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Talk in Śrīla Prabhupāda's house Brahma-saṁhitā Prayers

13 March 1968San FranciscoTalk680313ta.sf

Oh, yes, Swāmījī. It can also..., it can be an amplification system.

Prabhupāda:
What is this maker, the trademark?

Gargamuni:
Concord.

Prabhupāda:
Concord, yes. Concord is famous tape record company.

[tapping microphone] It is all right?

Yamunā:
Oh, yes, Swāmījī. It can also…, it can be an amplification system.

Gargamuni:
See, if you talk… [feedback]

Yamunā:
The thing is, they’re too close to one another so there’s a feedback. You have to be twelve feet away. Then it will amplify. That’s what we were using in all of our speaking engagements.

Gargamuni:
Hare Kṛṣṇa. It’s like…, it’s an amplifier.

Devotee:
Oh!

Prabhupāda:
Oh, it acts as amplifier also?

Yamunā:
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
So I’ll have to speak from here?

Gargamuni:
No.

Yamunā:
You don’t have to… If all…, the two microphones weren’t so close, then it would be…, we wouldn’t have this noise, and you could speak as you like to speak. [Pause]

Prabhupāda:
So Gargamuni wants that prayer? Solo? Solo?

Gargamuni:
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
You also like that? [chuckles]

Yamunā:
Oh. If it isn’t too much energy, Swāmījī, that would be very beautiful.

Prabhupāda:
All right.

Gargamuni:
Also, when you used to sing in New York, Vande ’Haṁ, you would add on Cintāmaṇi. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ.

Prabhupāda:
Yes, sometimes. You shall, I shall…? I shall pray that?

Gargamuni:
Oh, yes. That’s nice, that one.

Yamunā:
What does that mean, Swāmījī, that new prayer?

Prabhupāda:
Cintāmaṇi… That is description of Kṛṣṇaloka.

Yamunā:
From the Brahma-saṁhitā?

Gargamuni:
Yes.

Prabhupāda:
You have?

Yamunā:
Yes, I have a copy of it.

Prabhupāda:
Sit down? Why do you keep there?

Gargamuni:
Well, because… So it’s not too loud.

Prabhupāda:
Oh.

[02:45]

[Prabhupāda chants Cintāmaṇi prayers]

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.29]

veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam-
barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.30]

ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
ratnāṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
śyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.31]

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.29]

advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.33]

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.29]

panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo
vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānām
so ’py asti yat-prapada-sīmny avicintya-tattve
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.34]

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
[Bs. 5.29]

eko ’py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ
yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ
aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham-
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.35]

cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
[Bs. 5.29]

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