Chintamani Prakara

[Karina Edling]

SriBrahma-samhita.......ishvarah paramah krishnahsac-cid-ananda-vigrahahaanadir adir govindahasarva-karana-karanamchintamani prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vriksha-laksavriteshu surabhir abhipalayantamlakshmi-sahasra-shata- sambhrama-sevyamanamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiVenum kvanantam aravinda-dalayataksambarhavatam samasitambuda-sundarangamkandarpa-koti-kamaniya vishesha-shobhamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiAlola-chandraka-lasad- vanamalya-vamshi-ratnangadam pranaya-keli-kala-vilasamshyamam tribhanga-lalitam niyata-prakashamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiangani yasya sakalendriya-vrittimantipashyanti panti kalayanti chiram jagantiananda-chinmaya-sad-ujjvala- vigrahasyagovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiadvaitam achyutam anadim ananta-rupamadyam purana-purusham navayauvanam chavedesu durlabham adurlabham atma-bhaktaugovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamipanthas tu koti-shata-vatsara-sampragamyovayor athapi manaso muni-pungavanamso 'pyasti yat prapada-simny avichintya-tattvegovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamieko 'py asau racayitum jagad-anda-kotimyac chaktir asti jadad-anda-caya yad-antahandantara-stha-paramanu- chayantara-sthamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyad bhava-bhavita dhiyo manujas tathaivasamprapya rupa-mahimasanayanabhushahasuktair yam eva nigama-prathitaih stuvantigovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiananda-chinmaya-rasa- pratibhavitabhis-tabhir ya eva nija-rupataya kalabhihigoloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutogovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamipremanjana-cchurita-bhakti- vilochanenasantah sadaiva hridayeshu vilokayantiyam shyama-sundaram achintya-guna-svarupamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiramadi-murtishu kala-niyamena tishthannanavataram akarod bhuvaneshu kintukrishnah svayam samabhavat paramaha puman yogovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-koti-kotisu ashesha-vasudhadi-vibhuti- bhinnamtad brahma nishkalam anantam ashesha-bhutamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamimaya hi yasya jagad-anda-shatani sutetraigunya-tad-vishaya-veda- vitayamanasattvavalambi-para-sattva- visuddha-sattvamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiananda-chinmaya-rasatmataya manahsuyah praninam pratiphalam smaratam upetyalilayitena bhuvanani jayaty ajasramgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamigoloka-namni nija-dhamni tale cha tasyadevi-mahesha-hari-dhamasu teshu teshute te prabhava-nichaya vihitash cha yenagovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamisrishti-sthiti-pralaya- sadhana-shaktir ekachayeva yasya bhuvanani vibharti durgaicchanurupam api yasya che cheshtate sagovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamikshiram yatha dadhi vikara-vishesha-yogatsanjayate na hi tatah prithag asti hetohoyah shambhutam api tatha samupaiti karyadgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamidiparchir eva hi dashantaram abhyupetyadipayate vivrita-hetu-samana-dharmayas tadrig eva hi cha vishnu-taya vibhatigovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyah karanarnava-jale bhajati sma yoga-nidram ananta-jagad-anda-saroma- kupahaadhara-shaktim avalambya param sva-murtimgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyasyaika-nishvasita-kalam athavalambyajivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anda-nathahavishnur mahan sa iha yasya kala-visheshogovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamibhasvan yathashma-shakaleshu nijeshu tejahasviyam kiyat prakatayaty api tadvad atrabrahma ya esa jagad-anda-vidhana-kartagovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyat-pada-pallava-yugam vinidhaya kumbha-dvandve pranama-samayesa ganadhirajahavighnan vihantum alam asya jagat-trayasyagovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiagnir mahi gaganam ambu marud-dishash chakalas tathatma-manasiti jagat-trayaniyasmad bhavanti vibhavanti vishanti yam chagovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyac chakshur esha savita sakala-grahanamraja samasta-sura-murtir ashesha-tejahayasyajnaya bhramati sambhrita-kala-chakrogovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamidharmo 'tha papa-nicayah shrutayas tapamshibrahmadi-kita-patagavadhayash cha jivahayad datta-matra-vibhava-prakata- prabhavagovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyas tv indra-gopam athavendra-maho sva-karma-bandhanurupa-phala-bhajanam atanotikarmani nirdahati kintu cha bhakti-bhajamgovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamiyam krodha-kama-sahaja-pranayadi- bhiti-vatsalya-moha-guru-gaurava- sevya-bhavaihaisanchintya tasya sadrishim tanum apuretegovindam adi-purusham tam aham bhajamisriyah kantah kantah parama-purusah kalpa-taravodruma bhumis cintamani-gana-mayi toyam amrtamkatha ganam natyam gamanam api vamsi priya-sakhicid-anandam jyotih param api tad asvadyam api casa yatra ksirabdhih sravati surabhibhyas ca su-mahannimesardhakhyo va vrajati na hi yatrapi samayahbhaje svetadvipam tam aham iha golokam iti yamvidantas te santah ksiti-virala-carah katipaye.......

Expressions researched:

"Brahma-samhita""Cintamani dhama""Cintamani prakara sadmasu kalpa vrksa""I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows""Laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama sevyamanam""by hundreds of thousands of laksmis or gopis""cintamani-dhama""cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa""cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa-""in abodes built with spiritual gems""laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam""laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam""surabhir abhipalayantam""surrounded by millions of purpose trees"

Brahmājī desires to worship the original Personality of Godhead, Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who resides in the topmost Vaikuṇṭha planet, known as Goloka Vṛndāvana, where He is in the habit of keeping surabhi cows as a cowboy and where He is served by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune (the gopīs) with love and respect.

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the 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 of thousands of lakṣmīs, or gopīs." Because this prayer was offered by Lord Brahmā, we follow him by reciting this prayer. That is the easiest way to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The pure devotee never attempts to reach the Supreme Lord directly.

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the 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." We can have some conception of the Absolute Truth, His form and His attributes simply by reading the descriptions given in Vedic literatures and authoritative statements given by exalted personalities like Brahmā, Nārada, Śukadeva Gosvāmī and others. Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī says, ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ: (CC Madhya 17.136) "We cannot conceive the name, form and qualities of Śrī Kṛṣṇa through our material senses." Because of this, other names for the Lord are adhokṣaja and aprākṛta, which indicate that He is beyond any material senses.

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the 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." From this verse we learn that Govinda, or Kṛṣṇa, is the ādi-puruṣa (the original person). The Lord has innumerable incarnations, exactly like the innumerable waves of a flowing river, but the original form is Kṛṣṇa, or Keśava.

Kṛṣṇa is always worshiped by the gopīs wherever He goes. Therefore Kṛṣṇa is so vividly described in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has also described Kṛṣṇa in this way: ramyā kācid upāsanā vrajavadhū-vargeṇa yā kalpitā. All these gopīs were going to offer Kṛṣṇa their presentations because the gopīs are eternal associates of the Lord. Now the gopīs were more jubilant because of the news of Kṛṣṇa's appearance in Vṛndāvana.

This is a verse from the Brahma-saṁhitā (5.29). This description of the abode of Kṛṣṇa 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. Kṛṣṇaloka is the topmost planet in the spiritual sky, and below it are innumerable spheres, a description of which can be found in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows fulfilling all desires in abodes filled with spiritual gems and surrounded by millions of wish-fulfilling trees. He is always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of Lakṣmīs, or goddesses of fortune."

He is very much adhered to His cows. Surabhīr abhipālayantam. And He's surrounded by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune, these gopīs. He is surrounded. Lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānam (Bs. 5.29). We are, we are praying goddess of fortune to have some favor, but in the spiritual world, Kṛṣṇa is served by hundreds and thousands of goddess of fortune. This is Kṛṣṇa's position.

So Govinda has got place. Goloka-nāmni. The place name is Goloka Vṛndāvana, goloka-nāmni. Nija-dhāmni. That is His personal abode. Although every dhāma, every planet, everywhere, all over the universe, all over the creation, that is Kṛṣṇa's dhāma, God's place.... Bhoktāraṁ yaja-tapasāṁ sarva-loka-maheśvaram (BG 5.29).

So there is dhāma, panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara, beyond this material world, so if we like, we can go there. Mad-yājino 'pi yānti mām, Kṛṣṇa says. You can go to the higher planetary system,

Every description is there in the Vedic literatures. Therefore if we learn about Kṛṣṇa, being situated in the daiva-varṇāśrama or having acquired the real qualities of brāhmaṇa, higher or transcendental qualities... Brāhmaṇa qualities means brahma jānāti iti brāhmaṇaḥ. That is nirākāra, of course, but you have to transcend the position of brāhmaṇa and become a Vaiṣṇava.

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