Bhaktivedanta translation of Srimad Bhagavatam - 1/1/1

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SB 1.1.1: O my Lord, Sri Krsna, son of Vasudeva, O

all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances

unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krsna 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 Brahma, 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 Krsna,

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.