CC Adi lila chapter 5-selected verses compiled

This is Gauranga Ananta- the combined forms of Lord Gaura (frontside)

 and Lord Nitai (coiled snake on backside)

 Lord  Baladeva in Krsnaloka is Nityananda Prabhu. Therefore Nityananda Prabhu is the original Sankarsana, and Maha-sankarsana and His expansions as the  purusas in the universes are plenary expansions of Nityananda Prabhu.

Adi 5.1      Let me offer my obeisances to Lord  Sri Nityananda, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose opulence is  wonderful and unlimited. By His will, even a fool can understand His  identity. Adi 5.10     According to expert opinion,  Balarama, as the chief of the original quadruple forms, is also the original  Sankarsana. Balarama, the first expansion of Krsna, expands Himself in  five forms: (1) Maha-sankarsana, (2) Karanabdhisayi, (3) Garbhodakasayi,  (4) Ksirodakasayi, and (5) Sesa. These five plenary portions  are responsible for both the spiritual and material cosmic  manifestations. In these five forms Lord Balarama assists Lord Krsna  in His activities. The first four of these forms are responsible for  the cosmic manifestations, whereas Sesa is responsible for  personal service to the Lord. Sesa is called Ananta, or unlimited, because  He assists the Personality of Godhead in His unlimited expansions  by performing an unlimited variety of services. Sri Balarama is  the servitor Godhead who serves Lord Krsna in all affairs of existence  and knowledge. Lord Nityananda Prabhu, who is the same servitor  Godhead, Balarama, performs the same service to Lord Gauranga by  constant association.

Adi 5.18   The abode known as Vrndavana or Gokula is also known  as Goloka. The Brahma-samhita states that Gokula, the highest region of the  kingdom of God, resembles a lotus flower with thousands of petals. The  outer portion of that lotuslike planet is a square place known  as Svetadvipa. In the inner portion of Gokula there is an  elaborate arrangement for Sri Krsna’s residence with His eternal associates  such as Nanda and Yasoda. That transcendental abode exists by the energy  of Sri Baladeva, who is the original whole of Sesa, or Ananta.  The tantras also confirm this description by stating that the abode of  Sri Anantadeva, the plenary portion of Baladeva, is called the kingdom  of God. Vrndavana-dhama is the innermost abode within the  quadrangular realm of Svetadvipa, which lies outside of the boundary of  Gokula Vrndavana.

Adi 5.20     The land there is touchstone [cintamani],  and the forests abound with desire trees. Material eyes see it as an ordinary  place.

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   By the grace of the Lord His dhamas and He Himself can all  be present simultaneously, without losing their original importance.  Only when one fully develops in affection and love of Godhead can one  see those dhamas in their original appearance.    Srila  Narottama dasa Thakura, a great acarya in the preceptorial line of Lord Sri  Caitanya Mahaprabhu, has said for our benefit that one can perfectly see  the dhamas only when one completely gives up the mentality of lording it over  material nature. One’s spiritual vision develops proportionately to  one’s giving up the debased mentality of unnecessarily enjoying matter. 

Adi 5.22   In the material world, everything is a  creation. Anything we can think of within our experience, including even  our own bodies and minds, was created. This process of creation began with  the life of Brahma, and the creative principle is prevalent all over the  material universe because of the quality of passion. But since the quality  of passion is conspicuous by its absence in the Vaikuntha  planets, nothing there is created: everything there is eternally existent.  And because there is no mode of ignorance, there is also no question  of annihilation or destruction. In the material world one may try to  make everything permanent by developing the above-mentioned qualities  of goodness, but because the goodness in the material world is mixed  with passion and ignorance, nothing here can exist permanently, despite  all the good plans of the best scientific brains. Therefore in  the material world we have no experience of eternity, bliss and  fullness of knowledge. But in the spiritual world, because of the  complete absence of the qualitative modes, everything is eternal, blissful  and cognizant. Everything can speak, everything can move, everything  can hear, and everything can see in fully blessed existence for  eternity. The situation being so, naturally space and time, in the forms  of past, present and future, have no influence there. In the spiritual

sky there is no change because time has no influence.  Consequently, the influence of maya, the total external energy, which induces  us to become more and more materialistic and forget our relationship  with God, is also absent there.

   The residents of Vaikuntha have brilliantly black  complexions much more fascinating and attractive than the dull white and  black complexions found in the material world. Their bodies,  being spiritual, have no equals in the material world. The beauty  of a bright cloud when lightning flashes on it merely hints at  their beauty. Generally the inhabitants of Vaikuntha dress in  yellow clothing. Their bodies are delicate and attractively built, and  their eyes are like the petals of lotus flowers. Like Lord Visnu,  the residents of Vaikuntha have four hands decorated with a  conchshell, wheel, club and lotus flower. Their chests are beautifully broad  and fully decorated with necklaces of a brilliant diamondlike  metal surrounded by costly jewels never to be found in the material  world. The residents of Vaikuntha are always powerful and effulgent. Some  of them have complexions like red coral cat’s eyes and lotus flowers,  and each of them has earrings of costly jewels. On their heads they  wear flowery crowns resembling garlands.    In the  Vaikunthas there are airplanes, but they make no tumultuous sounds. Material  airplanes are not at all safe: they can fall down and crash at any time, for  matter is imperfect in every respect. In the spiritual sky, however, the  airplanes are also spiritual, and they are

spiritually brilliant and bright. These airplanes do not fly  business executives, politicians or planning commissions as passengers, nor  do they carry cargo or postal bags, for these are all unknown  there. These planes are for pleasure trips only, and the  residents of Vaikuntha fly in them with their heavenly, beautiful,  fairylike consorts. Therefore these airplanes, full of residents of  Vaikuntha, both male and female, increase the beauty of the spiritual sky.  We cannot imagine how beautiful they are, but their beauty may be compared  to the clouds in the sky accompanied by silver branches of electric  lightning. The spiritual sky of Vaikunthaloka is always decorated in this  way.

…. But the poor materialist makes plans to live comfortably here and thus  wastes his valuable human energy in something that is doomed to frustration.  Instead of wasting his time with business speculations, he might have  sought the life of plain living and high spiritual thinking and thus  saved himself from perpetual materialistic unrest….

Adi 5.41   The original quadruple forms Krsna, Baladeva,  Pradyumna and Aniruddha expand into another quadruple, which is present  in the Vaikuntha planets of the spiritual sky. Therefore the quadruple  forms in the spiritual sky are the second manifestation of the  original quadruple in Dvaraka. As explained above, Vasudeva,  Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha are all changeless, transcendental  plenary expansions of the Supreme Lord who have no relation to the  material modes. The Sankarsana form in the second quadruple is not only  a representation of Balarama but also the original cause of the  Causal Ocean, where Karanodakasayi Visnu lies asleep, breathing out the  seeds of innumerable universes.

Adi 5.42    There the personal feature of Balarama called  Maha-sankarsana is the shelter of the spiritual energy. He is the primary  cause, the cause of all causes.

Adi 5.45    There is one marginal potency, known as the  jiva. Maha-sankarsana is the shelter of all jivas.

Adi 5.46       Sankarsana is the original  shelter of the purusa, from whom this world is created and in whom it is  dissolved.

Adi 5.47   He [Sankarsana] is the shelter of everything. He  is wonderful in every respect, and His opulences are infinite. Even Ananta  cannot describe His glory.

Adi 5.48    That Sankarsana, who is transcendental pure  goodness, is a partial expansion of Nityananda Balarama.

Adi 5.50     I offer my full obeisances unto the feet  of Sri Nityananda Rama, whose partial representation called Karanodakasayi  Visnu, lying on the Karana Ocean, is the original purusa, the master of the  illusory energy, and the shelter of all the universes.

Adi 5.51     Outside the Vaikuntha planets is the  impersonal Brahman effulgence, and beyond that effulgence is the Karana  Ocean, or Causal Ocean. Purport-. Neither Krsna in Goloka nor Narayana in  Vaikuntha comes directly in contact with the material creation. They are  completely aloof from the material energy.    It is the  function of Maha-sankarsana in the form of Karanodakasayi Visnu to glance  over the material creation, which is situated beyond the limits of the  Causal Ocean. Material nature is connected with the Personality of  Godhead by His glance over her and nothing more. It is said that  she is impregnated by the energy of His glance. The material energy, maya,  never even touches the Causal Ocean, for the Lord’s glance focuses upon her  from a great distance away.    The glancing power of the Lord  agitates the entire cosmic energy, and thus its actions begin at once. This indicates that matter, however powerful she may be, has no power by  herself. Her activity begins by the grace of the Lord, and then the  entire cosmic creation is manifested in a systematic way. The example of a  woman’s conception can help us understand this subject to a certain extent.  The mother is passive, but the father puts his energy within the mother, and  thus she conceives. She supplies the ingredients for the birth of the  child in her womb. Similarly, the Lord activates material nature, which  then supplies the ingredients for cosmic development.

   Material nature has two different phases. The aspect  called pradhana supplies the material ingredients for cosmic development,  and the aspect called maya causes the manifestation of her  ingredients, which are temporary, like foam in the ocean. In reality, the  temporary manifestations of material nature are originally caused by  the spiritual glance of the Lord. The Personality of Godhead is  the direct, or remote, cause of creation, and material nature is  the indirect, or immediate, cause. Materialistic scientists, puffed-up  by the magical changes their so-called inventions have brought  about, cannot see the real potency of Godhead behind matter. Therefore  the jugglery of science is gradually leading people to a  godless civilization at the cost of the goal of human life. Having missed  the goal of life, materialists run after self-sufficiency, not  knowing that material nature is already self-sufficient by the grace of  God. Thus creating a colossal hoax in the name of civilization, they  create an imbalance in the natural self-sufficiency of material nature.

Adi 5.52     Surrounding Vaikuntha is a mass of  water that is endless, unfathomed and unlimited.

Adi 5.53    The earth, water, fire, air and ether of  Vaikuntha are all spiritual. Material elements are not found there. Adi  5.54     The water of the Karana Ocean, which is the  original cause, is therefore spiritual. The sacred Ganges, which is but a  drop of it, purifies the fallen souls. Adi  5.55       In that ocean lies one plenary portion  of Lord Sankarsana.

Adi 5.56     He is known as the first purusa, the  creator of the total material energy. He, the cause of the universes, the  first incarnation, casts His glance over maya.

 Maya-sakti resides outside the Causal Ocean. Maya cannot touch  its waters.

Adi 5.58      Maya has two varieties of existence.  One is called pradhana or prakrti. It supplies the ingredients of the  material  world.
PURPORT
Maya, the external energy of the Supreme Personality of  Godhead, is divided into two parts. Maya is the cause and the ingredient  of the cosmic manifestation. As the cause of the cosmic manifestation  she is known as maya, and as the agent supplying the  ingredients of the cosmic manifestation she is known as pradhana.  An explicit description of these divisions of external energy is given in  Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.24.1-4).

 Elsewhere in Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.63.26) the ingredients and  cause of the material cosmic manifestation are described as follows: The  body is generated  from activity, and activity is generated from the body,  just as a tree is generated from a seed that is generated from a tree.  This reciprocal cause and effect is called maya. My dear Lord, You can  save me from this cycle of cause and effect. I worship Your lotus  feet.”

Adi 5.63     Just as the original cause of an earthen  pot is the potter, so the creator of the material world is the first purusa  incarnation [Karanarnavasayi Visnu].

Adi 5.64     Lord Krsna is the creator, and maya only  helps Him as an instrument, just like the potter’s wheel and other  instruments, which are the instrumental causes of a pot.

Adi 5.65     The first purusa casts His glance at maya  from a distance, and thus He impregnates her with the seed of life in the  form of the living entities.

Adi 5.66     The reflected rays of His body mix with  maya, and thus maya gives birth to myriads of universes.

PURPORT-   . In the conditioned state the living entities of  the marginal energy are a mixture of spiritual and material energies. The  marginal energy is originally under the control of the spiritual energy, but,  under the control of the material energy, the living entities have  been wandering in forgetfulness within the material world since  time immemorial…

.. The marginal jiva, or living entity, misuses his independence and  becomes averse to the eternal service attitude when he independently  thinks he is not energy but the energetic. This misconception of his own  existence leads him to the attitude of

lording it over material nature…

….but a person who is engaged in devotional service in full  Krsna consciousness and who is therefore already situated in the  spiritual energy can understand that the material energy has no  independent powers: whatever actions are going on are due to the help of  the spiritual energy. The material energy, which is a perverted form  of the spiritual energy, presents everything pervertedly, thus  causing misconceptions and duality.

…When a living entity is liberated, however, from the conditioned  life of matter, he can understand the two different activities of  material nature, namely covering and bewildering.

Adi 5.67   The purusa enters each and every one of the countless  universes. He manifests Himself in as many separate forms as there are  universes.

Adi 5.68     When the purusa exhales, the universes  become manifest with each outward breath.

Adi 5.69     Thereafter, when He inhales, all the  universes again enter His body. Adi 5.70      Just as atomic particles of dust pass through the openings of a window, so  the networks of universes pass through the pores of the skin of the  purusa. Adi 5.72    “Where am I,[Lord  Brahma] a small creature of seven spans the measure of my  own hand? I am enclosed in the universe composed of material nature,  the total material energy, false ego, ether, air, water and earth.  And what is Your glory? Unlimited universes pass through the pores of  Your body just like particles of dust passing through the opening of  a window.”

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   When Lord Brahma, after having stolen all Krsna’s cows and  cowherd boys, returned and saw that the cows and boys were still roaming  with Krsna, he offered this prayer (Bhag. 10.14.11) in his defeat.  A conditioned soul, even one so great as Brahma, who manages the  affairs of the entire universe, cannot compare to the Personality of  Godhead, for He can produce numberless universes simply by the spiritual  rays emanating from the pores of His body. Material scientists should  take lessons from the utterances of Sri Brahma regarding our  insignificance in comparison to God. In these prayers of Brahma there is  much to learn for those who are falsely puffed up by the accumulation  of power.

Adi 5.91   That Maha-purusa [Karanodakasayi Visnu] is known as a  plenary part

of Him who is Lord Nityananda Balarama, the favorite associate of Lord  Caitanya.

 Adi 5.93    I offer my full obeisances unto the feet  of Sri Nityananda Rama, a partial part of whom is Garbhodakasayi Visnu. From  the navel of Garbhodakasayi Visnu sprouts the lotus that is the birthplace  of Brahma, the engineer of the universe. The stem of that lotus is  the resting place of the multitude of planets.

Adi 5.107      That Lord Narayana is a part of a  plenary part of Lord Nityananda

Adi 5.109    I offer my respectful obeisances unto the feet  of Sri Nityananda Rama, whose secondary part is the Visnu lying in the ocean  of milk. That Ksirodakasayi Visnu is the Supersoul of all living entities  and the maintainer of all the universes. Sesa Naga is His further  subpart.

Adi 5.134    Thus Lord Nityananda has unlimited  incarnations. In transcendental emotion He calls Himself a servant of  Lord Caitanya.

Adi 5.135    Sometimes He serves Lord Caitanya as His guru,  sometimes as His friend and sometimes as His servant, just as Lord Balarama  played with Lord Krsna in these three different modes in Vraja.

Adi 5.136     Playing like a bull, Lord Balarama fights  with Krsna head to head. And sometimes Lord Krsna massages the feet of Lord  Balarama. Adi 5.138    “Acting just like ordinary boys, They  played like roaring bulls as They fought each other, and They imitated the  calls of various animals.”

Adi 5.139  “Sometimes when Lord Krsna’s elder brother, Lord  Balarama, felt tired after playing and lay His head on the lap of a cowherd  boy, Lord Krsna Himself served Him by massaging His feet.”

Adi 5.142    Lord Krsna alone is the supreme  controller, and all others are His servants. They dance as He makes them  do so.

Adi 5.143    Thus Lord Caitanya is also the only  controller. All others are His associates or servants.

Adi 5.154    Krsna and Balarama present Themselves as elder  or younger brother, but in the scriptures They are described as the  original Supreme Personality of Godhead and His expansion.

Adi 5.156    Lord Caitanya is the same Lord Krsna,  and Lord Nityananda is Lord Balarama. Lord Nityananda fulfills all  of Lord Caitanya’s desires.

Adi 5.157    The ocean of Lord Nityananda’s glories  is infinite and unfathomable. Only by His mercy can I touch even a drop of  it.