yaḥ pañca-bhūta-racite rahitaḥ śarīre
yaḥ pañca-bhūta-racite rahitaḥ śarīre
cchanno 'yathendriya-guṇārtha-cid-ātmako 'ham
tenāvikuṇṭha-mahimānam ṛṣiṁ tam enaṁ
vande paraṁ prakṛti-pūruṣayoḥ pumāṁsam
Covered by this body made of the five elements, remaining as a spiritual particle amidst the senses, guṇas, and sense objects, I offer respects to omniscient Kṛṣṇa, superior to prakṛti and Mahāviṣṇu, whose powers are not weakened by these material elements.
“If he is like this, how can he stay in this body?” I , as an ātmā, dwelling among senses, material guṇas, and sense objects, though covered by a body, remain situated separately from them. I offer respects to the Lord whose greatness is not at all weakened by these things. Another version has tenāvaguṇṭha-mahimānam: According to Bhāguri, the syllable a with negative meaning has been elided, so the meaning is “his powers are not covered.” (Avaguṇṭha means covered.) I offer respects to Kṛṣṇa, who is superior to prakṛti and to the seer of prakṛti, the puruṣāvatāra.
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yan-māyayoru-guṇa-karma-nibandhane 'smin
sāṁsārike pathi caraṁs tad-abhiśrameṇa
naṣṭa-smṛtiḥ punar ayaṁ pravṛṇīta lokaṁ
yuktyā kayā mahad-anugraham antareṇa
A person repeatedly loses his memory because of fatigue as he treads the path of birth and death bound by the Lord’s powerful karma produced from the guṇas. How can he choose the abode of the Lord without the mercy of the devotees?
“How did you attain this bhakti?” The cause of attaining bhakti is the mercy of great souls. By what means can a person like me (ayam) who has lost remembrance because of fatigue in traveling on the path choose the abode of the Lord (lokam) without the mercy of the great devotees? Pravṛṇīta means “choose as one cherished goal.” There is no other means except this. My worship of Kṛṣṇa has appeared only by the mercy of some Kṛṣṇa devotee guru I had in a previous life.
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