Devanagari
स्वयं त्वसाम्यातिशयस्त्र्यधीश:
स्वाराज्यलक्ष्म्याप्तसमस्तकाम: ।
बलिं हरद्भिश्चिरलोकपालै:
किरीटकोट्येडितपादपीठ: ॥ २१ ॥
Verse text
svayaṁ tv asāmyātiśayas tryadhīśaḥ
svārājya-lakṣmy-āpta-samasta-kāmaḥ
baliṁ haradbhiś cira-loka-pālaiḥ
kirīṭa-koṭyeḍita-pāda-pīṭhaḥ
Synonyms
svayam
—
Himself
;
tu
—
but
;
asāmya
—
unique
;
atiśayaḥ
—
greater
;
tri
—
adhīśaḥ — Lord of the three
;
svārājya
—
independent supremacy
;
lakṣmī
—
fortune
;
āpta
—
achieved
;
samasta
—
kāmaḥ — all desires
;
balim
—
worshiping paraphernalia
;
haradbhiḥ
—
offered by
;
cira
—
loka — pālaiḥ — by the eternal maintainers of the order of creation
;
kirīṭa
—
koṭyā — millions of helmets
;
iḍita
—
pāda — pīṭhaḥ — feet honored by prayers .
Translation
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the Lord of all kinds of threes and is independently supreme by achievement of all kinds of fortune. He is worshiped by the eternal maintainers of the creation, who offer Him the paraphernalia of worship by touching their millions of helmets to His feet.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
No one is equal to him or superior to him. He is master of the three energies and three Viṣṇus. All his desires are fulfilled by Lakṣmī and his rulership over his devotees, pastimes and qualities. His feet are praised by the sound by ten million crowns of the devatās offering respects while presenting gifts.
In two verses Uddhava laments how he could forget the sweetness of the Lord, his willingness to come under the control of his devotees. Though he is the master of Brahmā and other devatās and the master of Viṣṇu forms as well, he becomes the servant of Ugrasena.
He has no equal what to speak of a superior (asāmyātiśayaḥ). What is the reason? He is the lord of the three puruṣāvatāras, and the lord of cic-cakti, jīva-śakti and māyā-śakti. All his desires are fulfilled by Lakṣmī and his rulership with his expansions, his devotees, śaktis, pastimes, powers and sweetness. His feet are praised (edita) by ten million crowns of long lasting protectors of the directions, by Brahmās acting as creators in ten million universes, by Viṣṇus protecting the universes and by Śivas destroying the universes, and by Śeṣas holding up the universes. The sound of the crowns when they offer respects is the praise.
Purport
Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is so mild and merciful, as described in the above verses, and yet He is the Lord of all kinds of threes. He is the Supreme Lord of the three worlds, the three qualities of material nature and the three
puruṣas
(Kāraṇodakaśāyī, Garbhodakaśāyī and Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu). There are innumerable universes, and in each and every universe there are different manifestations of Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Rudra. Besides that, there is the Śeṣa-mūrti who bears all the universes on His hoods. And Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Lord of all of them. As the incarnation of Manu, He is the original source of all Manus in innumerable universes. Each universe has manifestations of 504,000 Manus. He is the Lord of the three principal potencies, namely
cit-śakti, māyā-śakti
and
taṭasthā-śakti,
and He is the complete master of six kinds of fortune — wealth, strength, fame, beauty, knowledge and renunciation. There is none who can excel Him in any matter of enjoyment, and certainly there is no one greater than Him. No one is equal to or greater than Him. It is the duty of everyone, whoever and wherever one may be, to surrender completely unto Him. It is not wonderful, therefore, that all the transcendental controllers surrender to Him and make all offerings of worship.