Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 1


Sanskrit:

रहूगण उवाचनमो नम: कारणविग्रहायस्वरूपतुच्छीकृतविग्रहाय ।नमोऽवधूत द्विजबन्धुलिङ्ग-निगूढनित्यानुभवाय तुभ्यम् ॥ १ ॥

ITRANS:

rahūgaṇa uvācanamo namaḥ kāraṇa-vigrahāyasvarūpa-tucchīkṛta-vigrahāyanamo ’vadhūta dvija-bandhu-liṅga-nigūḍha-nityānubhavāya tubhyam

Translation:

King Rahūgaṇa said: O most exalted personality, you are not different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By the influence of your true self, all kinds of contradiction in the śāstras have been removed. In the dress of a friend of a brāhmaṇa, you are hiding your transcendental blissful position. I offer my respectful obeisances unto you.

Purport:

From the Brahma-saṁhitā we understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of all causes (sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam). Ṛṣabhadeva was the direct incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the cause of all causes. His son, Bharata Mahārāja, who was now acting as the brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata, had received his body from the cause of all causes. Therefore he is addressed as kāraṇa-vigrahāya.