balir uvÄca
namo 'nantÄya bá¹›hate
namaḥ kṛṣṇÄya vedhase
sÄá¹…khya-yoga-vitÄnÄya
brahmaṇe paramÄtmane
baliḥ uvÄca - Bali said; namaḥ - obeisances; anantÄya - to Ananta, the unlimited Lord; bá¹›hate - the greatest being; namaḥ - obeisances; kṛṣṇÄya - to Kṛṣṇa; vedhase - the creator; sÄá¹…khya - of sÄá¹…khya analysis; yoga - and of mystic yoga; vitÄnÄya - the disseminator; brahmaṇe - the Absolute Truth; parama-Ätmane - the Supersoul.
King Bali said: Obeisances to the unlimited Lord, Ananta, the greatest of all beings. And obeisances to Lord Kṛṣṇa, the creator of the universe, who appears as the impersonal Absolute and the Supersoul in order to disseminate the principles of sÄá¹…khya and yoga.
ÅšrÄ«la ViÅ›vanÄtha CakravartÄ« identifies the supreme Ananta named here as Lord BalarÄma, from whom expands the divine serpent Ananta Åšeá¹£a. Impersonal Brahman is the source of the texts belonging to the sÄá¹…khya philosophers, while the personal representation of the Lord known as ParamÄtmÄ disseminates the textbooks of yoga.
