SB 8.6.14 · Srimad-Bhagavatam

Devanagari

स त्वं विधत्स्वाखिललोकपाला वयं यदर्थास्तव पादमूलम् । समागतास्ते बहिरन्तरात्मन् किं वान्यविज्ञाप्यमशेषसाक्षिण: ॥ १४ ॥

Verse text

sa tvaṁ vidhatsvākhila-loka-pālā vayaṁ yad arthās tava pāda-mūlam samāgatās te bahir-antar-ātman kiṁ vānya-vijṣāpyam aśeṣa-sākṣiṇaḥ

Synonyms

saḥ — that ; tvam — Your Lordship ; vidhatsva — kindly do the needful ; akhila — loka — pālāḥ — the demigods, directors of different departments of this universe ; vayam — all of us ; yat — that which ; arthāḥ — purpose ; tava — at Your Lordship’s ; pāda — mūlam — lotus feet ; samāgatāḥ — we have arrived ; te — unto You ; bahiḥ — antaḥ — ātman — O Supersoul of everyone, O constant internal and external witness ; kim — what ; vā — either ; anya — vijṣāpyam — we have to inform You ; aśeṣa — sākṣiṇaḥ — the witness and knower of everything .

Translation

My Lord, we, the various demigods, the directors of this universe, have come to Your lotus feet. Please fulfill the purpose for which we have come. You are the witness of everything, from within and without. Nothing is unknown to You, and therefore it is unnecessary to inform You again of anything.

Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)

Please accomplish the purpose for which we, the protectors of all the planets, have come to your lotus feet. O soul within everything! What else can be informed to you, the witness of everything? Please accomplish what we came for (yad arthāḥ). If you say, “Please tell me clearly what you want” then we say that you are the soul with all. You witness everything unlimitedly. What other thing can we inform to you?

Purport

As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (13.3) , kṣetra-jṣaṁ cāpi māṁ viddhi sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata. The individual souls are proprietors of their individual bodies, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the proprietor of all bodies. Since He is the witness of everyone’s body, nothing is unknown to Him. He knows what we need. Our duty, therefore, is to execute devotional service sincerely, under the direction of the spiritual master. Kṛṣṇa, by His grace, will supply whatever we need in executing our devotional service. In the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we simply have to execute the order of Kṛṣṇa and guru. Then all necessities will be supplied by Kṛṣṇa, even if we do not ask for them.