Canto 10: The Summum BonumChapter 49: Akrūra's Mission in Hastināpura

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 10.49.29

yo durvimarśa-pathayā nija-māyayedaḿ

sṛṣṭvā guṇān vibhajate tad-anupraviṣṭaḥ

tasmai namo duravabodha-vihāra-tantra-

saḿsāra-cakra-gataye parameśvarāya

SYNONYMS

yaḥ — who; durvimarśa — inconceivable; pathayā — whose path; nija — by His own; māyayā — creative energy; idam — this universe; sṛṣṭvā — creating; guṇān — its modes; vibhajateHe distributes; tat — within it; anupraviṣṭaḥ — entering; tasmaito Him; namaḥ — obeisances; duravabodha — unfathomable; vihāra — of whose pastimes; tantra — the purport; saḿsāra — of birth and death; cakra — the cycle; gataye — and liberation (coming from whom); parama-īśvarāyato the supreme controller.

TRANSLATION

I offer my obeisances to Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who creates this universe by the inconceivable activity of His material energy and then distributes the various modes of nature by entering within the creation. From Him, the meaning of whose pastimes is unfathomable, come both the entangling cycle of birth and death and the process of deliverance from it.

PURPORT

When all is said and done, Dhṛtarāṣṭra was not an ordinary person but an associate of the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa. Certainly an ordinary person could not offer such a learned hymn to the Lord.

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