Text 4011
The Universal Form
571
vāyur yamo ’gnir varunaḥ śaśāṅkaḥ prajāpatis tvaṁ prapitāmahaś ca namo namas te ’stu sahasra-kṛtvaḥ punaś ca bhūyo ’pi namo namas te
vāyuḥ —air;  yamaḥ —controller;  agniḥ —fire;  varuṇaḥ —water;  śaśāṅkaḥ —moon;  prajāpatiḥ —Brahmā;  tvam —You;  prapitāmahaḥ —grandfather;  ca —also;  namaḥ —offering respects;  namaḥ te —again I offer my respects unto You;  astu —are being;  sahasra-kṛtvaḥ —a thousand times;  punaḥ ca —and again;  bhūyaḥ —again;  api —also;  namaḥ —offer my respects;  namaḥ te —offering my respects unto You.
TRANSLATION
You are air, fire, water, and You are the moon! You are the supreme controller and the grandfather. Thus I offer my respectful obeisances unto You a thousand times, and again and yet again!
PURPORT
The Lord is addressed here as air because the air is the most important representation of all the demigods, being all-pervasive. Arjuna also addresses Kṛṣṇa as the grandfather because He is the father of Brahmā, the first living creature in the universe.
TEXT 40
नमः पुरस्तादथ पृष्ठतस्ते नमोऽस्तु ते सर्वत एव सर्व । अनन्तवीर्यामितविक्रमस्त्वं सर्वं समाप्नोषि ततोऽसि सर्वः ॥४०॥
namaḥ purastād atha pṛṣṭhatas te namo’stu te sarvata eva sarva ananta-vīryāmita-vikramas tvaṁ sarvaṁ samāpnoṣi tato’si sarvaḥ
namah —offering obeisances; purastāt —from the front; atha —also; pṛṣṭha-taḥ —from behind;  te —You;  namaḥ astu —offer my respects;  te —unto You;