namas te sarva-bhāvāya
brahmaṇe 'nanta-śaktaye
kṛṣṇāya vāsudevāya
yogānāḿ pataye namaḥ
namah -- obeisances; te -- to You; sarva-bhavaya -- the source of all beings; brahmane -- the Supreme Absolute Truth; ananta -- unlimited; saktaye -- the possessor of potencies; krishnaya -- to Krishna; vasudevaya -- the son of Vasudeva; yoganam -- of all processes of yoga; pataye -- to the Lord; namah -- obeisances.
I offer my repeated obeisances unto You, Krishna, the son of Vasudeva. You are the source of all beings, the Supreme Absolute Truth, the possessor of unlimited potencies, the master of all spiritual disciplines.
Srila Sridhara Svami comments that King Nriga here offers his obeisances to Brahman -- that is, the Absolute Truth -- who is unchanged in spite of performing activities. Since ancient times, Western philosophers have puzzled over the question of how God can be unchanging and yet perform activities. Sridhara Svami states that this doubt is answered here by the term ananta-saktaye, which describes the Lord as "the possessor of unlimited potency." Thus through the Lord's infinite potencies He can perform innumerable activities without changing His essential nature.
The King further offers his obeisances to Sri Krishna, the possessor of the form of eternal bliss and the supreme goal of life. The holy name of Krishna is analyzed in a verse from the Mahabharata (Udyoga-parva 71.4), which Srila Prabhupada quotes in his Caitanya-caritamrita (Madhya 9.30, purport):
krishir bhu-vacakah sabdo
nas ca nirvriti-vacakah
tayor aikyam param brahma
krishna ity abhidhiyate
"The word krish is the attractive feature of the Lord's existence, and na means 'spiritual pleasure.' When the verb krish is added to na, it becomes krishna, which indicates the Absolute Truth."
King Nriga offers the above prayers as he is about to leave the personal association of the Supreme Lord.
