Text 18] Gajendra’s Prayers of Surrender 99

THta: seas qearfsara

TAHA AMAA aA SIT I12cll

atmatma-japta-grha-vitta-janesu saktair
duspraépandaya guna-sarga-vivarjitaya
muktatmabhih sva-hrdaye paribhavitaya
Jiidnatmane bhagavate nama isvaréya

dtma—the mind and body; dtma-ja—sons and daughters; dpta—
friends and relatives; grha—home, community, society and nation;
vitta—wealth; janesu—to various servants and assistants; saktaih—by
those who are too attached; duspraépandya—unto You, who are very dif-
ficult to achieve; guna-sariga—by the three modes of material nature;
vivarjitaya—who are not contaminated; mukta-dtmabhih—by persons
who are already liberated; sva-hrdaye—within the core of the heart;
paribhavitaya—unto You, who are always meditated upon; jrdna-
atmane—the reservoir of all enlightenment; bhagavate—unto the
Supreme Personality of Godhead; namah—I offer my respectful obei-
sances; isvardya—unto the supreme controller.

TRANSLATION

My Lord, those who are completely freed from material con-
tamination always meditate upon You within the cores of their
hearts. You are extremely difficult to attain for those like me who
are too attached to mental concoction, home, relatives, friends,
money, servants and assistants. You are the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, uncontaminated by the modes of nature. You are the
reservoir of all enlightenment, the supreme controller. I therefore
offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

PURPORT

Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead comes into the material
world, He is unaffected by the modes of material nature. This is con-
firmed in Isopanisad. Apapa-viddham: He is not contaminated. This
same fact is described here. Guna-sanga-vivarjitaya. Although the
