Text 19]
King Citraketu Meets the Lord
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sances;  saṅkarṣaṇāya —unto Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa;  ca —also;  namaḥ —all obeisances;  vijñāna-mātrāya —unto the form full of knowledge;  parama-ānanda-mūrtaye —full of transcendental bliss;  ātma-ārāmāya —unto the Lord, who is self-sufficient;  śāntāya —and free from disturbances;  nivṛtta-dvaita-dṛṣṭaye —whose vision turns away from duality, or who is one without a second.
TRANSLATION
[Nārada gave Citraketu the following mantra.] O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, who are addressed by the oṁkāra [praṇava], I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. O Lord Vāsudeva, I meditate upon You. O Lord Pradyumna, Lord Aniruddha and Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa, I offer You my respectful obeisances. O reservoir of spiritual potency, O supreme bliss, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are self-sufficient and most peaceful. O ultimate truth, one without a second, You are realized as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān and are therefore the reservoir of all knowledge. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.
PURPORT
In  Bhagavad-gītā  Kṛṣṇa says that He is  praṇavaḥ sarva-vedeṣu , the syllable  oṁ  in the Vedic  mantras . In transcendental knowledge, the Lord is addressed as  praṇava ,  oṁkāra , which is a symbolic representation of the Lord in sound.  Oṁ namo bhagavate vāsudevāya . Vāsudeva, who is an expansion of Nārāyaṇa, expands Himself as Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Saṅkarṣaṇa. From Saṅkarṣaṇa comes a second Nārāyaṇa expansion, and from this Nārāyaṇa come further expansions of Vāsudeva, Pradyumna, Saṅkarṣaṇa and Aniruddha. The Saṅkarṣaṇa in this group is the original cause of the three  puruṣas , namely Kāraṇodakaśāyī Viṣṇu, Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu. Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is situated in every universe in a special planet called Śvetadvīpa. This is confirmed in the  Brahma-saṁhitā: aṇḍāntara-stha . The word  aṇḍa  means this universe. Within this universe is a planet called Śvetadvīpa, where Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu is situated. From Him come all the incarnations within this universe.