Devanagari
अथ तं सर्वभूतानां हृत्पद्मेषु कृतालयम् ।
श्रुतानुभावं शरणं व्रज भावेन भामिनि ॥ ११ ॥
Verse text
atha taṁ sarva-bhūtānāṁ
hṛt-padmeṣu kṛtālayam
śrutānubhāvaṁ śaraṇaṁ
vraja bhāvena bhāmini
Synonyms
atha
—
therefore
;
tam
—
the Supreme Personality of Godhead
;
sarva
—
bhūtānām — of all living entities
;
hṛt
—
padmeṣu — in the lotus hearts
;
kṛta
—
ālayam — residing
;
śruta
—
anubhāvam — whose glories you have heard
;
śaraṇam
—
unto the shelter
;
vraja
—
go
;
bhāvena
—
by devotional service
;
bhāmini
—
My dear mother .
Translation
Therefore, My dear mother, by devotional service take direct shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is seated in everyone’s heart.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
O affectionate mother! Surrender with love to the Lord of all beings, who resides in the lotus of the heart, and is realized by hearing.
Since without bhakti no one can become liberated, you should surrender to the Lord alone. O bhāvini (instead of bhāmini), who think of me, the Supreme Lord as your son! I have given teachings of bhakti to you, but that is useless since you are so advanced.
Purport
One can attain direct contact with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness and revive one’s eternal relationship with Him as lover, as Supreme Soul, as son, as friend or as master. One can reestablish the transcendental loving relationship with the Supreme Lord in so many ways, and that feeling is true oneness. The oneness of the Māyāvādī philosophers and the oneness of Vaiṣṇava philosophers are different. The Māyāvādī and Vaiṣṇava philosophers both want to merge into the Supreme, but the Vaiṣṇavas do not lose their identities. They want to keep the identity of lover, parent, friend or servant.
In the transcendental world, the servant and master are one. That is the absolute platform. Although the relationship is servant and master, both the servant and the served stand on the same platform. That is oneness. Lord Kapila advised His mother that she did not need any indirect process. She was already situated in that direct process because the Supreme Lord had taken birth as her son. Actually, she did not need any further instruction because she was already in the perfectional stage. Kapiladeva advised her to continue in the same way. He therefore addressed His mother as
bhāmini
to indicate that she was already thinking of the Lord as her son. Devahūti is advised by Lord Kapila to take directly to devotional service, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, because without that consciousness one cannot become liberated from the clutches of
māyā.