Ādi-līlāChapter 4: The Confidential Reasons for the Appearance of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrita Ādi 4.72

ānanda-cinmaya-rasa-pratibhāvitābhis

tābhir ya eva nija-rūpatayā kalābhih

goloka eva nivasaty akhilātma-bhūto

govindam ādi-purusham tam aham bhajāmi

SYNONYMS

ānanda — bliss; cit — and knowledge; maya — consisting of; rasa — mellows; prati — at every second; bhāvitābhih — who are engrossed with; tābhih — with those; yah — who; eva — certainly; nija-rūpatayā — with His own form; kalābhih — who are parts of portions of His pleasure potency; golokein Goloka Vrindāvana; eva — certainly; nivasati — resides; akhila-ātmaas the soul of all; bhūtah — who exists; govindam — Lord Govinda; ādi-purusham — the original personality; tam — Him; ahamI; bhajāmi — worship.

TRANSLATION

"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who resides in His own realm, Goloka, with Rādhā, who resembles His own spiritual figure and who embodies the ecstatic potency [hlādinī]. Their companions are Her confidantes, who embody extensions of Her bodily form and who are imbued and permeated with ever-blissful spiritual rasa."

PURPORT

This text is from the Brahma-samhitā (5.37).

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