bhagavÄn pitÄmahaá¹ vÄ«ká¹£ya
vibhÅ«tÄ«r Ätmano vibhuḥ
saá¹yojyÄtmani cÄtmÄnaá¹
padma-netre nyamīlayat
bhagavÄn - the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pitÄmaham - Lord BrahmÄ; vÄ«ká¹£ya - seeing; vibhÅ«tīḥ - the powerful expansions, the demigods; Ätmanaḥ - His own; vibhuḥ - the Almighty Lord; saá¹yojya - fixing; Ätmani - in Himself; ca - and; ÄtmÄnam - His consciousness; padma-netre - His lotus eyes; nyamÄ«lyat - closed.
Seeing before Him BrahmÄ, the grandfather of the universe, along with the other demigods, who are all His personal and powerful expansions, the Almighty Lord closed His lotus eyes, fixing His mind within Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
According to ÅšrÄ«la ÅšrÄ«dhara SvÄmÄ«, Lord Kṛṣṇa had previously answered the prayers of Lord BrahmÄ and the other demigods, who had requested the Lord to descend within this universe for the protection of His servants, the demigods. Now the demigods arrived before the Lord, each one desiring to take the Lord to his own planet. To avoid these innumerable social obligations, the Lord closed His eyes as if absorbed in samÄdhi.
ÅšrÄ«la JÄ«va GosvÄmÄ« adds that Lord Kṛṣṇa closed His eyes to instruct the yogÄ«s how to leave this mortal world without attachment to one’s mystic opulences. All the demigods, including BrahmÄ, are mystic expansions of Lord Kṛṣṇa, and yet the Lord closed His eyes to emphasize that one should fix one’s mind on the Supreme Personality of Godhead when departing from this world.
