श्रीबादरायणिरुवाच एवं व्यवसितो बुद्ध्या समाधाय मनो हृदि । जजाप परमं जाप्यं प्राग्जन्मन्यनुशिक्षितम् ॥ १ ॥
sri-badarayanir uvaca evam vyavasito buddhya samadhaya mano hrdi jajapa paramam japyam prag-janmany anusiksitam
- sri-badarayanih uvaca
- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said
- evam
- thus
- vyavasitah
- fixed
- buddhya
- by intelligence
- samadhaya
- for concentration
- manah
- the mind
- hrdi
- in consciousness or in the heart
- jajapa
- he chanted
- paramam
- a supreme
- japyam
- mantra he had learned from great devotees
- prak-janmani
- in his previous birth
- anusiksitam
- practiced.
Sri Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Thereafter, the King of the elephants, Gajendra, fixed his mind in his heart with perfect intelligence and chanted a mantra which he had learned in his previous birth as Indradyumna and which he remembered by the grace of Krsna.