Shloka 77

Devanagari script

भूतं भव्यं भविता चाप्यधृष्यं त्वत्सम्भूता भुवनानीह विश्वा । भक्त च मां भजमानं भजस्व मा रीरिषो मामहिताहितेन,भूत, वर्तमान, भविष्य तथा अजेय काल--ये सब आपके ही स्वरूप हैं। यहाँ सम्पूर्ण लोक आपसे ही उत्पन्न हुए हैं। मैं आपका भजन करनेवाला भक्त हूँ, आप मुझे अपनाइये। अहित करनेवालोंको रखकर मेरी हिंसा न कराइये

Transliteration

bhūtaṃ bhavyaṃ bhavitā cāpy adhṛṣyaṃ tvat-sambhūtā bhuvanānīha viśvā | bhaktaś ca māṃ bhajamānaṃ bhajasva mā rīriṣo mām ahitāhitena ||

Translation

«أنت الماضي والحاضر والمستقبل، وأنت الزمان الذي لا يُقهَر. ومنك وحدك نشأت العوالم كلّها هنا. أنا عبدٌ لك، أعبدك—فاقبلني واحفظني. ولا تدعني أُؤذى على يد من يسعون بسوء النيّة والباطل.»

Word by Word

• {'bhūtam': 'the past

• what has been', 'bhavyam': 'the future

• what will be', 'bhavitā': 'that which is to become

• the coming time', 'adhṛṣyam': 'unassailable, invincible', 'tvat-sambhūtāḥ': 'arisen from you

• originating in you', 'bhuvanāni': 'worlds, realms, beings/creation', 'iha': 'here (in this manifested world)', 'viśvā': 'all, entire, universal', 'bhaktaḥ': 'devotee', 'mām': 'me', 'bhajamānam': 'worshipping, devotedly serving', 'bhajasva': 'accept/favor/protect (imperative of bhaj)', 'mā': 'do not', 'rīriṣaḥ': 'cause harm

• injure (desiderative/causative sense)', 'ahita': 'harm, ill, injury

• what is not beneficial', 'ahitāhitena': 'by means of harmful/hostile conduct

Speaker

श्रीनारायण उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī Nārāyaṇa
• the devotee/speaker (unnamed in the verse)
• the worlds (bhuvanāni)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

The verse affirms the deity’s all-encompassing nature—time (past, future, becoming) and invincibility—and frames devotion as a moral relationship: the devotee seeks divine acceptance and protection, specifically asking that harm not be inflicted through hostile or unethical agents.

What is happening in the narrative?

Śrī Nārāyaṇa speaks in a devotional register that resembles a supplication: acknowledging the divine as the source of all worlds and as time itself, the speaker (as a bhakta) petitions for refuge and protection, requesting that enemies or wrongdoers not be used as instruments to cause injury.