Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Brahma-samhitā 5.51

agnir mahi gaganam ambu marud diśaś ca

kālas tathātma-manasīti jagat-trayāni

yasmād bhavanti vibhavanti viśanti yam ca

govindam ādi-purusham tam aham bhajāmi

SYNONYMS

agnih — fire; mahi — earth; gaganam — ether; ambu — water; marut — air; diśah — directions; ca — also; kālah — time; tathā — as well as; ātma — soul; manasī — and mind; iti — thus; jagat-trayāni — the three worlds; yasmāt — from whom; bhavanti — they originate; vibhavanti — they exist; viśanti — they enter; yam — whom; ca — also; govindam — Govinda; ādi-purusham — the original person; tam — Him; aham — I; bhajāmi — worship.

TRANSLATION

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.

PURPORT

There is nothing in the three worlds save the five elements, ten quarters, time, jīva-soul, and the mental principle allied with the subtle body consisting of mind, intelligence and ego of conditioned souls. The elevationists (karmīs) make their offerings in sacrifice in the fire. Conditioned souls know nothing beyond this perceptible world of nine elements. The jīva is the self-same soul whose ecstatic delight the joyless liberationists (jñānīs) aspire after. Both the principles that are respectively depicted as ātmā and prakriti by the system of Sāńkhya are included in the above. In other words all the principles that have been enunciated by all the speculative philosophers (tattva-vādīs) are included in these nine elements. Śrī Govinda is the source of the appearance, continuance and subsidence of all these principles.

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