Brahma-samhita 5.32

Brahma-Samhita 5.32 – Govindam Adi-Purusham I Worship

📅 August 14, 1972 📍 Los Angeles ⏱ 14 min
Each limb of Krishna's spiritual form performs all functions, revealing Him as the Absolute, complete and eternally self-sufficient.
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Śrī Brahmā-saṁhitā 5.32 — August 14, 1972, Los Angeles 720814BS-LOS ANGELES [14:11 Minutes] Brahma-samhita-05.32_720814BS-LOS ANGELES [obeisances] [indistinct] Prabhupāda: Hare Krsna. aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti [Bs. 5.32] Aṅgāni means limbs of the body. Govinda, Lord Kṛṣṇa is person. He's got His limbs of the body as we have got. Man is made after God.

We are imitation of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is not imitation of us. The atheist class, they think that "They have painted a form of God according to one's own feature of the body." What is called? Anthropomorphism.

But that is not the fact. Here in this material world we are getting different types of forms of body, 8,400,000's. When we get this human form of body, it is just imitation of Kṛṣṇa's body. Kṛṣṇa has got two hands; we have got two hands. Kṛṣṇa has got two legs; we have got two legs.

But the difference of this body and Kṛṣṇa's body is stated in this verse: aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti. Here, with our hands, we can catch something but we cannot walk. But Kṛṣṇa can walk with His hand. Or with our legs we can simply walk, but we cannot catch something.

But Kṛṣṇa can catch also. With our eyes we can see, but we cannot eat. But Kṛṣṇa can see with His eyes and eat also and hear also. That is the explanation of this verse.

Aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-manti [Bs. 5.32]: "Each and every limb has got the function of the other limbs." That is called Absolute. He is not dependent. He is not dependent. Just like if we have lost our sight, we become dependent; no more we can see.

But Kṛṣṇa can see with His hand, with His leg. Try to understand. Therefore He is Absolute. This is the meaning of Absolute.

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