नतोऽस्म्यहं तच्चरणं समीयुषां भवच्छिदं स्वस्त्ययनं सुमङ्गलम् । यो ह्यात्ममायाविभवं स्म पर्यगाद् यथा नभ: स्वान्तमथापरे कुत: ॥ ३६ ॥
nato ’smy aham tac-caranam samiyusam bhavac-chidam svasty-ayanam sumangalam yo hy atma-maya-vibhavam sma paryagad yatha nabhah svantam athapare kutah
- natah
- let me offer my obeisances
- asmi
- am
- aham
- I
- tat
- the Lord’s
- caranam
- feet
- samiyusam
- of the surrendered soul
- bhavat-chidam
- that which stops repetition of birth and death
- svasti-ayanam
- perception of all happiness
- su-mangalam
- all-auspicious
- yah
- one who
- hi
- exactly
- atma-maya
- personal energies
- vibhavam
- potency
- sma
- certainly
- paryagat
- cannot estimate
- yatha
- as much as
- nabhah
- the sky
- sva-antam
- its own limit
- atha
- therefore
- apare
- others
- kutah
- how
Therefore it is best for me to surrender unto His feet, which alone can deliver one from the miseries of repeated birth and death. Such surrender is all-auspicious and allows one to perceive all happiness. Even the sky cannot estimate the limits of its own expansion. So what can others do when the Lord Himself is unable to estimate His own limits?