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Sri Gaudiya Gitanjali
Presented here is a collection of Sri Gaudiya Vaishnav kirtans (songs,
poetry) chanted regularly at Sri Chaitanya Saraswati Math. Most of the songs
are accompanied by the original Bengali text and an audio recording sung by
the Acharyas of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math—Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj, Srila
B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj, Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami
Maharaj.
The first edition of Sri Gaudiya Gitanjali was published in Bengali in
1983 with the following Preface written by Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti
Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj (translated into English by Sripad B.K.
Tyagi Maharaj):
Preface
By the causeless mercy of Sri Guru and Sri Gauranga, a long-standing need has
been fulfilled by this publication of Sri Gaudiya-gitanjali within a
very short time. You will find in this Sri Gaudiya-gitanjali nearly
all the kirtans in the line of Sri Bhakti Vinod—Saraswati that were
sung daily and on special days in the time of Srila Prabhupad Bhakti
Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur and that are still now sung in Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math.
Our most worshippable Sri Guru Pada-padma's ever sincere friend and our
genuinely affectionate well-wisher, Param Bhagavat Pujyapad Srila Krsnadas
Babaji Maharaj, who has now reached the dust of Sri Vrndavan Dham, would
greatly satisfy Sri Sri Guru Gauranga Gandharva-Govindasundar by chanting
these songs with profound appreciation and tears in his eyes in extremely
sweet tunes that defamed even nectar. By joyfully, voluntarily, and proudly
spreading the Sanskrit verses composed by our Sri Guru Pada-padma everywhere
throughout India and affirming them to be consistent with and of dignity
equal to those of Sri Rupa and Sri Raghunath, it is he primarily who has
brought about good fortune for the souls of this world and thus felt the
greatest joy. So, to preserve holy remembrance of him, his favourite
kirtans have been compiled here and offered to his holy lotus hands.
May he always mercifully remain pleased with us. This is our prayer.
Earnestly devoted to Sri Guru Pada-padma Om Visnupad Srila Bhakti Raksak
Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj and Param Bhagavat Srila Krsnadas Babaji Maharaj,
Vaisnava Acharya Tridandi Swami Srimat Viraha Prakas Maharaj has generously
contributed to the publication of this book, set a great example in the
Vaisnava world, and thus become the recipient of everyone's gratiude.
Amongst all my godbrothers who have received the mercy of Sri Guru and Sri
Gauranga and become greatly worthy of recognition for this exceptional
achievement of publishing this book within a very short time, the names of
Sripad Nimaisundar Brahmachari Vidya Vinod Prabhu and Sriman Visvarup
Brahmachari Prabhu are especially deserving of mention.
O Vaisnavas who see no faults! If you will mercifully pardon me for all the
errors, as a result of my incapacity in editing, that have diminished the
beauty of this collection of supramundane songs and inform this fallen soul
of them so that proper service may be rendered in a future edition, I will be
most grateful.
Humble, poor, and fallen,
The editor
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1st Bengali edition
2nd Bengali edition
[was reprinted in 2018]
Pocket edition
4th English edition
7th English edition
Pocket edition
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INDEX
We are presenting an offering of 108 KIRTANS recorded and collected throughout
His Divine Grace's manifest pastimes, chanted among his associates, devotees
and fortunate souls at various festivals, programmes and devotional
assemblies. We pray this compilation can nourish devotees' hearts and its
glory may continue to forever resound throughout the world.
His Divine Grace elaborates on transcendental significance of Hari-kirtan in
Guidance 4:
'What does Krishna-sankirtan mean? Playing the mridanga, karatals and
singing songs together with many people is not kirtan. If you sing together
with some radio artist or a musician, you may practise music skills, but
through radio kirtans you can neither taste the nectar of divine love that
was described above, nor will such kirtan destroy your material bondage. It
has to be pure sankirtan. It takes a pure great soul to bring and introduce
such pure sankirtan. A pure great soul is a soul who has been captured by
devotion through chanting of the Holy Name, and who has been accepted by
Bhakti Devi. If you can join and assist the chanting, the dancing of such
pure Vaishnavs, then when you see such chanting of the Holy Name, when you
hear it, or speak about it, it will destroy your material existence, paralyse
your material desires – your heart will become pure, and you will get to
taste or realise this ocean of entire ecstasy. If you have an open mind, if
your heart is clean, and if you do not have enmity or hostility, then all
this will clearly appear before your eyes – maha-sankirtan will be resounding
in your ears, and you will realise what a beautiful kirtan devotees do and
how much joy they do it with.'
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! The audio files can be listened to or downloaded by clicking on each
kirtan below or accessed through: Google Drive (and
download all together as a zipped archive – 360 Mb).
(It is possible to save the files on most mobile devices;
otherwise, they can be downloaded on a computer and then uploaded to the
device.)
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001 - Vandana
002 - 'Sri Guru Parampara'
003 - 'Jaya jaya gurudevera'
004 - 'Jaya guru-maharaja'
005 - 'Sujanarvuda-radhita'
006 - 'Samsara-davanala'
007 - 'Gurudev! krpa-bindu diya'
008 - 'Sri guru-charana-padma'
009 - 'Gurudev bara krpa kari'
010 - 'Vaisnava thakura dayara'
011 - 'Thakura vaisnava-gana'
012 - 'Krpa kari vaisnava'
013 - 'Thakura vaisnava pada'
014 - 'Ei-bara karuna kara'
015 - 'Ki-rupe paiba seva'
016 - 'Sarvasva tomara'
017 - 'Amara jivana'
018 - 'Manasa, deha, geha'
019 - 'E ghora-samsare'
020 - 'Vaisnav Ke?'
021 - 'Kabe habe bala'
022 - 'Ki jani ki bale'
023 - 'Mana tumi tirthe'
024 - 'Kabe sri-chaitanya more'
025 - 'Namo namah tulasi maharani'
026 - 'Sri-krsna-chaitanya... jive'
027 - 'Sri krsna chaitanya... daya'
028 - 'Emana durmati'
029 - 'Udila aruna'
030 - 'Jiva jaga jiva jaga'
031 - 'Bhaja re bhaja re amar'
032 - 'Hari hari viphale'
033 - 'Nitai-pada-kamala'
034 - 'Nitai gunamani amara'
035 - 'Akrodha paramananda'
036 - 'Are bhai! Nitai amara'
037 - 'Nitai mora jivana dhana'
038 - 'Daya kare more Nitai'
039 - 'Jayore jayore jaya Nityananda'
040 - 'Rarhe majhe eka chaka'
041 - 'Iha Kali-yuga dhanya'
042 - 'Ei bara karuna kara... Nitai'
043 - 'Nitai Chaitanya donhe'
044 - 'Nitai Chaitanya bale'
045 - 'Parama karuna'
046 - 'Gaurangera duti pada'
047 - 'Avatara-sara'
048 - 'Yadi Gaura na hata'
049 - 'Gaya Gora madhur svare'
050 - 'Bimala hema-jini'
051 - 'Ke yabi ke yabi bhai'
052 - 'Nadiya-nagare Nitai neche'
053 - 'E mana! Gauranga bine'
054 - 'Kabe aha Gauranga'
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055 - 'Aruna vasane'
056 - 'Kali-kukkura-kadana'
057 - 'Jaya Sachi-nandana'
058 - 'Yasomati-nandana'
059 - 'Bhajahu re mana'
060 - 'Janama saphala ta'ra'
061 - 'Tumi sarvesvaresvara'
062 - 'Gopinath mama nivedana'
063 - 'Yasoda-nandana Krsna'
064 - 'Vibhavari sesa'
065 - 'Nagare nagare Gora gaya'
066 - 'He deva bhavantam vande'
067 - Sri Dasavatara Stotram
068 - 'Namamisvaram sach-chid...'
069 - 'Suna he rasika-jana'
070 - 'Hari he dayala mora'
071 - 'Jaya Radha-Madhava'
072 - 'Mayura-mukuta'
073 - 'Jaya Radhe jaya Krsna'
074 - 'Radhe jaya jaya'
075 - 'Radhe! Radhe! Govinda!'
076 - 'Radha-bhajane yadi'
077 - 'Radhika-charana-padma'
078 - 'Radha-kunda-tata'
079 - 'Varaja-vipine'
080 - 'Kumkumakta kanchana'
081 - 'Narada-muni bhajaya vina'
082 - 'Sri hari-vasare'
083 - 'Suddha-bhakata-charana-renu'
084 - 'Sri-gaura-mandala majhe'
085 - Morning arati (Ekachakra)
086 - Evening arati (Ekachakra)
087 - Evening kirtan (Ekachakra)
088 - Evening arati (Tarakeshwar)
089 - Morning arati (Nrisingha Palli)
090 - Evening arati (Nrisingha Palli)
091 - Morning kirtan (Nrisingha Palli)
092 - 'Bhagyadhisa tvadiyo'
093 - 'Hari-bhakti-rasamrta-dana'
094 - 'Naumi sri-gurupadabjam'
095 - Morning parikrama (Nabadwip)
096 - 'O mora jivana-gati Sri-Rupa'
097 - Dasavidha Nama-Aparadha
098 - 'Sri-rupa-manjari-pada'
099 - 'Ye anila prema-dhana'
100 - 'Pita-varana kali-pavana'
101 - 'Tunhu daya-sagara'
102 - 'Sri-krsna-kirtane yadi'
103 - 'Prabhu! tava pada-yuge'
104 - 'Anadi karama-phale padi'
105 - 'Aparadha-phale mama'
106 - 'Gaite gaite nama'
107 - 'Bandhu-gana! sunaha'
108 - 'Hari haraye nama Krsna'
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'It is said, “Krishna personally appears in Hari-sankirtan." That is the
result of Hari-sankirtan. The Name, form, qualities, pastimes of Krishna
reveal themselves. Those who can chant such kirtan or hear such kirtan will
get the realisation that the Lord is full of love and mercy. Suppose there is
a discussion about Krishna – if one’s heart does not get attracted to Him or
the desire to serve Krishna does not arise in the listeners after hearing
such a discussion, then you must understand that it is not the proper
sankirtan. In the proper, pure Hari-sankirtan, you will feel in your heart
that Sri Nam Prabhu is sach-chid-ananda (eternal, cognisant, and blissful).
"Nama amani udita haya, bhakata-gita-same – when devotees chant the Holy
Name, the Holy Name arises on its own." If the desire to know about Him and
the inclination to serve Him awakens within you, then you must understand
that you have heard the proper Hari-sankirtan.
'Sri Nityananda is the father of sankirtan, He is the presiding Deity of
sankirtan. If you get taste for kirtan, you get the mercy of Nitai. "Kirtan"
does not mean gratification of one’s own senses – when Sri Nityananda Prabhu
hears chanting of the Holy Name, He becomes very happy. It is a matter of a
great fortune and it a very great thing to become qualified to give joy to
Sri Nitaichand, to attain the right to chant the Holy Name, and to feel
happiness when chanting the Holy Name. This happiness comes by His mercy. If
Nityananda Prabhu relishes someone’s kirtan, if He likes it, if He becomes
happy, then His happiness is reflected onto the person chanting kirtan, i.e.
the person who is chanting will also feel happy. "Kirtan" is not some melody,
tune, or showing off music skills. Ecstasy of kirtan is born from a lustrous
heart, purified by pure goodness. This is a very high attainment. Unless pure
goodness appears in one’s heart, the ecstasy of kirtan can never appear
there.'
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All Glory to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga
Taking the dust from the holy feet of all devotees and well-wishers of Sri
Chaitanya Saraswat Math, hankering to serve you all on the occasion of the
grand festival of Om Vishnupad Srila B.S. Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj's
divine appearance day, we humbly bow down at your holy feet and present a
collection of 51 recordings of Srila Govinda Maharaj chanting kirtans in
various years between 1988 and 2009. May this nectar of Sri Hari-Kirtan from
the holy lotus mouth of His Divine Grace nourish and massage the hearts of
the entire Devotional Family of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math.
THE LINK TO THE FILES—for download or listening online (not all mobile devices may support online playback, but the files can be downloaded).
DOWNLOAD ALL FILES (.zip) (134 Mb)—for listening offline and comfortable upload to mobile devices.
CONTENTS:
00 "Jaya Dhvani"
01 "Vandava"
02 "Jaya Guru Maharaj yati-rajesvara"
03 "Jaya jaya Gaurachander arati ujjvala"
04 "Yasomati nandana vrajabara nagara"
05 "Namo namah Tulasi Maharani"
06 "Kabe Sri Chaitanya more karibena daya"
07 "(Ohe) Vaishnava Thakur dayara sagara"
08 "Ei bara karuna kara vaishnava gosai"
09 "Gurudev krpa bindu diya"
10 "Sri guru charana padma"
11 "Emona durmati samsara bhitare"
12 "Ki jani ki bale tomara dhamete"
13 "Bhajahu re mana Sri Nanda nandana"
14 "Janama saphala ta'ra"
15 "Hari he dayala"
16 "Durlabha manava janma"
17 "Manasa deha geha"
18 "Bhuliya tomare samsara asiya"
19 "Dhana mora Nityananda"
20 "Akrodha paramananda Nityananda Ray"
21 "Nitai pada kamala"
22 "Parama karuna pahu dui jana"
23 "Yadi Gaura na haite"
24 "Avatara sara Gaura avatara"
25 "Gaurangera duti pada"
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26 "Bimala hema jini"
27 "Kali ghora timire"
28 "Sri radhara bhave yini suvarna varana"
29 "Ki jani ki bole," "Emona durmati"
30 "Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna"
31 "Radha bhajane yadi"
32 "Jaya Radha Madhava"
33 "Radhika charana padma"
34 "Radha Krsna prana mora yugala kisora"
35 "Radhe Jaya Jaya Madhava Daite"
36 "Radha kunda tata"
37 "Gopinath mama nivedana suna"
38 "Suno he rasika jana"
39 "Sri Dasavatar Stotram"
40 "He deva bhavantam vande"
41 "Gaya Gaura madhur svare"
42 "Sujanarvuda radhita pada yugam"
43 "Jayare jayare jaya paramahamsa mahasaya"
44 "Bhaya bhanjana jayasamsana"
45 "Sri Daita Dasa Dasakam"
46 "Sri Nityananda Dvadasakam"
47 "Srila Raghunath Das Goswami Sochaka"
48 "Sri Rupa manjari pada sei mora sampada"
49 "Ye anilo prema dhana"
50 "Jaya Radhe jaya Krsna jaya Vrndavan", "Hari Haraye"
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