1-çré-brahmoväca
nauméòya te ‘bhra-vapuñe taòid-ambaräya
guïjävataàsa-paripiccha-lasan-mukhäya
vanya-sraje kavala-vetra-viñäëa-veëulakñma-
çriye mådu-pade paçupäìgajäya
Lord Brahmä said: My dear Lord, You are the only worshipable Lord, the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore I offer my humble obeisances
and prayers just to please You. O son of the king of the cowherds, Your
transcendental body is dark blue like a new cloud, Your garment is brilliant like
lightning, and the beauty of Your face is enhanced by Your guïjä earrings and
the peacock feather on Your head. Wearing garlands of various forest flowers
and leaves, and equipped with a herding stick, a buffalo horn and a flute, You
stand beautifully with a morsel of food in Your hand.
2-asyäpi deva vapuño mad-anugrahasya
svecchä-mayasya na tu bhüta-mayasya ko ‘pi
neçe mahi tv avasituà manasäntareëa
säkñät tavaiva kim utätma-sukhänubhüteù
My dear Lord, neither I nor anyone else can estimate the potency of this
transcendental body of Yours, which has shown such mercy to me and which
appears just to fulfill the desires of Your pure devotees. Although my mind is
completely withdrawn from material affairs, I cannot understand Your personal
form. How, then, could I possibly understand the happiness You experience
within Yourself?
3-jïäne prayäsam udapäsya namanta eva
jévanti san-mukharitäà bhavadéya-värtäm
sthäne sthitäù çruti-gatäà tanu-väì-manobhir
ye präyaço ‘jita jito ‘py asi tais tri-lokyäm
Those who, even while remaining situated in their established social
positions, throw away the process of speculative knowledge and with their body,
words and mind offer all respects to descriptions of Your personality and
activities, dedicating their lives to these narrations, which are vibrated by You
personally and by Your pure devotees, certainly conquer Your Lordship,
although You are otherwise unconquerable by anyone within the three worlds.
4-çreyaù-såtià bhaktim udasya te vibho
kliçyanti ye kevala-bodha-labdhaye
teñäm asau kleçala eva çiñyate
nänyad yathä sthüla-tuñävaghätinäm
My dear Lord, devotional service unto You is the best path for
self-realization. If someone gives up that path and engages in the cultivation of
speculative knowledge, he will simply undergo a troublesome process and will
not achieve his desired result. As a person who beats an empty husk of wheat
cannot get grain, one who simply speculates cannot achieve self-realization. His
only gain is trouble.
5-pureha bhüman bahavo ‘pi yoginas
tvad-arpitehä nija-karma-labdhayä
vibudhya bhaktyaiva kathopanétayä
prapedire ‘ïjo ‘cyuta te gatià paräm
O almighty Lord, in the past many yogés in this world achieved the platform
of devotional service by offering all their endeavors unto You and faithfully
carrying out their prescribed duties. Through such devotional service, perfected
by the processes of hearing and chanting about You, they came to understand
You, O infallible one, and could easily surrender to You and achieve Your
supreme abode.
6-tathäpi bhüman mahimäguëasya te
viboddhum arhaty amaläntar-ätmabhiù
avikriyät svänubhaväd arüpato
hy ananya-bodhyätmatayä na cänyathä
Nondevotees, however, cannot realize You in Your full personal feature.
Nevertheless, it may be possible for them to realize Your expansion as the
impersonal Supreme by cultivating direct perception of the Self within the
heart. But they can do this only by purifying their mind and senses of all
conceptions of material distinctions and all attachment to material sense objects.
Only in this way will Your impersonal feature manifest itself to them.
7-guëätmanas te ‘pi guëän vimätuà
hitävatéånasya ka éçire ‘sya
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kälena yair vä vimitäù su-kalpair
bhü-päàçavaù khe mihikä dyu-bhäsaù
In time, learned philosophers or scientists might be able to count all the
atoms of the earth, the particles of snow, or perhaps even the shining molecules
radiating from the sun, the stars and other luminaries. But among these learned
men, who could possibly count the unlimited transcendental qualities possessed
by You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who have descended onto the
surface of the earth for the benefit of all living entities?
8-tat te ‘nukampäà su-samékñamäëo
bhuïjäna evätma-kåtaà vipäkam
håd-väg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te
jéveta yo mukti-pade sa däya-bhäk
My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless
mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his past
misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart, words and body,
is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become his rightful claim.
9-paçyeça me ‘näryam ananta ädye
parätmani tvayy api mäyi-mäyini
mäyäà vitatyekñitum ätma-vaibhavaà
hy ahaà kiyän aiccham ivärcir agnau
My Lord, just see my uncivilized impudence! To test Your power I tried to
extend my illusory potency to cover You, the unlimited and primeval Supersoul,
who bewilder even the masters of illusion. What am I compared to You? I am
just like a small spark in the presence of a great fire.
10-ataù kñamasväcyuta me rajo-bhuvo
hy ajänatas tvat-påthag-éça-mäninaù
ajävalepändha-tamo-‘ndha-cakñuña
eño ‘nukampyo mayi näthavän iti
Therefore, O infallible Lord, kindly excuse my offenses. I have taken birth
in the mode of passion and am therefore simply foolish, presuming myself a
controller independent of Your Lordship. My eyes are blinded by the darkness
of ignorance, which causes me to think of myself as the unborn creator of the
universe. But please consider that I am Your servant and therefore worthy of
Your compassion.
11-kvähaà tamo-mahad-ahaà-kha-carägni-vär-bhüsaàveñöitäëòa-
ghaöa-sapta-vitasti-käyaù
kvedåg-vidhävigaëitäëòa-paräëu-caryävätädhva-
roma-vivarasya ca te mahitvam
What am I, a small creature measuring seven spans of my own hand? I am
enclosed in a potlike 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 as particles of
dust pass through the openings of a screened window.
12-utkñepaëaà garbha-gatasya pädayoù
kià kalpate mätur adhokñajägase
kim asti-nästi-vyapadeça-bhüñitaà
tavästi kukñeù kiyad apy anantaù
O Lord Adhokñaja, does a mother take offense when the child within her
womb kicks with his legs? And is there anything in existence—whether
designated by various philosophers as real or as unreal—that is actually outside
Your abdomen?
13-jagat-trayäntodadhi-samplavode
näräyaëasyodara-näbhi-nälät
vinirgato ‘jas tv iti väì na vai måñä
kintv éçvara tvan na vinirgato ‘smi
My dear Lord, it is said that when the three planetary systems are merged
into the water at the time of dissolution, Your plenary portion, Näräyaëa, lies
down on the water, gradually a lotus flower grows from His navel, and Brahmä
takes birth upon that lotus flower. Certainly, these words are not false. Thus
am I not born from You?
14- näräyaëas tvaà na hi sarva-dehinäm
ätmäsy adhéçäkhila-loka-säkñé
näräyaëo ‘ìgaà nara-bhü-jaläyanät
tac cäpi satyaà na tavaiva mäyä
Are You not the original Näräyaëa, O supreme controller, since You are the
Soul of every embodied being and the eternal witness of all created realms?
Indeed, Lord Näräyaëa is Your expansion, and He is called Näräyaëa because
He is the generating source of the primeval water of the universe. He is real,
not a product of Your illusory Mäyä.
15-tac cej jala-sthaà tava saj jagad-vapuù
kià me na dåñöaà bhagavaàs tadaiva
kià vä su-dåñöaà hådi me tadaiva
kià no sapady eva punar vyadarçi
My dear Lord, if Your transcendental body, which shelters the entire
universe, is actually lying upon the water, then why were You not seen by me
when I searched for You? And why, though I could not envision You properly
within my heart, did You then suddenly reveal Yourself?
16-atraiva mäyä-dhamanävatäre
hy asya prapaïcasya bahiù sphuöasya
kåtsnasya cäntar jaöhare jananyä
mäyätvam eva prakaöé-kåtaà te
My dear Lord, in this incarnation You have proved that You are the supreme
controller of Mäyä. Although You are now within this universe, the whole
universal creation is within Your transcendental body—a fact You
demonstrated by exhibiting the universe within Your abdomen before Your
mother, Yaçodä.
17.yasya kukñäv idaà sarvaà
sätmaà bhäti yathä tathä
tat tvayy apéha tat sarvaà
kim idaà mäyayä vinä
Just as this entire universe, including You, was exhibited within Your
abdomen, so it is now manifested here externally in the same exact form. How
could such things happen unless arranged by Your inconceivable energy?
18-adyaiva tvad åte ‘sya kià mama na te mäyätvam ädarçitam
eko ‘si prathamaà tato vraja-suhåd-vatsäù samastä api
tävanto ‘si catur-bhujäs tad akhilaiù säkaà mayopäsitäs
tävanty eva jaganty abhüs tad amitaà brahmädvayaà çiñyate
Have You not shown me today that both You Yourself and everything
within this creation are manifestations of Your inconceivable potency? First
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You appeared alone, and then You manifested Yourself as all of Våndävana’s
calves and cowherd boys, Your friends. Next You appeared as an equal number
of four-handed Viñëu forms, who were worshiped by all living beings, including
me, and after that You appeared as an equal number of complete universes.
Finally, You have now returned to Your unlimited form as the Supreme
Absolute Truth, one without a second.
19.ajänatäà tvat-padavém anätmany
ätmätmanä bhäsi vitatya mäyäm
såñöäv ivähaà jagato vidhäna
iva tvam eño ‘nta iva trinetraù
To persons ignorant of Your actual transcendental position, You appear as
part of the material world, manifesting Yourself by the expansion of Your
inconceivable energy. Thus for the creation of the universe You appear as me
[Brahmä], for its maintenance You appear as Yourself [Viñëu], and for its
annihilation You appear as Lord Trinetra [Çiva].
20-sureñv åñiñv éça tathaiva nåñv api
tiryakñu yädaùsv api te ‘janasya
janmäsatäà durmada-nigrahäya
prabho vidhätaù sad-anugrahäya ca
O Lord, O supreme creator and master, You have no material birth, yet to
defeat the false pride of the faithless demons and show mercy to Your saintly
devotees, You take birth among the demigods, sages, human beings, animals and
even the aquatics.
21-ko vetti bhüman bhagavan parätman
yogeçvarotér bhavatas tri-lokyäm
kva vä kathaà vä kati vä kadeti
vistärayan kréòasi yoga-mäyäm
O supreme great one! O Supreme Personality of Godhead! O Supersoul,
master of all mystic power! Your pastimes are taking place continuously in these
three worlds, but who can estimate where, how and when You are employing
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Your spiritual energy and performing these innumerable pastimes? No one can
understand the mystery of how Your spiritual energy acts.
22-tasmäd idaà jagad açeñam asat-svarüpaà
svapnäbham asta-dhiñaëaà puru-duùkha-duùkham
tvayy eva nitya-sukha-bodha-tanäv anante
mäyäta udyad api yat sad ivävabhäti
Therefore this entire universe, which like a dream is by nature unreal,
nevertheless appears real, and thus it covers one’s consciousness and assails one
with repeated miseries. This universe appears real because it is manifested by
the potency of illusion emanating from You, whose unlimited transcendental
forms are full of eternal happiness and knowledge.
23-ekas tvam ätmä puruñaù puräëaù
satyaù svayaà-jyotir ananta ädyaù
nityo ‘kñaro ‘jasra-sukho niraïjanaù
pürëädvayo mukta upädhito ‘måtaù
You are the one Supreme Soul, the primeval Supreme Personality, the
Absolute Truth—self-manifested, endless and beginningless. You are eternal
and infallible, perfect and complete, without any rival and free from all material
designations. Your happiness can never be obstructed, nor have You any
connection with material contamination. Indeed, You are the indestructible
nectar of immortality.
24-evaà-vidhaà tväà sakalätmanäm api
svätmänam ätmätmatayä vicakñate
gurv-arka-labdhopaniñat-sucakñuñä
ye te tarantéva bhavänåtämbudhim
Those who have received the clear vision of knowledge from the sunlike
spiritual master can see You in this way, as the very Soul of all souls, the
Supersoul of everyone’s own self. Thus understanding Your original
personality, they are able to cross over the ocean of illusory material existence.
25-ätmänam evätmatayävijänatäà
tenaiva jätaà nikhilaà prapaïcitam
jïänena bhüyo ‘pi ca tat praléyate
rajjväm aher bhoga-bhaväbhavau yathä
A person who mistakes a rope for a snake becomes fearful, but he then gives
up his fear upon realizing that the so-called snake does not exist. Similarly, for
those who fail to recognize You as the Supreme Soul of all souls, the expansive
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illusory material existence arises, but knowledge of You at once causes it to
subside.
26-ajïäna-saàjïau bhava-bandha-mokñau
dvau näma nänyau sta åta-jïa-bhävät
ajasra-city ätmani kevale pare
vicäryamäëe taraëäv ivähané
The conception of material bondage and the conception of liberation are both
manifestations of ignorance. Being outside the scope of true knowledge, they
cease to exist when one correctly understands that the pure spirit soul is
distinct from matter and always fully conscious. At that time bondage and
liberation no longer have any significance, just as day and night have no
significance from the perspective of the sun.
27-tväm ätmänaà paraà matvä
param ätmänam eva ca
ätmä punar bahir mågya
aho ‘jïa-janatäjïatä
Just see the foolishness of those ignorant persons who consider You to be
some separated manifestation of illusion and who consider the self, which is
actually You, to be something else, the material body. Such fools conclude that
the supreme soul is to be searched for somewhere outside Your supreme
personality.
28-antar-bhave ‘nanta bhavantam eva
hy atat tyajanto mågayanti santaù
asantam apy anty ahim antareëa
santaà guëaà taà kim u yanti santaù
O unlimited Lord, the saintly devotees seek You out within their own bodies
by rejecting everything separate from You. Indeed, how can discriminating
persons appreciate the real nature of a rope lying before them until they refute
the illusion that it is a snake?
29-athäpi te deva padämbuja-dvayaprasäda-
leçänugåhéta eva hi
jänäti tattvaà bhagavan-mahimno
na cänya eko ‘pi ciraà vicinvan
My Lord, if one is favored by even a slight trace of the mercy of Your lotus
feet, he can understand the greatness of Your personality. But those who
speculate to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead are unable to
know You, even though they continue to study the Vedas for many years.
30-tad astu me nätha sa bhüri-bhägo
bhave ‘tra vänyatra tu vä tiraçcäm
yenäham eko ‘pi bhavaj-janänäà
bhütvä niñeve tava päda-pallavam
My dear Lord, I therefore pray to be so fortunate that in this life as Lord
Brahmä or in another life, wherever I take my birth, I may be counted as one of
Your devotees. I pray that wherever I may be, even among the animal species, I
can engage in devotional service to Your lotus feet.
31-aho ‘ti-dhanyä vraja-go-ramaëyaù
stanyämåtaà pétam atéva te mudä
yäsäà vibho vatsatarätmajätmanä
yat-tåptaye ‘dyäpi na cälam adhvaräù
O almighty Lord, how greatly fortunate are the cows and ladies of
Våndävana, the nectar of whose breast-milk You have happily drunk to Your
full satisfaction, taking the form of their calves and children! All the Vedic
sacrifices performed from time immemorial up to the present day have not given
You as much satisfaction.
32-aho bhägyam aho bhägyaà
nanda-gopa-vrajaukasäm
yan-mitraà paramänandaà
pürëaà brahma sanätanam
How greatly fortunate are Nanda Mahäräja, the cowherd men and all the
other inhabitants of Vrajabhümi! There is no limit to their good fortune,
because the Absolute Truth, the source of transcendental bliss, the eternal
Supreme Brahman, has become their friend.
33-eñäà tu bhägya-mahimäcyuta tävad ästäm
ekädaçaiva hi vayaà bata bhüri-bhägäù
etad-dhåñéka-cañakair asakåt pibämaù
çarvädayo ‘ìghry-udaja-madhv-amåtäsavaà te
Yet even though the extent of the good fortune of these residents of
Våndävana is inconceivable, we eleven presiding deities of the various senses,
headed by Lord Çiva, are also most fortunate, because the senses of these
devotees of Våndävana are the cups through which we repeatedly drink the
nectarean, intoxicating beverage of the honey of Your lotus feet.
34-tad bhüri-bhägyam iha janma kim apy aöavyäà
yad gokule ‘pi katamäìghri-rajo-‘bhiñekam
yaj-jévitaà tu nikhilaà bhagavän mukundas
tv adyäpi yat-pada-rajaù çruti-mågyam eva
My greatest possible good fortune would be to take any birth whatever in
this forest of Gokula and have my head bathed by the dust falling from the lotus
feet of any of its residents. Their entire life and soul is the Supreme Personality
of Godhead, Mukunda, the dust of whose lotus feet is still being searched for in
the Vedic mantras.
eñäà ghoña-niväsinäm uta bhavän kià deva räteti naç
ceto viçva-phalät phalaà tvad-aparaà kuträpy ayan muhyati
sad-veñäd iva pütanäpi sa-kulä tväm eva deväpitä
yad-dhämärtha-suhåt-priyätma-tanaya-präëäçayäs tvat-kåte
My mind becomes bewildered just trying to think of what reward other than
You could be found anywhere. You are the embodiment of all benedictions,
which You bestow upon these residents of the cowherd community of
Våndävana. You have already arranged to give Yourself to Pütanä and her
family members in exchange for her disguising herself as a devotee. So what is
left for You to give these devotees of Våndävana, whose homes, wealth, friends,
dear relations, bodies, children and very lives and hearts are all dedicated only
to You?
36-tävad rägädayaù stenäs
tävat kärä-gåhaà gåham
tävan moho ‘ìghri-nigaòo
yävat kåñëa na te janäù
My dear Lord Kåñëa, until people become Your devotees, their material
attachments and desires remain thieves, their homes remain prisons, and their
affectionate feelings for their family members remain foot-shackles.
37-prapaïcaà niñprapaïco ‘pi
viòambayasi bhü-tale
prapanna-janatänandasandohaà
prathituà prabho
My dear master, although You have nothing to do with material existence,
You come to this earth and imitate material life just to expand the varieties of
ecstatic enjoyment for Your surrendered devotees.
38-jänanta eva jänantu
kià bahüktyä na me prabho
manaso vapuño väco
vaibhavaà tava go-caraù
There are people who say, “I know everything about Kåñëa.” Let them think
that way. As far as I am concerned, I do not wish to speak very much about this
matter. O my Lord, let me say this much: As far as Your opulences are
concerned, they are all beyond the reach of my mind, body and words.
39-anujänéhi mäà kåñëa
sarvaà tvaà vetsi sarva-dåk
tvam eva jagatäà nätho
jagad etat tavärpitam
My dear Kåñëa, I now humbly request permission to leave. Actually, You are
the knower and seer of all things. Indeed, You are the Lord of all the universes,
and yet I offer this one universe unto You.
40-çré-kåñëa våñëi-kula-puñkara-joña-däyin
kñmä-nirjara-dvija-paçüdadhi-våddhi-kärin
uddharma-çärvara-hara kñiti-räkñasa-dhrug
ä-kalpam ärkam arhan bhagavan namas te
My dear Çré Kåñëa, You bestow happiness upon the lotuslike Våñëi dynasty
and expand the great oceans consisting of the earth, the demigods, the
brähmaëas and the cows. You dispel the dense darkness of irreligion and oppose
the demons who have appeared on this earth. O Supreme Personality of
Godhead, as long as this universe exists and as long as the sun shines, I will
offer my obeisances unto You.
41-çré-çuka uväca
ity abhiñöüya bhümänaà
triù parikramya pädayoù
natväbhéñöaà jagad-dhätä
sva-dhäma pratyapadyata
Çukadeva Gosvämé said: Having thus offered his prayers, Brahmä
circumambulated his worshipable Lord, the unlimited Personality of Godhead,
three times and then bowed down at His lotus feet. The appointed creator of
the universe then returned to his own residence.
42-tato ‘nujïäpya bhagavän
sva-bhuvaà präg avasthitän
vatsän pulinam äninye
yathä-pürva-sakhaà svakam
After granting His son Brahmä permission to leave, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead took the calves, who were still where they had been a year earlier,
and brought them to the riverbank, where He had been taking His meal and
where His cowherd boyfriends remained just as before.
43-ekasminn api yäte ‘bde
präëeçaà cäntarätmanaù
kåñëa-mäyähatä räjan
kñaëärdhaà menire ‘rbhakäù
O King, although the boys had passed an entire year apart from the Lord of
their very lives, they had been covered by Lord Kåñëa’s illusory potency and
thus considered that year merely half a moment.
44-kià kià na vismarantéha
mäyä-mohita-cetasaù
yan-mohitaà jagat sarvam
abhékñëaà vismåtätmakam
What indeed is not forgotten by those whose minds are bewildered by the
Lord’s illusory potency? By that power of Mäyä, this entire universe remains in
perpetual bewilderment, and in this atmosphere of forgetfulness no one can
understand his own identity.
45-ücuç ca suhådaù kåñëaà
sv-ägataà te ‘ti-raàhasä
naiko ‘py abhoji kavala
ehétaù sädhu bhujyatäm
The cowherd boyfriends said to Lord Kåñëa: You have returned so quickly!
We have not eaten even one morsel in Your absence. Please come here and take
Your meal without distraction.
46-tato hasan håñékeço
‘bhyavahåtya sahärbhakaiù
darçayaàç carmäjagaraà
nyavartata vanäd vrajam
Then Lord Håñékeça, smiling, finished His lunch in the company of His
cowherd friends. While they were returning from the forest to their homes in
Vraja, Lord Kåñëa showed the cowherd boys the skin of the dead serpent
Aghäsura.
47-barha-prasüna-vana-dhätu-vicitritäìgaù
proddäma-veëu-dala-çåìga-ravotsaväòhyaù
vatsän gåëann anuga-géta-pavitra-kértir
gopé-dåg-utsava-dåçiù praviveça goñöham
Lord Kåñëa’s transcendental body was decorated with peacock feathers and
flowers and painted with forest minerals, and His bamboo flute loudly and
festively resounded. As He called out to His calves by name, His cowherd
boyfriends purified the whole world by chanting His glories. Thus Lord Kåñëa
entered the cow pasture of His father, Nanda Mahäräja, and the sight of His
beauty at once produced a great festival for the eyes of all the cowherd women.
48-adyänena mahä-vyälo
yaçodä-nanda-sünunä
hato ‘vitä vayaà cäsmäd
iti bälä vraje jaguù
As the cowherd boys reached the village of Vraja, they sang, “Today Kåñëa
saved us by killing a great serpent!” Some of the boys described Kåñëa as the
son of Yaçodä, and others as the son of Nanda Mahäräja.
49-çré-räjoväca
brahman parodbhave kåñëe
iyän premä kathaà bhavet
yo ‘bhüta-pürvas tokeñu
svodbhaveñv api kathyatämKing Parékñit said: O brähmaëa, how could the cowherd women have
developed for Kåñëa, someone else’s son, such unprecedented pure love-love
they never felt even for their own children? Please explain this.
50-çré-çuka uväca
sarveñäm api bhütänäà
nåpa svätmaiva vallabhaù
itare ‘patya-vittädyästad-vallabhatayaiva hi
Çré Çukadeva Gosvämé said: O King, for every created being the dearmost
thing is certainly his own self. The dearness of everything else—children,
wealth and so on—is due only to the dearness of the self.
51-tad räjendra yathä snehaù
sva-svakätmani dehinäm
na tathä mamatälambiputra-
vitta-gåhädiñu
For this reason, O best of kings, the embodied soul is self-centered: he is
more attached to his own body and self than to his so-called possessions like
children, wealth and home.
52-dehätma-vädinäà puàsäm
api räjanya-sattama
yathä dehaù priyatamas
tathä na hy anu ye ca tam
Indeed, for persons who think the body is the self, O best of kings, those
things whose importance lies only in their relationship to the body are never as
dear as the body itself.
53-deho ‘pi mamatä-bhäk cet
tarhy asau nätma-vat priyaù
yaj jéryaty api dehe ‘smin
jévitäçä baléyasé
If a person comes to the stage of considering the body “mine” instead of
“me,” he will certainly not consider the body as dear as his own self. After all,
even as the body is growing old and useless, one’s desire to continue living
remains strong.
54-tasmät priyatamaù svätmä
sarveñäm api dehinäm
tad-artham eva sakalaà
jagad etac caräcaram
Therefore it is his own self that is most dear to every embodied living being,
and it is simply for the satisfaction of this self that the whole material creation
of moving and nonmoving entities exists.
55-kåñëam enam avehi tvam
ätmänam akhilätmanäm
jagad-dhitäya so ‘py atra
dehéväbhäti mäyayä
-You should know Kåñëa to be the original Soul of all living entities. For the
benefit of the whole universe, He has, out of His causeless mercy, appeared as
an ordinary human being. He has done this by the strength of His internal
potency.
56-vastuto jänatäm atra
kåñëaà sthäsnu cariñëu ca
bhagavad-rüpam akhilaà
nänyad vastv iha kiïcana
Those in this world who understand Lord Kåñëa as He is see all things,
whether stationary or moving, as manifest forms of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. Such enlightened persons recognize no reality apart from the Supreme
Lord Kåñëa.
57-sarveñäm api vastünäà
bhävärtho bhavati sthitaù
tasyäpi bhagavän kåñëaù
kim atad vastu rüpyatäm
The original, unmanifested form of material nature is the source of all
material things, and the source of even that subtle material nature is the
Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kåñëa. What, then, could one ascertain to be
separate from Him?
58-samäçritä ye pada-pallava-plavaà
mahat-padaà puëya-yaço muräreù
bhavämbudhir vatsa-padaà paraà padaà
padaà padaà yad vipadäà na teñäm
For those who have accepted the boat of the lotus feet of the Lord, who is
the shelter of the cosmic manifestation and is famous as Muräri, the enemy of
the Mura demon, the ocean of the material world is like the water contained in
a calf’s hoof-print. Their goal is paraà padam, Vaikuëöha, the place where
there are no material miseries, not the place where there is danger at every step.
59-etat te sarvam äkhyätaà
yat påñöo ‘ham iha tvayä
tat kaumäre hari-kåtaà
paugaëòe parikértitam
Since you inquired from me, I have fully described to you those activities of
Lord Hari that were performed in His fifth year but not celebrated until His
sixth.
60-etat suhådbhiç caritaà murärer
aghärdanaà çädvala-jemanaà ca
vyaktetarad rüpam ajorv-abhiñöavaà
çåëvan gåëann eti naro ‘khilärthän
Any person who hears or chants these pastimes Lord Muräri performed with
His cowherd friends—the killing of Aghäsura, the taking of lunch on the forest
grass, the Lord’s manifestation of transcendental forms, and the wonderful
prayers offered by Lord Brahmä—is sure to achieve all his spiritual desires.
61-evaà vihäraiù kaumäraiù
kaumäraà jahatur vraje
niläyanaiù setu-bandhair
markaöotplavanädibhiù
In this way the boys spent their childhood in the land of Våndävana playing
hide-and-go-seek, building play bridges, jumping about like monkeys and
engaging in many other such games.
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