कर्णधार इवापारे भगवान् पारदर्शक: । अथाबभाषे भगवान् नारदो मुनिसत्तम: ॥ ४० ॥
karnadhara ivapare bhagavan para-darsakah athababhase bhagavan narado muni-sattamah
- karna-dharah
- captain of the ship
- iva
- like
- apare
- in the extensive oceans
- bhagavan
- representative of the Lord
- para-darsakah
- one who can give directions to the other side
- atha
- thus
- ababhase
- began to say
- bhagavan
- the godly personality
- naradah
- the great sage Narada
- muni-sat-tamah
- the greatest among the devotee philosophers.
You are like a captain of a ship in a great ocean and you can direct us to our destination. Thus addressed, the godly personality, Devarsi Narada, greatest of the philosopher devotees, began to speak.