Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.
Sanskrit
ब्रह्मोवाच
ज्ञातोऽसि मेऽद्य सुचिरान्ननु देहभाजां
न ज्ञायते भगवतो गतिरित्यवद्यम् ।
नान्यत्त्वदस्ति भगवन्नपि तन्न शुद्धं
मायागुणव्यतिकराद्यदुरुर्विभासि ॥ १ ॥
Transliteration
brahmovāca
jñāto ’si me ’dya sucirān nanu deha-bhājāṁ
na jñāyate bhagavato gatir ity avadyam
nānyat tvad asti bhagavann api tan na śuddhaṁ
māyā-guṇa-vyatikarād yad urur vibhāsi
Synonyms
brahmā uvāca — Lord Brahmā said; jñātaḥ — known; asi — You are; me — by me; adya — today; sucirāt — after a long time; nanu — but; deha-bhājām — of one who has a material body; na — not; jñāyate — is known; bhagavataḥ — of the Personality of Godhead; gatiḥ — course; iti — so it is; avadyam — great offense; na anyat — none beyond; tvat — You; asti — there is; bhagavan — O my Lord; api — even though there is; tat — anything that may be; na — never; śuddham — absolute; māyā — material energy; guṇa-vyatikarāt — because of the mixture of the modes of; yat — to which; uruḥ — transcendental; vibhāsi — You are.
Translation
Lord Brahmā said: O my Lord, today, after many, many years of penance, I have come to know about You. Oh, how unfortunate the embodied living entities are that they are unable to know Your personality! My Lord, You are the only knowable object because there is nothing supreme beyond You. If there is anything supposedly superior to You, it is not the Absolute. You exist as the Supreme by exhibiting the creative energy of matter.
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