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Brahma Samhita English
Brahma Samhita English
1) Krishna 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.
2) I 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
lakshmis or gopis.
3) I 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) I 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 Syamasundara is eternally manifest.
5) I 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) I 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 purusha; yet He is a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth.
7) I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, only the tip of the toe of whose lotus feet is
approached by the yogis who aspire after the transcendental and betake themselves to
pranayama by drilling the respiration; or by the jnanis who try to find out the non-
differentiated Brahman by the process of elimination of the mundane, extending over
thousands of millions of years.
9) I adore the same Govinda, the primeval Lord, in whose praise men, who are imbued
with devotion, sing the mantra-suktas told by the Vedas, by gaining their appropriate
beauty, greatness, thrones, conveyances and ornaments.
10) I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Radha,
resembling His own spiritual figure, the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed
of the sixty-four artistic activities, in the company of Her confidantes [sakhis],
embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form, permeated and vitalized by His ever-
blissful spiritual rasa.
11) I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is Syamasundara, Krishna 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.
12) I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who manifested Himself personally as Krishna and
the different avataras in the world in the forms of Rama, Nrisimha, Vamana, etc., as His
subjective portions.
13) I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose effulgence is the source of the
nondifferentiated Brahman mentioned in the Upanishads, being differentiated from the
infinity of glories of the mundane universe appears as the indivisible, infinite, limitless,
truth.
14) I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is the absolute substantive principle being
the ultimate entity in the form of the support of all existence whose external potency
embodies the threefold mundane qualities, viz., sattva, rajas, and tamas and diffuses the
Vedic knowledge regarding the mundane world.
15) I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose glory ever triumphantly dominates the
mundane world by the activity of His own pastimes, being reflected in the mind of
recollecting souls as the transcendental entity of ever-blissful cognitive rasa.
16) Lowest of all is located Devi-dhama [mundane world], next above it is Mahesa-dhama
[abode of Mahesa]; above Mahesa-dhama is placed Hari-dhama [abode of Hari] and
above them all is located Krishna’s own realm named Goloka. I adore the primeval Lord
Govinda, who has allotted their respective authorities to the rulers of those graded
realms.
17) The external potency Maya who is of the nature of the shadow of the cit potency, is
worshiped by all people as Durga, the creating, preserving and destroying agency of this
mundane world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda in accordance with whose will Durga
conducts herself.
18) Just as milk is transformed into curd by the action of acids, but yet the effect curd is
neither same as, nor different from, its cause, viz., milk, so I adore the primeval Lord
Govinda of whom the state of Sambhu is a transformation for the performance of the
work of destruction.
19) The light of one candle being communicated to other candles, although it burns
separately in them, is the same in its quality. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda who
exhibits Himself equally in the same mobile manner in His various manifestations.
20) I adore the primeval Lord Govinda who assuming His own great subjective form, who
bears the name of Sesha, replete with the all-accommodating potency, and reposing in
the Causal Ocean with the infinity of the world in the pores of His hair, enjoys creative
sleep [yoga-nidra].
21) Brahma and other lords of the mundane worlds, appearing from the pores of hair of
Maha-Vishnu, remain alive as long as the duration of one exhalation of the latter [Maha-
Vishnu]. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whose subjective personality Maha-
Vishnu is the portion of portion.
22) I adore the primeval Lord Govinda from whom the separated subjective portion Brahma
receives his power for the regulation of the mundane world, just as the sun manifests
some portion of his own light in all the effulgent gems that bear the names of
suryakanta, etc.
23) I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, whose lotus feet are always held by Ganesa upon the
pair of tumuli protruding from his elephant head in order to obtain power for his
function of destroying all the obstacles on the path of progress of the three worlds.
24) The three worlds are composed of the nine elements, viz., fire, earth, ether, water, air,
direction, time, soul and mind. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda from whom they
originate, in whom they exist and into whom they enter at the time of the universal
cataclysm.
25) The sun who is the king of all the planets, full of infinite effulgence, the image of the
good soul, is as the eye of this world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda in pursuance of
whose order the sun performs his journey mounting the wheel of time.
26) I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, by whose conferred power are maintained the
manifested potencies, that are found to exist, of all virtues, all vices, the Vedas, the
penances and all jivas, from Brahma to the meanest insect.
27) I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, who burns up to their roots all fruitive activities of
those who are imbued with devotion and impartially ordains for each the due
enjoyment of the fruits of one’s activities, of all those who walk in the path of work, in
accordance with the chain of their previously performed works, no less in the case of
the tiny insect that bears the name of indragopa than in that of Indra, king of the devas.
28) I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, the meditators of whom, by meditating upon Him
under the sway of wrath, amorous passion, natural friendly love, fear, parental
affection, delusion, reverence and willing service, attain to bodily forms befitting the
nature of their contemp
29) worship that transcendental seat, known as Svetadvipa where as loving consorts the
Laksmis in their unalloyed spiritual essence practice the amorous service of the Supreme
Lord Krishna as their only lover; where every tree is a transcendental purpose tree;
where the soil is the purpose gem, all water is nectar, every word is a song, every gait is
a dance, the flute is the favorite attendant, effulgence is full of transcendental bliss and
the supreme spiritual entities are all enjoyable and tasty, where numberless milk cows
always emit transcendental oceans of milk; where there is eternal existence of
transcendental time, who is ever present and without past or future and hence is not
subject to the quality of passing away even for the space of half a moment. That realm is
known as Goloka only to a very few self-realized souls in this world.