Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 3.26.25
सहस्रशिरसं साक्षाद्यमनन्तं प्रचक्षते ।
सङ्कर्षणाख्यं पुरुषं भूतेन्द्रियमनोमयम् ॥ २५ ॥
sahasra-śirasaṁ sākṣād
[sahasra-shirasam saakshaad]
yam anantaṁ pracakṣate
[yam anantam prachakshate]
saṅkarṣaṇākhyaṁ puruṣaṁ
[sankarshanaakhyam purusham]
bhūtendriya-manomayam
[bhootendriya-manomayam]
Word-for-word
sahasra-śirasam
—
with a thousand heads
sākṣāt
—
directly
yam
—
whom
anantam
—
Ananta
pracakṣate
—
they all
saṅkarṣaṇa-ākhyam
—
Saṅkarṣaṇa by name
puruṣam
—
the Supreme Personality of Godhead
bhūta
—
the gross elements
indriya
—
the senses
manaḥ-mayam
—
consisting of the mind.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
sahasra-śirasaṁ sākṣād
sahasra-śirasam
with a thousand heads
sākṣāt
directly
yam anantaṁ pracakṣate
yam
whom
anantam
Ananta
pracakṣate
they all
saṅkarṣaṇākhyaṁ puruṣaṁ
saṅkarṣaṇa-ākhyam
Saṅkarṣaṇa by name
puruṣam
the Supreme Personality of Godhead
bhūtendriya-manomayam
bhūta
the gross elements
indriya
the senses
manaḥ-mayam
consisting of the mind.
The threefold ahaṅkāra, the source of the gross elements, the senses and the mind, is identical with them because it is their cause. It is known by the name of Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is directly Lord Ananta with a thousand heads.
Gauḍīya Ācāryas
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura
Gauḍīya
Translation
Situated in ahaṅkara is the Lord with a thousand heads known as Saṅkārṣaṇa and also called Ananta, the cause of the mind, senses and gross elements.
The deity to be worshiped is described. Yam means literally means “which is Ananta” but actually means “in which Ananta is situated.” The object and the person in the object are equated in the same manner that we say “The stadium shouted” when we mean “the people in the stadium shouted.”
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Personal Guidance
Threefold ahaṅkāra — the false ego — is the cause of gross elements, senses, and mind, identical with them as Saṅkarṣaṇa (Ananta with a thousand heads). The 'I' we construct is also the substrate of the world we then perceive. Ego is not separate from the universe it generates.
Reflection Questions
- Where does my sense of 'I' actually shape what I see and feel as 'world'?
- How does identifying ego with Saṅkarṣaṇa change my view of self?
My note
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