CC Madhya 21.13

Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta - Madhya-līlā - Chapter 21: The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa

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His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

TEXT 13

nāntaṁ vidāmy aham amī munayo ’grajās te

māyā-balasya puruṣasya kuto ’varā ye

gāyan guṇān daśa-śatānana ādi-devaḥ

śeṣo ’dhunāpi samavasyati nāsya pāram

SYNONYMS

na antam — no limit; vidāmi — know; aham — I; amī — those; munayaḥ — great saintly persons; agrajāḥ — brothers; te — of you; māyā-balasya — who has multi-energies; puruṣasya — of the Personality of Godhead; kutaḥ — how; avarāḥ — less intelligent; ye — those who; gāyan — chanting; guṇān — the qualities; daśa-śata-ānanaḥ — who has a thousand hoods; ādi-devaḥ — the Personality of Godhead; śeṣaḥ — Ananta Śeṣa; adhunā api — even until now; samavasyati — reaches; na — not; asya — of the Lord; pāram — limit.

TRANSLATION

“‘If I, Lord Brahmā, and your elder brothers, the great saints and sages, cannot understand the limits of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is full of various energies, who else can understand them? Although constantly chanting about His transcendental qualities, the thousand-hooded Lord Śeṣa has not yet reached the end of the Lord’s activities.’

PURPORT

This verse, spoken to Nārada Muni by Lord Brahmā, is also from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (SB 2.7.41).

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