bhagavÄn api viÅ›vÄtmÄ
bhaktÄnÄm abhayaá¹…karaḥ
ÄviveÅ›ÄmÅ›a-bhÄgena
mana Änakadundubheḥ

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 bhagavÄn - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; api - also; viÅ›vÄtmÄ - the Supersoul of all living entities; bhaktÄnÄm - of His devotees; abhayam-karaḥ - always killing the causes of fear; ÄviveÅ›a - entered; amÅ›a-bhÄgena - with all of His potential opulences (á¹¢aá¸-aiÅ›varya-pÅ«rṇa); manaḥ - in the mind; Änakadundubheḥ - of Vasudeva.


Text

Thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul of all living entities and who vanquishes all the fear of His devotees, entered the mind of Vasudeva in full opulence.

Purport

The word viÅ›vÄtmÄ refers to one who is situated in everyone’s heart (īśvaraḥ sarva-bhÅ«tÄnÄá¹ há¹›d-deÅ›e ’rjuna tiṣṭhati). Another meaning of viÅ›vÄtmÄ is “the only lovable object for everyone.†Because of forgetfulness of this object, people are suffering in this material world, but if one fortunately revives his old consciousness of loving Kṛṣṇa and connects with ViÅ›vÄtmÄ, one becomes perfect. The Lord is described in the Third Canto (3.2.15) as follows: parÄvareÅ›o mahad-aá¹Å›a-yukto hy ajo ’pi jÄto bhagavÄn. Although unborn, the Lord, the master of everything, appears like a born child by entering the mind of a devotee. The Lord is already there within the mind, and consequently it is not astonishing for Him to appear as if born from a devotee’s body. The word ÄviveÅ›a signifies that the Lord appeared within the mind of Vasudeva. There was no need for a discharge of semen. That is the opinion of ÅšrÄ«pÄda ÅšrÄ«dhara SvÄmÄ« and ÅšrÄ«la ViÅ›vanÄtha CakravartÄ« ṬhÄkura. In the Vaiṣṇava-toá¹£aṇī, ÅšrÄ«la SanÄtana GosvÄmÄ« says that consciousness was awakened within the mind of Vasudeva. ÅšrÄ«la VÄ«rarÄghava Ä€cÄrya also says that Vasudeva was one of the demigods and that within his mind the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as an awakening of consciousness.