CHAPTER NINE
Brahmā's Prayers for Creative Energy
TEXT I
ब्रह्मोवाच
ज्ञातोऽसि मेऽद्य सुचिरान्ननु देहभाजां
न ज्ञायते भगवतो गतिरित्यवधम्
नान्यत्वदस्ति भगवन्नपि तन्न शुद्धं
यायागुणच्यतिकराद्यदुरुविशासि ॥ १ ॥
brahmovāca
jñāto 'si me 'dya sucirān nanu deha-bhājām na jñāyate bhagavato gatir ity avadyam nānyat tvad asti bhagavann api tan na śuddham māyā-guṇa-vyatikarād yad urur vibhāsi
brahmā uvāca —Lord Brahmā said;  jñātaḥ —known;  asi —You are;  me —by me;  adya —today;  sucirāt —after a long time;  nanu —but;  deha-bhājām —of one who has a material body;  na —not;  jñāyate —is known;  bhagavataḥ —of the Personality of Godhead;  gatiḥ —course;  iti —so it is;  avadyam —great offense;  na anyat —none beyond;  tvat —You;  asti —there is;  bhagavan —O my Lord;  api —even though there is;  tat —anything that may be;  na —never;  śuddham —absolute;  māyā —material energy;  guṇa-vyatikarāt —because of the mixture of the modes of;  yat —to which;  uruḥ —transcendental;  vibhāsi —You are.
TRANSLATION
Lord Brahmā said: O my Lord, today, after many, many years of penance, I have come to know about You. Oh, how unfortunate the embodied living entities are that they are unable to know Your personality! My Lord, You are the only knowable object because there is nothing supreme beyond Yourself. If there is anything supposedly superior to
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