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<div id="LectureonSB1822LosAngelesApril141973_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="208" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.22 -- Los Angeles, April 14, 1973" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.22 -- Los Angeles, April 14, 1973">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 8.138|CC Madhya 8.138, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“In the spiritual realm of Vṛndāvana, Kṛṣṇa is the spiritual, ever-fresh Cupid. He is worshiped by the chanting of the Kāma-gāyatrī mantra, with the spiritual seed klīm.</p>
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.22 -- Los Angeles, April 14, 1973|Lecture on SB 1.8.22 -- Los Angeles, April 14, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">We are very much concerned with one planet, this, but Kṛṣṇa's creation is unlimited number of planets. As you see unlimited number of hairs on your head; you cannot count. Can you count how many hairs are there? This is Kṛṣṇa's creation. You cannot count. So what to speak of this hair—anything you take. You take one tree: unlimited number of foliages. You cannot count. Similarly, unlimited number of planets, unlimited number of universes, everything unlimited. Therefore He is unlimited. Namaḥ paṅkaja-nābhāya namaḥ paṅkaja-māline namaḥ paṅkaja-netrāya ([[Vanisource:SB 1.8.22|SB 1.8.22]]). Kṛṣṇa's eyes are compared with the petals of lotus flower. Ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī (Bs. 5.31).</p>
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<div class="purport text"><p>Vṛndāvana is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.56) in this way:</p>
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:śriyaḥ kāntāḥ kāntaḥ parama-puruṣaḥ kalpa-taravo
<div id="LectureonSB32610BombayDecember221974_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="474" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974">
:drumā bhūmiś cintāmaṇi-gaṇa-mayī toyam amṛtam
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974|Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, aham evāsam agre: "Before the creation, I was there." And when Bhagavān speaks "I was there," that means He was not alone. Just like here is Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, He is not alone. He is with Rādhārāṇī and the gopīs and the cowherds boy and His friends. That is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā. Bhagavān is not alone.</p>
:kathā gānaṁ nāṭyaṁ gamanam api vaṁśī priya-sakhī
:cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
:cid-ānandaṁ jyotiḥ param api tad āsvādyam api ca
:lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
:sa yatra kṣīrābdhiḥ sravati surabhībhyaś ca su-mahān
:lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
:nimeṣārdhākhyo vā vrajati na hi yatrāpi samayaḥ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:bhaje śvetadvīpaṁ tam aham iha golokam iti yaṁ
:(Bs. 5.29)
:vidantas te santaḥ kṣiti-virala-cārāḥ katipaye
:veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
<p>The spiritual realm of Vṛndāvana is always spiritual. The goddess of fortune and the gopīs are always present there. They are Kṛṣṇa's beloveds, and all of them are as spiritual as Kṛṣṇa. In Vṛndāvana, Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Person and is the husband of all the gopīs and the goddess of fortune. The trees in Vṛndāvana are wish-fulfilling trees. The land is made of touchstone, and the water is nectar. Words are musical vibrations, and all movements are dancing. The flute is the Lord's constant companion. The planet Goloka Vṛndāvana is self-luminous like the sun and is full of spiritual bliss. The perfection of life lies in tasting that spiritual existence; therefore everyone should cultivate its knowledge. In Vṛndāvana, spiritual cows are always supplying spiritual milk. Not a single moment is wasted there—in other words, there is no past, present or future. Not a single particle of time is wasted. Within this material universe, the devotees worship that transcendental abode as Goloka Vṛndāvana. Lord Brahmā himself said, "Let me worship that spiritual land where Kṛṣṇa is present." This transcendental Vṛndāvana is not appreciated by those who are not devotees or self-realized souls because this Vṛndāvana-dhāma is all spiritual. The pastimes of the Lord there are also spiritual. None are material. According to a prayer by Śrīla Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura (Prārthanā 1):</p>
:barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
:āra kabe nitāi-cāṅdera karuṇā karibe
:kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
:saṁsāra-vāsanā mora kabe tuccha ha’be
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
<p>"When will Lord Nityānanda have mercy upon me so that I can realize the uselessness of material pleasure?"</p>
:(Bs. 5.30)
:viṣaya chāḍiyā kabe śuddha ha’be mana
:ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
:kabe hāma heraba śrī-vṛndāvana
:ratnāṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
<p>"When will my mind be cleansed of all material dirt so that I will be able to feel the presence of spiritual Vṛndāvana?"</p>
:śyāmaṁ tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
:rūpa-raghunātha-pade haibe ākuti
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:kabe hāma bujhaba se yugala-pirīti
:(Bs. 5.31)
<p>"When will I be attracted to the instructions of the Gosvāmīs so that I will be able to understand what is Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa and what is Vṛndāvana?"</p>
:There are hundreds of verses like this.
<p>These verses indicate that one first has to be purified of all material desires and all attraction for fruitive activity and speculative knowledge if one wishes to understand Vṛndāvana.</p>
<p>So Kṛṣṇa is not alone. Kṛṣṇa is always in varieties.</p>
<p>In reference to the words aprākṛta navīna madana, aprākṛta refers to that which is the very opposite of the material conception. The Māyāvādīs consider this to be zero or impersonal, but that is not the case. Everything in the material world is dull, but in the spiritual world everything is alive. The desire for enjoyment is present both in Kṛṣṇa and in His parts and parcels, the living entities. In the spiritual world, such desires are also spiritual. No one should mistakenly consider such desires to be material. In the material world, if one is sexually inclined and enjoys sex life, he enjoys something temporary. His enjoyment vanishes after a few minutes. However, in the spiritual world the same enjoyment may be there, but it never vanishes. It is continuously enjoyed. In the spiritual world such sex pleasure appears to the enjoyer to be more and more relishable with each new feature. In the material world, however, sex enjoyment becomes distasteful after a few minutes only, and it is never permanent. Because Kṛṣṇa appears very much sexually inclined, He is called the new Cupid in the spiritual world. There is no material inebriety in such desire, however.</p>
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<p>Gāyantaṁ trāyate yasmād gāyatrī tvaṁ tataḥ smṛtā: one who chants the Gāyatrī mantra is gradually delivered from the material clutches. In other words, that which delivers one from material entanglement is called Gāyatrī. An explanation of the Gāyatrī mantra can be found in the Madhya-līlā, Chapter Twenty-one, text 125:</p>
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:kāma-gāyatrī-mantra-rūpa,    haya kṛṣṇera svarūpa,
<div id="LectureonSB7911MontrealAugust171968_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="811" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.11 -- Montreal, August 17, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.11 -- Montreal, August 17, 1968">
:sārdha-cabbiśa akṣara tāra haya
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.11 -- Montreal, August 17, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.11 -- Montreal, August 17, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: (singing)</p>
:se akṣara "candra" haya,    kṛṣṇe kari' udaya,
:cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
:trijagat kailā kāmamaya
:lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
<p>The Kāma-gāyatrī mantra is just like a Vedic hymn, but it is the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. There is no difference between the Kāma-gāyatrī and Kṛṣṇa. Both are composed of twenty-four and a half transcendental syllables (see Madhya 21.125–29). The mantra depicted in letters is also Kṛṣṇa, and the mantra rises just like the moon. Due to this, there is a perverted reflection of desire in human society and among all kinds of living entities. In the mantra klīṁ kāma-devāya vidmahe puṣpa-bāṇāya dhīmahi tan no ’naṅgaḥ pracodayāt, Kṛṣṇa is called Kāma-deva, Puṣpa-bāṇa and Anaṅga. Kāma-deva is Madana-mohana, the Deity who establishes our relationship with Kṛṣṇa; Puṣpa-bāṇa ("He who carries an arrow made of flowers") is Govinda, the Personality of Godhead who accepts our devotional service; and Anaṅga is Gopījana-vallabha, who satisfies all the gopīs and is the ultimate goal of life. This Kāma-gāyatrī (klīṁ kāma-devāya vidmahe puṣpa-bāṇāya dhīmahi tan no ’naṅgaḥ pracodayāt) simply does not belong to this material world. When one is advanced in spiritual understanding, he can worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead with his spiritually purified senses and fulfill the desires of the Lord.</p>
:lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
:man-manā bhava mad-bhakto mad-yājī māṁ namaskuru
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:mām evaiṣyasi satyaṁ te pratijāne priyo ’si me
:(Bs. 5.29)
<p>"Always think of Me and become My devotee. Worship Me and offer your homage unto Me. Thus you will come to Me without fail. I promise you this because you are My very dear friend." ([[Vanisource:BG 18.65|BG 18.65]])</p>
<p>(devotees chant responsively:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.</p>
<p>In the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.27–28) it is stated:</p>
:veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
:atha veṇu-ninādasya trayī-mūrti-mayī gatiḥ
:barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
:phurantī praviveśāśu mukhābjāni svayambhuvaḥ
:kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
:gāyatrīṁ gāyatas tasmād adhigatya saroja-jaḥ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:saṁskṛtaś cādi-guruṇā dvijatām agamat tataḥ
:(Bs. 5.30)
:trayyā prabuddho ’tha vidhir vijñāta-tattva-sāgaraḥ
<p>(devotees chant responsively:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam aham bhajami.</p>
:tuṣṭāva veda-sāreṇa stotreṇānena keśavam
:ālola-candraka-lasad vana-mālya-vaṁśī-
<p>“Then Gāyatrī, mother of the Vedas, having been manifested by the divine sound of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's flute, entered the lotus mouth of Brahmā, the self-born, through his eight earholes. Thus the lotus-born Brahmā received the Gāyatrī mantra, which had sprung from the song of Śrī Kṛṣṇa's flute. In this way he attained twice-born status, having been initiated by the supreme, primal preceptor, Godhead Himself. Enlightened by the recollection of that Gāyatrī, which embodies the three Vedas, Brahmā became acquainted with the expanse of the ocean of truth. Then he worshiped Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the essence of all the Vedas, with a hymn.”</p>
:ratnāṅgadāṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
<p>The vibration of Kṛṣṇa's flute is the origin of the Vedic hymns. Lord Brahmā, who is seated on a lotus flower, heard the sound vibration of Kṛṣṇa's flute and was thereby initiated by the Gāyatrī mantra.</p>
:śyāmaṁ tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśam
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.31)
:aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti
:paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
:ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.32)
<p>(devotees chant responsively:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.</p>
:naivātmanaḥ prabhur ayaṁ nija-lābha-pūrṇo
:mānaṁ janād aviduṣaḥ karuṇo vṛṇīte
:yad yaj jano bhagavate vidadhīta mānaṁ
:tac cātmane prati-mukhasya yathā mukha-śrīḥ
:([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.11|SB 7.9.11]])
<p>Now in the previous verse it has been explained that neither any material opulence, nor a qualified brāhmaṇa with twelve high qualifications can satisfy the Lord simply by such acquisition. One can satisfy the Lord simply by love and devotional service.</p>
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<div id="LectureonSB7912MontrealAugust181968_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="814" link="Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 18, 1968" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 18, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 18, 1968|Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 18, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (devotees respond)</p>
:cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
:lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
:lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.29)
:(devotees respond)
:veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
:barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
:kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.30)
:(devotees respond)
:ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
:ratnāṅgadam praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
:śyāmam tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.31)
:(devotees respond) Thank you very much.
:tasmād ahaṁ vigata-viklava īśvarasya
:sarvātmanā mahi gṛṇāmi yathā manīsam
:nīco 'jayā guṇa-visargam anupraviṣṭaḥ
:pūyeta yena hi pumān anuvarṇitena
:([[Vanisource:SB 7.9.12|SB 7.9.12]])
<p>So the prayer... For offering prayer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you do not require any high qualification. It doesn't matter. You can offer your prayer from any standard of life. Not that you have to become a very learned man, very scholarly man, and you have to present your prayers in a very nicely selected words so that poetry, rhetoric, prosody, everything is there, metaphor. Nothing required. Simply you have to express your feelings.</p>
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<div id="Festival_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Lectures" text="Festival Lectures"><h3>Festival Lectures</h3>
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<div id="JanmastamiLordSriKrsnasAppearanceDayMontrealAugust161968_0" class="quote" parent="Festival_Lectures" book="Lec" index="19" link="Janmastami Lord Sri Krsna's Appearance Day -- Montreal, August 16, 1968" link_text="Janmastami Lord Sri Krsna's Appearance Day -- Montreal, August 16, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Janmastami Lord Sri Krsna's Appearance Day -- Montreal, August 16, 1968|Janmastami Lord Sri Krsna's Appearance Day -- Montreal, August 16, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Devotees: govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda:</p>
:cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
:lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
:lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.29)
:(repeats govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi and devotees respond)
:veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
:barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda sundarāṅgam
:kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.30)
:(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
:ālola-candraka-lasad vanamālyavaṁsi
:ratnāṅgadam praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
:śyāmaṁ tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.31)
:(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
:aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti
:paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
:ānanda-cin-māyā-saduj-jvala-vigrahasya
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.32)
:(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
:advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
:ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
:vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.33)
:(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
:panthāstu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo
:vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānāṁ
:so 'pyasti yat prapada-sīmny-avicintya-tattve
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
<p>So today, the birth appearance ceremony of Lord Kṛṣṇa. In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says,</p>
:janma karma me divyaṁ
:yo jānāti tattvataḥ
:tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
:naiti mām eti kaunteya
:([[Vanisource:BG 4.9 (1972)|BG 4.9]])
<p>"My dear Arjuna, any person who simply tries to understand about My transcendental birth or appearance and disappearance and activities, janma karma..." The Personality of Godhead is not niṣkriya, without activities.</p>
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<div id="ParamanandaSatyabhamasWeddingMontrealJuly221968_0" class="quote" parent="Wedding_Ceremonies" book="Lec" index="1" link="Paramananda &amp; Satyabhama's Wedding -- Montreal, July 22, 1968" link_text="Paramananda &amp; Satyabhama's Wedding -- Montreal, July 22, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Paramananda &amp; Satyabhama's Wedding -- Montreal, July 22, 1968|Paramananda &amp; Satyabhama's Wedding -- Montreal, July 22, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: This last verse... It is not last. It is the third of Brahma-sūtra, Brahma-saṁhitā. Ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-ratnaṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam (Bs. 5.31). This verse... There are about one hundred verses in the Brahma-saṁhitā, and this verse, I think, about thirty-eighth verse... So description of Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The picture is here. So Govinda is not impersonal. And it is distinctly stated here that ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī: (Bs. 5.31) "The Lord is decorated with flower garland, and He has got a flute in His hands." And praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam: "And He is engaged in transcendental, conjugal love, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa." So this love which is in our experience within this material world, man and woman, it is not unnatural. It is in God also there.</p>
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<div id="General_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="11" parent="Lectures" text="General Lectures"><h3>General Lectures</h3>
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<div id="LectureatEngagementBostonMay81968_0" class="quote" parent="General_Lectures" book="Lec" index="6" link="Lecture at Engagement -- Boston, May 8, 1968" link_text="Lecture at Engagement -- Boston, May 8, 1968">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture at Engagement -- Boston, May 8, 1968|Lecture at Engagement -- Boston, May 8, 1968]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: ...from Prahlāda Mahārāja's instruction, I'll request you to practice another prayer. I'll pray the last line, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. You'll repeat that. Now try to under... (chants one word at a time with devotees repeating:) govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (sings:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi (repeats several times, devotees trying to sing along). The meaning of this line is govindam, the Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, and govindam ādi-puruṣam. Ādi-puruṣam means the original person. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam, "unto You," bhajāmi, "I offer my respectful obeisances." This is the meaning. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Repeat.</p>
<p>Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (repeats, devotees respond)</p>
:cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
:lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
:lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.29)
<p>Repeat. (devotees respond, repeats, response)</p>
:veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
:barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
:kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.30)
<p>Repeat.</p>
<p>Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Loudly. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (devotees respond) Yes. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (devotees respond)</p>
:ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
:ratnāṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
:śyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.31)
:(devotees respond) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (repeats)
:aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti
:paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
:ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.32)
<p>(devotees respond, repeats)</p>
:advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
:ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
:vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
:govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
:(Bs. 5.33)
<p>(repeats with response) Thank you. So in this way, Brahma-saṁhitā you'll learn, and there is Brahma-saṁhitā book, discuss translation, purport... (end)</p>
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2>
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3>
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<div id="ReportersInterviewJune291974Melbourne_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="132" link="Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne" link_text="Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne">
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne|Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Guest (2): But if a painter was to paint a picture of me or of Allen or of anybody, first they'd take the subject, and the subject would be a living person, and then they would paint the picture and the picture would be in...</p>
<p>Prabhupāda: Yes. Subject is there, that "Kṛṣṇa's color is bluish, Kṛṣṇa has got in His hand a flute, Kṛṣṇa has got a peacock feather on His head, Kṛṣṇa stands, little curving." Tri-bhaṅga-lalitam. Tri-bhaṅga means in three ways He is curved. You see. Tri-bhaṅga. Three, three times He is curved. Śyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśam (Bs. 5.31). These are the description of the Vedas. Just like my students, they have painted so many pictures, so I have given simply the hints that "This picture should be like this." So they take note and make the picture, and people very much appreciate our picture. So you can paint pictures by taking hints from the authority. That is going on. So if you are intelligent, you can make almost like that.</p>
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Latest revision as of 23:37, 15 May 2018

Expressions researched:
"He has got a flute in His hands" |"The Lord is decorated with flower garland" |"alola-candraka-lasad-vanamalya-vamsi" |"ratnangadam pranaya-keli-kala-vilasam" |"syamam tri-bhanga-lalitam niyata-prakasam"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "Bs 5.31" or "He has got a flute in His hands" or "The Lord is decorated with flower garland" or "alola-candraka-lasad-vanamalya-vamsi" or "ratnangadam pranaya-keli-kala-vilasam" or "syamam tri-bhanga-lalitam niyata-prakasam"

Lectures

Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures

Lecture on SB 1.8.22 -- Los Angeles, April 14, 1973:

We are very much concerned with one planet, this, but Kṛṣṇa's creation is unlimited number of planets. As you see unlimited number of hairs on your head; you cannot count. Can you count how many hairs are there? This is Kṛṣṇa's creation. You cannot count. So what to speak of this hair—anything you take. You take one tree: unlimited number of foliages. You cannot count. Similarly, unlimited number of planets, unlimited number of universes, everything unlimited. Therefore He is unlimited. Namaḥ paṅkaja-nābhāya namaḥ paṅkaja-māline namaḥ paṅkaja-netrāya (SB 1.8.22). Kṛṣṇa's eyes are compared with the petals of lotus flower. Ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī (Bs. 5.31).

Lecture on SB 3.26.10 -- Bombay, December 22, 1974:

In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is said, aham evāsam agre: "Before the creation, I was there." And when Bhagavān speaks "I was there," that means He was not alone. Just like here is Kṛṣṇa, Bhagavān, He is not alone. He is with Rādhārāṇī and the gopīs and the cowherds boy and His friends. That is described in the Brahma-saṁhitā. Bhagavān is not alone.

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.29)
veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.30)
ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
ratnāṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
śyāmaṁ tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.31)
There are hundreds of verses like this.

So Kṛṣṇa is not alone. Kṛṣṇa is always in varieties.

Lecture on SB 7.9.11 -- Montreal, August 17, 1968:

Prabhupāda: (singing)

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.29)

(devotees chant responsively:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.30)

(devotees chant responsively:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam aham bhajami.

ālola-candraka-lasad vana-mālya-vaṁśī-
ratnāṅgadāṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
śyāmaṁ tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśam
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.31)
aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛttimanti
paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.32)

(devotees chant responsively:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

naivātmanaḥ prabhur ayaṁ nija-lābha-pūrṇo
mānaṁ janād aviduṣaḥ karuṇo vṛṇīte
yad yaj jano bhagavate vidadhīta mānaṁ
tac cātmane prati-mukhasya yathā mukha-śrīḥ
(SB 7.9.11)

Now in the previous verse it has been explained that neither any material opulence, nor a qualified brāhmaṇa with twelve high qualifications can satisfy the Lord simply by such acquisition. One can satisfy the Lord simply by love and devotional service.

Lecture on SB 7.9.12 -- Montreal, August 18, 1968:

Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (devotees respond)

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.29)
(devotees respond)
veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.30)
(devotees respond)
ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
ratnāṅgadam praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
śyāmam tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.31)
(devotees respond) Thank you very much.
tasmād ahaṁ vigata-viklava īśvarasya
sarvātmanā mahi gṛṇāmi yathā manīsam
nīco 'jayā guṇa-visargam anupraviṣṭaḥ
pūyeta yena hi pumān anuvarṇitena
(SB 7.9.12)

So the prayer... For offering prayer to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, you do not require any high qualification. It doesn't matter. You can offer your prayer from any standard of life. Not that you have to become a very learned man, very scholarly man, and you have to present your prayers in a very nicely selected words so that poetry, rhetoric, prosody, everything is there, metaphor. Nothing required. Simply you have to express your feelings.

Festival Lectures

Janmastami Lord Sri Krsna's Appearance Day -- Montreal, August 16, 1968:

Devotees: govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **.

Prabhupāda:

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.29)
(repeats govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi and devotees respond)
veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.30)
(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
ālola-candraka-lasad vanamālyavaṁsi
ratnāṅgadam praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
śyāmaṁ tribhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.31)
(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti
paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
ānanda-cin-māyā-saduj-jvala-vigrahasya
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.32)
(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.33)
(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)
panthāstu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo
vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānāṁ
so 'pyasti yat prapada-sīmny-avicintya-tattve
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi)

So today, the birth appearance ceremony of Lord Kṛṣṇa. In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says,

janma karma me divyaṁ
yo jānāti tattvataḥ
tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma
naiti mām eti kaunteya
(BG 4.9)

"My dear Arjuna, any person who simply tries to understand about My transcendental birth or appearance and disappearance and activities, janma karma..." The Personality of Godhead is not niṣkriya, without activities.

Wedding Ceremonies

Paramananda & Satyabhama's Wedding -- Montreal, July 22, 1968:

Prabhupāda: This last verse... It is not last. It is the third of Brahma-sūtra, Brahma-saṁhitā. Ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-ratnaṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam (Bs. 5.31). This verse... There are about one hundred verses in the Brahma-saṁhitā, and this verse, I think, about thirty-eighth verse... So description of Govinda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The picture is here. So Govinda is not impersonal. And it is distinctly stated here that ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī: (Bs. 5.31) "The Lord is decorated with flower garland, and He has got a flute in His hands." And praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam: "And He is engaged in transcendental, conjugal love, Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa." So this love which is in our experience within this material world, man and woman, it is not unnatural. It is in God also there.

General Lectures

Lecture at Engagement -- Boston, May 8, 1968:

Prabhupāda: ...from Prahlāda Mahārāja's instruction, I'll request you to practice another prayer. I'll pray the last line, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi **. You'll repeat that. Now try to under... (chants one word at a time with devotees repeating:) govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (sings:) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi (repeats several times, devotees trying to sing along). The meaning of this line is govindam, the Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, and govindam ādi-puruṣam. Ādi-puruṣam means the original person. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam, "unto You," bhajāmi, "I offer my respectful obeisances." This is the meaning. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Repeat.

Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (repeats, devotees respond)

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.29)

Repeat. (devotees respond, repeats, response)

veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣaṁ
barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.30)

Repeat.

Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

Prabhupāda: Loudly. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (devotees respond) Yes. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (devotees respond)

ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
ratnāṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
śyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.31)
(devotees respond) Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. (repeats)
aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti
paśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jaganti
ānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasya
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.32)

(devotees respond, repeats)

advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
(Bs. 5.33)

(repeats with response) Thank you. So in this way, Brahma-saṁhitā you'll learn, and there is Brahma-saṁhitā book, discuss translation, purport... (end)

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Reporters Interview -- June 29, 1974, Melbourne:

Guest (2): But if a painter was to paint a picture of me or of Allen or of anybody, first they'd take the subject, and the subject would be a living person, and then they would paint the picture and the picture would be in...

Prabhupāda: Yes. Subject is there, that "Kṛṣṇa's color is bluish, Kṛṣṇa has got in His hand a flute, Kṛṣṇa has got a peacock feather on His head, Kṛṣṇa stands, little curving." Tri-bhaṅga-lalitam. Tri-bhaṅga means in three ways He is curved. You see. Tri-bhaṅga. Three, three times He is curved. Śyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśam (Bs. 5.31). These are the description of the Vedas. Just like my students, they have painted so many pictures, so I have given simply the hints that "This picture should be like this." So they take note and make the picture, and people very much appreciate our picture. So you can paint pictures by taking hints from the authority. That is going on. So if you are intelligent, you can make almost like that.

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