Text-25-26
SB 11.27.25-26
padyopasparsarhanadin
upacaran prakalpayet
dharmadibhis ca navabhih
kalpayitvasanam mama
padmam asta-dalam tatra
karnika-kesarojjvalam
ubhabhyam veda-tantrabhyam
mahyam tubhaya-siddhaye
Translation:
The worshiper should first imagine My seat as decorated with the personified deities of religion, knowledge, renunciation and opulence and with My nine spiritual energies. He should think of the Lord’s sitting place as an eight-petaled lotus, effulgent on account of the saffron filaments within its whorl. Then, following the regulations of both the Vedas and the tantras, he should offer Me water for washing the feet, water for washing the mouth, arghya and other items of worship. By this process he achieves both material enjoyment and liberation.
Purport:
According to Srila Sridhara Svami, religion, knowledge, renunciation and opulence are the legs of the Lord’s sitting platform and occupy the four corners, beginning with the southeast. Irreligion, ignorance, attachment and wretchedness are the intermediate legs, standing in the four directions beginning with the east. The nine saktis, or potencies, of the Lord are Vimala, Utkarsini, Jñana, Kriya, Yoga, Prahvi, Satya, Isana and Anugraha.