Ore Mana Boli Śuno Tattwa Bibaraṇa

O my heart, please listen. I will you of the Absolute Truth. Because they have forgotten Him, the conditioned souls are thrown into the prison of the material world.

The Absolute Truth is one. He has no rival. No one is His equal. He has no limit. The Absolute Truth is the Supreme Brahman. He is greater than all who are great.

The Absolute Truth is the master of all potencies. He is perfect and complete. He is handsome. The potency and the master of potencies are never different.

His eternal potency nourishes all His eternal pastimes. For this purpose the Lord's potency manifests the worlds of Vṛndāvana, Vaikuṇṭha, and Goloka.

For the sake of the Lord's pastimes, the eternal potency manifests the Lord's names, abodes, qualities, and associates, all different according to different times, places, and circumstances.

The eternal potency thus manifests the Lord's pastimes. The Supreme Brahman is identical with His potency.

That Brahman is manifested first and His potency is manifested second is a conclusion held by the fools in this world.

I know the full moon always exists with its moonlight. I know the moon never exists without moonlight.

Brahman is always accompanied by His potency. They are both eternal. This I know. This I say.

The Supreme Brahman enjoys pastimes eternally. He is not material. In Vṛndāvana He is Kṛṣṇacandra.

The Supreme Brahman, the blissful Absolute Truth, mercifully appeared in our Bhārata-varṣa.

Lord Kṛṣṇa is that Absolute Truth. He is above the world of matter. In the land of Vraja He manifested His eternal pastimes.

Lord Kṛṣṇa is the effulgent sun of the spiritual world. The limitless rays of light always emanating from Him are the individual spirit souls.

These souls love Kṛṣṇa. They have dedicated their lives to Him. Eternally they are attracted to Him. Eternally they drink the nectar of devotional service to Him.

They drink the nectar of service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, a nectar mixed with different kinds of ecstatic love. They are overwhelmed by Lord Kṛṣṇa's limitless transcendental qualities.

Kṛṣṇa is their mother. Kṛṣṇa is their father. Kṛṣṇa is their friend or their husband. Kṛṣṇa manifests all these different kinds of loving relationships with them.

In Vṛndāvana Kṛṣṇa is the one male eternally. The individual souls, who are all female, enjoy pastimes with Kṛṣṇa.

These blissful pastimes have no end. Therefore Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes are unbroken and endless.

Any soul in whom the desire to enjoy apart from Kṛṣṇa takes birth will attain a male's nature and enter the world of matter.

The world of matter is created by Māyā. Māyā is the shadow of the Lord's eternal potency. She is Lord Kṛṣṇa's maidservant. In truth she carries out Lord Kṛṣṇa's commands.

This Māyā potency created the material world filled with sufferings.

When a soul turns his face away from Lord Kṛṣṇa, Goddess Māyā offers her pleasures.

Intoxicated by Māyā's pleasures, the soul forgets Lord Kṛṣṇa. In the grip of ignorance, he finds material false ego take birth within him.

From false ego comes rapt meditation on Māyā, and from that come material attraction and aversion.

Entering the wheel of karma, the soul wanders through the high and low species of life.

What is the destructive calamity of Māyā's pleasures and torments? What are Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes, the bliss of Vaikuṇṭha, in comparison?

Tasting Māyā's pleasures, the spirit soul becomes degraded. His position becomes very horrible and lowly.

Serving his material body, the soul forgets his spiritual identity. What a calamity!

If, after wandering and wandering in the material world, the soul attains the association of devotees, his hidden eternal nature is again manifested.

In the association of devotees there is talk of Lord Kṛṣṇa. The soul's original nature is again manifested. The bonds of Māyā are cut.

When the soul finally sees Lord Kṛṣṇa, Māyā appears as transcendental knowledge and cuts the soul's bonds.

To enlighten the conditioned souls, Māyā manifests within the material world the eternal realm of Vṛndāvana, which is transcendental knowledge personified.

Staying in Vṛndāvana, the soul is overcome with spiritual love. Taking shelter of Lord Caitanya, the soul attains eternal service to the Lord.

The Lord's pastimes in Goloka and His pastimes in the material world are identical. They are not different. They are merely manifest twice.

The eternally liberated devotees participate in the eternal pastimes in Goloka. The conditioned souls participate in the pastimes in the material world.

In this way eternal Vṛndāvana, the soul's original home, is manifested within the horrible material world.

Taking shelter of the Lord's Vṛndāvana pastimes, the soul eternally falls in love with Lord Kṛṣṇa.

When the sun of the soul's spiritual love for Lord Kṛṣṇa rises, the firefly light of love for material things becomes eclipsed.

Identifying with his external material body, the soul in the material world performs auspicious and inauspicious deeds.

From the love of material things material pleasures come. Love for material things follows material opulences.

Become like his two masters, material love and the material body make the soul dance in the arena of Māyā's sense pleasures.

Sometimes these two masters take the soul to Brahmaloka. Sometimes they teach him about the glories of mystic yoga.

The opulences of yoga and the opulences of sense pleasures ultimately place the soul in a fearful position. Only when he lives in Vṛndāvana and falls in love with the Supreme Lord does the soul attain fearlessness.

Souls who have turned their faces away from Lord Kṛṣṇa, and who yearn for material opulences, are bound by Māyā's ropes of material pleasures.

But when he is no longer ineterested in material things, when he is attracted to spiritual things, and when he falls in love with Lord Kṛṣṇa, the soul, now situated in true knowledge, rejects all desires for sense pleasure or impersonal liberation.

Then the journey of life in this world goes very pleasantly and easily. At the end Lord Kṛṣṇa gives the soul an eternal body and eternal devotional service.

Renouncing pride of caste, strength, and handsomeness, the soul thus walks on the path of devotional service.

Then the soul has neither attraction nor aversion for the different āśramas or other arrangements of this world. He knows devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa is the only right path.

Rapt in performing his eternal duties, the soul passes his time in the association of the devotees and always chanting the nectar of Lord Kṛṣṇa's pastimes.

Renouncing attachment and aversion, he honors the Vedic injunctions in the journey of his life.

However, the Vedic injunctions meant for the people in general show how to attain material wealth and, after that, how to attain material sense pleasures. These two attainments are the opulences of fools.

Accepting these Vedic injunctions, many souls pass their days intoxicated by material wealth and material sense pleasures.

In this way the people pass the journey of their lives. However, the true wealth of this life is the activities of devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa.

Therefore, rejecting everything else, and free from the dualities of this world, the devotees always worship Lord Kṛṣṇa.

The devotees do not struggle to attain knowledge. By the power of devotional service they attain knowledge of the eternal.

They wear clothing is easily attained, and maintain the body with food that is easily attained,

Wild with the bliss of serving Lord Kṛṣṇa, the Kṛṣṇa-devotees always swim in the nectar of love for Lord Kṛṣṇa.

By the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Prabhu, who descended to this world in Navadvīpa, Bhaktivinoda sings this song.