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Puruṣa-sūkta Confirmed
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nato'smy ahaṁ tac-caraṇaṁ samīyuṣāṁ bhavacchidaṁ svasty-ayanaṁ su-maṅgalam yo hy ātma-māyā-vibhavaṁ sma paryagād yathā nabhaḥ svāntam athāpare kutaḥ
nataḥ—let me offer my obeisances; asmi—am; aham—I; tat—the Lord's; caraṇam—feet; samīyuṣām—of the surrendered soul; bhavacchidam—that which stops repetition of birth and death; svasty-ayanaṁ—perception of all happiness; su-maṅgalam—all-auspicious; yaḥ—one who; hi—exactly; ātma-māyā—personal energies; vibhavam—potency; sma—certainly; paryagāt—cannot estimate; yathā—as much as; nabhaḥ—the sky; svāntam—its own limit; atha—therefore; apare—others; kutaḥ—how.
TRANSLATION
Therefore it is best for me to surrender unto His feet, which alone can deliver one from the miseries of repeated birth and death. Such surrender is all-auspicious and allows one to perceive all happiness. Even the sky cannot estimate the limits of its own expansion. So what can others do when the Lord Himself is unable to estimate His own limits?
PURPORT
Lord Brahmā, the greatest of all learned living beings, the greatest sacrificer, the greatest observer of the austere life, and the greatest self-realized mystic, advises us, as the supreme spiritual master of all living beings, that one should simply surrender unto the lotus feet of the Lord in order to achieve all success, even up to the limit of being liberated from the miseries of material life and being endowed with all-auspicious spiritual existence. Lord Brahmā is known as the  pitāmaha , or the father's father. A young man consults his experienced father about discharging his duties. So the father is naturally a good advisor. But Lord Brahmā is the father of all fathers. He is the father of the father of Manu, who is the father of mankind all over the universal planets. Therefore the mankind of this insignificant planet should kindly accept the instruction of Brahmājī and would do well to surrender unto the lotus feet of the Lord rather than try to estimate the length and breadth of the Lord's potencies. His potencies are immeasurable, as is confirmed in the  Vedas .  Parāsya śaktir vividhaiva śrūyate svābhāvikī jñāna-bala-kriyā ca . He is greatest of all, and