nÄbhir nabho 'gnir mukham ambu reto
dyauḥ śīrá¹£am ÄÅ›Äḥ Å›rutir aá¹…ghrir urvÄ«
candro mano yasya dá¹›g arka ÄtmÄ
ahaṠsamudro jaṭharaṠbhujendraḥ
romÄṇi yasyauá¹£adhayo 'mbu-vÄhÄḥ
keÅ›Ä viriñco dhiá¹£aá¹‡Ä visargaḥ
prajÄ-patir há¹›dayaá¹ yasya dharmaḥ
sa vai bhavÄn puruá¹£o loka-kalpaḥ

 nÄbhiḥ - the navel; nabhaḥ - the sky; agniḥ - fire; mukham - the face; ambu - water; retaḥ - the semen; dyauḥ - heaven; Å›Ä«rá¹£am - the head; ÄÅ›Äḥ - the directions; Å›rutiḥ - the sense of hearing; aá¹…ghriḥ - the foot; urvÄ« - the earth; candraḥ - the moon; manaḥ - the mind; yasya - whose; dá¹›k - sight; arkaḥ - the sun; ÄtmÄ - self-awareness; aham - I (Åšiva); samudraḥ - the ocean; jaá¹­haram - the abdomen; bhuja - the arm; indraḥ - Indra; romÄṇi - the hairs on the body; yasya - whose; oá¹£adhayaḥ - herbal plants; ambu-vÄhÄḥ - water-bearing clouds; keÅ›Äḥ - the hairs on the head; viriñcaḥ - Lord BrahmÄ; dhiá¹£aá¹‡Ä - the discriminating intelligence; visargaḥ - the genitals; prajÄ-patiḥ - the progenitor of mankind; há¹›dayam - the heart; yasya - whose; dharmaḥ - religion; saḥ - He; vai - indeed; bhavÄn - Your good self; puruá¹£aḥ - the primeval creator; loka - the worlds; kalpaḥ - produced from whom.


Text

The sky is Your navel, fire Your face, water Your semen, and heaven Your head. The cardinal directions are Your sense of hearing, herbal plants the hairs on Your body, and water-bearing clouds the hair on Your head. The earth is Your foot, the moon Your mind, and the sun Your vision, while I am Your ego. The ocean is Your abdomen, Indra Your arm, Lord BrahmÄ Your intelligence, the progenitor of mankind Your genitals, and religion Your heart. You are indeed the original puruá¹£a, creator of the worlds.

Purport

ÅšrÄ«la ÅšrÄ«dhara SvÄmÄ« explains that just as the tiny bugs living inside a fruit cannot comprehend the fruit, so we tiny living beings cannot understand the Supreme Absolute Truth, in whom we exist. It is difficult to understand the cosmic manifestation of the Lord, what to speak of His transcendental form as ÅšrÄ« Kṛṣṇa. Therefore we should surrender in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and the Lord Himself will help us understand.