बालस्य नेह शरणं पितरौ नृसिंह नार्तस्य चागदमुदन्वति मज्जतो नौ: । तप्तस्य तत्प्रतिविधिर्य इहाञ्जसेष्ट- स्तावद्विभो तनुभृतां त्वदुपेक्षितानाम् ॥ १९ ॥
balasya neha saranam pitarau nrsimha nartasya cagadam udanvati majjato nauh taptasya tat-pratividhir ya ihanjasestas tavad vibho tanu-bhrtam tvad-upeksitanam
- balasya
- of a little child
- na
- not
- iha
- in this world
- saranam
- shelter (protection)
- pitarau
- the father and mother
- nrsimha
- O my Lord Nrsimhadeva
- na
- neither
- artasya
- of a person suffering from some disease
- ca
- also
- agadam
- medicine
- udanvati
- in the water of the ocean
- majjatah
- of a person who is drowning
- nauh
- the boat
- taptasya
- of a person suffering from a condition of material misery
- tat-pratividhih
- the counteraction (invented for stopping the suffering of material existence)
- yah
- that which
- iha
- in this material world
- anjasa
- very easily
- istah
- accepted (as a remedy)
- tavat
- similarly
- vibho
- O my Lord, O Supreme
- tanu-bhrtam
- of the living entities who have accepted material bodies
- tvat-upeksitanam
- who are neglected by You and not accepted by You
My Lord Nrsimhadeva, O Supreme, because of a bodily conception of life, embodied souls neglected and not cared for by You cannot do anything for their betterment. Whatever remedies they accept, although perhaps temporarily beneficial, are certainly impermanent. For example, a father and mother cannot protect their child, a physician and medicine cannot relieve a suffering patient, and a boat on the ocean cannot protect a drowning man.