RE: " Ramadi-murtisu kalaniyamena tisthan: "

[Guest guest]

Jai srimannarayana swamiji please accept my humble obeisances to your lotus

feet. I read one sloka in Brahma Samhita .I don't know sanskrit . can you please

tell me the meaning of this sloka " Ramadi-murtisu kalaniyamena tisthan: "

Regards

Vijay

 

 

ANS:

THIS IS NOT A FULL SLOKA. THIS IS ONLY A PART OF SOME SENTENCE. "RA:MA:DI

MU:RTHISHU KA:LA NIYAME:NA THISHTTAN" ":" THIS INDICATES LONG VOWEL. AS THE

LINE GOES, THE MEANING IS "ACCORDING TO THE NEED OF THE HOUR, THE LORD,

ACCEPTING THE FORMS LIKE THAT OF RA:MA", THIS IS THE MEANING. BUT THERE MAY BE

SOMETHING BEFORE AND AFTER. ACCORDING TO THAT TEXT, IT LOOKS LIKE 'THE LORD

ALWAYS WILL BE IN THE FORM OF SRI KRISHNA ONLY, OCCASIONALLY COMES INTO

DIFFERENT INCARNATIONS AND AFTER WITHDRAWING THEM, HE AGAIN GOES BACK AS SRI

KRISHNA ONLY'. It is according to that Brahma Vaivartha Purana, we think.

=chinnajeeyar=

[Guest guest]

Namaste!

 

I respectfully offer the following information in addition to the answer given

by HH Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji.

 

The Brahma Samhita is a scripture that is particularly emphasized in the Gaudiya

sampradaya. They say that Chaitanya Maha:prabhu heard the Brahma-Samhita: being

discussed at the A:di-Keshava temple during one of his pilgrimages to southern

India, and that he copied the Fifth Chapter and brought it back north, where he

propogated it to his followers. It was commentated by Jiva Goswami, one of his

scholarly disciples and successors, and has been commentated and translated by

other scholars and acharyas in their lineage, and published by several different

current-day organizations in their lineage, including ISKCON among several

others.

 

The full verse (shloka 39) is:

 

Ra:ma:di-mu:rtishu kala:-niyamena tishthan

Na:na:vata:ram akarod bhuvaneshu kintu /

Krsnah svayam samabhavat paramah puma:n yo

Govindam a:di purusham tam aham bhajami

 

The following English translation is that of Swami B.A. Sagar Maharaj of the Sri

Chaitanya Sarasvata Matha, under the guidance of that Matha's acharya

(Srila B.S. Govinda Maharaja):

 

"The Lord has shown in the world many Avata:ras such as Ra:ma, by expanding His

Plenary Expansions and Expansions of those Expansions anon; and He, Krsna, also

came personally- that Primeval Lord Govinda do I worship."

 

Jaya Srima:n Na:ra:yana:ya!

~Mark DeFillo (Belenios Ategnatos)