506 Sri Caitanya-caritamrta

SYNONYMS

vama-parsve—on the left side; $ri-radhika—Srimati Radharani; sakhi-gana-sahge—
with Her personal friends; rdsa-adika-/i/a— pastimes like the rdsa dance; prabhu—Lord
Krsna; Rare—performs; kata range—in many ways.

TRANSLATION

By His left side is Srimati Radharani and Her personal friends. With them Lord
Govinda enjoys the rasa-lila and many other pastimes.

TEXT 221

Jta ata fas-cnics Aca HteAa |
BAN A-ACM BCA Vota | AV

yanra dhyana nija-loke kare padmdsana
astadasaksara-mantre kare updsana

SYNONYMS

yahra—of whom; dhyadna—the meditation; nija-loke—in his own abode; kare—
does; padma-dsana—Lord Brahma; astddasa-aksara-mantre—by the hymn composed
of eighteen letters; kare—does; updsana—worshiping.

TRANSLATION

Lord Brahma, 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 Brahma, with the inhabitants of that planet, worships the
form of Lord Govinda, Krsna, by the mantra of eighteen syllables, k/ith krsndya
govindaya gopijana-vallabhaya svahd. Those who are initiated by a bona fide spiritual
master and who chant the Gayatri mantra three times a day know this astddasaksara,
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 mahd-
mantra, Hare Krsna, with soft chanting of the asfadasaksara, the mantra of eighteen
syllables, is recommended.

Lord Brahma 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 Brahma, so in the heavenly planets Indra is the predomi-
nating deity, and on the sun, the sun-god, Vivasvan, is the predominating deity. The
