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The
demigods began to speak : Our dear Lord, advanced mystic yogis,
striving for liberation from the severe bondage of material work,
meditate with great devotion upon Your lotus feet within their
hearts. Dedicating our intelligence, senses, vital air, mind and
power of speech to Your Lordship, we demigods bow down at Your lotus
feet. [7]
O unconquerable Lord,
You engage Your illusory energy, composed of three modes, to
unleash, maintain and devastate the in-conceivable manifest cosmos,
all within Your own self. As the supreme superintendent of maya,
Your appear to be situated in the interaction of the modes of
nature; however, You are never affected by material activities. In
fact, You are directly engaged in Your own eternal, spiritual bliss,
and thus You cannot be accused of any material infection. [8]
O greatest of all,
those whose consciousness is polluted by illusion cannot purify
themselves merely by ordinary worship, study of the Vedas, charity,
austerity and ritual activities. Our Lord, those pure souls who have
developed a powerful transcendental faith in Your glories achieve a
purified state of existence that can never be attained by those
lacking such faith. [9]
Great sages, desiring the highest benefit in life, always cherish Your
lotus feet within their hearts, which are melted by love for You.
Similarly, Your self-controlled devotees, desiring to cross beyond
the material kingdom of heaven to achieve opulence equal to Yours,
worship Your lotus feet in the morning, at noon and in the evening. Thus, they
meditate upon Your Lordship in Your quadruple expansion. Your lotus
feet are just like a blazing fire that burns to ashes all the
inauspicious desires for material sense gratification.
Those about to offer oblations into the fire of
sacrifice in accordance with the Rg, Yajur and Sama Vedas meditate
on Your lotus feet. Similarly, the practitioners of transcendental
yoga meditate upon Your lotus feet, hoping for knowledge about Your
divine mystic potency, and the most elevated pure devotees perfectly
worship Your lotus feet, desiring to cross beyond Your illusory
potency. [10-11]
O almighty Lord, You
are so kind to Your servants that You have accepted the withered
flower garland that we have placed on Your chest. Since the goddess
of fortune makes her abode on Your transcendental chest, she will
undoubtely become agitated, like a jealous co-wife, upon seeing our
offering also dwelling there. Yet You are so merciful that You
neglect Your eternal consort Laksmi and accept our offering as most
excellent worship. O mercifulLord, may Your lotus feet always act as
a blazing fire to consume the inauspicious desires within our
hearts. [12]
O omnipotent Lord, in Your incarnation as
Trivikrama, You raised Your leg like a flagpole to break the shell
of the universe, allowing the holy Ganges to flow down, like a
banner of victory, in three branches throughout the three planetary
systems. By three mighty steps of Your lotus feet, Your Lordship
captured Bali Maharaja, along with his universal kingdom. Your lotus
feet inspire fear in the demons by driving them down to hell and
fearlessness among Your devotees by elevating them to the perfection
of heavenly life. We are sincerely trying to worship You, our Lord;
therefore may Your lotus feet kindly free us from all of our sinful
reactions. [13]
You are the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, the transcendental entity who is superior to
both material nature and the enjoyer of nature. May Your lotus feet
bestow transcendental pleasure upon us. All of the great demigods,
beginning with Brahma, are embodied living entities. Struggling
painfully with one another under the strict control of Your time
factor, they are just like bulls dragged by ropes tied through their
pierced noses. [14]
You are the cause of
the creation, maintenance and destruction of this universe. As time,
You regulate the subtle and manifest states of material nature and
control every living being. As the threefold wheel of time You
diminish all things by Your imperceptible actions and thus You are
the Supreme Personality of Godhead. [15]
My dear Lord, the original purusa-avatara,
Maha-Visnu, acquires His creative potency from You. Thus with
infallible energy He impregnates material nature, producing the
mahat-tattva. Then the mahat-tattva, the amalgamated material
energy, endowed with the potency of the Lord, produces from itself
the primeval golden egg of the universe, which is covered by various
layers of material elements. [16]
O Lord, You are the
supreme creator of this universe and the ultimate controller of all
moving and nonmoving living entities. You are Hrsikesa, the supreme
controller of all sensory activity, and thus You never become
contaminated or entangled in the course of Your supervision of the
infinite sensory activities within the material creation. On the
other hand, other living entities, even yogis and philosophers, are
distured and frightened simply by remembering the material objects
that they have supposedly renounced in their pursuit of
enlightenment. [17]
My Lord, You are
living with sixteen thousand exquisitely beautiful, aristocratic
wives. By their irresistible coy and smiling glances and by their
lovely arching eyebrows, they send You messages of eager conjugal
love. But they are completely unable to disturb the mind and senses
of Your Lordship. [18]
The nectar-bearing
rivers of discussions about You, and also the holy rivers generated
from the bathing of Your lotus feet, are able to destroy all
contamination within the three worlds. Those who are striving for
purification associate with the holy narrations of Your glories by
hearing them with their ears, and they associate with the holy
rivers flowing from Your lotus feet by physically bathing in them.
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Sri Uddhava said : O my Lord, O
supreme God among all the demigods, real piety is invoked simply by hearing and
chanting Your transcendental glories. My Lord, it appears that You will now
withdraw Your dynasty, and thus You Yourself will finally give up Your pastimes
within this universe. You are the supreme controller and the master of all
mystic power. But although You are fully capable of counteracting the brahmanas,
curse against Your dynasty, You are not doing so, and Your disappearance is
imminent. [42] O Lord Kesava, my dear master, I
cannot tolerate giving up Your lotus feet even for a fraction of a moment. I
urge You to take me along with You to Your own abode. [43
O my dear Krishna, Your pastimes are supremely
auspicious for mankind and are an intoxicating beverage for the ears. Tasting
such pastimes, people forget their desires for other things.
My dear Lord, You are the Supreme Soul, and thus are most
dear to us. We are Your devotees, and how can we possibly reject You or
live without You even for a moment? Whether we are
lying down, sitting, walking, standing, bathing, enjoying recreation, eating or
doing anything else, we are constantly engaged in Your service. [44-45]
Simply by decorating ourselves
with the garlands, fragrant oils, clothes and ornaments that You have already
enjoyed, and by eating the remnants of Your meals, we, Your servants, will
indeed conquer Your illusory energy. [46]
Naked sages who seriously
endeavor in spiritual practice, who have raised their semen upward, who are
peaceful and sinless members of the renounced order, attain the spiritual abode
called Brahman. [47]
O greatest of mystics, although
we are conditioned souls wandering on the path of fruitive work, we will
certainly cross beyond the darkness of this material world simply by hearing
about Your Lordship in the association of Your devotees. Thus we are always
remembering and glorifying the wonderful things You do and the wonderful things
You say. We ecstatically recall Your amorous pastimes with Your confidential
conjugal devotees and how You boldly smile and move about while engaged in such
youthful pastimes. My dear Lord, Your loving pastimes are bewilderingly similar
to the activities of ordinary people within this material world. [48-49
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Sri Uddhava said : My dear Lord,
You alone award the results of yoga practice, and You are
so kind that by Your own influence You distribute the
perfection of yoga to Your devotee. Thus You are the
Supreme Soul who is realized through yoga, and it is You
who are the origin of all mystic power. For my supreme
benefit You have explained to procedure for giving up the
material world through the process of sannyasa, or
renunciation. [14]
My dear
Lord, O Supreme Soul, for those whose minds are attached
to sense gratification, and expecially for those bereft of
devotion unto You, such renunciation of material enjoyment
is most difficult to perform. That is my opinion. [15]
O my Lord,
I myself am most foolish because my consciousness is
merged in the material body and bodily relations, which
are all manufactured by Your illusory energy. Thus I am
thinking, ‘‘ I am this body, and all of these relatives
are mine.’’ Therefore, my Lord, please instruct Your poor
servant. Please tell me how I can very easily carry out
Your instructions. [16]
My dear
Lord, You are the Absolute Truth, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, and You reveal Yourself to Your devotees.
Besides Your Lordship, I do not see anyone who can
actually explain perfect knowledge to me. Such a perfect
teacher is not to be found even among th demigods in
heaven. Indeed, all of the demigods, headed by Lord
Brahma, are bewildered by Your illusory potency. They are
conditioned souls who accept their own material bodies and
bodily expansions to be the highest truth. [17]
Therefore,
O Lord, feeling weary of material life and tormented by
its distress, I now surrender unto You because You are the
perfect master. You are the unlimited, all-knowing Supreme
Personality of Godhead, whose spiritual abode in Vaikuntha
is free from all disturbances. In facts, You are known as
Narayana, the true friend of all living beings. [18]
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