CHAPTER ONE

Questions by the Sages

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om namo bhagavate vasudevaya
Janmady asya yato ’nvaydd itaratas carthesv abhijiiah sva-rat
tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye muhyanti yat sirayah
tejo-vari-mrdam yathda vinimayo yatra tri-sargo ‘mrsa
dhamna svena sada nirasta-kuhakam satyam pararh dhimahi.

om—O my Lord; namah—offering my obeisances; bhagavate—unto the
Personality of Godhead; vasudevaya—unto Vasudeva (the son of Vasudeva),
or Lord Sri Krsna, the Primeval Lord; janma-adi—creation, sustenance and
destruction; asya—of the manifested universes; yatah—from whom; anva-
yat—directly; itaratah—indirectly; ca—and; arthesu—purposes; abhijfiah—
fully cognizant; sva-rat—fully independent; tene—imparted; brahma—the
Vedic knowledge; hrdd—consciousness of the heart; yah—one who; adi-
kavaye—unto the original created being; muhyanti—are illusioned; yat—
about whom; siirayah—great sages and demigods; tejah—fire; van—water;
myrdam—earth; yatha—as much as; vinimayah—action and reaction; yatra—
whereupon; tri-sargah—three modes of creation, creative faculties; amrsa—
almost factual; dhamna—along with all transcendental paraphernalia; svena
—self-sufficiently; sada—always; nirasta—negation by absence; kuhakam—
illusion; satyam—truth; param—absolute; dhimahi—I do meditate upon.

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