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TEXT 10 saha-yajnah prajah srstva
SYNONYMS  saha--along
with; yajnah--sacrifices; prajah--generations; srstva--creating;
pura--anciently;
uvaca--said; praja-patih--the Lord of creatures; anena--by
this; prasavisyadhvam--be more and more prosperous; esah--certainly;
vah--your; astu--let it be; ista--all desirable; kama-dhuk--bestower.
TRANSLATION In the beginning
of creation, the Lord of all creatures sent forth generations of men and
demigods, along with sacrifices for Visnu, and blessed them by saying,
"Be thou happy by this yajna [sacrifice] because its performance will bestow
upon you all desirable things."
PURPORT The material
creation by the Lord of creatures (Visnu) is a chance offered to the conditioned
souls to come back home--back to Godhead. All living entities within the
material creation are conditioned by material nature because of their forgetfulness
of their relationship to Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The
Vedic principles are to help us understand this eternal relation, as it
is stated in the Bhagavad-gita: vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah.
The Lord says that the purpose of the Vedas is to understand Him.
In the Vedic hymns it is said: patim visvasyatmesvaram. Therefore,
the Lord of the living entities is the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Visnu. In the Srimad-Bhagavatam also Srila Sukadeva Gosvami describes
the Lord as pati in so many ways:
sriyah patir yajna-patih praja-patir
The praja-pati
is Lord Visnu, and He is the Lord of all living creatures, all worlds,
and all beauties, and the protector of everyone. The Lord created this
material world for the conditioned souls to learn how to perform yajnas
(sacrifice) for the satisfaction of Visnu, so that while in the material
world they can live very comfortably without anxiety. Then after finishing
the present material body, they can enter into the kingdom of God. That
is the whole program for the conditioned soul. By performance of yajna,
the conditioned souls gradually become Krsna conscious and become godly
in all respects. In the Age of Kali, the sankirtana-yajna (the chanting
of the names of God) is recommended by the Vedic scriptures, and this transcendental
system was introduced by Lord Caitanya for the deliverance of all men in
this age. Sankirtana-yajna and Krsna consciousness go well together.
Lord Krsna in His devotional form (as Lord Caitanya) is mentioned in the
Srimad-Bhagavatam
as follows, with special reference to the sankirtana-yajna:
krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam sangopangastra-parsadam
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