Text 47]
The Hainsa-guhya Prayers
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aṅgeṣu kratavaḥ sarve madhya-dehe ca dharma-rāṭ prāṇo vāyuś citta-gato brahmādyāḥ sveṣu devatāḥ
The various demigods are all acting under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and according to their various actions the demigods are differently named.
TEXT 47
अहमेवासमेवाग्रे नान्यत् किञ्चान्तरं वहिः । संज्ञानमात्रमव्यक्तं प्रसुप्तमिव विश्वतः ॥४७॥
aham evāsam evāgre nānyat kiñcāntaram bahiḥ saṅyñāna-mātram avyaktam prasuptam iva viśvataḥ
aham—I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; eva—only; āsam—was; eva—certainly; agre—in the beginning, before the creation; na—not; anyat—other; kiñca—anything; antaram—besides Me; bahiḥ—external (since the cosmic manifestation is external to the spiritual world, the spiritual world existed when there was no material world); saṅyñāna-mātram—only the consciousness of the living entities; avyaktam—unmanifested; prasuptam—sleeping; iva—like; viśvataḥ—all over.
TRANSLATION
Before the creation of this cosmic manifestation, I alone existed with My specific spiritual potencies. Consciousness was then unmanifested, just as one's consciousness is unmanifested during the time of sleep.
PURPORT
The word  aham  indicates a person. As explained in the  Vedas ,  nityo nityānām cetanaś cetanānām : the Lord is the supreme eternal among