Prayers to Sri Krishna from the Brahma Samhita

hare Krishna!

Brahma Samhita is an ancient Vedic text, which has the essence of all the Vedic literature. The fifth chapter, was brought by Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, from the Adi Keshav Temple in south India, during His pilgrimage.
It comprises of these prayers, spoken by Lord Brahma, I praise of Govinda.

Reciting and understanding these prayers is very helpful in progressing towards pure devotional service.

English TRANSLATION

1) Krsna 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.

8) He 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.

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.

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