Thursday, June 5, 2014
Bhagavatam 1.1.1
O my Lord, Sri Krishna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krishna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes
of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes.
He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He
is independent because there is no other cause beyond Him. It is He only
who first imparted the Vedic knowledge unto the heart of Brahmājī, the
original living being. By Him even the great sages and demigods are
placed into illusion, as one is bewildered by the illusory
representations of water seen in fire, or land seen on water. Only
because of Him do the material universes, temporarily manifested by the
reactions of the three modes of nature, appear factual, although they
are unreal. I therefore meditate upon Him, Lord Sri Krishna
who is eternally existent in the transcendental abode, which is forever
free from the illusory representations of the material world. I
meditate upon Him, for He is the Absolute Truth.