🪷 ŚB 8.23.29
Sanskrit, transliteration, word meanings, and translation for steady Bhāgavata reading.
Sanskrit
पारं महिम्न उरुविक्रमतो गृणानो
य: पार्थिवानि विममे स रजांसि मर्त्य: ।
किं जायमान उत जात उपैति मर्त्य
इत्याह मन्त्रदृगृषि: पुरुषस्य यस्य ॥ २९ ॥
Transliteration
pāraṁ mahimna uruvikramato gṛṇāno
yaḥ pārthivāni vimame sa rajāṁsi martyaḥ
kiṁ jāyamāna uta jāta upaiti martya
ity āha mantra-dṛg ṛṣiḥ puruṣasya yasya
Synonyms
pāram — the measurement; mahimnaḥ — of the glories; uruvikramataḥ — of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who acts wonderfully; gṛṇānaḥ — can count; yaḥ — a person who; pārthivāni — of the whole planet earth; vimame — can count; saḥ — he; rajāṁsi — the atoms; martyaḥ — a human being who is subject to death; kim — what; jāyamānaḥ — one who will take birth in the future; uta — either; jātaḥ — one who is already born; upaiti — can do; martyaḥ — a person subject to death; iti — thus; āha — said; mantra-dṛk — who could foresee the Vedic mantras; ṛṣiḥ — the great saintly Vasiṣṭha Muni; puruṣasya — of the supreme person; yasya — of whom.
Translation
One who is subject to death cannot measure the glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Trivikrama, Lord Viṣṇu, any more than he can count the number of atoms on the entire planet earth. No one, whether born already or destined to take birth, is able to do this. This has been sung by the great sage Vasiṣṭha.
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ŚB 8.23.29requested verse-reference route for this Bhāgavatam reading pageŚB 8.23parent chapter route and reading-passage indexSkandha 8parent skandha chapter index/bhagavatammaster index for 12 skandhas, 335 chapters, and 13,003 reading pagesŚB 1.1.1satyaṁ paraṁ dhīmahi · the Bhāgavatam source meditationŚB 1.2.6supreme dharma as ahaitukī and apratihatā bhaktiŚB 1.2.11Brahman · Paramātmā · Bhagavān as one advaya-tattvaŚB 1.3.28kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svayam · Krishna-pramāṇa source sealŚB 10.10.29Dāmodara/Yamala-arjuna · Krishna as supreme original PersonŚB 10.10.30-31Krishna as Kāla · Viṣṇu · Paramātmā · AntaryāmīŚB 10.10.38speech, hearing, body, mind, head, and sight offered in Krishna-sevāŚB 10.10.39Gokuleśvara bound by love, smilingŚB 10.10.40Nārada correction as anugrahaŚB 10.10.41sādhu-darśana removes bondage-darknessŚB 12.2.18Kalki witness at ŚambhalaŚB 12.3.51Kali-yuga blessing through Krishna-kīrtanaSkandha 10 līlā index20-anchor Krishna-līlā source-walk inside the Bhāgavatam master pageBG 7.7mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat · no source higher than KrishnaBG 10.8ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ · Krishna as source of allBG 15.15Krishna seated in every heart and the target of all Veda/binduDiamond of Darśanas · Bhāgavata prema as the Bindu made rasa/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation
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