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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
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विष्णोर्नु वीर्यगणनां कतमोऽर्हतीह यः पार्थिवान्यपि कविर्विममे रजांसि चस्कम्भ यः स्वरहसास्खलता त्रिपृष्ठं यस्मात्त्रिसाम्यसदनादुरुकम्पयानम्
viṣṇor nu vīrya-gaṇanāṁ katamo ’rhatīha yaḥ pārthivāny api kavir vimame rajāṁsi caskambha yaḥ sva-rahasāskhalatā tri-pṛṣṭhaṁ yasmāt tri-sāmya-sadanād uru-kampayānam
WORD BY WORD
viṣṇoḥ of Lord Viṣṇu; nu but; vīrya prowess; gaṇanām in the matter of accounting; katamaḥ who else; arhati is able to do it; iha in this world; yaḥ one who; pārthivāni the atoms; api also; kaviḥ great scientist; vimame might have counted; rajāṁsi particles; caskambha could catch; yaḥ one who; sva-rahasā by His own leg; askhalatā without being hampered; tri-pṛṣṭham the topmost planetary space; yasmāt by which; tri-sāmya the neutral state of the three modes; sadanāt up to that place; uru-kampayānam moving very greatly;
TRANSLATION
| Who can describe completely the prowess of Viṣṇu? Even the scientist, who might have counted the particles of the atoms of the universe, cannot do so. Because it is He only who in His form of Trivikrama moved His leg effortlessly beyond the topmost planet, Satyaloka, up to the neutral state of the three modes of material nature. And all were moved.
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PURPORT
| The highest scientific advancement of the material scientists is atomic energy. But the material scientist is not able to have an estimation of the particles of atoms contained in the whole universe. But even if one is able to count such atomic particles or is able to roll up the sky like one’s bedding, even then one is unable to estimate the extent of the prowess and energy of the Supreme Lord. He is known as Trivikrama because once, in His incarnation of Vāmana, He expanded His leg beyond the highest planetary system, Satyaloka, and reached the neutral state of the modes of nature called the covering of the material world. There are seven layers of material coverings over the material sky, and the Lord could penetrate even those coverings. With His toe He made a hole through which the water of the Causal Ocean filters into the material sky, and the current is known as the sacred Ganges, which purifies the planets of the three worlds. In other words, no one is equal to the transcendentally powerful Viṣṇu. He is omnipotent, and no one is equal to or greater than Him.
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