గర్భ స్తుతి

అర్థం:We surrender unto You, whose very nature is Truth — ever-truthful, the Supreme Truth, the truth in past, present and future, the source of all truth, hidden within truth, the truth of all truths, whose eye is unfailing truth.

అర్థం:This primeval tree (the cosmos / the living body) has one resting ground, two fruits, three roots, four sap-flavours, five modes of perception, six natures, seven barks, eight branches, nine hollows, ten leaves, and two birds nesting within it.

అర్థం:You alone are the origin of this manifest universe, You are its sustenance and its withdrawal as well. Those whose minds are veiled by Your Maya see manifold variety, but the truly wise do not.

అర్థం:O embodiment of pure knowledge, You assume various forms for the welfare of the world of moving and unmoving beings — forms full of goodness that bring happiness to the saintly, though they spell repeated ruin for the wicked.

అర్థం:O lotus-eyed Lord, abode of all existence, some, fixing their minds upon You in deep meditation, take to the strong boat of Your lotus feet, glorified by the great souls, and thus make this vast ocean of material existence as easy to cross as the hoof-print of a calf.

అర్థం:Having themselves crossed the fearsome and most difficult ocean of birth and death, O self-luminous one, those friends of boundless compassion leave behind for others here the boat of Your lotus feet — for You are most gracious to the devotees.

అర్థం:O lotus-eyed one, others who vainly think themselves liberated — their intelligence unpurified for want of devotion to You — rise with great labour to the supreme position, yet fall down again, because they neglect Your feet.

అర్థం:But Your own devotees, O Madhava, bound to You in firm love, never fall from the path; protected by You, they wander fearless, treading even upon the heads of the commanders of all obstacles.

అర్థం:In the work of maintaining the worlds You take on the form of pure goodness, which bestows the highest blessing upon embodied beings — a form by worshipping which through Vedic ritual, yoga, austerity and meditation people strive for their good.

అర్థం:O Creator, were this pure-goodness form of Yours not manifest — the very knowledge that dispels the darkness of ignorance — Your existence could only be inferred from the workings of the modes; for You are known by the very quality through which anything is revealed.

అర్థం:Your name and form, which can be defined by no material quality, birth or activity, cannot be ascertained by ordinary means, since You are their witness and Your path is to be known only by mind and speech (turned in devotion); yet through Your activities people do indeed perceive You.

అర్థం:Whoever, while engaged in any activity, becomes absorbed in Your lotus feet — hearing, chanting, remembering and meditating upon Your auspicious names and forms — is no longer fit for material rebirth.

అర్థం:By great good fortune, O Hari, the burden of this earth is now removed by Your birth as its Lord; and by good fortune we shall behold the earth, and heaven too, beautified and blessed by the auspicious marks of Your feet.

అర్థం:O Lord, You who are beyond birth — we can find no cause for Your appearance other than Your own divine play; for although creation, dissolution and maintenance are wrought by ignorance, they rest in You, the fearless shelter of all.

అర్థం:O Lord, You who descend among the fish, horse, tortoise, man-lion, boar and swan, and among kings, brahmanas and demigods — as You now protect us and the three worlds, so, O best of the Yadus, relieve the earth of its burden. Our obeisances unto You.

అర్థం:O mother Devaki, by great fortune the Supreme Person Himself, the Lord, has entered your womb in His full self for our welfare. Have no fear of the king of the Bhojas (Kamsa), who is doomed to die — for your son shall become the protector of the Yadu dynasty.