# BG - 23

<p class="callout info">Verse</p>

BG. 7.4

भूमिरापोऽनलो वायु: खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च ।  
अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ॥ ४ ॥

bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ  
khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca  
ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me  
bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā

Synonyms  
bhūmiḥ — earth; āpaḥ — water; analaḥ — fire; vāyuḥ — air; kham — ether; manaḥ — mind; buddhiḥ — intelligence; eva — certainly; ca — and; ahaṅkāraḥ — false ego; iti — thus; iyam — all these; me — My; bhinnā — separated; prakṛtiḥ — energies; aṣṭadhā — eightfold.

Translation  
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego – all together these eight constitute My separated material energies.

<span style="background-color: rgb(224, 62, 45); color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">**Note: After earth and water next element is Fire. But we already covered agni in BG 15.12 (yad aditya gatam tejo verse). We just recap with children the main points from that class about Agni.**</span>

**Today's main topic is KHAM (ether or space).** Last session was Vayu.

<p class="callout info">Bhajan</p>

Song Name: **Nagare Nagare Gora Gay**  
Official Name: Sri Krsnaer Vimsottara-Sata-Nama Song 1  
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura  
Book Name: Gitavali  
Language: Bengali

[https://kksongs.org/songs/n/nagarenagaregoragay.html](https://kksongs.org/songs/n/nagarenagaregoragay.html)

**For Tune** see [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQS0kp9-8j4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQS0kp9-8j4) LYRICS:

(Refrain:) nagare nagare gorā gāy

(1)  
yaśomatī-stanya-pāyī śrī-nanda-nandana  
indra-nīla-maṇi braja-janera jīvana  
   
(2)  
śrī-gokula-niśācarī-pūtanā-ghātana  
duṣṭa-tṛnāvarta-hantā śakaṭa-bhañjana

(3)  
navanīta-cora dadhi-haraṇa-kuśala  
yamala-arjuna-bhañjī govinda gopāla

(4)  
dāmodara bṛndābana-go-vatsa-rākhāla  
vatsāsurāntaka hari nija-jana-pāla

(5)  
baka-śatru agha-hantā brahma-vimohana  
dhenuka-nāśana kṛṣṇa kāliya-damana

(6)  
pītāmbara śikhi-piccha-dhārī venu-dhara  
bhāṇḍīra-kānana-līlā dāvānala-hara

(7)  
naṭabara guhācara śarata-bihārī  
vallabī-vallabha deva gopī-vastra-hārī

(8)  
yajña-patnī-gaṇa-prati karunāra sindhu  
govardhana-dhṛk mādhava braja-bāsī-bandhu  
   
(9)  
indra-darpa-hārī nanda-rakṣitā mukunda  
śrī-gopī-vallabha rasa-krīḍa pūrnānanda  
   
(10)  
śrī-rādhā-vallabha rādhā-mādhava sundara  
lalitā-viśākhā-ādi sakhī-prāneśwara

(11)  
nava-jaladhara-kānti madana-mohana  
vana-mālī smera-mukha gopī-prāna-dhana

(12)  
tri-bhańgī muralī-dhara jamunā-nāgara  
rādhā-kuṇḍa-rańga-netā rasera sāgara

(13)  
candrāvalī-prāna-nātha kautukābhilāṣī  
rādhā-māna-sulampaṭa milana-prayāsī  
   
(14)  
mānasa-gańgāra dānī prasūna-taskara  
gopī-saha haṭha-kārī braja-baneśwara

(15)  
gokula-sampad gopa-duḥkha-nivāraṇa  
durmada-damana bhakta-santāpa-haraṇa

(16)  
sudarśana-mocana śrī-śańkha-cūḍāntaka  
rāmānuja śyāma-cānda muralī-vādaka

(17)  
gopī-gīta-śrotā madhu-sūdana murāri  
ariṣṭa-ghātaka rādhā-kuṇḍādi-bihārī

(18)  
vyomāntaka padma-netra keśi-nisūdana  
rańga-krīḍa kaḿsa-hantā malla-praharaṇa  
   
(19)  
vasudeva-suta vṛṣṇai-vaḿśa-kīrti-dhvaja  
dīna-nātha mathureśa devakī-garbha-ja

(20)  
kubjā-kṛpāmoya viṣnu śauri nārāyana  
dwārakeśa naraka-ghna śrī-yadu-nandana

(21)  
śrī-rukminī-kānta satyā-pati sura-pāla  
pāṇḍava-bāndhava śiśupālādira kāla

(22)  
jagadīśa janārdana keśavārta-trāna  
sarva-avatāra-bīja viśvera nidāna  
   
(23)  
māyeśwara yogeśwara brahma-tejādhāra  
sarvātmāra ātmā prabhu prakṛtira pāra  
   
(24)  
patita-pāvana jagannātha sarveśwara  
bṛndābana-candra sarva-rasera ākara

(25)  
nagare nagare gorā gāy  
bhakativinoda tachu pāy

<p class="callout info">Katha</p>

Shakatasur Pastime (same chapter as Trinavarta - ending)

[https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/7/](https://vedabase.io/en/library/kb/6/)

<p class="callout success">Teaching Tracks (Juniors, Seniors and Parents combined in one doc)</p>

Ask children to bring an empty carton box and one small stone so that they can put the stone in the box and make some noise.

[BPSS\_Week5\_Kham.docx](https://help.iskconerp.com/attachments/59)