Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 2.7.41

nantam vidamy aham ami munayo 'gra-jas te

maya-balasya purushasya kuto 'vara ye

gayan gunan dasa-satanana adi-devah

sesho 'dhunapi samavasyati nasya param

SYNONYMS

na -- never; antam -- end; vidami -- do I know; aham -- myself; ami -- and all those; munayah -- great sages; agra-jah -- born prior to you; te -- you; maya-balasya -- of the omnipotent; purushasya -- of the Personality of Godhead; kutah -- what to speak of others; avarah -- born after us; ye -- those; gayan -- by singing; gunan -- the qualities; dasa-sata-ananah -- one who has ten hundred faces; adi-devah -- the first incarnation of the Lord; seshah -- known as Sesha; adhuna -- until now; api -- even; samavasyati -- can achieve; na -- not; asya -- of Him; param -- limit.

TRANSLATION

Neither I nor all the sages born before you know fully the omnipotent Personality of Godhead. So what can others, who are born after us, know about Him? Even the first incarnation of the Lord, namely Sesha, has not been able to reach the limit of such knowledge, although He is describing the qualities of the Lord with ten hundred faces.

PURPORT

The omnipotent Personality of Godhead has primarily three potential manifestations, namely internal, external, and marginal potencies, with unlimited expansions of these three energies. As such, the potential expansions can never be calculated by anyone because even the Personality of God Himself, as the incarnation of Sesha, cannot estimate the potencies, although He has been describing them continuously with His one thousand faces.

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