Devanagari
तद्विधेहि नमस्तुभ्यं कर्मस्वीड्यात्मशक्तिषु ।
यत्कृत्वेह यशो विष्वगमुत्र च भवेद्गति: ॥ ८ ॥
Verse text
tad vidhehi namas tubhyaṁ
karmasv īḍyātma-śaktiṣu
yat kṛtveha yaśo viṣvag
amutra ca bhaved gatiḥ
Synonyms
tat
—
that
;
vidhehi
—
give direction
;
namaḥ
—
my obeisances
;
tubhyam
—
unto you
;
karmasu
—
in duties
;
īḍya
—
O worshipful one
;
ātma
—
śaktiṣu — within our working capacity
;
yat
—
which
;
kṛtvā
—
doing
;
iha
—
in this world
;
yaśaḥ
—
fame
;
viṣvak
—
everywhere
;
amutra
—
in the next world
;
ca
—
and
;
bhavet
—
it should be
;
gatiḥ
—
progress .
Translation
O worshipful one, please give us your direction for the execution of duty within our working capacity so that we can follow it for fame in this life and progress in the next.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
O worshipable lord! We offer respects to you! Please instruct us how we can please you by performing actions according to our abilities, which after being performed, will give us fame in this life and a superior destination in the next life.
O worshipable lord! Among all actions, according to our abilities, please instruct us how we can follow you by performing actions, which will give us (this phrase should be supplied) complete fame.
Purport
Brahmā is the direct recipient of Vedic knowledge from the Personality of Godhead, and anyone discharging his entrusted duties in disciplic succession from Brahmā is sure to gain fame in this life and salvation in the next. The disciplic succession from Brahmā is called the Brahma
sampradāya,
and it descends as follows: Brahmā, Nārada, Vyāsa, Madhva Muni (Pūrṇaprajṣa), Padmanābha, Nṛhari, Mādhava, Akṣobhya, Jayatīrtha, Jṣānasindhu, Dayānidhi, Vidyānidhi, Rājendra, Jayadharma, Puruṣottama, Brahmaṇyatīrtha, Vyāsatīrtha, Lakṣmīpati, Mādhavendra Purī, Īśvara Purī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Svarūpa Dāmodara and Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī and others, Śrī Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, Kṛṣṇadāsa Gosvāmī, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura, Viśvanātha Cakravartī, Jagannātha dāsa Bābājī, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, Gaurakiśora dāsa Bābājī, Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami.
This line of disciplic succession from Brahmā is spiritual, whereas the genealogical succession from Manu is material, but both are on the progressive march towards the same goal of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.