Text 23] Purusa-sikta Confirmed 299

dnanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhavitabhis
tabhir ya eva nijarupataya kalabhih
goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhitto
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami

“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda, the one who enlivens
the senses of everyone by His personal bodily rays, resides in His transcen-
dental abode, called Goloka. Yet He is present in every nook and corner of
His creation by expansion of happy spiritual rays, equal in power to His
personal potency of bliss.” He is therefore simultaneously personal and
impersonal by His inconceivable potency, or He is the one without a
second, displaying complete unity in diversity of material and spiritual
manifestations. He is separated from everything, and still nothing is dif-
ferent from Him.

TEXT 23

TTA AATASAATA AEA! |
MWA AMAT «FRU M1231

yadasya nabhyan nalinad
aham dsam mahatmanah

navidarh yajiia-sambharan
purusavayavan rte

yada—at the time of; asya—His; nabhyat—from the abdomen; nalinat—
from the lotus flower;aham—myself;asam—took my birth; maha-atmanah—
of the great person; na avidam—did not know; yajfia—sacrificial; sam-
bharan—ingredients; purusa—of the Lord; avayavat—personal bodily limbs;
rte—except.

TRANSLATION

When I was bom from the abdominal lotus flower of the Lord
[Maha-Visnu], the great person, I had no other ingredients for sacrificial

performances except the bodily limbs of the great Personality of
Godhead.
