Devanagari
सोऽसावदभ्रकरुणो भगवान् विवृद्ध-
प्रेमस्मितेन नयनाम्बुरुहं विजृम्भन् ।
उत्थाय विश्वविजयाय च नो विषादं
माध्व्या गिरापनयतात्पुरुष: पुराण: ॥ २५ ॥
Verse text
so ’sāv adabhra-karuṇo bhagavān vivṛddha-
prema-smitena nayanāmburuhaṁ vijṛmbhan
utthāya viśva-vijayāya ca no viṣādaṁ
mādhvyā girāpanayatāt puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ
Synonyms
saḥ
—
He (the Lord)
;
asau
—
that
;
adabhra
—
unlimited
;
karuṇaḥ
—
merciful
;
bhagavān
—
the Personality of Godhead
;
vivṛddha
—
excessive
;
prema
—
love
;
smitena
—
by smiling
;
nayana
—
amburuham — the lotus eyes
;
vijṛmbhan
—
by opening
;
utthāya
—
for flourishing
;
viśva
—
vijayāya — for glorifying the cosmic creation
;
ca
—
as also
;
naḥ
—
our
;
viṣādam
—
dejection
;
mādhvyā
—
by sweet
;
girā
—
words
;
apanayatāt
—
let Him kindly remove
;
puruṣaḥ
—
the Supreme
;
purāṇaḥ
—
oldest .
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.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
May the Supreme Lord, the eternal person, of abundant mercy, opening his lotus eyes with a smile filled with prema, wake up, so that I will not be defeated in the work of creation! May he dispel my sorrow with his sweet instructions on creation!
The servant will certainly be blissful by the glance of mercy and merciful instructions. Brahmā prays for both. Opening (vijṛmbhan) your lotus eyes, wake up, so that I will not be defeated during creation everywhere in this universe (viśva-vijayāya). The word ca indicates that the Lord should open his eyes so that his other desire (to remember the Lord) is fulfilled. Dispel my sorrow by your sweet words, which order me to carry out creation.
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 Lord’s
rāsa-līlā
with the
gopīs.
The
gopīs
are predominated expansions of the internal potency, and therefore the Lord’s participation in the
rāsa-līlā
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 Brahmā 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.