Text 17] Gajendra’s Prayers of Surrender 7
I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Per-
sonality of Godhead.
PURPORT

The words brhate namas te have been explained by Srila Visvanatha
Cakravarti Thakura: brhate sri-krsndya. The Supreme Personality of
Godhead is Krsna. There are many tattvas, such as visnu-tattva, jiva-
tattva and Sakti-tattva, but above everything is the visnu-tattva, which is
all-pervading. This all-pervading feature of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is explained in Bhagavad-gita (10.42), wherein the Lord says:

athava bahunaitena
kirh jfidtena tavarjuna
vistabhyaham idam krisnam
ekamsena sthito jagat

“But what need is there, Arjuna, for all this detailed knowledge? With a
single fragment of Myself I pervade and support this entire universe.”
Thus Krsna says that the entire material world is maintained by His par-
tial representation as Paramatma. The Lord enters every universe as
Garbhodakaésayi Visnu and then expands Himself as Ksirodakasayi Visnu
to enter the hearts of all living entities and even enter the atoms.
Andéntara-stha-paramanu-caydantara-stham. Every universe is full of
atoms, and the Lord is not only within the universe but also within the
atoms. Thus within every atom the Supreme Lord exists in His Visnu
feature as Paramatma, but all the visnu-tattvas emanate from Krsna. As
confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (10.2), aham ddir hi devanam: Krsna is the
di, or beginning, of the devas of this material world—Brahma, Visnu
and Mahesvara. Therefore He is described here as bhagavate brhate.
Everyone is bhagavén—everyone possesses opulence—but Krsna is
brhan bhagavan, the possessor of unlimited opulence. [svarah paramah
krsnah. Krsna is the origin of everyone. Aham sarvasya prabhavah.
Even Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara come from Krsna. Mattah
parataram nanyat kivicid asti dhanafjaya: there is no personality
superior to Krsna. Therefore Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says that
bhagavate brhate means “‘unto Sri Krsna.”
