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markandeya 108 dasa
Pranams,
He who is the very form of existence, consciousness, and bliss; who possesses inconceivable, multifarious, and unlimited energies that are of his own nature; who is the ocean of unlimited, mutually contradictory qualities, such that in him both the attribute and the possessor of attributes, the lack of differences and varieties of differences, formlessness and form, pervasiveness and centrality (madhyamatva) all are true; whose beautiful form is self-luminous, distinct from both gross and subtle entities, and consists entirely of his own nature; who has unlimited such forms manifested by his chief form called Bhagavān; whose left side is beautified by Lakṣmī, the manifestation of his personal energy, suitable to his own form; who resides in his own abode, along with his associates, who are furnished with forms that are a special manifestation of his own splendour; who astonishes the hosts of ātmārāmas (those who take pleasure in the self) by his wonderful qualities, pastimes, and so on, which are characterised by the play of his personal energy; whose own generic brilliance is manifested in the form of the reality of Brahman; who is the sole shelter and life of his marginal energy, called the living entities (jīvas); whose mere reflected energy is the modes of nature (guṇas), visible in the unlimited phenomenal world; he is Bhagavān. Srila jiva Goswami