ब्रह्मोवाच ज्ञातोऽसि मेऽद्य सुचिरान्ननु देहभाजां न ज्ञायते भगवतो गतिरित्यवद्यम् । नान्यत्त्वदस्ति भगवन्नपि तन्न शुद्धं मायागुणव्यतिकराद्यदुरुर्विभासि ॥ १ ॥
brahmovaca jnato ’si me ’dya suciran nanu deha-bhajam na jnayate bhagavato gatir ity avadyam nanyat tvad asti bhagavann api tan na suddham maya-guna-vyatikarad yad urur vibhasi
- brahma uvaca
- Lord Brahma said
- jnatah
- known
- asi
- You are
- me
- by me
- adya
- today
- sucirat
- after a long time
- nanu
- but
- deha-bhajam
- of one who has a material body
- na
- not
- jnayate
- is known
- bhagavatah
- of the Personality of Godhead
- gatih
- course
- iti
- so it is
- avadyam
- great offense
- na anyat
- none beyond
- tvat
- You
- asti
- there is
- bhagavan
- O my Lord
- api
- even though there is
- tat
- anything that may be
- na
- never
- suddham
- absolute
- maya
- material energy
- guna-vyatikarat
- because of the mixture of the modes of
- yat
- to which
- uruh
- transcendental
- vibhasi
- You are
Lord Brahma said: O my Lord, today, after many, many years of penance, I have come to know about You. Oh, how unfortunate the embodied living entities are that they are unable to know Your personality! My Lord, You are the only knowable object because there is nothing supreme beyond You. If there is anything supposedly superior to You, it is not the Absolute. You exist as the Supreme by exhibiting the creative energy of matter.