Spiritual perfection emerges when consciousness fully develops into exclusive, natural love for Krishna.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
Śrī Brahma-saṁhitā 5.29 — November 8, 1968, Los Angeles 681108BS-LOS ANGELES [95:19 Minutes] Prabhupāda: [leads kīrtana] [prema-dhvani] Thank you very much. [devotees offer obeisances] [16:43] [sings:] Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. [aside: Yes, open.] Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.
Prabhupāda: [sings verse:] 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.] cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣalakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam [Bs. 5.29] This is the description of Kṛṣṇa’s abode. So, cintāmaṇi-prakara. As here we find houses are constructed of bricks, there the houses are constructed of cintāmaṇi stone, touchstone. You have heard the name.
Touchstone, if you touch that stone into iron, the iron becomes gold. That is called philosopher’s stone or touchstone. So cintāmaṇi, the land and the houses are made of touchstone. Cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa. Kalpa-vṛkṣa: “desire tree.” There the trees are desire tree, because they are all spiritual.
Just like if I ask you, “Please bring me a glass of water,” you can supply me. If I ask you, “Bring me something else,” so you can bring me also—because you are spirit, developed. But if I ask a tree, suppose, supplying rose flower, if I ask, “Oh, please bring me lavender flower,” it cannot. Why? Because although it is spirit, it is not so developed. Here we see spirit, consciousness, different stages of development.
That makes different status of life. And that different status of life are varieties, 8,400,000 developing. Developing means different kinds of body. Just like this child.
Now this child has got a certain type of body. The consciousness is according to that body. This child, when she will be grown-up as a young girl, her consciousness will be different—the same child. So the spirit soul is encaged by this material body, and according to the body, the consciousness is different. It is very simple to understand.
Take example of this child. The same child, same spirit soul, because it is now dwelling in a different type of body, its consciousness is different than the mother’s, because the mother has got a different type of body and the child has got a different type of body. So it is not very difficult to understand that our consciousness are different type according to the body. So you go on developing. This human form of life is considered to be the most advanced animal. Human, human being also called animal according to logic.