Adi-lila, Chapter 9 231

TRANSLATION

Lord Caitanya thus addressed the multifarious varieties of branches and sub-
branches of the tree of devotional service:

TEXT 32

GOMES J BeT ALA fegH-s4 |
iad Sal Wer wATAA HF Or 4

alaukika vrksa kare sarvendriya-karma
sthavara ha-iya dhare jafigamera dharma

SYNONYMS
alaukika—transcendental; vrksa—tree ; kare—does; sarva-indriya—all senses; karma—
activities; sthavara—immovable; ha-iya—becoming; dhare—accepts; jafigamera—of
the movable; dharma—activities.

TRANSLATION

“Since the tree of devotional service is transcendental, every one of its parts can
perform the action of all the others. Although a tree is supposed to be immovable,
this tree nevertheless moves.

PURPORT

It is our experience in the material world that trees stand in one place, but in the
spiritual world a tree can go from one place to another. Therefore everything in the
spiritual world is called a/aukika, uncommon or transcendental. Another feature of
such a tree is that it can act universally. In the material world the roots of a tree go
deep within the earth to gather food, but in the spiritual world the twigs, branches
and leaves of the upper portion of the tree can act as well as the roots.

TEXT 33

OTA AH FA AA AHS |
afer athe Acs AST Baa wo t

e vrksera anga haya saba sa-cetana
badiya vydpila sabe sakala bhuvana

SYNONYMS

e—this; vrksera—of the Caitanya tree; a/ga—parts; haya—are; saba—all; sa-cetana—
spiritually cognizant; badiya—increasing; vydpila—overflooded; sabe—all the parts;
sakala—all; bhuvana—the world.
