Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 5 - Chapter 18

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 31 Sanskrit: यद्रूपमेतन्निजमाययार्पित-मर्थस्वरूपं बहुरूपरूपितम् ।सङ्ख्या न यस्यास्त्ययथोपलम्भनात्-तस्मै नमस्तेऽव्यपदेशरूपिणे ॥ ३१ ॥ ITRANS: yad-rūpam etan nija-māyayārpitamartha-svarūpaṁ bahu-rūpa-rūpitamsaṅkhyā na yasyāsty ayathopalambhanāttasmai namas te ’vyapadeśa-rūpiṇe Translation: My dear Lord, this visible cosmic manifestation is a demonstration of Your own creative energy. Since the countless varieties of forms within this cosmic manifestation are simply a display of Your external energy, this virāṭ-rūpa [universal body] is not Your real form....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 32 Sanskrit: जरायुजं स्वेदजमण्डजोद्भ‍िदंचराचरं देवर्षिपितृभूतमैन्द्रियम् ।द्यौ: खं क्षिति: शैलसरित्समुद्र-द्वीपग्रहर्क्षेत्यभिधेय एक: ॥ ३२ ॥ ITRANS: jarāyujaṁ svedajam aṇḍajodbhidaṁcarācaraṁ devarṣi-pitṛ-bhūtam aindriyamdyauḥ khaṁ kṣitiḥ śaila-sarit-samudra-dvīpa-graharkṣety abhidheya ekaḥ Translation: My dear Lord, You manifest Your different energies in countless forms: as living entities born from wombs, from eggs and from perspiration; as plants and trees that grow out of the earth; as all living entities, both moving and standing, including the demigods, the learned sages and the pitās; as outer space, as the higher planetary system containing the heavenly planets, and as the planet earth with its hills, rivers, seas, oceans and islands....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 33 Sanskrit: यस्मिन्नसङ्ख्येयविशेषनाम-रूपाकृतौ कविभि: कल्पितेयम् ।सङ्ख्या यया तत्त्वद‍ृशापनीयतेतस्मै नम: साङ्ख्यनिदर्शनाय ते इति ॥ ३३ ॥ ITRANS: yasminn asaṅkhyeya-viśeṣa-nāma-rūpākṛtau kavibhiḥ kalpiteyamsaṅkhyā yayā tattva-dṛśāpanīyatetasmai namaḥ sāṅkhya-nidarśanāya te iti Translation: O my Lord, Your name, form and bodily features are expanded in countless forms. No one can determine exactly how many forms exist, yet You Yourself, in Your incarnation as the learned scholar Kapiladeva, have analyzed the cosmic manifestation as containing twenty-four elements....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 34 Sanskrit: उत्तरेषु च कुरुषु भगवान् यज्ञपुरुष: कृतवराहरूप आस्ते तं तु देवी हैषा भू: सह कुरुभिरस्खलितभक्तियोगेनोपधावति इमां च परमामुपनिषदमावर्तयति ॥ ३४ ॥ ITRANS: uttareṣu ca kuruṣu bhagavān yajña-puruṣaḥ kṛta-varāha-rūpa āste taṁ tu devī haiṣā bhūḥ saha kurubhir askhalita-bhakti-yogenopadhāvati imāṁ ca paramām upaniṣadam āvartayati. Translation: Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: Dear King, the Supreme Lord in His boar incarnation, who accepts all sacrificial offerings, lives in the northern part of Jambūdvīpa....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 35 Sanskrit: ॐ नमो भगवते मन्त्रतत्त्वलिङ्गाय यज्ञक्रतवे महाध्वरावयवाय महापुरुषाय नम: कर्मशुक्लाय त्रियुगाय नमस्ते ॥ ३५ ॥ । ITRANS: oṁ namo bhagavate mantra-tattva-liṅgāya yajña-kratave mahā-dhvarāvayavāya mahā-puruṣāya namaḥ karma-śuklāya tri-yugāya namas te. Translation: O Lord, we offer our respectful obeisances unto You as the gigantic person. Simply by chanting mantras, we shall be able to understand You fully. You are yajña [sacrifice], and You are the kratu [ritual]....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 36 Sanskrit: यस्य स्वरूपं कवयो विपश्चितोगुणेषु दारुष्विव जातवेदसम् ।मथ्नन्ति मथ्ना मनसा दिद‍ृक्षवोगूढं क्रियार्थैर्नम ईरितात्मने ॥ ३६ ॥ ITRANS: yasya svarūpaṁ kavayo vipaścitoguṇeṣu dāruṣv iva jāta-vedasammathnanti mathnā manasā didṛkṣavogūḍhaṁ kriyārthair nama īritātmane Translation: By manipulating a fire-generating stick, great saints and sages can bring forth the fire lying dormant within wood. In the same way, O Lord, those expert in understanding the Absolute Truth try to see You in everything — even in their own bodies....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 37 Sanskrit: द्रव्यक्रियाहेत्वयनेशकर्तृभि-र्मायागुणैर्वस्तुनिरीक्षितात्मने ।अन्वीक्षयाङ्गातिशयात्मबुद्धिभि-र्निरस्तमायाकृतये नमो नम: ॥ ३७ ॥ ITRANS: dravya-kriyā-hetv-ayaneśa-kartṛbhirmāyā-guṇair vastu-nirīkṣitātmaneanvīkṣayāṅgātiśayātma-buddhibhirnirasta-māyākṛtaye namo namaḥ Translation: The objects of material enjoyment [sound, form, taste, touch and smell], the activities of the senses, the controllers of sensory activities [the demigods], the body, eternal time and egotism are all creations of Your material energy. Those whose intelligence has become fixed by perfect execution of mystic yoga can see that all these elements result from the actions of Your external energy....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 38 Sanskrit: करोति विश्वस्थितिसंयमोदयंयस्येप्सितं नेप्सितमीक्षितुर्गुणै: ।माया यथायो भ्रमते तदाश्रयंग्राव्णो नमस्ते गुणकर्मसाक्षिणे ॥ ३८ ॥ ITRANS: karoti viśva-sthiti-saṁyamodayaṁyasyepsitaṁ nepsitam īkṣitur guṇaiḥmāyā yathāyo bhramate tad-āśrayaṁgrāvṇo namas te guṇa-karma-sākṣiṇe Translation: O Lord, You do not desire the creation, maintenance or annihilation of this material world, but You perform these activities for the conditioned souls by Your creative energy. Exactly as a piece of iron moves under the influence of a lodestone, inert matter moves when You glance over the total material energy....

Srimad-Bhagavatam: Canto 5 - Chapter 1 - Verse 39 Sanskrit: प्रमथ्य दैत्यं प्रतिवारणं मृधेयो मां रसाया जगदादिसूकर: ।कृत्वाग्रदंष्ट्रे निरगादुदन्वत:क्रीडन्निवेभ: प्रणतास्मि तं विभुमिति ॥ ३९ ॥ ITRANS: pramathya daityaṁ prativāraṇaṁ mṛdheyo māṁ rasāyā jagad-ādi-sūkaraḥkṛtvāgra-daṁṣṭre niragād udanvataḥkrīḍann ivebhaḥ praṇatāsmi taṁ vibhum iti Translation: My Lord, as the original boar within this universe, You fought and killed the great demon Hiraṇyakṣa. Then You lifted me [the earth] from the Garbhodaka Ocean on the end of Your tusk, exactly as a sporting elephant plucks a lotus flower from the water....