Bhakti Ratnakara Chapter 5: The Determination of Lord. Sloka 4.

tad vā idaṃ bhuvana-maṅgala maṅgalāya
dhyāne sma no darśitaṃ ta upāsakānām
tasmai namo bhagavate 'nuvidhema tubhyaṃ
yo 'nādṛto naraka-bhāgbhir asat-prasaṅgaiḥ        (BhP_03.09.004)

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nanvevamapi sopādhikamarvācīnameveti cettatrāha | vai nikṣcaye | tedevedam | yatastvayā no:'smākamupāsakānāṃ maṃgalāya mokṣārthaṃ te tvayā dhyāne darśitam | na hyavyaktavartmābhiniveśitacetasāṃ nastvayā sopādhikadarśanamiti bhāvaḥ | atastubhyaṃ namo:'nuvidadhe anuvṛtyā karayāma | tarhi kimiti kecinmāṃ nādriyante tatrāha | iti narakaṃ bhajantīti taiḥ kṣravaṇavimukhaiḥ sakāmakarmaparaiḥ | asaditi nirīkṣvarakutarkaniṣṭhaiḥ ||4||

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bulibāhā āna rūpa nāhike yadẏapi |

upādhi-yuguta iṭo howaẏa tathāpi ||

idānīka mātra dekhi nuhi purātana |

ihāra uttara śuniẏoka nārāẏaṇa ||119

mukuti dibāka prati āmi sewakaka |

dhyānata dekhāilā prabhu parama rūpaka ||

upādhi-yuguta rūpa  dhyāne dekhāibāka |

nuhike yuguti prabhu jāno niṣṭhe tāka ||120

ehito muruti satya tumi nirañjana |

tumi mātra sarbbakāle sadā cirantana ||

eteke tomāka mātra kari namaskāra |

sadāẏe sewibo prabhu caraṇa tomāra ||121

bulibā īśbara buli mānā tumi moka |

nakare ādara moka kata kata loka ||

ihāra uttara śuniẏoka kṛpāmaẏa |

yiṭo lokasakale tomāka nādaraẏa ||122

narakara bhāgī siẏo howaẏa kewala |

nāhike tāhāra kadācito āna phala ||

nānā kutarkādi śāstre īśbara khaṇḍaẏa |

tāte niṣṭha bhailā yiṭo loka durāśaẏa ||123

karaẏa [nakaraẏa?] niṣkāma karmma nādare tomāka |

śrabaṇādi nakaraẏa tomāra kathāka ||

tāhāra kewale bāñchā narakese mātra |

nuhikaẏa anẏatra phalara siṭo pātra ||124

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If you would say, ‘Even though I have no other form,
associated with limitations (upadhi) this form still is?

Now only it is seen; it is not the primeval form?’

Listen to its answer, O Shelter of All Beings. [119]

With the aim of giving liberation to us, your servant,
you have shown to us in meditation your supreme, true form.

To show adjunct-associated form in the state of deep contemplation
is contrary to logic, Lord, we know it for certain. [120]

Only this figure is the true one; you are unstained.

Only you are the primeval person—present at all times.

Therefore, doing salutation only to you,

I will always serve, my master, your feet. [121]

You will say, ‘You consider me to be the Supreme Lord but
there are some individuals who do not hold me in regard?’

Listen to the answer to this, O Compassionate One.

Those persons who do not show regard for you, [122]
they also are the ones destined solely for hell.

They do not have any other result in store for them, never. [122]

Various books containing foul arguments negate the existence of God.

Those wicked ones who have come to develop faith in them; [123]
they do not do desireless karma, do not regard you;
they never engage in the listening, etc. of your tale;
their wishes, solely,  must lie only in hell.

These ones are not eligible for receiving any other reward.’ [124]

Bhakti Ratnakara Chapter 5: The Determination of Lord. Sloka 3.

nātaḥ paraṃ parama yad bhavataḥ svarūpam
ānanda-mātram avikalpam aviddha-varcaḥ
paśyāmi viśva-sṛjam ekam aviśvam ātman
bhūtendriyātmaka-madas ta upāśrito 'smi   (BhP_03.09.003)

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he parama he aviddhavarcaḥ anāvṛtaprakāśa ato:'vikalpaṃ nirbhedaṃ ānandamātraṃ yadbhavataḥ syarūpaṃ ataḥ para bhinnaṃ na pakṣyāmi kintu idameva tat ata idaṃ te rūpamākṣrito:'smi | yogyatvādapītyāha ekamupāsyeṣu mukhyam | yato vikṣvaṃ sṛjatīti vikṣvasṛjaṃ ato:'vikṣvaṃ vikṣvasmādanyaṃ kiñca bhūtānāmindriyāṇāñcātmānaṃ kāraṇam ||3||

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bhūta-prāṇa-indri yata sabāro kāraṇa |

jagatake srajā prabhu tumi nārāẏaṇa ||116

etekese jagatata bhinna tumi sbāmī |

etekese āna rūpa nedekhom̐hom̐ āmi ||

tumisi prakāśa karā kewala sākṣāta |

kiñciteko bheda prabhu nāhike ihāta ||117

eteke tumisi mātra ānanda parama |

bhajiweka yogya prabhu tumisi uttama ||

tumisi nirguṇa hari ānandasbarūpa |

nedekhom̐hom̐ ma–i ātapare āna rūpa ||118

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The gross organic elements (bhuta), the respiratory conduit (prana), and the neural entities (indriya)—you are​the cause (karana) of them all.

You create, O Shelter of All Beings, this entire creation. [116]

Therefore, Lord, you are different from this (material) creation.

It is for this reason that we do not see any other form beyond this.

 You are revealed in your pure, unconcealed form.

There exists not, O my master, even the slightest of duality (bheda) here. [117]

Therefore it is you only who are the personality of supreme joy.

And, Lord, it is you who are the best and the sole worshipable entity.

You, only, are nirguna, Remover of Affliction, of the true-form of bliss.

I do not see any other form apart from this. [118]

Bhakti Ratnakara Chapter 5: The Determination of Lord. Sloka 2.

rūpaṃ yad etad avabodha-rasodayena
śaśvan-nivṛtta-tamasaḥ sad-anugrahāya
ādau gṛhītam avatāra-śataika-bījaṃ
yan-nābhi-padma-bhavanād aham āvirāsam       (BhP_03.09.002)

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nanu tvamapi samyak na jānāsi yattvayā dṛṣṭaṃ rūpaṃ guṇātmakameva nirguṇaṃ brahmaiva satyaṃ tatrāha | avabodheti cicchaktyāvirbhāvena śakṣvannivṛttaṃ tamo yasmāttasya tava | satāmanugrahāya upāsakānāṃ kṛpārthaṃ āviṣkṛtaṃ prakaṭitam | avatāraśatasya yadekaṃ mukhyaṃ bījaṃ kāraṇaṃ tatpradarśanārthaṃ ātmano guṇāvatāratvaṃ kathayati yannābhīti ahaṃ guṇāvatāraḥ ||2||
ṭī. tatrāha ... guṇāvatāraḥ || sa. pā. tatrāha dvābhyām | avarodharasodayena [avabodharasodayena?] cicchaktayāvirbhāvena śakṣvannivṛttaṃ tamo yasmāt tasya tava yadetadrūpaṃ tayaiva svātantryena satāmupāsakānāṃ anugrahāya gṛhītamāviḥkṛtam avatāraśatasya śuddhasattvātmakasya yadekaṃ bījaṃ mūlaṃ tatpradarśanārthaṃ guṇāvatārattvaṃ daśauyati yannābhīti |

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bulibāhā najānilā tumio samyake |

yiṭo rūpa tumi dekhi āchāhā pratyeke ||113

iṭo rūpa āmāra kewale guṇamaẏa |

brahmase kewale jānā nirguṇa howaẏa ||

hena yadi bolā śunā uttara ihāra |

ātapare bhinna rūpa nāhike tomāra ||114

śuddha-sattba awatāra āchaẏa yateka |

sabāro kāraṇa prabhu tumisi pratyeka ||

tayu nābhi kamalata upajilom̐ āmi |

yiṭo brahma nirguṇa sehiṭo tumi sbāmī ||115

bhailāhā bekata anugrahe bhakataka |

karilom̐ āśraẏa ma–i ehiṭo rūpaka ||

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If you say, ‘Even you have failed to determine me correctly;
the form (rupa) which you are witnessing directly; [113]
this form of mine—it is completely material (gunamaya) ?

Don’t you know that the Transcendent Spirit (brahma) alone is spiritual (nirguna)?’

If you say like this, then listen to the answer to this doubt:
Beyond this, there does not exist any other form of you. [114]
All the sublime (suddha-sattva) descents (avatara) that exist;
only you, O Lord, are the cause (karana) of each one of them.
In your navel-lotus I also am born;​
the brahma that is spiritual—that you are, my Lord. [115]
You have revealed yourself out of favor for your devotee;
only in this form I take sole-refuge (asraya).

Bhakti Ratnakara Chapter 5: The Determination of Lord. Sloka 1.

||5|| paramagatipradabhajanīyaparamadevatāsvarūpanirūpaṇaṃ māhātmyañca ||

jñāto 'si me 'dya sucirān nanu deha-bhājāṃ
na jñāyate bhagavato gatir ity avadyam

nānyat tvad asti bhagavann api tan na śuddhaṃ

māyā-guṇa-vyatikarād yad urur vibhāsi             (BhP_03.09.001)

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atha paramagatipradabhajanīyaparamadevatāsvarūpaṃ nirūpya māhātmyamāha ||

vikṣvasargavisargādinavalakṣaṇalakṣitam |
kṣrīkṛṣṇākhyaṃ parandhāma jagaddhāma namāma tat ||

ityuktaṃ svarūpaṃ nirūpayati tṛtīyaskandhe navamādhyāye brahmāstutau | sucirādbahukālopāsanena adyedānīṃ mayā jñāto:'si | nanvaho dehabhājāmitīdamavadyaṃ doṣaḥ | yadbhagavatastava gatistattvaṃ tairna jñāyata iti | yatastvameva jñātuṃ yogyaḥ | anyasyāsattvāt ityāha | tvatto:'nyannāsti yattvastīti pratibhāti tat śuddhaṃ satyaṃ na bhavati | kathamasataḥ pratītistatrāha | māyāguṇakṣobhāttvameva ururvibhāsi ||1||

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ṭī.--ityuktaṃ svarūpaṃ nirūpayati brahmāstutau—bhagavatjñāne ātmanaḥ kṛtārthatāmāviḥkurvannajñāṃ śocayannāha ||

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īśbara-nirṇaẏa-māhātmya

pada

āta anantare kaho īśbara-nirṇaẏa |

mahā gati-dātā yiṭo dewa kṛpāmaẏa ||

jagatare bhajanīẏa dewatā parama |

saṃsārata dewa āra nāhi yāka sama ||106

tāhāne māhātmya ābe karom̐ nirūpaṇa |

sāwadhāna mane śuniẏoka sarbbajana ||

yāhāra śrīkṛṣṇa nāma parama prakhyāta |

sarga bisargādi nawa lakṣaṇa sākṣāta ||107

kare lakṣya mātra kṛṣṇa dewaka niścaẏa |

siṭo kṛṣṇa jagatara kewale āśraẏa ||

kṛṣṇe se parama dhana [dhāma?] dewatāro dewa |

karom̐hom̐ sadāẏa tāna caraṇata sewa ||108

śuniẏoka ābe sabe bacana brahmāra |

karanta kṛṣṇata tuti-nati-namaṣkāra ||

bhailanta kṛtārtha brahmā īśbaraka jāni |

nājānaẏa īśbaraka yiṭo mūḍha prāṇī ||109

tāke śoka kari brahmā bacana bolanta |

he prabhu kamalalocana bhagawanta ||

tomāka bahuta kāla upāsā karilom̐ |

āji se tomāka mañi sākṣāte jānilom̐ ||110

tumi se kewale satya sawe māẏāmaẏa |

tumi bine satya āna bastu nāhikaẏa ||

ehi tayu tattbaka yi jane najānaẏa |

ehi mahā doṣe ghora saṃsāre bhramaẏa ||111

bulibā asatya yebe howaẏa jagata |

kisaka prakāśa tebe satya hena mata ||

ihāra uttara śuniẏoka kṛpāmaẏa |

māẏāra guṇaka tumi karichā āśraẏa ||112

tumi se prakāśa prabhu karā bahu rūpe |

tumi bine bastu nāi kahilom̐ sbarūpe ||

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The Determination of Lord

After this, I tell the determination of lord.

That compassionate deity who is the giver of great deliverance;

he who is the supreme deva and the sole entity of worship for the entire creation;

equal to whom there is no other controlling entity (deva) in samsara; [106]

it is his greatness only that I now determine;

listen, all people, with careful mind.

Whose “Sri Krsna” name is supremely famous;

Lord Krsna, whom “sarga,” “visarga” and all nine laksanas themselves [107]

certainly make their sole target;

that Krsna is the sole refuge (asraya) of the entire world.

Only Krsna is the supreme treasure, the god even of gods;

At his feet we always do salutation. [108]

Now listen all to the words of Brahma;

he does obeisance and prays to Krsna with folded hands.

Brahma has achieved fulfillment knowing the Lord.

That foolish person who knows not the Lord;   [109]

out of grief for that one, Brahma is uttering these words.

‘O my master! With Eyes like a Lotus! Lord of All Excellences!

For ages, I had devoted my mind to you

but only today have I known you in your true form. [110]

Only you are, solely, conscious (satya); all else is composed of matter (mayamaya).

Apart from you, there does not exist any other conscious (satya) entity.

One who knows not this truth of you;

on account of this great-fault only he travels through terrible bodily existence. [111]

You would say, ‘If the creation is indeed unconscious (asatya),

then, for what reason, does it appear in the manner of “conscious” (satya)?’

Please listen, O personality of grace, to its answer:

you have taken up residence in the evolutes (gunas) of primal matter. [112]

It is only you, my master, who appear in many forms.

Apart from you, there is no other conscious entity, I tell this, in reality.