Brahma-samhita 5.29-30

Loving Govinda Original Person Serves Entire Universe

📅 September 13, 1968 📍 San Francisco ⏱ 30 min
Love Krishna with pure devotion, and you automatically serve the entire universe through Him.
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Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā 5.29–30 — September 13, 1968, San Francisco 680913BS-SAN FRANCISCO [30:30 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [singing] cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣalakṣāvṛteṣu 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.] govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi Chant! [singing] Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. Devotees: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

Prabhupāda: This prayer for Govinda is from Brahma-saṁhitā. It is very old literature, and nobody can say when it was spoken, but it is understood that these verses were written by Brahmā, and when Lord Caitanya was traveling in South India He picked up this book from a temple, hand-written, and He delivered to His devotees. So it is very authorized book. In this book the description of Kṛṣṇa is very vivid, vividly given.

There His place, His activities, His form, everything is there nicely given. So, this, this verse, it is..., it is not first verse. This is the 34th verse of the Fifth Chapter. Cintāmaṇi-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.] That, that place, cintāmaṇi ... Cintāmaṇi, a stone.

In the transcendental world the..., as we have got experience here the houses are made of bricks, there the houses are made of cintāmaṇi stone. The cintāmaṇi stone is..., of course there is no exact translation, but it is understood it is something like touchstone. Touchstone means the stone which, if it touches a iron, it transforms into gold. So, the abode of Kṛṣṇa is described that there are houses, cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu. Prakara means house.

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