They bow down like stick. This is called dandavat. Danda means "stick"; vat means "like." When you fall down, just like a stick falls, before superior, that is called dandavat. Not by simply saying dandavat... Eh, one must fall down

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"They bow down like stick. This is called daṇḍavat. Daṇḍa means "stick"; vat means" |"When you fall down, just like a stick falls, before superior, that is called daṇḍavat. Not by simply saying daṇḍavat . . . eh, one must fall down"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

They bow down like stick. This is called daṇḍavat. Daṇḍa means "stick"; vat means "like." When you fall down, just like a stick falls, before superior, that is called daṇḍavat. Not by simply saying daṇḍavat... Eh, one must fall down.

771027 - Conversation B - Vrndavana

Pradyumna: Brahmā . . . (break)

Prabhupāda: They bow down like stick. This is called daṇḍavat. Daṇḍa means "stick"; vat means "like." When you fall down, just like a stick falls, before superior, that is called daṇḍavat. Not by simply saying daṇḍavat . . . eh, one must fall down. So Brahmā fell down, and his four heads touched the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, and with ecstasy, and he was crying. It is to be taken as of his head . . . of Kṛṣṇa's lotus feet. Hmm. (break) . . . like a human child, Parabrahma: brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti . . . (SB 1.2.11). The Supreme Lord is narākṛti: like human being. Not catur-bāhu. Nārāyaṇa is catur-bāhu, but the Supreme Person is like human being. (coughs heavily) And why all the authorities said, "Made after war"?

Pradyumna: No, "Man is made in the image of God."

Prabhupāda: Hmm.

Pradyumna: Then it says that Lord Brahmā very hastily got down from his vāhana, tvareṇa, tvareyā, nija-dho . . . (break) . . . and fell down with his body on the earth. So his iti . . . (break) . . . so there's some . . . there's that rule that the devas never touch the ground when they go. It says, iti niyamola . . . (break) . . . this regulation, he went down . . . he touched the earth because it was Kṛṣṇa. So even of Brahmā . . . (break) The last verse we read was about how Brahmā saw the . . . er, Kṛṣṇa was there, the Supreme Brahman, and then he got down from his carrier, his swan carrier, and he did obeisances, daṇḍavat, and he touched the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. And he, he was crying, and so his tears were washing the feet of Kṛṣṇa.