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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 7]
TRANSLATION
In the presence of the glaring effulgence of the bodily luster of Nārāyaṇa, everyone else's luster faded away, and everyone stopped speaking. Fearful with awe and veneration, they touched their hands to their heads and prepared to offer their prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Adhokṣaja.
TEXT 24
अप्यवर्गवृत्तयो यस्य महि त्वात्मभ्रुवादयः । यथामति गृणन्ति स कृतानुग्रहविग्रहम् ॥२४॥
apy arvāg-vṛttayo yasya mahi tv ātmabhuv-ādayaḥ yathāmati gṛṇanti sma kṛtānugraha-vigraham
api—still; arvāk-vṛttayaḥ—beyond the mental activities; yasya—whose; mahi—glory; tu—but; ātmabhū-ādayaḥ—Brahmā, etc.; yathāmati—according to their different capacities; gṛṇanti sma—offered prayers; kṛta-anugraha—manifested by His grace; vigraham—transcendental form.
TRANSLATION
Although the mental scope of even demigods like Brahmā was unable to comprehend the unlimited glories of the Supreme Lord, they were all able to perceive the transcendental form of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by His grace. Only by such grace could they offer their respectful prayers according to their different capacities.
PURPORT
The Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is always unlimited, and His glories cannot be completely enumerated by anyone, including a personality like Lord Brahmā. It is said that Ananta, a direct incarnation of the Lord, has unlimited mouths, and with each mouth He has been trying to describe the glories of the Lord for an unlimited span of time, yet the glories of the Lord remain unlimited, and He therefore never finishes. It is not possible for any ordinary living entity to understand or to glorify the unlimited Personality of Godhead, but one can offer prayers or service to the Lord according to one's particular capacity. This capacity