Brahma-saṁhitā 5.29–38
Prabhupāda: …ādi-puruṣaṁ; tam ahaṁ; bhajāmi.
Audience: ādi-puruṣaṁ; tam ahaṁ; bhajāmi.
Hansadutta: The following lecture was recorded in [indistinct] in December 18, 1970 by his Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Mahārāja Prabhupāda.
Prabhupāda: Very good. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.
Prabhupāda:
cintāmaṅi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa- lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.29]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Chant everyone, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
veṅuṁ kvaṅantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam- barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.30]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock's feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī- ratnāṅgadaṁ praṅaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam śyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.31]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, round whose neck is swinging a garland of flowers beautified with the moon-locket, whose two hands are adorned with the flute and jeweled ornaments, who always revels in pastimes of love, whose graceful threefold-bending form of Śyāmasundara is eternally manifest.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.32]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, substantiality and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor. Each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses in Himself, the full-fledged functions of all the organs, and eternally sees, maintains and manifests the infinite universes, both spiritual and mundane.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṅa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.33]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is inaccessible to the Vedas, but obtainable by pure unalloyed devotion of the soul, who is without a second, who is not subject to decay, is without a beginning, whose form is endless, who is the beginning, and the eternal puruṣa; yet He is a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānām so 'py asti yat-prapada-sīmny avicintya-tattve govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.34]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, only the tip of the toe of whose lotus feet is approached by the yogīs who aspire alter the transcendental and betake themselves to prāṅāyāma by drilling the respiration; or by the jñānīs who try to find out the nondifferentiated Brahman by the process of elimination of the mundane, extending over thousands of millions of years.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
he kṛṣṅa karuṅā-sindho dīna-bandho jagat-pate gopeśa gopikā-kānta rādhā-kānta namo 'stu te [Śrī Kṛṣṅa Praṅāma]
[O my dear Kṛṣṅa, ocean of mercy, You are the friend of the distressed and the source of creation. You are the master of the cowherd men and the lover of the gopīs, especially Rādhārāṅī. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.]
tapta-kāñcana-gaurāṅgi rādhe vṛndāvaneśvari vṛṣabhānu-sute devi praṅamāmi hari-priye [Śrī Rādhā Praṅāma]
[I offer my respects to Rādhārāṅī, whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vṛndāvana. You are the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu, and You are very dear to Lord Kṛṣṅa.]
vāñchā-kalpa-tarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva ca patitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṅavebhyo namo namaḥ [Vaiṣṅava Praṅāma]
[I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaiṣṅava devotees of the Lord. They can fulfill the desires of everyone, just like desire trees, and they are full of compassion for the fallen souls.]
śrī kṛṣṅa caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda
[I offer my obeisances to Śrī Kṛṣṅa Caitanya, Prabhu Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa and all others in the line of devotion.]
hare kṛṣṅa hare kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa kṛṣṅa hare hare hare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare
[My dear Lord, and the spiritual energy of the Lord, kindly engage me in Your service. I am now embarrassed with this material service. Please engage me in Your service.]
ki ānanda, kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ saṅga [Padyāvalī ?] antara rāṣṭriyaḥ [?] kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ saṅga.
International Society for Kṛṣṅa Consciousness. Our worshipable person is Govindam, ādi-puruṣaṁ, original person, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṅa. Just like the Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā [Bg 10.2]: aham ādir hi devānāṁ, among all demigods, only material demigods, Brahmājī, origin of brahma-rūpa. No material demigods, Nārāyaṅa, Saṅkarṣaṅa, Aniruddha, Vāsudeva etc., who are viṣṅu-tattva are Para-brahman, and their origin is also Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṅa. Therefore, it is said in an aphorism of Vedānta, “who is the nondual bhagavān-tattva?” Let’s continue kīrtana. Chant again: govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṅḍa-koṭiṁ yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṅḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ aṅḍāntara-stha-paramāṅu-cayāntara-stham- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.35]
[He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof. In His work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord whom I adore.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥ goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.37]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes [sakhīs], embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda:
premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti yaṁśyāmasundaram acintya-guṅa-svarūpaṁ govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi [Bs 5.38]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Śyāmasundara, Kṛṣṅa Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love.]
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
Prabhupāda: This prayer [stotra] which you have sung it is Brahmā-saṁhitā. Brahmā, Brahmājī. This prayer was composed by Brahmājī at the time of creation with the help of Bhagavān. It is Brahmā, Brahmā-saṁhitā. Herein, he gives an introduction of God:
cintāmaṅi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa- lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs 5.29]
[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs.]
Bhagavān Govinda, Śrī Kṛṣṅa, his abode is cintāmaṅi. It is a spiritual abode, not the material abode. You might have heard, cintāmaṅi, you may not have seen it, cintāmaṅi is a gem which when touches an iron, the iron becomes gold. It is called a touchstone. And it is said that the abode of God and the buildings there are not made of stones, they are made of cintāmaṅi. This cintāmaṅi stone, cintāmaṅi stone is not a material thing. Therefore it is called cintāmaṅi. There everything—name of the God, abode of the God, form of the God, glories of God and God’s paraphernalia—are cinmaya, not material. Everything is cinmaya, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ:
īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṅaḥ sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ anādir ādir govindaḥ sarva-kāraṅa-kāraṅam [Bs 5.1]
[Kṛṣṅa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.]
Just like God’s body is full of bliss, truth, knowledge and eternal, similarly everything pertaining to God—name of God and God are non-different. A name of God has the same potency as the potency of God. Caitanya Mahāprabhu says:
nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṅe na kālaḥ nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis tatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṅe na kālaḥ etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi durdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ [Cc Antya 20.16]
[My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, in Your holy name there is all good fortune for the living entity, and therefore You have many names, such as “Kṛṣṅa” and “Govinda,” by which You expand Yourself. You have invested all Your potencies in those names, and there are no hard and fast rules for remembering them. My dear Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen, conditioned souls by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not achieve attachment for chanting.]
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is praying for us, “O God, just like You are all powerful, kindly invest all power in Your holy name”. Just like God is all powerful, His holy name is also all powerful. And, God has many names. For instance, viṣṅu-sahasranāma. God’s potency has been invested in all His holy names: nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis. And to chant His holy name there are no rules, and no time bound. “God’s name has to be chanted in this time period”. No—niyamitaḥ smaraṅe na kālaḥ. For chanting God’s holy name there is no concept of kālaḥ [time]. While in other processes of worshiping [arcanā] there involves consideration of time. For instance, maṅgala-ārati is to be performed in the morning, bhoga-ārati in the noon, sandhya-ārati in evening. A method of worshiping God [arcanā-vidhi] has to be followed according to time. However, there is no time factor involved in chanting the holy name of God. You can chant as per your convenience. While walking on a road, you have no difficulty in chanting:
Hare Kṛṣṅa Hare Kṛṣṅa Kṛṣṅa Kṛṣṅa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
There is no cost either, nor is there any loss. Just see these young Europeans, Americans—all that is there is in front of you. All the time they are chanting. They are not ashamed, thinking “We are Europeans, why should we chant Kṛṣṅa, people may laugh”. No. When there arose love of God in a person, he is free from this external knowledge that all these people will laugh on us, or will make fun of us. He is free from such thoughts. This is the symptom of love of God. A devotee immersed in love of God becomes mad. He is free from external things. So this is the power of God. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis tatrārpitā. All the energies of God have been invested in His holy name. So if you chant with purity, you are protected by all energies of God. You will not be afraid of māyā. God Himself says in Bhagavad-gītā:
mām eva ye prapadyante māyām etāṁ taranti te [Bg 7.14]
[This divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.]
If you want to save yourselves from the hands of māyā, chant all the time:
Hare Kṛṣṅa Hare Kṛṣṅa Kṛṣṅa Kṛṣṅa Hare Hare Hare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare
At last Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi. God is so merciful that for the people of this age of Kali, who are fallen, there is only one remedy prescribed:
harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalam kalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva gatir anyathā [Cc Ādi 17.21]
[In this Age of Kali there is no other means, no other means, no other means for self-realization than chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name of Lord Hari.]
So this is the mercy of God that through His holy name He is dancing all the times on our tongues. So: etādṛśī tava kṛpā. Caitanya Mahāprabhu is lamenting on behalf of us that, “Oh my Lord, You are so merciful, but we are so unfortunate that we have no attraction for your holy name”. Therefore a learned scholar says:
aho bata śva-paco 'to garīyān yaj-jihvāgre vartate nāma tubhyam [SB 3.33.7]
[Oh, how glorious are they whose tongues are chanting Your holy name! Even if born in the families of dog-eaters, such persons are worshipable. Persons who chant the holy name of Your Lordship must have executed all kinds of austerities and fire sacrifices and achieved all the good manners of the Āryans. To be chanting the holy name of Your Lordship, they must have bathed at holy places of pilgrimage, studied the Vedas and fulfilled everything required.]
Such a person who utters the holy name of God is worshipable. Śva-paco, even if born in the family of dog-eaters, such a person is garīyān, worshipable. The meaning of garīyān is worship, worshipable. So this kṛṣṅa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ saṅga, International society for Kṛṣṅa Consciousness is preaching holy name all over the world. And we also want you to cooperate with it: prāṅair arthair dhiyā vācā. [SB 10.22.35]
[It is the duty of every living being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of others with his life, wealth, intelligence and words.]
For preaching the glories of God: etāvaj janma-sāphalyaṁ dehinām. This is the only duty in human life prāṅair arthair dhiyā vācāśreya-ācaraṅaṁ sadā— to serve God with one’s life, wealth, intelligence and words. So I request all of you. All these devotees, who have come from America by spending four lakhs rupees for tickets, have come here. Why? They want you too to cooperate with this saṅkīrtana-yajña, and give up this our designated identity that “I am American, I am Indian, I am Japanese, I am Hindu, I am Muslim”. By giving up this designated identity, everyone should think that “I am servant of God”: jīvera 'svarūpa' haya—nitya-kṛṣṅa-dāsa' [Cc Madhya 20.108].
[It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṅa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṅa and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire. Kṛṣṅa has three varieties of energy.]
If we constantly think that we are servant of God, then we are the liberated persons. Mukti [liberation] is nothing but to attain one’s constitutional position [svarūpa]. This svarūpa can be attained in saṅkīrtana. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: ceto-darpaṅa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṅaṁ [Cc Antya 20.12].
[Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṅa, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon that spreads the white lotus of good fortune for all living entities. It is the life and soul of all education. The chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṅa expands the blissful ocean of transcendental life. It gives a cooling effect to everyone and enables one to taste full nectar at every step.]
The quarrels, riots the world confronts—all these can be mitigated only through saṅkīrtana. Kindly cooperate with it. Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṅa.
Hansadutta:
Hare Kṛṣṅa; Hare Kṛṣṅa; Kṛṣṅa Kṛṣṅa; Hare Hare; Hare Rāma; Hare Rāma; Rāma Rāma; Hare Hare.
Hansadutta: [indistinct] You know Indore? Anyone know Indore? So Śrīla Prabhupāda and his disciples [indistinct] [End]