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

 

rūpaṃ tavaitat puruṣarṣabhejyaṃ
śreyo 'rthibhirvaidikatāntrikeṇa
yogena dhātaḥ saha nastrilokān
paśyāmy amuṣminnu ha viśvamūrtau (BhP_08.06.009)

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aṣṭamaskandhe ṣaṣṭhādhyāye brahmā tanmūrtteḥ sadātanatvāparimeyatve cāha | he puruṣakṣreṣṭha dhātaḥ tava idaṃ rūpaṃ vaidikatāntrikeṇa upāyena kṣreyo–:'rthibhirjanairnityaṃ pūjyam | ato nedamidānīmapūrvamiva jātamiti bhāvaḥ | nanvime  devāḥ pūjyatvena prasiddhāḥ satyamapyatrāntarbhūtā ityāha | uha  sphuṭe | amusmin tvayi no:'smākaṃ trilokīṃkṣca saha pakṣyāmi vikṣva mūrtau yasya tavetadrūpamaparicchinnāprameyamiti bhāvaḥ ||5||

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ṭī. no:'smākaṃ--sa.pā. --aṣṭame ṣaṣṭhādhyāye brahmādīnāṃ vākyam | tanmūrteḥ sadātanatvamaparimeyatvaṃ copapādayati | he puruṣarṣabha he dhātaḥ etattava rūpaṃ vaidikatāntrikeṇa yogenopāyena kṣreyo:'rthibhiḥ sadā ijyaṃ pūjyaṃ ato nedamidānīṃ apūrvaṃjātamiti bhāvaḥ | nanvime devāḥ pūjyatvena prasiddhāḥ satyaṃ sarvepyatraivāntarbhūtā ityāha | uha sphuṭaṃ amuṣmin tvayi no:'smān trilokāṃkṣca saha pakṣyāmi atra hetuḥ vikṣvaṃ mūrtau yasya ataḥ tavedaṃ rūpaṃ paricchinnamapyaparimeyatvaṃ bhavatīti bhāvaḥ |

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tṛtīẏa skandhara iṭo nawama adhyāra |

śunilā brahmāra bākya yata sādhu nara ||

aṣṭama skandhara kathā ābe śuniẏoka |

mādhawaka bolanta brahmādi dewaloka ||125

śuniẏo puruṣottama dewa sanātana |

tomārese mūrtti iṭo sadā cirantana ||

nāhi parimāṇa āra tomāra rūpara |

mukutiko icchā kare yiṭo saba nara ||126

beda-mata tantra-mata dhariẏā upāẏa |

ehise rūpaka mātra pūjanta sadāẏa ||

parama apūrbba iṭo mūrtti śreṣṭhatara |

nāhike tomāra rūpa śreṣṭha ātapara ||127

bulibāhā torā saba dewatā uttama |

torā sawe pūjya iṭo prasiddha parama ||

ma–i kenamate pūjya bhailom̐ samastara |

ihāra uttara śuniẏoka dewabara ||128

tomāra antaragata yata dewa āmi |

tiniloka sahite tomāta dekhom̐ sbāmī ||

ihāra kāraṇa śuniẏoka nārāẏaṇa |

biśba-mūrtti tumi yiṭo dewa sanātana ||129

eteke tomāra iṭo rūpa kṛpāmaẏa |

parichinna hanta parimāṇa nuhikaẏa || 

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The third book’s these, the ninth chapter’s;

Brahma’s utterance you all have heard, saintly people.

Now, listen to the facts pertaining to the eighth book.

Brahma and the devas say to the Lord of Primal Matter: [125]

‘Please hear, O Best Person! Eternal controlling entity!

This figure of you, only, is at all times, ancient.

There is, moreover, no quantitativeness (parimana) to this form of yours.

All men who desire to obtain liberation, [126]
holding various ways such as the “vedic view,” “tantric view,”

only to this form they do worship, always.

Supremely nonpareil is this figure, most superior.

There is no other superior form of you beyond this. [127]

You will say, ‘You all are devatas, best among beings;
you are worshipable—this is extremely well-known?

In what way have I then become the (sole) object of worship of all?’

O the best among devas! Please listen to its answer. [128]

Included within you are all we gods.

We view you, Lord, as containing the three worlds.

O Shelter of All Beings! Please listen to the reason behind this.

As you are the world-cause (visva murti), the eternal controlling entity. [129]
It is for this reason, compassionate one, that this form of yours—

though of unquantifiable nature, is said to be measurable.