Bhagavad Gita 11.37

kasmāc ca te na nameran mahātman

garīyase brahmaṇo ’py ādi-kartre

ananta deveśa jagan-nivāsa

tvam akṣaraṁ sad-asat tat paraṁ yat

 

Why would they not bow to you in devotion,

Greater than Brahmā, beyond all competition?

Infinite Lord, the world’s abode,

Beyond both being and non-being’s mode.

 

My dear Lord, when I truly understand your supreme position, I no longer consider anything else as great as you. I see you as the supreme cause behind all the causes and effects that move the world around me and the mind within me.

O inconceivable Lord, help me appreciate the marvelous mystery of my own existence. Countless worldly causes operate constantly around me, their effects shaping change—sometimes subtly, sometimes suddenly and drastically. Amid all these shifting forces, even something tiny can damage—or destroy—my fragile body. Every moment that I exist, indeed every breath that I take and every thought that I have, is a living miracle, and you, O Lord, are the source of that living miracle.

O omnipotent Lord, beyond all such causes and effects, you stand supreme. You are transcendent and benevolent—non-interfering yet ever-caring—guarding and guiding not only my body and mind, but my soul, the very essence of me, pointing and prodding me to learn to love you, the ultimate enduring reality in this flickering world.

O supremely loving Lord, I exist because of your love—love I have done nothing to earn and have so often neglected, even knowingly rejected. Help me see your love as the supreme miracle of existence—beyond all rational explanation. May this realization inspire me to love and serve you—first with deeper awareness here, and then with eternal intimacy in your personal abode.

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11.37 O great one, greater even than Brahmā, You are the original creator. Why then should they not offer their respectful obeisances unto You? O limitless one, God of gods, refuge of the universe! You are the invincible source, the cause of all causes, transcendental to this material manifestation.