कृष्णाय मृष्टयशसे निरुपक्रमाय ।
सत्सङ्ग्रहाय भवपान्थनिजाश्रमाप्ता
वन्ते परीष्टगतये हरये नमस्ते ॥४५॥
haá¹sÄya dahra-nilayÄya nirÄ«ká¹£akÄya
kṛṣṇÄya mṛṣá¹a-yaÅ›ase nirupakramÄya
sat-saá¹…grahÄya bhava-pÄntha-nijÄÅ›ramÄptÄv
ante parÄ«á¹£á¹a-gataye haraye namas te
haá¹sÄya - unto the most exalted and pure (pavitraá¹ paramam, the supreme pure); dahra - in the core of the heart; nilayÄya - whose abode; nirÄ«ká¹£akÄya - supervising the activities of the individual soul; kṛṣṇÄya - unto the Supersoul, who is a partial manifestation of Kṛṣṇa; mṛṣá¹a-yaÅ›ase - whose reputation is very bright; nirupakramÄya - who has no beginning; sat-saá¹…grahÄya - understood only by pure devotees; bhava-pÄntha-nija-ÄÅ›rama-Äptau - being obtainment of the shelter of Kṛṣṇa for persons within this material world; ante - at the ultimate end; parÄ«á¹£á¹a-gataye - unto Him who is the ultimate goal, the highest success of life; haraye - unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead; namaḥ - respectful obeisances; te - unto You.
O Lord, O supreme pure, You live within the core of everyone’s heart and observe all the desires and activities of the conditioned souls. O Supreme Personality of Godhead known as Lord Kṛṣṇa, Your reputation is bright and illuminating. You have no beginning, for You are the beginning of everything. This is understood by pure devotees because You are easily accessible to the pure and truthful. When the conditioned souls are liberated and sheltered at Your lotus feet after roving throughout the material world for many millions of years, they attain the highest success of life. Therefore, O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, we offer our respectful obeisances at Your lotus feet.
The demigods certainly wanted Lord Viṣṇu to relieve their anxiety, but now they directly approach Lord Kṛṣṇa, for although there is no difference between Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa descends to this planet in His VÄsudeva feature for the purpose of paritrÄṇÄya sÄdhÅ«nÄá¹ vinÄÅ›Äya ca duá¹£ká¹›tÄm — protecting His devotees and annihilating the miscreants. Demons, or atheists, always disturb the demigods, or devotees, and therefore Kṛṣṇa descends to punish the atheists and demons and fulfill the desire of His devotees. Kṛṣṇa, being the original cause of everything, is the Supreme Person, above even Viṣṇu and NÄrÄyaṇa, although there is no difference between these different forms of the Lord. As explained in Brahma-saá¹hitÄ (5.46):
dÄ«pÄrcir eva hi daÅ›Äntaram abhyupetya
dÄ«pÄyate vivá¹›ta-hetu-samÄna-dharmÄ
yas tÄdá¹›g eva hi ca viṣṇutayÄ vibhÄti
govindam Ädi-puruá¹£aá¹ tam ahaá¹ bhajÄmi
Kṛṣṇa expands Himself as Viṣṇu the way a bright candle kindles another. Although there is no difference between the power of one candle and another, Kṛṣṇa is compared to the original candle.
The word mṛṣá¹a-yaÅ›ase is significant herein because Kṛṣṇa is always famous for relieving His devotee from danger. A devotee who has sacrificed everything for the service of Kṛṣṇa and whose only source of relief is the Lord is known as akiñcana.
As expressed in the prayers offered by Queen KuntÄ«, the Lord is akiñcana-vitta, the property of such a devotee. Those who are liberated from the bondage of conditioned life are elevated to the spiritual world, where they achieve five kinds of liberation — sÄyujya, sÄlokya, sÄrÅ«pya, sÄrá¹£á¹i and sÄmÄ«pya. They personally associate with the Lord in five mellows — Å›Änta, dÄsya, sakhya, vÄtsalya and mÄdhurya. These rasas are all emanations from Kṛṣṇa. As described by ViÅ›vanÄtha CakravartÄ« ṬhÄkura, the original mellow, Ädi-rasa, is conjugal love. Kṛṣṇa is the origin of pure and spiritual conjugal love.
