balir uvāca
namo 'nantāya bṛhate
namaḥ kṛṣṇāya vedhase
sāńkhya-yoga-vitānāya
brahmaṇe paramātmane
balih uvaca -- Bali said; namah -- obeisances; anantaya -- to Ananta, the unlimited Lord; brihate -- the greatest being; namah -- obeisances; krishnaya -- to Krishna; vedhase -- the creator; sankhya -- of sankhya analysis; yoga -- and of mystic yoga; vitanaya -- the disseminator; brahmane -- the Absolute Truth; parama-atmane -- the Supersoul.
King Bali said: Obeisances to the unlimited Lord, Ananta, the greatest of all beings. And obeisances to Lord Krishna, the creator of the universe, who appears as the impersonal Absolute and the Supersoul in order to disseminate the principles of sankhya and yoga.
Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti identifies the supreme Ananta named here as Lord Balarama, from whom expands the divine serpent Ananta Sesha. Impersonal Brahman is the source of the texts belonging to the sankhya philosophers, while the personal representation of the Lord known as Paramatma disseminates the textbooks of yoga.
