The Appearance of Lord Varaha from Srimad Bhagavatam!
(From Srimad Bhagavatam C-3, Ch-13)
Svayambhuva Manu, the dear son of Brahma, after obtaining his very loving wife asked his father Brahma deva:
After his appearance, Manu, the father of mankind, along with his wife, thus addressed the reservoir of Vedic wisdom, Brahma, with obeisances and folded hands:
“You are the father of all living entities and the source of their subsistence because they are all born of you. Please order us how we may be able to render service unto you. O worshipful one, please give us your direction for the execution of duty within our working capacity so that we can follow it for fame in this life and progress in the next.”
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Lord Brahma said:
“My dear son, O lord of the world, I am very pleased with you, and I desire all blessings for both you and your wife. Since you are my very obedient son, I ask you to beget children qualified like yourself in the womb of your wife. Rule the world in pursuance of the principles of devotional service unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and thus worship the Lord by performances of yajna.”
Sri Manu said:
“O all-powerful lord, O killer of all sins, I shall abide by your order. Now please let me know my place and that of the living entities born of me. Please attempt to lift the earth, which is merged in the great water, because it is the dwelling place for all the living entities. It can be done by your endeavor and by the mercy of the Lord.”
Brahmā thought:
‘While I have been engaged in the process of creation, the earth has been inundated by a deluge and has gone down into the depths of the ocean. What can we do who are engaged in this matter of creation? It is best to let the Almighty Lord direct us?’
While Brahma was engaged in thinking, a small form of a boar came out of his nostril. The measurement of the creature was not more than the upper portion of a thumb.
Then, the boar became situated in the sky in a wonderful manifestation as gigantic as a great elephant.
First of all this boar was seen no bigger than the tip of a thumb, and within a moment He was as large as a stone.
While Brahma was deliberating with his sons, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Viṣṇu, roared tumultuously like a great mountain.
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When the great sages and thinkers who are residents of Janaloka, Tapoloka and Satyaloka heard the tumultuous voice of Lord Boar, which was the all-auspicious sound of the all-merciful Lord, they chanted auspicious chants from the three Vedas.
Playing like an elephant, He (Boar) entered into the water after roaring again in reply to the Vedic prayers by the great devotees.
Before entering the water to rescue the earth, Lord Boar flew in the sky, slashing His tail, His hard hairs quivering. His very glance was luminous, and He scattered the clouds in the sky with His hooves and His glittering white tusks.
He was personally the Supreme Lord Visnu and was therefore transcendental, yet because He had the body of a hog, He searched after the earth by smell. His tusks were fearful, and He glanced over the devotee-brahmaṇas engaged in offering prayers. Thus He entered the water.
Diving into the water like a giant mountain, Lord Boar divided the middle of the ocean, and two high waves appeared as the arms of the ocean, which cried loudly as if praying to the Lord, “O Lord of all sacrifices, please do not cut me in two! Kindly give me protection!”
Lord Boar penetrated the water with His hooves, which were like sharp arrows, and found the limits of the ocean, although it was unlimited.
He saw the earth, the resting place for all living beings, lying as it was in the beginning of creation, and He personally lifted it.
Lord Boar very easily took the earth on His tusks and got it out of the water. Thus He appeared very splendid.
Then, His anger glowing like the Sudarśana wheel, He immediately killed the demon [Hiraṇyakṣa], although he tried to fight with the Lord.
Thereupon Lord Boar killed the demon within the water, just as a lion kills an elephant.
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The cheeks and tongue of the Lord became smeared with the blood of the demon, just as an elephant becomes reddish from digging in the purple earth.
Then the Lord, playing like an elephant, suspended the earth on the edge of His curved white tusks. He assumed a bluish complexion like that of a tamala tree, and thus the sages, headed by Brahma, could understand Him to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offered respectful obeisances unto the Lord.
The Lord, being worshiped by all the great sages and transcendentalists, touched the earth with His hooves and placed it on the water.
In this manner the Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, the maintainer of all living entities, raised the earth from within the water, and having placed it afloat on the water, He returned to His own abode.
If one hears and describes in a devotional service attitude this auspicious narration of Lord Boar, which is worthy of description, the Lord, who is within the heart of everyone, is very pleased.
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