We also fall at the lotus feet of His Divine Grace Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya 108 Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Maharaja Prabhupada.
The Identity of Garga Muni
Since the Garga-samhita was spoken by the sage Sri Garga Muni, it is appropriate to discuss his identity. Sri Garga Muni recognized as highly elevated in austerity and penance (su-maha-tapah), lived at the time of Lord Krsna’s appearance on earth as the family priest (purohitah) of the yadu-vamsa. Nanda Maharaja could appreciate that Garga Muni was adhoksaja; that is, he was not an ordinary person seen by material senses. In addition, Garga Muni was a great authority in the knowledge of astrology. He was engaged by Vasudeva and Nanda Maharaja to perform the name-giving ceremony for Krsna and Balarama in a solitary place. The Srimad-Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapter 10 summary describes this as follows:
One day, Vasudeva [the father of Lord Krsna] sent for Garga Muni, the family priest of the yadu-vamsa [dynasty], and thus Garga Muni went to the house of Nanda Maharaja, who received him very well and requested him to give names to Krsna and Balarama. Garga Muni, of course, reminded Nanda Maharaja that Kamsa was looking for the son of Devaki and said that if he performed the ceremony very gorgeously, the ceremony would come to the notice of Kamsa, who would then suspect that Krsna was the son of Devaki. Nanda Maharaja therefore requested Garga Muni to perform this ceremony without anyone’s knowledge and Garga Muni did so… After thus informing Nanda Maharaja and completing the name-giving ceremony, Garga Muni advised Nanda Maharaja to protect his very carefully and then departed.
Garga Muni gave the names for Balarama and Krsna.
Garga Muni said, “This child, the son of Rohini, will give happiness to His relatives and friends by His transcendental qualities. Therefore, He will be known as Rama. And because He will manifest extraordinary bodily strength, He will also be known as Bala. Moreover, because He unities two families – Vasudeva’s family and the family of Nanda Maharaja – He will be known as Sankarsana.” (Srimad-Bhagavatam 10.8.12)
The famous verse above, beginning with asan varnas states, that the Lord incarnates in a yellow feature (pita) indicating Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Garga Muni explained precisely the position of Sri Krsna as having appeared previously as Narayana to annihilate the miscreants and to protect the devotees.
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