उत्तरो गोपतिर्गोप्ता ज्ञानगम्यः पुरातनः।
शरीरभूतभृद्भोक्ता कपीन्द्रो भूरिदक्षिणः॥
ഉത്തരോ ഗോപതിര്ഗോപ്താ ജ്ഞാനഗമ്യഃ പുരാതനഃ
ശരീരഭൂതഭ്രുദ്ഭോക്താ കപീന്ദ്രോ ഭൂരിധക്ഷിണഃ
உத்தரோ கோபதிர்கோப்த ஞானகம்ய புராதன
சரீரபூதப்ருத்போக்தா கபீன்த்ரோ பூரிதக்ஷிண
ಉತ್ತರೋ ಗೋಪತಿರ್ಗೋಪ್ತಾ ಞಾನಗಮ್ಯಃ ಪುರಾತನಃ
ಶರೀರಭೂತಭೃದ್ಭೋಕ್ತಾ ಕಪೀನ್ದ್ರೋ ಭೂರಿದಕ್ಷಿಣಃ
ఉత్తరో గోపతిర్గోప్తో ఞానగమ్యః పురాతనః
శరీరభూతభృద్భోక్తో కపీంద్రో భూరిదక్షిణః
uttaro gopatirgoptaa jnaanagamyah puraatanah
sareera bhootabhritbhoktaa kapeendro bhooridakshinah
494. Uttarah - One who helps to lift us from (Uttarah) the ocean of Samsar. It also conveys the most excellent meaning of “One who is greater and nobler than all other deities.” Rigveda declares: “He is the most excellent of all.”
495. Gopatih - The shepherd-As one who played the part of a cowherd in His Krishna-incarnation. The term ‘Go’ in Sanskrit has got four meanings: the cattle, the earth, the speech and the vedas. In all these meanings He is the Lord (Pati): Lord of the cattle; Lord of Earth; Lord of speech; the Lord about whom all the Vedas speak of as the very Goal.
496. Goptaa - The protector He is the Protector of all living creatures in as much as, if He were not there, the creatures could not exist He is the very Existence in the living Kingdom.
497. Jnaanagamyah - The One who is to be attained only through the subtle perception of Jnaana He is not attained either by actions, or by progeny or by wealth Only through a (“JnaanaPrasaadena”) pure ‘knowledge’ alone He is experienced Here the word knowledge does not mean the ordinary knowledge-of-thing. The experience of Truth is gained only on transcending the intellect. Thus crossing the barriers of the non-apprehension (Avidyaa) the meditator comes to apprehend the Reality; this subjective first-hand apprehension is called True Knowledge (Jnaana); by this one process alone can one attain the Infinite; hence this term.
498. Puraatanah - He who was even before Time. That from which even the concept-of- Time itself rose up is the Infinite Truth and, therefore, truth cannot be measured in terms of time. Therefore, he is called the Ancient, for, he transcends Time.
499. Sareera-bhoota-bhrit - One who nurses and nourishes the very element from which the bodies are constituted. The Lord is the controller of the very five elements.
500. Bhoktaa - The Enjoyer or the Protector. The term “ Bhoktaa” can be dissolved in two ways. In (a) it would mean the ‘Protector’ and in (b) it would mean as the ‘Enjoyer’. According to Vedanta, Lord in His transcendental glory, as the Atman, is neither the ‘Doer’ nor the ‘Enjoyer’ and yet, here, the Lord is taken as the ‘Enjoyer’ only in the sense that the experiencer ‘ego,’ the Jeeva, is also nothing other than the Supreme in Its final Essence.
501. Kapeendrah - One who is the Lord of the Monkeys-Sri Ramachandraji. ‘ Kapih’ also can mean the Boar-incarnation (Varaaha).
502. Bhoori-dakshinah - He who gives away large gifts (Dakshinaa), as presents distributed at the end of the Sacrifices. When the body, mind and the intellect of man make sacrifices, man does Karmas. Lord Narayana is the One who gives the results for all actions: (Karma Phala Daataa); hence this term to indicate the Lord.
