SRI BRAHMA-SAMHITA

Verse	Subject
[1]	Sri Krishna's worshippable position.
[2-5]	Gokula, the holy abode of Sri Krishna.
[6-7]	Krishna's aloofness from external Maya's association.
[8-9]	The male organ principle associated with external Maya.
[10-21]	The principle of creation; the appearance, from Garbhodasayi Maha-Vishnu, of Vishnu, Prajapati and Rudra as the presiding deities of sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna; the subsequent creation of the living beings and their integral relationship.
[22-23]	Lord Brahma's birth from the lotus of the navel of Lord Vishnu, and Lord Brahma's desire to create the world.
[24-25]	Brahma receives kama-blja and Krishna mantra from Krishna.
[26]	Brahma's meditation on Krishna.
[27-28]	Brahma receives Kama Gayattri and attains to the twice-born status.
[29-55]	The quintessence of the Vedas—Brahma's hymns unto Krishna.
[29]	Krishna's divine seat, Gokula.
[30-33]	The incomparable beauty of Krishna.
[34]	Refutation of all paths that are not pure devotional service.
[35]	The almighty potency of Krishna.
[36]	The devotee's attainment of an appropriate intrinsic form and state according to his heart's serving disposition.
[37]	Krishna's transcendental enjoyment with the gopis, His ecstasy potency.
[38]	Only through the eyes of love do the sadhus see Krishna in their hearts.
[39]	Krishna's many svamsa avataras.
[40]	The nondifferentiated Brahman principle.
[41]	The Vedas' aspect of trimodal worldliness and Krishna's pure divine existence and transcendence beyond that secondary aspect of the Vedas.
[42]	The appearance of Krishna's Holy Name, form, qualities and pastimes, etc., in the heart imbued with pure truth.
[43]	The gradation of the excellences of Devi-dhama, Rudra-dhama and Hari-dhama, and the supreme excellence of Krishna-dhama Goloka.
[44]	The position of the Durga of the material world, the presiding deity of Mahamaya, who executes creation, sustenance and dissolution, subordinate to the wish of Krishna.
[45]	The Rudra entity.
[46]	The Visnu entity.
[47]	The Sesa, or Ananta, entity.
[48]	The Maha-Vishnu entity.
[49]	The Brahma entity.
[50]	The Ganesh entity.
[51]	Krishna as the cause of all elements.
[52]	The Surya entity.
[53]	Krishna as the root origin of everything, both positively and negatively.
[54]	Krishna's indifference and partiality.
[55]	The fruits of favourable and unfavourable cultivation of Krishna's service.
[56]	Svetadvipa-Goloka, the abode of Krishna.
[57]	The teachings in five slokas given to Brahma after his desire to create the world.
[58]	Knowledge of relationship; the means, devotion in practice; and its fruit, the prospect, loving devotion.
[59]	The fruit of studying the Holy Scriptures, cultivating virtuous behaviour and the chanting of the Holy Name of Krishna—loving devotion.
[60]	Loving devotion as the only objective, and the glory of such devotion.
[61]	Gradations of devotion in practice according to faith, and the need for pure devotion.
[62]	The principal and full-fledged objective of pure Life in the pure divine succession following the pure devotional scriptures—svayam-rupa Sri Gaura-Krishna, the embodiment of the teaching of inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference.

• For Reader's Appreciation
• Feelings of Appreciation
• Prologue
• Translator's Note
• Illumination
• Sri Sri Brahma-samhita
• Verse Contents