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Gajendra's Prayers of Surrender
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I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
PURPORT
The words  bṛhate namas te  have been explained by Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura:  bṛhate śrī-kṛṣṇāya . The Supreme Personality of Godhead is Kṛṣṇa. There are many  tattvas , such as  viṣṇu-tattva ,  jīva-tattva  and  śakti-tattva , but above everything is the  viṣṇu-tattva , which is all-pervading. This all-pervading feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is explained in  Bhagavad-gītā  (10.42), wherein the Lord says:
athavā bahunaitena kiṁ jñātena tavārjuna viṣṭabhyāham idaṁ kṛtsnam ekāṁśena sthito jagat
“But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe.” Thus Kṛṣṇa says that the entire material world is maintained by His partial representation as Paramātmā. The Lord enters every universe as Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu and then expands Himself as Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu to enter the hearts of all living entities and even enter the atoms.  Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham . Every universe is full of atoms, and the Lord is not only within the universe but also within the atoms. Thus within every atom the Supreme Lord exists in His Viṣṇu feature as Paramātmā, but all the  viṣṇu-tattvas  emanate from Kṛṣṇa. As confirmed in  Bhagavad-gītā  (10.2),  aham ādir hi devānām : Kṛṣṇa is the  ādi , or beginning, of the  devas  of this material world—Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara. Therefore He is described here as  bhagavate bṛhate . Everyone is  bhagavān —everyone possesses opulence—but Kṛṣṇa is  bṛhān bhagavān , the possessor of unlimited opulence.  Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ . Kṛṣṇa is the origin of everyone.  Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ . Even Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Maheśvara come from Kṛṣṇa.  Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya : there is no personality superior to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore Viśvanātha Cakravartī Thākura says that  bhagavate bṛhate  means “unto Śrī Kṛṣṇa.”