{"id":5451,"date":"2022-07-21T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/?p=5451"},"modified":"2022-10-09T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T10:36:15","slug":"gajendras-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/21\/gajendras-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gajendra\u2019s Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gajendra Moksha\" width=\"1300\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-XoBdtT08YE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u015br\u012b-b\u0101dar\u0101ya\u1e47ir uv\u0101ca<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>eva\u1e41 vyavasito buddhy\u0101<br>sam\u0101dh\u0101ya mano h\u1e5bdi<br>jaj\u0101pa parama\u1e41 j\u0101pya\u1e41<br>pr\u0101g-janmany anu\u015bik\u1e63itam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u015ar\u012b \u015aukadeva Gosv\u0101m\u012b 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 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u015br\u012b-gajendra uv\u0101ca<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>o\u1e41 namo bhagavate tasmai<br>yata etac cid-\u0101tmakam<br>puru\u1e63\u0101y\u0101di-b\u012bj\u0101ya<br>pare\u015b\u0101y\u0101bhidh\u012bmahi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The King of the elephants, Gajendra, said: I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Person, V\u0101sudeva [o\u1e41 namo bhagavate v\u0101sudev\u0101ya]. Because of Him this material body acts due to the presence of spirit, and He is therefore the root cause of everyone. He is worshipable for such exalted persons as Brahm\u0101 and \u015aiva, and He has entered the heart of every living being. Let me meditate upon Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>yasminn ida\u1e41 yata\u015b ceda\u1e41<br>yeneda\u1e41 ya ida\u1e41 svayam<br>yo \u2019sm\u0101t parasm\u0101c ca paras<br>ta\u1e41 prapadye svayambhuvam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Godhead is the supreme platform on which everything rests, the ingredient by which everything has been produced, and the person who has created and is the only cause of this cosmic manifestation. Nonetheless, He is different from the cause and the result. I surrender unto Him, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is self-sufficient in everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>ya\u1e25 sv\u0101tman\u012bda\u1e41 nija-m\u0101yay\u0101rpita\u1e41<br>kvacid vibh\u0101ta\u1e41 kva ca tat tirohitam<br>aviddha-d\u1e5bk s\u0101k\u1e63y ubhaya\u1e41 tad \u012bk\u1e63ate<br>sa \u0101tma-m\u016blo \u2019vatu m\u0101\u1e41 par\u0101t-para\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Personality of Godhead, by expanding His own energy, keeps this cosmic manifestation visible and again sometimes renders it invisible. He is both the supreme cause and the supreme result, the observer and the witness, in all circumstances. Thus He is transcendental to everything. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead give me protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>k\u0101lena pa\u00f1catvam ite\u1e63u k\u1e5btsna\u015bo<br>loke\u1e63u p\u0101le\u1e63u ca sarva-hetu\u1e63u<br>tamas tad\u0101s\u012bd gahana\u1e41 gabh\u012bra\u1e41<br>yas tasya p\u0101re \u2019bhivir\u0101jate vibhu\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In due course of time, when all the causative and effective manifestations of the universe, including the planets and their directors and maintainers, are annihilated, there is a situation of dense darkness. Above this darkness, however, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I take shelter of His lotus feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>na yasya dev\u0101 \u1e5b\u1e63aya\u1e25 pada\u1e41 vidur<br>jantu\u1e25 puna\u1e25 ko \u2019rhati gantum \u012britum<br>yath\u0101 na\u1e6dasy\u0101k\u1e5btibhir vice\u1e63\u1e6dato<br>duratyay\u0101nukrama\u1e47a\u1e25 sa m\u0101vatu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An artist onstage, being covered by attractive dresses and dancing with different movements, is not understood by his audience; similarly, the activities and features of the supreme artist cannot be understood even by the demigods or great sages, and certainly not by those who are unintelligent like animals. Neither the demigods and sages nor the unintelligent can understand the features of the Lord, nor can they express in words His actual position. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead give me protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>did\u1e5bk\u1e63avo yasya pada\u1e41 suma\u1e45gala\u1e41<br>vimukta-sa\u1e45g\u0101 munaya\u1e25 sus\u0101dhava\u1e25<br>caranty aloka-vratam avra\u1e47a\u1e41 vane<br>bh\u016bt\u0101tma-bh\u016bt\u0101\u1e25 suh\u1e5bda\u1e25 sa me gati\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Renunciants and great sages who see all living beings equally, who are friendly to everyone and who flawlessly practice in the forest the vows of brahmacarya, v\u0101naprastha and sanny\u0101sa desire to see the all-auspicious lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. May that same Supreme Personality of Godhead be my destination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>na vidyate yasya ca janma karma v\u0101<br>na n\u0101ma-r\u016bpe gu\u1e47a-do\u1e63a eva v\u0101<br>tath\u0101pi lok\u0101pyaya-sambhav\u0101ya ya\u1e25<br>sva-m\u0101yay\u0101 t\u0101ny anuk\u0101lam \u1e5bcchati<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>tasmai nama\u1e25 pare\u015b\u0101ya<br>brahma\u1e47e \u2019nanta-\u015baktaye<br>ar\u016bp\u0101yoru-r\u016bp\u0101ya<br>nama \u0101\u015bcarya-karma\u1e47e<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no material birth, activities, name, form, qualities or faults. To fulfill the purpose for which this material world is created and destroyed, He comes in the form of a human being like Lord R\u0101ma or Lord K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a by His original internal potency. He has immense potency, and in various forms, all free from material contamination, He acts wonderfully. He is therefore the Supreme Brahman. I offer my respects to Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>nama \u0101tma-prad\u012bp\u0101ya<br>s\u0101k\u1e63i\u1e47e param\u0101tmane<br>namo gir\u0101\u1e41 vid\u016br\u0101ya<br>manasa\u015b cetas\u0101m api<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self-effulgent Supersoul, who is the witness in everyone\u2019s heart, who enlightens the individual soul and who cannot be reached by exercises of the mind, words or consciousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>sattvena pratilabhy\u0101ya<br>nai\u1e63karmye\u1e47a vipa\u015bcit\u0101<br>nama\u1e25 kaivalya-n\u0101th\u0101ya<br>nirv\u0101\u1e47a-sukha-sa\u1e41vide<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Personality of Godhead is realized by pure devotees who act in the transcendental existence of bhakti-yoga. He is the bestower of uncontaminated happiness and is the master of the transcendental world. Therefore I offer my respect unto Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>nama\u1e25 \u015b\u0101nt\u0101ya ghor\u0101ya<br>m\u016b\u1e0dh\u0101ya gu\u1e47a-dharmi\u1e47e<br>nirvi\u015be\u1e63\u0101ya s\u0101my\u0101ya<br>namo j\u00f1\u0101na-ghan\u0101ya ca<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I offer my respectful obeisances to Lord V\u0101sudeva, who is all-pervading, to the Lord\u2019s fierce form as Lord N\u1e5bsi\u1e41hadeva, to the Lord\u2019s form as an animal [Lord Var\u0101hadeva], to Lord Datt\u0101treya, who preached impersonalism, to Lord Buddha, and to all the other incarnations. I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Lord, who has no material qualities but who accepts the three qualities goodness, passion and ignorance within this material world. I also offer my respectful obeisances unto the impersonal Brahman effulgence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>k\u1e63etra-j\u00f1\u0101ya namas tubhya\u1e41<br>sarv\u0101dhyak\u1e63\u0101ya s\u0101k\u1e63i\u1e47e<br>puru\u1e63\u0101y\u0101tma-m\u016bl\u0101ya<br>m\u016bla-prak\u1e5btaye nama\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I beg to offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are the Supersoul, the superintendent of everything, and the witness of all that occurs. You are the Supreme Person, the origin of material nature and of the total material energy. You are also the owner of the material body. Therefore, You are the supreme complete. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>sarvendriya-gu\u1e47a-dra\u1e63\u1e6dre<br>sarva-pratyaya-hetave<br>asat\u0101 cch\u0101yayokt\u0101ya<br>sad-\u0101bh\u0101s\u0101ya te nama\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, You are the observer of all the objectives of the senses. Without Your mercy, there is no possibility of solving the problem of doubts. The material world is just like a shadow resembling You. Indeed, one accepts this material world as real because it gives a glimpse of Your existence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>namo namas te \u2019khila-k\u0101ra\u1e47\u0101ya<br>ni\u1e63k\u0101ra\u1e47\u0101y\u0101dbhuta-k\u0101ra\u1e47\u0101ya<br>sarv\u0101gam\u0101mn\u0101ya-mah\u0101r\u1e47av\u0101ya<br>namo \u2019pavarg\u0101ya par\u0101ya\u1e47\u0101ya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, You are the cause of all causes, but You Yourself have no cause. Therefore You are the wonderful cause of everything. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, who are the shelter of the Vedic knowledge contained in the \u015b\u0101stras like the Pa\u00f1car\u0101tras and Ved\u0101nta-s\u016btra, which are Your representations, and who are the source of the parampar\u0101 system. Because it is You who can give liberation, You are the only shelter for all transcendentalists. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>gu\u1e47\u0101ra\u1e47i-cchanna-cid-u\u1e63map\u0101ya<br>tat-k\u1e63obha-visph\u016brjita-m\u0101nas\u0101ya<br>nai\u1e63karmya-bh\u0101vena vivarjit\u0101gama-<br>svaya\u1e41-prak\u0101\u015b\u0101ya namas karomi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, as the fire in ara\u1e47i wood is covered, You and Your unlimited knowledge are covered by the material modes of nature. Your mind, however, is not attentive to the activities of the modes of nature. Those who are advanced in spiritual knowledge are not subject to the regulative principles directed in the Vedic literatures. Because such advanced souls are transcendental, You personally appear in their pure minds. Therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>m\u0101d\u1e5bk prapanna-pa\u015bu-p\u0101\u015ba-vimok\u1e63a\u1e47\u0101ya<br>mukt\u0101ya bh\u016bri-karu\u1e47\u0101ya namo \u2019lay\u0101ya<br>sv\u0101\u1e41\u015bena sarva-tanu-bh\u1e5bn-manasi prat\u012bta-<br>pratyag-d\u1e5b\u015be bhagavate b\u1e5bhate namas te<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since an animal such as I has surrendered unto You, who are supremely liberated, certainly You will release me from this dangerous position. Indeed, being extremely merciful, You incessantly try to deliver me. By your partial feature as Param\u0101tm\u0101, You are situated in the hearts of all embodied beings. You are celebrated as direct transcendental knowledge, and You are unlimited. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>\u0101tm\u0101tma-j\u0101pta-g\u1e5bha-vitta-jane\u1e63u saktair<br>du\u1e63pr\u0101pa\u1e47\u0101ya gu\u1e47a-sa\u1e45ga-vivarjit\u0101ya<br>mukt\u0101tmabhi\u1e25 sva-h\u1e5bdaye paribh\u0101vit\u0101ya<br>j\u00f1\u0101n\u0101tmane bhagavate nama \u012b\u015bvar\u0101ya<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My Lord, those who are completely freed from material contamination always meditate upon You within the cores of their hearts. You are extremely difficult to attain for those like me who are too attached to mental concoction, home, relatives, friends, money, servants and assistants. You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, uncontaminated by the modes of nature. You are the reservoir of all enlightenment, the supreme controller. I therefore offer my respectful obeisances unto You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>ya\u1e41 dharma-k\u0101m\u0101rtha-vimukti-k\u0101m\u0101<br>bhajanta i\u1e63\u1e6d\u0101\u1e41 gatim \u0101pnuvanti<br>ki\u1e41 c\u0101\u015bi\u1e63o r\u0101ty api deham avyaya\u1e41<br>karotu me \u2019dabhra-dayo vimok\u1e63a\u1e47am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead, those who are interested in the four principles of religion, economic development, sense gratification and liberation obtain from Him what they desire. What then is to be said of other benedictions? Indeed, sometimes the Lord gives a spiritual body to such ambitious worshipers. May that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is unlimitedly merciful, bestow upon me the benediction of liberation from this present danger and from the materialistic way of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>ek\u0101ntino yasya na ka\u00f1can\u0101rtha\u1e41<br>v\u0101\u00f1chanti ye vai bhagavat-prapann\u0101\u1e25<br>aty-adbhuta\u1e41 tac-carita\u1e41 suma\u1e45gala\u1e41<br>g\u0101yanta \u0101nanda-samudra-magn\u0101\u1e25<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>tam ak\u1e63ara\u1e41 brahma para\u1e41 pare\u015bam<br>avyaktam \u0101dhy\u0101tmika-yoga-gamyam<br>at\u012bndriya\u1e41 s\u016bk\u1e63mam iv\u0101tid\u016bram<br>anantam \u0101dya\u1e41 parip\u016br\u1e47am \u012b\u1e0de<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unalloyed devotees, who have no desire other than to serve the Lord, worship Him in full surrender and always hear and chant about His activities, which are most wonderful and auspicious. Thus they always merge in an ocean of transcendental bliss. Such devotees never ask the Lord for any benediction. I, however, am in danger. Thus I pray to that Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is eternally existing, who is invisible, who is the Lord of all great personalities, such as Brahm\u0101, and who is available only by transcendental bhakti-yoga. Being extremely subtle, He is beyond the reach of my senses and transcendental to all external realization. He is unlimited, He is the original cause, and He is completely full in everything. I offer my obeisances unto Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>yasya brahm\u0101dayo dev\u0101<br>ved\u0101 lok\u0101\u015b car\u0101car\u0101\u1e25<br>n\u0101ma-r\u016bpa-vibhedena<br>phalgvy\u0101 ca kalay\u0101 k\u1e5bt\u0101\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>yath\u0101rci\u1e63o \u2019gne\u1e25 savitur gabhastayo<br>niry\u0101nti sa\u1e41y\u0101nty asak\u1e5bt sva-roci\u1e63a\u1e25<br>tath\u0101 yato \u2019ya\u1e41 gu\u1e47a-samprav\u0101ho<br>buddhir mana\u1e25 kh\u0101ni \u015bar\u012bra-sarg\u0101\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>sa vai na dev\u0101sura-martya-tirya\u1e45<br>na str\u012b na \u1e63a\u1e47\u1e0dho na pum\u0101n na jantu\u1e25<br>n\u0101ya\u1e41 gu\u1e47a\u1e25 karma na san na c\u0101san<br>ni\u1e63edha-\u015be\u1e63o jayat\u0101d a\u015be\u1e63a\u1e25<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Supreme Personality of Godhead creates His minor parts and parcels, the j\u012bva-tattva, beginning with Lord Brahm\u0101, the demigods and the expansions of Vedic knowledge [S\u0101ma, \u1e5ag, Yajur and Atharva] and including all other living entities, moving and nonmoving, with their different names and characteristics. As the sparks of a fire or the shining rays of the sun emanate from their source and merge into it again and again, the mind, the intelligence, the senses, the gross and subtle material bodies, and the continuous transformations of the different modes of nature all emanate from the Lord and again merge into Him. He is neither demigod nor demon, neither human nor bird or beast. He is not woman, man, or neuter, nor is He an animal. He is not a material quality, a fruitive activity, a manifestation or nonmanifestation. He is the last word in the discrimination of \u201cnot this, not this,\u201d and He is unlimited. All glories to the Supreme Personality of Godhead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>jij\u012bvi\u1e63e n\u0101ham ih\u0101muy\u0101 kim<br>antar bahi\u015b c\u0101v\u1e5btayebha-yony\u0101<br>icch\u0101mi k\u0101lena na yasya viplavas<br>tasy\u0101tma-lok\u0101vara\u1e47asya mok\u1e63am<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not wish to live anymore after I am released from the attack of the crocodile. What is the use of an elephant\u2019s body covered externally and internally by ignorance? I simply desire eternal liberation from the covering of ignorance. That covering is not destroyed by the influence of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>so \u2019ha\u1e41 vi\u015bva-s\u1e5bja\u1e41 vi\u015bvam<br>avi\u015bva\u1e41 vi\u015bva-vedasam<br>vi\u015bv\u0101tm\u0101nam aja\u1e41 brahma<br>pra\u1e47ato \u2019smi para\u1e41 padam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, fully desiring release from material life, I offer my respectful obeisances unto that Supreme Person who is the creator of the universe, who is Himself the form of the universe and who is nonetheless transcendental to this cosmic manifestation. He is the supreme knower of everything in this world, the Supersoul of the universe. He is the unborn, supremely situated Lord. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>yoga-randhita-karm\u0101\u1e47o<br>h\u1e5bdi yoga-vibh\u0101vite<br>yogino ya\u1e41 prapa\u015byanti<br>yoge\u015ba\u1e41 ta\u1e41 nato \u2019smy aham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme, the Supersoul, the master of all mystic yoga, who is seen in the core of the heart by perfect mystics when they are completely purified and freed from the reactions of fruitive activity by practicing bhakti-yoga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>namo namas tubhyam asahya-vega-<br>\u015bakti-tray\u0101y\u0101khila-dh\u012b-gu\u1e47\u0101ya<br>prapanna-p\u0101l\u0101ya duranta-\u015baktaye<br>kad-indriy\u0101\u1e47\u0101m anav\u0101pya-vartmane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">My Lord, You are the controller of formidable strength in three kinds of energy. You appear as the reservoir of all sense pleasure and the protector of the surrendered souls. You possess unlimited energy, but You are unapproachable by those who are unable to control their senses. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>n\u0101ya\u1e41 veda svam \u0101tm\u0101na\u1e41<br>yac-chakty\u0101ha\u1e41-dhiy\u0101 hatam<br>ta\u1e41 duratyaya-m\u0101h\u0101tmya\u1e41<br>bhagavantam ito \u2019smy aham<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by whose illusory energy the j\u012bva, who is part and parcel of God, forgets his real identity because of the bodily concept of life. I take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose glories are difficult to understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u015br\u012b-b\u0101dar\u0101ya\u1e47ir uv\u0101ca eva\u1e41 vyavasito buddhy\u0101sam\u0101dh\u0101ya mano h\u1e5bdijaj\u0101pa parama\u1e41 j\u0101pya\u1e41pr\u0101g-janmany anu\u015bik\u1e63itam \u015ar\u012b \u015aukadeva Gosv\u0101m\u012b 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 K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a. \u015br\u012b-gajendra uv\u0101ca [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prayers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5452,"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourpuri.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}