नासत्यदस्रौ परमस्य नासे घ्राणोऽस्य गन्धो मुखमग्निरिद्धः ॥२९॥
indrÄdayo bÄhava Ähur usrÄḥ
karṇau diśaḥ śrotram amuṣya śabdaḥ
nÄsatya-dasrau paramasya nÄse
ghrÄṇo 'sya gandho mukham agnir iddhaḥ
indra-Ädayaḥ - demigods headed by the heavenly king, Indra; bÄhavaḥ - arms; Ähuḥ - are called; usrÄḥ - the demigods; karṇau - the ears; diÅ›aḥ - the four directions; Å›rotram - the sense of hearing; amuá¹£ya - of the Lord; Å›abdaḥ - sound; nÄsatya-dasrau - the demigods known as the AÅ›vinÄ«-kumÄras; paramasya - of the Supreme; nÄse - nostrils; ghrÄṇaḥ - the sense of smell; asya - of Him; gandhaḥ - fragrance; mukham - the mouth; agniḥ - fire; iddhaḥ - blazing.
His arms are the demigods headed by Indra, the ten directional sides are His ears, and physical sound is His sense of hearing. His nostrils are the two AÅ›vinÄ«-kumÄras, and material fragrance is His sense of smell. His mouth is the blazing fire.
The description of the gigantic form of the Personality of Godhead made in the Eleventh Chapter of the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ is further explained here in the ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam. The description in the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ (11.30) runs as follows: “O Viṣṇu, I see You devouring all people in Your blazing mouths and covering all the universe by Your immeasurable rays. Scorching the worlds, You are manifest.†In that way, ÅšrÄ«mad-BhÄgavatam is the postgraduate study for the student of the Bhagavad-gÄ«tÄ. Both of them are the science of Kṛṣṇa, the Absolute Truth, and so they are interdependent.
The conception of the virÄá¹-puruá¹£a, or the gigantic form of the Supreme Lord, is said to include all the dominating demigods as well as the dominated living beings. Even the minutest part of a living being is controlled by the empowered agency of the Lord. Since the demigods are included in the gigantic form of the Lord, worship of the Lord, whether in His gigantic material conception or in His eternal transcendental form as Lord ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa, also appeases the demigods and all the other parts and parcels, as much as watering the root of a tree distributes energy to all of the tree’s other parts. Consequently, for a materialist also, worship of the universal gigantic form of the Lord leads one to the right path. One need not risk being misled by approaching many demigods for fulfillment of different desires. The real entity is the Lord Himself, and all others are imaginary, for everything is included in Him only.
