TEXT 25
so sav adabhra-karuno bhagavan vivrddha-
prema-smitena nayanamburuham vijrmbhan
utthaya visva-vijayaya ca no visadam
madhvya girapanayatat purusah puranah
SYNONYMS
sahHe (the Lord); asauthat; adabhraunlimited; karunahmerciful; bhagavanthe Personality of Godhead; vivrddhaexcessive; premalove; smitenaby smiling; nayana-amburuhamthe lotus eyes; vijrmbhanby opening; utthayafor flourishing; visva-vijayayafor glorifying the cosmic creation; caas also; nahour; visadamdejection; madhvyaby sweet; girawords; apanayatatlet Him kindly remove; purusahthe Supreme; puranaholdest.
TRANSLATION
The Lord, who is supreme and is the oldest of all, is unlimitedly merciful. I wish that He may smilingly bestow His benediction upon me by opening His lotus eyes. He can uplift the entire cosmic creation and remove our dejection by kindly speaking His directions.
PURPORT
The Lord is ever increasingly merciful upon the fallen souls of this material world. The whole cosmic manifestation is a chance for all to improve themselves in devotional service to the Lord, and everyone is meant for that purpose. The Lord expands Himself into many personalities who are either self-expansions or separated expansions. The personalities of the individual souls are His separated expansions, whereas the self-expansions are the Lord Himself. The self-expansions are predominators, and the separated expansions are predominated for reciprocation of transcendental bliss with the supreme form of bliss and knowledge. The liberated souls can join in this blissful reciprocation of predominator and predominated without materially concocted ideas. The typical example of such a transcendental exchange between the predominator and the predominated is the Lords rasa-lila with the gopis. The gopis are predominated expansions of the internal potency, and therefore the Lords participation in the rasa-lila dance is never to be considered like the mundane relationship of man and woman. It is, rather, the highest perfectional stage of the exchange of feelings between the Lord and the living entities. The Lord gives the fallen souls the chance for this highest perfection of life. Lord Brahma is entrusted with the management of the complete cosmic show, and therefore he prays that the Lord bestow His blessings upon him so that he may execute its purpose.

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