govinda prayer (i)

1
Krsna who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead/Ruler
He has an eternal (sat) full conscious (chit) and blissful (ananda) spiritual body
He is the prime origin of all, He himself having no other origin

2
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
who is tending the cows, yielding all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems
surrounded by millions of purpose/wish trees, always served with great reverence
and affection by hundreds of thousands of lakshmis or gopis

3
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
who is adept in playing on His flute, with blooming eyes like lotus petals
with head decked with peacock's feather, with the figure of beauty
tinged with the hue of blue clouds, and His unique loveliness
charming millions of Cupids

4
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
round whose neck is swinging a garland of flowers beautified with the moon-locket
whose two hands are adorned with the flute and jeweled ornaments
who always revels in pastimes of love
whose graceful threefold-bending form of Syamasundara is eternally manifest

5
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
whose transcendental form is full of bliss, truth, reality, and thus full of the most dazzling splendor each of the limbs of that transcendental figure possesses the full-fledged functions of all the organs
and eternally sees, maintains and manifests the infinite universes, both spiritual and mundane

6
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
who is inaccessible to the Vedas, but obtainable by pure unalloyed devotion of the soul
who is without a second, who is not subject to decay, without a beginning, whose form is endless
who is the beginning and the eternal purusha, yet a person possessing the beauty of blooming youth

7
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
only the tip of the toe of whose lotus feet is approached by the yogis
who aspire after the transcendental and betake themselves to pranayama by drilling the respiration
or by the jnanis who try to find out the non-differentiated Brahman by the process of elimination of the mundane, extending over thousands of millions of years

8
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
who is an undifferentiated entity as there is no distinction between potency and the possessor thereof
in His work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency remains inseparable
all the universes exist in Him, and He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms
that are scattered throughout the universe, at one and the same time


9
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
in whose praise men who are imbued with devotion sing the mantra-suktas told by the Vedas
by gaining their appropriate beauty, greatness, thrones, conveyances and ornaments

10
I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord...
residing in His own realm, Goloka, with Radha, resembling His own spiritual figure
the embodiment of the ecstatic potency possessed of the sixty-four artistic activities
in the company of Her confidantes/sakhis, embodiments of the extensions of Her bodily form permeated and vitalized by His ever-blissful spiritual rasa