Worshipping Govinda the Original Person

Introduction and description of Goloka

0:01Hindi translated into English Audio

0:05Prabhupāda: …ādi-puruṣaṁ; tam ahaṁ; bhajāmi.

0:07Audience: ādi-puruṣaṁ; tam ahaṁ; bhajāmi.

0:09Hansadutta: The following lecture was recorded in [indistinct] in December 18, 1970 by his Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Mahārāja Prabhupāda.

2:06Prabhupāda: Very good. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

2:33Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi. BS 5.29cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantamlakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁgovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

3:00I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs.

3:14Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

3:28Prabhupāda: Chant everyone, govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

3:41Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

Transcendental form and spiritual functions

3:55BS 5.30veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam-barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgamkandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁgovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

4:09I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals with head decked with peacock's feather, with the figure of beauty tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness charming millions of Cupids.

4:22Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

4:36Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

4:50Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi BS 5.31ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-ratnāṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsamśyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁgovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

5:17I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, round whose neck is swinging a garland of flowers beautified with the moon-locket, whose two hands are adorned with the flute and jeweled ornaments, who always revels in pastimes of love, whose graceful threefold-bending form of Śyāmasundara is eternally manifest.

5:30Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

5:44Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

5:58Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi BS 5.32aṅgāni yasya sakalendriya-vṛtti-mantipaśyanti pānti kalayanti ciraṁ jagantiānanda-cinmaya-sad-ujjvala-vigrahasyagovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

6:25I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, substantiality and is thus full of the most dazzling splendor. Each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses in Himself, the full-fledged functions of all the organs, and eternally sees, maintains and manifests the infinite universes, both spiritual and mundane.

6:39Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

6:52Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

7:06Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

Pure devotion versus speculative paths

7:20BS 5.33advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpamādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ cavedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktaugovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

7:33I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is inaccessible to the Vedas, but obtainable by pure unalloyed devotion of the soul, who is without a second, who is not subject to decay, is without a beginning, whose form is endless, who is the beginning, and the eternal puruṣa; yet He is a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth.

7:47Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

8:01Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

8:14Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi BS 5.34panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyovāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānāmso 'py asti yat-prapada-sīmny avicintya-tattvegovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

9:20I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, only the tip of the toe of whose lotus feet is approached by the yogīs who aspire alter the transcendental and betake themselves to prāṇāyāma by drilling the respiration; or by the jñānīs who try to find out the nondifferentiated Brahman by the process of elimination of the mundane, extending over thousands of millions of years.

9:40Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

9:59Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

10:18Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

Prayers to the divine couple

10:38he kṛṣṇa karuṇā-sindho dīna-bandho jagat-pategopeśa gopikā-kānta rādhā-kānta namo 'stu te[Śrī Kṛṣṇa Praṇāma]

10:57O my dear Kṛṣṇa, ocean of mercy, You are the friend of the distressed and the source of creation. You are the master of the cowherd men and the lover of the gopīs, especially Rādhārāṇī. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You.

11:16tapta-kāñcana-gaurāṅgi rādhe vṛndāvaneśvarivṛṣabhānu-sute devi praṇamāmi hari-priye[Śrī Rādhā Praṇāma]

11:35I offer my respects to Rādhārāṇī, whose bodily complexion is like molten gold and who is the Queen of Vṛndāvana. You are the daughter of King Vṛṣabhānu, and You are very dear to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

11:55vāñchā-kalpa-tarubhyaś ca kṛpā-sindhubhya eva capatitānāṁ pāvanebhyo vaiṣṇavebhyo namo namaḥ[Vaiṣṇava Praṇāma]

12:14I offer my respectful obeisances unto all the Vaiṣṇava devotees of the Lord. They can fulfill the desires of everyone, just like desire trees, and they are full of compassion for the fallen souls.

12:33śrī kṛṣṇa caitanya prabhu nityānandaśrī advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda

12:53I offer my obeisances to Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya, Prabhu Nityānanda, Śrī Advaita, Gadādhara, Śrīvāsa and all others in the line of devotion. hare kṛṣṇa hare kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa hare harehare rāma hare rāma rāma rāma hare hare

13:31My dear Lord, and the spiritual energy of the Lord, kindly engage me in Your service. I am now embarrassed with this material service. Please engage me in Your service.

13:50Prabhupāda: ki ānanda, kṛṣṇa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ saṅga [Padyāvalī ?] antara rāṣṭriyaḥ [?] kṛṣṇa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ saṅga. International Society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.

Omnipresence and the Brahma Samhita

14:29Our worshipable person is Govindam, ādi-puruṣaṁ, original person, Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

14:48Just like the Lord says in Bhagavad-gītā [Bg 10.2]: aham ādir hi devānāṁ, among all demigods, only material demigods, Brahmājī, origin of brahma-rūpa. BG 10.2

15:08No material demigods, Nārāyaṇa, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Aniruddha, Vāsudeva etc., who are viṣṇu-tattva are Para-brahman, and their origin is also Bhagavān Śrī Kṛṣṇa.

15:27Therefore, it is said in an aphorism of Vedānta, “who is the nondual bhagavān-tattva?” Let’s continue kīrtana. Chant again: govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi.

18:43Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

18:45Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

18:47Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi BS 5.35eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁyac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥaṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham-govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

18:50He is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof. In His work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time. Such is the primeval Lord whom I adore.

18:52Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

18:53Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

18:55Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi BS 5.37ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhistābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhiḥgoloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūtogovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

18:59I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes [sakhīs], embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa.

19:00Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

19:02Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

19:04Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi BS 5.38premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanenasantaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayantiyaṁśyāmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarūpaṁgovindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

19:07I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Śyāmasundara, Kṛṣṇa Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes, whom the pure devotees see in their heart of hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love.

19:09Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

19:11Prabhupāda: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

19:12Audience: Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi

19:14Prabhupāda: This prayer [stotra] which you have sung it is Brahmā-saṁhitā. Brahmā, Brahmājī. This prayer was composed by Brahmājī at the time of creation with the help of Bhagavān. It is Brahmā, Brahmā-saṁhitā.

19:54Herein, he gives an introduction of God: BS 5.29cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam

19:56I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of purpose trees, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakṣmīs or gopīs.

19:57Bhagavān Govinda, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, his abode is cintāmaṇi. It is a spiritual abode, not the material abode.

19:59You might have heard, cintāmaṇi, you may not have seen it, cintāmaṇi is a gem which when touches an iron, the iron becomes gold. It is called a touchstone.

20:01And it is said that the abode of God and the buildings there are not made of stones, they are made of cintāmaṇi. This cintāmaṇi stone, cintāmaṇi stone is not a material thing. Therefore it is called cintāmaṇi.

20:03There everything—name of the God, abode of the God, form of the God, glories of God and God’s paraphernalia—are cinmaya, not material.

Potency of the holy name

21:03Everything is cinmaya, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ: BS 5.1īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥsac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥanādir ādir govindaḥsarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam

21:07Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.

21:09Just like God’s body is full of bliss, truth, knowledge and eternal, similarly everything pertaining to God—name of God and God are non-different. A name of God has the same potency as the potency of God.

21:12Caitanya Mahāprabhu says:

21:14CC Antya 20.16nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktistatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥnāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktistatrārpitā niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥetādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpidurdaivam īdṛśam ihājani nānurāgaḥ

21:16My Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, in Your holy name there is all good fortune for the living entity, and therefore You have many names, such as “Kṛṣṇa” and “Govinda,” by which You expand Yourself. You have invested all Your potencies in those names, and there are no hard and fast rules for remembering them. My dear Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen, conditioned souls by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not achieve attachment for chanting.

21:18Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu is praying for us, “O God, just like You are all powerful, kindly invest all power in Your holy name”. Just like God is all powerful, His holy name is also all powerful. And, God has many names.

21:23For instance, viṣṇu-sahasranāma. God’s potency has been invested in all His holy names: nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis.

21:27And to chant His holy name there are no rules, and no time bound. “God’s name has to be chanted in this time period”. No—niyamitaḥ smaraṇe na kālaḥ. For chanting God’s holy name there is no concept of kālaḥ [time].

21:32While in other processes of worshiping arcanā] there involves consideration of time. For instance, maṅgala-ārati is to be performed in the morning, bhoga-ārati in the noon, sandhya-ārati in evening.

21:38A method of worshiping God [arcanā-vidhi] has to be followed according to time. However, there is no time factor involved in chanting the holy name of God. You can chant as per your convenience.

21:43While walking on a road, you have no difficulty in chanting: Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare HareHare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare HareThere is no cost either, nor is there any loss.

21:49Just see these young Europeans, Americans—all that is there is in front of you. All the time they are chanting. They are not ashamed, thinking “We are Europeans, why should we chant Kṛṣṇa, people may laugh”. No.

21:56When there arose love of God in a person, he is free from this external knowledge that all these people will laugh on us, or will make fun of us. He is free from such thoughts. This is the symptom of love of God.

22:01A devotee immersed in love of God becomes mad. He is free from external things. So this is the power of God. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: nāmnām akāri bahudhā nija-sarva-śaktis tatrārpitā.

22:09All the energies of God have been invested in His holy name. So if you chant with purity, you are protected by all energies of God. You will not be afraid of māyā. God Himself says in Bhagavad-gītā:

22:16BG 7.14mām eva ye prapadyantemāyām etāṁ taranti teThis divine energy of Mine, consisting of the three modes of material nature, is difficult to overcome. But those who have surrendered unto Me can easily cross beyond it.

22:19If you want to save yourselves from the hands of māyā, chant all the time: Hare Kṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare HareHare Rāma Hare Rāma Rāma Rāma Hare Hare

22:23At last Caitanya Mahāprabhu says: etādṛśī tava kṛpā bhagavan mamāpi.

Mission of the Krishna consciousness movement

22:25God is so merciful that for the people of this age of Kali, who are fallen, there is only one remedy prescribed: CC Adi 17.21harer nāma harer nāma harer nāmaiva kevalamkalau nāsty eva nāsty eva nāsty eva gatir anyathā

22:28In this Age of Kali there is no other means, no other means, no other means for self-realization than chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name, chanting the holy name of Lord Hari.

22:30So this is the mercy of God that through His holy name He is dancing all the times on our tongues. So: etādṛśī tava kṛpā.

22:34Caitanya Mahāprabhu is lamenting on behalf of us that, “Oh my Lord, You are so merciful, but we are so unfortunate that we have no attraction for your holy name”. Therefore a learned scholar says:

22:38SB 3.33.7aho bata śva-paco 'to garīyānyaj-jihvāgre vartate nāma tubhyam

22:39Oh, how glorious are they whose tongues are chanting Your holy name! Even if born in the families of dog-eaters, such persons are worshipable. Persons who chant the holy name of Your Lordship must have executed all kinds of austerities and fire sacrifices and achieved all the good manners of the Āryans. To be chanting the holy name of Your Lordship, they must have bathed at holy places of pilgrimage, studied the Vedas and fulfilled everything required.

22:41Such a person who utters the holy name of God is worshipable. Śva-paco, even if born in the family of dog-eaters, such a person is garīyān, worshipable. The meaning of garīyān is worship, worshipable.

22:47So this kṛṣṇa-bhakti-rasa-bhāvitā matiḥ saṅga, International society for Kṛṣṇa Consciousness is preaching holy name all over the world. And we also want you to cooperate with it: prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācā. [SB 10.22.35] SB 10.22.35

22:52It is the duty of every living being to perform welfare activities for the benefit of others with his life, wealth, intelligence and words.

22:54For preaching the glories of God: etāvaj janma-sāphalyaṁ dehinām. This is the only duty in human life prāṇair arthair dhiyā vācāśreya-ācaraṇaṁ sadā— to serve God with one’s life, wealth, intelligence and words.

22:57So I request all of you. All these devotees, who have come from America by spending four lakhs rupees for tickets, have come here. Why?

23:03They want you too to cooperate with this saṅkīrtana-yajña, and give up this our designated identity that “I am American, I am Indian, I am Japanese, I am Hindu, I am Muslim”.

23:05By giving up this designated identity, everyone should think that “I am servant of God”: jīvera 'svarūpa' haya—nitya-kṛṣṇa-dāsa' [Cc Madhya 20.108]. CC Madhya 20.108

23:07It is the living entity’s constitutional position to be an eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa because he is the marginal energy of Kṛṣṇa and a manifestation simultaneously one with and different from the Lord, like a molecular particle of sunshine or fire. Kṛṣṇa has three varieties of energy.

23:08If we constantly think that we are servant of God, then we are the liberated persons. Mukti [liberation] is nothing but to attain one’s constitutional position

23:12svarūpa]. This svarūpa can be attained in saṅkīrtana. Therefore Caitanya

23:14Mahāprabhu says: ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanaṁ bhava-mahā-dāvāgni-nirvāpaṇaṁ CC Antya 20.12

23:16Let there be all victory for the chanting of the holy name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, which can cleanse the mirror of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon that spreads the white lotus of good fortune for all living entities. It is the life and soul of all education. The chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa expands the blissful ocean of transcendental life. It gives a cooling effect to everyone and enables one to taste full nectar at every step.

23:17The quarrels, riots the world confronts—all these can be mitigated only through saṅkīrtana. Kindly cooperate with it. Thank you very much. Hare Kṛṣṇa.

23:25Hare Kṛṣṇa; Hare Kṛṣṇa; Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa; Hare Hare;Hare Rāma; Hare Rāma; Rāma Rāma; Hare Hare.

23:26Hansadutta: [indistinct] You know Indore? Anyone know Indore? So Śrīla Prabhupāda and his disciples [indistinct] [End]