haá¹sa-svarÅ«py avadad acyuta Ätma-yogaá¹
dattaḥ kumÄra ṛṣabho bhagavÄn pitÄ naḥ
viṣṇuḥ Å›ivÄya jagatÄá¹ kalayÄvatirṇas
tenÄhá¹›tÄ madhu-bhidÄ Å›rutayo hayÄsye
haá¹sa-svarÅ«pÄ« - assuming His eternal form of the swan incarnation; avadat - He spoke; acyutaḥ - the infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead; Ätma-yogam - self-realization; dattaḥ - DattÄtreya; kumÄraḥ - the KumÄra brothers, headed by Sanaka; ṛṣabhaḥ - Ṛṣabhadeva; bhagavÄn - the Lord; pitÄ - father; naḥ - our; viṣṇuḥ - Lord Viṣṇu; Å›ivÄya - for the welfare; jagatÄm - of all the world; kalayÄ - by His secondary personal expansions; avatÄ«rṇaḥ - descending to this world; tena - by Him; Ähá¹›tÄḥ - were brought back (from the depths of PÄtÄlaloka); madhu-bhidÄ - by the killer of the demon Madhu; Å›rutayaḥ - the original texts of the Vedas; haya-Äsye - in the horse-headed incarnation.
The infallible Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, has descended into this world by His various partial incarnations such as Lord Haá¹sa [the swan], DattÄtreya, the four KumÄras and our own father, the mighty Ṛṣabhadeva. By such incarnations, the Lord teaches the science of self-realization for the benefit of the whole universe. In His appearance as HayagrÄ«va He killed the demon Madhu and thus brought the Vedas back from the hellish planet PÄtÄlaloka.
It is stated in the Skanda PurÄṇa that the Lord of the universe, Hari Himself, once appeared in the form of a young brahmacÄrÄ« named KumÄra and spoke transcendental knowledge to Sanat-kumÄra.
