Verse 2.1.255

Bengali text, Devanagari and Unicode transliteration of verse 2.1.255:

কৃষ্ণের ভজন কহি—সম্যক্ আম্নায আদি-মধ্য-অন্তে কৃষ্ণ ভজন বুঝায” ॥ ২৫৫ ॥

कृष्णेर भजन कहि—सम्यक् आम्नाय आदि-मध्य-अन्ते कृष्ण भजन बुझाय” ॥ २५५ ॥

kṛṣṇera bhajana kahi—samyak āmnāya ādi-madhya-ante kṛṣṇa bhajana bujhāya” || 255 ||

krsnera bhajana kahi—samyak amnaya adi-madhya-ante krsna bhajana bujhaya” (255)

English translation:

(255) “I am explaining to you about the worship of Kṛṣṇa, which is the purport of the beginning, middle, and end of all Vedic literature.”

Commentary: Gauḍīya-bhāṣya by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura:

The phrase samyak āmnāya is explained as follows: The śāstras that instruct one about the supremacy of Lord Viṣṇu are called āmnāya; the śāstras that are always discussed by great sages who have realized the Supreme Brahman are called āmnāya; and the śāstras that instruct human beings about supreme religious principles so that they may attain the goal of life are called āmnāya. In his commentary on the word samāmnāya found in Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (10.47.33), Śrīdhara Svāmipāda explains, samāmnāyo vedaḥ “knowledge of the Vedas is received through disciplic succession.”

In the Bhagavad-gītā (15.15) Lord Kṛṣṇa speaks to Arjuna as follows:

sarvasya cāhaṃ hṛdi sanniviṣṭo mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṃ ca vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo vedānta-kṛd veda-vid eva cāham

“I am seated in everyone’s heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas, I am to be known. Indeed, I am the compiler of Vedānta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.”

In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (12.13.1) Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī speaks to the sages headed by Śaunaka as follows:

yaṃ brahmā varuṇendra-rudra-marutaḥ stunvanti divyaiḥ stavair vedaiḥ sāṅga-pada-kramopaniṣadair gāyanti yaṃ sāma-gāḥ

dhyānāvasthita-tad-gatena manasā paśyanti yaṃ yogino yasyāntaṃ na viduḥ surāsura-gaṇā devāya tasmai namaḥ

“Unto that personality whom Brahmā, Varuṇa, Indra, Rudra and the Maruts praise by chanting transcendental hymns and reciting the Vedas with all their corollaries, pada-kramas and Upaniṣads, to whom the chanters of the Sāma Veda always sing, whom the perfected yogis see within their minds after fixing themselves in trance and absorbing themselves within Him, and whose limit can never be found by any demigod or demon—unto that Supreme Personality of Godhead I offer my humble obeisances.”

In the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam (11.21.42-43) Lord Kṛṣṇa speaks the following words to Uddhava:

kiṃ vidhatte kim ācaṣṭe kim anūdya vikalpayet ity asyā hṛdayaṃ loke nānyo mad veda kaścana

māṃ vidhatte ‘bhidhatte māṃ vikalpyāpohyate tv aham etāvān sarva-vedārthaḥ śabda āsthāya māṃ bhidām māyā-mātram anūdyānte pratiṣidhya prasīdati

“In the entire world no one but Me actually understands the confidential purpose of Vedic knowledge. Thus people do not know what the Vedas are actually prescribing in the ritualistic injunctions of karma-kāṇḍa, or what object is actually being indicated in the formulas of worship found in the upāsanā-kāṇḍa, or that which is elaborately discussed through various hypotheses in the jñāna-kāṇḍa section of the Vedas. I am the ritualistic sacrifice enjoined by the Vedas, and I am the worshipable Deity. It is I who am presented as various philosophical hypotheses, and it is I alone who am then refuted by philosophical analysis. The

transcendental sound vibration thus establishes Me as the essential meaning of all Vedic knowledge. The Vedas, elaborately analyzing all material duality as nothing but My illusory potency, ultimately completely negate this duality and achieve their own satisfaction.”

In the Hari-vaṃśa it is stated: “Throughout the Vedas, the Rāmāyaṇa, the Purāṇas, and the Mahābhārata, from beginning to end, only the glories of the Supreme Lord Hari are sung.”