234 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 2, Ch. 5

TEXT 12

TH TH ATA Tee Are |
TTT THIN At safer sR 1122

tasmai namo bhagavate
vasudevaya dhimahi
yan-mayaya durjayaya
mam vadanti jagad-gurum

tasmai—unto Him; namah—offer my obeisances; bhagavate—unto the
Personality of Godhead; vadsudevaya—unto Lord Krsna; dhimahi—do
meditate upon Him; yat—by whose; ma@yaya—potencies; durjayaya—invin-
cible; mam:—unto me; vadanti—they say; jagat—world; gurum—the master.

TRANSLATION

I offer my obeisances and meditate upon Lord Krsna [ Vasudeva], the
Personality of Godhead, whose invincible potency influences them [the
less intelligent class of men] to call me the supreme controller.

PURPORT

As will be more clearly explained in the next verse, the illusory potency
of the Lord bewilders the less intelligent to accept Brahmaji, or for that
matter any other person, as the Supreme Lord. Brahmaji, however, refuses
to be called this, and he directly offers his respectful obeisances unto Lord
Vasudeva, or Sri Krsna the Personality of Godhead, as he has already
offered the same respects to Him in the Brahma-samhita:

isvarah paramah krsnah sac-cid-Gnanda-vigrahah
andadir adir govindah sarva-karana-kdranam.

“The Supreme Lord is the Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna, the primeval
Lord in His transcendental body, and the ultimate cause of all causes. I
worship that primeval Lord Govinda.”

Brahmaji is conscious of his actual position, and he knows how less
intelligent persons are bewildered by the illusory energy of the Lord and
