Brahma Vaivarta Purana Chapter 21:201-212

Brahma Vaivarta Purana

Çryäga-bi Indra-haïjana

Breaking the Indra-yajïa

Chapter 21: Verse 201-212

ENGLISH TRANSLATION 201.Everyone thought that Kåñëa must be the original Supreme Personality of Godhead. Then Lord Kåñëa returned to His own home. 202.Then, the hairs of his body erect and his eyes filled with tears of devotion, Nanda offered prayers to his son, the eternal Supreme Personality of Godhead. 203.Çri Nanda said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Kåñëa, who is the worshipable Deity for all brahminical men, who is the well-wisher of cows and brähmanas, and who is always benefiting the whole world. I offer my repeated obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, known as Kåñna and Govinda. 204.Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are the worshipable Deity for all brahminical men, who are the Supreme Lord of the cows and brähmaëas, and who are the resting place of numberless millions of universes. 205.Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are the seed from which Lord Matsya and the other divine incarnations have grown, who are the supreme witness, who are not touched by matter, who are free from the modes of material nature, and whose form is not material. 206.Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You, whose form is spiritual and eternal, who cannot be seen in the meditations of the yogis, who are the Supreme Lord to whom Brahmä, Viñëu and Çiva bow down to offer respects, . . . 207.. . . who are the abode of the four varëas, who appear in the four yugas in white, red, yellow, and black forms with many names and transcendental qualities, . . . 208.. . . who are the supreme yogi, the form of yoga, and the guru of the yogis, who are perfect, and who are the master and guru of the perfect beings. 209.-212.How can the unintelligent people of this world properly glorify You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who are greater than the greatest, and whom even Brahmä, Viñëu, Çiva, Çeña, Yama, Vidhi, Gaëeça, Kärttikeya, Sanaka, the brähmaëa sages, and Kapila, the guru of the guru of the kings of the perfect beings, cannot properly glorify?