākṣa, he will put this Earth within this water, and at that time, the Lord will come out in the incarnation of Varāha. The Varāha incarnation came as a small insect from the nose of Brahmā, and when he put it on his hand, He began to increase. In this way He assumed a very gigantic body, and with His tusk, He picked up the Earth from within the water of Garbho ocean. That is called keśava-dhṛta-varāha-rūpa.

The next is tava kara-kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-sṛṅgaṁ dalita-hiraṅyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛṅgam. Hiraṅyakaśipu, he was another demon who wanted to be immortal. So he took benediction from Brahmā that he'll not die on land, in the sky or in the water. So, in order to keep as it is, the benediction given by Brahmā, Lord Kṛṣṅa tries to honor the words of His devotee. So Brahmā gave him benediction, "Yes, you will not die on land, on water, in sky.'' But Nṛsiṁhadeva appeared as half-lion, half-man, because Hiraṅyakaśipu also took benediction from Brahmā that he'll not be killed by any man or any animal.

So He assumed the form of something which you cannot say a man or animal, and He put the demon on His lap, which is neither land, water or sky. And he wanted to, not to be killed by any weapons. Therefore the Lord killed Him with His nails. Nail is not considered as weapon. In this way, he wanted to cheat Brahmā, but the Lord is so intelligent that He cheated Hiraṅyakaśipu, and killed him. Keśava dhṛta-narahari-rūpa. Dalita-hiraṅyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛṅgam. Just like with our nails, we can kill any insect. Take an ant, you can bifurcate it. Similarly, Hiraṅyakaśipu was such a giant demon, he was compared just like a little insect, and was killed by the nails of the Lord.

Then, next incarnation is Vāmanadeva. This Vāmanadeva, a dwarf, He went to Bali Mahārāja and asked him three feet land, and his guru, Śukrācārya, induced him not to promise, because He is Viṣṅu. But Bali Mahārāja was very much satisfied to offer something to Viṣṅu, he gave up the connection of his guru, because he forbade him to serve Viṣṅu. Therefore Bali Mahārāja is one of the mahājanas. Nobody can check the worship of Viṣṅu.

If anyone checks, he may be guru, he may be father, he may be relative, he should be rejected, immediately. Therefore Bali Mahārāja is a mahājana. He showed this example: because his guru put hindrances on the path of his worshiping Lord Viṣṅu, he gave up the connection of his guru. So by this process he begged, but that was not begging, practically that was cheating. But Bali Mahārāja agreed to be cheated by the Lord. That is the symptom of the devotee. The devotee agrees to any action of the Lord, and Bali Mahārāja saw that the Lord wanted to be cheat.

By asking three feet land, He'll take the whole universe, so he agreed. And by two feet the whole universe was covered up and down. Then Vāmanadeva asked him that where is to keep the third feet? So Bali Mahārāja agreed, "My Lord, you keep it on my head, I have got my body still.'' In this way he purchased Lord Viṣṅu, Vāmanadeva, and Vāmanadeva remained as the doorkeeper of Bali Mahārāja. So by giving everything, sarvātma snapane bali, he gave everything to Lord, and by that giving up, he purchased the Lord. He remained voluntarily as doorkeeper of Bali Mahārāja.

So, chalayasi vikramaṅe balim adbhuta-vāmana pada-nakha-nīra-janita-jana-pāvana, when Vāmanadeva expanded His leg upwards, by His toe there was a hole in the covering of the universe, and through that hole the Ganges water came from Vaikuṅṭha. Pada-nakha-nīra-janita, and that Ganges water is flowing now in the universe sanctifying everywhere, wherever the Ganges water is there. Pada-nakha-nīra-janita-jana-pāvana.

Then next incarnation is Bhṛgupati, Paraśurāma. Paraśurāma is a śaktyaveṣa avatāra. So He, twenty-one times, killed the kṣatriyas. So out of Paraśurāma's fear, all the kṣatriyas, they migrated towards Europe, it is said in the history, Mahābhārata. So twenty-one times he attacked all the kṣatriyas. They were not in order, so He killed them, and there is a big tank in Kurukṣetra where all the bloods were reserved. Later on it became water. So kṣatriya-rudhira, in order to pacify the aggrieved Earth, He soaked the earth with the blood of the kṣatriyas, snapayasi payasi ṣamita-bhava-tāpam. Vitarasi dikṣu raṅe dik-pati-kamanīyaṁ daśa-mukha-mauli-balim ramaṅīyam.

Then next avatāra is Rāmacandra. So the Rāvaṅa, who had ten heads, he challenged the Lord, and Lord Rāmacandra took up the challenge and killed him. Then vahasi vapuṣi viśade vasanaṁ jaladābhaṁ hala-hati-bhīti-milita-yamunābham. When Baladeva wanted Yamunā to come near Him, so she was not coming. Therefore with His plow He wanted to bifurcate the earth, and at that time Yamunā submitted, and she came near to the Lord. Hala-hati-bhīti-yamunā, hala-hati-bhīti-milita-yamunābham, Yamunā was punished by Lord Baladeva. Keśava dhṛta-haladhara-rūpa, hala, haladhara means plow, haladhara-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare.

Next, Buddha, Lord Buddha. Nindasi yajña-vidher ahaha śruti-jātam. Lord Buddha defied the Vedic injunction, because His mission was to stop animal-killing, and in the Vedas, in some of the sacrifices, animal-killing is prescribed. So those who are so-called followers of the Vedic rules, they wanted to stop Buddhadeva in His mission for stopping animal-killing, so therefore when people wanted to give evidence from the Vedas, that in the Vedas there is description, there is sanction of animal-killing in sacrifices, why you are stopping? He, nindasi, He defied. And because He defied the authority of Vedas, therefore Buddha philosophy was not accepted in India. Nāstika, anyone who will deny the authority of the Veda, he'll be called a nāstika, non-believer. Vedas cannot be disrespect. So in this way, Lord Buddha, to save the poor animals, He sometimes defied the injunction of the Veda. Keśava dhṛta buddha-śarīra jaya jagadīśa.

The next avatāra is Kalki avatāra. We are awaiting, after four hundred thousands of years from this time, the Kalki avatāra will come, and He'll take a sword on the horseback, just like a king, He'll simply go on killing all these non-believers, Godless creatures. There will be no more preaching. As in other incarnation there is preaching, in Kalki avatāra the population of the whole world will be so much reduced to animalism that there will be no more power to understand what is God, or what is spiritualism. And it is already there, the Kali-yuga. It will increase. People will have no power to understand this philosophy, God consciousness. So at that time there is no other alternative than to kill them all, and usher in another Satya-yuga. That is the way of [indistinct]. [end]