238 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 8, Ch. 16
Supreme Person; mahiyase—the best of all personalities; sarva-bhiita-
nivdsdya—the person who lives in everyone’s heart; vdsudevaya—the
Lord who lives everywhere; sdksine—the witness of everything.
TRANSLATION
O Supreme Personality of Godhead, greatest of all, who lives in
everyone’s heart and in whom everyone lives, O witness of every-
thing, O Vasudeva, supreme and all-pervading person, I offer my
respectful obeisances unto You.
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AMSHTBT BAT TTATETT 3 |
SIC RCO Uy MD UEC CoE MEST
namo ’vyaktaya siiksmaya
pradhdana-purusdya ca
catur-virnsad-guna-jndya
guna-sankhydna-hetave
namah—I offer my respectful obeisances unto You; avyaktaya—who
are never seen by material eyes; siiksmaya—transcendental; pradhana-
purusdya—the Supreme Person; ca—also; catuh-vimsat—twenty-four;
guna-jndya—the knower of the elements; guna-sarikhyana—of the
sdrikhya-yoga system; hetave—the original cause.
TRANSLATION
I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Person.
Being very subtle, You are never visible to material eyes. You are
the knower of the twenty-four elements, and You are the in-
augurator of the sankhya-yoga system.
PURPORT
Catur-virhsad-guna, the twenty-four elements, are the five gross ele-
ments (earth, water, fire, air and ether), the three subtle elements
(mind, intelligence and false ego), the ten senses (five for working and
