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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta
SYNONYMS
vāma-pārśve —on the left side;  śrī-rādhikā —Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī;  sakhī-gaṇa-saṅge —with Her personal friends;  rāsa-ādika-līlā —pastimes like the  rāsa  dance;  prabhu —Lord Kṛṣṇa;  kare —performs;  kata raṅge —in many ways.
TRANSLATION
By His left side is Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and Her personal friends. With them Lord Govinda enjoys the  rāsa-līlā  and many other pastimes.
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यां राम मिज-लोके करे पद्मासम । অষ্টাদশাক্ষर-মন্ত্রে করে উপাসন ॥ ২২১ ॥
yāṅra dhyāna nija-loke kare padmāsana aṣṭādaśākṣara-mantre kare upāsana
SYNONYMS
yāṅra —of whom;  dhyāna —the meditation;  nija-loke —in his own abode;  kare —does;  padma-āsana —Lord Brahmā;  aṣṭādaśa-akṣara-mantre —by the hymn composed of eighteen letters;  kare —does;  upāsana —worshiping.
TRANSLATION
Lord Brahmā, sitting on his lotus seat in his own abode, always meditates on Him and worships Him with the mantra consisting of eighteen syllables.
PURPORT
In his own planet, Lord Brahmā, with the inhabitants of that planet, worships the form of Lord Govinda, Kṛṣṇa, by the  mantra  of eighteen syllables,  klīṁ kṛṣṇāya govindāya gopījana-vallabhāya svāhā . Those who are initiated by a bona fide spiritual master and who chant the Gāyatrī  mantra  three times a day know this  aṣṭādaśākṣara , eighteen-syllable  mantra . The inhabitants of Brahmaloka and the planets below Brahmaloka worship Lord Govinda by meditating with this  mantra . There is no difference between meditating and chanting, but in the present meditation is not possible on this planet. Therefore loud chanting of a  mantra  like the  mahā-mantra , Hare Kṛṣṇa, with soft chanting of the  aṣṭādaśākṣara , the  mantra  of eighteen syllables, is recommended.
Lord Brahmā lives in the highest planetary system, known as Brahmaloka or Satyaloka. In every planet there is a predominating deity. As the predominating deity in Satyaloka is Lord Brahmā, so in the heavenly planets Indra is the predominating deity, and on the sun, the sun-god, Vivasvān, is the predominating deity. The