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SRI GAUDIYA GITANJALI : SRIMAN MAHAPRABHU VANDANA

Prayers to Sri Sriman Mahaprabhu
from Srimad Bhagavatam

dhyeyam sada paribhava-ghnam abhista-doham
tirthaspadam siva-virinchi-nutam saranyam
bhrtyartti-ham pranata-pala-bhavabdhi-potam
vande mahapurusa te charanaravindam

O maintainer of surrendered souls! O Supreme Personality! O great soul (who performs the pastimes of a great devotee)! You are the only object of eternal meditation for pure souls; You destroy souls’ illusion; You are a wish-fulfilling tree, a shelter of all devotees; You are worshipped by Siva (Sri Advaita Acharya) and Brahma (Haridas Thakur); You are the ultimate refuge for all creation; You destroy devotees’ miseries (offences to the Holy Name, etc.); and You are the only boat that can take us across the ocean of material existence. I bow down at Your holy lotus feet.

tyaktva su-dustyaja-surepsita-rajya-laksmim
dharmistha arya-vachasa yad-agad-aranyam
maya-mrgam dayitayepsitam anvadhavad
vande mahapurusa te charanaravindam

O Supreme Lord! Maha-Laksmi (Visnupriya Devi), Your own personal opulence (Your inseparable, non-different potency), is more difficult to leave than one’s own self, and her merciful glance is sought after even by gods, but You left her opulence and showed the pastime of taking sannyas just to make sure that the word of a brahman who cursed You is kept. Externally, You practised as an acharya, following all rules and regulations of devotional practice. To distribute devotion to the Lord, You travelled (to North and South India) bestowing upon everyone an opportunity to come in touch with Your holy feet: approaching people immersed in material life, who run after illusion in search of illusory fulfilment (pursuers of material desires, enjoyers, renunciates, atheistic sophists, lowly scholars, etc.), You showered great mercy upon them and submerged those souls burning in the wild forest-fire of material existence into the ocean of divine love for Lord Krishna. I bow down at Your holy lotus feet.

iti dvapara urv-isa-stuvanti jagad-isvaram
nana-tantra-vidhanena kalav api tatha srnu
krsna-varnam tvisakrsnam sangopangastra-parsadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair yajanti hi su-medhasah

This is how people worship the Lord in Dvapar-yuga. Now hear about the rules of worshipping the Lord in Kali-yuga according to scriptural evidence. Very intelligent people engage in sankirtana-yajna (congregational chanting of the Holy Name) to worship the Supreme Lord who always chants the Name of Krishna, who possesses non-black (golden) lustre, and who is surrounded by His various associates and weapons.

nindantam pulakotkarena vikasan-nipa-prasunach-chhavim
prodhvi-krtya bhuja-dvayam hari-harity-uchchhair-vadantam muhuh
nrtyantam drutam-asru-nirjhara-chayaih sinchantam urvi-talam
gayantam nija-parsadaih parivrtam sri-gaurachandram numah

(By Srila Prabodhananda Saraswati)

As Mahaprabhu became completely intoxicated, relishing the nectar of Srimati Radharani’s divine mood, all hair on His body stood on end and thus His divine form would look just like a kadamba flower. Raising His arms and pointing towards Goloka, He would walk about and cry, ‘Hari! Hari! Hari bol! Hari bol!’ When He danced, the ground would become moist from the tears falling from His lotus eyes. He is surrounded by His associates – Sriman Nityananda Prabhu, Sri Gadadhar Pandit, Sri Advaita Acharya, Srivas Pandit, Namacharya Haridas Thakur, Sri Mukunda, Sri Murari Gupta and others. All devotees would wander throughout the length and breadth of Sri Nabadwip Dham together with the Lord. We bow in obeisance at the holy lotus feet of this Sri Gaurachandra.

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