CDV 4-3

Verses 40, 29, 41-49, 51
"I Worship Govinda, the Primival Lord"

(1)

yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anḍa-koti-
kotisv asesa-vasudhadi vibhūti-bhinnam
tad brahma niskalam anantam asesa-bhūtam
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.40]

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose effulgence is the source of the nondifferentiated Brahman mentioned in the Upanisads, being differentiated from the infinity of glories of the mundane universe appears as the indivisible, infinite, limitless, truth.]

(2)

cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa-
laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam
laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.29]

[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 laksmis or gopis.]

(3)

maya hi yasya jagad-anḍa-satani sūte
traigunya-tad-visaya-veda-vitayamana
sattvavalambi-para-sattvam visuddha-sattvam-
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.41]

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, who is the absolute substantive principle being the ultimate entity in the form of the support of all existence whose external potency embodies the threefold mundane qualities, viz., sattva, rajas, and tamas and diffuses the Vedic knowledge regarding the mundane world.]

(4)

ananda-cinmaya-rasatmataya manaḥsu
yaḥ praninam pratiphalan smaratam upetya
lilayitena bhuvanani jayaty ajasram-
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.42]

[I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose glory ever triumphantly dominates the mundane world by the activity of His own pastimes, being reflected in the mind of recollecting souls as the transcendental entity of ever-blissful cognitive rasa.]

(5)

goloka-namni nija-dhamni tale ca tasya
devi mahesa-hari-dhamasu tesu tesu
te te prabhava-nicaya vihitas ca yena
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.43]

[Lowest of all is located Devi-dhama [mundane world], next above it is Mahesa-dama [abode of Mahesa]; above Mahesa-dhama is placed Hari-dhama [abode of Hari] and above them all is located Krsna's own realm named Goloka. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda, who has allotted their respective authorities to the rulers of those graded realms.]

(6)

srsti-sthiti-pralaya-sadhana-saktir eka
chayeva yasya bhuvanani bibharti durga
icchanurūpam api yasya ca cestate sa
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.44]

[The external potency Maya who is of the nature of the shadow of the cit potency, is worshiped by all people as Durga, the creating, preserving and destroying agency of this mundane world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda in accordance with whose will Durga conducts herself.]

(7)

ksiram yatha dadhi vikara-visesa-yogat
sanjayate na hi tataḥ prthag asti hetoḥ
yaḥ sambhutam api tatha samupaiti karyad
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.45]

[Just as milk is transformed into curd by the action of acids, but yet the effect curd is neither same as, nor different from, its cause, viz., milk, so I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whom the state of Sambhu is a transformation for the performance of the work of destruction.]

(8)

diparcir eva hi dasantaram abhyupetya
dipayate vivrta-hetu-samana-dharma
yas tadrg eva hi ca visnutaya vibhati
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.46]

[The light of one candle being communicated to other candles, although it burns separately in them, is the same in its quality. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda who exhibits Himself equally in the same mobile manner in His various manifestations.]

(9)

yaḥ karanarnava-jale bhajati sma yoga-
nidram ananta-jagad-anḍa-sa-roma-kūpaḥ
adhara-saktim avalambya param sva-mūrtim
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.47]

[I adore the primeval Lord Govinda who assuming His own great subjective form, who bears the name of Sesa, replete with the all-accommodating potency, and reposing in the Causal Ocean with the infinity of the world in the pores of His hair, enjoys creative sleep [yoga-nidra].]

(10)

yasyaika-nisvasita-kalam athavalambya
jivanti loma-vilaja jagad-anḍa-nathaḥ
visnur mahan sa iha yasya kala-viseso
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.48]

[Brahma and other lords of the mundane worlds, appearing from the pores of hair of Maha-Visnu, remain alive as long as the duration of one exhalation of the latter [Maha-Visnu]. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda of whose subjective personality Maha-Visnu is the portion of portion.]

(11)

bhasvan yathasma-sakalesu nijesu tejaḥ
sviyam kiyat prakatayaty api tadvad atra
brahma ya esa jagad-anḍa-vidhana-karta
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.49]

[I adore the primeval Lord Govinda from whom the separated subjective portion Brahma receives his power for the regulation of the mundane world, just as the sun manifests some portion of his own light in all the effulgent gems that bear the names of sūryakanta, etc.]

(12)

agnir mahi gaganam ambu marud disas ca
kalas tathatma-manasiti jagat-trayani
yasmad bhavanti vibhavanti visanti yam ca
govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami
[Bs 5.51]

]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.]

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