sa tvaṁ no darśayātmānam
sa tvaṁ no darśayātmānam
asmat-karaṇa-gocaram
prapannānāṁ didṛkṣūṇāṁ
sasmitaṁ te mukhāmbujam
We are surrendered unto you and wish to see you. Please make your form with lotus face and smile visible to our senses.
“O Brahṁā! Please accept your desired boon.” Brahmā answers. Show your svarūpa to us, who have surrendered to you. “Is this form without qualities or with qualities?” Show that form which we can perceive with our senses. It is a form with qualities. That form has a lotus face with a smile.
|| 8.5.46 ||
tais taiḥ svecchā-bhūtai rūpaiḥ
kāle kāle svayaṁ vibho
karma durviṣahaṁ yan no
bhagavāṁs tat karoti hi
O Supreme Lord! You perform activities impossible for us to perform in all cycles of time, through your various incarnations which appear by your desire.
Brahmā remembers the Lord’s great affection for his devotees. The Lord personally performs actions which we cannot perform (durviṣaham) through forms like Nṛsiṁha which appear by his will, nourished by the devotee’s desire.
|| 8.5.47 ||
kleśa-bhūry-alpa-sārāṇi
karmāṇi viphalāni vā
dehināṁ viṣayārtānāṁ
na tathaivārpitaṁ tvayi
Activities performed for you are not like the activities of persons desiring material enjoyment, which require great effort, and which yield little or no result.
The pious acts of us, your devotees, should not be fruitless like the actions of the material enjoyers. The activities offered to you by your devotees are not like the actions of the materialists, which are filled with suffering, and have little result or no result.
|| 8.5.48 ||
nāvamaḥ karma-kalpo 'pi
viphalāyeśvarārpitaḥ
kalpate puruṣasyaiva
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