When Brahmā saw this, from trance-sleep he awoke the sleepers, and bowing low to the feet of Krishna, salutation made and thus did burst forth: "O Lord of all Love! O Being Supreme! O Source of all Life and Maker of All! Oft in the eyes of my Yoga, glimpses of Thee have I caught and Thy loveliness and majesty transcend all beauty.
"What is the merit of the earth, that Thou shouldst bless it with Thy beautiful feet? have looked upon the earth and have seen Thy Love in all things, but I perceived not that Thou in Thy mercy wouldst live among men, even as man.
"Through Thy coming each heart, that a hovel in poorness was, into a palace of riches has grown.
"Through Thy coming all flesh its grossness has lost, since to the eyes of man Thou seemingly walkest in the flesh.
"Thou who the centre of Thy radiance art, yet walkest within that radiance! What is the mystery of Thy great Self?
"Thou who teachest the bird to cleave the sky and hath made me the creater of earth and continuest the motion thereof!
"Thou who the Concrete art and yet the Abstraction thereof dost prove!
"Thou Mystery of all mysteries, the Secret, the indistinct and yet the sublimely simple Parent of the Universe!
"Thou who art the whole and yet the parts, the immensity and yet the mote of things!
"A poor groveller am I at Thy feet in the dust! Why hast Thou blessed me to know Thee thus?