SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse 4

tat-kinjalkam tad-amsanam tat-patrani sriyam api [4]

Translation: The core of that eternal holy abode which is called Gokula is the hexagonal land of Krishna’s abode. The stamens or petals are the residences of the cowherds, or gopas, who are Krishna’s own, His dearmost friends and high loving devotees that are a part of His own self. Those abodes appear like many walls, all beautifully effulgent. The extensive foliage of that lotus constitutes the subforests that are the abodes of the loving damsels of Krishna, headed by Sri Radhika.

Purport: The transcendental Gokula is in the form of a lotus flower. Its core is hexagonal; in the centre is the predominated and predominating moiety, Sri Radha-Krishna, who are the objective of the eighteen-syllable mantra. Their various subjective personal expansions (intimate serving associates) of intrinsic divine potency surround Them. The seed is Radha-Krishna.

The Gopala-tapaniyopanisad states, tasmad omkara-sambhuto gopalo visvasambhavah, klim omkarasya chaikatvam pathyate brahma-vadibhih. Omkara means Gopal, who is both the potency and the potent, and klim means Omkara. Therefore, klim, or the primary desire-seed (kama-bija) expresses the transcendental reality of Sri Sri Radha and Krishna.

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