256 Srimad-Bhagavatam [Canto 9, Ch. 8

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prasanta maya-guna-karma-lingam
anadma-nipam sad-asad-vimuktam

Jfidnopadesaya grhita-deham
namdmahe tvam purusam puranam

prasanta—O completely peaceful one; méyd-guna—the modes of ma-
terial nature; hkarma-lirgam—symptomized by fruitive activities;
andma-ripam—one who has no material name or form; sat-asat-
vimuktam—transcendental to the manifested and nonmanifested modes
of material nature; jfdna-upadesdya—for distributing transcendental
knowledge (as in Bhagavad-gita); grhita-deham—has assumed a form
like a material body; namamahe—I offer my respectful obeisances;
tuim—unto You; purusam—the Supreme Person; purdnam—the
original.

TRANSLATION

O completely peaceful Lord, although material nature, fruitive
activities and their consequent material names and forms are Your
creation, You are unaffected by them. Therefore, Your transcen-
dental name is different from material names, and Your form is
different from material forms. You assume a form resembling a
material body just to give us instructions like those of Bhagavad-
gita, but actually You are the supreme original person. | therefore
offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

PURPORT

Srila Yamunacarya has recited this verse in his Stotra-ratna (43):

bhavantam evdnucaran nirantarah
prasdanta-nihsesa-manorathdantarah
kadaéham aikdntika-nitya-kinkarah

praharsayisyami sanatha-jivitam
