Text 22] Bali Maharaja Surrenders the Universe 117

if one offers whatever he has in his possession, he becomes a recognized
devotee. In this regard, the example is given that when one’s face is
decorated with a garland and sandalwood pulp, the reflection of one’s
face in a mirror automatically becomes beautiful. The original source of
everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is our original
source also. Therefore when the Supreme Personality of Godhead is
decorated, the devotees and all living entities are decorated
automatically.

TEXT 22
acaranaces aa |
aca fad root amen
qahraarsaegEy | |Rz

kaye balis tasya mahd-vibhiiteh
sahartvig-adcarya-sadasya etat

dadarsa visvarh tri-gunam gundtmake
bhittendriyarthasaya-jiva-yuktam

kaye—in the body; balih—Maharaja Bali; tasya—of the Personality
of Godhead; mahd-vibhiiteh—of that person who is equipped with all
wonderful opulences; saha-rtvik-dcarya-sadasyah—with all the priests,
Gcaryas and members of the holy assembly; etat—this; dadarsa—saw;
visvam—the whole universe; tri-gunam—made of three modes of
material nature; guna-atmake—in that which is the source of all such
qualities; bhiita—with all the gross material elements; indriya—with
the senses; artha—with the sense objects; dSaya—with mind, in-
telligence and false ego; jiva-yuktam—with all the living entities.

TRANSLATION

Bali Maharaja, along with all the priests, acaryas and members of
the assembly, observed the Supreme Personality of Godhead’s
universal body, which was full of six opulences. That body con-
tained everything within the universe, including all the gross
