THE REFLECTION ON 'BRAHMA SAMHITA'
THE REFLECTION ON 'BRAHMA SAMHITA'The 'Brahma Samhita' Fifth Chapter we can know was introduced by Lord Caitanya who acquired it from Adi Kesava Temple, South India.
To that Fifth Chapter Srila Bhaktisidhanta Sarasvati, the spiritual master of Srila Prabhupada wrote a comment.
We will reflect on that 'Brahma Samhita' and that comment and the philosophy spread by Lord Caitanya of acintya-bhedabheda-tattva. This darsan gives the vision of simultaneous oneness and difference we are discussing.
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isvarah paramah krsnah
sac-cid-ananda-vigrahah
anadir adir govindah
sarva-karana-karanam
"Krsna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes."
'Isvara' word from the verse, not included in the translation means in Sanskrit the controller described here as Krsna, the God as the Supreme Person from the Top of His position controls everything by His incredible energies and by His will.
He as the possessor of eternity 'sat' feature dwells in that environment never changing that position even when descending to this Material World where He is known as Govinda, admired by Brahma here in 'Brahma Samhita' as such: "govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami". But only here in this external reality He is known as Govinda, as the Supreme Isvara He is not playing any role, He is not wearing any theatre dress to act as an actor, He has many names as Govinda who is playing with His cows or as Gopinath who is replacing the cows to the Gopis, as Vasudeva who creates thousands of palaces for His queens, or Nandanandana the son of Nanda Maharaja, etc..
In whatever play He is involved either in this Universe or another, on this planet or another, or on the highest planet within this Universe, the planet of Druva known as Svetadvipa described in 'Brahma Samhita' where the Spiritual Realm is manifesting, He is not Himself really, in some sense He is but not really.
In fact His position as Isvara the Source of all what exist consists of that eternity 'sat', His 'cit' potency of cognitive nature, as the possessor of everything in Himself and as well the 'ananda' which indicates Radha, the bliss feature, identified with Srimati Radharani as en eternal Consort of Krsna. Although She is the personification of bliss and the Pure Spiritual Nature, She also is an actor in the reality of our external existence like Krsna. As the Eternal Form of sat-cit-ananda They Both are the Form in Itself, One inseparable Spiritual Form even when they play as an actors in the Material or Spiritual World, under the illusion of Mahamaya or Yogamaya. They are only playing of being under illusion, yet They are not influenced by it. The living entities are under the influence of illusion, spell of that Mayas, the Lord, He or She or Both of Them are never under any influence of illusion. They only act as if controlled but actually they are never controlled.
The movie is going one and an actor must play his role but the Lord is only the presenter who shows some mood of a human, the jivas are covered by the veil of Maya and do not see what is going one actually. Until they woke up from this dream of desire to be under illusion and be in the association of the Lord in that or another situation it all would be for them only a dream.
This role or that role of the pastimes for the pleasure of His followers is not the essence of the Lord's existence where the desires of everyone are fulfilled.
He can do whatever He wants and even play the role one wants but The Supreme Personality of Godhead is a God, not to be afraid of Him but to understand His position, like Narada told to the father of Lord Krsna: 'You must finally see He, Krsna is actually not your son, He is God, the Supreme Lord'.
So that time of play would finally end and we would woke up from this dream of play and fun with God to become oneself an Isvara or parent of God, etc.. We would see who He really is, and notice He actually does not want to play on mundane or spiritual spell of Mahamaya's or Yogamaya's illusion. That He wants to come to His own reality, His own Self where He realy is Himself, not whom He plays as an actor.
This realization would come sooner or later but it would come and we would open our eyes from a DREAM, what Krsna alone explains in Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 11 when He instructs Uddhava before his departure to His real home, to home where he is eternally united with his Own part, Own Self Srimati Radharani.
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