Post by madanmohandas on Sept 27, 2019 12:55:34 GMT -6
Shri Brahma Samhita
(The ruler supreme Krishna is;
The form of truth, knowledge and bliss;
Govinda the beginningless,
Of causes all, the cause, causeless. 1a)
The divine supreme ruler Krishna is,
Whose form consists of truth, knowledge and bliss;
Govinda, primal and beginningless,
Of all causes the highest cause causeless. 1b
There is a thousand petalled lotus bright,
A mighty region as Gokula hight;
The whorl whereof is sanctum sanctity,
Born of a portion of infinity. 2
The lotus whorl is formed as mystic sign,
A six-point star and diamond stamen shine;
The six feet at the six star points are there,
Of the eighteen syllable mantra prayer;
Which represents the principle female,
Predominated by the supreme male.
The ecstasy of love and supreme bliss,
The forms of joyful rapture in excess.
With meditation on the mantra fixed,
Radiant with Love's seed mantra prefixed. 3
Upon the petals there are situate,
His primal emanations incarnate;
Upon the leaves surrounding there appear,
The goddesses who are his consorts dear. 4
The lotus is enclosed within the round,
By a four sided perimeter bound;
Which represents the sacred Isle of White,
Where four expanded forms are situate,
On four sides of the wonderful design,
The four-fold human ends refulgent shine;
The four-fold branches of the Vedic lore,
Thro' mantra meditation thus adore.
In ten directions ten lances are tied,
To guard above, below, and every side.
There the eight gems with glistering lustre shine,
And the eight yogic perfections divine.
Moreover, in the ten directions round,
The ten protectors guard the outer bound.
There the associates of varied hue,
Some red, some white, some fair, and some dark blue,
Vested with beauty and power sublime,
Upon the wondrous lotus yantra shine. 5
Thus, illustrious, there the god abides
In bliss, and as superior presides;
Who, in self joy relishes happiness,
To which mundane Nature has no access. 6
Although he does not with the great goddess
Engage in direct amorous congress,
But while consorting with his own dear spouse,
He casts his glance which is of Time the cause. 7
The regulating principle is she,
His beloved consort Ramaa devi.
When the season of creation arrives,
A manifested projection contrives;
The phallus as the symbol and the sign,
Of the almighty god Shambhu divine.
The creative form of divinity,
Joined with the inferior potency,
The phallus and the vagina combine,
Impelled by the will of Hari divine;
Whereby the lower power does project,
The Love seed and the cosmic intellect. 8
The phallus and vagina by congress,
Produce all creatures from the great goddess. 9
By vested power the great god divine,
Assumes the emblem of the phallic sign,
Wherein by manifestation appears,
Almighty Vishnu, master of the spheres. 10
The being of a thousand heads replete,
A thousand flashing eyes, a thousand feet,
A thousand arms, and of the universe
The soul, who thousands of bright rays disperse. 11
The same is that Narayana who rests
On the Causal ocean, and manifests
His own extended self upon the deep,
Sankarshana, resting in mystic sleep;
Whence thousands of other forms emanate,
While he reclines in meditative state. 12
From out of his hair follicles proceeds,
Thro' Lord Sankarshana, the potent seeds,
Which into golden eggs are then disposed,
And by sheaths of five elements enclosed. 13
That same great Vishnu into each imparts,
In egg-like words, his emanated parts;
With thousand heads, integral with the whole,
The everlasting universal soul. 14
From whose left limb Lord Vishnu emanates,
From the right, Prajapati, who creates,
And from betwixt his brows comes into view,
The bright emblem of the phallus, Shambhu. 15
Who is the universal ego sense,
Whence generation of beings commence. 16
Assuming now these three distinctive forms,
His playful sport of creation performs,
While with his goddess Yoganidra hight,
He takes his wonted amorous delight. 17
Then while he slumbers in mystic repose,
The will to create worlds and beings rose,
Then out of his depressed navel there came,
A golden lotus flower, which became,
The residence and wonderful abode,
Of Brahma the great demiurgic god. 18
The elements that previously evolved,
Were in their indiscrete nature dissolved,
Disunited in their several parts,
Until the uniting power imparts,
And into them his conscious power infuse,
Whereupon the generation ensues.
While the supreme and primal Lord divine,
With his Yoga goddess in love combine. 19
When thus combined creation can begin,
Of all the worlds, which then he enters in;
And further his extended self imparts,
To all souls in the recess of their hearts. 20
The souls are bound from all eternity
In love, as superior potency. 21
That lotus which from Hari's navel springs,
Is related to the souls of all things;
From which Four-faced Brahma originates,
Who the four Vedic texts expatiates. 22
When Brahma thus was in his nascent state,
Inspired within, began to cogitate,
On the impressions of past actions done,
The means to proceed with the creation.
But as he looked about he only saw,
A profound darkness spread, and nothing more. 23
Thereupon divine Saraswati stood
Before Brahma, and told him for his good,
The mantra hymn from which he would acquire
The fulfilment of his cherished desire.
Afore the hymn is said there must precede,
The utterance of the Love mantra seed;
Then in the dative case he must address,
Krishna, Govinda, Lord of cowherdess;
And finally as mantra rules require,
Pronounce the name of she, the wife of Fire. 24
By penance and meditation maintain
This worship, and you shall perfection gain. 25
This meditation he practised long time,
To propitiate Govinda divine;
Krishna who in the Isle of White abides,
And in the supreme Goloka presides.
There potencies as goddesses appear,
To worship him from their respective sphere.
In grace the centre of that real excels,
In the lotus of a thousand petals.
The ground is formed of wish yielding gemstone,
Within the whorl is an opulent throne,
Whereon is seated in divine delight,
The radiant eternal Lord of light.
Thus Brahma, in his deep contemplation,
Perceived the Lord in his meditation,
Playing upon his flute the sound divine,
Whose lotus face does with rare beauty shine;
Surrounded by his lovesome amorous brides,
Who offer worship to him from all sides. 26
Now when the three-formed flute sound did begin,
The self-born felt the sound enter within,
Then from his lotus mouths th'utterance came,
Of the great hymn Gayatri, known to fame.
The lotus-born achieved his twice-born state,
Through the primal teacher initiate. 27
His mind was wakened by that three-formed sound,
And perceived true wisdom's ocean profound;
To please Lord Keshava, he then addressed,
A holy hymn, in words like these expressed. 28
……...
The dwellings in whose realm, cunningly wrought,
Are fashioned of the gems that fulfil thought;
The arbours whereof, swaying in the breeze,
Abound with generous wish-granting trees;
The herds he tends thro' groves and on meadows,
Are all-bounteous wish-fulfilling cows.
On whom a hundred thousand Lakshmi's wait,
With ardent reverence and regal state.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 29
Who on his charming flute doth sweetly play;
Whose eyes as lotus petals wide display;
Whose crown is decked with plume of peacock proud;
Whose handsome limbs are dark as monsoon cloud;
Whose unique luster does with beauty shine,
More than a million Cupids in their prime.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 30
Who is with swaying peacock feathers dight,
And with garlands of forest flowers bright;
Who holds a sweet toned flute in his soft hands,
Whose arms are decked with gem studded armbands;
Who is always absorbed in amorous play,
And does the arts and skills of love display;
Whose handsome dark form, curved in places three,
Is manifest from all eternity;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 31
Whose every limb bears all the faculties
Of perception, and unrestricted sees,
Through the abysm of time, and projects
The world, and by his puissance eke protects.
Whose form, illustrious, does constitute
Eternity and pure bliss absolute.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 32
Who is the pure and indivisible,
Without beginning and immutable;
Whose endless forms, ancient, of primal truth,
Maintains the charm of adolescent youth;
Who is by Vedic study rarely known,
Perceived by the soul's devotion alone.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 33
Those foremost sages who strive to attain,
And devout contemplation still maintain,
Through practise for a hundred million years,
Can gain control over the vital airs;
With mental faculty swift as the wind,
Intent upon the supreme end to find,
But barely gain the foot's proximity,
Of that ineffable divinity.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 34
Though he is one his power generates,
And thus millions of egg-like worlds creates;
Within himself the egg-like worlds subsist,
And he within each atom does exist.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 35
Those men with minds endued with sentiments,
Attain beauty and jewelled ornaments,
Great glory and illustrious renown,
A fine conveyance and a royal crown,
When his pure praises have been well extolled,
And holy hymns as are in scripture told.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 36
Who always revels in pure bliss divine,
And high raptures of ecstasy sublime,
With his associated counterparts,
His divine consorts, and expanded parts;
And though he dwells forever and always
In Goloka, within all beings stays.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 37
Who is perceived by fond devotion's eye;
What time love's collyrium they apply,
The sainted souls within their hearts always,
With love's delight upon his beauty gaze;
The which is lustrous dark and beautiful,
Most excellent and inconceivable.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 38
The varied forms of his incarnations,
Such as Rama, are his emanations;
But in his proper person he is shown
As Krishna, and as almighty is known.
Who in the world discloses his high state,
When he appears as the Lord incarnate.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 39
In whom millions of egg-like worlds exist,
In whom diverse distinctive realms subsist;
As emanations of his puissant light,
Brahman of indistinct and endless might.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 40
Whose potency illusive procreates,
And with three qualities proliferates,
And spreads out egg-like worlds severally,
As Vedic scriptures confirm and decree.
Who is the stay of existence supreme,
The immaculate existence serene.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 41
Who is the self of full bliss rapturous,
The embodiment of pure consciousness;
Who is reflected in the minds of those,
Who themselves in contemplation repose.
Who glory in the world perpetuates,
When he victoriously incarnates.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 42
Whose own transcendent realm is known by name
As Goloka, beneath which does remain,
The realms of Hari, Mahesh, and Devi,
Descending in order respectively.
Thro' his devolved power they all fulfill,
Their delegated office by his will.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 43
The shadow of whose potency devolves
The agency through which the world evolves,
By generation, maintenance, and then
Involution to the prime state again.
And all this vast and wide worldly domain,
Is held under the sway of Durga's reign,
Who as executive functionary,
Conducts herself by his supreme decree.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 44
As milk is transformed from its wonted state,
And thickens into curds coagulate;
And though thereby distinction it attains,
As one with its original remains.
E'en so with certain functions to pursue,
He takes the form of the great god Shambhu.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 45
As one lamp its bright light communicates
Its flame to other lamps, illuminates
With equal splendour of the first lit light,
And though distinctive, still shines just as bright.
So does the mighty Lord Vishnu sublime,
In multiple forms emanated shine.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 46
Who rests upon the causal ocean deep,
Recumbent in divine mystical sleep;
And endless egg-like worlds he multiplies,
Which out of his hair follicles arise;
And by receptive power he upholds
In his own supreme form the endless worlds.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 47
The world lords live and rise when he exhales,
And live and breath till he again inhales;
Emerging from his follicles of hair,
Then merging back again, to him repair;
Still, great Vishnu, the end and origin
Of all things, is yet but a part of him.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 48
As varied gems shine with the borrowed light
When the sun's rays illuminate them bright,
On likewise his power he delegates
To Brahma who the egg-like world creates.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 49
Whose lotus-feet are held upon the crown
Of the great Lord of hosts when he bows down,
Who has the head of a wild elephant,
Upon the good of all the world intent,
And thereby gains the power to destroy,
The obstacles that all the worlds annoy;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 50
The fire, earth and sky, water and wind,
The directions and time and soul and mind;
From whom these constituent parts evolve,
In whom they rest and into whom dissolve;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 51
That lord of light and sovereign of the sky,
The chief of gods and universal eye,
Receives his orders from that Lord sublime,
And proceeds on the circling wheel of time;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 52
Whose innate power provides impetus
For study, penance, sin and righteousness;
Whose power conferred does all alike protect,
From Brahma down to the meanest insect;
Their manifest existence to fulfill,
He grants his gifts according to his will.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 53
All creatures are to fruits of action bound,
From Indra to the insect on the ground;
Impartially to each he distributes,
For their deeds, the enjoyment of the fruits.
But those who are to loving faith resolved,
Are from the bondage of action absolved.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 54
Those moved by anger, love, and affection,
Fear, tenderness, and amorous passion,
Delusion, and a reverent attitude,
And sentiments of divine servitude.
To each according as they contemplate,
He grants a form befitting to their state.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 55
There the supreme male being plays love-sports,
With Lakshmis who are his belov'd consorts;
Where desire fulfilling trees abound,
Where thought gems form the structure of the ground;
The water there is ambrosia sweet,
All speech is song, and walking upon feet,
Becomes a dancing pace where'er they wend;
And there the flute is the beloved friend;
There is the light of supreme conscious bliss,
Who relishes sweet joy, and relished is.
Where milk flows in abundance from the kine,
Nor is there passage of a moments time;
I worship thus that divine Isle of White,
Where herds of kine abound, Goloka hight;
Which is restricted from the mundane view,
Known only in this world to very few. 56
Now when mighty Vishnu this prayer had heard,
He with the great progenitor conferred,
And said, ' O Brahma, an thou wouldst incline,
Endued with glory and wisdom divine,
To manifest the worlds and procreate,
A fair increase, the world to populate,
Then hear the method whereby thou must strive,
From me, this science, in these verses five. 57
When pure wisdom has awakened within
The soul, by practice of the discipline
Of devout worship, piously maintained,
Then transcendental bliss will be attained.
Supreme devotion is then realised;
Pure love of God is thus characterised. 58
By recourse to valid testimony,
And pious conduct practised constantly,
The self within the self is then perceived,
Whence supreme devotion can be achieved. 59
There is no more auspicious path than this,
Whereby is accomplished the highest bliss,
And who would strive thus assiduously,
Should direct their devout worship to me. 60
Abandoning all other righteous ways,
Adore thou me exclusively always,
For whatever faith each may entertain,
Perfection in conformity attain.
The people act according to the laws
Of action for some particular cause,
Those who act in contemplation on me,
Attain supreme devotion's ecstasy. 61
I am he who this universe begot,
The seed of all that move and moveth not;
As primordial nature I prevail,
And verily I am the supreme male.
By power devolved which I grant to you,
O Vidhi, now the worlds create anew. 62
(The ruler supreme Krishna is;
The form of truth, knowledge and bliss;
Govinda the beginningless,
Of causes all, the cause, causeless. 1a)
The divine supreme ruler Krishna is,
Whose form consists of truth, knowledge and bliss;
Govinda, primal and beginningless,
Of all causes the highest cause causeless. 1b
There is a thousand petalled lotus bright,
A mighty region as Gokula hight;
The whorl whereof is sanctum sanctity,
Born of a portion of infinity. 2
The lotus whorl is formed as mystic sign,
A six-point star and diamond stamen shine;
The six feet at the six star points are there,
Of the eighteen syllable mantra prayer;
Which represents the principle female,
Predominated by the supreme male.
The ecstasy of love and supreme bliss,
The forms of joyful rapture in excess.
With meditation on the mantra fixed,
Radiant with Love's seed mantra prefixed. 3
Upon the petals there are situate,
His primal emanations incarnate;
Upon the leaves surrounding there appear,
The goddesses who are his consorts dear. 4
The lotus is enclosed within the round,
By a four sided perimeter bound;
Which represents the sacred Isle of White,
Where four expanded forms are situate,
On four sides of the wonderful design,
The four-fold human ends refulgent shine;
The four-fold branches of the Vedic lore,
Thro' mantra meditation thus adore.
In ten directions ten lances are tied,
To guard above, below, and every side.
There the eight gems with glistering lustre shine,
And the eight yogic perfections divine.
Moreover, in the ten directions round,
The ten protectors guard the outer bound.
There the associates of varied hue,
Some red, some white, some fair, and some dark blue,
Vested with beauty and power sublime,
Upon the wondrous lotus yantra shine. 5
Thus, illustrious, there the god abides
In bliss, and as superior presides;
Who, in self joy relishes happiness,
To which mundane Nature has no access. 6
Although he does not with the great goddess
Engage in direct amorous congress,
But while consorting with his own dear spouse,
He casts his glance which is of Time the cause. 7
The regulating principle is she,
His beloved consort Ramaa devi.
When the season of creation arrives,
A manifested projection contrives;
The phallus as the symbol and the sign,
Of the almighty god Shambhu divine.
The creative form of divinity,
Joined with the inferior potency,
The phallus and the vagina combine,
Impelled by the will of Hari divine;
Whereby the lower power does project,
The Love seed and the cosmic intellect. 8
The phallus and vagina by congress,
Produce all creatures from the great goddess. 9
By vested power the great god divine,
Assumes the emblem of the phallic sign,
Wherein by manifestation appears,
Almighty Vishnu, master of the spheres. 10
The being of a thousand heads replete,
A thousand flashing eyes, a thousand feet,
A thousand arms, and of the universe
The soul, who thousands of bright rays disperse. 11
The same is that Narayana who rests
On the Causal ocean, and manifests
His own extended self upon the deep,
Sankarshana, resting in mystic sleep;
Whence thousands of other forms emanate,
While he reclines in meditative state. 12
From out of his hair follicles proceeds,
Thro' Lord Sankarshana, the potent seeds,
Which into golden eggs are then disposed,
And by sheaths of five elements enclosed. 13
That same great Vishnu into each imparts,
In egg-like words, his emanated parts;
With thousand heads, integral with the whole,
The everlasting universal soul. 14
From whose left limb Lord Vishnu emanates,
From the right, Prajapati, who creates,
And from betwixt his brows comes into view,
The bright emblem of the phallus, Shambhu. 15
Who is the universal ego sense,
Whence generation of beings commence. 16
Assuming now these three distinctive forms,
His playful sport of creation performs,
While with his goddess Yoganidra hight,
He takes his wonted amorous delight. 17
Then while he slumbers in mystic repose,
The will to create worlds and beings rose,
Then out of his depressed navel there came,
A golden lotus flower, which became,
The residence and wonderful abode,
Of Brahma the great demiurgic god. 18
The elements that previously evolved,
Were in their indiscrete nature dissolved,
Disunited in their several parts,
Until the uniting power imparts,
And into them his conscious power infuse,
Whereupon the generation ensues.
While the supreme and primal Lord divine,
With his Yoga goddess in love combine. 19
When thus combined creation can begin,
Of all the worlds, which then he enters in;
And further his extended self imparts,
To all souls in the recess of their hearts. 20
The souls are bound from all eternity
In love, as superior potency. 21
That lotus which from Hari's navel springs,
Is related to the souls of all things;
From which Four-faced Brahma originates,
Who the four Vedic texts expatiates. 22
When Brahma thus was in his nascent state,
Inspired within, began to cogitate,
On the impressions of past actions done,
The means to proceed with the creation.
But as he looked about he only saw,
A profound darkness spread, and nothing more. 23
Thereupon divine Saraswati stood
Before Brahma, and told him for his good,
The mantra hymn from which he would acquire
The fulfilment of his cherished desire.
Afore the hymn is said there must precede,
The utterance of the Love mantra seed;
Then in the dative case he must address,
Krishna, Govinda, Lord of cowherdess;
And finally as mantra rules require,
Pronounce the name of she, the wife of Fire. 24
By penance and meditation maintain
This worship, and you shall perfection gain. 25
This meditation he practised long time,
To propitiate Govinda divine;
Krishna who in the Isle of White abides,
And in the supreme Goloka presides.
There potencies as goddesses appear,
To worship him from their respective sphere.
In grace the centre of that real excels,
In the lotus of a thousand petals.
The ground is formed of wish yielding gemstone,
Within the whorl is an opulent throne,
Whereon is seated in divine delight,
The radiant eternal Lord of light.
Thus Brahma, in his deep contemplation,
Perceived the Lord in his meditation,
Playing upon his flute the sound divine,
Whose lotus face does with rare beauty shine;
Surrounded by his lovesome amorous brides,
Who offer worship to him from all sides. 26
Now when the three-formed flute sound did begin,
The self-born felt the sound enter within,
Then from his lotus mouths th'utterance came,
Of the great hymn Gayatri, known to fame.
The lotus-born achieved his twice-born state,
Through the primal teacher initiate. 27
His mind was wakened by that three-formed sound,
And perceived true wisdom's ocean profound;
To please Lord Keshava, he then addressed,
A holy hymn, in words like these expressed. 28
……...
The dwellings in whose realm, cunningly wrought,
Are fashioned of the gems that fulfil thought;
The arbours whereof, swaying in the breeze,
Abound with generous wish-granting trees;
The herds he tends thro' groves and on meadows,
Are all-bounteous wish-fulfilling cows.
On whom a hundred thousand Lakshmi's wait,
With ardent reverence and regal state.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 29
Who on his charming flute doth sweetly play;
Whose eyes as lotus petals wide display;
Whose crown is decked with plume of peacock proud;
Whose handsome limbs are dark as monsoon cloud;
Whose unique luster does with beauty shine,
More than a million Cupids in their prime.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 30
Who is with swaying peacock feathers dight,
And with garlands of forest flowers bright;
Who holds a sweet toned flute in his soft hands,
Whose arms are decked with gem studded armbands;
Who is always absorbed in amorous play,
And does the arts and skills of love display;
Whose handsome dark form, curved in places three,
Is manifest from all eternity;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 31
Whose every limb bears all the faculties
Of perception, and unrestricted sees,
Through the abysm of time, and projects
The world, and by his puissance eke protects.
Whose form, illustrious, does constitute
Eternity and pure bliss absolute.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 32
Who is the pure and indivisible,
Without beginning and immutable;
Whose endless forms, ancient, of primal truth,
Maintains the charm of adolescent youth;
Who is by Vedic study rarely known,
Perceived by the soul's devotion alone.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 33
Those foremost sages who strive to attain,
And devout contemplation still maintain,
Through practise for a hundred million years,
Can gain control over the vital airs;
With mental faculty swift as the wind,
Intent upon the supreme end to find,
But barely gain the foot's proximity,
Of that ineffable divinity.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 34
Though he is one his power generates,
And thus millions of egg-like worlds creates;
Within himself the egg-like worlds subsist,
And he within each atom does exist.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 35
Those men with minds endued with sentiments,
Attain beauty and jewelled ornaments,
Great glory and illustrious renown,
A fine conveyance and a royal crown,
When his pure praises have been well extolled,
And holy hymns as are in scripture told.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 36
Who always revels in pure bliss divine,
And high raptures of ecstasy sublime,
With his associated counterparts,
His divine consorts, and expanded parts;
And though he dwells forever and always
In Goloka, within all beings stays.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 37
Who is perceived by fond devotion's eye;
What time love's collyrium they apply,
The sainted souls within their hearts always,
With love's delight upon his beauty gaze;
The which is lustrous dark and beautiful,
Most excellent and inconceivable.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 38
The varied forms of his incarnations,
Such as Rama, are his emanations;
But in his proper person he is shown
As Krishna, and as almighty is known.
Who in the world discloses his high state,
When he appears as the Lord incarnate.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 39
In whom millions of egg-like worlds exist,
In whom diverse distinctive realms subsist;
As emanations of his puissant light,
Brahman of indistinct and endless might.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 40
Whose potency illusive procreates,
And with three qualities proliferates,
And spreads out egg-like worlds severally,
As Vedic scriptures confirm and decree.
Who is the stay of existence supreme,
The immaculate existence serene.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 41
Who is the self of full bliss rapturous,
The embodiment of pure consciousness;
Who is reflected in the minds of those,
Who themselves in contemplation repose.
Who glory in the world perpetuates,
When he victoriously incarnates.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 42
Whose own transcendent realm is known by name
As Goloka, beneath which does remain,
The realms of Hari, Mahesh, and Devi,
Descending in order respectively.
Thro' his devolved power they all fulfill,
Their delegated office by his will.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 43
The shadow of whose potency devolves
The agency through which the world evolves,
By generation, maintenance, and then
Involution to the prime state again.
And all this vast and wide worldly domain,
Is held under the sway of Durga's reign,
Who as executive functionary,
Conducts herself by his supreme decree.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 44
As milk is transformed from its wonted state,
And thickens into curds coagulate;
And though thereby distinction it attains,
As one with its original remains.
E'en so with certain functions to pursue,
He takes the form of the great god Shambhu.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 45
As one lamp its bright light communicates
Its flame to other lamps, illuminates
With equal splendour of the first lit light,
And though distinctive, still shines just as bright.
So does the mighty Lord Vishnu sublime,
In multiple forms emanated shine.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 46
Who rests upon the causal ocean deep,
Recumbent in divine mystical sleep;
And endless egg-like worlds he multiplies,
Which out of his hair follicles arise;
And by receptive power he upholds
In his own supreme form the endless worlds.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 47
The world lords live and rise when he exhales,
And live and breath till he again inhales;
Emerging from his follicles of hair,
Then merging back again, to him repair;
Still, great Vishnu, the end and origin
Of all things, is yet but a part of him.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 48
As varied gems shine with the borrowed light
When the sun's rays illuminate them bright,
On likewise his power he delegates
To Brahma who the egg-like world creates.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 49
Whose lotus-feet are held upon the crown
Of the great Lord of hosts when he bows down,
Who has the head of a wild elephant,
Upon the good of all the world intent,
And thereby gains the power to destroy,
The obstacles that all the worlds annoy;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 50
The fire, earth and sky, water and wind,
The directions and time and soul and mind;
From whom these constituent parts evolve,
In whom they rest and into whom dissolve;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 51
That lord of light and sovereign of the sky,
The chief of gods and universal eye,
Receives his orders from that Lord sublime,
And proceeds on the circling wheel of time;
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 52
Whose innate power provides impetus
For study, penance, sin and righteousness;
Whose power conferred does all alike protect,
From Brahma down to the meanest insect;
Their manifest existence to fulfill,
He grants his gifts according to his will.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 53
All creatures are to fruits of action bound,
From Indra to the insect on the ground;
Impartially to each he distributes,
For their deeds, the enjoyment of the fruits.
But those who are to loving faith resolved,
Are from the bondage of action absolved.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 54
Those moved by anger, love, and affection,
Fear, tenderness, and amorous passion,
Delusion, and a reverent attitude,
And sentiments of divine servitude.
To each according as they contemplate,
He grants a form befitting to their state.
I worship that Govinda, Lord of kine,
The supreme and primeval Lord divine. 55
There the supreme male being plays love-sports,
With Lakshmis who are his belov'd consorts;
Where desire fulfilling trees abound,
Where thought gems form the structure of the ground;
The water there is ambrosia sweet,
All speech is song, and walking upon feet,
Becomes a dancing pace where'er they wend;
And there the flute is the beloved friend;
There is the light of supreme conscious bliss,
Who relishes sweet joy, and relished is.
Where milk flows in abundance from the kine,
Nor is there passage of a moments time;
I worship thus that divine Isle of White,
Where herds of kine abound, Goloka hight;
Which is restricted from the mundane view,
Known only in this world to very few. 56
Now when mighty Vishnu this prayer had heard,
He with the great progenitor conferred,
And said, ' O Brahma, an thou wouldst incline,
Endued with glory and wisdom divine,
To manifest the worlds and procreate,
A fair increase, the world to populate,
Then hear the method whereby thou must strive,
From me, this science, in these verses five. 57
When pure wisdom has awakened within
The soul, by practice of the discipline
Of devout worship, piously maintained,
Then transcendental bliss will be attained.
Supreme devotion is then realised;
Pure love of God is thus characterised. 58
By recourse to valid testimony,
And pious conduct practised constantly,
The self within the self is then perceived,
Whence supreme devotion can be achieved. 59
There is no more auspicious path than this,
Whereby is accomplished the highest bliss,
And who would strive thus assiduously,
Should direct their devout worship to me. 60
Abandoning all other righteous ways,
Adore thou me exclusively always,
For whatever faith each may entertain,
Perfection in conformity attain.
The people act according to the laws
Of action for some particular cause,
Those who act in contemplation on me,
Attain supreme devotion's ecstasy. 61
I am he who this universe begot,
The seed of all that move and moveth not;
As primordial nature I prevail,
And verily I am the supreme male.
By power devolved which I grant to you,
O Vidhi, now the worlds create anew. 62