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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.17.17
śrī-bhagavān uvāca
oḿ namo bhagavate mahā-puruṣāya sarva-guṇa-sańkhyānāyānantāyāvyaktāya nama iti
SYNONYMS
śrī-bhagavān uvāca — the most powerful Lord Śiva says; om namo bhagavate — O Supreme Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You; mahā-puruṣāya — who are the Supreme person; sarva-guṇa-sańkhyānāya — the reservoir of all transcendental qualities; anantāya — the unlimited; avyaktāya — not manifested within the material world; namaḥ — my respectful obeisances; iti — thus.
TRANSLATION
The most powerful Lord Śiva says: O Supreme Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You in Your expansion as Lord Sańkarṣaṇa. You are the reservoir of all transcendental qualities. Although You are unlimited, You remain unmanifest to the nondevotees.
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness