Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 20:41-50

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Go-vatsa-harana

Stealing the Calves

Chapter 20: Verse 41-50

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 41.I glorify the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the master of all potencies, the seed of all potencies, and the resting-place of all potencies, who is simultaneously one and different from His potencies, who is all-powerful, and whose desires are all fulfilled. 42.I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is an ocean of mercy, who dearly loves His devotees, and who is the captain of the powerful ship to cross the terrible ocean of repeated birth and death. 43.I glorify the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose form is transcendental, who visits the material world but is untouched by matter, who is beyond the modes of nature, who has all transcendental virtues, and who has the power to assume any form at will. 44.I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Deity of all senses, the home of all senses, and the form of all senses, and who appears as the universal form. 45.I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Vedas, the father of the Vedas, the Vedäìgas, and all sacred mantras. 46.I worship Yaçodä's son, who is greater than the greatest, unprecedented, indescribable, independent, and also not independent. 47.I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme guru, who stays, invisible and inconceivable, in the bodies of all conditioned souls, and who cannot be found by the meditations of the kings of the yogis. 48.I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead who, served by the gopis, happily stays in the center of the räsa-dance circle. 49.I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is kind to the saintly and harsh to the demons, who is the master of the yogis, who is the yoga practiced by the yogis, and who is served by Lord Çiva. 50.I offer my respectful obeisances to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is greater than the greatest, the seed of all mantras, the king of all mantras, the giver of mantras, the giver of the results attained by chanting mantras, and Himself the result attained by chanting mantras. The sight of His transcendental form is the greatest perfection attained by chanting mantras.