Devanagari
केचनैतज्ज्योतिरनीकं शिशुमारसंस्थानेन भगवतो वासुदेवस्य योगधारणायामनुवर्णयन्ति ॥ ४ ॥
Verse text
kecanaitaj jyotir-anīkaṁ śiśumāra-saṁsthānena bhagavato vāsudevasya yoga-dhāraṇāyām anuvarṇayanti.
Synonyms
kecana
—
some yogīs or learned scholars of astronomy
;
etat
—
this
;
jyotiḥ
—
anīkam — great wheel of planets and stars
;
śiśumāra
—
saṁsthānena — imagine this wheel to be a śiśumāra (dolphin)
;
bhagavataḥ
—
of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
;
vāsudevasya
—
Lord Vāsudeva (the son of Vasudeva), Kṛṣṇa
;
yoga
—
dhāraṇāyām — in absorption in worship
;
anuvarṇayanti
—
describe .
Translation
This great machine, consisting of the stars and planets, resembles the form of a śiśumāra [dolphin] in the water. It is sometimes considered an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, Vāsudeva. Great yogīs meditate upon Vāsudeva in this form because it is actually visible.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
Some describe this zodiac belt to be the form of a dolphin, used for worshipping Vāsudeva in meditation.
Jyotir-anīkam means the zodiac belt.
Purport
Transcendentalists such as
yogīs
whose minds cannot accommodate the form of the Lord prefer to visualize something very great, such as the
virāṭ-puruṣa.
Therefore some
yogīs
contemplate this imaginary
śiśumāra
to be swimming in the sky the way a dolphin swims in water. They meditate upon it as the
virāṭ-rūpa,
the gigantic form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.