यदोः सहस्रजित्क्रोष्टा नलो रिपुरिति श्रुताः ॥२०॥
चत्वारः सूनवस्तत्र शतजित् प्रथमात्मजः ।
महाहयो रेणुहयो हैहयश्चेति तत्सुताः ॥२१॥
yatrÄvatÄ«rṇo bhagavÄn
paramÄtmÄ narÄká¹›tiḥ
yadoḥ sahasrajit kroá¹£á¹Ä
nalo ripur iti Å›rutÄḥ
catvÄraḥ sÅ«navas tatra
Å›atajit prathamÄtmajaḥ
mahÄhayo reṇuhayo
haihayaÅ› ceti tat-sutÄḥ
yatra - wherein, in which dynasty; avatÄ«rṇaḥ - descended; bhagavÄn - the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa; paramÄtmÄ - who is the Supersoul of all living entities; nara-Äká¹›tiḥ - a person, exactly resembling a human being; yadoḥ - of Yadu; sahasrajit - Sahasrajit; kroá¹£á¹Ä - Kroá¹£á¹Ä; nalaḥ - Nala; ripuḥ - Ripu; iti Å›rutÄḥ - thus they are celebrated; catvÄraḥ - four; sÅ«navaḥ - sons; tatra - therein; Å›atajit - Åšatajit; prathama-Ätmajaḥ - of the first sons; mahÄhayaḥ - MahÄhaya; reṇuhayaḥ - Reṇuhaya; haihayaḥ - Haihaya; ca - and; iti - thus; tat-sutÄḥ - his sons (the sons of Åšatajit).
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, the Supersoul in the hearts of all living entities, descended in His original form as a human being in the dynasty or family of Yadu. Yadu had four sons, named Sahasrajit, Kroá¹£á¹Ä, Nala and Ripu. Of these four, the eldest, Sahasrajit, had a son named Åšatajit, who had three sons, named MahÄhaya, Reṇuhaya and Haihaya.
As confirmed in ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam (1.2.11):
vadanti tat tattva-vidas
tattvaá¹ yaj jñÄnam advayam
brahmeti paramÄtmeti
bhagavÄn iti Å›abdyate
“Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, ParamÄtmÄ or BhagavÄn.†The majority of transcendentalists understand only the impersonal Brahman or localized ParamÄtmÄ, for the Personality of Godhead is very difficult to understand. As the Lord says in Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (7.3):
manuá¹£yÄṇÄá¹ sahasreá¹£u
kaścid yatati siddhaye
yatatÄm api siddhÄnÄá¹
kaÅ›cin mÄá¹ vetti tattvataḥ
“Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.†The yogÄ«s and jñÄnÄ«s — that is, the mystic yogÄ«s and the impersonalists — can understand the Absolute Truth as impersonal or localized, but although such realized souls are above ordinary human beings, they cannot understand how the Supreme Absolute Truth can be a person. Therefore it is said that out of many siddhas, the souls who have already realized the Absolute Truth, one may understand Kṛṣṇa, who exactly resembles a human being (narÄká¹›ti). This human form was explained by Kṛṣṇa Himself after He manifested the virÄá¹-rÅ«pa. The virÄá¹-rÅ«pa is not the original form of the Lord; the Lord’s original form is Dvibhuja-Å›yÄmasundara, MuralÄ«dhara, the Lord with two hands, playing a flute (yaá¹ Å›yÄmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarÅ«pam). The Lord’s forms are proof of His inconceivable qualities. Although the Lord maintains innumerable universes within the period of His breath, He is dressed with a form exactly like that of a human being. That does not mean, however, that He is a human being. This is His original form, but because He looks like a human being, those with a poor fund of knowledge consider Him an ordinary man. The Lord says:
avajÄnanti mÄá¹ mÅ«á¸hÄ
mÄnuṣīṠtanum ÄÅ›ritam
paraá¹ bhÄvam ajÄnanto
mama bhūta-maheśvaram
“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.†(Bg. 9.11) By the Lord’s paraá¹ bhÄvam, or transcendental nature, He is the all-pervading ParamÄtmÄ living in the core of the hearts of all living entities, yet He looks like a human being. MÄyÄvÄda philosophy says that the Lord is originally impersonal but assumes a human form and many other forms when He descends. Actually, however, He is originally like a human being, and the impersonal Brahman consists of the rays of His body (yasya prabhÄ prabhavato jagad-aṇá¸a-koá¹i).
