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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.6.8

శ్రీబ్రహ్మోవాచ అజాతజన్మస్థితిసంయమాయా- గుణాయ నిర్వాణసుఖార్ణవాయ । అణోరణిమ్నేఽపరిగణ్యధామ్నే
śrī-brahmovāca
[shree-brahmovaacha]
ajāta-janma-sthiti-saṁyamāyā-
[ajaata-janma-sthiti-samyamaayaa-]
guṇāya nirvāṇa-sukhārṇavāya
[gunaaya nirvaana-sukhaarnavaaya]
aṇor aṇimne ’parigaṇya-dhāmne
[anor animne ’pariganya-dhaamne]
mahānubhāvāya namo namas te
[mahaanubhaavaaya namo namas te]
śrī-brahmā uvāca — Lord Brahmā said ajāta-janma-sthiti-saṁyamāya — unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never born but whose appearance in different incarnations never ceases aguṇāya — never affected by the material modes of nature (sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa) nirvāṇa-sukha-arṇavāya — unto the ocean of eternal bliss, beyond material existence aṇoḥ aṇimne — smaller than the atom aparigaṇya-dhāmne — whose bodily features are never to be conceived by material speculation mahā-anubhāvāya — whose existence is inconceivable namaḥ — offering our obeisances namaḥ — again offering our obeisances te — unto You.
Blended reading (Sanskrit + English inline)
śrī-brahmovāca
śrī-brahmā uvāca
Lord Brahmā said
ajāta-janma-sthiti-saṁyamāyā-
ajāta-janma-sthiti-saṁyamāya
unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never born but whose appearance in different incarnations never ceases
aguṇāya
never affected by the material modes of nature (sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa)
guṇāya nirvāṇa-sukhārṇavāya
nirvāṇa-sukha-arṇavāya
unto the ocean of eternal bliss, beyond material existence
aṇor aṇimne ’parigaṇya-dhāmne
aṇoḥ aṇimne
smaller than the atom
aparigaṇya-dhāmne
whose bodily features are never to be conceived by material speculation
mahānubhāvāya namo namas te
mahā-anubhāvāya
whose existence is inconceivable
namaḥ
offering our obeisances
namaḥ
again offering our obeisances
te
unto You.
Lord Brahmā said: Although You are never born, Your appearance and disappearance as an incarnation never cease. You are always free from the material qualities, and You are the shelter of transcendental bliss resembling an ocean. Eternally existing in Your transcendental form, You are the supreme subtle of the most extremely subtle. We therefore offer our respectful obeisances unto You, the Supreme, whose existence is inconceivable.

The Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā (4.6) :

ajo ’pi sann avyayātmā bhūtānām īśvaro ’pi san prakṛtiṁ svām adhiṣṭhāya sambhavāmy ātma-māyayā

“Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form.” In the following verse in Bhagavad-gītā (4.7) , the Lord says:

yadā yadā hi dharmasya glānir bhavati bhārata abhyutthānam adharmasya tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham

“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion — at that time I descend Myself.” Thus although the Supreme Lord is unborn, there is no cessation to His appearance in different forms as incarnations like Lord Kṛṣṇa and Lord Rāma. Since His incarnations are eternal, the various activities performed by these incarnations are also eternal. The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not appear because He is forced to do so by karma like ordinary living entities who are forced to accept a certain type of body. It is to be understood that the Lord’s body and activities are all transcendental, being free from the contamination of the material modes of nature. These pastimes are transcendental bliss to the Lord. The word aparigaṇya-dhāmne is very significant. There is no limit to the Lord’s appearance in different incarnations. All of these incarnations are eternal, blissful and full of knowledge.

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura Gauḍīya
Translation
Brahmā said: I offer repeated respects to the Lord who has no destruction of his birth and actions, who is without material qualities but full of auspicious qualities as Bhagavān, who is Brahman full of the happiness of liberation, who is Paramātmā, smaller than an atom, and who has an immeasurable form which manifests him form by his acintya-śakti. The Lord does not have a destruction of his birth and maintenance. This means that forms like Kṛṣṇa and Rāma have eternal birth and maintenance. That maintenance means that his forms perform activities, since no conscious being exists without action. However their actions are also eternal. The Lord is without material guṇas, without inferior qualities. Viṣṇu Purāṇa says he has all auspicious qualities. Bhagavān means that person who is endowed with six auspicious qualities. The Lord is also Brahman, an ocean of the happiness of nirvāṇa. He is also Paramātmā, smaller than the atom. His form is beyond measurement (aparigaṇya-dhamne). Therefore I offer respects to him. This implies that though normally a form has limits, his form manifests through his acintya-śakti.
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