Text 9]
The Glories of Lord Ananta
423
“If we simply try to engage in the congregational chanting of the glories of Lord Anantadeva, the dirty things in our hearts, accumulated during many births, will immediately be washed away. Therefore a Vaiṣṇava never loses an opportunity to glorify Anantadeva.
‘śeṣa’ ba-i saṁsārera gati nāhi āra anantera nāme sarva-jīvera uddhāra
“Lord Anantadeva is known as Śeṣa [the unlimited end] because He ends our passage through this material world. Simply by chanting His glories, everyone can be liberated.
ananta pṛthivī-giri samudra-sahite ye-prabhu dharena gire pālana karite
“On His head, Anantadeva sustains the entire universe, with its millions of planets containing enormous oceans and mountains.
sahasra phaṇāra eka-phaṇe ‘bindu’ yena ananta vikrama, nā jānena, ‘āche’ hena
“He is so large and powerful that this universe rests on one of His hoods just like a drop of water. He does not know where it is.
sahasra-vadane kṛṣṇa-yaśa nirantara gāite āchena ādi-deva mahī-dhara
“While bearing the universe on one of His hoods, Anantadeva chants the glories of Kṛṣṇa with each of His thousands of mouths.
gāyena ananta, śrī-yaśera nāhi anta jaya-bhaṅga nāhi kāru, doṅhe — balavanta
“Although He has been chanting the glories of Lord Kṛṣṇa since time immemorial, He has still not come to their end.
adyāpiha ‘śeṣa’-deva sahasra-śrī-mukhe gāyena caitanya-yaśa anta nāhi dekhe