Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 2.7.41

nāntam vidāmy aham amī munayo 'gra-jās te

māyā-balasya purushasya kuto 'varā ye

gāyan gunān daśa-śatānana ādi-devah

śesho 'dhunāpi samavasyati nāsya pāram

SYNONYMS

na — never; antam — end; vidāmi — do I know; aham — myself; amī — and all those; munayah — great sages; agra-jāh — born prior to you; te — you; māyā-balasya — of the omnipotent; purushasya — of the Personality of Godhead; kutah — what to speak of others; avarāh — born after us; ye — those; gāyan — by singing; gunān — the qualities; daśa-śata-ānanah — one who has ten hundred faces; ādi-devah — the first incarnation of the Lord; śeshah — known as Śesha; adhunā — until now; api — even; samavasyati — can achieve; na — not; asya — of Him; pāram — 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 Śesha, 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 Śesha, cannot estimate the potencies, although He has been describing them continuously with His one thousand faces.

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