ambujam ambuni jātaṁ
kvacid api na jātam ambujād ambu
mura-bhidi tad-viparītaṁ
pādāmbhojān mahā-nadī jātā

 ambujam - lotus flower; ambuni - in the water; jātam - is grown; kvacit - at any time; api - certainly; na - not; jātam - grown; ambujāt - from a lotus flower; ambu - water; mura-bhidi - in Kṛṣṇa, the killer of Murāsura; tat-viparītam - just the opposite of that; pāda-ambhojāt - from the lotus flower of His feet; mahā-nadī - the great river; jātā - has grown.


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“ ‘Everyone knows that lotus flowers grow in the water but water never grows from a lotus. All such contradictions, however, are wonderfully possible in Kṛṣṇa: the great river Ganges has grown from His lotus feet.’

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