iti - thus speaking; addhā - directly; mām - me; samādiśya - advising; garge - Gargācārya; ca - and; sva-gṛham - to his home; gate - going; manye - I consider; nārāyaṇasya - of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa; amśam - an empowered expansion; kṛṣṇam - Kṛṣṇa; akliṣṭa-kāriṇam - who keeps us free from misery.

[Nanda Mahārāja continued:] After Garga Ṛṣi spoke these words to me and returned home, I began to consider that Kṛṣṇa, who keeps us free from trouble, is actually an expansion of Lord Nārāyaṇa.