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Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu .2.196

tatra dehī, yathā yāmunācārya-stotre (49)—
[tatra dehee, yathaa yaamunaachaarya-stotre (49)—]
vapur-ādiṣu yo ’pi ko 'pi vā
[vapur-aadishu yo ’pi ko 'pi vaa]
guṇato ’sāni yathā tathā-vidhaḥ |
[gunato ’saani yathaa tathaa-vidhah |]
tad ayaṁ tava pāda-padmayor
[tad ayam tava paada-padmayor]
aham adyaiva mayā samarpitaḥ ||196||
[aham adyaiva mayaa samarpitah ||196||]
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
tatra dehī, yathā yāmunācārya-stotre (49)—
vapur-ādiṣu yo ’pi ko 'pi vā
guṇato ’sāni yathā tathā-vidhaḥ |
tad ayaṁ tava pāda-padmayor
aham adyaiva mayā samarpitaḥ ||196||
Offering the soul is illustrated in a stotra of Yāmunācārya: Whoever I may be, either a soul inhabiting the body and other material elements, or a deva or a human body made of the guṇas, today I offer that ”I” to Your lotus feet.

Śrī Yāmunācārya, in his prayers to the Lord, has expressed a similar idea in the following words: “My dear Lord, I may be living within some body as a human being or as a demigod, but whatever mode of life, I do not mind, because these bodies are simply by-products of the three modes of material nature, and I, who am in possession of these bodies, am surrendering myself unto You.”

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Jīva Gosvāmī Gauḍīya
Durgama-saṅgamanī
Commentary

By the word vā the first phrase (vapur ādiṣu yo ’pi ko ’pi) indicates his svarūpa whereas the second phrase indicates the material forms of deva and human (yathā tathā-vidhaḥ). Asāni is the imperative first person of as (to be) — “may I be.” This indicates freely follow­ing one’s desires. From grammatical analysis, tad ayam should actually be asau ayam. This phrase, meaning “that and this,” connected with aham indicates the “I” who is the soul and the “I” who is the body. This may be more commonly expressed as so’ ham.

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