Brahma Samhita vers 1

[Paramananda das]

PAMHO
AGTSP

krishno mamaiva sarvatra
svasti kuryat shriya samam
tathaiva cha sada karshnihi
sarva-vighna-vinashanaha

"May Lord Krishna along with His beloved Radha bring about prosperity and auspiciousness at all times. In the same way may the devotee of Krishna, who is able to destroy all obstacles, always bring about auspiciousness." (Vishnu Yamala Samhita)

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada has advised to daily recite the Brahma Samhita and enter the same meaning and Srila PRabhupada has stated the same following the footsteps of
his GuruMaharaja, there is some recordings where Srila PRabhupada reads the purports of his GuruMaharaja to the Brahma Samhita.Lord Caitanya brought the Brahma Samhita
to light when He brought it from the Adi Kesava temple in Kerala.He also brought the Krsna Karnamrta, so since these 2 books are very dear and important to the followers of Lord Caitanya as they contain the theistic science of KC and are very important vaisnava litteratures.Lord Caitanya only revealed the 5 part of Brahma Samhita as the other parts of this work is no long availabel.This Samhita is spoken by Lord Brahma the original Guru of our Sampradaya:
Below is the puport of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Prabhupada that are self explanatory:

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrī Brahma-saḿhitā 5.1
īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ
anādir ādir govindaḥ
sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam
SYNONYMS
īśvaraḥ — the controller; paramaḥ — supreme; kṛṣṇaḥ — Lord Kṛṣṇa; sat — comprising eternal existence; cit — absolute knowledge; ānanda — and absolute bliss; vigrahaḥ — whose form; anādiḥ — without beginning; ādiḥ — the origin; govindaḥ — Lord Govinda; sarva-kāraṇa-kāraṇam — the cause of all causes.
TRANSLATION
Kṛṣṇa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes.
PURPORT
Kṛṣṇa is the exalted Supreme entity having His eternal name, eternal form, eternal attribution and eternal pastimes. The very name "Kṛṣṇa" implies His love-attracting designation, expressing by His eternal nomenclature the acme of entity. His eternal beautiful heavenly blue-tinged body glowing with the intensity of ever-existing knowledge has a flute in both His hands. As His inconceivable spiritual energy is all-extending, still He maintains His all-charming medium size by His qualifying spiritual instrumentals. His all-accommodating supreme subjectivity is nicely manifested in His eternal form. The concentrated all-time presence, uncovered knowledge and inebriating felicity have their beauty in Him. The mundane manifestive portion of His own Self is known as all-pervading Paramātmā, Īśvara (Superior Lord) or Viṣṇu (All-fostering). Hence it is evident that Kṛṣṇa is sole Supreme Godhead. His unrivaled or unique spiritual body of superexcellent charm is eternally unveiled with innumerable spiritual instrumentals (senses) and unreckonable attributes keeping their signifying location properly, adjusting at the same time by His inconceivable conciliative powers. This beautiful spiritual figure is identical with Kṛṣṇa and the spiritual entity of Kṛṣṇa is identical with His own figure.
The very intensely blended entity of eternal presence of felicitous cognition is the charming targeted holding or transcendental icon. It follows that the conception of the indistinguishable formless magnitude (Brahman) which is an indolent, lax, presentment of cognitive bliss, is merely a penumbra of intensely blended glow of the three concomitants, viz., the blissful, the substantive and the cognitive. This transcendental manifestive icon Kṛṣṇa in His original face is primordial background of magnitudinal infinite Brahman and of the all-pervasive oversoul. Kṛṣṇa as truly visioned in His variegated pastimes, such as owner of transcendental cows, chief of cowherds, consort of milk-maids, ruler of the terrestrial abode Gokula and object of worship by transcendental residents of Goloka beauties, is Govinda. He is the root cause of all causes who are the predominating and predominated agents of the universe. The glance of His projected fractional portion in the sacred originating water viz., the personal oversoul or Paramātmā, gives rise to a secondary potency — nature who creates this mundane universe. This oversoul's intermediate energy brings forth the individual souls analogously to the emanated rays of the sun.
This book is a treatise of Kṛṣṇa; so the preamble is enacted by chanting His name in the beginning.

I gave a lecture on Brahma Samhita last year ;
http://nimaipandit.ning.com/profiles/blogs/conference-call-tuesday

Srila Jiva Goswami has given very important purports to the Brahma Samhita that was kindly translated by Sriman Kusakrata Prabhu that was empowered to reveal and translate so many works of our acaryas:
http://nitaaiveda.com/All_Scriptures_By_Acharyas/Jiva_Goswami/Brahm...

in the beggining of his purport to vers one he has given a beautiful Mangal Carana:

Mangalacarana


shri-krishna-rupa-mahima
mama citte mahiyatam
yasya prasadad vyak-kartum
icchami brahma-samhitam


Within my heart I worship the splendor of Lord Krishna's transcendental form. I desire that by Lord Krishna's mercy I will be able to explain the verses of Brahma-samhita.


duryojanapi yuktartha
su-vicarad rishi-smritih
vicare tu mamatra syad
rishinam sa rishir gatih


Although the Brahma-samhita is a very difficult book, the commentaries of the sages have made it easy to understand. My words follow their explanations.


yadyapy adhyaya-shata-yuk
samhita sa tathapy asau
adhyayah sutra-rupatvat
tasyah sarvangatam gatah

Although the Brahma-samhita contains one hundred chapters, because this chapter briefly describes Lord Krishna's transcendental form, it is the best.


shrimad-bhagavatadyeshu
drishtam yan mrishta-buddhibhih
tad evatra paramrishtam
tato hrishtam mano mama


The same transcendental sweetness the pure-hearted devotees see in shrimad-Bhagavatam and other Vaishnava-shastras is also present in the Brahma-samhita. For this reason my heart is now happy.


yad yac chri-krishna-sandarbhe
vistarad vinirupitam
atra tat punar amrishya
vyakhyatum sprishyate maya


After due reflection, in this book I have lightly touched on the same topics more elaborately explained in my Shri Krishna- sandarbha.
note:
So Srila Jiva Goswami gives us a clear hint that if we want to understand many subjects of the Brahma Samhita we should also carefully study his Krsna Sandarbha:
this book clearly establishes the glory of Sri Krsna.

There is some nice references about Srila Jiva Goswami at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiva_Goswami and

http://vrindavana.dasya.com/index.php/Srila_Jiva_Goswami#More_Praye...

Srila Jiva Goswami is the incarnation of Vilasa Manjari that has been explained in detail by Dhyanachandra Goswami in his Dhyanachandra Arcana paddhati, the life of Srila Jiva Goswami is also elaborately described in the Bahkti Ratnakara by Kavi Karnapure

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Payonidhi das