Text 47] The Harinsa-guhya Prayers 251

angesu kratavah sarve
madhya-dehe ca dharma-rat

prano vayus citta-gato
brahmadyah svesu devatah

The various demigods are all acting under the protection of the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, and according to their various actions the
demigods are differently named.

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aham evasam evdgre
nanyat kificantaram bahih
samjnana-matram avyaktam
prasuptam iva visvatah

aham—I, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; eva—only; dsam—
was; eva—certainly; agre—in the beginning, before the creation; na—
not; anyat—other; kifica—anything; antaram—besides Me; bahih—
external (since the cosmic manifestation is external to the spiritual
world, the spiritual world existed when there was no material world);
sarhjnidna-matram—only the consciousness of the living entities; avyak-
tam—unmanifested; prasuptam—sleeping; iwa—like; visvatah—all
over.

TRANSLATION

Before the creation of this cosmic manifestation, I alone existed
with My specific spiritual potencies. Consciousness was then un-
manifested, just as one’s consciousness is unmanifested during the
time of sleep.

PURPORT

The word aham indicates a person. As explained in the Vedas, nityo
nityGnadm cetanas cetananam: the Lord is the supreme eternal among
