Srimad Bhagavatam — Dvadasha Skandha, Shloka 25
Mārkaṇḍeya’s Request to See Māyā and the Vision of the Cosmic Deluge
महामरकतश्यामं श्रीमद्वदनपङ्कजम् । कम्बुग्रीवं महोरस्कं सुनसं सुन्दरभ्रुवम् ॥ २२ ॥ श्वासैजदलकाभातं कम्बुश्रीकर्णदाडिमम् । विद्रुमाधरभासेषच्छोणायितसुधास्मितम् ॥ २३ ॥ पद्मगर्भारुणापाङ्गं हृद्यहासावलोकनम् । श्वासैजद्वलिसंविग्ननिम्ननाभिदलोदरम् ॥ २४ ॥ चार्वङ्गुलिभ्यां पाणिभ्यामुन्नीय चरणाम्बुजम् । मुखे निधाय विप्रेन्द्रो धयन्तं वीक्ष्य विस्मित: ॥ २५ ॥
mahā-marakata-śyāmaṁ śrīmad-vadana-paṅkajam kambu-grīvaṁ mahoraskaṁ su-nasaṁ sundara-bhruvam
その乳児の肌は、瑕なきエメラルドのように深い青黒であった。蓮華のごとき御顔は美の光に満ち、御喉には法螺貝の筋のような印があり、胸は広く、鼻は端正、眉は麗しく、耳は柘榴の花に似て内に法螺の渦のような襞を備えていた。眼の端は蓮の芯のように赤みを帯び、珊瑚のような唇の輝きが、甘露のごとく魅惑する微笑みにほのかな紅を添えていた。息づくたびに髪は揺れ、榕樹の葉のような腹の皺が動いて深い臍も歪む。尊き婆羅門は驚嘆して見た――幼子が優美な指で自らの蓮の御足を持ち上げ、足指を口に含んで吸い始めたのである。
The young child was the Supreme Personality of Godhead. According to Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, Lord Kṛṣṇa wondered, “So many devotees are hankering for the nectar of My lotus feet. Therefore let Me personally experience that nectar.” Thus the Lord, playing like an ordinary baby, began to suck on His toes.
FAQs
This verse highlights the Lord’s lotus foot as a direct object of devotion: even a great sage becomes absorbed and astonished, showing that remembrance and reverence for Hari’s feet awakens bhakti and spiritual realization.
He witnessed an intimate divine wonder—Śrī Hari, the Supreme Lord, sucking His own toe—revealing the Lord’s inconceivable nature and childlike, transcendental līlā that overwhelms even perfected sages.
Cultivate humility and steady devotion by daily remembering the Lord’s lotus feet—through prayer, japa, and reading—accepting that the Divine can be beyond logic and still deeply transformative for the heart.