Text 36] Purusa-sakta Confirmed 317

nato’smy aham tac-caranam samiyusam
bhavacchidam svasty-ayanam su-mangalam

yo hy atma-maya-vibhavam sma parvagad
yatha nabhah svdntam athapare kutah

natah—let me offer my obeisances; asmi—am; aham—}; tat—the Lord’s;
caranam—feet; samiyusam—of the surrendered soul; bhavacchidam—that
which stops repetition of birth and death; svasty-ayanam-—perception of all
happiness; su-mangalam—all-auspicious; yah—one who; hi—exactly; atma-
maya —personal energies; vibhavam—potency; sma—certainly ; paryagat—can-
not estimate; yatha—as much as; nabhah—the sky; svantam—its own limit;
atha—therefore; apare—others; kutah—how.

TRANSLATION

Therefore it is best for me to surrender unto His feet, which alone can
deliver one from the miseries of repeated birth and death. Such surrender
is all-auspicious and allows one to perceive all happiness. Even the sky
cannot estimate the limits of its own expansion. So what can others do
when the Lord Himself is unable to estimate His own limits?

PURPORT

Lord Brahma, the greatest of all learned living beings, the greatest
sacrificer, the greatest observer of the austere life, and the greatest self-
realized mystic, advises us, as the supreme spiritual master of all living
beings, that one should simply surrender unto the lotus feet of the Lord
in order to achieve all success, even up to the limit of being liberated from
the miseries of material life and being endowed with all-auspicious
spiritual existence. Lord Brahma is known as the pitamaha, or the father’s
father. A young man consults his experienced father about discharging
his duties. So the father is naturally a good advisor. But Lord Brahma is the
father of all fathers. He is the father of the father of Manu, who is the
father of mankind all over the universal planets. Therefore the mankind
of this insignificant planet should kindly accept the instruction of Brahmaji
and would do well to surrender unto the lotus feet of the Lord rather
than try to estimate the length and breadth of the Lord’s potencies. His
potencies are immeasurable, as is confirmed in the Vedas. Pardsya sak tir
vividhaiva srityate svadbhaviki jndna-bala-kriya ca. He is greatest of all, and
