Prayers By Kardama Muni

Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Canto 3: The Status Quo

SB 3.24: The Renunciation of Kardama Muni

Text 28 - 33

Text 28

bahu-janma-vipakvena

samyag-yoga-samādhinā

draṣṭuṁ yatante yatayaḥ

śūnyāgāreṣu yat-padam

After many births, mature yogīs, by complete trance in yoga, endeavor in secluded places to see the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Text 29

sa eva bhagavān adya

helanaṁ na gaṇayya naḥ

gṛheṣu jāto grāmyāṇāṁ

yaḥ svānāṁ pakṣa-poṣaṇaḥ

Not considering the negligence of ordinary householders like us, that very same Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in our homes just to support His devotees.

Text 30

svīyaṁ vākyam ṛtaṁ kartum

avatīrṇo ’si me gṛhe

cikīrṣur bhagavān jñānaṁ

bhaktānāṁ māna-vardhanaḥ

Kardama Muni said: You, my dear Lord, who are always increasing the honor of Your devotees, have descended in my home just to fulfill Your word and disseminate the process of real knowledge.

Text 31

tāny eva te ’bhirūpāṇi

rūpāṇi bhagavaṁs tava

yāni yāni ca rocante

sva-janānām arūpiṇaḥ

My dear Lord, although You have no material form, You have Your own innumerable forms. They truly are Your transcendental forms, which are pleasing to Your devotees.

Text 32

tvāṁ sūribhis tattva-bubhutsayāddhā

sadābhivādārhaṇa-pāda-pīṭham

aiśvarya-vairāgya-yaśo-’vabodha-

vīrya-śriyā pūrtam ahaṁ prapadye

My dear Lord, Your lotus feet are the reservoir that always deserves to receive worshipful homage from all great sages eager to understand the Absolute Truth. You are full in opulence, renunciation, transcendental fame, knowledge, strength and beauty, and therefore I surrender myself unto Your lotus feet.

Text 33

paraṁ pradhānaṁ puruṣaṁ mahāntaṁ

kālaṁ kaviṁ tri-vṛtaṁ loka-pālam

ātmānubhūtyānugata-prapañcaṁ

svacchanda-śaktiṁ kapilaṁ prapadye

I surrender unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, descended in the form of Kapila, who is independently powerful and transcendental, who is the Supreme Person and the Lord of the sum total of matter and the element of time, who is the fully cognizant maintainer of all the universes under the three modes of material nature, and who absorbs the material manifestations after their dissolution.