Sri Brahma-samhita Lecture, Stockholm 1973

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

Lord Brahma, Sri Brahma-samhita 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.

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Srila Prabhupada, Stockholm, September 7, 1973: […] So His spiritual world, His planet, is described that cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa-laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29] In His planet, there are many trees, many palaces, but they are all spiritual. Cintamani means spiritual. The houses, they are made of touchstone, just like here the houses are made of bricks and wood. There the houses are also spiritual.

The touchstone, it is described in the sastras that if there is any touchstone in this material world, the touchstone can turn iron into gold. So anyway, the houses… There are houses also, big, big palaces like here. Cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa [Bs. 5.29]. And the trees are kalpa-vrksa. Kalpa-vrksa means…

Here you can get fruit, one kind of fruit from one tree. But there, any fruit you want, you can get, any tree. That is spiritual. Prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa. Kalpa-vrksa means that. And surabhir abhipalayantam [Bs. 5.29]. And Krishna is very much fond of tending cows. And what are those cows? Surabhi.

Surabhi means you can take as much milk as you like, and as many times as you like. Here in this material world you have got cows, but you can take milk, limited quantity, and also once or twice. That is the difference. In this way, if you read Brahma-samhita, you will get complete description of the spiritual world, the spiritual entities, the Supreme Lord, His associates, His country, His pastimes—everything very nicely described.

And if we become attached to such place, then we can try. We can try. We can prepare ourself for going back to home, back to Godhead. That is the perfection of life. That is the mission of Krishna consciousness movement.

Thank you very much. Hare Krishna. (end)
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