{"id":18083,"date":"2020-04-20T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T17:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/?p=18083"},"modified":"2020-09-20T13:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-20T17:23:13","slug":"brahma-samhita-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/brahma-samhita-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Brahma Samhita 38"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u015ar\u012b brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101 5.38<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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prem\u0101\u00f1jana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
\nsanta\u1e25 sadaiva h\u1e5bdaye\u1e63u vilokayanti
\nya\u1e41 \u015by\u0101masundaram acintya-gu\u1e47a-svar\u016bpa\u1e41
\ngovindam \u0101di-puru\u1e63a\u1e41 tam aha\u1e41 bhaj\u0101mi<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Synonyms<\/h2>\n
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prema<\/em><\/a> \u2014 of love; a\u00f1jana<\/em><\/a> \u2014 with the salve; churita<\/em><\/a> \u2014 tinged; bhakti<\/em><\/a> \u2014 of devotion; vilocanena<\/em><\/a> \u2014 with the eye; santa\u1e25<\/em><\/a> \u2014 the pure devotees; sad\u0101<\/em><\/a> \u2014 always; eva<\/em><\/a> \u2014 indeed; h\u1e5bdaye\u1e63u<\/em><\/a> \u2014 in their hearts; vilokayanti<\/em><\/a> \u2014 see; yam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 whom; \u015by\u0101ma<\/em><\/a> \u2014 dark blue; sundaram<\/em><\/a> \u2014 beautiful; acintya<\/em><\/a> \u2014 inconceivable; gu\u1e47a<\/em><\/a> \u2014 with attributes; svar\u016bpam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 whose nature is endowed; govindam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 Govinda; \u0101di<\/em><\/a>–puru\u1e63am<\/em><\/a> \u2014 the original person; tam<\/em><\/a> \u2014 Him; aham<\/em><\/a> \u2014 I; bhaj\u0101mi<\/em><\/a> \u2014 worship.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Translation<\/h2>\n
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I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is \u015ay\u0101masundara, K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Purport<\/h2>\n
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The \u015ay\u0101masundara form of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is His inconceivable simultaneous personal and impersonal self-contradictory form. True devotees see that form in their purified hearts under the influence of devotional trance. The form \u015ay\u0101ma is not the blue color visible in the mundane world but is the transcendental variegated color affording eternal bliss, and is not visible to the mortal eye. On a consideration of the trance of Vy\u0101sadeva as in the \u015bloka, bhakti-yogena manasi<\/em> etc. [SB 1.7.4<\/a>], it will be clear that the form of \u015ar\u012b K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is the full Personality of Godhead and can only be visible in the heart of a true devotee, which is the only true seat in the state of trance under the influence of devotion. When K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a manifested Himself in Vraja, both the devotees and nondevotees saw Him with this very eye; but only the devotees cherished Him, eternally present in Vraja, as the priceless jewel of their heart. Nowadays also the devotees see Him in Vraja in their hearts, saturated with devotion although they do not see Him with their eyes. The eye of devotion is nothing but the eye of the pure unalloyed spiritual self of the j\u012bva.<\/em> The form of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is visible to that eye in proportion to its purification by the practice of devotion. When the devotion of the neophyte reaches the stage of bh\u0101va-bhakti<\/em> the pure eye of that devotee is tinged with the salve of love by the grace of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, which enables him to see K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a face to face. The phrase “in their hearts” means K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a is visible in proportion as their hearts are purified by the practice of devotion. The sum and substance of this \u015bloka<\/em> is that the form of K\u1e5b\u1e63\u1e47a, who is \u015ay\u0101masundara, Na\u1e6davara (Best Dancer), Mural\u012bdhara (Holder of the Flute) and Tribha\u1e45ga (Triple-bending), is not a mental concoction but is transcendental, and is visible with the eye of the soul of the devotee under trance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u015ar\u012b brahma-sa\u1e41hit\u0101 5.38 prem\u0101\u00f1jana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santa\u1e25 sadaiva h\u1e5bdaye\u1e63u vilokayanti ya\u1e41 \u015by\u0101masundaram acintya-gu\u1e47a-svar\u016bpa\u1e41 govindam \u0101di-puru\u1e63a\u1e41 tam aha\u1e41 bhaj\u0101mi Synonyms prema \u2014 of love; a\u00f1jana \u2014 with the salve; churita \u2014 tinged; bhakti \u2014 of devotion; vilocanena \u2014 with … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 10:24:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.isvara.org\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}