1|Adi 5-1975: The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama
2|Chapter 5
3|The Glories of Lord Nityananda Balarama
4|This chapter is chiefly devoted to describing the essential
>|nature and glories of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. Lord Sri Krsna
>|is the absolute Personality of Godhead, and His first
>|expansion in a form for pastimes is Sri Balarama.
5|Beyond the limitation of this material world is the
>|spiritual sky, paravyoma, which has many spiritual planets,
>|the supreme of which is called Krsnaloka. Krsnaloka, the
>|abode of Krsna, has three divisions, which are known as
>|Dvaraka, Mathura and Gokula. In that abode the Personality
>|of Godhead expands Himself into four plenary portions-Krsna,
>| Balarama, Pradyumna (the transcendental Cupid) and
>|Aniruddha. They are known as the original quadruple forms.
6|In Krsnaloka is a transcendental place known as Svetadvipa
>|or Vrndavana. Below Krsnaloka in the spiritual sky are the
>|Vaikuntha planets. On each Vaikuntha planet a four-handed
>|Narayana, expanded from the first quadruple manifestation,
>|is present. The Personality of Godhead known as Sri
>|Balarama in Krsnaloka is the original Sankarsana (
>|attracting Deity), and from this Sankarsana expands another
>|Sankarsana, called Maha-sankarsana, who resides in one of
>|the Vaikuntha planets. By His internal potency, Maha-
>|sankarsana maintains the transcendental existence of all
>|the planets in the spiritual sky, where all the living
>|beings are eternally liberated souls. The influence of the
>|material energy is conspicuous there by its absence. On
>|those planets the second quadruple manifestation is present.
7|Outside of the Vaikuntha planets is the impersonal
>|manifestation of Sri Krsna, which is known as the
>|Brahmaloka. On the other side of the Brahmaloka is the
>|spiritual karana-samudra, or Causal Ocean. The material
>|energy exists on the other side of the Causal Ocean,
>|without touching it. In the Causal Ocean is Maha-Visnu, the
>|original purusa expansion from Sankarsana. This Maha-Visnu
>|places His glance over the material energy, and by a
>|reflection of His transcendental body He amalgamates
>|Himself within the material elements.
8|As the source of the material elements, the material energy
>|is known as pradhana, and as the source of the
>|manifestations of the material energy it is known as maya.
>|But material nature is inert in that she has no independent
>|power to do anything. She is empowered to make the cosmic
>|manifestation by the glance of Maha-Visnu. Therefore the
>|material energy is not the original cause of the material
>|manifestation. Rather, the transcendental glance of Maha-
>|Visnu over material nature produces that cosmic
>|manifestation.
9|Maha-Visnu again enters every universe as the reservoir of
>|all living entities, Garbhodakasayi Visnu. From
>|Garbhodakasayi Visnu expands Ksirodakasayi Visnu, the
>|Supersoul of every living entity. Garbhodakasayi Visnu also
>|has His own Vaikuntha planet in every universe, where He
>|lives as the Supersoul or supreme controller of the
>|universe. Garbhodakasayi Visnu reclines in the midst of the
>|watery portion of the universe and generates the first
>|living creature of the universe, Brahma. The imaginary
>|universal form is a partial manifestation of Garbhodakasayi
>|Visnu.
10|In the Vaikuntha planet in every universe is an ocean of
>|milk, and within that ocean is an island called Svetadvipa,
>|where Lord Visnu lives. Therefore this chapter describes
>|two Svetadvipas-one in the abode of Krsna and the other in
>|the ocean of milk in every universe. The Svetadvipa in the
>|abode of Krsna is identical with Vrndavana-dhama, which is
>|the place where Krsna appears Himself to display His loving
>|pastimes. In the Svetadvipa within every universe is a Sesa
>|form of Godhead who serves Visnu by assuming the form of
>|His umbrella, slippers, couch, pillows, garments, residence,
>| sacred thread, throne and so on.
11|Lord Baladeva in Krsnaloka is Nityananda Prabhu. Therefore
>|Nityananda Prabhu is the original Sankarsana, and Maha-
>|sankarsana and His expansions as the purusas in the
>|universes are plenary expansions of Nityananda Prabhu.
12|In this chapter the author has described the history of his
>|leaving home for a personal pilgrimage to Vrndavana and his
>|achieving all success there. In this description it is
>|revealed that the author's original paternal home and
>|birthplace were in the district of Katwa, in the village of
>|Jhamatapura, which is near Naihati. Krsnadasa Kaviraja's
>|brother invited Sri Minaketana Ramadasa, a great devotee of
>|Lord Nityananda, to his home, but a priest named Gunarnava
>|Misra did not receive him well, and Krsnadasa Kaviraja
>|Gosvami's brother, not recognizing the glories of Lord
>|Nityananda, also took sides with the priest. Therefore
>|Ramadasa became sorry, broke his flute and went away. This
>|was a great disaster for the brother of Krsnadasa Kaviraja
>|Gosvami. But on that very night Lord Nityananda Prabhu
>|Himself graced Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami in a dream and
>|ordered him to leave on the next day for Vrndavana.
13|Adi 5.1
14|TEXT 1
15|TEXT
16|vande 'nantadbhutaisvaryam
17|sri-nityanandam isvaram
18|yasyecchaya tat-svarupam
19|ajnenapi nirupyate
20|SYNONYMS
21|vande-let me offer my obeisances; ananta-unlimited; adbhuta-
>|and wonderful; aisvaryam-whose opulence; sri-nityanandam-
>|unto Lord Nityananda; isvaram-the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead; yasya-whose; icchaya-by the will; tat-svarupam-His
>|identity; ajnena-by the ignorant; api-even; nirupyate-can
>|be ascertained.
22|TRANSLATION
23|Let me offer my obeisances to Lord Sri Nityananda, the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose opulence is wonderful
>|and unlimited. By His will, even a fool can understand His
>|identity.
24|Adi 5.2
25|TEXT 2
26|TEXT
27|jaya jaya sri-caitanya jaya nityananda
28|jayadvaita-candra jaya gaura-bhakta-vrnda
29|SYNONYMS
30|jaya jaya-all glories; sri-caitanya-to Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; jaya nityananda-all glories to Lord Nityananda;
>|jaya advaita-candra-all glories to Advaita Acarya; jaya
>|gaura-bhakta-vrnda-all glories to the devotees of Lord Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
31|TRANSLATION
32|All glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. All glories to Lord
>|Nityananda . All glories to Advaita Acarya . And all
>|glories to all the devotees of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu .
33|Adi 5.3
34|TEXT 3
35|TEXT
36|ei sat-sloke kahila krsna-caitanya-mahima
37|panca-sloke kahi nityananda-tattva-sima
38|SYNONYMS
39|ei-this; sat-sloke-in six verses; kahila-described; krsna-
>|caitanya-mahima-the glories of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu;
>| panca-sloke-in five verses; kahi-let me explain;
>|nityananda-of Lord Nityananda; tattva-of the truth; sima-
>|the limitation.
40|TRANSLATION
41|I have described the glory of Sri Krsna Caitanya in six
>|verses. Now, in five verses, I shall describe the glory of
>|Lord Nityananda.
42|Adi 5.4
43|TEXT 4
44|TEXT
45|sarva-avatari krsna svayam bhagavan
46|tanhara dvitiya deha sri-balarama
47|SYNONYMS
48|sarva-avatari-the source of all incarnations; krsna-Lord
>|Krsna; svayam-personally; bhagavan-the Supreme Personality
>|of Godhead; tanhara-His; dvitiya-second; deha-expansion of
>|the body; sri-balarama-Lord Balarama.
49|TRANSLATION
50|The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is the
>|fountainhead of all incarnations. Lord Balarama is His
>|second body.
51|PURPORT
52|Lord Sri Krsna, the absolute Personality of Godhead, is the
>|primeval Lord, the original form of Godhead, and His first
>|expansion is Sri Balarama. The Personality of Godhead can
>|expand Himself in innumerable forms. The forms that have
>|unlimited potency are called svamsa, and forms that have
>|limited potencies (the living entities) are called
>|vibhinnamsa.
53|Adi 5.5
54|TEXT 5
55|TEXT
56|eka-i svarupa donhe, bhinna-matra kaya
57|adya kaya-vyuha, krsna-lilara sahaya
58|SYNONYMS
59|eka-i-one; svarupa-identity; donhe-both of Them; bhinna-
>|matra kaya-only two different bodies; adya-original; kaya-
>|vyuha-quadruple expansions; krsna-lilara-in the pastimes of
>|Lord Krsna; sahaya-assistance.
60|TRANSLATION
61|They are both one and the same identity. They differ only
>|in form. He is the first bodily expansion of
>|Krsna, and He assists in Lord Krsna's transcendental
>|pastimes.
62|PURPORT
63|Balarama is a svamsa expansion of the Lord, and therefore
>|there is no difference in potency between Krsna and
>|Balarama. The only difference is in Their bodily structure.
>|As the first expansion of Godhead, Balarama is the chief
>|Deity among the first quadruple forms, and He is the
>|foremost assistant of Sri Krsna in His transcendental
>|activities.
64|Adi 5.6
65|TEXT 6
66|TEXT
67|sei krsna-navadvipe sri-caitanya-candra
68|sei balarama-sange sri-nityananda
69|SYNONYMS
70|sei krsna-that original Krsna; navadvipe-at Navadvipa; sri-
>|caitanya-candra-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; sei balarama-
>|that Lord Balarama; sange-with Him; sri-nityananda-Lord
>|Nityananda.
71|TRANSLATION
72|That original Lord Krsna appeared in Navadvipa as Lord
>|Caitanya, and Balarama appeared with Him as Lord Nityananda.
73|Adi 5.7
74|TEXT 7
75|TEXT
76|sankarsanah karana-toya-sayi
77|garbhoda-sayi ca payobdhi-sayi
78|sesas ca yasyamsa-kalah sa nitya-
79|nandakhya-ramah saranam mamastu
80|SYNONYMS
81|sankarsanah-Maha-sankarsana in the spiritual sky; karana-
>|toya-sayi-Karanodakasayi Visnu, who lies in the Causal
>|Ocean; garbha-uda-sayi-Garbhodakasayi Visnu, who lies in
>|the Garbhodaka Ocean of the universe; ca-and; payah-abdhi-
>|sayi-Ksirodakasayi Visnu, who lies in the ocean of milk;
>|sesah-Sesa Naga, the couch of Visnu; ca-and; yasya-whose;
>|amsa-plenary portions; kalah-and parts of the plenary
>|portions; sah-He; nityananda-akhya-known as Lord Nityananda;
>| ramah-Lord Balarama; saranam-shelter; mama-my; astu-let
>|there be.
82|TRANSLATION
83|May Sri Nityananda Rama be the object of my constant
>|remembrance. Sankarsana, Sesa Naga and the Visnus who lie
>|on the Karana Ocean, Garbha Ocean and ocean of milk are His
>|plenary portions and the portions of His plenary portions.
84|PURPORT
85|Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami has recorded this verse in his
>|diary to offer his respectful obeisances to Lord Nityananda
>|Prabhu. This verse also appears as the seventh of the first
>|fourteen verses of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.
86|Adi 5.8
87|TEXT 8
88|TEXT
89|sri-balarama gosani mula-sankarsana
90|panca-rupa dhari' karena krsnera sevana
91|SYNONYMS
92|sri-balarama-Balarama; gosani-the Lord; mula-sankarsana-the
>|original Sankarsana; panca-rupa dhari'-accepting five
>|bodies; karena-does; krsnera-of Lord Krsna; sevana-service.
93|TRANSLATION
94|Lord Balarama is the original Sankarsana. He assumes five
>|other forms to serve Lord Krsna.
95|Adi 5.9
96|TEXT 9
97|TEXT
98|apane karena krsna-lilara sahaya
99|srsti-lila-karya kare dhari' cari kaya
100|SYNONYMS
101|apane-personally; karena-performs; krsna-lilara sahaya-
>|assistance in the pastimes of Lord Krsna; srsti-lila-of the
>|pastimes of creation; karya-the work; kare-does; dhari'-
>|accepting; cari kaya-four bodies.
102|TRANSLATION
103|He Himself helps in the pastimes of Lord Krsna, and He does
>|the work of creation in four other forms.
104|Adi 5.10
105|TEXT 10
106|TEXT
107|srsty-adika seva,-tanra ajnara palana
108|'sesa'-rupe kare krsnera vividha sevana
109|SYNONYMS
110|srsti-adika seva-service in the matter of creation; tanra-
>|His; ajnara-of the order; palana-execution; sesa-rupe-the
>|form of Lord Sesa; kare-does; krsnera-of Lord Krsna;
>|vividha sevana-varieties of service.
111|TRANSLATION
112|He executes the orders of Lord Krsna in the work of
>|creation, and in the form of Lord Sesa He serves Krsna in
>|various ways.
113|PURPORT
114|According to expert opinion, Balarama, as the chief of the
>|original quadruple forms, is also the original Sankarsana.
>|Balarama, the first expansion of Krsna, expands Himself in
>|five forms: (1) Maha-sankarsana, (2) Karanabdhisayi, (3)
>|Garbhodakasayi, (4) Ksirodakasayi, and (5) Sesa. These five
>|plenary portions are responsible for both the spiritual and
>|material cosmic manifestations. In these five forms Lord
>|Balarama assists Lord Krsna in His activities. The first
>|four of these forms are responsible for the cosmic
>|manifestations, whereas Sesa is responsible for personal
>|service to the Lord. Sesa is called Ananta, or unlimited,
>|because He assists the Personality of Godhead in His
>|unlimited expansions by performing an unlimited variety of
>|services. Sri Balarama is the servitor Godhead who serves
>|Lord Krsna in all affairs of existence and knowledge. Lord
>|Nityananda Prabhu, who is the same servitor Godhead,
>|Balarama, performs the same service to Lord Gauranga by
>|constant association.
115|Adi 5.11
116|TEXT 11
117|TEXT
118|sarva-rupe asvadaye krsna-sevananda
119|sei balarama-gaura-sange nityananda
120|SYNONYMS
121|sarva-rupe-in all these forms; asvadaye-tastes; krsna-seva-
>|ananda-the transcendental bliss of serving Krsna; sei
>|balarama-that Lord Balarama; gaura-sange-with Gaurasundara;
>|nityananda-Lord Nityananda.
122|TRANSLATION
123|In all the forms He tastes the transcendental bliss of
>|serving Krsna. That same Balarama is Lord Nityananda, the
>|companion of Lord Gaurasundara.
124|Adi 5.12
125|TEXT 12
126|TEXT
127|saptama slokera artha kari cari-sloke
128|yate nityananda-tattva jane sarva-loke
129|SYNONYMS
130|saptama slokera-of the seventh verse; artha-the meaning;
>|kari-I do; cari-sloke-in four verses; yate-in which;
>|nityananda-tattva-the truth of Lord Nityananda; jane-one
>|knows; sarva-loke-all over the world.
131|TRANSLATION
132|I have explained this seventh verse in four subsequent
>|verses. By these verses all the world can know the truth
>|about Lord Nityananda.
133|Adi 5.13
134|TEXT 13
135|TEXT
136|mayatite vyapi-vaikuntha-loke
137|purnaisvarye sri-catur-vyuha-madhye
138|rupam yasyodbhati sankarsanakhyam
139|tam sri-nityananda-ramam prapadye
140|SYNONYMS
141|maya-atite-beyond the material creation; vyapi-all-
>|expanding; vaikuntha-loke-in Vaikunthaloka, the spiritual
>|world; purna-aisvarye-endowed with full opulence; sri-catuh-
>|vyuha-madhye-in the quadruple expansions (Vasudeva,
>|Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha); rupam-form; yasya-
>|whose; udbhati-appears; sankarsana-akhyam-known as
>|Sankarsana; tam-to Him; sri-nityananda-ramam-to Lord
>|Balarama in the form of Lord Nityananda; prapadye-I
>|surrender.
142|
143|TRANSLATION
144|I surrender unto the lotus feet of Sri Nityananda Rama, who
>|is known as Sankarsana in the midst of the catur-vyuha [
>|consisting of Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha]
>|. He possesses full opulences and resides in Vaikunthaloka,
>|far beyond the material creation.
145|PURPORT
146|This is a verse from Sri Svarupa Damodara Gosvami's diary.
>|It appears as the eighth of the first fourteen verses of
>|Sri Caitanya-caritamrta.
147|Adi 5.14
148|TEXT 14
149|TEXT
150|prakrtira para 'paravyoma'-name dhama
151|krsna-vigraha yaiche vibhuty-adi-gunavan
152|SYNONYMS
153|prakrtira-the material nature; para-beyond; para-vyoma-the
>|spiritual sky; name-in name; dhama-the place; krsna-vigraha-
>|the form of Lord Krsna; yaiche-just as; vibhuti-adi-like
>|the six opulences; guna-van-full with transcendental
>|attributes.
154|TRANSLATION
155|Beyond the material nature lies the realm known as
>|paravyoma, the spiritual sky. Like Lord Krsna Himself, it
>|possesses all transcendental attributes, such as the six
>|opulences.
156|PURPORT
157|According to Sankhya philosophy, the material cosmos is
>|composed of twenty-four elements: the five gross material
>|elements, the three subtle material elements, the five
>|knowledge-acquiring senses, the five active senses, the
>|five objects of sense pleasure, and the mahat-tattva (the
>|total material energy). Empiric philosophers, unable to go
>|beyond these elements, speculate that anything beyond them
>|must be avyakta, or inexplicable. But the world beyond the
>|twenty-four elements is not inexplicable, for it is
>|explained in the Bhagavad-gita as the eternal (sanatana)
>|nature. Beyond the manifested and unmanifested existence of
>|material nature (vyaktavyakta) is the sanatana nature,
>|which is called the paravyoma, or the spiritual sky. Since
>|that nature is spiritual in quality, there are no
>|qualitative differences there; everything there is
>|spiritual, everything is good, and everything possesses the
>|spiritual form of Sri Krsna Himself. That spiritual sky is
>|the manifested internal potency of Sri Krsna; it is
>|distinct from the material sky manifested by His external
>|potency.
158|The all-pervading Brahman, the impersonal
>|glowing ray of Sri Krsna, exists in the spiritual world
>|with the Vaikuntha planets. We can get some idea of that
>|spiritual sky by a comparison to the material sky, for the
>|rays of the sun in the material sky can be compared to the
>|brahmajyoti, the glowing rays of the Personality of Godhead.
>| In the brahmajyoti there are unlimited Vaikuntha planets,
>|which are spiritual and therefore self-luminous, with a
>|glow many times greater than that of the sun. The
>|Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna, His innumerable plenary
>|portions and the portions of His plenary portions dominate
>|each Vaikuntha planet. In the highest region of the
>|spiritual sky is the planet called Krsnaloka, which has
>|three divisions, namely Dvaraka, Mathura and Goloka
>|.
159|To a gross materialist this kingdom of God, Vaikuntha, is
>|certainly a mystery. But to an ignorant man everything is a
>|mystery for want of sufficient knowledge. The kingdom of
>|God is not a myth. Even the material planets, which float
>|over our heads in the millions and billions, are still a
>|mystery to the ignorant. Material scientists are now
>|attempting to penetrate this mystery, and a day may come
>|when the people of this earth will be able to travel in
>|outer space and see the variegatedness of these millions of
>|planets with their own eyes. In every planet there is as
>|much material variegatedness as we find in our own planet.
160|This planet earth is but an insignificant spot in the
>|cosmic structure. Yet foolish men, puffed up by a false
>|sense of scientific advancement, have concentrated their
>|energy in a pursuit of so-called economic development on
>|this planet, not knowing of the variegated economic
>|facilities available on other planets. According to modern
>|astronomy, the gravity of the moon is different from that
>|of earth. Therefore one who goes to the moon will be able
>|to pick up large weights and jump vast distances. In the
>|Ramayana, Hanuman is described as being able to lift huge
>|weights as heavy as hills and jump over the ocean. Modern
>|astronomy has confirmed that this is indeed possible.
161|The disease of the modern civilized man is his disbelief of
>|everything in the revealed scriptures. Faithless
>|nonbelievers cannot make progress in spiritual realization,
>|for they cannot understand the spiritual potency. The small
>|fruit of a banyan contains hundreds of seeds, and in each
>|seed is the potency to produce another banyan tree with the
>|potency to produce millions more of such fruits. This law
>|of nature is visible before us, although how it works is
>|beyond our understanding. This is but an insignificant
>|example of the potency of Godhead; there are many similar
>|phenomena that no scientist can explain.
162|Everything, in fact, is inconceivable, for the truth is
>|revealed only to the proper persons. Although there are
>|varieties of personalities, from Brahma down to the
>|insignificant ant, all of whom are living beings, their
>|development of knowledge is different. Therefore we have to
>|gather knowledge from the right source. Indeed, in reality
>|we can get knowledge only from the Vedic sources. The four
>|Vedas, with their supplementary Puranas, the Mahabharata,
>|the Ramayana and their corollaries, which are known as
>|smrtis, are all authorized sources of knowledge. If we are
>|at all to gather knowledge, we must gather it from these
>|sources without hesitation.
163|Revealed knowledge may in the beginning be unbelievable
>|because of our paradoxical desire to verify everything with
>|our tiny brains, but the speculative means of attaining
>|knowledge is always imperfect. The perfect knowledge
>|propounded in the revealed scriptures is confirmed by the
>|great acaryas, who have left ample commentations upon them;
>|none of these acaryas has disbelieved in the sastras. One
>|who disbelieves in the sastras is an atheist, and we should
>|not consult an atheist, however great he may be. A staunch
>|believer in the sastras, with all their diversities, is the
>|right person from whom to gather real knowledge. Such
>|knowledge may seem inconceivable in the beginning, but when
>|put forward by the proper authority its meaning is revealed,
>| and then one no longer has any doubts about it.
164|Adi 5.15
165|TEXT 15
166|TEXT
167|sarvaga, ananta, vibhu-vaikunthadi dhama
168|krsna, krsna-avatarera tahani visrama
169|SYNONYMS
170|sarva-ga-all-pervading; ananta-unlimited; vibhu-greatest;
>|vaikuntha-adi dhama-all the places known as Vaikunthaloka;
>|krsna-of Lord Krsna; krsna-avatarera-of the incarnations of
>|Lord Krsna; tahani-there; visrama-the residence.
171|TRANSLATION
172|That Vaikuntha region is all-pervading, infinite and
>|supreme. It is the residence of Lord Krsna and His
>|incarnations.
173|Adi 5.16
174|TEXT 16
175|TEXT
176|tahara upari-bhage 'krsna-loka'-khyati
177|dvaraka-mathura-gokula-tri-vidhatve sthiti
178|SYNONYMS
179|tahara-of all of them; upari-bhage-on the top; krsna-loka-
>|khyati-the planet known as Krsnaloka; dvaraka-mathura-
>|gokula-the three places known as Dvaraka, Mathura and
>|Vrndavana; tri-vidhatve-in three departments; sthiti-
>|situated.
180|TRANSLATION
181|In the highest region of that spiritual sky is the
>|spiritual planet called Krsnaloka. It has three divisions-
>|Dvaraka, Mathura and Gokula.
182|Adi 5.17
183|TEXT 17
184|TEXT
185|sarvopari sri-gokula-vrajaloka-dhama
186|sri-goloka, svetadvipa, vrndavana nama
187|SYNONYMS
188|sarva-upari-above all of them; sri-gokula-the place known
>|as Gokula; vraja-loka-dhama-the place of Vraja; sri-goloka-
>|the place named Goloka; sveta-dvipa-the white island;
>|vrndavana nama-also named Vrndavana.
189|TRANSLATION
190|Sri Gokula, the highest of all, is also called Vraja,
>|Goloka, Svetadvipa and Vrndavana.
191|Adi 5.18
192|TEXT 18
193|TEXT
194|sarvaga, ananta, vibhu, krsna-tanu-sama
195|upary-adho vyapiyache, nahika niyama
196|SYNONYMS
197|sarva-ga-all-pervading; ananta-unlimited; vibhu-the
>|greatest; krsna-tanu-sama-exactly like the transcendental
>|body of Krsna; upari-adhah-up and down; vyapiyache-expanded;
>| nahika-there is no; niyama-regulation.
198|TRANSLATION
199|Like the transcendental body of Lord Krsna, Gokula is all-
>|pervading, infinite and supreme. It expands both above and
>|below, without any restriction.
200|PURPORT
201|Srila Jiva Gosvami, the great authority and philosopher in
>|the line of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has discussed the
>|abode of Krsna in his Krsna-sandarbha. In the Bhagavad-gita
>|the Lord refers to "My abode." Srila Jiva Gosvami,
>|examining the nature of Krsna's abode, refers to the Skanda
>|Purana, which states:
202|ya yatha bhuvi vartante
203|puryo bhagavatah priyah
204|tas tatha santi vaikunthe
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205|tat-tal-lilartham adrtah
206|"The abodes of Godhead in the material
>|world, such as Dvaraka, Mathura and Goloka, are facsimiles
>|representing the abodes of Godhead in the kingdom of God,
>|Vaikuntha-dhama." The unlimited spiritual atmosphere of
>|that Vaikuntha-dhama is far above and beyond the material
>|cosmos. This is confirmed in the Svayambhuva- tantra in a
>|discussion between Lord Siva and Parvati regarding the
>|effect of chanting the mantra of fourteen syllables. There
>|it is stated:
207|nana -kalpa -latakirnam
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208|vaikuntham vyapakam smaret
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209|adhah samyam gunanam ca
210|prakrtih sarva-karanam
211|"While chanting the mantra, one should always remember the
>|spiritual world, which is very extensive and full of desire
>|trees that can yield anything one desires. Below that
>|Vaikuntha region is the potential material energy, which
>|causes the material manifestation." The places of the
>|pastimes of Lord Krsna, such as Dvaraka, Mathura and
>|Vrndavana, eternally and independently exist in Krsnaloka.
>|They are the actual abode of Lord Krsna, and there is no
>|doubt that they are situated above the material cosmic
>|manifestation.
212|The abode known as Vrndavana or Gokula is also known as
>|Goloka. The Brahma-samhita states that Gokula, the highest
>|region of the kingdom of God, resembles a lotus flower with
>|thousands of petals. The outer portion of that lotuslike
>|planet is a square place known as Svetadvipa. In the inner
>|portion of Gokula there is an elaborate arrangement for Sri
>|Krsna's residence with His eternal associates such as Nanda
>|and Yasoda. That transcendental abode exists by the energy
>|of Sri Baladeva, who is the original whole of Sesa, or
>|Ananta. The tantras also confirm this description by
>|stating that the abode of Sri Anantadeva, the plenary
>|portion of Baladeva, is called the kingdom of God.
>|Vrndavana-dhama is the innermost abode within the
>|quadrangular realm of Svetadvipa, which lies outside of the
>|boundary of Gokula Vrndavana.
213|According to Jiva Gosvami, Vaikuntha is also called
>|Brahmaloka. The Narada-pancaratra, in a statement
>|concerning the mystery of Vijaya, describes:
214|tat sarvopari goloke
215|tatra lokopari svayam
216|viharet paramanandi
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217|govindo 'tula
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218|"The predominator of the gopis, Govinda, the principal
>|Deity of Gokula, always enjoys Himself in a place called
>|Goloka in the topmost part of the spiritual sky."
219|From the authoritative evidence cited by Jiva Gosvami we
>|may conclude that Krsnaloka is the supreme planet in the
>|spiritual sky, which is far beyond the material cosmos. For
>|the enjoyment of transcendental variety, the pastimes of
>|Krsna there have three divisions, and these pastimes are
>|performed in the three abodes Dvaraka, Mathura and Gokula.
>|When Krsna descends to this universe, He enjoys the
>|pastimes in places of the same name. These places on earth
>|are nondifferent from those original abodes, for they are
>|facsimiles of those original holy places in the
>|transcendental world. They are as good as Sri Krsna Himself
>|and are equally worshipable. Lord Caitanya declared that
>|Lord Krsna, who presents Himself as the son of the King of
>|Vraja, is worshipable, and Vrndavana-dhama is equally
>|worshipable.
220|Adi 5.19
221|TEXT 19
222|TEXT
223|brahmande prakasa tara krsnera icchaya
224|eka-i svarupa tara, nahi dui kaya
225|SYNONYMS
226|brahmande-within the material world; prakasa-manifestation;
>|tara-of it; krsnera icchaya-by the supreme will of Lord
>|Krsna; eka-i-it is the same; svarupa-identity; tara-of it;
>|nahi-not; dui-two; kaya-bodies.
227|TRANSLATION
228|That abode is manifested within the material world by the
>|will of Lord Krsna. It is identical to that original Gokula;
>| they are not two different bodies.
229|PURPORT
230|The above-mentioned dhamas are movable, by the omnipotent
>|will of Lord Krsna. When Sri Krsna appears on the face of
>|the earth, He can also make His dhamas appear, without
>|changing their original structure. One should not
>|discriminate between the dhamas on the earth and those in
>|the spiritual sky, thinking those on earth to be material
>|and the original abodes to be spiritual. All of them are
>|spiritual. Only for us, who cannot experience anything
>|beyond matter in our present conditioned state, do the
>|dhamas and the Lord Himself, in His arca form, appear
>|before us resembling matter to give us the facility to see
>|spirit with material eyes. In the beginning this may be
>|difficult for a neophyte to understand, but in due course,
>|when one is advanced in devotional service, it will be
>|easier, and he will appreciate the Lord's presence in these
>|tangible forms.
231|Adi 5.20
232|TEXT 20
233|TEXT
234|cintamani-bhumi, kalpa-vrksa-maya vana
235|carma-cakse dekhe tare prapancera sama
236|SYNONYMS
237|cintamani-bhumi-the land of touchstone; kalpa-vrksa-maya-
>|full of desire trees; vana-forests; carma-cakse-the
>|material eyes; dekhe-see; tare-it; prapancera sama-equal to
>|the material creation.
238|TRANSLATION
239|The land there is touchstone [cintamani], and the forests
>|abound with desire trees. Material eyes see it as an
>|ordinary place.
240|PURPORT
241|By the grace of the Lord His dhamas and He Himself can all
>|be present simultaneously, without losing their original
>|importance. Only when one fully develops in affection and
>|love of Godhead can one see those dhamas in their original
>|appearance.
242|Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, a great acarya in the
>|preceptorial line of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has said
>|for our benefit that one can perfectly see the dhamas only
>|when one completely gives up the mentality of lording it
>|over material nature. One's spiritual vision develops
>|proportionately to one's giving up the debased mentality of
>|unnecessarily enjoying matter. A diseased person who has
>|become diseased because of a certain bad habit must be
>|ready to follow the advice of the physician, and as a
>|natural sequence he must attempt to give up the cause of
>|the disease. The patient cannot indulge in the bad habit
>|and at the same time expect to be cured by the physician.
>|Modern material civilization, however, is maintaining
>|a diseased atmosphere. The living being is a spiritual
>|spark, as spiritual as the Lord Himself. The only
>|difference is that the Lord is great and the living being
>|is small. Qualitatively they are one, but quantitatively
>|they are different. Therefore, since the living being is
>|spiritual in constitution, he can be happy only in the
>|spiritual sky, where there are unlimited spiritual spheres
>|called Vaikunthas. A spiritual being conditioned by a
>|material body must therefore try to get rid of his disease
>|instead of developing the cause of the disease.
243|Foolish persons engrossed in their material assets are
>|unnecessarily proud of being leaders of the people, but
>|they ignore the spiritual value of man. Such illusioned
>|leaders make plans covering any number of years, but they
>|can hardly make humanity happy in a state conditioned by
>|the threefold miseries inflicted by material nature. One
>|cannot control the laws of nature by any amount of
>|struggling. One must at last be subject to death, nature's
>|ultimate law. Death, birth, old age and illness are
>|symptoms of the diseased condition of the living being. The
>|highest aim of human life should therefore be to get free
>|from these miseries and go back home, back to Godhead.
244|Adi 5.21
245|TEXT 21
246|TEXT
247|prema-netre dekhe tara svarupa-prakasa
248|gopa-gopi-sange yanha krsnera vilasa
249|SYNONYMS
250|prema-netre-with the eyes of love of Godhead; dekhe-one
>|sees; tara-its; svarupa-prakasa-manifestation of identity;
>|gopa-cowherd boys; gopi-sange-with the cowherd damsels;
>|yanha-where; krsnera vilasa-the pastimes of Lord Krsna.
251|TRANSLATION
252|But with the eyes of love of Godhead one can see its real
>|identity as the place where Lord Krsna performs His
>|pastimes with the cowherd boys and cowherd girls.
253|Adi 5.22
254|TEXT 22
255|TEXT
256|cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa-
257|laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam
258|laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam
259|govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
260|SYNONYMS
261|cintamani-touchstone; prakara-groups made of; sadmasu-in
>|abodes; kalpa-vrksa-of desire trees; laksa-by millions;
>|avrtesu-surrounded; surabhih-surabhi cows; abhipalayantam-
>|tending; laksmi-of goddesses of fortune; sahasra-of
>|thousands; sata-by hundreds; sambhrama-with great respect;
>|sevyamanam-being served; govindam-Govinda; adi-purusam-the
>|original person; tam-Him; aham-I; bhajami-worship.
262|TRANSLATION
263|"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor,
>| who is tending cows yielding all desires in abodes built
>|with spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of purpose
>|trees. He is always served with great reverence and
>|affection by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune.
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264|PURPORT
265|This is a verse from the Brahma-samhita (5.29). This
>|description of the abode of Krsna gives us definite
>|information of the transcendental place where not only is
>|life eternal, blissful and full of knowledge, but there are
>|ample vegetables, milk, jewels, and beautiful homes and
>|gardens tended by lovely damsels who are all goddesses of
>|fortune. Krsnaloka is the topmost planet in the spiritual
>|sky, and below it are innumerable spheres, a description of
>|which can be found in Srimad-Bhagavatam. In the beginning
>|of Lord Brahma's self-realization he was shown a
>|transcendental vision of the Vaikuntha spheres by the grace
>|of Narayana. Later, by the grace of Krsna, he was shown a
>|transcendental vision of Krsnaloka. This transcendental
>|vision is like the reception of television from the moon
>|via a mechanical system for receiving modulated waves, but
>|it is achieved by penance and meditation within oneself.
266|Srimad-Bhagavatam (Second Canto) states that in
>|Vaikunthaloka the material modes of nature, represented by
>|the qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance, have no
>|influence. In the material world the highest qualitative
>|manifestation is goodness, which is characterized by
>|truthfulness, mental equilibrium, cleanliness, control of
>|the senses, simplicity, essential knowledge, faith in God,
>|scientific knowledge and so on. Nevertheless, all these
>|qualities are mixed with passion and imperfection. But the
>|qualities in Vaikuntha are a manifestation of God's
>|internal potency, and therefore they are purely spiritual
>|and transcendental, with no trace of material infection. No
>|material planet, even Satyaloka, is comparable in quality
>|to the spiritual planets, where the five inherent qualities
>|of the material world-namely, ignorance, misery, egoism,
>|anger and envy-are completely absent.
267|In the material world, everything is a creation. Anything
>|we can think of within our experience, including even our
>|own bodies and minds, was created. This process of creation
>|began with the life of Brahma, and the creative principle
>|is prevalent all over the material universe because of the
>|quality of passion. But since the quality of passion is
>|conspicuous by its absence in the Vaikuntha planets,
>|nothing there is created: everything there is eternally
>|existent. And because there is no mode of ignorance, there
>|is also no question of annihilation or destruction. In the
>|material world one may try to make everything permanent by
>|developing the above-mentioned qualities of goodness, but
>|because the goodness in the material world is mixed with
>|passion and ignorance, nothing here can exist permanently,
>|despite all the good plans of the best scientific brains.
>|Therefore in the material world we have no experience of
>|eternity, bliss and fullness of knowledge. But in the
>|spiritual world, because of the complete absence of the
>|qualitative modes, everything is eternal, blissful and
>|cognizant. Everything can speak, everything can move,
>|everything can hear, and everything can see in fully
>|blessed existence for eternity. The situation being so,
>|naturally space and time, in the forms of past, present and
>|future, have no influence there. In the spiritual sky there
>|is no change because time has no influence. Consequently,
>|the influence of maya, the total external energy, which
>|induces us to become more and more materialistic and forget
>|our relationship with God, is also absent there.
268|As spiritual sparks of the beams emanating from the
>|transcendental body of the Lord, we are all permanently
>|related with Him and equal to Him in quality. The material
>|energy is a covering of the spiritual spark, but in the
>|absence of that material covering, the living beings in
>|Vaikunthaloka are never forgetful of their identities: they
>|are eternally cognizant of their relationship with God in
>|their constitutional position of rendering transcendental
>|loving service to the Lord. Because they constantly engage
>|in the transcendental service of the Lord, it is natural to
>|conclude that their senses are also transcendental, for one
>|cannot serve the Lord with material senses. The inhabitants
>|of Vaikunthaloka do not possess material senses with which
>|to lord it over material nature.
269|Persons with a poor fund of knowledge conclude that a place
>|void of material qualities must be some sort of formless
>|nothingness. In reality, however, there are qualities in
>|the spiritual world, but they are different from the
>|material qualities because everything there is eternal,
>|unlimited and pure. The atmosphere there is self-
>|illuminating, and thus there is no need of a sun, a moon,
>|fire electricity and so on. One who can reach that abode
>|does not come back to the material world with a material
>|body. There is no difference between atheists and the
>|faithful in the Vaikuntha planets because all who settle
>|there are freed from the material qualities, and thus suras
>|and asuras become equally obedient loving servitors of the
>|Lord.
270|The residents of Vaikuntha have brilliantly black
>|complexions much more fascinating and attractive than the
>|dull white and black complexions found in the material
>|world. Their bodies, being spiritual, have no equals in the
>|material world. The beauty of a bright cloud when lightning
>|flashes on it merely hints at their beauty. Generally the
>|inhabitants of Vaikuntha dress in yellow clothing. Their
>|bodies are delicate and attractively built, and their eyes
>|are like the petals of lotus flowers. Like Lord Visnu, the
>|residents of Vaikuntha have four hands decorated with a
>|conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower. Their chests are
>|beautifully broad and fully decorated with necklaces of a
>|brilliant diamondlike metal surrounded by costly jewels
>|never to be found in the material world. The residents of
>|Vaikuntha are always powerful and effulgent. Some of them
>|have complexions like red coral cat's eyes and lotus
>|flowers, and each of them has earrings of costly jewels. On
>|their heads they wear flowery crowns resembling garlands.
271|In the Vaikunthas there are airplanes, but they make no
>|tumultuous sounds. Material airplanes are not at all safe:
>|they can fall down and crash at any time, for matter is
>|imperfect in every respect. In the spiritual sky, however,
>|the airplanes are also spiritual, and they are spiritually
>|brilliant and bright. These airplanes do not fly business
>|executives, politicians or planning commissions as
>|passengers, nor do they carry cargo or postal bags, for
>|these are all unknown there. These planes are for pleasure
>|trips only, and the residents of Vaikuntha fly in them with
>|their heavenly, beautiful, fairylike consorts. Therefore
>|these airplanes, full of residents of Vaikuntha, both male
>|and female, increase the beauty of the spiritual sky. We
>|cannot imagine how beautiful they are, but their beauty may
>|be compared to the clouds in the sky accompanied by silver
>|branches of electric lightning. The spiritual sky of
>|Vaikunthaloka is always decorated in this way.
272|The full opulence of the internal potency of Godhead is
>|always resplendent in Vaikunthaloka, where goddesses of
>|fortune are ever-increasingly attached to serving the lotus
>|feet of the Personality of Godhead. These goddesses of
>|fortune, accompanied by their friends, always create a
>|festive atmosphere of transcendental mirth. Always singing
>|the glories of the Lord, they are not silent even for a
>|moment.
273|There are unlimited Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky,
>|and the ratio of these planets to the material planets in
>|the material sky is three to one. Thus the poor materialist
>|is busy making political adjustments on a planet that is
>|most insignificant in God's creation. To say nothing of
>|this planet earth, the whole universe, with innumerable
>|planets throughout the galaxies, is comparable to a single
>|mustard seed in a bag full of mustard seeds. But the poor
>|materialist makes plans to live comfortably here and thus
>|wastes his valuable human energy in something that is
>|doomed to frustration. Instead of wasting his time with
>|business speculations, he might have sought the life of
>|plain living and high spiritual thinking and thus saved
>|himself from perpetual materialistic unrest.
274|Even if a materialist wants to enjoy developed material
>|facilities, he can transfer himself to planets where he can
>|experience material pleasures much more advanced than those
>|available on earth. The best plan is to prepare oneself to
>|return to the spiritual sky after leaving the body. However,
>| if one is intent on enjoying material facilities, one can
>|transfer himself to other planets in the material sky by
>|utilizing yogic powers. The playful spaceships of the
>|astronauts are but childish entertainments and are of no
>|use for this purpose. The astanga-yoga system is a
>|materialistic art of controlling air by transferring it
>|from the stomach to the navel, from the navel to the heart,
>|from the heart to the collarbone, from there to the
>|eyeballs, from there to the cerebellum and from there to
>|any desired planet. The velocities of air and light are
>|taken into consideration by the material scientist, but he
>|has no information of the velocity of the mind and
>|intelligence. We have some limited experience of the
>|velocity of the mind because in a moment we can transfer
>|our minds to places hundreds of thousands of miles away.
>|Intelligence is even finer. Finer than intelligence is the
>|soul, which is not matter like mind and intelligence but is
>|spirit, or antimatter. The soul is hundreds of thousands of
>|times finer and more powerful than intelligence. We can
>|thus only imagine the velocity of the soul in its traveling
>|from one planet to another. Needless to say, the soul
>|travels by its own strength and not with the help of any
>|kind of material vehicle.
275|The bestial civilization of eating, sleeping, fearing and
>|sense-gratifying has misled modern man into forgetting how
>|powerful a soul he has. As we have already described, the
>|soul is a spiritual spark many, many times more
>|illuminating, dazzling and powerful than the sun, moon or
>|electricity. Human life is spoiled when man does not
>|realize his real identity with his soul. Lord Caitanya
>|appeared with Lord Nityananda to save man from this type of
>|misleading civilization.
276|Srimad-Bhagavatam also describes how yogis can travel to
>|all the planets in the universe. When the vital force is
>|lifted to the cerebellum, there is every chance that this
>|force will burst out from the eyes, nose, ears, etc., as
>|these are places that are known as the seventh orbit of the
>|vital force. But the yogis can block these holes by
>|complete suspension of air. The yogi then concentrates the
>|vital force in the middle position, that is, between the
>|eyebrows. At this position, the yogi can think of the
>|planet into which he wants to enter after leaving the body.
>|He can then decide whether he wants to go to the abode of
>|Krsna in the transcendental Vaikunthas, from which he will
>|not be required to descend into the material world, or to
>|travel to higher planets in the material universe. The
>|perfect yogi is at liberty to do either.
277|For the perfect yogi who has attained success in the method
>|of leaving his body in perfect consciousness, transferring
>|from one planet to another is as easy as an ordinary man's
>|walking to the grocery store. As already discussed, the
>|material body is just a covering of the spiritual soul.
>|Mind and intelligence are the undercoverings, and the gross
>|body of earth, water, air and so on is the overcoating of
>|the soul. As such, any advanced soul who has realized
>|himself by the yogic process, who knows the relationship
>|between matter and spirit, can leave the gross dress of the
>|soul in perfect order and as he desires. By the grace of
>|God, we have complete freedom. Because the Lord is kind to
>|us, we can live anywhere-either in the spiritual sky or in
>|the material sky, upon whichever planet we desire. However,
>|misuse of this freedom causes one to fall down into the
>|material world and suffer the threefold miseries of
>|conditioned life. The living of a miserable life in the
>|material world by dint of the soul's choice is nicely
>|illustrated by Milton in Paradise Lost. Similarly, by
>|choice the soul can regain paradise and return home, back
>|to Godhead.
278|At the critical time of death, one can place the vital
>|force between the two eyebrows and decide where he wants to
>|go. If he is reluctant to maintain any connection with the
>|material world, he can, in less than a second, reach the
>|transcendental Vaikuntha and appear there
>|completely in his spiritual body, which will be suitable
>|for him in the spiritual atmosphere. He has simply to
>|desire to leave the material world both in finer and in
>|grosser forms and then move the vital force to the topmost
>|part of the skull and leave the body from the hole in the
>|skull called the brahma-randhra. This is easy for one
>|perfect in the practice of yoga.
279|Of course, man is endowed with free will, and as such if he
>|does not want to free himself from the material world he
>|may enjoy the life of brahma-pada (occupation of the post
>|of Brahma) and visit Siddhaloka, the planet of materially
>|perfect beings who have full capacities to control
>|gravity, space and time. To visit such higher planets in
>|the material universe, one need not give up his mind and
>|intelligence (finer matter), but need only give up grosser
>|matter (the material body).
280|Each and every planet has its particular atmosphere, and if
>|one wants to travel to any particular planet within the
>|material universe, one has to adapt his material body to
>|the climatic condition of that planet. For instance, if one
>|wants to go from India to Europe, where the climatic
>|condition is different, one has to change his dress
>|accordingly. Similarly, a complete change of body is
>|necessary if one wants to go to the transcendental planets
>|of Vaikuntha. However, if one wants to go to the higher
>|material planets, he can keep his finer dress of mind,
>|intelligence and ego, but has to leave his gross dress (
>|body) made of earth, water, fire, etc.
281|When one goes to a transcendental planet, it is necessary
>|to change both the finer and gross bodies, for one has to
>|reach the spiritual sky completely in a spiritual form.
>|This change of dress will take place automatically at the
>|time of death if one so desires.
282|The Bhagavad-gita confirms that one will attain his next
>|material body according to his desires at the time he
>|leaves his body. The desire of the mind carries the soul to
>|a suitable atmosphere as the wind carries aromas from one
>|place to another. Unfortunately, those who are not yogis
>|but gross materialists, who throughout their lives indulge
>|in sense gratification, are puzzled by the disarrangement
>|of the bodily and mental condition at the time of death.
>|Such gross sensualists, encumbered by the main ideas,
>|desires and associations of the lives they have led, desire
>|something against their interest and thus foolishly take on
>|new bodies that perpetuate their material miseries.
283|Systematic training of the mind and intelligence is
>|therefore needed so that at the time of death one may
>|consciously desire a suitable body, either on this planet
>|or another material planet or even a transcendental planet.
>|A civilization that does not consider the progressive
>|advancement of the immortal soul merely fosters a bestial
>|life of ignorance.
284|It is foolish to think that every soul that passes away
>|goes to the same place. Either the soul goes to a place he
>|desires at the time of death, or upon leaving his body he
>|is forced to accept a position according to his acts in his
>|previous life. The difference between the materialist and
>|the yogi is that a materialist cannot determine his next
>|body, whereas a yogi can consciously attain a suitable body
>|for enjoyment in the higher planets. Throughout his life,
>|the gross materialist who is constantly after sense
>|gratification spends all day earning his livelihood to
>|maintain his family, and at night he wastes his energy in
>|sex enjoyment or else goes to sleep thinking about all he
>|has done in the daytime. That is the monotonous life of the
>|materialist. Although differently graded as businessmen,
>|lawyers, politicians, professors, judges, coolies,
>|pickpockets, laborers and so on, materialists all simply
>|engage in eating, sleeping, fearing and sense gratification
>|and thus spoil their valuable lives pursuing luxury and
>|neglecting to perfect their lives through spiritual
>|realization.
285|Yogis, however, try to perfect their lives, and therefore
>|the Bhagavad-gita enjoins that everyone should become a
>|yogi. Yoga is the system for linking the soul in the
>|service of the Lord. Only under superior guidance can one
>|practice such yoga in his life without changing his social
>|position. As already described, a yogi can go anywhere he
>|desires without mechanical help, for a yogi can place his
>|mind and intelligence within the air circulating inside his
>|body, and by practicing the art of breath control he can
>|mix that air with the air that blows all over the universe
>|outside his body. With the help of this universal air, a
>|yogi can travel to any planet and get a body suitable for
>|its atmosphere. We can understand this process by comparing
>|it to the electronic transmission of radio messages. With
>|radio transmitters, sound waves produced at a certain
>|station can travel all over the earth in seconds. But sound
>|is produced from the ethereal sky, and as already explained,
>| subtler than the ethereal sky is the mind, and finer than
>|the mind is the intelligence. Spirit is still finer than
>|the intelligence, and by nature it is completely different
>|from matter. Thus we can just imagine how quickly the
>|spirit soul can travel through the universal atmosphere.
286|To come to the stage of manipulating finer elements like
>|mind, intelligence and spirit, one needs appropriate
>|training, an appropriate mode of life and appropriate
>|association. Such training depends upon sincere prayers,
>|devotional service, achievement of success in mystic
>|perfection, and the successful merging of oneself in the
>|activities of the soul and Supersoul. A gross materialist,
>|whether he be an empiric philosopher, a scientist, a
>|psychologist or whatever, cannot attain such success
>|through blunt efforts and word jugglery.
287|Materialists who perform yajnas, or great sacrifices, are
>|comparatively better than grosser materialists who do not
>|know anything beyond laboratories and test tubes. The
>|advanced materialists who perform such sacrifices can reach
>|the planet called Vaisvanara, a fiery planet similar to the
>|sun. On this planet, which is situated on the way to
>|Brahmaloka, the topmost planet in the universe, such an
>|advanced materialist can free himself from all traces of
>|vice and its effects. When such a materialist is purified,
>|he can rise to the orbit of the pole star (Dhruvaloka).
>|Within this orbit, which is called the Sisumara-cakra, are
>|situated the Aditya-lokas and the Vaikuntha planet within
>|this universe.
288|A purified materialist who has performed many sacrifices,
>|undergone severe penances and given the major portion of
>|his wealth in charity can reach such planets as Dhruvaloka,
>|and if he becomes still more qualified there, he can
>|penetrate still higher orbits and pass through the navel of
>|the universe to reach the planet Maharloka, where sages
>|like Bhrgu Muni live. In Maharloka one can live even to the
>|time of the partial annihilation of the universe. This
>|annihilation begins when Anantadeva, from the lowest
>|position in the universe, produces a great blazing fire.
>|The heat of this fire reaches even Maharloka, and then the
>|residents of Maharloka travel to Brahmaloka, which exists
>|for twice the duration of parardha time.
289|In Brahmaloka there is an unlimited number of airplanes
>|that are controlled not by yantra (machine) but mantra (
>|psychic action). Because of the existence of the mind and
>|intelligence on Brahmaloka, its residents have feelings of
>|happiness and distress, but there is no cause of
>|lamentation from old age, death, fear or distress. They
>|feel sympathy, however, for the suffering living beings who
>|are consumed in the fire of annihilation. The residents of
>|Brahmaloka do not have gross material bodies to change at
>|death, but they transform their subtle bodies into
>|spiritual bodies and thus enter the spiritual sky. The
>|residents of Brahmaloka can attain perfection in three
>|different ways. Virtuous persons who reach Brahmaloka by
>|dint of their pious work become masters of various planets
>|after the resurrection of Brahma, those who have worshiped
>|Garbhodakasayi Visnu are liberated with Brahma, and those
>|who are pure devotees of the Personality of Godhead at once
>|push through the covering of the universe and enter the
>|spiritual sky.
290|The numberless universes exist together in foamlike
>|clusters, and so only some of them are surrounded by the
>|water of the Causal Ocean. When agitated by the glance of
>|Karanodakasayi Visnu, material nature produces the total
>|elements, which are eight in number and which gradually
>|evolve from finer to gross. A part of ego is the sky, a
>|part of which is air, a part of which is fire, a part of
>|which is water, a part of which is earth. Thus one universe
>|inflates to an area of four billion miles in diameter. A
>|yogi who desires gradual liberation must penetrate all the
>|different coverings of the universe, including the subtle
>|coverings of the three qualitative modes of material nature.
>| One who does this never has to return to this mortal world.
291|According to Sukadeva Gosvami, the above description of the
>|material and spiritual skies is neither imaginary nor
>|utopian. The actual facts are recorded in the Vedic hymns,
>|and Lord Vasudeva disclosed them to Lord Brahma when Brahma
>|satisfied Him. One can achieve the perfection of life only
>|when he has a definite idea of Vaikuntha and the Supreme
>|Godhead. One should always think about and describe the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead, for this is recommended in
>|both the Bhagavad-gita and the Bhagavata Purana, which are
>|two authorized commentaries upon the Vedas. Lord Caitanya
>|has made all these subject matters easier for the fallen
>|people of this age to accept, and Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
>|has therefore presented them for the easy understanding of
>|all concerned.
292|Adi 5.23
293|TEXT 23
294|TEXT
295|mathura-dvarakaya nija-rupa prakasiya
296|nana-rupe vilasaye catur-vyuha haina
297|SYNONYMS
298|mathura-in Mathura; dvarakaya-in Dvaraka; nija-rupa-
>|personal body; prakasiya-manifesting; nana-rupe-in various
>|ways; vilasaye-enjoys pastimes; catuh-vyuha haina-expanding
>|into four wonderful forms.
299|TRANSLATION
300|He manifests His own , form in Mathura and Dvaraka.
>| He enjoys pastimes in various ways by expanding into the
>|quadruple forms.
301|Adi 5.24
302|TEXT 24
303|TEXT
304|vasudeva-sankarsana-pradyumnaniruddha
305|sarva-catur-vyuha-amsi, turiya, visuddha
306|SYNONYMS
307|vasudeva-Lord Vasudeva; sankarsana-Lord Sankarsana;
>|pradyumna-Lord Pradyumna; aniruddha-and Lord Aniruddha;
>|sarva-catuh-vyuha-of all other quadruple expansions; amsi-
>|source; turiya-transcendental; visuddha-pure.
308|TRANSLATION
309|Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are the
>|primary quadruple forms from whom all other quadruple
>|forms are manifested. They are all purely transcendental.
310|Adi 5.25
311|TEXT 25
312|TEXT
313|ei tina loke krsna kevala-lila-maya
314|nija-gana lana khele ananta samaya
315|SYNONYMS
316|ei-these; tina-three; loke-in the locations; krsna-Lord
>|Krsna; kevala-only; lila-maya-consisting of pastimes; nija-
>|gana lana-with His personal associates; khele-He plays;
>|ananta samaya-unlimited time.
317|TRANSLATION
318|Only in these three places [Dvaraka, Mathura and Gokula]
>|does the all-sporting Lord Krsna perform His endless
>|pastimes with His personal associates.
319|Adi 5.26
320|TEXT 26
321|TEXT
322|para-vyoma-madhye kari' svarupa prakasa
323|narayana-rupe karena vividha vilasa
324|SYNONYMS
325|para-vyoma-madhye-within the spiritual sky; kari'-making;
>|svarupa prakasa-manifesting His identity; narayana-rupe-the
>|form of Lord Narayana; karena-performs; vividha vilasa-
>|varieties of pastimes.
326|TRANSLATION
327|In the Vaikuntha planets of the spiritual sky the Lord
>|manifests His identity as Narayana and performs pastimes in
>|various ways.
328|Adi 5.27-28
329|TEXTS 27-28
330|TEXT
331|svarupa-vigraha krsnera kevala dvi-bhuja
332|narayana-rupe sei tanu catur-bhuja
333|sankha-cakra-gada-padma, mahaisvarya-maya
334|sri-bhu-nila-sakti yanra carana sevaya
335|SYNONYMS
336|svarupa-vigraha-personal form; krsnera-of Lord Krsna;
>|kevala-only; dvi-bhuja-two hands; narayana-rupe-in the form
>|of Lord Narayana; sei-that; tanu-body; catuh-bhuja-four-
>|handed; sankha-cakra-conchshell and disc; gada-club; padma-
>|lotus flower; maha-very great; aisvarya-maya-full of
>|opulence; sri-named sri; bhu-named bhu; nila-named nila;
>|sakti-energies; yanra-whose; carana sevaya-serve the lotus
>|feet.
337|TRANSLATION
338|Krsna's own form has only two hands, but in the form of
>|Lord Narayana He has four hands. Lord Narayana holds a
>|conchshell, disc, club and lotus flower, and He is full of
>|great opulence. The sri, bhu and nila energies serve at His
>|lotus feet.
339|PURPORT
340|In the Ramanuja and Madhva sects of Vaisnavism there are
>|extensive descriptions of the sri, bhu and nila energies.
>|In Bengal the nila energy is sometimes called the lila
>|energy. These three energies are employed in the service of
>|four-handed Narayana in Vaikuntha. Relating how three of
>|the Alwars, namely Bhuta-yogi, Sara-yogi and Bhranta-yogi,
>|saw Narayana in person when they took shelter at the house
>|of a brahmana in the village of Gehali, the Prapannamrta of
>|the Sri-sampradaya describes Narayana as follows:
341|tarksyadhirudham tadid-ambudabham
342|laksmi-dharam vaksasi pankajaksam
343|hasta-dvaye sobhita-sankha-cakram
344|visnum dadrsur bhagavantam adyam
345|a-janu-bahum kamaniya-gatram
346|parsva-dvaye sobhita-bhumi-nilam
347|pitambaram bhusana-bhusitangam
348|catur-bhujam candana-rusitangam
349|"They saw the lotus-eyed Lord Visnu, the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, mounted on Garuda and holding
>|Laksmi, the goddess of fortune, to His chest. He resembled
>|a bluish rain cloud with flashing lightning, and in two of
>|His four hands He held a conchshell and disc. His arms
>|stretched down to His knees, and all His beautiful limbs
>|were smeared with sandalwood and decorated with glittering
>|ornaments. He wore yellow clothes, and by either side stood
>|His energies Bhumi and Nila."
350|There is the following reference to the sri, bhu and nila
>|energies in the Sitopanisad: maha-laksmir devesasya
>|bhinnabhinna-rupa cetanacetanatmika. sa devi tri-vidha
>|bhavati, sakty-atmana iccha-saktih kriya-saktih saksac-
>|chaktir iti. iccha-saktis tri-vidha bhavati, sri-bhumi-
>|nilatmika. "Maha-Laksmi, the supreme energy of the Lord, is
>|experienced in different ways. She is divided into material
>|and spiritual potencies, and in both features she acts as
>|the willing energy, creative energy and the internal energy.
>| The willing energy is again divided into three, namely sri,
>| bhu and nila."
351|Quoting from the revealed scriptures in his commentary on
>|the Bhagavad-gita (4.6), Madhvacarya has stated that mother
>|material nature, which is conceived of as the illusory
>|energy, Durga, has three divisions, namely sri, bhu and
>|nila. She is the illusory energy for those who are weak in
>|spiritual strength because such energies are created
>|energies of Lord Visnu. Although each energy has no direct
>|relationship with the unlimited, they are subordinate to
>|the Lord because the Lord is the master of all energies.
352|In his Bhagavat-sandarbha (Part 23 , Texts 8-9), Srila Jiva
>|Gosvami Prabhu states : "The Padma Purana refers to the
>|eternally auspicious abode of Godhead, which is full in all
>|opulences, including the energies sri, bhu and nila. The
>|Maha-samhita, which discusses the transcendental name and
>|form of Godhead, also mentions Durga as the potency of the
>|Supersoul in relationship with the living entities. The
>|internal potency acts in relation with His personal affairs,
>| and the material potency manifests the three modes."
>|Quoting elsewhere from the revealed scriptures, he states
>|that sri is the energy of Godhead that maintains the cosmic
>|manifestation, bhu is the energy that creates the cosmic
>|manifestation, and nila, Durga, is the energy that destroys
>|the creation. All these energies act in relation with the
>|living beings, and thus they are together called jiva-maya.
353|Adi 5.29
354|TEXT 29
355|TEXT
356|yadyapi kevala tanra krida-matra dharma
357|tathapi jivere krpaya kare eka karma
358|SYNONYMS
359|yadyapi-although; kevala-only; tanra-His; krida-matra-
>|pastime only; dharma-characteristic function; tathapi-still;
>| jivere-to the fallen souls; krpaya-by the causeless mercy;
>|kare-does; eka-one; karma-activity.
360|TRANSLATION
361|Although His pastimes are His only characteristic functions,
>| by His causeless mercy He performs one activity for the
>|fallen souls.
362|Adi 5.30
363|TEXT 30
364|TEXT
365|salokya-samipya-sarsti-sarupya-prakara
366|cari mukti diya kare jivera nistara
367|SYNONYMS
368|salokya-the liberation called salokya; samipya-the
>|liberation called samipya; sarsti-the liberation called
>|sarsti; sarupya-the liberation called sarupya; prakara-
>|varieties; cari-four; mukti-liberation; diya-giving; kare-
>|does; jivera-of the fallen souls; nistara-deliverance.
369|TRANSLATION
370|He delivers the fallen living entities by offering them the
>|four kinds of liberation-salokya, samipya, sarsti and
>|sarupya.
371|PURPORT
372|There are two kinds of liberated souls-those who are
>|liberated by the favor of the Lord and those who are
>|liberated by their own effort. One who gets liberation by
>|his own effort is called an impersonalist, and he merges
>|in the glaring effulgence of the Lord, the brahmajyoti.
>|But devotees of the Lord who qualify themselves for
>|liberation by devotional service are offered four kinds of
>|liberation, namely salokya (status equal to that of the
>|Lord), samipya (constant association with the Lord), sarsti
>|(opulence equal to that of the Lord) and sarupya (features
>|like those of the Lord).
373|Adi 5.31
374|TEXT 31
375|TEXT
376|brahma-sayujya-muktera taha nahi gati
377|vaikuntha-bahire haya ta'-sabara sthiti
378|SYNONYMS
379|brahma-sayujya-of merging into the Supreme Brahman; muktera-
>|of the liberation; taha-there (in Vaikuntha); nahi-not;
>|gati-entrance; vaikuntha-bahire-outside the Vaikuntha
>|planets; haya-there is; ta'-sabara sthiti-the residence of
>|all of them.
380|TRANSLATION
381|Those who attain brahma-sayujya liberation cannot gain
>|entrance into Vaikuntha; their residence is outside the
>|Vaikuntha planets.
382|Adi 5.32
383|TEXT 32
384|TEXT
385|vaikuntha-bahire eka jyotir-maya mandala
386|krsnera angera prabha, parama ujjvala
387|SYNONYMS
388|vaikuntha-bahire-outside the Vaikunthalokas; eka-one;
>|jyotih-maya mandala-the atmosphere of the glowing
>|effulgence; krsnera-of Lord Krsna; angera-of the body;
>|prabha-rays; parama-supremely; ujjvala-bright.
389|TRANSLATION
390|Outside the Vaikuntha planets is the atmosphere of the
>|glowing effulgence, which consists of the supremely bright
>|rays of the body of Lord Krsna.
391|Adi 5.33
392|TEXT 33
393|TEXT
394|'siddha-loka' nama tara prakrtira para
395|cit-svarupa, tanha nahi cic-chakti vikara
396|SYNONYMS
397|'siddha-loka'-the region of the Siddhas; nama-named; tara-
>|of the effulgent atmosphere; prakrtira para-beyond this
>|material nature; cit-svarupa-full of knowledge; tanha-there;
>| nahi-there is not; cit-sakti-vikara-change of the
>|spiritual energy.
398|TRANSLATION
399|That region is called Siddhaloka, and it is beyond the
>|material nature. Its essence is spiritual, but it does not
>|have spiritual varieties.
400|Adi 5.34
401|TEXT 34
402|TEXT
403|surya-mandala yena bahire nirvisesa
404|bhitare suryera ratha-adi savisesa
405|SYNONYMS
406|surya-mandala-the sun globe; yena-like; bahire-externally;
>|nirvisesa-with out varieties; bhitare-within; suryera-of
>|the sun-god; ratha-adi-opulences like chariots and other
>|things; sa-visesa-full of varieties.
407|TRANSLATION
408|It is like the homogeneous effulgence around the sun. But
>|inside the sun are the chariots, horses and other opulences
>|of the sun-god.
409|PURPORT
410|Outside of Vaikuntha, the abode of Krsna, which is called
>|paravyoma, is the glaring effulgence of Krsna's bodily rays.
>| This is called the brahmajyoti. The transcendental region
>|of that effulgence is called Siddhaloka or Brahmaloka. When
>|impersonalists achieve liberation, they merge into that
>|Brahmaloka effulgence. This transcendental region is
>|undoubtedly spiritual, but it contains no manifestations of
>|spiritual activities or variegatedness. It is compared to
>|the glow of the sun. Within the sun's glow is the sphere of
>|the sun, where one can experience all sorts of varieties.
411|Adi 5.35
412|TEXT 35
413|TEXT
414|kamad dvesad bhayat snehad
415|yatha bhaktyesvare manah
416|avesya tad agham hitva
417|bahavas tad gatim gatah
418|SYNONYMS
419|kamat-influenced by lusty desire; dvesat-by envy; bhayat-by
>|fear; snehat-or by affection; yatha-as; bhaktya-by devotion;
>| isvare-in the Supreme Personality of Godhead; manah-the
>|mind; avesya-fully absorbing; tat-that; agham-sinful
>|activity; hitva-giving up; bahavah-many; tat-that; gatim-
>|destination; gatah-achieved.
420|TRANSLATION
421|"As through devotion to the Lord one can attain His abode,
>|many have attained that goal by abandoning their sinful
>|activities and absorbing their minds in the Lord through
>|lust, envy, fear or affection."
422|PURPORT
423|As the powerful sun, by its glowing rays, can purify all
>|kinds of impurities, so the all-spiritual Personality of
>|Godhead can purify all material qualities in a person He
>|attracts. Even if one is attracted by Godhead in the mode
>|of material lust, such attraction is converted into
>|spiritual love of Godhead by His grace. Similarly, if one
>|is related to the Lord in fear and animosity, he also
>|becomes purified by the spiritual attraction of the Lord.
>|Although God is great and the living entity small, they are
>|spiritual individuals, and therefore as soon as there is a
>|reciprocal exchange by the living entity's free will, at
>|once the great spiritual being attracts the small living
>|entity, thus freeing him from all material bondage. This is
>|a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.1.30).
424|Adi 5.36
425|TEXT 36
426|TEXT
427|yad arinam priyanam ca
428|prapyam ekam ivoditam
429|tad brahma-krsnayor aikyat
430|kiranarkopama-jusoh
431|SYNONYMS
432|yat-that; arinam-of the enemies of the Supreme Personality
>|of Godhead; priyanam-of the devotees, who are very dear to
>|the Supreme Personality of Godhead; ca-and; prapyam-
>|destination; ekam-one only; iva-thus; uditam-said; tat-that;
>| brahma-of impersonal Brahman; krsnayoh-and of Krsna, the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead; aikyat-due to the oneness;
>|kirana-the sunshine; arka-and the sun; upama-the comparison;
>| jusoh-which is understood by.
433|TRANSLATION
434|"Where it has been stated that the Lord's enemies and
>|devotees attain the same destination, this refers to the
>|ultimate oneness of Brahman and Lord Krsna. This may be
>|understood by the example of the sun and the sunshine, in
>|which Brahman is like the sunshine and Krsna Himself is
>|like the sun."
435|PURPORT
436|This verse is from the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (1.2.278) of
>|Srila Rupa Gosvami, who further discusses this same topic
>|in his Laghu-bhagavatamrta (Purva 5.41). There he refers to
>|the Visnu Purana (4.15.1), where Maitreya Muni asked
>|Parasara, in regard to Jaya and Vijaya, how it was that
>|Hiranyakasipu next became Ravana and enjoyed more material
>|happiness than the demigods but did not attain salvation,
>|although when he became Sisupala, quarreled with Krsna and
>|was killed, he attained salvation and merged into the body
>|of Lord Krsna. Parasara replied that Hiranyakasipu failed
>|to recognize Lord Nrsimhadeva as Lord Visnu. He thought
>|that Nrsimhadeva was some living entity who had acquired
>|such opulence by various pious activities. Being overcome
>|by the mode of passion, he considered Lord Nrsimhadeva an
>|ordinary living entity, not understanding His form.
>|Nevertheless, because Hiranyakasipu was killed by the hands
>|of Lord Nrsimhadeva, in his next life he became Ravana and
>|had proprietorship of unlimited opulence. As Ravana, with
>|unlimited material enjoyment, he could not accept Lord Rama
>|as the Personality of Godhead. Therefore even though he was
>|killed by Rama, he did not attain sayujya, or oneness with
>|the body of the Lord. In his Ravana body he was too much
>|attracted to Rama's wife, Janaki, and because of that
>|attraction he was able to see Lord Rama. But instead of
>|accepting Lord Rama as an incarnation of Visnu, Ravana
>|thought Him an ordinary living being. When killed by the
>|hands of Rama, therefore, he got the privilege of taking
>|birth as Sisupala, who had such immense opulence that he
>|could think himself a competitor to Krsna. Although
>|Sisupala was always envious of Krsna, he frequently uttered
>|the name of Krsna and always thought of the beautiful
>|features of Krsna. Thus by constantly thinking and chanting
>|of Krsna, even unfavorably, he was cleansed of the
>|contamination of his sinful activities. When Sisupala was
>|killed by the Sudarsana cakra of Krsna as an enemy, his
>|constant remembrance of Krsna dissolved the reactions of
>|his vices, and he attained salvation by becoming one with
>|the body of the Lord.
437|From this incident one can understand that even a person
>|who thinks of Krsna as an enemy and is killed by Him may be
>|liberated by becoming one with the body of Krsna. What then
>|must be the destination of devotees who always think
>|favorably of Krsna as their master or friend? These
>|devotees must attain a situation better than Brahmaloka,
>|the impersonal bodily effulgence of Krsna. Devotees cannot
>|be situated in the impersonal Brahman effulgence, into
>|which impersonalists desire to merge. The devotees are
>|placed in Vaikunthaloka or Krsnaloka.
438|This discussion between Maitreya Muni and Parasara Muni
>|centered on whether devotees come down into the material
>|world in every millennium like Jaya and Vijaya, who were
>|cursed by the Kumaras to that effect. In the course of
>|these instructions to Maitreya about Hiranyakasipu, Ravana
>|and Sisupala, Parasara did not say that these demons were
>|formerly Jaya and Vijaya. He simply described the
>|transmigration through three lives. It is not necessary for
>|the Vaikuntha associates of the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead to come to take the roles of His enemies in all the
>|millenniums in which He appears. The "falldown" of Jaya and
>|Vijaya occurred in a particular millennium; Jaya and Vijaya
>|do not come down in every millennium to act as demons. To
>|think that some associates of the Lord fall down from
>|Vaikuntha in every millennium to become demons is totally
>|incorrect.
439|The Supreme Personality of Godhead has all the tendencies
>|that may be found in the living entity, for He is the chief
>|living entity. Therefore it is natural that sometimes Lord
>|Visnu wants to fight. Just as He has the tendencies to
>|create, to enjoy, to be a friend, to accept a mother and
>|father, and so on, He also has the tendency to fight.
>|Sometimes important landlords and kings keep wrestlers with
>|whom they practice mock fighting, and Visnu makes similar
>|arrangements. The demons who fight with the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead in the material world are sometimes
>|His associates. When there is a scarcity of demons and the
>|Lord wants to fight, He instigates some of His associates
>|of Vaikuntha to come and play as demons. When it is said
>|that Sisupala merged into the body of Krsna, it should be
>|noted that in this case he was not Jaya or Vijaya; he was
>|actually a demon.
440|In his Brhad-bhagavatamrta, Srila Sanatana Gosvami has
>|explained that the attainment of salvation by merging into
>|the Brahman effulgence of the Lord cannot be accepted as
>|the highest success in life, because demons like Kamsa, who
>|were famous for killing brahmanas and cows, attained that
>|salvation. For devotees such salvation is abominable.
>|Devotees are actually in a transcendental position, whereas
>|nondevotees are candidates for hellish conditions of life.
>|There is always a difference between the life of a devotee
>|and the life of a demon, and their realizations are as
>|different as heaven and hell.
441|Demons are always accustomed to be malicious toward
>|devotees and to kill brahmanas and cows. For demons,
>|merging in the Brahman effulgence may be very glorious,
>|but for devotees it is hellish. A devotee's aim in life is
>|to attain perfection in loving the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead. Those who aspire to merge into the Brahman
>|effulgence are as abominable as demons. Devotees who aspire
>|to associate with the Supreme Lord to render Him
>|transcendental loving service are far superior.
442|Adi 5.37
443|TEXT 37
444|TEXT
445|taiche para-vyome nana cic-chakti-vilasa
446|nirvisesa jyotir-bimba bahire prakasa
447|SYNONYMS
448|taiche-in that way; para-vyome-in the spiritual sky; nana-
>|varieties; cit-sakti-vilasa-pastimes of spiritual energy;
>|nirvisesa-impersonal; jyotih-of the effulgence; bimba-
>|reflection; bahire-externally; prakasa-manifested.
449|TRANSLATION
450|Thus in the spiritual sky there are varieties of pastimes
>|within the spiritual energy. Outside the Vaikuntha planets
>|appears the impersonal reflection of light.
451|Adi 5.38
452|TEXT 38
453|TEXT
454|nirvisesa-brahma sei kevala jyotir-maya
455|sayujyera adhikari tanha paya laya
456|SYNONYMS
457|nirvisesa-brahma-the impersonal Brahman effulgence; sei-
>|that; kevala-only; jyotih-maya-effulgent rays; sayujyera-
>|the liberation called sayujya (oneness with the Supreme);
>|adhikari-one who is fit for; tanha-there (in the impersonal
>|Brahman effulgence); paya-gets; laya-merging.
458|TRANSLATION
459|That impersonal Brahman effulgence consists only of the
>|effulgent rays of the Lord. Those fit for sayujya
>|liberation merge into that effulgence.
460|Adi 5.39
461|TEXT 39
462|TEXT
463|siddha-lokas tu tamasah
464|pare yatra vasanti hi
465|siddha brahma-sukhe magna
466|daityas ca harina hatah
467|SYNONYMS
468|siddha-lokah-Siddhaloka, or impersonal Brahman; tu-but;
>|tamasah-of darkness; pare-beyond the jurisdiction; yatra-
>|where; vasanti-reside; hi-certainly; siddhah-the
>|spiritually perfect; brahma-sukhe-in the transcendental
>|bliss of becoming one with the Supreme; magnah-absorbed;
>|daityah ca-as well as the demons; harina-by the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead; hatah-killed.
469|TRANSLATION
470|"Beyond the region of ignorance [the material cosmic
>|manifestation] lies the realm of Siddhaloka. The Siddhas
>|reside there, absorbed in the bliss of Brahman. Demons
>|killed by the Lord also attain that realm."
471|PURPORT
472|Tamas means darkness. The material world is dark, and
>|beyond the material world is light. In other words, after
>|passing through the entire material atmosphere, one can
>|come to the luminous spiritual sky, whose impersonal
>|effulgence is known as Siddhaloka. Mayavadi philosophers
>|who aspire to merge with the body of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, as well as demoniac persons who are
>|killed by Krsna, such as Kamsa and Sisupala, enter that
>|Brahman effulgence. Yogis who attain oneness through
>|meditation according to the Patanjali yoga system also
>|reach Siddhaloka. This is a verse from the Brahmanda Purana.
473|Adi 5.40
474|TEXT 40
475|TEXT
476|sei para-vyome narayanera cari pase
477|dvaraka-catur-vyuhera dvitiya prakase
478|SYNONYMS
479|sei-that; para-vyome-in the spiritual sky; narayanera-of
>|Lord Narayana; cari pase-on four sides; dvaraka-Dvaraka;
>|catur-vyuhera-of the quadruple expansions; dvitiya-the
>|second; prakase-manifestation.
480|TRANSLATION
481|In that spiritual sky, on the four sides of Narayana, are
>|the second expansions of the quadruple expansions of
>|Dvaraka.
482|PURPORT
483|Within the spiritual sky is a second manifestation of the
>|quadruple forms of Dvaraka from the abode of Krsna. Among
>|these forms, which are all spiritual and immune to the
>|material modes, Sri Baladeva is represented as Maha-
>|sankarsana.
484|The actions in the spiritual sky are manifested by the
>|internal potency in pure spiritual existence. They expand
>|in six transcendental opulences, which are all
>|manifestations of Maha-sankarsana, who is the ultimate
>|reservoir and objective of all living entities. Although
>|belonging to the marginal potency known as jiva-sakti,
>|the spiritual sparks known as the living entities are
>|subjected to the conditions of material energy. It is
>|because these sparks are related with both the internal and
>|external potencies of the Lord that they are known as
>|belonging to the marginal potency.
485|In considering the quadruple forms of the absolute
>|Personality of Godhead, known as Vasudeva, Sankarsana,
>|Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the impersonalists, headed by
>|Sripada Sankaracarya, have interpreted the aphorisms of the
>|Vedanta-sutra in a way suitable for the impersonalist
>|school. To provide the intrinsic import of such aphorisms,
>|however, Srila Rupa Gosvami, the leader of the six Gosvamis
>|of Vrndavana, has properly replied to the impersonalists in
>|his Laghu-bhagavatamrta, which is a natural commentary on
>|the aphorisms of the Vedanta-sutra.
486|The Padma Purana, as quoted by Srila Rupa Gosvami in his
>|Laghu-bhagavatamrta, describes that in the spiritual sky
>|there are four directions, corresponding to east, west,
>|north and south, in which Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Aniruddha
>|and Pradyumna are situated. The same forms are also
>|situated in the material sky. The Padma Purana also
>|describes a place in the spiritual sky known as Vedavati-
>|pura, where Vasudeva resides. In Visnuloka, which is above
>|Satyaloka, Sankarsana resides. Maha-sankarsana is another
>|name of Sankarsana. Pradyumna lives in Dvaraka-pura, and
>|Aniruddha lies on the eternal bed of Sesa, generally known
>|as ananta-sayya, on the island called Svetadvipa, in the
>|ocean of milk.
487|Adi 5.41
488|TEXT 41
489|TEXT
490|vasudeva-sankarsana-pradyumnaniruddha
491|'dvitiya catur-vyuha' ei-turiya, visuddha
492|SYNONYMS
493|vasudeva-the expansion named Vasudeva; sankarsana-the
>|expansion named Sankarsana; pradyumna-the expansion named
>|Pradyumna; aniruddha-the expansion named Aniruddha; dvitiya
>|catuh-vyuha-the second quadruple expansion; ei-this; turiya-
>|transcendental; visuddha-free from all material
>|contamination.
494|TRANSLATION
495|Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha constitute
>|this second quadruple. They are purely transcendental.
496|PURPORT
497|Sripada Sankaracarya has misleadingly explained the
>|quadruple form (catur-vyuha) in his interpretation of the
>|forty-second aphorism of Chapter Two of the second khanda
>|of the Vedanta-sutra (utpatty-asambhavat). In verses 41
>|through 47 of this chapter of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta,
>|Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami answers Sripada
>|Sankaracarya's misleading objections to the personal
>|feature of the Absolute Truth.
498|The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth, is
>|not like a material object that can be known by
>|experimental knowledge or sense perception. In the Narada-
>|pancaratra this fact has been explained by Narayana Himself
>|to Lord Siva. But Sankaracarya, the incarnation of Siva,
>|under the order of Narayana, his master, had to mislead the
>|monists, who favor ultimate extinction. In the conditioned
>|stage of existence, all living entities have four basic
>|defects, of which one is the cheating propensity.
>|Sankaracarya has carried this cheating propensity to the
>|extreme to mislead the monists.
499|Actually, the quadruple forms explained
>|in the Vedic literature cannot be understood by the
>|speculation of a conditioned soul. The quadruple forms
>|should therefore be accepted just as They are described.
>|The authority of the Vedas is such that even if one does
>|not understand something by his limited perception, he
>|should accept the Vedic injunction and not create
>|interpretations to suit his imperfect understanding. In his
>|Sariraka-bhasya, however, Sankaracarya has increased the
>|misunderstanding of the monists.
500|The quadruple forms have a spiritual existence that can be
>|realized in vasudeva-sattva (suddha-sattva), or unqualified
>|goodness, which accompanies complete absorption in the
>|understanding of Vasudeva. The quadruple forms, who are
>|full of the six opulences of the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead, are the enjoyers of the internal potency. Thinking
>|the absolute Personality of Godhead to be poverty-stricken
>|or to have no potency-or, in other words, to be impotent-is
>|simply rascaldom. This rascaldom is the profession of the
>|conditioned soul, and it increases his bewilderment. One
>|who cannot understand the distinctions between the
>|spiritual world and the material world has no qualification
>|to examine or know the situation of the transcendental
>|quadruple forms. In his commentary on Vedanta-sutra 2.2.42 -
>|45, His Holiness Sripada Sankaracarya has made a futile
>|attempt to nullify the existence of these quadruple forms
>|in the spiritual world.
501|Sankaracarya says (sutra 42) that devotees think the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead Vasudeva, Sri Krsna, to be
>|one, to be free from material qualities and to have a
>|transcendental body full of bliss and eternal existence. He
>|is the ultimate goal of the devotees, who believe that the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself into four
>|other eternal transcendental forms-Vasudeva, Sankarsana,
>|Pradyumna and Aniruddha. From Vasudeva, who is the primary
>|expansion, come Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha in that
>|order. Another name of Vasudeva is Paramatma, another name
>|of Sankarsana is jiva (the living entity), another name of
>|Pradyumna is mind, and another name of Aniruddha is
>|ahankara (false ego). Among these expansions, Vasudeva is
>|considered the origin of material nature. Therefore
>|Sankaracarya says that Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha
>|must be creations of that original cause.
502|Great souls assert that Narayana, who is known as
>|Paramatma, the Supersoul, is beyond material nature, and
>|this is in accordance with the statements of the Vedic
>|literature. Mayavadis also agree that Narayana can expand
>|Himself in various forms. Sankara says that he does not
>|attempt to argue that portion of the devotees'
>|understanding, but he must protest the idea that Sankarsana
>|is produced from Vasudeva, Pradyumna is produced from
>|Sankarsana, and Aniruddha is produced from Pradyumna, for
>|if Sankarsana is understood to represent the living
>|entities created from the body of Vasudeva, the living
>|entities would have to be noneternal. The living entities
>|are supposed to be freed from material contamination by
>|engaging in prolonged temple worship of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, reading Vedic literature and
>|performing yoga and pious activities to attain the Supreme
>|Lord. But if the living entities had been created from
>|material nature at a certain point, they would be
>|noneternal and would have no chance to be liberated and
>|associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. When a
>|cause is nullified, its results are nullified. In the
>|second chapter of the Vedanta-sutra's second khanda, Acarya
>|Vedavyasa has also refuted the conception that the living
>|beings were ever born (natma sruter nityatvac ca tabhyah).
>|Because there is no creation for the living entities, they
>|must be eternal.
503|Sankaracarya says (sutra 43) that devotees think that
>|Pradyumna, who is considered to represent the senses, has
>|sprung from Sankarsana, who is considered to represent the
>|living entities. But we cannot actually experience that a
>|person can produce senses. Devotees also say that from
>|Pradyumna has sprung Aniruddha, who is considered to
>|represent the ego. But Sankaracarya says that unless the
>|devotees can show how ego and the means of knowledge can
>|generate from a person, such an explanation of the Vedanta-
>|sutra cannot be accepted, for no other philosophers accept
>|the sutras in that way.
504|Sankaracarya also says (sutra 44) that he cannot accept the
>|devotees' idea that Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are
>|equally as powerful as the absolute Personality of Godhead,
>|full in the six opulences of knowledge, wealth, strength,
>|fame, beauty and renunciation, and free from the flaw of
>|generation at a certain point. Even if They are full
>|expansions, the flaw of generation remains. Vasudeva,
>|Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, being distinct
>|individual persons, cannot be one. Therefore if They are
>|accepted as absolute, full and equal, there would have to
>|be many Personalities of Godhead. But there is no need to
>|accept that there are many Personalities of Godhead,
>|because acceptance of one omnipotent God is sufficient for
>|all purposes. The acceptance of more than one God is
>|contradictory to the conclusion that Lord Vasudeva, the
>|absolute Personality of Godhead, is one without a second.
>|Even if we agree to accept that the quadruple forms of
>|Godhead are all identical, we cannot avoid the incongruous
>|flaw of noneternity. Unless we accept that there are some
>|differences among the personalities, there is no meaning to
>|the idea that Sankarsana is an expansion of Vasudeva,
>|Pradyumna is an expansion of Sankarsana, and Aniruddha is
>|an expansion of Pradyumna. There must be a distinction
>|between cause and effect. For example, a pot is distinct
>|from the earth from which it is made, and therefore we can
>|ascertain that the earth is the cause and the pot is the
>|effect. Without such distinctions, there is no meaning to
>|cause and effect. Furthermore, the followers of the
>|Pancaratric principles do not accept any differences in
>|knowledge and qualities between Vasudeva, Sankarsana,
>|Pradyumna and Aniruddha. The devotees accept all these
>|expansions to be one, but why should they restrict oneness
>|to these quadruple expansions? Certainly we should not do
>|so, for all living entities, from Brahma to the
>|insignificant ant, are expansions of Vasudeva, as accepted
>|in all the srutis and smrtis.
505|Sankaracarya also says (sutra 45) that the devotees who
>|follow the Pancaratra state that God's qualities and God
>|Himself, as the owner of the qualities, are the same. But
>|how can the Bhagavata school state that the six opulences-
>|wisdom, wealth, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation-are
>|identical with Lord Vasudeva? This is impossible.
506|In his Laghu-bhagavatamrta (Purva 5.165-193), Srila Rupa
>|Gosvami has refuted the charges directed against the
>|devotees by Sripada Sankaracarya regarding their
>|explanation of the quadruple forms Vasudeva, Sankarsana,
>|Pradyumna and Aniruddha. He says that these four
>|expansions of Narayana are present in the spiritual sky,
>|where They are famous as Mahavastha. Among Them, Vasudeva
>|is worshiped within the heart by meditation because He is
>|the predominating Deity of the heart, as explained in
>|Srimad-Bhagavatam (4.3.23).
507|Sankarsana, the second expansion, is Vasudeva's personal
>|expansion for pastimes, and since He is the reservoir of
>|all living entities, He is sometimes called jiva. The
>|beauty of Sankarsana is more than that of innumerable
>|full moons radiating light beams. He is worshipable as the
>|principle of ego. He has invested Anantadeva with all the
>|potencies of sustenance. For the dissolution of the
>|creation, He also exhibits Himself as the Supersoul in
>|Rudra, irreligiosity , sarpa (the snake
>|), Antaka (
>|death) and the demons.
508|Pradyumna, the third manifestation, appears from Sankarsana.
>| Those who are especially intelligent worship this
>|Pradyumna expansion of Sankarsana as the principle of the
>|intelligence. The goddess of fortune always chants the
>|glories of Pradyumna in the place known as Ilavrta-varsa,
>|and she always serves Him with great devotion. His
>|complexion appears sometimes golden and sometimes bluish
>|like new monsoon clouds in the sky. He is the origin of the
>|creation of the material world, and He has invested His
>|creative principle in Cupid. It is by His direction only
>|that all men and demigods and other living entities
>|function with energy for regeneration.
509|Aniruddha, the fourth of the quadruple expansions, is
>|worshiped by great sages and psychologists as the principle
>|of the mind. His complexion is similar to the bluish hue of
>|a blue cloud. He engages in the maintenance of the cosmic
>|manifestation and is the Supersoul of Dharma (the deity of
>|religiosity), the Manus (the progenitors of mankind) and
>|the devatas (demigods). The Moksa-dharma Vedic scripture
>|indicates that Pradyumna is the Deity of the total mind,
>|whereas Aniruddha is the Deity of the total ego, but
>|previous statements regarding the quadruple forms are
>|confirmed in the Pancaratra tantras in all respects.
510|In the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (Purva 5.86-100), there is a
>|lucid explanation of the inconceivable potencies of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead. Negating Sankaracarya's
>|statements, the Maha-varaha Purana declares:
511|sarve nityah sasvatas ca
512|dehas tasya paratmanah
513|hanopadana-rahita
514|naiva prakrti-jah kvacit
515|"All the varied expansions of the Personality of Godhead
>|are transcendental and eternal, and all of them repeatedly
>|descend to all the different universes of the material
>|creation. Their bodies, composed of eternity, bliss and
>|knowledge, are everlasting; there is no chance of their
>|decaying, for they are not creations of the material world.
>|Their forms are concentrated spiritual existence, always
>|complete with all spiritual qualities and devoid of
>|material contamination."
516|Confirming these statements, the Narada-pancaratra asserts:
517|manir yatha vibhagena
518|nila- pitadibhir yutah
519|rupa-bhedam avapnoti
520|dhyana-bhedat tathacyutah
521|"The infallible Personality of Godhead can manifest His
>|body in different ways according to different modes of
>|worship, just as the vaidurya gem can manifest itself in
>|various colors, such as blue and yellow." Each incarnation
>|is distinct from all the others. This is possible by the
>|Lord's inconceivable potency, by which He can
>|simultaneously represent Himself as one, as various partial
>|forms and as the origin of these partial forms. Nothing is
>|impossible for His inconceivable potencies.
522|Krsna is one without a second, but He manifests Himself in
>|different bodies, as stated by Narada in the Tenth Canto of
>|Srimad-Bhagavatam:
523|citram bataitad ekena
524|vapusa yugapat prthak
525|grhesu dvy - asta- sahasram
>|
>|
>|
526|striya eka udavahat
527|"It is wonderful indeed that one Krsna has
>|simultaneously become different Krsnas in 16,000 palaces to
>|accept 16,000 queens as His wives." (Bhag. 10.69.2) The
>|Padma Purana also explains:
528|sa devo bahudha bhutva
529|nirgunah purusottamah
530|eki-bhuya punah sete
531|nirdoso harir adi-krt
532|"The same Personality of Godhead, Purusottama, the original
>|person, who is always devoid of material qualities and
>|contamination, can exhibit Himself in various forms and at
>|the same time lie down in one form."
533|In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said, yajanti
>|tvan-mayas tvam vai bahu-murty-eka-murtikam: "O my Lord,
>|although You manifest Yourself in varieties of forms, You
>|are one without a second. Therefore pure devotees
>|concentrate upon You and worship only You." (Bhag . 10.40.7)
>| In the Kurma Purana it is said:
534|asthulas cananus caiva
535|sthulo 'nus caiva sarvatah
536|avarnah sarvatah proktah
537|syamo raktanta-locanah
538|"The Lord is personal although impersonal, He is atomic
>|although great, and He is blackish and has red eyes
>|although He is colorless." By material calculation all this
>|may appear contradictory, but if we understand that the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead has inconceivable potencies,
>|we can accept these facts as eternally possible in Him. In
>|our present condition we cannot understand the spiritual
>|activities and how they occur, but although they are
>|inconceivable in the material context, we should not
>|disregard such contradictory conceptions.
539|Although it is apparently inconceivable, it is quite
>|possible for the Absolute to reconcile all opposing
>|elements. Srimad-Bhagavatam establishes this in the Sixth
>|Canto (6.9.34-37):
540|"O my Lord, Your transcendental pastimes and enjoyments all
>|appear inconceivable because they are not limited by the
>|causal and effective actions of material thought. You can
>|do everything without performing bodily work. The Vedas say
>|that the Absolute Truth has multifarious potencies and does
>|not need to do anything personally. My dear Lord, You are
>|entirely devoid of material qualities. Without anyone's
>|help, You can create, maintain and dissolve the entire
>|qualitative material manifestation, yet in all such
>|activities You do not change. You do not accept the results
>|of Your activities, unlike ordinary demons and demigods,
>|who suffer or enjoy the reactions of their activities in
>|the material world. Unaffected by the reactions of work,
>|You eternally exist with Your full spiritual potency. This
>|we cannot fully understand.
541|"Because You are unlimited in Your six opulences, no one
>|can count Your transcendental qualities. Philosophers and
>|other thoughtful persons are overwhelmed by the
>|contradictory manifestations of the physical world and the
>|propositions of logical arguments and judgments. Because
>|they are bewildered by word jugglery and disturbed by the
>|different calculations of the scriptures, their theories
>|cannot touch You, who are the ruler and controller of
>|everyone and whose glories are beyond conception.
542|"Your inconceivable potency keeps You unattached to the
>|mundane qualities. Surpassing all conceptions of material
>|contemplation, Your pure transcendental knowledge keeps You
>|beyond all speculative processes. By Your inconceivable
>|potency, there is nothing contradictory in You.
543|"People may sometimes think of You as impersonal or
>|personal, but You are one. For persons who are confused or
>|bewildered, a rope may manifest itself as
>|different kinds of snakes. For similar confused persons who
>|are uncertain about You, You create various philosophical
>|methods in pursuance of their uncertain positions."
544|We should always remember the differences between spiritual
>|and material actions. The Supreme Lord, being all-spiritual,
>| can perform any act without extraneous help. In the
>|material world, if we want to manufacture an earthen pot,
>|we need the ingredients, a machine and also a laborer. But
>|we should not extend this idea to the actions of the
>|Supreme Lord, for He can create anything in a moment
>|without that which appears necessary in our own conception.
>|When the Lord appears as an incarnation to fulfill a
>|particular purpose, this does not indicate that He is
>|unable to fulfill it without appearing. He can do anything
>|simply by His will, but by His causeless mercy He appears
>|to be dependent upon His devotees. He appears as the son of
>|Yasodamata not because He is dependent on her care but
>|because He accepts such a role by His causeless mercy. When
>|He appears for the protection of His devotees, He naturally
>|accepts trials and tribulations on their behalf.
545|In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that the Lord, being
>|equally disposed toward every living being, has no enemies
>|and no friends but He has special affection for a
>|devotee who always thinks of Him in love. Therefore
>|neutrality and partiality are both among the transcendental
>|qualities of the Lord, and they are properly adjusted by
>|His inconceivable energy. The Lord is Parabrahman, or the
>|source of the impersonal Brahma, which is His all-pervading
>|feature of neutrality. In His personal feature, however, as
>|the owner of all transcendental opulences, the Lord
>|displays His partiality by taking the side of His devotees.
>|Partiality, neutrality and all such qualities are present
>|in God; otherwise they could not be experienced in the
>|creation. Since He is the total existence, all things are
>|properly adjusted in the Absolute. In the relative world
>|such qualities are displayed in a perverted manner, and
>|therefore we experience nonduality as a perverted
>|reflection. Because there is no logic to explain how things
>|happen in the realm of spirit, the Lord is sometimes
>|described as being beyond the range of experience. But if
>|we simply accept the Lord's inconceivability, we can then
>|adjust all things in Him. Nondevotees cannot understand the
>|Lord's inconceivable energy, and consequently for them it
>|is said that He is beyond the range of conceivable
>|expression. The author of the Brahma-sutras accepts this
>|fact and says, srutes tu sabda-mulatvat: the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, being inconceivable to an ordinary
>|man, can be understood only through the evidence of the
>|Vedic injunctions. The Skanda Purana confirms, acintyah
>|khalu ye bhava na tams tarkena yojayet: "Matters
>|inconceivable to a common man should not be a subject for
>|argument." We find very wonderful qualities even in
>|material jewels and drugs. Indeed, their
>|qualities often appear inconceivable. Therefore if we do
>|not attribute inconceivable potencies to the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, we cannot establish His supremacy.
>|It is because of these inconceivable potencies that the
>|glories of the Lord have always been accepted as difficult
>|to understand.
546|Ignorance and the jugglery of words are very common in
>|human society, but they do not help one understand the
>|inconceivable energies of the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead. If we accept such ignorance and word jugglery, we
>|cannot accept the Supreme Lord's perfection in six
>|opulences. For example, one of the opulences of the Supreme
>|Lord is complete knowledge. Therefore, how could ignorance
>|be conceivable in Him? Vedic instructions and sensible
>|arguments establish that the Lord's maintaining the cosmic
>|manifestation and simultaneously being indifferent to the
>|activities of its maintenance cannot be contradictory,
>|because of His inconceivable energies. To a person who is
>|always absorbed in the thought of snakes, a rope always
>|appears to be a snake, and similarly to a person bewildered
>|by material qualities and devoid of knowledge of the
>|Absolute, the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears
>|according to diverse bewildered conclusions.
547|Someone might argue that the Absolute would be affected by
>|duality if He were both all-cognizance (Brahman) and the
>|Personality of Godhead with six opulences in full (Bhagavan)
>|. To refute such an argument, the aphorism svarupa-dvayam
>|iksyate declares that in spite of appearances, there is no
>|chance of duality in the Absolute, for He is but one in
>|diverse manifestations. Understanding that the Absolute
>|displays varied pastimes by the influence of His energies
>|at once removes the apparent incongruity of His
>|inconceivably opposite energies. Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.4.16)
>|gives the following description of the inconceivable
>|potency of the Lord:
548|karmany anihasya bhavo 'bhavasya te
549|durgasrayo 'thari-bhayat palayanam
550|kalatmano yat pramada-yutasrayah
551|svatman-rateh khidyati dhir vidam iha
552|"Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead has nothing to
>|do, He nevertheless acts; although He is always unborn, He
>|nevertheless takes birth; although He is time, fearful to
>|everyone, He flees Mathura in fear of His enemy to take
>|shelter in a fort; and although He is self-sufficient, He
>|marries 16,000 women. These pastimes seem like bewildering
>|contradictions, even to the most intelligent." Had these
>|activities of the Lord not been a reality, sages would not
>|have been puzzled by them. Therefore such activities should
>|never be considered imaginary. Whenever the Lord desires,
>|His inconceivable energy (yogamaya) serves Him in creating
>|and performing such pastimes.
553|The scriptures known as the Pancaratra-sastras are
>|recognized Vedic scriptures that have been accepted by the
>|great acaryas. These scriptures are not products of the
>|modes of passion and ignorance. Learned scholars and
>|brahmanas therefore always refer to them as satvata-
>|samhitas. The original speaker of these scriptures is
>|Narayana, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is
>|especially mentioned in the Moksa-dharma (349.68), which is
>|part of the Santi-parva of the Mahabharata. Liberated sages
>|like Narada and Vyasa, who are free from the four defects
>|of conditioned souls, are the propagators of these
>|scriptures. Sri Narada Muni is the original speaker of the
>|Pancaratra-sastra. Srimad-Bhagavatam is also considered a
>|satvata-samhita. Indeed, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu declared,
>|srimad-bhagavatam puranam amalam: "Srimad-Bhagavatam is a
>|spotless Purana." Malicious editors and scholars who
>|attempt to misrepresent the Pancaratra-sastras to refute
>|their regulations are most abominable. In the modern age,
>|such malicious scholars have even commented misleadingly
>|upon the Bhagavad-gita, which was spoken by Krsna, to prove
>|that there is no Krsna. How the Mayavadis have
>|misrepresented the pancaratrika-vidhi will be shown below.
554|(1) In commenting on Vedanta-sutra 2.2.42, Sripada
>|Sankaracarya has claimed that Sankarsana is a jiva, an
>|ordinary living entity, but there is no evidence in any
>|Vedic scripture that devotees of the Lord have ever said
>|that Sankarsana is an ordinary living entity. He is an
>|infallible plenary expansion of the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead in the Visnu category, and He is beyond the
>|creation of material nature. He is the original source of
>|the living entities. The Upanisads declare, nityo nityanam
>|cetanas cetananam: "He is the
>|supreme living entity among all the living entities."
>|Therefore He is vibhu-caitanya, the greatest. He is
>|directly the cause of the cosmic manifestation and the
>|infinitesimal living beings. He is the infinite living
>|entity, and ordinary living entities are infinitesimal.
>|Therefore He is never to be considered an ordinary living
>|being, for that would be against the conclusion of the
>|authorized scriptures. The living entities are also beyond
>|the limitations of birth and death. This is the version of
>|the Vedas, and it is accepted by those who follow
>|scriptural injunctions and who have actually descended in
>|the disciplic succession.
555|(2) In answer to Sankaracarya's commentary on Vedanta-sutra
>|2.2.43, it must be said that the original Visnu of all the
>|Visnu categories, which are distributed in several ways, is
>|Mula-sankarsana. Mula means "the original." Sankarsana is
>|also Visnu, but from Him all other Visnus expand. This is
>|confirmed in the Brahma-samhita, wherein it is said
>|that just as a flame transferred from another flame acts
>|like the original, so the Visnus who emanate from
>|Mulasankarsana are as good as the original Visnu. One
>|should worship that Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda,
>| who thus expands Himself.
556|(3) In reply to the commentary of Sankaracarya on the forty-
>|fourth aphorism, it may be said that no pure devotees
>|strictly following the principles of Pancaratra will
>|ever accept the statement that all the expansions of Visnu
>|are different identities, for this idea is completely false.
>| Even Sripada Sankaracarya, in his commentary on the forty-
>|second aphorism, has accepted that the Personality of
>|Godhead can automatically expand Himself variously.
>|Therefore his commentary on the forty-second aphorism and
>|his commentary on the forty-fourth aphorism are
>|contradictory. It is a defect of Mayavada commentaries that
>|they make one statement in one place and a contradictory
>|statement in another place as a tactic to refute the
>|Bhagavata school. Thus Mayavadi commentators do not even
>|follow regulative principles. It should be noted that the
>|Bhagavata school accepts the quadruple forms of Narayana,
>|but that does not mean that it accepts many Gods. Devotees
>|know perfectly well that the Absolute Truth, the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, is one without a second. They are
>|never pantheists, worshipers of many Gods, for this is
>|against the injunction of the Vedas. Devotees completely
>|believe, with strong faith, that Narayana is transcendental
>|and has inconceivable proprietorship of various
>|transcendental potencies. We therefore recommend that
>|scholars consult the Laghu-bhagavatamrta of Srila Rupa
>|Gosvami, where these ideas are explicitly stated. Sripada
>|Sankaracarya has tried to prove that Vasudeva, Sankarsana,
>|Pradyumna and Aniruddha expand through cause and effect. He
>|has compared Them with earth and earthen pots. That is
>|completely ignorant, however, for there is no such thing as
>|cause and effect in Their expansions (nanyad yat sad-asat-
>|param). The Kurma Purana also confirms, deha-dehi-vibhedo '
>|yam nesvare vidyate kvacit: "There is no difference between
>|body and soul in the Supreme Personality of Godhead." Cause
>|and effect are material. For example, it is seen that a
>|father's body is the cause of a son's body, but the soul is
>|neither cause nor effect. On the spiritual platform there
>|are none of the differences we find in cause and effect.
>|Since all the forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
>|are spiritually supreme, They are equally controllers of
>|material nature. Standing on the fourth dimension, They are
>|predominating figures on the transcendental platform. There
>|is no trace of material contamination in Their expansions
>|because material laws cannot influence Them. There is no
>|such rule as cause and effect outside of the material world.
>| Therefore the understanding of cause and effect cannot
>|approach the full, transcendental, complete expansions of
>|the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Vedic literature
>|proves this:
557|om purnam adah purnam idam
558|purnat purnam udacyate
559|purnasya purnam adaya
560|purnam evavasisyate
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>|the Personality of Godhead is perfect
>|and complete , and
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>|He is completely
>| perfect, all emanations from Him ,
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>|are
>|perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever
>|is produced of the complete whole is
>|also complete by itself . Because He
>|is the complete whole, even
>| though so many
>|complete units emanate from Him , He remains the
>|complete balance." (Brhad
>|-aranyaka Upanisad 5.1)
>|It is most apparent that
>|nondevotees violate the rules and
>|regulations of devotional service to
>|equate the whole cosmic manifestation ,
>|which is the external feature of Visnu , with
>| the Supreme Personality of Godhead , who is
>|the controller of maya, or with His
>|quadruple expansions. the equalization of maya
>|and spirit , or maya and
>| the Lord, is a sign of atheism
>|. The cosmic creation, which manifests life in
>|forms from Brahma to the ant , is
>|the external feature of the
>|Supreme Lord . It comprises one fourth of the Lord '
>|s energy , as confirmed in the Bhagavad -gita (
>|ekamsena sthito jagat ) . the
>|cosmic manifestation of the illusory
>| energy is material nature
>|, and everything within
>|material nature is made of matter . Therefore
>|, one should not try to
>|compare the expansions of material nature
>| to the
>|catur- vyuha , the quadruple
>|expansions of the Personality of
>|Godhead , but unfortunately the Mayavadi
>|school unreasonably attempts
>| to do this
>|.
562|(4) To answer Sankaracarya's commentary on Vedanta-sutra 2.
>|2.45, the substance of the transcendental qualities and
>|their spiritual nature is described in the Laghu-
>|bhagavatamrta (Purva 5.208-214) as follows: "Some say that
>|transcendence must be void of all qualities because
>|qualities are manifested only in matter. According to them,
>|all qualities are like temporary, flickering mirages. But
>|this is not acceptable. Since the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead is absolute, His qualities are nondifferent from
>|Him. His form, name, qualities and everything else
>|pertaining to Him are as spiritual as He is. Every
>|qualitative expansion of the absolute Personality of
>|Godhead is identical with Him. Since the Absolute Truth,
>|the Personality of Godhead, is the reservoir of all
>|pleasure, all the transcendental qualities that expand from
>|Him are also reservoirs of pleasure. This is confirmed in
>|the scripture known as Brahma-tarka, which states that the
>|Supreme Lord Hari is qualified by Himself, and therefore
>|Visnu and His pure devotees and their transcendental
>|qualities cannot be different from their persons. In the
>|Visnu Purana Lord Visnu is worshiped in the following words:
>| 'Let the Supreme Personality of Godhead be merciful toward
>|us. His existence is never infected by material qualities.'
>|In the same Visnu Purana it is also said that all the
>|qualities attributed to the Supreme Lord, such as knowledge,
>| opulence, beauty, strength and influence, are known to be
>|nondifferent from Him. This is also confirmed in the Padma
>|Purana, which explains that whenever the Supreme Lord is
>|described as having no qualities, this should be understood
>|to indicate that He is devoid of material qualities. In the
>|First Chapter of Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.16.29) it is said: 'O
>|Dharma, protector of religious principles, all noble and
>|sublime qualities are eternally manifested in the person of
>|Krsna, and devotees and transcendentalists who aspire to
>|become faithful also desire to possess such transcendental
>|qualities.' " It is therefore to be understood that Lord
>|Sri Krsna, the transcendental form of absolute bliss, is
>|the fountainhead of all pleasurable transcendental
>|qualities and inconceivable potencies. In this connection
>|we may recommend references to Srimad-Bhagavatam, Third
>|Canto, Chapter Twenty-Six, verses 21, 25, 27 and 28.
563|Sripada Ramanujacarya has also refuted the arguments of
>|Sankara in his own commentary on the Vedanta-sutra, which
>|is known as the Sri-bhasya: "Sripada Sankaracarya has tried
>|to equate the Pancaratras with the philosophy of the
>|atheist Kapila, and thus he has tried to prove that the
>|Pancaratras contradict the Vedic injunctions. The
>|Pancaratras state that the personality of jiva called
>|Sankarsana has emerged from Vasudeva, the supreme cause of
>|all causes, that Pradyumna, the mind, has come from
>|Sankarsana, and that Aniruddha, the ego, has come from
>|Pradyumna. But one cannot say that the living entity (jiva)
>|takes birth or is created, for such a statement is against
>|the injunction of the Vedas. As stated in the Katha
>|Upanisad (2.18), living entities, as individual spiritual
>|souls, can have neither birth nor death. All Vedic
>|literature declares that the living entities are eternal.
>|Therefore when it is said that Sankarsana is jiva, this
>|indicates that He is the predominating Deity of the living
>|entities. Similarly, Pradyumna is the predominating Deity
>|of the mind, and Aniruddha is the predominating Deity of
>|the ego.
564|"It has been said that Pradyumna, the mind, was produced
>|from Sankarsana. But if Sankarsana were a living entity,
>|this could not be accepted, because a living entity cannot
>|be the cause of the mind. The Vedic injunctions state that
>|everything-including life, mind and the senses-comes from
>|the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is impossible for
>|the mind to be produced by a living entity, for the Vedas
>|state that everything comes from the Absolute Truth, the
>|Supreme Lord.
565|"Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha have all the potent
>|features of the absolute Personality of Godhead, according
>|to the revealed scriptures, which contain undeniable facts
>|that no one can refute. Therefore these
>|quadruple forms are never to be considered ordinary
>|living beings. Each of Them is a plenary expansion of the
>|Absolute Godhead, and thus each is identical with the
>|Supreme Lord in knowledge, opulence, energy, influence,
>|prowess and potencies. The evidence of Pancaratra
>| cannot be neglected. Only untrained persons who
>|have not genuinely studied the Pancaratras think that the
>|Pancaratras contradict the srutis regarding the birth or
>|beginning of the living entity. In this connection, we must
>|accept the verdict of Srimad-Bhagavatam, which says : 'The
>|absolute Personality of Godhead, who is known as Vasudeva
>|and who is very affectionate toward His surrendered
>|devotees, expands Himself in quadruple forms who are
>|subordinate to Him and at the same time identical with Him
>|in all respects.' The Pauskara-samhita states : 'The
>|scriptures that recommend that brahmanas worship the
>|quadruple forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are
>|called agamas [authorized works of Vedic literature].' In
>|all Vaisnava literature it is said that worshiping these
>|quadruple forms is as good as worshiping the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead Vasudeva, who in His different
>|expansions, complete in six opulences, can accept offerings
>|from His devotees of the results of their prescribed duties.
>| Worshiping the expansions for pastimes, such as Nrsimha,
>|Rama, Sesa and Kurma, promotes one to the worship of the
>|Sankarsana quadruple. From that position one is raised to
>|the platform of worshiping Vasudeva, the Supreme Brahman.
>|In the Pauskara-samhita it is said : 'If one fully worships
>|according to the regulative principles, one can attain the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva.' It is to be
>|accepted that Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are as
>|good as Lord Vasudeva, for They all have inconceivable
>|power and can accept transcendental forms like Vasudeva.
>|Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are never born, but
>|They can manifest Themselves in various incarnations before
>|the eyes of pure devotees. This is the conclusion of all
>|Vedic literature. That the Lord can manifest Himself before
>|His devotees by His inconceivable power is not against the
>|teaching of the Pancaratra. Since Sankarsana, Pradyumna
>|and Aniruddha are actually the predominating
>|Deities of all living entities, the total mind and the
>|total ego, the descriptions of Sankarsana, Pradyumna and
>|Aniruddha as jiva, mind and ego are never
>|contradictory to the statements of the scriptures. These
>|names identify these Deities, just as the terms 'sky' and '
>|light' sometimes identify the Absolute Brahman.
566|"The scriptures completely deny the birth or production of
>|the living entity. In the Parama-samhita it is described
>|that material nature, which is used for others' purposes,
>|is factually inert and always subject to transformation.
>|The field of material nature is the arena of the activities
>|of fruitive actors, and since the material field is
>|externally related with the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
>|it is also eternal. In every samhita, the jiva (living
>|entity) has been accepted as eternal, and in the
>|Pancaratra the birth of the jiva is completely denied.
>|Anything that is produced must also be annihilated.
>|Therefore if we accept the birth of the living entity, we
>|also have to accept his annihilation. But since the Vedic
>|literature says that the living entity is eternal, one
>|should not think the living being to be produced at a
>|certain time. In the beginning of the Parama-samhita it is
>|definitely stated that the face of material nature is
>|constantly changeable. Therefore 'beginning,' 'annihilation'
>| and all such terms are applicable only in the material
>|nature.
567|"Considering all these points, one should understand that
>|Sankaracarya's statement that Sankarsana is born as a jiva
>|is completely against the Vedic statements. His assertions
>|are completely refuted by the above arguments. In this
>|connection the commentary of Sridhara Svami on Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam (3.1.34) is very helpful."
568|For a detailed refutation of Sankaracarya's arguments
>|to prove Sankarsana an ordinary living being,
>|one may refer to Srimat Sudarsanacarya's commentary on
>|Sri-bhasya, which is known as the Sruta-prakasika.
569|The original quadruple forms Krsna, Baladeva, Pradyumna and
>|Aniruddha expand into another quadruple, which is present
>|in the Vaikuntha planets of the spiritual sky. Therefore
>|the quadruple forms in the spiritual sky are the second
>|manifestation of the original quadruple in Dvaraka. As
>|explained above, Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and
>|Aniruddha are all changeless, transcendental plenary
>|expansions of the Supreme Lord who have no relation to the
>|material modes. The Sankarsana form in the second quadruple
>|is not only a representation of Balarama but also the
>|original cause of the Causal Ocean, where Karanodakasayi
>|Visnu lies asleep, breathing out the seeds of innumerable
>|universes.
570|In the spiritual sky there is a spiritual creative energy
>|technically called suddha-sattva, which is a pure spiritual
>|energy that sustains all the Vaikuntha planets with the
>|full opulences of knowledge, wealth, prowess, etc. All
>|these actions of suddha-sattva display the potencies of
>|Maha-sankarsana, who is the ultimate reservoir of all
>|individual living entities who are suffering in the
>|material world. When the cosmic creation is annihilated,
>|the living entities, who are indestructible by nature, rest
>|in the body of Maha-sankarsana. Sankarsana is therefore
>|sometimes called the total jiva. As spiritual sparks, the
>|living entities have the tendency to be inactive in the
>|association of material energy, just as sparks of a
>|fire have the tendency to be extinguished as soon as they
>|leave the fire. The spiritual nature of the living being
>|can be rekindled, however, in association with the Supreme
>|Being. Because the living being can appear either in matter
>|or in spirit, the jiva is called the marginal potency.
571|Sankarsana is the origin of Karana Visnu, who is the
>|original form who creates the universes, and that
>|Sankarsana is but a plenary expansion of Sri Nityananda
>|Rama.
572|Adi 5.42
573|TEXT 42
574|TEXT
575|tanha ye ramera rupa-maha-sankarsana
576|cic-chakti-asraya tinho, karanera karana
577|SYNONYMS
578|tanha-there; ye-which; ramera rupa-the personal feature of
>|Balarama; maha-sankarsana-Maha-sankarsana; cit-sakti-asraya-
>|the shelter of the spiritual potency; tinho-He; karanera
>|karana-the cause of all causes.
579|TRANSLATION
580|There the personal feature of
>|Balarama called Maha-sankarsana is the shelter of the
>|spiritual energy. He is the primary cause, the cause of all
>|causes.
581|Adi 5.43
582|TEXT 43
583|TEXT
584|cic-chakti-vilasa eka-'suddha-sattva' nama
585|suddha-sattva-maya yata vaikunthadi-dhama
586|SYNONYMS
587|cit-sakti-vilasa-pastimes in the spiritual energy; eka-one;
>|suddha-sattva nama-named suddha-sattva, pure existence,
>|free from material contamination; suddha-sattva-maya-of
>|purely spiritual existence; yata-all; vaikuntha-adi-dhama-
>|the spiritual planets, known as Vaikunthas.
588|TRANSLATION
589|One variety of the pastimes of the spiritual energy is
>|described as pure goodness [visuddha-sattva]. It comprises
>|all the abodes of Vaikuntha.
590|Adi 5.44
591|TEXT 44
592|TEXT
593|sad-vidhaisvarya tanha sakala cinmaya
594|sankarsanera vibhuti saba, janiha niscaya
595|SYNONYMS
596|sat-vidha-aisvarya-six kinds of opulences; tanha-there;
>|sakala cit-maya-everything spiritual; sankarsanera-of Lord
>|Sankarsana; vibhuti saba-all different opulences; janiha
>|niscaya-know certainly.
597|TRANSLATION
598|The six attributes are all spiritual. Know for certain that
>|they are all manifestations of the opulence of Sankarsana.
599|Adi 5.45
600|TEXT 45
601|TEXT
602|'jiva'-nama tatasthakhya eka sakti haya
603|maha-sankarsana-saba jivera asraya
604|SYNONYMS
605|jiva-the living entity; nama-named; tata-stha-akhya-known
>|as the marginal potency; eka-one; sakti-energy; haya-is;
>|maha-sankarsana-of the name Maha-sankarsana; saba-all;
>|jivera-of living entities; asraya-the shelter.
606|TRANSLATION
607|There is one marginal potency, known as the jiva. Maha-
>|sankarsana is the shelter of all jivas.
608|Adi 5.46
609|TEXT 46
610|TEXT
611|yanha haite visvotpatti, yanhate pralaya
612|sei purusera sankarsana samasraya
613|SYNONYMS
614|yanha haite-from whom; visva-utpatti-the creation of the
>|material cosmic manifestation; yanhate-in whom; pralaya-
>|merging; sei purusera-of that Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead; sankarsana-of the name Sankarsana; samasraya-the
>|original shelter.
615|TRANSLATION
616|Sankarsana is the original shelter of the purusa, from whom
>|this world is created and in whom it is dissolved.
617|Adi 5.47
618|TEXT 47
619|TEXT
620|sarvasraya, sarvadbhuta, aisvarya apara
621|'ananta' kahite nare mahima yanhara
622|SYNONYMS
623|sarva-asraya-the shelter of everything; sarva-adbhuta-
>|wonderful in every respect; aisvarya-opulences; apara-
>|unfathomed; ananta-Ananta Sesa; kahite nare-cannot speak;
>|mahima yanhara-the glories of whom.
624|TRANSLATION
625|He [Sankarsana] is the shelter of everything. He is
>|wonderful in every respect, and His opulences are infinite.
>|Even Ananta cannot describe His glory.
626|Adi 5.48
627|TEXT 48
628|TEXT
629|turiya, visuddha-sattva, 'sankarsana' nama
630|tinho yanra amsa, sei nityananda-rama
631|SYNONYMS
632|turiya-transcendental; visuddha-sattva-pure existence;
>|sankarsana nama-named Sankarsana; tinho yanra amsa-of whom
>|that Sankarsana is also a partial expansion; sei nityananda-
>|rama-that person is known as Balarama or Nityananda.
633|TRANSLATION
634|That Sankarsana, who is transcendental pure goodness, is a
>|partial expansion of Nityananda Balarama.
635|Adi 5.49
636|TEXT 49
637|TEXT
638|astama slokera kaila sanksepe vivarana
639|navama slokera artha suna diya mana
640|SYNONYMS
641|astama-eighth; slokera-of the verse; kaila-I have done;
>|sanksepe-in brief; vivarana-description; navama-the ninth;
>|slokera-of the verse; artha-the meaning; suna-please hear;
>|diya mana-with mental attention.
642|TRANSLATION
643|I have briefly explained the eighth verse. Now please
>|listen with attention as I explain the ninth verse.
644|Adi 5.50
645|TEXT 50
646|TEXT
647|maya-bhartajanda-sanghasrayangah
648|sete saksat karanambhodhi-madhye
649|yasyaikamsah sri-puman adi-devas
650|tam sri-nityananda-ramam prapadye
651|SYNONYMS
652|maya-bharta-the master of the illusory energy; aja-anda-
>|sangha-of the multitude of universes; asraya-the shelter;
>|angah-whose body; sete-He lies; saksat-directly; karana-
>|ambhodhi-madhye-in the midst of the Causal Ocean; yasya-
>|whose; eka-amsah-one portion; sri-puman-the Supreme Person;
>|adi-devah-the original purusa incarnation; tam-to Him; sri-
>|nityananda-ramam-to Lord Balarama in the form of Lord
>|Nityananda; prapadye-I surrender.
653|TRANSLATION
654|I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Sri Nityananda
>|Rama, whose partial representation called Karanodakasayi
>|Visnu, lying on the Karana Ocean, is the original purusa,
>|the master of the illusory energy, and the shelter of all
>|the universes.
655|Adi 5.51
656|TEXT 51
657|TEXT
658|vaikuntha-bahire yei jyotir-maya dhama
659|tahara bahire 'karanarnava' nama
660|SYNONYMS
661|vaikuntha-bahire-outside the Vaikuntha planets; yei-that;
>|jyotih-maya dhama-impersonal Brahman effulgence; tahara
>|bahire-outside that effulgence; karana-arnava nama-an ocean
>|called Karana.
662|TRANSLATION
663|Outside the Vaikuntha planets is the impersonal Brahman
>|effulgence, and beyond that effulgence is the Karana Ocean,
>|or Causal Ocean.
664|PURPORT
665|The impersonal glowing effulgence known as impersonal
>|Brahman is the outer space of the Vaikuntha planets in the
>|spiritual sky. Beyond that impersonal Brahman is the great
>|Causal Ocean, which lies between the material and spiritual
>|skies. The material nature is a by-product of this Causal
>|Ocean.
666|Karanodakasayi Visnu, who lies on the Causal Ocean, creates
>|the universes merely by glancing upon material nature.
>|Therefore Krsna personally has nothing to do with the
>|material creation. The Bhagavad-gita confirms that the Lord
>|glances over material nature and thus she produces the many
>|material universes. Neither Krsna in Goloka nor Narayana in
>|Vaikuntha comes directly in contact with the material
>|creation. They are completely aloof from the material
>|energy.
667|It is the function of Maha-sankarsana in the form of
>|Karanodakasayi Visnu to glance over the material creation,
>|which is situated beyond the limits of the Causal Ocean.
>|Material nature is connected with the Personality of
>|Godhead by His glance over her and nothing more. It is said
>|that she is impregnated by the energy of His glance. The
>|material energy, maya, never even touches the Causal Ocean,
>|for the Lord's glance focuses upon her from a great
>|distance away.
668|The glancing power of the Lord agitates the entire cosmic
>|energy, and thus its actions begin at once. This indicates
>|that matter, however powerful she may be, has no power by
>|herself. Her activity begins by the grace of the Lord, and
>|then the entire cosmic creation is manifested in a
>|systematic way. The example of a woman's conception can
>|help us understand this subject to a certain extent. The
>|mother is passive, but the father puts his energy within
>|the mother, and thus she conceives. She supplies the
>|ingredients for the birth of the child in her womb.
>|Similarly, the Lord activates material nature, which then
>|supplies the ingredients for cosmic development.
669|Material nature has two different phases. The aspect called
>|pradhana supplies the material ingredients for cosmic
>|development, and the aspect called maya causes the
>|manifestation of her ingredients, which are temporary, like
>|foam in the ocean. In reality, the temporary manifestations
>|of material nature are originally caused by the spiritual
>|glance of the Lord. The Personality of Godhead is the
>|direct, or remote, cause of creation, and material nature
>|is the indirect, or immediate, cause. Materialistic
>|scientists, puffed-up by the magical changes their so-
>|called inventions have brought about, cannot see the real
>|potency of Godhead behind matter. Therefore the jugglery of
>|science is gradually leading people to a godless
>|civilization at the cost of the goal of human life. Having
>|missed the goal of life, materialists run after self-
>|sufficiency, not knowing that material nature is already
>|self-sufficient by the grace of God. Thus creating a
>|colossal hoax in the name of civilization, they create an
>|imbalance in the natural self-sufficiency of material
>|nature.
670|To think of material nature as all in all, not knowing the
>|original cause, is ignorance. Lord Caitanya appeared in
>|order to dissipate this darkness of ignorance by igniting
>|the spark of spiritual life that can, by His causeless
>|mercy, enlighten the entire world.
671|To explain how maya acts by Krsna's power, the author of
>|Sri Caitanya-caritamrta gives the example that an iron rod
>|in a fire , although it is not fire, becomes red-
>|hot and acts like fire itself. Similarly, all the actions
>|and reactions of material nature are not actually the work
>|of material nature but are actions and reactions of the
>|energy of the Supreme Lord manifested through matter. The
>|power of electricity is transmitted through the medium of
>|copper, but this does not mean that the copper is
>|electricity. The power is generated at a powerhouse under
>|the control of an expert living being. Similarly, behind
>|all the jugglery of the natural laws is a great living
>|being, who is a person like the mechanical engineer in the
>|powerhouse. It is by His intelligence that the entire
>|cosmic creation moves in a systematic way.
672|The modes of nature that directly cause material actions
>| are also originally activated by Narayana. A simple
>|example will explain how this is so: When a potter
>|manufactures a pot from clay, the potter's wheel, his tools
>|and the clay are the immediate causes of the pot, but the
>|potter is the chief cause. Similarly, Narayana is the chief
>|cause of all material creations, and the material energy
>|supplies the ingredients of matter. Therefore without
>|Narayana, all other causes are useless, just as the potter'
>|s wheel and tools are useless without the potter himself.
>|Since materialistic scientists ignore the Personality of
>|Godhead, it is as if they were concerned with the potter's
>|wheel and its rotation, the potter's tools and the
>|ingredients for the pots, but had no knowledge of the
>|potter himself. Therefore modern science has created an
>|imperfect, godless civilization that is in gross ignorance
>|of the ultimate cause. Scientific advancement should have a
>|great goal to attain, and that great goal should be the
>|Personality of Godhead. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said
>|that after conducting research for many, many births, great
>|men of knowledge who stress the importance of experimental
>|thought can know the Personality of Godhead, who is the
>|cause of all causes. When one knows Him perfectly, one
>|surrenders unto Him and then becomes a mahatma.
673|Adi 5.52
674|TEXT 52
675|TEXT
676|vaikuntha bediya eka ache jala-nidhi
677|ananta, apara-tara nahika avadhi
678|SYNONYMS
679|vaikuntha-the spiritual planets of Vaikuntha; bediya-
>|surrounding; eka-one; ache-there is; jala-nidhi-ocean of
>|water; ananta-unlimited; apara-unfathomed; tara-of that;
>|nahika-no; avadhi-limitation.
680|TRANSLATION
681|Surrounding Vaikuntha is a mass of water that is endless,
>|unfathomed and unlimited.
682|Adi 5.53
683|TEXT 53
684|TEXT
685|vaikunthera prthivy-adi sakala cinmaya
686|mayika bhutera tathi janma nahi haya
687|SYNONYMS
688|vaikunthera-of the spiritual world; prthivi-adi-earth,
>|water, etc.; sakala-all; cit-maya-spiritual; mayika-
>|material; bhutera-of elements; tathi-there; janma-
>|generation; nahi haya-there is not.
689|TRANSLATION
690|The earth, water, fire, air and ether of Vaikuntha are all
>|spiritual. Material elements are not found there.
691|Adi 5.54
692|TEXT 54
693|TEXT
694|cinmaya-jala sei parama karana
695|yara eka kana ganga patita-pavana
696|SYNONYMS
697|cit-maya-spiritual; jala-water; sei-that; parama karana-
>|original cause; yara-of which; eka-one; kana-drop; ganga-
>|the sacred Ganges; patita-pavana-the deliverer of fallen
>|souls.
698|TRANSLATION
699|The water of the Karana Ocean, which is the original cause,
>|is therefore spiritual. The sacred Ganges, which is but a
>|drop of it, purifies the fallen souls.
700|Adi 5.55
701|TEXT 55
702|TEXT
703|sei ta' karanarnave sei sankarsana
704|apanara eka amse karena sayana
705|SYNONYMS
706|sei-that; ta'-certainly; karana-arnave-in the ocean of
>|cause, or Causal Ocean; sei-that; sankarsana-Lord
>|Sankarsana; apanara-of His own; eka-one; amse-by the part;
>|karena sayana-lies down.
707|TRANSLATION
708|In that ocean lies one plenary portion of Lord Sankarsana.
709|Adi 5.56
710|TEXT 56
711|TEXT
712|mahat-srasta purusa, tinho jagat-karana
713|adya-avatara kare mayaya iksana
714|SYNONYMS
715|mahat-srasta-the creator of the total material energy;
>|purusa-the person; tinho-He; jagat-karana-the cause of the
>|material cosmic manifestation; adya-original; avatara-
>|incarnation; kare-does; mayaya-over the material energy;
>|iksana-glance.
716|TRANSLATION
717|He is known as the first purusa, the creator of the total
>|material energy. He, the cause of the universes, the first
>|incarnation, casts His glance over maya.
718|Adi 5.57
719|TEXT 57
720|TEXT
721|maya-sakti rahe karanabdhira bahire
722|karana-samudra maya parasite nare
723|SYNONYMS
724|maya-sakti-material energy; rahe-remains; karana-abdhira-to
>|the Causal Ocean; bahire-external; karana-samudra-the
>|Causal Ocean; maya-material energy; parasite nare-cannot
>|touch.
725|TRANSLATION
726|Maya-sakti resides outside the Causal Ocean. Maya cannot
>|touch its waters.
727|Adi 5.58
728|TEXT 58
729|TEXT
730|sei ta' mayara dui-vidha avasthiti
731|jagatera upadana 'pradhana', prakrti
732|SYNONYMS
733|sei-that; ta'-certainly; mayara-of the material energy; dui-
>|vidha-two varieties; avasthiti-existence; jagatera-of the
>|material world; upadana-the ingredients; pradhana-named
>|pradhana; prakrti-material nature.
734|TRANSLATION
735|Maya has two varieties of existence. One is called pradhana
>|or prakrti. It supplies the ingredients of the material
>|world.
736|PURPORT
737|Maya, the external energy of the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead, is divided into two parts. Maya is the cause
>|and the ingredient of the cosmic
>|manifestation . As the cause of
>|the cosmic manifestation she is known as maya, and as the
>|agent supplying the ingredients of the cosmic manifestation
>|she is known as pradhana. An explicit description of these
>|divisions of external energy is given in Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam (11.24.1 -4). Elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.
>|63.26) the ingredients and cause of the material cosmic
>|manifestation are described as follows:
738|kalo daivam karma jivah svabhavo
739|dravyam ksetram prana atma vikarah
740|tat-sanghato bija-roha-pravahas
741|tvan-mayaisa tan-nisedham prapadye
742|"O my Lord! Time, activity, providence and nature are four
>|parts of the causal aspect [maya] of the external energy.
>|The conditioned vital force, the subtle material
>|ingredients called the dravya, and material nature (which
>|is the field of activity where the false ego acts as the
>|soul), as well as the eleven senses and five elements (
>|earth, water, fire, air and ether), which are the sixteen
>|ingredients of the body-these are the ingredient aspect of
>|maya. The body is generated from activity, and activity is
>|generated from the body, just as a tree is generated from a
>|seed that is generated from a tree. This reciprocal cause
>|and effect is called maya. My dear Lord, You can save me
>|from this cycle of cause and effect. I worship Your lotus
>|feet."
743|Although the living entity is primarily related to the
>|causal portion of maya, he is nevertheless conducted by the
>|ingredients of maya. Three forces work in the causal
>|portion of maya: knowledge, desire and activity. The
>|material ingredients are a manifestation of maya as
>|pradhana. In other words, when the three qualities of maya
>|are in a dormant stage, they exist as prakrti, avyakta or
>|pradhana. The word avyakta, referring to the nonmanifest,
>|is another name of pradhana. In the avyakta stage, material
>|nature is without varieties. Varieties are manifested by
>|the pradhana portion of maya. The word pradhana is
>|therefore more important than avyakta or prakrti.
744|Adi 5.59
745|TEXT 59
746|TEXT
747|jagat-karana nahe prakrti jada-rupa
748|sakti sancariya tare krsna kare krpa
749|SYNONYMS
750|jagat-of the material world; karana-the cause; nahe-cannot
>|be; prakrti-the material nature; jada-rupa-dull, without
>|action; sakti-energy; sancariya-infusing; tare-unto the
>|dull material nature; krsna-Lord Krsna; kare-shows; krpa-
>|mercy.
751|TRANSLATION
752|Because prakrti is dull and inert, it cannot actually be
>|the cause of the material world. But Lord Krsna shows His
>|mercy by infusing His energy into the dull, inert material
>|nature.
753|Adi 5.60
754|TEXT 60
755|TEXT
756|krsna-saktye prakrti haya gauna karana
757|agni-saktye lauha yaiche karaye jarana
758|SYNONYMS
759|krsna-saktye-by the energy of Krsna; prakrti-the material
>|nature; haya-becomes; gauna-indirect; karana-cause; agni-
>|saktye-by the energy of fire; lauha-iron; yaiche-just as;
>|karaye-becomes; jarana-powerful or red-hot.
760|TRANSLATION
761|Thus prakrti, by the energy of Lord Krsna, becomes the
>|secondary cause, just as iron becomes red-hot by the energy
>|of fire.
762|Adi 5.61
763|TEXT 61
764|TEXT
765|ataeva krsna mula-jagat-karana
766|prakrti-karana yaiche aja-gala-stana
767|SYNONYMS
768|ataeva-therefore; krsna-Lord Krsna; mula-original; jagat-
>|karana-the cause of the cosmic manifestation; prakrti-
>|material nature; karana-cause; yaiche-exactly like; aja-
>|gala-stana-nipples on the neck of a goat.
769|TRANSLATION
770|Therefore Lord Krsna is the original cause of the cosmic
>|manifestation. Prakrti is like the nipples on the neck of a
>|goat, for they cannot give any milk.
771|PURPORT
772|The external energy, composed of pradhana or prakrti as the
>|ingredient-supplying portion and maya as the causal portion,
>| is known as maya-sakti. Inert material nature is not the
>|actual cause of the material manifestation, for
>|Karanarnavasayi, Maha-Visnu, the plenary expansion of Krsna,
>| activates all the ingredients. It is in this way that
>|material nature has the power to supply the ingredients.
>|The example given is that iron has no power to heat or burn,
>| but after coming in contact with fire the iron becomes red-
>|hot and can then diffuse heat and burn other things.
>|Material nature is like iron, for it has no independence to
>|act without the touch of Visnu, who is compared to fire.
>|Lord Visnu activates material nature by the power of His
>|glance, and then the ironlike material nature becomes a
>|material-supplying agent just as iron made red-hot becomes
>|a burning agent. Material nature cannot independently
>|become an agent for supplying the material ingredients.
>|This is more clearly explained by Sri Kapiladeva, an
>|incarnation of Godhead, in Srimad-Bhagavatam (3.28.40):
773|yatholmukad visphulingad
774|dhumad vapi sva- sambhavat
775|apy atmatvenabhimatad
776|yathagnih prthag ulmukat
777|"Although smoke, flaming wood, and sparks are all
>|considered together as ingredients of a fire, the flaming
>|wood is nevertheless different from the fire, and the smoke
>|is different from the flaming wood." The material elements (
>|earth, water, fire, etc.) are like smoke, the living
>|entities are like sparks, and material nature as pradhana
>|is like the flaming wood. But all of them together are
>|recipients of power from the Supreme Personality of Godhead
>|and are thus able to manifest their individual capacities.
>|In other words, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the
>|origin of all manifestations. Material nature can supply
>|only when it is activated by the glance of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead.
778|Just as a woman can deliver a child after being impregnated
>|by the semen of a man, so material nature can supply the
>|material elements after being glanced upon by Maha-Visnu.
>|Therefore pradhana cannot be independent of the
>|superintendence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This
>|is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita (9.10): mayadhyaksena
>|prakrtih suyate sa-caracaram. Prakrti, the total material
>|energy, works under the superintendence of the Lord. The
>|original source of the material elements is Krsna.
>|Therefore the attempt of the atheistic Sankhya philosophers
>|to consider material nature the source of these elements,
>|forgetting Krsna, is useless, like trying to get milk from
>|the nipplelike bumps of skin hanging on the neck of a goat.
779|Adi 5.62
780|TEXT 62
781|TEXT
782|maya-amse kahi tare nimitta-karana
783|seha nahe, yate karta-hetu-narayana
784|SYNONYMS
785|maya-amse-to the other portion of the material nature; kahi-
>|I say; tare-unto her; nimitta-karana-immediate cause; seha
>|nahe-that cannot be; yate-because; karta-hetu-the original
>|cause; narayana-Lord Narayana.
786|TRANSLATION
787|The maya aspect of material nature is the immediate cause
>|of the cosmic manifestation. But it also cannot be the real
>|cause, for the original cause is Lord Narayana.
788|Adi 5.63
789|TEXT 63
790|TEXT
791|ghatera nimitta-hetu yaiche kumbhakara
792|taiche jagatera karta-purusavatara
793|SYNONYMS
794|ghatera-of the earthen pot; nimitta-hetu-original cause;
>|yaiche-just as; kumbhakara-the potter; taiche-similarly;
>|jagatera karta-the creator of the material world; purusa-
>|avatara-the purusa incarnation, or Karanarnavasayi Visnu.
795|TRANSLATION
796|Just as the original cause of an earthen pot is the potter,
>|so the creator of the material world is the first purusa
>|incarnation [Karanarnavasayi Visnu].
797|Adi 5.64
798|TEXT 64
799|TEXT
800|krsna-karta, maya tanra karena sahaya
801|ghatera karana-cakra-dandadi upaya
802|SYNONYMS
803|krsna-Lord Krsna; karta-the creator; maya-material energy;
>|tanra-His; karena-does; sahaya-assistance; ghatera karana-
>|the cause of the earthen pot; cakra-danda-adi-the wheel,
>|the rod, and so on; upaya-instruments.
804|TRANSLATION
805|Lord Krsna is the creator, and maya only helps Him as an
>|instrument, just like the potter's wheel and other
>|instruments, which are the instrumental causes of a pot.
806|Adi 5.65
807|TEXT 65
808|TEXT
809|dura haite purusa kare mayate avadhana
810|jiva-rupa virya tate karena adhana
811|SYNONYMS
812|dura haite-from a distance; purusa-the Supreme Personality
>|of Godhead; kare-does; mayate-unto the material energy;
>|avadhana-glancing over; jiva-rupa-the living entities;
>|virya-seed; tate-in her; karena-does; adhana-impregnation.
813|TRANSLATION
814|The first purusa casts His glance at maya from a distance,
>|and thus He impregnates her with the seed of life in the
>|form of the living entities.
815|Adi 5.66
816|TEXT 66
817|TEXT
818|eka angabhase kare mayate milana
819|maya haite janme tabe brahmandera gana
820|SYNONYMS
821|eka-one; anga-abhase-bodily reflection; kare-does; mayate-
>|in the material energy; milana-mixture; maya-the material
>|energy; haite-from; janme-grows; tabe-then; brahma-andera
>|gana-the groups of universes.
822|TRANSLATION
823|The reflected rays of His body mix with maya, and thus maya
>|gives birth to myriads of universes.
824|PURPORT
825|The Vedic conclusion is that the cosmic manifestation
>|visible to the eyes of the conditioned soul is caused by
>|the Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, through the
>|exertion of His specific energies, although in the
>|conclusion of atheistic deliberations this manifested
>|cosmic exhibition is attributed to material nature. The
>|energy of the Absolute Truth is exhibited in three ways:
>|spiritual, material and marginal. The Absolute Truth is
>|identical with His spiritual energy. Only when contacted by
>|the spiritual energy can the material energy work and the
>|temporary material manifestations thus appear active. In
>|the conditioned state the living entities of the marginal
>|energy are a mixture of spiritual and material energies.
>|The marginal energy is originally under the control of the
>|spiritual energy, but, under the control of the material
>|energy, the living entities have been wandering in
>|forgetfulness within the material world since time
>|immemorial.
826|The conditioned state is caused by misuse of the individual
>|independence of the spiritual platform, for this separates
>|the living entity from the association of the spiritual
>|energy. But when the living entity is enlightened by the
>|grace of the Supreme Lord or His pure devotee and becomes
>|inclined to revive his original state of loving service, he
>|is on the most auspicious platform of eternal bliss and
>|knowledge. The marginal jiva, or living entity, misuses his
>|independence and becomes averse to the eternal service
>|attitude when he independently thinks he is not energy but
>|the energetic. This misconception of his own existence
>|leads him to the attitude of lording it over material
>|nature.
827|Material nature appears to be just the opposite of the
>|spiritual energy. The fact is that the material energy can
>|work only when in contact with the spiritual energy.
>|Originally the energy of Krsna is spiritual, but it works
>|in diverse ways, like electrical energy, which can exhibit
>|the functions of refrigerating or heating through its
>|manifestations in different ways. The material energy is
>|spiritual energy covered by a cloud of illusion, or maya.
>|Therefore, the material energy is not self-sufficient in
>|working. Krsna invests His spiritual energy into material
>|energy, and then it can act, just as iron can act like fire
>|after being heated by fire. The material energy can act
>|only when empowered by the spiritual energy.
828|When covered by the cloud of material energy, the living
>|entity, who is also a spiritual energy of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, forgets about the activities of the
>|spiritual energy and considers all that happens in the
>|material manifestation to be wonderful. But a person who is
>|engaged in devotional service in full Krsna consciousness
>|and who is therefore already situated in the spiritual
>|energy can understand that the material energy has no
>|independent powers: whatever actions are going on are due
>|to the help of the spiritual energy. The material energy,
>|which is a perverted form of the spiritual energy, presents
>|everything pervertedly, thus causing misconceptions and
>|duality. Material scientists and philosophers conditioned
>|by the spell of material nature suppose that material
>|energy acts automatically, and therefore they are
>|frustrated, like an illusioned person who tries to get milk
>|from the nipplelike bunches of skin on the neck of a goat.
>|As there is no possibility of getting milk from these
>|bunches of skin, there is similarly no possibility that
>|anyone will be successful in understanding the original
>|cause of creation by forwarding theories produced
>|by the material energy. Such an attempt is a manifestation
>|of ignorance.
829|The material energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead
>|is called maya, or illusion, because in two capacities (by
>|supplying the material elements and by causing the material
>|manifestation) it makes the conditioned soul unable to
>|understand the real truth of creation. when a
>|living entity is liberated , however, from the conditioned
>|life of matter, he can understand the two different
>|activities of material nature, namely covering and
>|bewildering.
830|The origin of creation is the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead. As confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita (9.10), the
>|cosmic manifestation is working under the direction of the
>|Supreme Lord, who invests the material energy with three
>|material qualities. Agitated by these qualities, the
>|elements supplied by the material energy produce varieties
>|of things, just as an artist produces varieties of pictures
>|by mixing the three colors red, yellow and blue. Yellow
>|represents the quality of goodness, red represents passion,
>|and blue represents ignorance. Therefore the colorful
>|material creation is but an interaction of these three
>|qualities, represented in eighty-one varieties of mixtures (
>|3 x 3 equaling 9, 9 x 9 thus equaling 81). Deluded by
>|material energy, the conditioned soul, enamored by these
>|eighty-one varieties of manifestation, wants to lord it
>|over material energy, just as a moth wants to enjoy a fire.
>|This illusion is the net result of the conditioned soul's
>|forgetfulness of his eternal relationship with the Supreme
>|personality of Godhead. When conditioned, the soul is
>|impelled by the material energy to engage in sense
>|gratification, whereas one enlightened by the spiritual
>|energy engages himself in the service of the Supreme Lord
>|in his eternal relationship.
831|Krsna is the original cause of the spiritual world, and He
>|is the covered cause of the material manifestation. He is
>|also the original cause of the marginal potency, the living
>|entities. He is both the leader and maintainer of the
>|living entities, who are called the marginal potency
>|because they can act under the protection of the spiritual
>|energy or under the cover of the material energy. With the
>|help of the spiritual energy we can understand that
>|independence is visible only in Krsna, who by His
>|inconceivable energy is able to act in any way He likes.
832|The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the Absolute Whole,
>|and the living entities are parts of the Absolute Whole.
>|This relationship of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and
>|the living entities is eternal. One should never mistakenly
>|think that the spiritual whole can be divided into small
>|parts by the small material energy. The Bhagavad-gita does
>|not support this Mayavada theory. Rather, it clearly states
>|that the living entities are eternally small fragments of
>|the supreme spiritual whole. As a part can never be equal
>|with the whole, so a living entity, as a minute fragment of
>|the spiritual whole, cannot be equal at any time to the
>|Supreme Whole, the absolute Personality of Godhead.
>|Although the Supreme Lord and the living entities are
>|quantitatively related as the whole and the parts, the
>|parts are nevertheless qualitatively one with the whole.
>|Thus the living entities, although always qualitatively one
>|with the Supreme Lord, are in a relative position. The
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead is the controller of
>|everything, and the living entities are always controlled,
>|either by the spiritual energy or by the material energy.
>|Therefore a living entity can never become the controller
>|of material or spiritual energies. The natural position of
>|the living being is always as a subordinate of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead. When one agrees to act in such a
>|position, he attains perfection in life, but if one rebels
>|against this principle, he is in the conditioned state.
833|Adi 5.67
834|TEXT 67
835|TEXT
836|aganya, ananta yata anda-sannivesa
837|tata-rupe purusa kare sabate prakasa
838|SYNONYMS
839|aganya-innumerable; ananta-unlimited; yata-all; anda-
>|universes; sannivesa-groups; tata-rupe-in as many forms;
>|purusa-the Lord; kare-does; sabate-in every one of them;
>|prakasa-manifestation.
840|TRANSLATION
841|The purusa enters each and every one of the countless
>|universes. He manifests Himself in as many separate forms
>|as there are universes.
842|Adi 5.68
843|TEXT 68
844|TEXT
845|purusa-nasate yabe bahiraya svasa
846|nisvasa sahite haya brahmanda-prakasa
847|SYNONYMS
848|purusa-nasate-in the nostrils of the Lord; yabe-when;
>|bahiraya-expels; svasa-breath; nisvasa sahite-with that
>|exhalation; haya-there is; brahmanda-prakasa-manifestation
>|of universes.
849|TRANSLATION
850|When the purusa exhales, the universes become manifest
>|with each outward breath.
851|Adi 5.69
852|TEXT 69
853|TEXT
854|punarapi svasa yabe pravese antare
855|svasa-saha brahmanda paise purusa-sarire
856|SYNONYMS
857|punarapi-thereafter; svasa-breath; yabe-when; pravese-
>|enters; antare-within; svasa-saha-with that inhaled breath;
>|brahmanda-universes; paise-enter; purusa-sarire-within the
>|body of the Lord.
858|TRANSLATION
859|Thereafter, when He inhales, all the universes again enter
>|His body.
860|PURPORT
861|In His form as Karanodakasayi Visnu the Lord impregnates
>|material nature by His glance. The transcendental molecules
>|of that glance are particles of spirit, or spiritual atoms,
>|which appear in different species of life according to the
>|seeds of their individual karma from the previous cosmic
>|manifestation. And the Lord Himself, by His partial
>|representation, creates a body of innumerable universes and
>|again enters each of those universes as Garbhodakasayi
>|Visnu. His coming in contact with maya is explained in the
>|Bhagavad-gita by a comparison between air and the sky. The
>|sky enters everything material, yet it is far away from us.
862|Adi 5.70
863|TEXT 70
864|TEXT
865|gavaksera randhre yena trasarenu cale
866|purusera loma-kupe brahmandera jale
867|SYNONYMS
868|gavaksera-of windows of a room; randhre-within the holes;
>|yena-like; trasarenu-six atoms together; cale-moves;
>|purusera-of the Lord; loma-kupe-in the holes of the hair;
>|brahmandera-of universes; jale-a network.
869|TRANSLATION
870|Just as atomic particles of dust pass through the openings
>|of a window, so the networks of universes pass through the
>|pores of the skin of the purusa.
871|Adi 5.71
872|TEXT 71
873|TEXT
874|yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya
875|jivanti loma-vila-ja jagad-anda-nathah
876|visnur mahan sa iha yasya kala-viseso
877|govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
878|SYNONYMS
879|yasya-whose; eka-one; nisvasita-of breath; kalam-time; atha-
>|thus; avalambya-taking shelter of; jivanti-live; loma-vila-
>|jah-grown from the hair holes; jagat-anda-nathah-the
>|masters of the universes (the Brahmas); visnuh mahan-the
>|Supreme Lord, Maha-Visnu; sah-that; iha-here; yasya-whose;
>|kala-visesah-particular plenary portion or expansion;
>|govindam-Lord Govinda; adi-purusam-the original person; tam-
>|Him; aham-I; bhajami-worship.
880|TRANSLATION
881|"The Brahmas and other lords of the mundane worlds appear
>|from the pores of Maha-Visnu and remain alive for the
>|duration of His one exhalation. I adore the primeval Lord,
>|Govinda, of whom Maha-Visnu is a portion of a plenary
>|portion."
882|PURPORT
883|This description of the Lord's creative energy is from the
>|Brahma-samhita (5.48), which Lord Brahma compiled after his
>|personal realization. When Maha-Visnu exhales, the
>|spiritual seeds of the universes emanate from Him in the
>|form of molecular particles like those that are visible,
>|three times the size of an atom, when sunlight is diffused
>|through a small hole. In these days of atomic research it
>|will be a worthwhile engagement for atomic scientists to
>|learn from this statement how the entire creation develops
>|from the spiritual atoms emanating from the body of the
>|Lord.
884|Adi 5.72
885|TEXT 72
886|TEXT
887|kvaham tamo-mahad-aham-kha-caragni-var-bhu-
888|samvestitanda-ghata-sapta-vitasti-kayah
889|kvedrg-vidhaviganitanda-paranu-carya-
890|vatadhva-roma-vivarasya ca te mahitvam
891|SYNONYMS
892|kva-where; aham-I; tamah-material nature; mahat-the total
>|material energy; aham-false ego; kha-ether; cara-air; agni-
>|fire; vah-water; bhu-earth; samvestita-surrounded by; anda-
>|ghata-a potlike universe; sapta-vitasti-seven vitastis;
>|kayah-body; kva-where; idrk-such; vidha-like; aviganita-
>|unlimited; anda-universes; para-anu-carya-moving like the
>|atomic dust; vata-adhva-air holes; roma-of hair on the body;
>| vivarasya-of the holes; ca-also; te-Your; mahitvam-
>|greatness.
893|TRANSLATION
894|"Where am I, a small creature of seven spans the measure of
>|my own hand? I am enclosed in the universe composed of
>|material nature, the total material energy, false ego,
>|ether, air, water and earth. And what is Your glory?
>|Unlimited universes pass through the pores of Your body
>|just like particles of dust passing through the opening of
>|a window."
895|PURPORT
896|When Lord Brahma, after having stolen all Krsna's cows
>|and cowherd boys, returned and saw that the cows and boys
>|were still roaming with Krsna, he offered this prayer (
>|Bhag . 10.14.11) in his defeat. A conditioned soul, even
>|one so great as Brahma, who manages the affairs of the
>|entire universe, cannot compare to the Personality of
>|Godhead, for He can produce numberless universes simply by
>|the spiritual rays emanating from the pores of His body.
>|Material scientists should take lessons from the utterances
>|of Sri Brahma regarding our insignificance in comparison to
>|God. In these prayers of Brahma there is much to learn for
>|those who are falsely puffed up by the accumulation of
>|power.
897|Adi 5.73
898|TEXT 73
899|TEXT
900|amsera amsa yei, 'kala' tara nama
901|govindera pratimurti sri-balarama
902|SYNONYMS
903|amsera-of the part; amsa-part; yei-that which; kala-a kala,
>|or part of the plenary portion; tara-its; nama-name;
>|govindera-of Lord Govinda; prati-murti-counterform; sri-
>|balarama-Lord Balarama.
904|TRANSLATION
905|A part of a part of a whole is called a kala. Sri Balarama
>|is the counterform of Lord Govinda.
906|Adi 5.74
907|TEXT 74
908|TEXT
909|tanra eka svarupa-sri-maha-sankarsana
910|tanra amsa 'purusa' haya kalate ganana
911|SYNONYMS
912|tanra-His; eka-one; svarupa-manifestation; sri-maha-
>|sankarsana-the great Lord Maha-sankarsana; tanra-His; amsa-
>|part; purusa-the Maha-Visnu incarnation; haya-is; kalate
>|ganana-counted as a kala.
913|TRANSLATION
914|Balarama's own expansion is called Maha-Sankarsana, and His
>|fragment, the purusa, is counted as a kala, or a part of a
>|plenary portion.
915|Adi 5.75
916|TEXT 75
917|TEXT
918|yanhake ta' kala kahi, tinho maha-visnu
919|maha-purusavatari tenho sarva-jisnu
920|SYNONYMS
921|yanhake-unto whom; ta'-certainly; kala kahi-I say kala;
>|tinho-He; maha-visnu-Lord Maha-Visnu; maha-purusavatari-
>|Maha-Visnu, the source of other purusa incarnations; tenho-
>|He; sarva-jisnu-all-pervading.
922|TRANSLATION
923|I say that this kala is Maha-Visnu. He is the Maha-purusa,
>|who is the source of the other purusas and who is all-
>|pervading.
924|Adi 5.76
925|TEXT 76
926|TEXT
927|garbhoda-ksiroda-sayi donhe 'purusa' nama
928|sei dui, yanra amsa,-visnu, visva-dhama
929|SYNONYMS
930|garbha-uda-in the ocean known as Garbhodaka within the
>|universe; ksira-uda-sayi-one who lies in the ocean of milk;
>|donhe-both of Them; purusa nama-known as purusa, Lord Visnu;
>| sei-those; dui-two; yanra amsa-whose plenary portions;
>|visnu visva-dhama-Lord Visnu, the abode of the total
>|universes.
931|TRANSLATION
932|Garbhodasayi and Ksirodasayi are both called purusas. They
>|are plenary portions of Karanodasayi Visnu, the first
>|purusa, who is the abode of all the universes.
933|PURPORT
934|The symptoms of the purusa are described in Laghu-
>|bhagavatamrta. While describing the incarnations of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead, the author has quoted from
>|the Visnu Purana (6.8.59), where it is said : "Let me offer
>|my respectful obeisances unto Purusottama, Lord Krsna, who
>|is always free from the contamination of the six material
>|dualities; whose plenary expansion, Maha-Visnu, glances
>|over matter to create the cosmic manifestation; who expands
>|Himself in various transcendental forms, all of which are
>|one and the same; who is the master of all living entities;
>|who is always free and liberated from the contamination of
>|material energy; and who, when He appears in this material
>|world, seems one of us, although He has an eternally
>|spiritual, blissful, transcendental form." In summarizing
>|this statement, Rupa Gosvami has concluded that the plenary
>|expansion of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who acts in
>|cooperation with the material energy is called the purusa.
935|Adi 5.77
936|TEXT 77
937|TEXT
938|visnos tu trini rupani
939|purusakhyany atho viduh
940|ekam tu mahatah srastr
941|dvitiyam tv anda-samsthitam
942|trtiyam sarva-bhuta-stham
943|tani jnatva vimucyate
944|SYNONYMS
945|visnoh-of Lord Visnu; tu-certainly; trini-three; rupani-
>|forms; purusa-akhyani-celebrated as the purusa; atho-how;
>|viduh-they know; ekam-one of them; tu-but; mahatah srastr-
>|the creator of the total material energy; dvitiyam-the
>|second; tu-but; anda-samsthitam-situated within the
>|universe; trtiyam-the third; sarva-bhuta-stham-within the
>|hearts of all living entities; tani-these three; jnatva-
>|knowing; vimucyate-one becomes liberated.
946|TRANSLATION
947|"Visnu has three forms called purusas. The first, Maha-
>|Visnu, is the creator of the total material energy [mahat],
>|the second is Garbhodasayi, who is situated within each
>|universe, and the third is Ksirodasayi, who lives in the
>|heart of every living being. He who knows these three
>|becomes liberated from the clutches of maya.
948|PURPORT
949|This verse appears in the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (Purva 2.9),
>|where it has been quoted from the Satvata-tantra.
950|Adi 5.78
951|TEXT 78
952|TEXT
953|yadyapi kahiye tanre krsnera 'kala' kari
954|matsya-kurmady-avatarera tinho avatari
955|SYNONYMS
956|yadyapi-although; kahiye-I say; tanre-to Him; krsnera-of
>|Lord Krsna; kala-part of the part; kari-making; matsya-the
>|fish incarnation; kurma-adi-the tortoise incarnation and
>|others; avatarera-of all these incarnations; tinho-He;
>|avatari-the original source.
957|TRANSLATION
958|Although Ksirodasayi Visnu is called a kala of Lord Krsna,
>|He is the source of Matsya, Kurma and the other
>|incarnations.
959|Adi 5.79
960|TEXT 79
961|TEXT
962|ete camsa-kalah pumsah
963|krsnas tu bhagavan svayam
964|indrari-vyakulam lokam
965|mrdayanti yuge yuge
966|SYNONYMS
967|ete-all these; ca-also; amsa-kalah-part or part of the part;
>| pumsah-of the Supreme Person; krsnah tu-but Lord Krsna;
>|bhagavan-the original Personality of Godhead; svayam-
>|Himself; indra-ari-the demons; vyakulam-disturbed; lokam-
>|all the planets; mrdayanti-makes them happy; yuge yuge-in
>|different millenniums.
968|TRANSLATION
969|"All these incarnations of Godhead are either plenary
>|portions or parts of the plenary portions of the purusa-
>|avataras. But Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead
>|Himself. In every age He protects the world through His
>|different features when the world is disturbed by the
>|enemies of Indra."
970|PURPORT
971|This quotation is from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.3.28).
972|Adi 5.80
973|TEXT 80
974|TEXT
975|sei purusa srsti-sthiti-pralayera karta
976|nana avatara kare, jagatera bharta
977|SYNONYMS
978|sei-that; purusa-the Personality of Godhead; srsti-sthiti-
>|pralayera-of creation, maintenance and annihilation; karta-
>|creator; nana-various; avatara-incarnations; kare-makes;
>|jagatera-of the material world; bharta-maintainer.
979|TRANSLATION
980|That purusa [Ksirodakasayi Visnu] is the performer of
>|creation, maintenance and destruction. He manifests Himself
>|in many incarnations, for He is the maintainer of the world.
981|Adi 5.81
982|TEXT 81
983|TEXT
984|srsty-adi-nimitte yei amsera avadhana
985|sei ta' amsere kahi 'avatara' nama
986|SYNONYMS
987|srsti-adi-nimitte-for the cause of creation, maintenance
>|and annihilation; yei-which; amsera avadhana-manifestation
>|of the part; sei ta'-that certainly; amsere kahi-I speak
>|about that plenary expansion; avatara nama-by the name "
>|incarnation."
988|TRANSLATION
989|That fragment of the Maha-purusa
>| who appears for the purpose of creation, maintenance and
>|annihilation is called an incarnation.
990|Adi 5.82
991|TEXT 82
992|TEXT
993|adyavatara, maha-purusa, bhagavan
994|sarva-avatara-bija, sarvasraya-dhama
995|SYNONYMS
996|adya-avatara-the original incarnation; maha-purusa-Lord
>|Maha-Visnu; bhagavan-the Personality of Godhead; sarva-
>|avatara-bija-the seed of all different kinds of
>|incarnations; sarva-asraya-dhama-the shelter of everything.
997|TRANSLATION
998|That Maha-purusa is identical with the Personality of
>|Godhead. He is the original incarnation, the seed of all
>|others, and the shelter of everything.
999|Adi 5.83
1000|TEXT 83
1001|TEXT
1002|adyo 'vatarah purusah parasya
1003|kalah svabhavah sad-asan manas ca
1004|dravyam vikaro guna indriyani
1005|virat svarat sthasnu carisnu bhumnah
1006|SYNONYMS
1007|adyah avatarah-original incarnation; purusah- the
>|Lord; parasya-of the Supreme ; kalah-time; svabhavah-
>|nature; sat-asat-cause and effect; manah ca-as well as the
>|mind; dravyam-the five elements; vikarah-transformation or
>|the false ego; gunah-modes of nature; indriyani-senses;
>|virat-the universal form; svarat-complete independence;
>|sthasnu-immovable; carisnu-movable; bhumnah-of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead.
1008|TRANSLATION
1009|"The purusa is the primary incarnation of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead. Time, nature, prakrti (as
>|cause and effect), the mind, the material elements, false
>|ego, the modes of nature, the senses, the universal form,
>|complete independence and the moving and nonmoving beings
>|appear subsequently as His opulences."
1010|PURPORT
1011|Describing the incarnations and their symptoms, the Laghu-
>|bhagavatamrta has stated that when Lord Krsna descends to
>|conduct the creative affairs of the material manifestation,
>|He is an avatara, or incarnation. The two categories of
>|avataras are empowered devotees and tad-ekatma-rupa (the
>|Lord Himself). An example of tad-ekatma-rupa is Sesa, and
>|an example of a devotee is Vasudeva, the father of Lord
>|Krsna. Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana has commented that the
>|material cosmic manifestation is a partial kingdom of God
>|where God must sometimes come to execute a specific
>|function. The plenary portion of the Lord through whom Lord
>|Krsna executes such actions is called Maha-Visnu, who is
>|the primal beginning of all incarnations. Inexperienced
>|observers presume that the material energy provides both
>|the cause and the elements of the cosmic manifestation and
>|that the living entities are the enjoyers of material
>|nature. But the devotees of the Bhagavata school, which has
>|scrutinizingly examined the entire situation, can
>|understand that material nature can independently be
>|neither the supplier of the material elements nor the cause
>|of the material manifestation. Material nature gets the
>|power to supply the material elements from the glance of
>|the supreme purusa, Maha-Visnu, and when empowered by Him
>|she is called the cause of the material manifestation. Both
>|features of material nature, as the cause of the material
>|creation and as the source of its elements, exist due to
>|the glance of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The
>|various expansions of the Supreme Lord who act to empower
>|the material energy are known as plenary expansions or
>|incarnations. As illustrated by the example of many flames
>|lit from one flame, all these plenary expansions and
>|incarnations are as good as Visnu Himself; nevertheless,
>|because of their activities in controlling maya, sometimes
>|they are known as mayika, or having a relationship with
>|maya. This is a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (2.6.42).
1012|Adi 5.84
1013|TEXT 84
1014|TEXT
1015|jagrhe paurusam rupam
1016|bhagavan mahad-adibhih
1017|sambhutam sodasa-kalam
1018|adau loka-sisrksaya
1019|SYNONYMS
1020|jagrhe-accepted; paurusam-the purusa incarnation; rupam-the
>|form; bhagavan-the Supreme Personality of Godhead; mahat-
>|adibhih-by the total material energy etc.; sambhutam-
>|created; sodasa-sixteen; kalam-energies; adau-originally;
>|loka-the material worlds; sisrksaya-with the desire to
>|create.
1021|TRANSLATION
1022|"In the beginning of the creation, the Lord expanded
>|Himself in the form of the purusa incarnation, accompanied
>|by all the ingredients of material creation. First He
>|created the sixteen principal energies suitable for
>|creation. This was for the purpose of manifesting the
>|material universes."
1023|PURPORT
1024|This is a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.3.1). The
>|commentary of Madhva on Srimad-Bhagavatam mentions that the
>|following sixteen spiritual energies are present in the
>|spiritual world: (1) sri, (2) bhu, (3) lila, (4) kanti, (5)
>|kirti, (6) tusti, (7) gir, (8) pusti, (9) satya (10)
>|jnanajnana, (11) jaya utkarsini, (12) vimala, (13) yogamaya,
>| (14) prahvi, (15) isana and (16) anugraha. In his
>|commentary on the Laghu-bhagavatamrta, Sri Baladeva
>|Vidyabhusana has said that the above energies are also
>|known by nine names: (1) vimala, (2) utkarsini (3) jnana, (
>|4) kriya, (5) yoga, (6) prahvi, (7) satya, (8) isana and (9)
>| anugraha. In the Bhagavat-sandarbha of Srila Jiva Gosvami (
>|Anuccheda 103) they are described as sri, pusti, gir, kanti,
>| kirti, tusti, ila, jaya; vidyavidya, maya, samvit,
>|sandhini, hladini, bhakti, murti, vimala, yoga, prahvi,
>|isana, anugraha, etc. All these energies act in different
>|spheres of the Lord's supremacy.
1025|Adi 5.85
1026|TEXT 85
1027|TEXT
1028|yadyapi sarvasraya tinho, tanhate samsara
1029|antaratma-rupe tinho jagat-adhara
1030|SYNONYMS
1031|yadyapi-although; sarva-asraya-the shelter of everything;
>|tinho-He (the Lord); tanhate-in Him; samsara-the material
>|creation; antah-atma-rupe-in the form of the Supersoul;
>|tinho-He; jagat-adhara-the support of the whole creation.
1032|TRANSLATION
1033|Although the Lord is the shelter of everything and although
>|all the universes rest in Him, He, as the Supersoul, is
>|also the support of everything.
1034|Adi 5.86
1035|TEXT 86
1036|TEXT
1037|prakrti-sahite tanra ubhaya sambandha
1038|tathapi prakrti-saha nahi sparsa-gandha
1039|SYNONYMS
1040|prakrti-sahite-with the material energy; tanra-His; ubhaya
>|sambandha-both relationships; tathapi-still; prakrti-saha-
>|with the material nature; nahi-there is not; sparsa-gandha-
>|even the slightest contact.
1041|TRANSLATION
1042|Although He is thus connected with the material energy in
>|two ways, He does not have the slightest contact with it.
1043|PURPORT
1044|In the Laghu-bhagavatamrta, Srila Rupa Gosvami, commenting
>|upon the Lord's transcendental position beyond the material
>|qualities, says that Visnu, as the controller and
>|superintendent of material nature, has a connection with
>|the material qualities. That connection is called yoga.
>|However, the person who directs a prison is not also a
>|prisoner. Similarly, although the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead Visnu directs or supervises the qualitative nature,
>|He has no connection with the material modes of nature. The
>|expansions of Lord Visnu always retain their supremacy;
>|they are never connected with the material qualities. One
>|may argue that Maha-Visnu cannot have any connection with
>|the material qualities, because if He were so connected,
>|Srimad-Bhagavatam would not state that material nature,
>|ashamed of her thankless task of acting to induce the
>|living entities to become averse to the Supreme Lord,
>|remains behind the Lord in shyness. In answer to this
>|argument, it may be said that the word guna means "
>|regulation." Lord Visnu, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva are
>|situated within this universe as the directors of the three
>|modes, and their connection with the modes is known as yoga.
>| This does not indicate, however, that these personalities
>|are bound by the qualities of nature. Lord Visnu
>|specifically is always the controller of the three
>|qualities. There is no question of His coming under their
>|control.
1045|Although the causal and element-supplying features exist in
>|material nature by dint of the glance of the Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead, the Lord is never affected by
>|glancing over the material qualities. By the will of the
>|Supreme Lord the different qualitative changes in the
>|material world take place, but there is no possibility of
>|material affection, change or contamination for Lord Visnu.
1046|Adi 5.87
1047|TEXT 87
1048|TEXT
1049|etad isanam isasya
1050|prakrti-stho 'pi tad-gunaih
1051|na yujyate sadatma-sthair
1052|yatha buddhis tad-asraya
1053|SYNONYMS
1054|etat-this is; isanam-opulence; isasya-of the Lord; prakrti-
>|sthah-within this material world; api-although; tat-gunaih-
>|by the material qualities; na yujyate-never affected; sada-
>|always; atma-sthaih-situated in His own energy; yatha-as
>|also; buddhih-intelligence; tat-His; asraya-devotees.
1055|TRANSLATION
1056|"This is the opulence of the Lord. Although situated within
>|the material nature, He is never affected by the modes of
>|nature. Similarly, those who have surrendered to Him and
>|have fixed their intelligence upon Him are not influenced
>|by the modes of nature."
1057|PURPORT
1058|This is a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.11.38).
1059|Adi 5.88
1060|TEXT 88
1061|TEXT
1062|ei mata gitateha punah punah kaya
1063|sarvada isvara-tattva acintya-sakti haya
1064|SYNONYMS
1065|ei mata-in this way; gitateha-in the Bhagavad-gita; punah
>|punah-again and again; kaya-it is said; sarvada-always;
>|isvara-tattva-the truth of the Absolute Truth; acintya-
>|sakti haya-is inconceivable.
1066|TRANSLATION
1067|Thus the Bhagavad-gita also states again and again that the
>|Absolute Truth always possesses inconceivable power.
1068|Adi 5.89
1069|TEXT 89
1070|TEXT
1071|ami ta' jagate vasi, jagat amate
1072|na ami jagate vasi, na ama jagate
1073|SYNONYMS
1074|ami-I; ta'-certainly; jagate-in the material world; vasi-
>|situated; jagat-the whole material creation; amate-in Me;
>|na-not; ami-I; jagate-within the material world; vasi-
>|situated; na-nor; ama-on Me; jagate-the material world.
1075|TRANSLATION
1076|"I am situated in the material world,
>|and the world rests in Me. But at the same time I am not
>|situated in the material world, nor does it rest on Me in
>|truth.
1077|PURPORT
1078|Nothing in existence is possible unless energized by the
>|will of the Lord. The entire manifested creation is
>|therefore resting on the energy of the Lord, but one should
>|not therefore presume that the material manifestation is
>|identical with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A cloud
>|may rest in the sky, but that does not mean that the sky
>|and the cloud are one and the same. Similarly, the
>|qualitative material nature and its products are never
>|identical with the Supreme Lord. The tendency to lord it
>|over material nature, or maya, cannot be a feature of the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead. When He descends to the
>|material world, He maintains His transcendental nature,
>|unaffected by the material qualities. In both the spiritual
>|and material worlds, He is always the controller of all
>|energies. The uncontaminated spiritual nature always exists
>|within Him. The Lord appears and disappears in the material
>|world in different features for His pastimes, yet He is the
>|origin of all cosmic manifestations.
1079|The material manifestation cannot exist separate from the
>|Supreme Lord, yet Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead, in spite of His connection with material
>|nature, cannot be subordinate to nature's influence. His
>|original form of eternal bliss and knowledge is never
>|subordinate to the three qualities of material nature. This
>|is a specific feature of the Supreme Lord's inconceivable
>|potencies.
1080|Adi 5.90
1081|TEXT 90
1082|TEXT
1083|acintya aisvarya ei janiha amara
1084|ei ta' gitara artha kaila paracara
1085|SYNONYMS
1086|acintya-inconceivable; aisvarya-opulence; ei-this; janiha-
>|you must know; amara-of Me; ei ta'-this; gitara artha-the
>|meaning of the Bhagavad-gita; kaila paracara-Lord Krsna
>|propagated.
1087|TRANSLATION
1088|"O Arjuna, you should know this as My inconceivable
>|opulence." This is the meaning propagated by Lord Krsna in
>|the Bhagavad-gita.
1089|Adi 5.91
1090|TEXT 91
1091|TEXT
1092|sei ta' purusa yanra 'amsa' dhare nama
1093|caitanyera sange sei nityananda-rama
1094|SYNONYMS
1095|sei ta'-that; purusa-Supreme Person; yanra-of whom; amsa-as
>|part; dhare nama-is known; caitanyera sange-with Sri
>|Caitanya Mahaprabhu; sei-that; nityananda-rama-Lord
>|Nityananda or Balarama.
1096|TRANSLATION
1097|That Maha-purusa [Karanodakasayi Visnu] is known as a
>|plenary part of Him who is Lord Nityananda Balarama, the
>|favorite associate of Lord Caitanya.
1098|Adi 5.92
1099|TEXT 92
1100|TEXT
1101|ei ta' navama slokera artha-vivarana
1102|dasama slokera artha suna diya mana
1103|SYNONYMS
1104|ei ta'-thus; navama slokera-of the ninth verse; artha-
>|vivarana-description of the meaning; dasama slokera-of the
>|tenth verse; artha-meaning; suna-hear; diya mana-with
>|attention.
1105|TRANSLATION
1106|I have thus explained the ninth verse, and now I shall
>|explain the tenth. Please listen with rapt attention.
1107|Adi 5.93
1108|TEXT 93
1109|TEXT
1110|yasyamsamsah srila-garbhoda-sayi
1111|yan-nabhy-abjam loka-sanghata-nalam
1112|loka-srastuh sutika-dhama dhatus
1113|tam sri-nityananda-ramam prapadye
1114|SYNONYMS
1115|yasya-whose; amsa-amsah-portion of a plenary portion; srila-
>|garbha-uda-sayi-Garbhodakasayi Visnu; yat-of whom; nabhi-
>|abjam-the navel lotus; loka-sanghata-of the multitude of
>|planets; nalam-having a stem that is the resting place;
>|loka-srastuh-of Lord Brahma, creator of the planets; sutika-
>|dhama-the birthplace; dhatuh-of the creator; tam-to Him;
>|sri-nityananda-ramam-to Lord Balarama in the form of Lord
>|Nityananda; prapadye-I surrender.
1116|TRANSLATION
1117|I offer my full obeisances unto the feet of Sri Nityananda
>|Rama, a partial part of whom is Garbhodakasayi Visnu. From
>|the navel of Garbhodakasayi Visnu sprouts the lotus that is
>|the birthplace of Brahma, the engineer of the universe. The
>|stem of that lotus is the resting place of the multitude of
>|planets.
1118|PURPORT
1119|In the Mahabharata, Santi-parva, it is said that He who is
>|Pradyumna is also Aniruddha. He is also the father of
>|Brahma. Thus Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu
>|are identical plenary expansions of Pradyumna, the original
>|Deity of Brahma, who is born from the lotus flower. It is
>|Pradyumna who gives Brahma direction for cosmic management.
>|A full description of Brahma's birth is given in Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam (3.8.15-16).
1120|Describing the features of the three purusas, the Laghu-
>|bhagavatamrta says that Garbhodakasayi Visnu has a four-
>|handed form, and when He Himself enters the hollow of the
>|universe and lies down in the ocean of milk He is known as
>|Ksirodakasayi Visnu, who is the Supersoul of all living
>|entities, including the demigods. In the Satvata-tantra it
>|is said that the third purusa incarnation, Ksirodakasayi
>|Visnu, is situated as the Supersoul in everyone's heart.
>|This Ksirodakasayi Visnu is an expansion of Garbhodakasayi
>|Visnu for pastimes.
1121|Adi 5.94
1122|TEXT 94
1123|TEXT
1124|sei ta' purusa ananta-brahmanda srjiya
1125|saba ande pravesila bahu-murti hana
1126|SYNONYMS
1127|sei-that; ta'-certainly; purusa-incarnation; ananta-
>|brahmanda-innumerable universes; srjiya-creating; saba-all;
>|ande-in the egglike universes; pravesila-entered; bahu-
>|murti hana-taking multifarious forms.
1128|TRANSLATION
1129|After creating millions of universes, the first purusa
>|entered into each of them in a separate form, as Sri
>|Garbhodakasayi.
1130|Adi 5.95
1131|TEXT 95
1132|TEXT
1133|bhitare pravesi' dekhe saba andhakara
1134|rahite nahika sthana karila vicara
1135|SYNONYMS
1136|bhitare-within the universe; pravesi'-entering; dekhe-He
>|sees; saba-all; andhakara-darkness; rahite-to stay; nahika-
>|there is not; sthana-place; karila vicara-considered.
1137|TRANSLATION
1138|Entering the universe, He found only darkness, with no
>|place in which to reside. Thus He began to consider.
1139|Adi 5.96
1140|TEXT 96
1141|TEXT
1142|nijanga-sveda-jala karila srjana
1143|sei jale kaila ardha-brahmanda bharana
1144|SYNONYMS
1145|nija-anga-of His own body; sveda-jala-water from
>|perspiration; karila-did; srjana-creation; sei jale-with
>|that water; kaila-did; ardha-brahmanda-half of the universe;
>| bharana-filling.
1146|TRANSLATION
1147|Then He created water from the perspiration of His own body
>|and with that water filled half the universe.
1148|Adi 5.97
1149|TEXT 97
1150|TEXT
1151|brahmanda-pramana pancasat-koti-yojana
1152|ayama, vistara, dui haya eka sama
1153|SYNONYMS
1154|brahmanda-pramana-measurement of the universe; pancasat-
>|fifty; koti-ten millions; yojana-lengths of eight miles;
>|ayama-length; vistara-breadth; dui-both of them; haya-are;
>|eka sama-one and the same.
1155|TRANSLATION
1156|The universe measures five hundred million yojanas. Its
>|length and breadth are one and the same.
1157|Adi 5.98
1158|TEXT 98
1159|TEXT
1160|jale bhari' ardha tanha kaila nija-vasa
1161|ara ardhe kaila caudda-bhuvana prakasa
1162|SYNONYMS
1163|jale-with water; bhari'-filling; ardha-half; tanha-there;
>|kaila-made; nija-vasa-own residence; ara-other; ardhe-in
>|the half; kaila-did; caudda-bhuvana-fourteen worlds;
>|prakasa-manifestation.
1164|TRANSLATION
1165|After filling half the universe with water, He made His own
>|residence therein and manifested the fourteen worlds in the
>|other half.
1166|PURPORT
1167|The fourteen worlds are enumerated in Srimad-Bhagavatam,
>|Second Canto, Fifth Chapter. The upper planetary systems
>|are (1) Bhu, (2) Bhuvar, (3) Svar, (4) Mahar, (5) Janas, (6)
>| Tapas and (7) Satya. The seven lower planetary systems are
>|(1) Tala, (2) Atala, (3) Vitala, (4) Nitala, (5) Talatala, (
>|6) Mahatala and (7) Sutala. The lower planets, as a whole ,
>|are called Patala. Among the upper planetary systems, Bhu,
>|Bhuvar and Svar constitute Svargaloka, and the rest are
>|called Martya. The entire universe is thus known as Triloka.
1168|Adi 5.99
1169|TEXT 99
1170|TEXT
1171|tanhai prakata kaila vaikuntha nija-dhama
1172|sesa-sayana-jale karila visrama
1173|SYNONYMS
1174|tanhai-there; prakata-manifestation; kaila-did; vaikuntha-
>|the spiritual world; nija-dhama-His own abode; sesa-of Lord
>|Sesa; sayana-on the bed; jale-on the water; karila-did;
>|visrama-rest.
1175|TRANSLATION
1176|There He manifested Vaikuntha as His own abode and rested
>|in the waters on the bed of Lord Sesa.
1177|Adi 5.100-101
1178|TEXTS 100-101
1179|TEXT
1180|ananta-sayyate tanha karila sayana
1181|sahasra mastaka tanra sahasra vadana
1182|sahasra-carana-hasta, sahasra-nayana
1183|sarva-avatara-bija, jagat-karana
1184|SYNONYMS
1185|ananta-sayyate-on Lord Ananta as a bed; tanha-there; karila
>|sayana-lay down; sahasra-thousands; mastaka-heads; tanra-
>|His; sahasra vadana-thousands of faces; sahasra-thousands;
>|carana-legs; hasta-hands; sahasra-nayana-thousands of eyes;
>|sarva-avatara-bija-the seed of all incarnations; jagat-
>|karana-the cause of the material world.
1186|TRANSLATION
1187|He lay there with Ananta as His bed. Lord Ananta is a
>|divine serpent having thousands of heads, thousands of
>|faces, thousands of eyes and thousands of hands and feet.
>|He is the seed of all incarnations and is the cause of the
>|material world.
1188|PURPORT
1189|In the reservoir of water first created by the perspiration
>|of Garbhodakasayi Visnu, the Lord lies on the Sesa plenary
>|expansion of Visnu, who is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam
>|and in the four Vedas as follows:
1190|sahasra-sirsa purusah sahasraksah sahasra-pat
1191|sa bhumim visvato vrtvatyatisthad dasangulam
1192|The Visnu form called Ananta-sayana has thousands of hands
>|and legs and thousands of eyes, and He is the active
>|generator of all the incarnations within the material world.
1193|Adi 5.102
1194|TEXT 102
1195|TEXT
1196|tanra nabhi-padma haite uthila eka padma
1197|sei padme haila brahmara janma-sadma
1198|SYNONYMS
1199|tanra-His; nabhi-padma-lotus navel; haite-from; uthila-grew;
>| eka-one; padma-lotus flower; sei padme-on that lotus;
>|haila-there was; brahmara-of Lord Brahma; janma-sadma-the
>|place of birth.
1200|TRANSLATION
1201|From His navel grew a lotus flower, which became the
>|birthplace of Lord Brahma.
1202|Adi 5.103
1203|TEXT 103
1204|TEXT
1205|sei padma-nale haila caudda-bhuvana
1206|tenho brahma hana srsti karila srjana
1207|SYNONYMS
1208|sei padma-nale-within the stem of that lotus flower; haila-
>|were; caudda-bhuvana-the fourteen worlds; tenho-He Himself;
>|brahma hana-appearing as Brahma; srsti-the creation; karila
>|srjana-created.
1209|TRANSLATION
1210|Within the stem of that lotus were the fourteen worlds.
>|Thus the Supreme Lord, as Brahma, created the entire
>|creation.
1211|Adi 5.104
1212|TEXT 104
1213|TEXT
1214|visnu-rupa hana kare jagat palane
1215|gunatita-visnu sparsa nahi maya-gune
1216|SYNONYMS
1217|visnu-rupa-the form of Lord Visnu; hana-becoming; kare-does;
>| jagat palane-maintenance of the material world; guna-atita-
>|beyond the material qualities; visnu-Lord Visnu; sparsa-
>|touch; nahi-not; maya-gune-in the material qualities.
1218|TRANSLATION
1219|And as Lord Visnu He maintains the entire world. Lord Visnu,
>| being beyond all material attributes, has no touch with
>|the material qualities.
1220|PURPORT
1221|Sri Baladeva Vidyabhusana says that although Visnu is the
>|predominating Deity of the quality of goodness in the
>|material world, He is never affected by the quality of
>|goodness, for He directs that quality simply by His supreme
>|will. It is said that all living entities can derive all
>|good fortune from the Lord simply by His will. In the
>|Vamana Purana it is said that the same Visnu expands
>|Himself as Brahma and Siva to direct the different
>|qualities.
1222|Because Lord Visnu expands the quality of goodness, He has
>|the name Sattvatanu. The multifarious incarnations of
>|Ksirodakasayi Visnu are known as Sattvatanu. Therefore in
>|all Vedic scriptures Visnu has been described as being free
>|from all material qualities. In the Tenth Canto of Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam it is said:
1223|harir hi nirgunah saksat
1224|purusah prakrteh parah
1225|sa sarva-drg upadrasta
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
>|
1226|tam bhajan nirguno bhavet
1227|"The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is always
>|uncontaminated by the modes of material nature, for He is
>|beyond the material manifestation. He is the source of the
>|knowledge of all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahma, and
>|He is the witness of everything. Therefore one who worships
>|the Supreme Lord Visnu also attains freedom from the
>|contamination of material nature." (Bhag. 10.88.5) One can
>|attain freedom from the contamination of material nature by
>|worshiping Visnu, and therefore He is called Sattvatanu, as
>|described above.
1228|Adi 5.105
1229|TEXT 105
1230|TEXT
1231|rudra-rupa dhari' kare jagat samhara
1232|srsti-sthiti-pralaya-icchaya yanhara
1233|SYNONYMS
1234|rudra-rupa-the form of Lord Siva; dhari'-accepting; kare-
>|does; jagat samhara-annihilation of the material world;
>|srsti-sthiti-pralaya-creation, maintenance and annihilation;
>| icchaya-by the will; yanhara-of whom.
1235|TRANSLATION
1236|Assuming the form of Rudra, He destroys the creation. Thus
>|creation, maintenance and dissolution are created by His
>|will.
1237|PURPORT
1238|Mahesvara, or Lord Siva, is not an ordinary living being,
>|nor is he equal to Lord Visnu. Effectively comparing Lord
>|Visnu and Lord Siva, the Brahma-samhita says that Visnu is
>|like milk, whereas Siva is like curd. Curd is nothing
>|like milk, but nevertheless it is milk also.
1239|Adi 5.106
1240|TEXT 106
1241|TEXT
1242|hiranya-garbha, antaryami, jagat-karana
1243|yanra amsa kari' kare virata-kalpana
1244|SYNONYMS
1245|hiranya-garbha-of the name Hiranyagarbha; antah-yami-the
>|Supersoul; jagat-karana-the cause of the material world;
>|yanra amsa kari'-taking as His expansion; kare-does; virata-
>|kalpana-conception of the universal form.
1246|TRANSLATION
1247|He is the Supersoul, Hiranyagarbha, the cause of the
>|material world. The universal form is conceived as His
>|expansion.
1248|Adi 5.107
1249|TEXT 107
1250|TEXT
1251|hena narayana,-yanra amsera amsa
1252|sei prabhu nityananda-sarva-avatamsa
1253|SYNONYMS
1254|hena-such; narayana-Lord Narayana; yanra-of whom; amsera-of
>|the plenary part; amsa-apart ; sei-that; prabhu-the
>|Lord; nityananda- of the name Nityananda; sarva-avatamsa-
>|the source of all incarnations.
1255|TRANSLATION
1256|That Lord Narayana is a part of a plenary part of Lord
>|Nityananda Balarama, who is the source of all incarnations.
1257|Adi 5.108
1258|TEXT 108
1259|TEXT
1260|dasama slokera artha kaila vivarana
1261|ekadasa slokera artha suna diya mana
1262|SYNONYMS
1263|dasama-tenth; slokera-of the verse; artha-meaning; kaila-
>|have done; vivarana-description; ekadasa-eleventh; slokera-
>|of the verse; artha-meaning; suna-please hear; diya mana-
>|with the mind.
1264|TRANSLATION
1265|I have thus explained the tenth verse. Now please listen to
>|the meaning of the eleventh verse with all your mind.
1266|Adi 5.109
1267|TEXT 109
1268|TEXT
1269|yasyamsamsamsah paratmakhilanam
1270|posta visnur bhati dugdhabdhi-sayi
1271|ksauni-bharta yat-kala so 'py anantas
1272|tam sri-nityananda-ramam prapadye
1273|SYNONYMS
1274|yasya-whose; amsa-amsa-amsah-a portion of a portion of a
>|plenary portion; para-atma-the Supersoul; akhilanam-of all
>|living entities; posta-the maintainer; visnuh-Visnu; bhati-
>|appears; dugdha-abdhi-sayi-Ksirodakasayi Visnu; ksauni-
>|bharta-upholder of the earth; yat-whose; kala-portion of a
>|portion; sah-He; api-certainly; anantah-Sesa Naga; tam-to
>|Him; sri-nityananda-ramam-to Lord Balarama in the form of
>|Lord Nityananda; prapadye-I surrender.
1275|TRANSLATION
1276|I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet of Sri
>|Nityananda Rama, whose secondary part is the Visnu lying in
>|the ocean of milk. That Ksirodakasayi Visnu is the
>|Supersoul of all living entities and the maintainer of all
>|the universes. Sesa Naga is His further subpart.
1277|Adi 5.110
1278|TEXT 110
1279|TEXT
1280|narayanera nabhi-nala-madhyete dharani
1281|dharanira madhye sapta samudra ye gani
1282|SYNONYMS
1283|narayanera-of Lord Narayana; nabhi-nala-the stem from the
>|navel; madhyete-within; dharani-the material planets;
>|dharanira madhye-among the material planets; sapta-seven;
>|samudra-oceans; ye gani-they count.
1284|TRANSLATION
1285|The material planets rest within the stem that grew from
>|the lotus navel of Lord Narayana. Among these planets are
>|seven oceans.
1286|Adi 5.111
1287|TEXT 111
1288|TEXT
1289|tanha ksirodadhi-madhye 'svetadvipa' nama
1290|palayita visnu,-tanra sei nija dhama
1291|SYNONYMS
1292|tanha-within that; ksira-udadhi-madhye-in part of the ocean
>|known as the ocean of milk; svetadvipa nama-the island
>|named Svetadvipa; palayita visnu-the maintainer, Lord Visnu;
>| tanra-of Him; sei-that; nija dhama-own residential
>|quarters.
1293|TRANSLATION
1294|There, in part of the ocean of milk, lies Svetadvipa, the
>|abode of the sustainer, Lord Visnu.
1295|PURPORT
1296|In the Siddhanta-siromani, an astrological text, the
>|different oceans are described as follows: (1) the ocean of
>|salt water, (2) the ocean of milk, (3) the ocean of yogurt,
>|(4) the ocean of clarified butter, (5) the ocean of
>|sugarcane juice, (6) the ocean of liquor and (7) the ocean
>|of sweet water. On the southern side of the ocean of salt
>|water is the ocean of milk, where Lord Ksirodakasayi Visnu
>|resides. He is worshiped there by demigods like Brahma.
1297|Adi 5.112
1298|TEXT 112
1299|TEXT
1300|sakala jivera tinho haye antaryami
1301|jagat-palaka tinho jagatera svami
1302|SYNONYMS
1303|sakala-all; jivera-of the living entities; tinho-He; haye-
>|is; antah-yami-the Supersoul; jagat-palaka-the maintainer
>|of the material world; tinho-He; jagatera svami-the Lord of
>|the material world.
1304|TRANSLATION
1305|He is the Supersoul of all living entities. He maintains
>|this material world, and He is its Lord.
1306|PURPORT
1307|The Laghu-bhagavatamrta gives the following
>|description of the Visnuloka within this universe, quoted
>|from the Visnu-dharmottara: "Above Rudraloka, the planet of
>|Lord Siva, is the planet called Visnuloka, 400,000 miles in
>|circumference, which is inaccessible to any mortal living
>|being. Above that Visnuloka and east of the Sumeru Hill is
>|a golden island called Maha-Visnuloka, in the ocean of salt
>|water. Lord Brahma and other demigods sometimes go there to
>|meet Lord Visnu. Lord Visnu lies there with the goddess of
>|fortune, and it is said that during the four months of the
>|rainy season He enjoys sleeping on that Sesa Naga bed. East
>|of Sumeru is the ocean of milk, in which there is a white
>|city on a white island where the Lord can be seen sitting
>|with His consort, Laksmiji, on a throne of Sesa. That
>|feature of Visnu also enjoys sleeping during the four
>|months of the rainy season. The Svetadvipa in the milk
>|ocean is situated just south of the ocean of salt water. It
>|is calculated that the area of Svetadvipa is 200,000 square
>|miles. This transcendentally beautiful island is decorated
>|with desire trees to please Lord Visnu and His consort."
>|There are references to Svetadvipa in the Brahmanda Purana,
>|Visnu Purana, Mahabharata and Padma Purana, and there is
>|the following reference in Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.15.18).
1308|svetadvipa-patau cittam
1309|suddhe dharma-maye mayi
1310|dharayan chvetatam yati
1311|sad-urmi-rahito narah
1312|"My dear Uddhava, you may know that My transcendental form
>|of Visnu in Svetadvipa is identical with Me in divinity.
>|Anyone who places this Lord of Svetadvipa within his heart
>|can surpass the pangs of the six material tribulations:
>|hunger, thirst, birth, death, lamentation and illusion.
>|Thus one can attain his original, transcendental form."
1313|Adi 5.113
1314|TEXT 113
1315|TEXT
1316|yuga-manvantare dhari' nana avatara
1317|dharma samsthapana kare, adharma samhara
1318|SYNONYMS
1319|yuga-manu-antare-in the ages and millenniums of Manu; dhari'
>|-accepting; nana-various; avatara-incarnations; dharma
>|samsthapana kare-establishes the principles of religion;
>|adharma samhara-vanquishing irreligious principles.
1320|TRANSLATION
1321|In the ages and millenniums of Manu, He appears as
>|different incarnations to establish the principles of real
>|religion and vanquish the principles of irreligion.
1322|PURPORT
1323|Lord Visnu , who lies in the ocean of milk , incarnates
>|Himself in various forms to maintain the laws of the cosmos
>|and annihilate the causes of disturbance. Such incarnations
>|are visible in every manv-antara (i.e., in the course of
>|the reign of each Manu, who lives for 71 x 4,320,000 years).
>| Fourteen such Manus take their birth and die, to yield a
>|place for the next, during one day of Brahma.
1324|Adi 5.114
1325|TEXT 114
1326|TEXT
1327|deva-gane na paya yanhara darasana
1328|ksirodaka-tire yai' karena stavana
1329|SYNONYMS
1330|deva-gane-the demigods; na-not; paya-get; yanhara-whose;
>|darasana-sight; ksira-udaka-tire-on the bank of the ocean
>|of milk; yai'-go; karena stavana-offer prayers.
1331|TRANSLATION
1332|Unable to see Him, the demigods go to the bank of the
>|ocean of milk and offer prayers to Him.
1333|PURPORT
1334|The denizens of heaven, who live in the planetary systems
>|beginning from Svarloka, cannot even see Lord Visnu in
>|Svetadvipa. Unable to reach the island, they can simply
>|approach the beach of the milk ocean to offer
>|transcendental prayers to the Lord, appealing to Him on
>|special occasions to appear as an incarnation.
1335|Adi 5.115
1336|TEXT 115
1337|TEXT
1338|tabe avatari' kare jagat palana
1339|ananta vaibhava tanra nahika ganana
1340|SYNONYMS
1341|tabe-at that time; avatari'-descending; kare-does; jagat
>|palana-maintenance of the material world; ananta-unlimited;
>|vaibhava-the opulences; tanra-of Him; nahika-there is not;
>|ganana-counting.
1342|TRANSLATION
1343|He then descends to maintain the material world. His
>|unlimited opulences cannot be counted.
1344|Adi 5.116
1345|TEXT 116
1346|TEXT
1347|sei visnu haya yanra amsamsera amsa
1348|sei prabhu nityananda-sarva-avatamsa
1349|SYNONYMS
1350|sei-that; visnu-Lord Visnu; haya-is; yanra-whose; amsa-
>|amsera-of the part of the plenary part; amsa-part; sei-that;
>| prabhu-Lord; nityananda-Nityananda; sarva-avatamsa-the
>|source of all incarnations.
1351|TRANSLATION
1352|That Lord Visnu is but a part of a part of a plenary
>|portion of Lord Nityananda, who is the source of all
>|incarnations.
1353|PURPORT
1354|The Lord of Svetadvipa has immense potency for creation and
>|destruction. Sri Nityananda Prabhu, being Baladeva Himself,
>|the original form of Sankarsana, is the original form of
>|the Lord of Svetadvipa.
1355|Adi 5.117
1356|TEXT 117
1357|TEXT
1358|sei visnu 'sesa'-rupe dharena dharani
1359|kanha ache mahi, sire, hena nahi jani
1360|SYNONYMS
1361|sei-that; visnu-Lord Visnu; sesa-rupe-in form of Lord Sesa;
>|dharena-carries; dharani-the planets; kanha-where; ache-are;
>| mahi-the planets; sire-on the head; hena nahi jani-I
>|cannot understand.
1362|TRANSLATION
1363|That same Lord Visnu, in the form of Lord Sesa, holds the
>|planets upon His heads, although He does not know where
>|they are, for He cannot feel their existence upon His heads.
1364|Adi 5.118
1365|TEXT 118
1366|TEXT
1367|sahasra vistirna yanra phanara mandala
1368|surya jini' mani-gana kare jhala-mala
1369|SYNONYMS
1370|sahasra-thousands; vistirna-spread; yanra-whose; phanara-of
>|the hoods; mandala-group; surya-the sun; jini'-conquering;
>|mani-gana-jewels; kare-do; jhala-mala-glittering.
1371|TRANSLATION
1372|His thousands of extended hoods are adorned with dazzling
>|jewels surpassing the sun.
1373|Adi 5.119
1374|TEXT 119
1375|TEXT
1376|pancasat-koti-yojana prthivi-vistara
1377|yanra eka-phane rahe sarsapa-akara
1378|SYNONYMS
1379|pancasat-fifty; koti-ten millions; yojana-eight miles;
>|prthivi-of the universe; vistara-breadth; yanra-whose; eka-
>|phane-on one of the hoods; rahe-stays; sarsapa-akara-like a
>|mustard seed.
1380|TRANSLATION
1381|The universe, which measures five hundred million yojanas
>|in diameter, rests on one of His hoods like a mustard seed.
1382|PURPORT
1383|The Lord of Svetadvipa expands Himself as Sesa Naga, who
>|sustains all the planets upon His innumerable hoods. These
>|huge global spheres are compared to grains of mustard
>|resting on the spiritual hoods of Sesa Naga. The scientists'
>| law of gravity is a partial explanation of Lord Sankarsana'
>|s energy. The name "Sankarsana" has an etymological
>|relationship to the idea of gravity. There is a reference
>|to Sesa Naga in Srimad-Bhagavatam (5.17.21), where it is
>|said:
1384|yam ahur asya sthiti janma-samyamam
1385|tribhir vihinam yam anantam rsayah
1386|na veda siddartham iva kvacit sthitam
1387|bhu-mandalam murdha-sahasra-dhamasu
1388|"O my Lord, the hymns of the Vedas proclaim that You are
>|the effective cause for the creation, maintenance and
>|destruction. But in fact You are transcendental to all
>|limitations and are therefore known as unlimited. On Your
>|thousands of hoods rest the innumerable global spheres,
>|like grains of mustard so insignificant that You have no
>|perception of their weight." The Bhagavatam further says (5.
>|25.2):
1389|yasyedam ksiti-mandalam bhagavato 'nanta-murteh sahasra-
>|sirasa ekasminn eva sirsani dhriyamanam siddhartha iva
>|laksyate.
1390|"Lord Anantadeva has thousands of hoods. Each sustains a
>|global sphere that appears like a grain of mustard."
1391|Adi 5.120
1392|TEXT 120
1393|TEXT
1394|sei ta' 'ananta' 'sesa'-bhakta-avatara
1395|isvarera seva vina nahi jane ara
1396|SYNONYMS
1397|sei ta'-that; ananta-Lord Ananta; sesa-the incarnation Sesa;
>| bhakta-avatara-incarnation of a devotee; isvarera seva-the
>|service of the Lord; vina-without; nahi-not; jane-knows;
>|ara-anything else.
1398|TRANSLATION
1399|That Ananta Sesa is the devotee incarnation of Godhead. He
>|knows nothing but service to Lord Krsna.
1400|PURPORT
1401|Srila Jiva Gosvami, in his Krsna-sandarbha, has described
>|Sesa Naga as follows: "Sri Anantadeva has thousands of
>|faces and is fully independent. Always ready to serve the
>|Supreme Personality of Godhead, He waits upon Him
>|constantly. Sankarsana is the first expansion of Vasudeva,
>|and because He appears by His own will, He is called svarat,
>| fully independent. He is therefore infinite and
>|transcendental to all limits of time and space. He Himself
>|appears as the thousand-headed Sesa." In the Skanda Purana,
>|in the Ayodhya-mahatmya chapter, the demigod Indra
>|requested Lord Sesa, who was standing before him as
>|Laksmana, "Please go to Your eternal abode, Visnuloka,
>|where Your expansion Sesa, with His serpentine hoods, is
>|also present." After thus dispatching Laksmana to the
>|regions of Patala, Lord Indra returned to his abode. This
>|quotation indicates that the Sankarsana of the quadruple
>|form descends with Lord Rama as Laksmana. When Lord Rama
>|disappears, Sesa again separates Himself from the
>|personality of Laksmana. Sesa then returns to His own abode
>|in the Patala regions, and Laksmana returns to His abode in
>|Vaikuntha.
1402|The Laghu-bhagavatamrta gives the following description: "
>|The Sankarsana of the second group of quadruple forms
>|appears as Rama, taking with Him Sesa, who bears the global
>|spheres. There are two features of Sesa. One is the bearer
>|of the globes, and the other is the bedstead servitor. The
>|Sesa who bears the globes is a potent incarnation of
>|Sankarsana, and therefore He is sometimes also called
>|Sankarsana. The bedstead feature of Sesa always presents
>|himself as an eternal servitor of the Lord."
1403|Adi 5.121
1404|TEXT 121
1405|TEXT
1406|sahasra-vadane kare krsna-guna gana
1407|niravadhi guna ga'na, anta nahi pa'na
1408|SYNONYMS
1409|sahasra-vadane-in thousands of mouths; kare-does; krsna-
>|guna gana-chanting of the holy attributes of Krsna;
>|niravadhi-continuously; guna ga'na-chanting of the
>|transcendental qualities; anta nahi pa'na-does not reach
>|the end.
1410|TRANSLATION
1411|With His thousands of mouths He sings the glories of Lord
>|Krsna, but although He always sings in that way, He does
>|not find an end to the qualities of the Lord.
1412|Adi 5.122
1413|TEXT 122
1414|TEXT
1415|sanakadi bhagavata sune yanra mukhe
1416|bhagavanera guna kahe, bhase prema-sukhe
1417|SYNONYMS
1418|sanaka-adi-the great sages headed by Sanaka, Sananda, etc.;
>|bhagavata-Srimad-Bhagavatam; sune-hear; yanra mukhe-from
>|whose mouth; bhagavanera-of the Personality of Godhead;
>|guna-attributes; kahe-say; bhase-float; prema-sukhe-in the
>|transcendental bliss of love of Godhead.
1419|TRANSLATION
1420|The four Kumaras hear Srimad-Bhagavatam from His lips, and
>|they in turn repeat it in the transcendental bliss of love
>|of Godhead.
1421|Adi 5.123
1422|TEXT 123
1423|TEXT
1424|chatra, paduka, sayya, upadhana, vasana
1425|arama, avasa, yajna-sutra, simhasana
1426|SYNONYMS
1427|chatra-umbrella; paduka-slippers; sayya-bed; upadhana-
>|pillow; vasana-garments; arama-resting chair; avasa-
>|residence; yajna-sutra-sacred thread; simha-asana-throne.
1428|TRANSLATION
1429|He serves Lord Krsna, assuming all the following forms:
>|umbrella, slippers, bedding, pillow, garments, resting
>|chair, residence, sacred thread and throne.
1430|Adi 5.124
1431|TEXT 124
1432|TEXT
1433|eta murti-bheda kari' krsna-seva kare
1434|krsnera sesata pana 'sesa' nama dhare
1435|SYNONYMS
1436|eta-so many; murti-bheda-different forms; kari'-taking;
>|krsna-seva kare-serves Lord Krsna; krsnera-of Lord Krsna;
>|sesata-ultimate end; pana-having reached; sesa nama dhare-
>|assumes the name Sesa Naga.
1437|TRANSLATION
1438|He is thus called Lord Sesa, for He has attained the
>|ultimate end of servitude to Krsna. He takes many forms for
>|the service of Krsna, and thus He serves the Lord.
1439|Adi 5.125
1440|TEXT 125
1441|TEXT
1442|sei ta' ananta, yanra kahi eka kala
1443|hena prabhu nityananda, ke jane tanra khela
1444|SYNONYMS
1445|sei ta'-that; ananta-Lord Ananta; yanra-of whom; kahi-I say;
>| eka kala-one part of the part; hena-such; prabhu
>|nityananda-Lord Nityananda Prabhu; ke-who; jane-knows;
>|tanra-His; khela-pastimes.
1446|TRANSLATION
1447|That person of whom Lord Ananta is a kala, or part of a
>|plenary part, is Lord Nityananda Prabhu. Who, therefore,
>|can know the pastimes of Lord Nityananda?
1448|Adi 5.126
1449|TEXT 126
1450|TEXT
1451|e-saba pramane jani nityananda-tattva-sima
1452|tanhake 'ananta' kahi, ki tanra mahima
1453|SYNONYMS
1454|e-saba-all these; pramane-by the evidences; jani-I know;
>|nityananda-tattva-sima-the limit of the truth of Lord
>|Nityananda; tanhake-to Him (Lord Nityananda, Balarama);
>|ananta-Lord Ananta; kahi-if I say; ki tanre mahima-what
>|glory do I speak about Him.
1455|TRANSLATION
1456|From these conclusions we can know the limit of the truth
>|of Lord Nityananda. But what glory is there in calling Him
>|Ananta?
1457|Adi 5.127
1458|TEXT 127
1459|TEXT
1460|athava bhaktera vakya mani satya kari'
1461|sakala sambhave tante, yate avatari
1462|SYNONYMS
1463|athava-otherwise; bhaktera vakya-anything spoken by a pure
>|devotee; mani-I accept; satya kari'-as truth; sakala-
>|everything; sambhave-possible; tante-in Him; yate-since;
>|avatari-the original source of all incarnations.
1464|TRANSLATION
1465|But I accept it as the truth because it has been said by
>|devotees. Since He is the source of all incarnations,
>|everything is possible in Him.
1466|Adi 5.128
1467|TEXT 128
1468|TEXT
1469|avatara-avatari-abheda, ye jane
1470|purve yaiche krsnake keho kaho kari' mane
1471|SYNONYMS
1472|avatara-avatari-an incarnation and the source of all
>|incarnations; abheda-identical; ye jane-anyone who knows;
>|purve-formerly; yaiche-just as; krsnake-unto Lord Krsna;
>|keho-somebody; kaho-somewhere; kari'-making; mane-accepts.
1473|TRANSLATION
1474|They know that there is no difference between the
>|incarnation and the source of all incarnations. Previously
>|Lord Krsna was regarded in the light of different
>|principles by different people.
1475|Adi 5.129
1476|TEXT 129
1477|TEXT
1478|keho kahe, krsna saksat nara-narayana
1479|keho kahe, krsna haya saksat vamana
1480|SYNONYMS
1481|keho kahe-someone says; krsna-Lord Krsna; saksat-directly;
>|nara-narayana-Lord Nara-Narayana; keho kahe-someone says;
>|krsna haya-Krsna is; saksat vamana-Lord Vamanadeva.
1482|TRANSLATION
1483|Some said that Krsna was directly Lord Nara-Narayana, and
>|some called Him Lord Vamanadeva incarnate.
1484|Adi 5.130
1485|TEXT 130
1486|TEXT
1487|keho kahe, krsna ksiroda-sayi avatara
1488|asambhava nahe, satya vacana sabara
1489|SYNONYMS
1490|keho kahe-someone says; krsna-Lord Krsna; ksiroda-sayi
>|avatara-an incarnation of Lord Visnu lying in the ocean of
>|milk; asambhava nahe-there is not impossibility; satya-true;
>| vacana sabara-everyone's statement.
1491|TRANSLATION
1492|Some called Lord Krsna an incarnation of Lord Ksirodakasayi.
>| All these names are true; nothing is impossible.
1493|Adi 5.131
1494|TEXT 131
1495|TEXT
1496|krsna yabe avatare sarvamsa-asraya
1497|sarvamsa asi' tabe krsnete milaya
1498|SYNONYMS
1499|krsna-Lord Krsna; yabe-when; avatare-descends; sarva-amsa-
>|asraya-the shelter of all other visnu-tattvas; sarva-amsa-
>|all plenary portions; asi'-coming; tabe-at that time;
>|krsnete-in Krsna; milaya-join.
1500|TRANSLATION
1501|When the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krsna appears, He
>|is the shelter of all plenary parts. Thus at that time all
>|His plenary portions join in Him.
1502|Adi 5.132
1503|TEXT 132
1504|TEXT
1505|yei yei rupe jane, sei taha kahe
1506|sakala sambhave krsne, kichu mithya nahe
1507|SYNONYMS
1508|yei yei-whatever; rupe-in the form; jane-one knows; sei-he;
>|taha-that; kahe-says; sakala sambhave krsne-everything is
>|possible in Krsna; kichu mithya nahe-there is no falsity.
1509|TRANSLATION
1510|In whatever form one knows the Lord, one speaks of Him in
>|that way. In this there is no falsity, since everything is
>|possible in Krsna.
1511|PURPORT
1512|In this connection we may mention an incident that took
>|place between two of our sannyasis while we were preaching
>|the Hare Krsna maha-mantra in Hyderabad. One of them stated
>|that "Hare Rama" refers to Sri Balarama, and the other
>|protested that "Hare Rama" means Lord Rama. Ultimately the
>|controversy came to me, and I gave the decision that if
>|someone says that "Rama" in "Hare Rama" is Lord
>|Ramacandra and someone else says that the "Rama" in "Hare
>|Rama" is Sri Balarama, both are correct because there is no
>|difference between Sri Balarama and Lord Rama. Here in Sri
>|Caitanya-caritamrta we find that Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami
>|has stated the same conclusion:
1513|yei yei rupe jane, sei taha kahe
1514|sakala sambhave krsne, kichu mithya nahe
1515|If someone calls Lord Ramacandra by the vibration Hare Rama,
>| or if he understands " Ramacandra ," he
>|is quite right. Similarly, if one says that Hare Rama means
>|Sri Balarama , he is also right. Those who are aware
>|of the visnu-tattva do not fight over all these details.
1516|In the Laghu-bhagavatamrta Srila Rupa Gosvami has explained
>|Krsna's being both Ksirodakasayi Visnu and Narayana in the
>|spiritual sky and expanding in quadruple forms like
>| Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha. He has
>|refuted the idea that Krsna is an incarnation of Narayana.
>|Some devotees think that Narayana is the original
>|Personality of Godhead and that Krsna is an incarnation.
>|Even Sankaracarya, in his commentary on the Bhagavad-gita,
>|has accepted Narayana as the transcendental Personality of
>|Godhead who appeared as Krsna, the son of Devaki and
>|Vasudeva. Therefore this matter may be difficult to
>|understand. But the Gaudiya Vaisnava-sampradaya, headed by
>|Rupa Gosvami, has established the principle of the Bhagavad-
>|gita that everything emanates from Krsna, who says in the
>|Bhagavad-gita, aham sarvasya prabhavah: "I am
>|the original source of everything." "Everything" includes
>|Narayana. Therefore Rupa Gosvami, in his Laghu-
>|bhagavatamrta, has established that Krsna, not Narayana, is
>|the original Personality of Godhead.
1517|In this connection he has quoted a verse from Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam (3.2.15) that states:
1518|sva-santa-rupesv itaraih svarupair
1519|abhyardyamanesv anukampitatma
1520|paravareso mahad-amsa-yukto
1521|hy ajo 'pi jato bhagavan yathagnih
1522|"When pure devotees of the Lord like Vasudeva are greatly
>|disturbed by dangerous demons like Kamsa, Lord Krsna joins
>|with all His pastime expansions, such as the Lord of
>|Vaikuntha, and, although unborn, becomes manifest, just as
>|fire becomes manifest by the friction of arani wood." Arani
>|wood is used to ignite a sacrificial fire without matches
>|or any other flame. Just as fire appears from arani wood,
>|the Supreme Lord appears when there is friction between
>|devotees and nondevotees. When Krsna appears, He appears in
>|full, including within Himself all His expansions like
>|Narayana, Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Aniruddha and Pradyumna.
>|Krsna is always integrated with His other incarnations,
>|like Nrsimhadeva, Varaha, Vamana, Nara-Narayana, Hayagriva
>|and Ajita. In Vrndavana sometimes Lord Krsna
>|exhibits the functions of such incarnations.
1523|In the Brahmanda Purana it is said: "The same Personality
>|of Godhead who is known in Vaikuntha as the four-handed
>|Narayana, the friend of all living entities, and in the
>|milk ocean as the Lord of Svetadvipa, and who is the best
>|of all purusas, appeared as the son of Nanda. In a fire
>|there are many sparks of different dimensions; some of them
>|are very big, and some are small. The small sparks are
>|compared to the living entities, and the large sparks are
>|compared to the Visnu expansions of Lord Krsna. All the
>|incarnations emanate from Krsna, and after the end of their
>|pastimes they again merge with Krsna."
1524|Therefore in the various Puranas Krsna is described
>|sometimes as Narayana, sometimes as Ksirodakasayi Visnu,
>|sometimes as Garbhodakasayi Visnu and sometimes as
>|Vaikunthanatha, the Lord of Vaikuntha. Because Krsna is
>|always full, Mula-sankarsana is in Krsna, and since all
>|incarnations are manifested from Mula-sankarsana, it should
>|be understood that He can manifest different incarnations
>|by His supreme will, even in the presence of Krsna. Great
>|sages have therefore glorified the Lord by different names.
>|Thus when the original person, the source of all
>|incarnations, is sometimes described as an incarnation,
>|there is no discrepancy.
1525|Adi 5.133
1526|TEXT 133
1527|TEXT
1528|ataeva sri-krsna-caitanya gosani
1529|sarva avatara-lila kari' sabare dekhai
1530|SYNONYMS
1531|ataeva-therefore; sri-krsna-caitanya-Lord Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; gosani-the Lord; sarva-all; avatara-lila-the
>|pastimes of different incarnations; kari'-exhibiting;
>|sabare-to everyone; dekhai-He showed.
1532|TRANSLATION
1533|Therefore Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has exhibited to
>|everyone all the pastimes of all the various incarnations.
1534|Adi 5.134
1535|TEXT 134
1536|TEXT
1537|ei-rupe nityananda 'ananta'-prakasa
1538|sei-bhave-kahe muni caitanyera dasa
1539|SYNONYMS
1540|ei-rupe-in this way; nityananda-Lord Nityananda; ananta-
>|prakasa-unlimited manifestations; sei-bhave-in that
>|transcendental emotion; kahe-He says; muni-I; caitanyera
>|dasa-the servant of Lord Caitanya.
1541|TRANSLATION
1542|Thus Lord Nityananda has unlimited incarnations. In
>|transcendental emotion He calls Himself a servant of Lord
>|Caitanya.
1543|Adi 5.135
1544|TEXT 135
1545|TEXT
1546|kabhu guru, kabhu sakha, kabhu bhrtya-lila
1547|purve yena tina-bhave vraje kaila khela
1548|SYNONYMS
1549|kabhu-sometimes; guru-spiritual master; kabhu-sometimes;
>|sakha-friend; kabhu-sometimes; bhrtya-lila-pastimes as a
>|servant; purve-formerly; yena-as; tina-bhave-in three
>|different modes; vraje-in Vrndavana; kaila khela- played
>|with Krsna.
1550|TRANSLATION
1551|Sometimes He serves Lord Caitanya as His guru, sometimes as
>|His friend and sometimes as His servant, just as Lord
>|Balarama played with Lord Krsna in these three different
>|modes in Vraja.
1552|Adi 5.136
1553|TEXT 136
1554|TEXT
1555|vrsa hana krsna-sane matha-mathi rana
1556|kabhu krsna kare tanra pada-samvahana
1557|SYNONYMS
1558|vrsa hana-becoming a bull; krsna-sane-with Krsna; matha-
>|mathi rana-fighting head to head; kabhu-sometimes; krsna-
>|Krsna; kare-does; tanra-His; pada-samvahana-massaging the
>|feet.
1559|TRANSLATION
1560|Playing like a bull, Lord Balarama fights with Krsna head
>|to head. And sometimes Lord Krsna massages the feet of Lord
>|Balarama.
1561|Adi 5.137
1562|TEXT 137
1563|TEXT
1564|apanake bhrtya kari' krsne prabhu jane
1565|krsnera kalara kala apanake mane
1566|SYNONYMS
1567|apanake-Himself; bhrtya kari'-considering a servant; krsna-
>|Krsna; prabhu-master; jane-He knows; krsnera-of Lord Krsna;
>|kalara kala-as a plenary portion of a plenary portion;
>|apanake-Himself; mane-He accepts.
1568|TRANSLATION
1569|He considers Himself a servant and knows Krsna to be His
>|master. Thus He regards Himself as a fragment of His
>|plenary portion.
1570|Adi 5.138
1571|TEXT 138
1572|TEXT
1573|vrsayamanau nardantau
1574|yuyudhate parasparam
1575|anukrtya rutair jantums
1576|ceratuh prakrtau yatha
1577|SYNONYMS
1578|vrsayamanau-becoming like bulls; nardantau-making roaring
>|sounds; yuyudhate-both used to fight; parasparam-each other;
>| anukrtya-imitating; rutaih-with cries; jantun-the animals;
>|ceratuh-used to play; prakrtau-ordinary boys; yatha-just
>|like.
1579|TRANSLATION
1580|"Acting just like ordinary boys, They played like roaring
>|bulls as They fought each other, and They imitated the
>|calls of various animals."
1581|PURPORT
1582|This and the following quotation are from the Bhagavatam (
>|10.11.40 and 10.15.14).
1583|Adi 5.139
1584|TEXT 139
1585|TEXT
1586|kvacit krida-parisrantam
1587|gopotsangopabarhanam
1588|svayam visramayaty aryam
1589|pada-samvahanadibhih
1590|SYNONYMS
1591|kvacit-sometimes; krida-playing; parisrantam-very much
>|fatigued; gopa-utsanga-the lap of a cowherd boy;
>|upabarhanam-whose pillow; svayam-personally Lord Krsna;
>|visramayati-causing to rest; aryam-His elder brother; pada-
>|samvahana-adibhih-by massaging His feet, etc.
1592|TRANSLATION
1593|"Sometimes when Lord Krsna's elder brother, Lord Balarama,
>|felt tired after playing and lay His head on the lap of a
>|cowherd boy, Lord Krsna Himself served Him by massaging His
>|feet."
1594|Adi 5.140
1595|TEXT 140
1596|TEXT
1597|keyam va kuta ayata
1598|daivi va nary utasuri
1599|prayo mayastu me bhartur
1600|nanya me 'pi vimohini
1601|SYNONYMS
1602|ka-who; iyam-this; va-or; kutah-from where; ayata-has come;
>|daivi-whether demigod; va-or; nari-woman; uta-or; asuri-
>|demoness; prayah-in most cases; maya-illusory energy; astu-
>|she must be; me-My; bhartuh-of the master, Lord Krsna; na-
>|not; anya-any other; me-My; api-certainly; vimohini-
>|bewilderer.
1603|TRANSLATION
1604|"Who is this mystic power, and where has she come from? Is
>|she a demigod or a demoness? She must be the illusory
>|energy of My master, Lord Krsna, for who else can bewilder
>|Me?"
1605|PURPORT
1606|The playful pastimes of the Lord caused suspicion in the
>|mind of Lord Brahma, and therefore Lord Brahma, to test
>|Krsna's Lordship, stole all the Lord's cows and cowherd
>|boys with his own mystic power. Sri Krsna responded,
>|however, by replacing all the cows and boys in the field.
>|Lord Balarama's thoughts of astonishment at such wonderful
>|retaliation are recorded in this verse ( Bhag . 10.13.37).
1607|Adi 5.141
1608|TEXT 141
1609|TEXT
1610|yasyanghri-pankaja-rajo 'khila-loka-palair
1611|mauly-uttamair dhrtam upasita-tirtha-tirtham
1612|brahma bhavo 'ham api yasya kalah kalayah
1613|sris codvahema ciram asya nrpasanam kva
1614|SYNONYMS
1615|yasya-whose; anghri-pankaja-lotuslike feet; rajah-the dust;
>|akhila-loka-of the universal planetary systems; palaih-by
>|the masters; mauli-uttamaih-with valuable turbans on their
>|heads; dhrtam-accepted; upasita-worshiped; tirtha-tirtham-
>|the sanctifier of the holy places; brahma-Lord Brahma;
>|bhavah-Lord Siva; aham api-even I; yasya-of whom; kalah-
>|portions; kalayah-of a plenary portion; srih-the goddess of
>|fortune; ca-and; udvahema-we carry; ciram-eternally; asya-
>|of Him; nrpa-asanam-the throne of a king; kva-where.
1616|TRANSLATION
1617|"What is the value of a throne to Lord Krsna? The masters
>|of the various planetary systems accept the dust of His
>|lotus feet on their crowned heads. That dust makes the holy
>|places sacred, and even Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, Laksmi and
>|I Myself, who are all portions of His plenary portion,
>|eternally carry that dust on our heads."
1618|PURPORT
1619|When the Kauravas, to flatter Baladeva so that He would
>|become their ally, spoke ill of Sri Krsna, Lord Baladeva
>|was angry and spoke this verse ( Bhag . 10.68.37).
1620|Adi 5.142
1621|TEXT 142
1622|TEXT
1623|ekale isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya
1624|yare yaiche nacaya, se taiche kare nrtya
1625|SYNONYMS
1626|ekale-alone; isvara-the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
>|krsna-Krsna; ara-others; saba-all; bhrtya-servants; yare-
>|unto whom; yaiche-as; nacaya-He causes to dance; se-He;
>|taiche-in that way; kare nrtya-dances.
1627|TRANSLATION
1628|Lord Krsna alone is the supreme controller, and all others
>|are His servants. They dance as He makes them do so.
1629|Adi 5.143
1630|TEXT 143
1631|TEXT
1632|ei mata caitanya-gosani ekale isvara
1633|ara saba parisada, keha va kinkara
1634|SYNONYMS
1635|ei mata-in this way; caitanya-gosani-Lord Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; ekale-alone; isvara-the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead; ara saba-all others; parisada-associates; keha-
>|someone; va-or; kinkara-servants.
1636|TRANSLATION
1637|Thus Lord Caitanya is also the only controller. All others
>|are His associates or servants.
1638|Adi 5.144-145
1639|TEXTS 144-145
1640|TEXT
1641|guru-varga,-nityananda, advaita acarya
1642|srivasadi, ara yata-laghu, sama, arya
1643|sabe parisada, sabe lilara sahaya
1644|saba lana nija-karya sadhe gaura-raya
1645|SYNONYMS
1646|guru-varga-elders; nityananda-Lord Nityananda; advaita
>|acarya-and Advaita Acarya; srivasa-adi-Srivasa Thakura and
>|others; ara-others; yata-all; laghu, sama, arya-junior,
>|equal or superior; sabe-everyone; parisada-associates; sabe-
>|everyone; lilara sahaya-helpers in the pastimes; saba lana-
>|taking all of them; nija-karya-His own aims; sadhe-executes;
>| gaura-raya-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
1647|TRANSLATION
1648|His elders such as Lord Nityananda, Advaita Acarya and
>|Srivasa Thakura, as well as His other devotees-whether His
>|juniors, equals or superiors-are all His associates who
>|help Him in His pastimes. Lord Gauranga fulfills His aims
>|with their help.
1649|Adi 5.146
1650|TEXT 146
1651|TEXT
1652|advaita acarya, nityananda,-dui anga
1653|dui-jana lana prabhura yata kichu ranga
1654|SYNONYMS
1655|advaita acarya-Sri Advaita Acarya; nityananda-Lord
>|Nityananda; dui anga-two limbs of the Lord; dui-jana lana-
>|taking the two of Them; prabhura-of Lord Sri Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu; yata-all; kichu-some; ranga-playful activities.
1656|TRANSLATION
1657|Sri Advaita Acarya and Srila Nityananda Prabhu, who are
>|plenary parts of the Lord, are His principal associates.
>|With these two the Lord performs His pastimes in various
>|ways.
1658|Adi 5.147
1659|TEXT 147
1660|TEXT
1661|advaita-acarya-gosani saksat isvara
1662|prabhu guru kari' mane, tinho ta' kinkara
1663|SYNONYMS
1664|advaita-acarya-of the name Advaita Acarya; gosani-the Lord;
>|saksat isvara-directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead;
>|prabhu-Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; guru kari' mane-
>|accepts Him as His teacher; tinho ta' kinkara-but He is the
>|servant.
1665|TRANSLATION
1666|Lord Advaita Acarya is directly the Supreme Personality of
>|Godhead. Although Lord Caitanya accepts Him as His
>|preceptor, Advaita Acarya is a servant of the Lord.
1667|PURPORT
1668|Lord Caitanya always offered respects to Advaita Prabhu as
>|He would to His father because Advaita was even older than
>|His father; yet Advaita Prabhu always considered Himself a
>|servant of Lord Caitanya. Sri Advaita Prabhu and Isvara
>|Puri, Lord Caitanya's spiritual master, were both disciples
>|of Madhavendra Puri, who was also the spiritual master of
>|Nityananda Prabhu. Thus Advaita Prabhu, as Lord Caitanya's
>|spiritual uncle, was always to be respected because one
>|should respect one's spiritual master's Godbrothers as one
>|respects one's spiritual master. Because of all these
>|considerations, Sri Advaita Prabhu was superior to Lord
>|Caitanya, yet Advaita Prabhu considered Himself Lord
>|Caitanya's subordinate.
1669|Adi 5.148
1670|TEXT 148
1671|TEXT
1672|acarya-gosanira tattva na yaya kathana
1673|krsna avatari yenho tarila bhuvana
1674|SYNONYMS
1675|acarya-gosanira-of Advaita Acarya; tattva-the truth; na
>|yaya kathana-cannot be described; krsna-Lord Krsna; avatari-
>|making descend; yenho-who; tarila-delivered; bhuvana-all
>|the world.
1676|TRANSLATION
1677|I cannot describe the truth of Advaita Acarya. He has
>|delivered the entire world by making Lord Krsna descend.
1678|Adi 5.149
1679|TEXT 149
1680|TEXT
1681|nityananda-svarupa purve ha-iya laksmana
1682|laghu-bhrata haiya kare ramera sevana
1683|SYNONYMS
1684|nityananda-svarupa-Lord Nityananda Svarupa; purve-formerly;
>|ha-iya-becoming; laksmana-Laksmana, Lord Ramacandra's
>|younger brother; laghu-bhratra haiya-becoming the younger
>|brother; kare-does; ramera sevana-service to Lord
>|Ramacandra.
1685|TRANSLATION
1686|Lord Nityananda Svarupa formerly appeared as Laksmana and
>|served Lord Ramacandra as His younger brother.
1687|PURPORT
1688|Among the sannyasis of the Sankara-sampradaya there are
>|different names for brahmacaris. Each sannyasi has some
>|assistants, known as brahmacaris, who are called by
>|different names according to the names of the sannyasi.
>|Among such brahmacaris there are four names: Svarupa,
>|Ananda, Prakasa and Caitanya. Nityananda Prabhu maintained
>|Himself as a brahmacari; He never took sannyasa. As a
>|brahmacari His name was Nityananda Svarupa, and therefore
>|the sannyasi under whom He was living must have been from
>|the tirthas or asramas
>|
>|.
1689|Adi 5.150
1690|TEXT 150
1691|TEXT
1692|ramera caritra saba,-duhkhera karana
1693|svatantra lilaya duhkha sahena laksmana
1694|SYNONYMS
1695|ramera caritra saba-all the activities of Lord Ramacandra;
>|duhkhera karana-causes of suffering; sva-tantra-although
>|independent; lilaya-in the pastimes; duhkha-unhappiness;
>|sahena laksmana-Laksmana tolerates.
1696|TRANSLATION
1697|The activities of Lord Rama were full of suffering, but
>|Laksmana, of His own accord, tolerated that suffering.
1698|Adi 5.151
1699|TEXT 151
1700|TEXT
1701|nisedha karite nare, yate chota bhai
1702|mauna dhari' rahe laksmana mane duhkha pai'
1703|SYNONYMS
1704|nisedha karite nare-unable to prohibit Lord Ramacandra;
>|yate-because; chota bhai-younger brother; mauna dhari'-
>|becoming silent; rahe-remains; laksmana-Laksmana; mane-in
>|the mind; duhkha-unhappiness; pai'-getting.
1705|TRANSLATION
1706|As a younger brother He could not stop Lord Rama from His
>|resolution, and so He remained silent, although unhappy in
>|His mind.
1707|Adi 5.152
1708|TEXT 152
1709|TEXT
1710|krsna-avatare jyestha haila sevara karana
1711|krsnake karaila nana sukha asvadana
1712|SYNONYMS
1713|krsna-avatare-in the incarnation of Lord Krsna; jyestha
>|haila-He became the elder brother; sevara karana-for the
>|purpose of service; krsnake-to Krsna; karaila-made; nana-
>|various; sukha-happinesses; asvadana-tasting.
1714|TRANSLATION
1715|When Lord Krsna appeared, He [Balarama] became His elder
>|brother to serve Him to His heart's content and make Him
>|enjoy all sorts of happiness.
1716|Adi 5.153
1717|TEXT 153
1718|TEXT
1719|rama-laksmana-krsna-ramera amsa-visesa
1720|avatara-kale donhe donhate pravesa
1721|SYNONYMS
1722|rama-laksmana-Ramacandra and Laksmana; krsna-ramera amsa-
>|visesa-particular expansions of Lord Krsna and Lord
>|Balarama; avatara-kale-at the time of incarnation; donhe-
>|both of Them (Rama and Laksmana); donhate pravesa-entered
>|into Them both (Krsna and Balarama).
1723|TRANSLATION
1724|Sri Rama and Sri Laksmana, who are plenary portions of Lord
>|Krsna and Lord Balarama, entered into Them at
>|the time of Krsna's and Balarama's appearance.
1725|PURPORT
1726|With reference to the Visnu-dharmottara, the Laghu-
>|bhagavatamrta explains that Rama is an incarnation of
>|Vasudeva, Laksmana is an incarnation of Sankarsana, Bharata
>|is an incarnation of Pradyumna, and Satrughna is an
>|incarnation of Aniruddha. The Padma Purana describes that
>|Ramacandra is Narayana and that Laksmana, Bharata and
>|Satrughna are respectively Sesa, Cakra and Sankha (the
>|conchshell in the hand of Narayana). In the Rama-gita of
>|the Skanda Purana, Laksmana, Bharata and Satrughna have
>|been described as the triple attendants of Lord Rama.
1727|Adi 5.154
1728|TEXT 154
1729|TEXT
1730|sei amsa lana jyestha-kanisthabhimana
1731|amsamsi-rupe sastre karaye vyakhyana
1732|SYNONYMS
1733|sei amsa lana-taking that plenary portion; jyestha-kanistha-
>|abhimana-considering Themselves the elder or younger; amsa-
>|amsi-rupe-as the expansion and the original Supreme
>|Personality of Godhead; sastre-in the revealed scriptures;
>|karaye-does; vyakhyana-explanation.
1734|TRANSLATION
1735|Krsna and Balarama present Themselves as elder or
>|younger brother, but in the scriptures They are
>|described as the original Supreme Personality of Godhead
>|and His expansion.
1736|Adi 5.155
1737|TEXT 155
1738|TEXT
1739|ramadi-murtisu kala-niyamena tisthan
1740|nanavataram akarod bhuvanesu kintu
1741|krsnah svayam samabhavat paramah puman yo
1742|govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
1743|SYNONYMS
1744|rama-adi-the incarnation of Lord Rama, etc.; murtisu-in
>|different forms; kala-niyamena-by the order of plenary
>|portions; tisthan-existing; nana-various; avataram-
>|incarnations; akarot-executed; bhuvanesu-within the worlds;
>|kintu-but; krsnah-Lord Krsna; svayam-personally; samabhavat-
>|appeared; paramah-the supreme; puman-person; yah-who;
>|govindam-unto Lord Govinda; adi-purusam-the original person;
>| tam-unto Him; aham-I; bhajami-offer obeisances.
1745|TRANSLATION
1746|"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who by His various
>|plenary portions appeared in the world in different forms
>|and incarnations such as Lord Rama, but who personally
>|appears in His supreme original form as Lord Krsna."
1747|PURPORT
1748|This is a quotation from Brahma-samhita (5.39).
1749|Adi 5.156
1750|TEXT 156
1751|TEXT
1752|sri-caitanya-sei krsna, nityananda-rama
1753|nityananda purna kare caitanyera kama
1754|SYNONYMS
1755|sri-caitanya-Lord Sri Caitanya; sei krsna-that original
>|Krsna; nityananda-Lord Nityananda; rama-Balarama;
>|nityananda-Lord Nityananda; purna kare-fulfills; caitanyera
>|kama-all the desires of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
1756|TRANSLATION
1757|Lord Caitanya is the same Lord Krsna, and Lord Nityananda
>|is Lord Balarama. Lord Nityananda fulfills all of Lord
>|Caitanya's desires.
1758|Adi 5.157
1759|TEXT 157
1760|TEXT
1761|nityananda-mahima-sindhu ananta, apara
1762|eka kana sparsi matra,-se krpa tanhara
1763|SYNONYMS
1764|nityananda-mahima-of the glories of Lord Nityananda; sindhu-
>|the ocean; ananta-unlimited; apara-unfathomed; eka kana-one
>|fragment; sparsi-I touch; matra-only; se-that; krpa-mercy;
>|tanhara-His.
1765|TRANSLATION
1766|The ocean of Lord Nityananda's glories is infinite and
>|unfathomable. Only by His mercy can I touch even a drop of
>|it.
1767|Adi 5.158
1768|TEXT 158
1769|TEXT
1770|ara eka suna tanra krpara mahima
1771|adhama jivere cadhaila urdhva-sima
1772|SYNONYMS
1773|ara-another; eka-one; suna-please hear; tanra krpara mahima-
>|glory of His mercy; adhama jivere-the downtrodden living
>|being; cadhaila-He elevated; urdhva-sima-to the topmost
>|limit.
1774|TRANSLATION
1775|Please listen to another glory of His mercy. He made a
>|fallen living entity climb to the highest limit.
1776|Adi 5.159
1777|TEXT 159
1778|TEXT
1779|veda-guhya katha ei ayogya kahite
1780|tathapi kahiye tanra krpa prakasite
1781|SYNONYMS
1782|veda-like the Vedas; guhya-very confidential; katha-
>|incident; ei-this; ayogya kahite-not fit to disclose;
>|tathapi-still; kahiye-I speak; tanra-His; krpa-mercy;
>|prakasite-to manifest.
1783|TRANSLATION
1784|To disclose it is not proper, for it should be kept as
>|confidential as the Vedas, yet I shall speak of it to make
>|His mercy known to all.
1785|Adi 5.160
1786|TEXT 160
1787|TEXT
1788|ullasa-upari lekhon tomara prasada
1789|nityananda prabhu, mora ksama aparadha
1790|SYNONYMS
1791|ullasa-upari-on account of great ecstasy; lekhon-I write;
>|tomara prasada-Your mercy; nityananda prabhu-Lord
>|Nityananda; mora-my; ksama-please excuse; aparadha-offenses.
1792|TRANSLATION
1793|O Lord Nityananda, I write of Your mercy out of great
>|exultation. Please forgive me for my offenses.
1794|Adi 5.161
1795|TEXT 161
1796|TEXT
1797|avadhuta gosanira eka bhrtya prema-dhama
1798|minaketana ramadasa haya tanra nama
1799|SYNONYMS
1800|avadhuta-the mendicant; gosanira-of Lord Nityananda; eka-
>|one; bhrtya-servant; prema-dhama-reservoir of love;
>|minaketana-Minaketana; rama-dasa-Ramadasa; haya-is; tanra-
>|his; nama-name.
1801|TRANSLATION
1802|Lord Nityananda Prabhu had a servant named Sri Minaketana
>|Ramadasa, who was a reservoir of love.
1803|Adi 5.162
1804|TEXT 162
1805|TEXT
1806|amara alaye aho-ratra-sankirtana
1807|tahate aila tenho pana nimantrana
1808|SYNONYMS
1809|amara alaye-at my house; ahah-ratra-day and night;
>|sankirtana-chanting the Hare Krsna mantra; tahate-on
>|account of this; aila-came; tenho-he; pana nimantrana-
>|getting an invitation.
1810|TRANSLATION
1811|At my house there was sankirtana day and night, and
>|therefore he visited there, having been invited.
1812|Adi 5.163
1813|TEXT 163
1814|TEXT
1815|maha-prema-maya tinho vasila angane
1816|sakala vaisnava tanra vandila carane
1817|SYNONYMS
1818|maha-prema-maya-absorbed in emotional love; tinho-he;
>|vasila-sat; angane-in the courtyard; sakala vaisnava-all
>|other Vaisnavas; tanra-his; vandila-worshiped; carane-lotus
>|feet.
1819|TRANSLATION
1820|Absorbed in emotional love, he sat in my courtyard, and all
>|the Vaisnavas bowed down at his feet.
1821|Adi 5.164
1822|TEXT 164
1823|TEXT
1824|namaskara karite, ka'ra uparete cade
1825|preme ka're vamsi mare, kahake capade
1826|SYNONYMS
1827|namaskara karite-while offering obeisances, bowing down; ka'
>|ra-of someone; uparete-on the body; cade-gets up; preme-in
>|ecstatic love; ka're-someone; vamsi-the flute; mare-strikes;
>| kahake-someone; capade-slaps.
1828|TRANSLATION
1829|In a joyful mood of love of God he sometimes climbed upon
>|the shoulder of someone offering obeisances, and sometimes
>|he struck others with his flute or mildly slapped them.
1830|Adi 5.165
1831|TEXT 165
1832|TEXT
1833|ye nayana dekhite asru haya mane yara
1834|sei netre avicchinna vahe asru-dhara
1835|SYNONYMS
1836|ye-his; nayana-eyes; dekhite-seeing; asru-tears; haya-
>|appear; mane-from the mind; yara-of someone; sei netre-in
>|his eyes; avicchinna-continuously; vahe-flows; asru-dhara-a
>|shower of tears.
1837|TRANSLATION
1838|When someone saw the eyes of Minaketana Ramadasa, tears
>|would automatically flow from his own eyes, for a constant
>|shower of tears flowed from the eyes of Minaketana Ramadasa.
1839|Adi 5.166
1840|TEXT 166
1841|TEXT
1842|kabhu kona ange dekhi pulaka-kadamba
1843|eka ange jadya tanra, ara ange kampa
1844|SYNONYMS
1845|kabhu-sometimes; kona-some; ange-in parts of the body;
>|dekhi-I see; pulaka-kadamba-eruptions of ecstasy like
>|kadamba flowers; eka ange-in one part of the body; jadya-
>|stunned; tanra-his; ara ange-in another limb; kampa-
>|trembling.
1846|TRANSLATION
1847|Sometimes there were eruptions of ecstasy like kadamba
>|flowers on some parts of his body, and sometimes one limb
>|would be stunned while another would be trembling.
1848|Adi 5.167
1849|TEXT 167
1850|TEXT
1851|nityananda bali' yabe karena hunkara
1852|taha dekhi' lokera haya maha-camatkara
1853|SYNONYMS
1854|nityananda-the name Nityananda; bali'-saying; yabe-whenever;
>| karena hunkara-makes a great sound; taha dekhi'-seeing
>|that; lokera-of the people; haya-there is; maha-camatkara-
>|great wonder and astonishment.
1855|TRANSLATION
1856|Whenever he shouted aloud the name Nityananda, the people
>|around him were filled with great wonder and astonishment.
1857|Adi 5.168
1858|TEXT 168
1859|TEXT
1860|gunarnava misra name eka vipra arya
1861|sri-murti-nikate tenho kare seva-karya
1862|SYNONYMS
1863|gunarnava misra-of Gunarnava Misra; name-by the name; eka-
>|one; vipra-brahmana; arya-very respectable; sri-murti-
>|nikate-by the side of the Deity; tenho-he; kare-does; seva-
>|karya-activities in devotion.
1864|TRANSLATION
1865|One respectable brahmana named Sri Gunarnava Misra was
>|serving the Deity.
1866|Adi 5.169
1867|TEXT 169
1868|TEXT
1869|angane asiya tenho na kaila sambhasa
1870|taha dekhi' kruddha hana bale ramadasa
1871|SYNONYMS
1872|angane-to the courtyard; asiya-coming; tenho-he; na-not;
>|kaila-did; sambhasa-address; taha dekhi'-seeing this;
>|kruddha hana-becoming angry; bale-says; rama-dasa-Sri
>|Ramadasa.
1873|TRANSLATION
1874|When Minaketana was seated in the yard, this brahmana did
>|not offer him respect. Seeing this, Sri Ramadasa became
>|angry and spoke.
1875|Adi 5.170
1876|TEXT 170
1877|TEXT
1878|'ei ta' dvitiya suta romaharasana
1879|baladeva dekhi' ye na kaila pratyudgama'
1880|SYNONYMS
1881|ei ta'-this; dvitiya-second; suta romaharasana-of the name
>|Romaharsana-suta; baladeva dekhi'-seeing Lord Balarama; ye-
>|who; na-not; kaila-did; pratyudgama-stand up.
1882|TRANSLATION
1883|"Here I find the second Romaharsana-suta, who did not stand
>|to show honor when he saw Lord Balarama."
1884|Adi 5.171
1885|TEXT 171
1886|TEXT
1887|eta bali' nace gaya, karaye santosa
1888|krsna-karya kare vipra-na karila rosa
1889|SYNONYMS
1890|eta bali'-saying this; nace-he dances; gaya-chants; karaye
>|santosa-becomes satisfied; krsna-karya-the duties of Deity
>|worship; kare-performs; vipra-the brahmana; na karila-did
>|not become; rosa-angry.
1891|TRANSLATION
1892|After saying this, he danced and sang to his heart's
>|content, but the brahmana did not become angry, for he was
>|then serving Lord Krsna.
1893|PURPORT
1894|Minaketana Ramadasa was a great devotee of Lord Nityananda.
>|When he entered the house of Krsnadasa Kaviraja, Gunarnava
>|Misra, the priest who was worshiping the Deity installed in
>|the house, did not receive him very well. A similar event
>|occurred when Romaharsana-suta was speaking to the great
>|assembly of sages at Naimisaranya. Lord Baladeva entered
>|that great assembly, but since Romaharsana-suta was on the
>|vyasasana, he did not get down to offer respect to Lord
>|Baladeva. The behavior of Gunarnava Misra indicated that he
>|had no great respect for Lord Nityananda, and this idea was
>|not at all palatable to Minaketana Ramadasa. For this
>|reason the mentality of Minaketana Ramadasa is never
>|deprecated by devotees.
1895|Adi 5.172
1896|TEXT 172
1897|TEXT
1898|utsavante gela tinho kariya prasada
1899|mora bhrata-sane tanra kichu haila vada
1900|SYNONYMS
1901|utsava-ante-after the festival; gela-went away; tinho-he;
>|kariya prasada-showing mercy; mora-of me; bhrata-sane-with
>|the brother; tanra-of him; kichu-some; haila-there was;
>|vada-controversy.
1902|TRANSLATION
1903|At the end of the festival Minaketana Ramadasa went away,
>|offering his blessings to everyone. At that time he had
>|some controversy with my brother.
1904|Adi 5.173
1905|TEXT 173
1906|TEXT
1907|caitanya-prabhute tanra sudrdha visvasa
1908|nityananda-prati tanra visvasa-abhasa
1909|SYNONYMS
1910|caitanya-prabhute-unto Lord Caitanya; tanra-his; su-drdha-
>|fixed; visvasa-faith; nityananda-prati-unto Lord Nityananda;
>| tanra-his; visvasa-abhasa-dim reflection of faith.
1911|TRANSLATION
1912|My brother had firm faith in Lord Caitanya but only a dim
>|glimmer of faith in Lord Nityananda.
1913|Adi 5.174
1914|TEXT 174
1915|TEXT
1916|iha jani' ramadasera duhkha ha-ila mane
1917|tabe ta' bhratare ami karinu bhartsane
1918|SYNONYMS
1919|iha-this; jani'-knowing; rama-dasera-of the saint Ramadasa;
>|duhkha-unhappiness; ha-ila-there was; mane-in the mind;
>|tabe-at that time; ta'-certainly; bhratare-to my brother;
>|ami-I; karinu-did; bhartsane-chastisement.
1920|TRANSLATION
1921|Knowing this, Sri Ramadasa felt unhappy in his mind. I then
>|rebuked my brother.
1922|Adi 5.175
1923|TEXT 175
1924|TEXT
1925|dui bhai eka-tanu-samana-prakasa
1926|nityananda na mana, tomara habe sarva-nasa
1927|SYNONYMS
1928|dui bhai-two brothers; eka-tanu-one body; samana-prakasa-
>|equal manifestation; nityananda-Lord Nityananda; na mane-
>|you do not believe; tomara-your; habe-that will be; sarva-
>|nasa-downfall.
1929|TRANSLATION
1930|"These two brothers," I told him, "are like one body; They
>|are identical manifestations. If you do not believe in Lord
>|Nityananda, you will fall down.
1931|Adi 5.176
1932|TEXT 176
1933|TEXT
1934|ekete visvasa, anye na kara sammana
1935|"ardha-kukkuti-nyaya" tomara pramana
1936|SYNONYMS
1937|ekete visvasa-faith in one; anye-in the other; na-not; kara-
>|do; sammana-respect; ardha-kukkuti-nyaya-the logic of
>|accepting half of a hen; tomara-your; pramana-evidence.
1938|TRANSLATION
1939|"If you have faith in one but disrespect the other, your
>|logic is like the logic of accepting half a hen.
1940|Adi 5.177
1941|TEXT 177
1942|TEXT
1943|kimva, donha na manina hao ta' pasanda
1944|eke mani' are na mani,-ei-mata bhanda
1945|SYNONYMS
1946|kimva-otherwise; donha-both of Them; na-not; manina-
>|accepting; hao-you become; ta'-certainly; pasanda-atheist;
>|eke-one of Them; mani'-accepting; are-the other; na mani-
>|not accepting; ei-mata-this kind of faith; bhanda-hypocrisy.
1947|TRANSLATION
1948|"It would be better to be an atheist by slighting both
>|brothers than a hypocrite by believing in one and slighting
>|the other."
1949|Adi 5.178
1950|TEXT 178
1951|TEXT
1952|kruddha haiya vamsi bhangi' cale ramadasa
1953|tat-kale amara bhratara haila sarva-nasa
1954|SYNONYMS
1955|kruddha haiya-being very angry; vamsi-the flute; bhangi'-
>|breaking; cale-departs; rama-dasa-of the name Ramadasa; tat-
>|kale-at that time; amara-my; bhratara-of the brother; haila-
>|there was; sarva-nasa-downfall.
1956|TRANSLATION
1957|Thus Sri Ramadasa broke his flute in anger and went away,
>|and at that time my brother fell down.
1958|Adi 5.179
1959|TEXT 179
1960|TEXT
1961|ei ta' kahila tanra sevaka-prabhava
1962|ara eka kahi tanra dayara svabhava
1963|SYNONYMS
1964|ei ta'-thus; kahila-explained; tanra-of Him; sevaka-
>|prabhava-the power of the servant; ara-other; eka-one; kahi-
>|I say; tanra-His; dayara-of mercy; svabhava-characteristic.
1965|TRANSLATION
1966|I have thus described the power of the servants of Lord
>|Nityananda. Now I shall describe another characteristic of
>|His mercy.
1967|Adi 5.180
1968|TEXT 180
1969|TEXT
1970|bhaike bhartsinu muni, lana ei guna
1971|sei ratre prabhu more dila darasana
1972|SYNONYMS
1973|bhaike-my brother; bhartsinu-chastised; muni-I; lana-taking;
>| ei-this; guna-as a good quality; sei ratre-on that night;
>|prabhu-my Lord; more-unto me; dila-gave; darasana-
>|appearance.
1974|TRANSLATION
1975|That night Lord Nityananda appeared to me in a dream
>|because of my good quality in chastising my brother.
1976|Adi 5.181
1977|TEXT 181
1978|TEXT
1979|naihati-nikate 'jhamatapura' name grama
1980|tanha svapne dekha dila nityananda-rama
1981|SYNONYMS
1982|naihati-nikate-near the village Naihati; jhamatapura-
>|Jhamatapura; name-by the name; grama-village; tanha-there;
>|svapne-in a dream; dekha-appearance; dila-gave; nityananda-
>|rama-Lord Nityananda Balarama.
1983|TRANSLATION
1984|In the village of Jhamatapura, which is near Naihati, Lord
>|Nityananda appeared to me in a dream.
1985|PURPORT
1986|There is now a railway line to Jhamatapura. If one wants to
>|go there, he can take a train on the Katwa railway line and
>|go directly to the station known as Salara. From that
>|station one can go directly to Jhamatapura.
1987|Adi 5.182
1988|TEXT 182
1989|TEXT
1990|dandavat haiya ami padinu payete
1991|nija-pada-padma prabhu dila mora mathe
1992|SYNONYMS
1993|dandavat haiya-offering obeisances; ami-I; padinu-fell down;
>| payete-at His lotus feet; nija-pada-padma-His own lotus
>|feet; prabhu-the Lord; dila-placed; mora-my; mathe-on the
>|head.
1994|TRANSLATION
1995|I fell at His feet, offering my obeisances, and He then
>|placed His own lotus feet upon my head.
1996|Adi 5.183
1997|TEXT 183
1998|TEXT
1999|'utha', 'utha' bali' more bale bara bara
2000|uthi' tanra rupa dekhi' hainu camatkara
2001|SYNONYMS
2002|utha utha-get up, get up; bali'-saying; more-unto me; bale-
>|says; bara bara-again and again; uthi'-getting up; tanra-
>|His; rupa dekhi'-seeing the beauty; hainu-became; camatkara-
>|astonished.
2003|TRANSLATION
2004|"Arise! Get up!" He told me again and again. Upon rising, I
>|was greatly astonished to see His beauty.
2005|Adi 5.184
2006|TEXT 184
2007|TEXT
2008|syama-cikkana kanti, prakanda sarira
2009|saksat kandarpa, yaiche maha-malla-vira
2010|SYNONYMS
2011|syama-blackish; cikkana-glossy; kanti-luster; prakanda-
>|heavy; sarira-body; saksat-directly; kandarpa-Cupid; yaiche-
>|like; maha-malla-very stout and strong; vira-hero.
2012|TRANSLATION
2013|He had a glossy blackish complexion, and His tall, strong,
>|heroic stature made Him seem like Cupid himself.
2014|Adi 5.185
2015|TEXT 185
2016|TEXT
2017|suvalita hasta, pada, kamala-nayana
2018|patta-vastra sire, patta-vastra paridhana
2019|SYNONYMS
2020|suvalita-well-formed; hasta-hands; pada-legs; kamala-nayana-
>|eyes like lotus flowers; patta-vastra-silk cloth; sire-on
>|the head; patta-vastra-silk garments; paridhana-wearing.
2021|TRANSLATION
2022|He had beautifully formed hands, arms and legs, and eyes
>|like lotus flowers. He wore a silk cloth, with a silk
>|turban on His head.
2023|Adi 5.186
2024|TEXT 186
2025|TEXT
2026|suvarna-kundala karne, svarnangada-vala
2027|payete nupura baje, kanthe puspa-mala
2028|SYNONYMS
2029|suvarna-kundala-gold earrings; karne-on the ears; svarna-
>|angada-golden armlets; vala-and bangles; payete-on the feet;
>| nupura-ankle bells; baje-tinkle; kanthe-on the neck; puspa-
>|mala-flower garland.
2030|TRANSLATION
2031|He wore golden earrings on His ears, and golden armlets and
>|bangles. He wore tinkling anklets on His feet and a garland
>|of flowers around His neck.
2032|Adi 5.187
2033|TEXT 187
2034|TEXT
2035|candana-lepita-anga, tilaka suthama
2036|matta-gaja jini' mada-manthara payana
2037|SYNONYMS
2038|candana-with sandalwood pulp; lepita-smeared; anga-body;
>|tilaka suthama-nicely decorated with tilaka; matta-gaja-a
>|mad elephant; jini'-surpassing; mada-manthara-maddened by
>|drinking; payana-movement.
2039|TRANSLATION
2040|His body was anointed with sandalwood pulp, and He was
>|nicely decorated with tilaka. His movements surpassed those
>|of a maddened elephant.
2041|Adi 5.188
2042|TEXT 188
2043|TEXT
2044|koti-candra jini' mukha ujjvala-varana
2045|dadimba-bija-sama danta tambula-carvana
2046|SYNONYMS
2047|koti-candra-millions upon millions of moons; jini'-
>|surpassing; mukha-face; ujjvala-varana-bright and brilliant;
>| dadimba-bija-pomegranate seeds; sama-like; danta-teeth;
>|tambula-carvana-chewing betel nut.
2048|TRANSLATION
2049|His face was more beautiful than millions upon millions of
>|moons, and His teeth were like pomegranate seeds because of
>|His chewing betel.
2050|Adi 5.189
2051|TEXT 189
2052|TEXT
2053|preme matta anga dahine-vame dole
2054|'krsna' 'krsna' baliya gambhira bola bale
2055|SYNONYMS
2056|preme-in ecstasy; matta-absorbed; anga-the whole body;
>|dahine-to the right side; vame-to the left side; dole-moves;
>| krsna krsna-Krsna, Krsna; baliya-saying; gambhira-deep;
>|bola-words; bale-was uttering.
2057|TRANSLATION
2058|His body moved to and fro, right and left, for He was
>|absorbed in ecstasy. He chanted "Krsna, Krsna" in a deep
>|voice.
2059|Adi 5.190
2060|TEXT 190
2061|TEXT
2062|ranga-yasti haste dole yena matta simha
2063|cari-pase vedi ache caranete bhrnga
2064|SYNONYMS
2065|ranga-yasti-a red stick; haste-in the hand; dole-moves;
>|yena-like; matta-mad; simha-lion; cari-pase-all around;
>|vedi-surrounding; ache-there is; caranete-at the lotus feet;
>| bhrnga-bumblebees.
2066|TRANSLATION
2067|His red stick moving in His hand, He seemed like a maddened
>|lion. All around the four sides of His feet were bumblebees.
2068|Adi 5.191
2069|TEXT 191
2070|TEXT
2071|parisada-gane dekhi' saba gopa-vese
2072|'krsna' 'krsna' kahe sabe saprema avese
2073|SYNONYMS
2074|parisada-gane-associates; dekhi'-seeing; saba-all; gopa-
>|vese-in the dress of cowherd boys; krsna krsna-Krsna, Krsna;
>| kahe-says; sabe-all; sa-prema-of ecstatic love; avese-in
>|absorption.
2075|TRANSLATION
2076|His devotees, dressed like cowherd boys, surrounded His
>|feet like so many bees and also chanted "Krsna, Krsna,"
>|absorbed in ecstatic love.
2077|Adi 5.192
2078|TEXT 192
2079|TEXT
2080|singa vamsi bajaya keha, keha nace gaya
2081|sevaka yogaya tambula, camara dhulaya
2082|SYNONYMS
2083|singa vamsi-horns and flutes; bajaya-play; keha-some; keha-
>|some of them; nace-dance; gaya-sing; sevaka-a servant;
>|yogaya-supplies; tambula-betel nut; camara-fan; dhulaya-
>|moves.
2084|TRANSLATION
2085|Some of them played horns and flutes, and others danced and
>|sang. Some of them offered betel nuts, and others waved
>|camara fans about Him.
2086|Adi 5.193
2087|TEXT 193
2088|TEXT
2089|nityananda-svarupera dekhiya vaibhava
2090|kiba rupa, guna, lila-alaukika saba
2091|SYNONYMS
2092|nityananda-svarupera-of Lord Nityananda Svarupa; dekhiya-
>|seeing; vaibhava-the opulence; kiba rupa-what a wonderful
>|form; guna-qualities; lila-pastimes; alaukika-uncommon;
>|saba-all.
2093|TRANSLATION
2094|Thus I saw such opulence in Lord Nityananda Svarupa. His
>|wonderful form, qualities and pastimes are all
>|transcendental.
2095|Adi 5.194
2096|TEXT 194
2097|TEXT
2098|anande vihvala ami, kichu nahi jani
2099|tabe hasi' prabhu more kahilena vani
2100|SYNONYMS
2101|anande-in transcendental ecstasy; vihvala-overwhelmed; ami-
>|I; kichu-anything; nahi-not; jani-know; tabe-at that time;
>|hasi'-smiling; prabhu-the Lord; more-unto me; kahilena-says;
>| vani-some words.
2102|TRANSLATION
2103|I was overwhelmed with transcendental ecstasy, not knowing
>|anything else. Then Lord Nityananda smiled and spoke to me
>|as follows.
2104|Adi 5.195
2105|TEXT 195
2106|TEXT
2107|are are krsnadasa, na karaha bhaya
2108|vrndavane yaha,-tanha sarva labhya haya
2109|SYNONYMS
2110|are are-O! O!; krsna-dasa-of the name Krsnadasa; na-not;
>|karaha-make; bhaya-fear; vrndavane yaha-go to Vrndavana;
>|tanha-there; sarva-everything; labhya-available; haya-is.
2111|TRANSLATION
2112|"O my dear Krsnadasa, do not be afraid. Go to Vrndavana,
>|for there you will attain all things."
2113|Adi 5.196
2114|TEXT 196
2115|TEXT
2116|eta bali' prerila more hatasani diya
2117|antardhana kaila prabhu nija-gana lana
2118|SYNONYMS
2119|eta bali'-saying this; prerila-dispatched; more-me;
>|hatasani-indication of the hand; diya-giving; antardhana
>|kaila-disappeared; prabhu-my Lord; nija-gana lana-taking
>|His personal associates.
2120|TRANSLATION
2121|After saying this, He directed me toward Vrndavana by
>|waving His hand. Then He disappeared with His associates.
2122|Adi 5.197
2123|TEXT 197
2124|TEXT
2125|murcchita ha-iya muni padinu bhumite
2126|svapna-bhanga haila, dekhi, hanache prabhate
2127|SYNONYMS
2128|murcchita ha-iya-fainting; muni-I; padinu-fell; bhumite-on
>|the ground; svapna-bhanga-breaking of the dream; haila-
>|there was; dekhi-I saw; hanache-there was; prabhate-morning
>|light.
2129|TRANSLATION
2130|I fainted and fell to the ground, my dream broke, and when
>|I regained consciousness I saw that morning had come.
2131|Adi 5.198
2132|TEXT 198
2133|TEXT
2134|ki dekhinu ki suninu, kariye vicara
2135|prabhu-ajna haila vrndavana yaibara
2136|SYNONYMS
2137|ki dekhinu-what did I see; ki suninu-what did I hear;
>|kariye vicara-I began to consider; prabhu-ajna-the order of
>|my Lord; haila-there was; vrndavana-to Vrndavana; yaibara-
>|to go.
2138|TRANSLATION
2139|I thought about what I had seen and heard and concluded
>|that the Lord had ordered me to proceed to Vrndavana at
>|once.
2140|Adi 5.199
2141|TEXT 199
2142|TEXT
2143|sei ksane vrndavane karinu gamana
2144|prabhura krpate sukhe ainu vrndavana
2145|SYNONYMS
2146|sei ksane-that very second; vrndavane-toward Vrndavana;
>|karinu-I did; gamana-starting; prabhura krpate-by the mercy
>|of Lord Nityananda; sukhe-in great happiness; ainu-arrived;
>|vrndavana-at Vrndavana.
2147|TRANSLATION
2148|That very second I started for Vrndavana, and by His mercy
>|I reached there in great happiness.
2149|Adi 5.200
2150|TEXT 200
2151|TEXT
2152|jaya jaya nityananda, nityananda-rama
2153|yanhara krpate painu vrndavana-dhama
2154|SYNONYMS
2155|jaya jaya-all glories; nityananda-to Lord Nityananda;
>|nityananda-rama-to Lord Balarama, who appeared as
>|Nityananda; yanhara krpate-by whose mercy; painu-I got;
>|vrndavana-dhama-shelter at Vrndavana.
2156|TRANSLATION
2157|All glory, all glory to Lord Nityananda Balarama, by whose
>|mercy I have attained shelter in the transcendental abode
>|of Vrndavana.
2158|Adi 5.201
2159|TEXT 201
2160|TEXT
2161|jaya jaya nityananda, jaya krpa-maya
2162|yanha haite painu rupa-sanatanasraya
2163|SYNONYMS
2164|jaya jaya-all glories; nityananda-to Lord Nityananda; jaya
>|krpa-maya-all glories to the most merciful Lord; yanha
>|haite-from whom; painu-I got; rupa-sanatana-asraya-shelter
>|at the lotus feet of Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami.
2165|TRANSLATION
2166|All glory, all glory to the merciful Lord Nityananda, by
>|whose mercy I have attained shelter at the lotus feet of
>|Sri Rupa and Sri Sanatana.
2167|Adi 5.202
2168|TEXT 202
2169|TEXT
2170|yanha haite painu raghunatha-mahasaya
2171|yanha haite painu sri-svarupa-asraya
2172|SYNONYMS
2173|yanha haite-from whom; painu-I got; raghunatha-maha-asaya-
>|the shelter of Raghunatha dasa Gosvami; yanha haite-from
>|whom; painu-I got; sri-svarupa-asraya-shelter at the feet
>|of Svarupa Damodara Gosvami.
2174|TRANSLATION
2175|By His mercy I have attained the shelter of the great
>|personality Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, and by His mercy I
>|have found the refuge of Sri Svarupa Damodara.
2176|PURPORT
2177|Anyone desiring to become expert in the service of Sri Sri
>|Radha and Krsna should always aspire to be under the
>|guidance of Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami,
>|Sanatana Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami. To come under
>|the protection of the Gosvamis, one must get the mercy and
>|grace of Nityananda Prabhu. The author has tried to explain
>|this fact in these two verses.
2178|Adi 5.203
2179|TEXT 203
2180|TEXT
2181|sanatana-krpaya painu bhaktira siddhanta
2182|sri-rupa-krpaya painu bhakti-rasa-pranta
2183|SYNONYMS
2184|sanatana-krpaya-by the mercy of Sanatana Gosvami; painu-I
>|got; bhaktira siddhanta-the conclusions of devotional
>|service; sri-rupa-krpaya-by the mercy of Srila Rupa Gosvami;
>| painu-I got; bhakti-rasa-pranta-the limit of the mellows
>|of devotional service.
2185|TRANSLATION
2186|By the mercy of Sanatana Gosvami I have learned the final
>|conclusions of devotional service, and by the grace of Sri
>|Rupa Gosvami I have tasted the highest nectar of devotional
>|service.
2187|PURPORT
2188|Sri Sanatana Gosvami Prabhu, the teacher of the science of
>|devotional service, wrote several books, of which the Brhad-
>|bhagavatamrta is very famous; anyone who wants to know
>|about the subject matter of devotees, devotional service
>|and Krsna must read this book. Sanatana Gosvami also wrote
>|a special commentary on the Tenth Canto of Srimad-
>|Bhagavatam known as the Dasama-tippani which is so
>|excellent that by reading it one can understand very deeply
>|the pastimes of Krsna in His exchanges of loving activities.
>| Another famous book by Sanatana Gosvami is the Hari-bhakti-
>|vilasa, which states the rules and regulations for all
>|divisions of Vaisnavas, namely, Vaisnava householders,
>|Vaisnava brahmacaris, Vaisnava vanaprasthas and Vaisnava
>|sannyasis. This book was especially written, however, for
>|Vaisnava householders. Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami has
>|described Sanatana Gosvami in his prayer Vilapa-kusumanjali,
>| verse six, where he has expressed his obligation to
>|Sanatana Gosvami in the following words:
2189|vairagya-yug-bhakti-rasam prayatnair
2190|apayayan mam anabhipsum andham
2191|krpambudhir yah para-duhkha-duhkhi
2192|sanatanas tam prabhum asrayami
2193|"I was unwilling to drink the nectar of devotional service
>|possessed of renunciation, but Sanatana Gosvami, out of his
>|causeless mercy, made me drink it, even though I was
>|otherwise unable to do so. Therefore he is an ocean of
>|mercy. He is very compassionate to fallen souls like me,
>|and thus it is my duty to offer my respectful obeisances
>|unto his lotus feet." Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami also, in
>|the last section of Caitanya-caritamrta, specifically
>|mentions the names of Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami and
>|Srila Jiva Gosvami and offers his respectful obeisances
>|unto the lotus feet of these three spiritual masters, as
>|well as Raghunatha dasa. Srila Raghunatha dasa Gosvami also
>|accepted Sanatana Gosvami as the teacher of the science of
>|devotional service. Srila Rupa Gosvami is described as the
>|bhakti-rasacarya, or one who knows the essence of
>|devotional service. His famous book Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu
>|is the science of devotional service, and by reading this
>|book one can understand the meaning of devotional service.
>|Another of his famous books is Ujjvala-nilamani. In
>|this book he elaborately explains the loving affairs and
>|transcendental activities of Lord Krsna and Radharani.
2194|Adi 5.204
2195|TEXT 204
2196|TEXT
2197|jaya jaya nityananda-caranaravinda
2198|yanha haite painu sri-radha-govinda
2199|SYNONYMS
2200|jaya jaya-all glories to; nityananda-of Lord Nityananda;
>|carana-aravinda-the lotus feet; yanha haite-from whom;
>|painu-I got; sri-radha-govinda-the shelter of Sri Radha and
>|Govinda.
2201|TRANSLATION
2202|All glory, all glory to the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda,
>|by whose mercy I have attained Sri Radha-Govinda.
2203|PURPORT
2204|Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, who is famous for his poetic
>|composition known as Prarthana, has lamented in one of his
>|prayers, "When will Lord Nityananda be merciful upon me so
>|that I will forget all material desires?" Srila Narottama
>|dasa Thakura confirms that unless one is freed from
>|material desires to satisfy the needs of the body and
>|senses, one cannot understand the transcendental abode of
>|Lord Krsna, Vrndavana. He also confirms that one cannot
>|understand the loving affairs of Radha and Krsna without
>|going through the direction of the six Gosvamis. In another
>|verse Narottama dasa Thakura has stated that without the
>|causeless mercy of Nityananda Prabhu, one cannot enter into
>|the affairs of Radha and Krsna.
2205|Adi 5.205
2206|TEXT 205
2207|TEXT
2208|jagai madhai haite muni se papistha
2209|purisera kita haite muni se laghistha
2210|SYNONYMS
2211|jagai madhai-the two brothers Jagai and Madhai; haite-than;
>|muni-I; se-that; papistha-more sinful; purisera-in stool;
>|kita-the worms; haite-than; muni-I am; se-that; laghistha-
>|lower.
2212|TRANSLATION
2213|I am more sinful than Jagai and Madhai and even lower than
>|the worms in the stool.
2214|Adi 5.206
2215|TEXT 206
2216|TEXT
2217|mora nama sune yei tara punya ksaya
2218|mora nama laya yei tara papa haya
2219|SYNONYMS
2220|mora nama-my name; sune-hears; yei-anyone who; tara-his;
>|punya ksaya-destruction of piety; mora nama-my name; laya-
>|takes; yei-anyone; tara-his; papa-sin; haya-is.
2221|TRANSLATION
2222|Anyone who hears my name loses the results of his pious
>|activities. Anyone who utters my name becomes sinful.
2223|Adi 5.207
2224|TEXT 207
2225|TEXT
2226|emana nirghrna more keba krpa kare
2227|eka nityananda vinu jagat bhitare
2228|SYNONYMS
2229|emana-such; nirghrna-abominable; more-unto me; keba-who;
>|krpa-mercy; kare-shows; eka-one; nityananda-Lord Nityananda;
>| vinu-but; jagat-world; bhitare-within.
2230|TRANSLATION
2231|Who in this world but Nityananda could show His mercy to
>|such an abominable person as me?
2232|Adi 5.208
2233|TEXT 208
2234|TEXT
2235|preme matta nityananda krpa-avatara
2236|uttama, adhama, kichu na kare vicara
2237|SYNONYMS
2238|preme-in ecstatic love; matta-mad; nityananda-Lord
>|Nityananda; krpa-merciful; avatara-incarnation; uttama-good;
>| adhama-bad; kichu-any; na-not; kare-makes; vicara-
>|consideration.
2239|TRANSLATION
2240|Because He is intoxicated by ecstatic love and is an
>|incarnation of mercy, He does not distinguish between the
>|good and the bad.
2241|Adi 5.209
2242|TEXT 209
2243|TEXT
2244|ye age padaye, tare karaye nistara
2245|ataeva nistarila mo-hena duracara
2246|SYNONYMS
2247|ye-whoever; age-in front; padaye-falls down; tare-unto him;
>|karaye-does; nistara-deliverance; ataeva-therefore;
>|nistarila-delivered; mo-as me; hena-such; duracara-sinful
>|and fallen person.
2248|TRANSLATION
2249|He delivers all those who fall down before Him. Therefore
>|He has delivered such a sinful and fallen person as me.
2250|Adi 5.210
2251|TEXT 210
2252|TEXT
2253|mo-papisthe anilena sri-vrndavana
2254|mo-hena adhame dila sri-rupa-carana
2255|SYNONYMS
2256|mo-papisthe-unto me, who am so sinful; anilena-He brought;
>|sri-vrndavana-to Vrndavana; mo-hena-such as me; adhame-to
>|the lowest of mankind; dila-delivered; sri-rupa-carana-the
>|lotus feet of Rupa Gosvami.
2257|TRANSLATION
2258|Although I am sinful and I am the most fallen, He has
>|conferred upon me the lotus feet of Sri Rupa Gosvami.
2259|Adi 5.211
2260|TEXT 211
2261|TEXT
2262|sri-madana-gopala-sri-govinda-darasana
2263|kahibara yogya nahe e-saba kathana
2264|SYNONYMS
2265|sri-madana-gopala-Lord Madana Gopala; sri-govinda-Lord
>|Radha-Govinda; darasana-visiting; kahibara-to speak; yogya-
>|fit; nahe-not; e-saba kathana-all these confidential words.
2266|TRANSLATION
2267|I am not fit to speak all these confidential words about my
>|visiting Lord Madana Gopala and Lord Govinda.
2268|Adi 5.212
2269|TEXT 212
2270|TEXT
2271|vrndavana-purandara sri-madana-gopala
2272|rasa-vilasi saksat vrajendra-kumara
2273|SYNONYMS
2274|vrndavana-purandara-the chief Deity of Vrndavana; sri-
>|madana-gopala-Lord Madana Gopala; rasa-vilasi-the enjoyer
>|of the rasa dance; saksat-directly; vrajendra-kumara-the
>|son of Nanda Maharaja.
2275|TRANSLATION
2276|Lord Madana Gopala, the chief Deity of Vrndavana, is the
>|enjoyer of the rasa dance and is directly the son of the
>|King of Vraja.
2277|Adi 5.213
2278|TEXT 213
2279|TEXT
2280|sri-radha-lalita-sange rasa-vilasa
2281|manmatha-manmatha-rupe yanhara prakasa
2282|SYNONYMS
2283|sri-radha-Srimati Radharani; lalita-Her personal associate
>|named Lalita; sange-with; rasa-vilasa-enjoyment of the rasa
>|dance; manmatha-of Cupid; manmatha-rupe-in the form of
>|Cupid; yanhara-of whom; prakasa-manifestation.
2284|TRANSLATION
2285|He enjoys the rasa dance with Srimati Radharani, Sri Lalita
>|and others. He manifests Himself as the Cupid of Cupids.
2286|Adi 5.214
2287|TEXT 214
2288|TEXT
2289|tasam avirabhuc chaurih
2290|smayamana-mukhambujah
2291|pitambara-dharah sragvi
2292|saksan manmatha-manmathah
2293|SYNONYMS
2294|tasam-among them; avirabhut-appeared; saurih-Lord Krsna;
>|smayamana-smiling; mukha-ambujah-lotus face; pita-ambara-
>|dharah-dressed with yellow garments; sragvi-decorated with
>|a flower garland; saksat-directly; manmatha-of Cupid;
>|manmathah-Cupid.
2295|TRANSLATION
2296|"Wearing yellow garments and decorated with a flower
>|garland, Lord Krsna, appearing among the gopis with His
>|smiling lotus face, looked directly like the charmer of the
>|heart of Cupid."
2297|PURPORT
2298|This is a quotation from Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.32.2).
2299|Adi 5.215
2300|TEXT 215
2301|TEXT
2302|sva-madhurye lokera mana kare akarsana
2303|dui pase radha lalita karena sevana
2304|SYNONYMS
2305|sva-madhurye-in His own sweetness; lokera-of all people;
>|mana-the minds; kare-does; akarsana-attracting; dui pase-on
>|two sides; radha-Srimati Radharani; lalita-and Her
>|associate Lalita; karena-do; sevana-service.
2306|TRANSLATION
2307|With Radha and Lalita serving Him on His two sides, He
>|attracts the hearts of all by His own sweetness.
2308|Adi 5.216
2309|TEXT 216
2310|TEXT
2311|nityananda-daya more tanre dekhaila
2312|sri-radha-madana-mohane prabhu kari' dila
2313|SYNONYMS
2314|nityananda-daya-the mercy of Lord Nityananda; more-unto me;
>|tanre-Madanamohana ; dekhaila-showed; sri-radha-
>|madana-mohane-Radha- Madanamohana ; prabhu kari'
>|dila-gave as my Lord and master.
2315|TRANSLATION
2316|The mercy of Lord Nityananda showed me Sri Madanamohana
>| and gave me Sri Madanamohana as my Lord and
>|master.
2317|Adi 5.217
2318|TEXT 217
2319|TEXT
2320|mo-adhame dila sri-govinda darasana
2321|kahibara katha nahe akathya-kathana
2322|SYNONYMS
2323|mo-adhame-to one as abominable as me; dila-delivered; sri-
>|govinda darasana-the audience of Lord Sri Govinda; kahibara-
>|to speak this; katha-words; nahe-there are not; akathya-
>|unspeakable; kathana-narration.
2324|TRANSLATION
2325|He granted to one as low as me the sight of Lord Govinda.
>|Words cannot describe this, nor is it fit to be disclosed.
2326|Adi 5.218-219
2327|TEXTS 218-219
2328|TEXT
2329|vrndavane yoga-pithe kalpa-taru-vane
2330|ratna-mandapa, tahe ratna-simhasane
2331|sri-govinda vasiyachena vrajendra-nandana
2332|madhurya prakasi' karena jagat mohana
2333|SYNONYMS
2334|vrndavane-at Vrndavana; yoga-pithe-at the principal temple;
>|kalpa-taru-vane-in the forest of desire trees; ratna-
>|mandapa-an altar made of gems; tahe-upon it; ratna-simha-
>|asane-on the throne of gems; sri-govinda-Lord Govinda;
>|vasiyachena-was sitting; vrajendra-nandana-the son of Nanda
>|Maharaja; madhurya prakasi'-manifesting His sweetness;
>|karena-does; jagat mohana-enchantment of the whole world.
2335|TRANSLATION
2336|On an altar made of gems in the principal temple of
>|Vrndavana, amidst a forest of desire trees, Lord Govinda,
>|the son of the King of Vraja, sits upon a throne of gems
>|and manifests His full glory and sweetness, thus enchanting
>|the entire world.
2337|Adi 5.220
2338|TEXT 220
2339|TEXT
2340|vama-parsve sri-radhika sakhi-gana-sange
2341|rasadika-lila prabhu kare kata range
2342|SYNONYMS
2343|vama-parsve-on the left side; sri-radhika-Srimati Radharani;
>| sakhi-gana-sange-with Her personal friends; rasa-adika-
>|lila-pastimes like the rasa dance; prabhu-Lord Krsna; kare-
>|performs; kata range-in many ways.
2344|TRANSLATION
2345|By His left side is Srimati Radharani and Her personal
>|friends. With them Lord Govinda enjoys the rasa-lila and
>|many other pastimes.
2346|Adi 5.221
2347|TEXT 221
2348|TEXT
2349|yanra dhyana nija-loke kare padmasana
2350|astadasaksara-mantre kare upasana
2351|SYNONYMS
2352|yanra-of whom; dhyana-the meditation; nija-loke-in his own
>|abode; kare-does; padma-asana-Lord Brahma; astadasa-aksara-
>|mantre-by the hymn composed of eighteen letters; kare-does;
>|upasana-worshiping.
2353|TRANSLATION
2354|Lord Brahma, sitting on his lotus seat in his own abode,
>|always meditates on Him and worships Him with the mantra
>|consisting of eighteen syllables.
2355|PURPORT
2356|In his own planet, Lord Brahma, with the inhabitants of
>|that planet, worships the form of Lord Govinda, Krsna, by
>|the mantra of eighteen syllables, klim krsnaya govindaya
>|gopi-jana-vallabhaya svaha. Those who are initiated by a
>|bona fide spiritual master and who chant the Gayatri mantra
>|three times a day know this astadasaksara (eighteen-
>|syllable) mantra. The inhabitants of Brahmaloka and the
>|planets below Brahmaloka worship Lord Govinda by meditating
>|with this mantra. There is no difference between meditating
>|and chanting, but in the present age meditation is not
>|possible on this planet. Therefore loud chanting of a
>|mantra like the maha-mantra, Hare Krsna, with soft chanting
>|of the astadasaksara, the mantra of eighteen syllables, is
>|recommended.
2357|Lord Brahma lives in the highest planetary system, known as
>|Brahmaloka or Satyaloka. In every planet there is a
>|predominating deity. As the predominating deity in
>|Satyaloka is Lord Brahma, so in the heavenly planets Indra
>|is the predominating deity, and on the sun, the sun-god,
>|Vivasvan, is the predominating deity. The inhabitants and
>|predominating deities of every planet are all recommended
>|to worship Govinda either by meditation or by chanting.
2358|Adi 5.222
2359|TEXT 222
2360|TEXT
2361|caudda-bhuvane yanra sabe kare dhyana
2362|vaikunthadi-pure yanra lila-guna gana
2363|SYNONYMS
2364|caudda-bhuvane-within the fourteen worlds; yanra-of whom;
>|sabe-all; kare dhyana-perform meditation; vaikuntha-adi-
>|pure-in the abodes of the Vaikuntha planets; yanra-of whom;
>|lila-guna-attributes and pastimes; gana-chanting.
2365|TRANSLATION
2366|Everyone in the fourteen worlds meditates upon Him, and all
>|the denizens of Vaikuntha sing of His qualities and
>|pastimes.
2367|Adi 5.223
2368|TEXT 223
2369|TEXT
2370|yanra madhurite kare laksmi akarsana
2371|rupa-gosani kariyachena se-rupa varnana
2372|SYNONYMS
2373|yanra-of whom; madhurite-by the sweetness; kare-does;
>|laksmi-the goddess of fortune; akarsana-attraction; rupa-
>|gosani-Srila Rupa Gosvami; kariyachena-has done; se-that;
>|rupa-of the beauty; varnana-enunciation.
2374|TRANSLATION
2375|The goddess of fortune is attracted by His sweetness, which
>|Srila Rupa Gosvami has described in this way:
2376|PURPORT
2377|Srila Rupa Gosvami, in his Laghu-bhagavatamrta, has quoted
>|from the Padma Purana, where it is stated that Laksmidevi
>|, the goddess of fortune, after seeing the attractive
>|features of Lord Krsna, was attracted to Him, and to get
>|the favor of Lord Krsna she engaged herself in meditation.
>|When asked by Krsna why she engaged in meditation with
>|austerity, Laksmidevi answered, "I want to be one of
>|Your associates like the gopis in Vrndavana." Hearing this,
>|Lord Sri Krsna replied that it was quite impossible.
>|Laksmidevi then said that she wanted to remain just
>|like a golden line on the chest of the Lord. The Lord
>|granted the request, and since then Laksmi has always been
>|situated on the chest of Lord Krsna as a golden line. The
>|austerity and meditation of Laksmidevi are also
>|mentioned in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.16.36), where the Naga-
>|patnis, the wives of the serpent Kaliya, in the course of
>|their prayers to Krsna, said that the goddess of fortune,
>|Laksmi, also wanted His association as a gopi and desired
>|the dust of His lotus feet.
2378|Adi 5.224
2379|TEXT 224
2380|TEXT
2381|smeram bhangi-traya-paricitam saci-vistirna-drstim
2382|vamsi-nyastadhara-kisalayam ujjvalam candrakena
2383|govindakhyam hari-tanum itah kesi-tirthopakanthe
2384|ma preksisthas tava yadi sakhe bandhu-sange 'sti rangah
2385|SYNONYMS
2386|smeram-smiling; bhangi-traya-paricitam-bent in three places,
>| namely the neck, waist and knees; saci-vistirna-drstim-
>|with a broad sideways glance; vamsi-on the flute; nyasta-
>|placed; adhara-lips; kisalayam-newly blossomed; ujjvalam-
>|very bright; candrakena-by the moonshine; govinda-akhyam-
>|named Lord Govinda; hari-tanum-the transcendental body of
>|the Lord; itah-here; kesi-tirtha-upakanthe-on the bank of
>|the Yamuna in the neighborhood of Kesighata; ma-do not;
>|preksisthah-glance over; tava-your; yadi-if; sakhe-O dear
>|friend; bandhu-sange-to worldly friends; asti-there is;
>|rangah-attachment.
2387|TRANSLATION
2388|"My dear friend, if you are indeed attached to your worldly
>|friends, do not look at the smiling face of Lord Govinda as
>|He stands on the bank of the Yamuna at Kesighata. Casting
>|sidelong glances, He places His flute to His lips, which
>|seem like newly blossomed twigs. His transcendental body,
>|bending in three places, appears very bright in the
>|moonlight."
2389|PURPORT
2390|This is a verse quoted from the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (1.2.
>|239) in connection with practical devotional service.
>|Generally people in their conditioned life engage in the
>|pleasure of society, friendship and love. This so-called
>|love is lust, not love. But people are satisfied with such
>|a false understanding of love. Vidyapati, a great and
>|learned poet of Mithila, has said that the pleasure derived
>|from friendship, society and family life in the material
>|world is like a drop of water, but our hearts desire
>|pleasure like an ocean. Thus the heart is compared to a
>|desert of material existence that requires the water of an
>|ocean of pleasure to satisfy its dryness. If there is a
>|drop of water in the desert, one may indeed say that it is
>|water, but such a minute quantity of water has no value.
>|Similarly, in this material world no one is satisfied in
>|the dealings of society, friendship and love. Therefore if
>|one wants to derive real pleasure within his heart, he must
>|seek the lotus feet of Govinda. In this verse Rupa Gosvami
>|indicates that if one wants to be satisfied in the pleasure
>|of society, friendship and love, he need not seek shelter
>|at the lotus feet of Govinda, for if one takes shelter
>|under His lotus feet he will forget that minute quantity of
>|so-called pleasure. One who is not satisfied with that so-
>|called pleasure may seek the lotus feet of Govinda, who
>|stands on the shore of the Yamuna at Kesitirtha, or
>|Kesighata, in Vrndavana and attracts all the gopis to His
>|transcendental loving service.
2391|Adi 5.225
2392|TEXT 225
2393|TEXT
2394|saksat vrajendra-suta ithe nahi ana
2395|yeba ajne kare tanre pratima-hena jnana
2396|SYNONYMS
2397|saksat-directly; vrajendra-suta-the son of Nanda Maharaja;
>|ithe-in this matter; nahi-there is not; ana-any exception;
>|yeba-whatever; ajne-a foolish person; kare-does; tanre-unto
>|Him; pratima-hena-as a statue; jnana-such a consideration.
2398|TRANSLATION
2399|Without a doubt He is directly the son of the King of Vraja.
>| Only a fool considers Him a statue.
2400|Adi 5.226
2401|TEXT 226
2402|TEXT
2403|sei aparadhe tara nahika nistara
2404|ghora narakete pade, ki baliba ara
2405|SYNONYMS
2406|sei aparadhe-by that offense; tara-his; nahika-there is not;
>| nistara-deliverance; ghora-terrible; narakete-in a hellish
>|condition; pade-falls down; ki baliba-what will I say; ara-
>|more.
2407|TRANSLATION
2408|For that offense, he cannot be liberated. Rather, he will
>|fall into a terrible hellish condition. What more should I
>|say?
2409|PURPORT
2410|In his Bhakti-sandarbha Jiva Gosvami has stated that those
>|who are actually very serious about devotional service do
>|not differentiate between the form of the Lord made of clay,
>| metal, stone or wood and the original form of the Lord. In
>|the material world a person and his photograph, picture or
>|statue are different. But the statue of Lord Krsna and
>|Krsna Himself, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, are not
>|different, because the Lord is absolute. What we call stone,
>| wood and metal are energies of the Supreme Lord, and
>|energies are never separate from the energetic. As we have
>|several times explained, no one can separate the sunshine
>|energy from the energetic sun. Therefore material energy
>|may appear separate from the Lord, but transcendentally it
>|is nondifferent from the Lord.
2411|The Lord can appear anywhere and everywhere because His
>|diverse energies are distributed everywhere like sunshine.
>|We should therefore understand whatever we see to be the
>|energy of the Supreme Lord and should not differentiate
>|between the Lord and His arca form made from clay, metal,
>|wood or paint. Even if one has not developed this
>|consciousness, one should accept it theoretically from the
>|instructions of the spiritual master and should worship the
>|arca-murti, or form of the Lord in the temple, as
>|nondifferent from the Lord.
2412|The Padma Purana specifically mentions that anyone who
>|thinks the form of the Lord in the temple to be made of
>|wood, stone or metal is certainly in a hellish condition.
>|Impersonalists are against the worship of the Lord's form
>|in the temple, and there is even a group of people who pass
>|as Hindus but condemn such worship. Their so-called
>|acceptance of the Vedas has no meaning, for all the acaryas,
>| even the impersonalist Sankaracarya, have recommended the
>|worship of the transcendental form of the Lord.
>|Impersonalists like Sankaracarya recommend the worship of
>|five forms, known as pancopasana, which include Lord Visnu.
>|Vaisnavas, however, worship the forms of Lord Visnu in His
>|varied manifestations, such as Radha-Krsna, Laksmi-Narayana,
>| Sita-Rama and Rukmini-Krsna. Mayavadis admit that worship
>|of the Lord's form is required in the beginning, but they
>|think that in the end everything is impersonal. Therefore,
>|since they are ultimately against worship of the Lord's
>|form, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has described them as
>|offenders.
2413|Srimad-Bhagavatam has condemned those who think the body to
>|be the self as bhauma ijya-dhih. Bhauma means earth, and
>|ijya-dhih means worshiper. There are two kinds of bhauma
>|ijya-dhih: those who worship the land of their birth, such
>|as nationalists, who make many sacrifices for the
>|motherland, and those who condemn the worship of the form
>|of the Lord. One should not worship the planet earth or
>|land of his birth, nor should one condemn the form of the
>|Lord, which is manifested in metal or wood for our facility.
>| Material things are also the energy of the Supreme Lord.
2414|Adi 5.227
2415|TEXT 227
2416|TEXT
2417|hena ye govinda prabhu, painu yanha haite
2418|tanhara carana-krpa ke pare varnite
2419|SYNONYMS
2420|hena-thus; ye govinda-this Lord Govinda; prabhu-master;
>|painu-I got; yanha haite-from whom; tanhara-His; carana-
>|krpa-mercy of the lotus feet; ke-who; pare-is able; varnite-
>|to describe.
2421|TRANSLATION
2422|Therefore who can describe the mercy of the lotus feet of
>|Him [Lord Nityananda] by whom I have attained the shelter
>|of this Lord Govinda?
2423|Adi 5.228
2424|TEXT 228
2425|TEXT
2426|vrndavane vaise yata vaisnava-mandala
2427|krsna-nama-parayana, parama-mangala
2428|SYNONYMS
2429|vrndavane-in Vrndavana; vaise-there are; yata-all; vaisnava-
>|mandala-groups of devotees; krsna-nama-parayana-addicted to
>|the name of Lord Krsna; parama-mangala-all-auspicious.
2430|TRANSLATION
2431|All the groups of Vaisnavas who live in Vrndavana are
>|absorbed in chanting the all-auspicious name of Krsna.
2432|Adi 5.229
2433|TEXT 229
2434|TEXT
2435|yanra prana-dhana-nityananda-sri-caitanya
2436|radha-krsna-bhakti vine nahi jane anya
2437|SYNONYMS
2438|yanra-whose; prana-dhana-life and soul; nityananda-sri-
>|caitanya-Lord Nityananda and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu; radha-
>|krsna-to Krsna and Radharani; bhakti-devotional service;
>|vine-except; nahi jane anya-do not know anything else.
2439|TRANSLATION
2440|Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda are their life and soul .
>|They do not know anything but
>|devotional service to Sri Sri Radha-Krsna.
2441|Adi 5.230
2442|TEXT 230
2443|TEXT
2444|se vaisnavera pada-renu, tara pada-chaya
2445|adhamere dila prabhu-nityananda-daya
2446|SYNONYMS
2447|se vaisnavera-of all those Vaisnavas; pada-renu-the dust of
>|the feet; tara-their; pada-chaya-the shade of the feet;
>|adhamere-unto this fallen soul; dila-gave; prabhu-
>|nityananda-daya-the mercy of Lord Nityananda Prabhu.
2448|TRANSLATION
2449|The dust and shade of the lotus feet of the Vaisnavas have
>|been granted to this fallen soul by the mercy of Lord
>|Nityananda.
2450|Adi 5.231
2451|TEXT 231
2452|TEXT
2453|'tanha sarva labhya haya'-prabhura vacana
2454|sei sutra-ei tara kaila vivarana
2455|SYNONYMS
2456|tanha-at that place; sarva-everything; labhya-obtainable;
>|haya-is; prabhura-of the Lord; vacana-the word; sei sutra-
>|that synopsis; ei-this; tara-His; kaila vivarana-has been
>|described.
2457|TRANSLATION
2458|Lord Nityananda said, "In Vrndavana all things are possible.
>|" Here I have explained His brief statement in detail.
2459|Adi 5.232
2460|TEXT 232
2461|TEXT
2462|se saba painu ami vrndavane aya
2463|sei saba labhya ei prabhura krpaya
2464|SYNONYMS
2465|se saba-all this; painu-got; ami-I; vrndavane-to Vrndavana;
>|aya-coming; sei saba-all this; labhya-obtainable; ei-this;
>|prabhura krpaya-by the mercy of Lord Nityananda.
2466|TRANSLATION
2467|I have attained all this by coming to Vrndavana, and this
>|was made possible by the mercy of Lord Nityananda.
2468|PURPORT
2469|All the inhabitants of Vrndavana are Vaisnavas. They are
>|all-auspicious because somehow or other they always chant
>|the holy name of Krsna. Even though some of them do not
>|strictly follow the rules and regulations of devotional
>|service, on the whole they are devotees of Krsna and chant
>|His name directly or indirectly. Purposely or without
>|purpose, even when they pass on the street they are
>|fortunate enough to exchange greetings by saying the name
>|of Radha or Krsna. Thus directly or indirectly they are
>|auspicious.
2470|The present city of Vrndavana has been established by the
>|Gaudiya Vaisnavas since the six Gosvamis went there and
>|directed the construction of their different temples. Of
>|all the temples in Vrndavana, ninety percent belong to the
>|Gaudiya Vaisnava sect, the followers of the teachings of
>|Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Nityananda, and seven temples
>|are very famous. The inhabitants of Vrndavana do not know
>|anything but the worship of Radha and Krsna. In recent
>|years some unscrupulous so-called priests known as caste
>|gosvamis have introduced the worship of demigods privately,
>|but no genuine and rigid Vaisnavas participate in this.
>|Those who are serious about the Vaisnava method of
>|devotional activities do not take part in such worship of
>|demigods.
2471|The Gaudiya Vaisnavas never differentiate between Radha-
>|Krsna and Lord Caitanya. They say that since Lord Caitanya
>|is the combined form of Radha-Krsna, He is not different
>|from Radha and Krsna. But some misled people try to prove
>|that they are greatly elevated by saying that they like to
>|chant the holy name of Lord Gaura instead of the names
>|Radha and Krsna. Thus they purposely differentiate between
>|Lord Caitanya and Radha-Krsna. According to them, the
>|system of nadiya-nagari, which they have recently invented
>|in their fertile brains, is the worship of Gaura, Lord
>|Caitanya, but they do not like to worship Radha and Krsna.
>|They put forward the argument that since Lord Caitanya
>|Himself appeared as Radha and Krsna combined, there is no
>|necessity of worshiping Radha and Krsna. Such
>|differentiation by so-called devotees of Lord Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu is considered disruptive by pure devotees.
>|Anyone who differentiates between Radha-Krsna and Gauranga
>|is to be considered a plaything in the hands of maya.
2472|There are others who are against the worship of Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu, thinking Him mundane. But any sect that
>|differentiates between Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Radha-
>|Krsna, either by worshiping Radha-Krsna as distinct from
>|Lord Caitanya or by worshiping Lord Caitanya but not Radha-
>|Krsna, is in the group of prakrta-sahajiyas.
2473|Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, the author of
>|Caitanya-caritamrta, predicts in verses 225 and 226 that in
>|the future those who manufacture imaginary methods of
>|worship will gradually give up the worship of Radha-Krsna,
>|and although they will call themselves devotees of Lord
>|Caitanya, they will also give up the worship of Caitanya
>|Mahaprabhu and fall down into material activities. For the
>|real worshipers of Lord Caitanya, the ultimate goal of life
>|is to worship Sri Sri Radha and Krsna.
2474|Adi 5.233
2475|TEXT 233
2476|TEXT
2477|apanara katha likhi nirlajja ha-iya
2478|nityananda-gune lekhaya unmatta kariya
2479|SYNONYMS
2480|apanara-personal; katha-description; likhi-I write;
>|nirlajja ha-iya-being shameless; nityananda-gune-the
>|attributes of Nityananda; lekhaya-cause to write; unmatta
>|kariya-making like a madman.
2481|TRANSLATION
2482|I have described my own story without reservations. The
>|attributes of Lord Nityananda, making me like a madman,
>|force me to write these things.
2483|Adi 5.234
2484|TEXT 234
2485|TEXT
2486|nityananda-prabhura guna-mahima apara
2487|'sahasra-vadane' sesa nahi paya yanra
2488|SYNONYMS
2489|nityananda-prabhura-of Lord Nityananda; guna-mahima-glories
>|of transcendental attributes; apara-unfathomable; sahasra-
>|vadane-in thousands of mouths; sesa-ultimate end; nahi-does
>|not; paya-get; yanra-whose.
2490|TRANSLATION
2491|The glories of Lord Nityananda's transcendental attributes
>|are unfathomable. Even Lord Sesa with His thousands of
>|mouths cannot find their limit.
2492|Adi 5.235
2493|TEXT 235
2494|TEXT
2495|sri-rupa-raghunatha-pade yara asa
2496|caitanya-caritamrta kahe krsnadasa
2497|SYNONYMS
2498|sri-rupa-Srila Rupa Gosvami; raghunatha-Srila Raghunatha
>|dasa Gosvami; pade-at the lotus feet; yara-whose; asa-
>|expectation; caitanya-caritamrta-the book named Caitanya-
>|caritamrta; kahe-describes; krsna-dasa-Srila Krsnadasa
>|Kaviraja Gosvami.
2499|TRANSLATION
2500|Praying at the lotus feet of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunatha,
>|always desiring their mercy, I, Krsnadasa, narrate Sri
>|Caitanya-caritamrta, following in their footsteps.
2501|Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports to Sri Caitanya-
>|caritamrta, Adi-lila, Fifth Chapter, describing the glories
>|of Lord Nityananda Balarama.
2502|