Shloka 17
Brahmā’s Prayers to Lord Kṛṣṇa (Brahmā-stuti) and the Restoration of Vraja’s Lunch Pastime
यस्य कुक्षाविदं सर्वं सात्मं भाति यथा तथा । तत्त्वय्यपीह तत् सर्वं किमिदं मायया विना ॥ १७ ॥
yasya kukṣāv idaṁ sarvaṁ sātmaṁ bhāti yathā tathā tat tvayy apīha tat sarvaṁ kim idaṁ māyayā vinā
Just as the entire universe, including You, was revealed within Your abdomen, so it is now manifested externally here in the very same form. How could such a thing occur without the arrangement of Your inconceivable energy?
Śrīla Prabhupāda comments on this verse as follows in Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead: “Lord Brahmā stressed herein that without accepting the inconceivable energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one cannot explain things as they are.”
FAQs
This verse teaches that since everything exists within Kṛṣṇa, māyā cannot be an independent reality; it is His potency and has no existence apart from Him.
After being bewildered by Kṛṣṇa’s divine power, Brahmā offers prayers acknowledging Kṛṣṇa as the Absolute Truth in whom the entire cosmos rests, and he questions any notion of a separate, competing ‘illusion’ apart from Him.
See life’s changing appearances as dependent on the Supreme, and anchor decisions in devotion and truthfulness—reducing anxiety by recognizing that nothing is outside God’s control.