# Talk in Śrīla Prabhupāda's house *Brahma-saṁhitā Prayers* — March 13, 1968, San Francisco
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**Prabhupāda:**
What is this maker, the trademark?
**Gargamuni:**
Concord.
**Prabhupāda:**
Concord, yes. Concord is famous tape record company.
[tapping microphone] It is all right?
**Yamunā:**
Oh, yes, Swāmījī. It can also..., it can be an amplification system.
**Gargamuni:**
See, if you talk... [feedback]
**Yamunā:**
The thing is, they're too close to one another so there's a feedback. You have to be twelve feet away. Then it will amplify. That's what we were using in all of our speaking engagements.
**Gargamuni:**
Hare Kṛṣṇa. It's like..., it's an amplifier.
**Devotee:**
Oh!
**Prabhupāda:**
Oh, it acts as amplifier also?
**Yamunā:**
Yes.
**Prabhupāda:**
So I'll have to speak from here?
**Gargamuni:**
No.
**Yamunā:**
You don't have to... If all..., the two microphones weren't so close, then it would be..., we wouldn't have this noise, and you could speak as you like to speak.* [Pause]
**Prabhupāda:**
So Gargamuni wants that prayer? Solo? Solo?
**Gargamuni:**
Yes.
**Prabhupāda:**
You also like that? [chuckles]
**Yamunā:**
Oh. If it isn't too much energy, Swāmījī, that would be very beautiful.
**Prabhupāda:**
All right.
**Gargamuni:**
Also, when you used to sing in New York, *Vande 'Haṁ,* you would add on *Cintāmaṇi. Govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ.*
**Prabhupāda:**
Yes, sometimes. You shall, I shall...? I shall pray that?
**Gargamuni:**
Oh, yes. That's nice, that one.
**Yamunā:**
What does that mean, Swāmījī, that new prayer?
**Prabhupāda:**
*Cintāmaṇi...* That is description of Kṛṣṇaloka.
**Yamunā:**
From the *Brahma-saṁhitā?*
**Gargamuni:**
Yes.
**Prabhupāda:**
You have?
**Yamunā:**
Yes, I have a copy of it.
**Prabhupāda:**
Sit down? Why do you keep there?
**Gargamuni:**
Well, because... So it's not too loud.
**Prabhupāda:**
Oh.
[02:45]
[Prabhupāda chants *Cintāmaṇi* prayers]
> cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
> lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
> lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.29]
> veṇuṁ kvaṇantam aravinda-dalāyatākṣam-
> barhāvataṁsam asitāmbuda-sundarāṅgam
> kandarpa-koṭi-kamanīya-viśeṣa-śobhaṁ
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.30]
> ālola-candraka-lasad-vanamālya-vaṁśī-
> ratnāṅgadaṁ praṇaya-keli-kalā-vilāsam
> śyāmaṁ tri-bhaṅga-lalitaṁ niyata-prakāśaṁ
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.31]
> cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
> lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
> lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.29]
> advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam
> ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca
> vedeṣu durlabham adurlabham ātma-bhaktau
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.33]
> cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
> lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
> lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.29]
> panthās tu koṭi-śata-vatsara-sampragamyo
> vāyor athāpi manaso muni-puṅgavānām
> so 'py asti yat-prapada-sīmny avicintya-tattve
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.34]
> cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
> lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
> [Bs. 5.29]
> eko 'py asau racayituṁ jagad-aṇḍa-koṭiṁ
> yac-chaktir asti jagad-aṇḍa-cayā yad-antaḥ
> aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham-
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.35]
> cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-
> lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhīr abhipālayantam
> lakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaṁ
> govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
> [Bs. 5.29]
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