Verse 1.1.37

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 1.1.37:

জগতুঃ সর্ব-ভূতানাং মনঃ-শ্রবণ-মঙ্গলম্ তৌ কল্পযন্তৌ যুগপত্ স্বর-মণ্ডল-মূর্চ্ছিতম্ ॥ ৩৭ ॥

जगतुः सर्व-भूतानां मनः-श्रवण-मङ्गलम् तौ कल्पयन्तौ युगपत् स्वर-मण्डल-मूर्च्छितम् ॥ ३७ ॥

jagatuḥ sarva-bhūtānāṃ manaḥ-śravaṇa-maṅgalam tau kalpayantau yugapat svara-maṇḍala-mūrcchitam || 37 ||

jagatuh sarva-bhutanam manah-sravana-mangalam tau kalpayantau yugapat svara-mandala-murcchitam (37)

English translation:

(37) Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma sang, producing the entire range of musical sounds simultaneously. Their singing brought happiness to the ears and minds of all living beings.

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

In his Laghu-toṣaṇī, Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī quotes the following description of mūrcchana from the Saṅgīta-sāra: “A mūrcchana is a scale using the seven notes in ascending and descending sequences. There are three modes, or grāmas, each with seven subdivisions, or mūrcchanas, making a total of twenty-one mūrcchanas.” [These are the precursors of ragas.] In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (6.16.38) King Citraketu prays to Lord Saṅkarṣaṇa as follows: “O Lord, O Supreme, unintelligent persons who thirst for sense enjoyment and who worship various demigods are no better than animals in the human form of life. Because of their animalistic propensities, they fail to worship Your Lordship, and instead they worship the insignificant demigods, who are but small sparks of Your glory. With the destruction of the entire universe, including the demigods, the benedictions received from the demigods also vanish, just like the nobility when a king is no longer in power.”

The glories of Śrī Balarāma, or Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is worshipable by all living entities, are described in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, Tenth Canto, Chapters 34 and 65, Fifth Canto, Chapters 17 and 25, and Sixth Canto, Chapter 16. Those who are indifferent to these descriptions can never make advancement on the path of devotional service. In spite of their material intelligence and mundane knowledge, which is a product of their own mental speculation, such people are unable to appreciate the topics of Śrī Baladeva, or Saṅkarṣaṇa, who is the source of all viṣṇu-tattvas.

In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā, Chapter 5, appropriate conclusions

on this topic are given as follows: “Śrī Balarāma is the counterform of Lord Govinda. Balarāma’s own expansion is called Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa. The marginal potency of the Lord is known as the jīva. Mahā-Saṅkarṣaṇa is the shelter of all jīvas. His fragment, the puruṣa, is counted as a kalā, or a part of a plenary portion. The first puruṣa casts His glance at māyā from a distance, and thus He impregnates her with the seed of life in the form of the living entities. A part of a part of a whole is called a kalā. I say that this kalā is Mahā-Viṣṇu. He is the Mahā-puruṣa, who is the source of the other puruṣas and who is all-pervading. Garbhodaśāyī and Kṣīrodaśāyī are both called puruṣas. They are plenary portions of Kāraṇodaśāyī Viṣṇu, the first puruṣa, who is the abode of all the universes. That puruṣa [Kṣīrodakaśāyī Viṣṇu] is the performer of creation, maintenance and destruction. He manifests Himself in many incarnations, for He is the maintainer of the world. That Lord Viṣṇu is but a part of a part of a plenary portion of Lord Nityānanda, who is the source of all incarnations. Lord Caitanya is the same Lord Kṛṣṇa, and Lord Nityānanda is Lord Balarāma. Lord Nityānanda fulfills all of Lord Caitanya’s desires. These two brothers are like one body; They are identical manifestations. If you do not believe in Lord Nityānanda, you will fall down. If you have faith in one but disrespect the other, your logic is like the logic of accepting half a hen. It would be better to be an atheist by slighting both brothers than a hypocrite by believing in one and slighting the other.”