sei ta' 'ananta' 'Ĺeᚣa' — bhakta-avatÄra
ÄŤĹvarera sevÄ vinÄ nÄhi jÄne Ära
sei ta' - that; ananta - Lord Ananta; Ĺeᚣa - the incarnation Ĺeᚣa; bhakta-avatÄra - incarnation of a devotee; ÄŤĹvarera sevÄ - the service of the Lord; vinÄ - without; nÄhi - not; jÄne - knows; Ära - anything else.
ĹrÄŤla JÄŤva GosvÄmÄŤ, in his KášášŁáša-sandarbha, has described Ĺeᚣa NÄga as follows: âĹrÄŤ Anantadeva has thousands of faces and is fully independent. Always ready to serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He waits upon Him constantly. Saáš karᚣaáša is the first expansion of VÄsudeva, and because He appears by His own will, He is called svarÄáš, fully independent. He is therefore infinite and transcendental to all limits of time and space. He Himself appears as the thousand-headed Ĺeᚣa.â In the Skanda PurÄáša, in the AyodhyÄ-mÄhÄtmya chapter, the demigod Indra requested Lord Ĺeᚣa, who was standing before him as Lakᚣmaáša, âPlease go to Your eternal abode, Viᚣášuloka, where Your expansion Ĺeᚣa, with His serpentine hoods, is also present.â After thus dispatching Lakᚣmaáša to the regions of PÄtÄla, Lord Indra returned to his abode. This quotation indicates that the Saáš karᚣaáša of the quadruple form descends with Lord RÄma as Lakᚣmaáša. When Lord RÄma disappears, Ĺeᚣa again separates Himself from the personality of Lakᚣmaáša. Ĺeᚣa then returns to His own abode in the PÄtÄla regions, and Lakᚣmaáša returns to His abode in Vaikuášášha.
The Laghu-bhÄgavatÄmášta gives the following description: âThe Saáš karᚣaáša of the second group of quadruple forms appears as RÄma, taking with Him Ĺeᚣa, who bears the global spheres. There are two features of Ĺeᚣa. One is the bearer of the globes, and the other is the bedstead servitor. The Ĺeᚣa who bears the globes is a potent incarnation of Saáš karᚣaáša, and therefore He is sometimes also called Saáš karᚣaáša. The bedstead feature of Ĺeᚣa always presents himself as an eternal servitor of the Lord.â