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Srimad Bhagvata Mahapurana: Book 10: Chapter 63: Verses 32-43
While he was (thus) discharging missiles again and again the Lord with His discus, keen-edged like a razor, cut off his arms like the boughs of a tree. (Even) as the arms of Bana were being lopped off, Lord Siva (the Source of the universe), who took compassion on His devotee, approached Sri Krsna (the Wielder of a discus) and submitted to Him (as follows). Sri Rudra prayed : Indeed You are the supreme effulgence lying hidden in the Veda (which is no other than the Supreme revealed as the Word of God) and known as Brahma (the Infinite), that men of purified intellect realize as all-pervading (like the sky) and absolute. The firmament is Your navel; fire, Your mouth; water, Your generative fluid; the celestial region, Your head; the quarters, Your ears; the earth, Your feet; the moon, Your mind; the sun, Your eye; myself, Your ego; the ocean, Your belly; and Indra (and the other guardians of the sphere), Your arms. Herbs and plants are the hair on Your body; clouds are Your (flowing) locks and Brahma (the creator) is Your intellect, Prajapati (the lord of creation) is Your organ of generation and Dharma (the god of virtue) is Your heart. Thus You are the Supreme Person with whom all the spheres are connected (as so many limbs). 0 Lord of undiminished glory, You have taken this form for the vindication of virtue and advancement of the world. Endowed with power derived from You, we rule the seven regions (of the universe).
You are the one secondless, most ancient Person beyond the three states (brought about by Maya viz., the waking, dream and dreamless states), self-luminous, the Cause and Ruler (of all), Himself uncaused; yet, in order to reveal the diversities of the three Gunas, You appear through Your own Maya in divergent forms (such as those of gods, men, birds, beasts and various other beings). Just as the sun gets concealed (in others' eyes) by its own shadow (the clouds) and reveals the clouds as well as all other forms, even so, O Perfect One, self-luminous Yourself, You get as if covered by the Ego (which has its origin in You) and yet make the Gunas and all beings, who are qualified by the Gunas, shine (in Your light). (0 Lord,) with their mind deluded by Your Maya people get attached to children, wife, house etc., and begin to sink and float in the ocean of misery. He who, having obtained the human body (so graciously) granted by You, does not control his senses and worship Your feet, is no doubt pitiable creature who is deceiving himself. O Lord, he who neglects You, the beloved Self, the Supreme Ruler, for the sake of sense-objects, which are just the reverse of You, (is a fool, who) swallows poison rejecting nectar. Myself, Brahma (the creator) and the (other) gods and (all) sages of pure mind have taken refuge in You with our whole being, because You are our dearest soul and supreme Lord.
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