Krishna's Opulences

Not Even Brahma & Siva can estimate Lord's Qualities

Madhya 21.13, SB 2.7.41

nāntaḿ vidāmy aham amī munayo 'grajās te
māyā-balasya puruṣasya kuto 'varā ye
gāyan guṇān daśa-śatānana ādi-devaḥ
śeṣo 'dhunāpi samavasyati nāsya pāram

SYNONYMS

na antam — no limit; vidāmi — know; aham — I; amī — those; munayaḥ — great saintly persons; agrajāḥ — brothers; te — of you; māyā-balasya — who has multi-energies; puruṣasya — of the Personality of Godhead; kutaḥ — how; avarāḥ — less intelligent; ye — those who; gāyan — chanting; guṇān — the qualities; daśa-śata-ānanaḥ — who has a thousand hoods; ādi-devaḥ — the Personality of Godhead; śeṣaḥ — Ananta Śeṣa; adhunā api — even until now; samavasyati — reaches; na — not; asya — of the Lord; pāram — limit.

TRANSLATION

"'If I, Lord Brahmā, and your elder brothers, the great saints and sages, cannot understand the limits of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of various energies, who else can understand them? Although constantly chanting about His transcendental qualities, the thousand-hooded Lord Śeṣa has not yet reached the end of the Lord's activities.'

Only One Favored by the Lord can Understand the Lord

SB 2.7.42

yeṣāḿ sa eṣa bhagavān dayayed anantaḥ
sarvātmanāśrita-pado yadi nirvyalīkam
te dustarām atitaranti ca deva-māyāḿ
naiṣāḿ mamāham iti dhīḥ śva-śṛgāla-bhakṣye

SYNONYMS

yeṣām — unto those only; saḥ — the Lord; eṣaḥ — the; bhagavān — the Personality of Godhead; dayayet — does bestow His mercy; anantaḥ — the unlimited potential; sarva-ātmanā — by all means, without reservation; āśrita-padaḥ — surrendered soul; yadi — if such surrender; nirvyalīkam — without pretension; te — those only; dustarām — insurmountable; atitaranti — can overcome; ca — and the paraphernalia; deva-māyām — diverse energies of the Lord; na — not; eṣām — of them; mama — mine; aham — myself; iti — thus; dhīḥ — conscious; śva — dogs; śṛgāla — jackals; bhakṣye — in the matter of eating.

TRANSLATION

But anyone who is specifically favored by the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, due to unalloyed surrender unto the service of the Lord, can overcome the insurmountable ocean of illusion and can understand the Lord. But those who are attached to this body, which is meant to be eaten at the end by dogs and jackals, cannot do so.

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Viraja River (Karana Ocean) Separates the material and Spiritual Worlds
Madhya 21.50-51

pradhāna-parama-vyomnor
antare virajā nadī
vedāńga-sveda-janitais
toyaiḥ prasrāvitā śubhā

SYNONYMS

pradhāna-parama-vyomnoḥ antare — between the material world and the spiritual world; virajā nadī — is a river known as Virajā; veda-ańga — of the transcendental body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; sveda-janitaiḥ — produced from the perspiration; toyaiḥ — with water; prasrāvitā — flowing; śubhā — all-auspicious.

TRANSLATION

"'Between the spiritual and the material world is a body of water known as the river Virajā. This water is generated from the bodily perspiration of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is known as Vedāńga. Thus the river flows.'

tasyāḥ pāre para-vyoma
tri-pād-bhūtaḿ sanātanam
amṛtaḿ śāśvataḿ nityam
anantaḿ paramaḿ padam

SYNONYMS

tasyāḥ pāre — on the other bank of the Virajā River; para-vyoma — the spiritual sky; tri-pāt-bhūtam — existing as three fourths of the opulence of the Supreme Lord; sanātanam — eternal; amṛtam — without deterioration; śāśvatam — without being subjected to the control of time; nityam — constantly existing; anantam — unlimited; paramam — supreme; padam — abode.

TRANSLATION

"'Beyond the river Virajā is the spiritual nature, which is indestructible, eternal, inexhaustible and unlimited. It is the supreme abode, consisting of three fourths of the Lord's opulences. It is known as paravyoma, the spiritual sky.'

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