Å›rÄ«-vasudeva uvÄca
vidito 'si bhavÄn sÄká¹£Ät
puruṣaḥ prakṛteḥ paraḥ
kevalÄnubhavÄnanda-
svarūpaḥ sarva-buddhi-dṛk
Å›rÄ«-vasudevaḥ uvÄca - ÅšrÄ« Vasudeva prayed; viditaḥ asi - now I am fully conscious of You; bhavÄn - Your Lordship; sÄká¹£Ät - directly; puruá¹£aḥ - the Supreme Person; praká¹›teḥ - to material nature; paraḥ - transcendental, beyond everything material; kevala-anubhava-Änanda-svarÅ«paḥ - Your form is sac-cid-Änanda-vigraha [Bs. 5.1], and whoever perceives You becomes transcendentally blissful; sarva-buddhi-dá¹›k - the supreme observer, the Supersoul, the intelligence of everyone.
Vasudeva said: My Lord, You are the Supreme Person, beyond material existence, and You are the Supersoul. Your form can be perceived by transcendental knowledge, by which You can be understood as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. I now understand Your position perfectly.
Within Vasudeva’s heart, affection for his son and knowledge of the Supreme Lord’s transcendental nature both awakened. In the beginning Vasudeva thought, “Such a beautiful child has been born, but now Kaá¹sa will come and kill Him.†But when he understood that this was not an ordinary child but the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he became fearless. Regarding his son as the Supreme Lord, wonderful in everything, he began offering prayers appropriate for the Supreme Lord. Completely free from fear of Kaá¹sa’s atrocities, he accepted the child simultaneously as an object of affection and as an object of worship by prayers.
