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

You are the past, the future, and what is yet to come; you are the invincible. From you alone all the worlds here have arisen. I am your devotee, worshipping you—therefore accept and protect me. Do not allow me to be harmed through the agency of those who act with ill will and wrongdoing.

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.