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SRI GAUDIYA GITANJALI : SPECIAL POETRY Sri Namastakam
(VERSE ONE)
nikhila-sruti-mauli-ratna-mala- The crown jewels of all the revealed scriptures worship the tips of the toes of Your lotus feet with their brilliance (as in an arati ceremony). You are eternally worshipped by great liberated souls. So, O Holy Name! I am taking shelter in You in all respects.
sri-rupa-vadane sri-sachi-kumara The Son of Sri Sachi preached about the glories of His own Name through the holy mouth of Sri Rupa.
yo nama, so hari—kichhu nahi bheda, The Lord and His Name are non-different from each other. Revealed scriptures sing the glories of this Name.
sabu upanisada, ratna-mala-dyuti, Shining brightly at Your holy feet, the necklace of all jewel-like Upanisads always offers You mangala-arati worship with the double wick lamps of their lustre.
chaudda bhuvana maha, deva-nara-danava, In the entire fourteen worlds, gods, humans, and even demons, who possess spiritual fortune always drink the nectar of the Name, giving up all material activities and pursuits of knowledge.
nitya-mukta punah, nama-upasana, According to the Sama Veda, eternally liberated souls also always worship the Holy Name of the Lord. Residents of Goloka sing all the time – they do not know what it is like to live without the Name.
sabu-rasa-akara, ‘hari’ iti dvaksara, A mine of all possible nectar, these two syllables, ‘Ha-ri’, give shelter to the entire creation. Falling at the holy feet of the Name, Bhaktivinod prays, ‘Please let me stay at Your feet.’ (VERSE TWO)
jaya namadheya muni-vrnda-geya O Holy Name! Your glories are sung even by great sages; to extend ultimate happiness to all humankind, You exist in this world in the form of the Name. You are transcendental – if a soul utters You just once, even without any affection, all its terrible material miseries become removed.
jaya jaya harinama, chid-anandamrta-dhama, Glory, glory to the Holy Name of the Lord! An abode of nectarean existence and joy, You possess a transcendental letter-form. Bestowing mercy upon Your devotees, You appear in this world in the form of the Name to show boundless kindness to all souls.
jaya ‘hari’ ‘krsna’ ‘rama’, jaga-jana-suvisrama, Glory to ‘Hari’, ‘Krishna’ and ‘Rama’! You provide the highest respite to the whole world and delight everyone’s minds. Great sages always loudly chant these Names.
ohe krsna-namaksara, tumi sarva-sakti-dhara, O Letters of Krishna’s Holy Name! You are all-powerful, and You spread benediction to all souls. Without You, there is no other friend who can rescue them from this ocean of material existence, so You have come to do that.
achhe tapa jive yata, tumi saba kara hata, If somebody calls out to You just once, even negligently, feeling poor and materially impoverished and seeing no other way out, You remove all their distress.
tava svalpa-sphurti paya, ugra-tapa dure yaya, They attain the result of chanting the shadow of the Name and all their previous miseries go away – they easily attain liberation. Bhaktivinod Thakur says, ‘Glory to You, O Holy Name! Glory to You! I am falling in obeisance, aspiring for Your holy feet.’ (VERSE THREE)
yad-abhaso ’py udyan kavalita-bhava-dhvanta-vibhavo O great Sun of the Lord’s Holy Name! If somebody manages to chant even Your shadow, You plunder all darkness of their material existence and bestow transcendental knowledge that carries devotion even to those who have no spiritual vision. Is there such a learned man in this world who would be able to give a comprehensive description of Your glory?
visve udita, nama-tapana, The Sun of the Holy Name has arisen in the world to destroy all ignorance. Giving up everything as mere illusory wealth, saints live in loving attachment to Him.
harinama prabhakara, avidya-timira-hara, The Sun of the Holy Name destroys the darkness of ignorance. Who can know Your glory? Who is learned enough to do that? Everybody loudly sings Your glories.
tomara abhasa pahilahi bhaya At first, one utters a shadow of You, but the light coming from such an utterance can almost completely remove the darkness of this material existence.
achire timira nasiya prajnana Very soon You destroy all darkness. Then, dispelling their spiritual blindness, You impart the highest knowledge to such a fortunate soul.
sei ta’ prajnana visuddha bhakati This highest knowledge is the knowledge about pure devotion, which awakens heart-felt interest in the Supreme Lord.
e adbhuta-lila satata tomara Bhaktivinod always knows that this miraculous pastime of Yours is the most important thing in life. (VERSE FOUR)
yad-brahma-saksat krti-nisthayapi O Holy Name! When souls devotedly aspire to attain impersonal Brahman, they have to first reap the results of their past actions before they reach their goal (their pursuit does not negate the karma that has already come into effect); but when You manifest Yourself, You destroy the results of all past actions, even those that have already come into effect and have created a particular body for the soul. All scriptures loudly sing about this glory of Yours.
jnani jnana-yoge, kariya yatane, Knowledge-seekers strive hard to pursue the path of knowledge to attain Brahma, the impersonal aspect of the Lord. When they attain Brahma, all their dormant karma (which has not fructified yet) is destroyed through knowledge.
tabu ta’ prarabdha, nahi haya ksaya, But the karma that has already started to fructify is not destroyed unless it is suffered through. So, the soul has to undergo birth and death to reap the result of those actions.
kintu ohe nama, tava sphurti ha’le, O Holy Name! But when You reveal Yourself to a person who is devoted to chanting You, all their fructified and unfructified karma disappears. All Vedas sing this again and again.
tomara udaye, jivera hrdaya, When You arise, You grant complete purification to the soul’s heart. All bondage of past actions and knowledge goes away, and material existence easily becomes destroyed.
bhakativinoda, bahu tule’ kaya, With his arms upraised, Bhaktivinod says, ‘Hold the banner of the Holy Name, loudly beat the kettledrum of the Holy Name, and you will come to meet Muralidhar Krishna.’ (VERSE FIVE)
agha-damana-yasoda-nandanau-nanda-suno O Holy Name! O Destroyer of all sins! O Son of Mother Yasoda! O Son of Nanda Maharaj! O Lotus-Eyed! O Gopichandra! O Vrindavan-chandra! O Lord, merciful to the surrendered! O Krishna! You manifest Yourself in many forms – may my attraction and affection to You increase more and more.
harinama, tuya aneka svarupa O Holy Name, You have many forms. Yasoda-nandan (Yasoda’s Son), Ananda-vardhan (Increaser of Joy), Nanda-tanaya (Nanda’s Son), Rasa-kupa (Well of Nectar).
putana-ghatana, trnavarta-hana, Slayer of Putana, Killer of Trinavarta, Cart Breaker, Gopal, Flute Player, Killer of Aghasur and Bakasur, Holder of Govardhan, Cowherd.
kesi-marddana, brahma-vimohana, Slayer of the demon Kesi, Bewilderer of Brahma, Chastiser of Indra’s pride, Destroyer of Aristasur, Enchanter of Gopis, Enjoyer of the sandy banks of the Yamuna.
radhika-ranjana, rasa-rasayana, Radhika’s Joy, Rasa-Dance Relisher, Enjoyer of pastimes in Radha Kunda’s groves, Rama, Krishna, Hari, Madhav, Narahari (Nrisimha), Matsya and all the other incarnations.
govinda, vamana, sri-madhusudana, Govinda, Vaman, Sri Madhusudan, Yadav-chandra, Vanamali, Slayer of Kaliya, Joy of Gokula, Object of Radha’s Worship and Joy.
ityadika nama, svarupe prakama, There are many other Names, sufficient to reflect His personality. May my attraction and love for Them increase. Considering the holy feet of Rupa and Svarup to be his wealth, Bhaktivinod always clasps them and prays for their mercy. (VERSE SIX)
vachyam vachakam ity udeti bhavato nama-svarupa-dvayam O Holy Name! You manifest Yourself in two forms, as the Bearer of the Name and the Name. Lo! We know that Your latter form (the Name) is more merciful than the former one (the Bearer of the Name) because in this material world, the practitioners who always worship the Bearer of the Name with offences can certainly become submerged in an ocean of eternal bliss if they worship the Name in the mood of servitude.
vachya o vachaka, dui svarupa tomara You have two forms, the Bearer of the Name and the Name. ‘The Bearer of the Name’ is Your holy deity-form endowed with consciousness and bliss.
vachaka-svarupa tava ‘sri-krsna’di nama The Name is manifest as Your various Holy Names, such as Sri Krishna. The beautiful letters of Your Names are a blissful respite for all living entities.
ei dui svarupe tava ananta prakasa You manifest Yourself in these two unlimited forms to mercifully reveal Your pastimes to jiva souls.
kintu janiyachhi, natha, vachaka-svarupa But, O Lord, I have got to learn an amazing fact: Your Name is actually kinder than You Yourself!
nama nami bheda nai, vedera vachana It is said in the Vedas that Your Name is non-different from You, but Your Name is more merciful than You.
krsne-aparadhi yadi name sraddha kari’
aparadha dure yaya, ananda-sagare If offenders of Lord Krishna chants His Name with faith, with all heart and soul, calling out, ‘Rama! Krishna! Hari!’ then all their offences go away and they can easily float in an ocean of happiness and divine bliss.
vigraha-svarupa vachye aparadha kari’ If somebody commits offences to Your Deity form, these offences can be removed by sincerely taking shelter in Your Name.
bhakativinoda mage sri-rupa-charane Bhaktivinod prays at Sri Rupa’s holy feet, ‘May I always have attachment to the Holy Name of the Lord.’ (VERSE SEVEN)
suditasrita-janarti-rasaye O Krishna, manifest as the Holy Name! When souls surrender to You, You destroy all their miseries; You are personification of profound transcendental bliss and beauty. You are the joy of Gokula and the very perfection of a worshippable Deity. I am offering my obeisances to You again and again.
ohe harinama, tava mahima apara O Holy Name! Your glory is boundless. I prostrate myself at Your feet again and again.
gokulera mahotsava ananda-sagara You are Gokula’s festival, an ocean of joy – I fall at Your feet in distress.
tumi krsna, purna-vapu, rasera nidana You are Krishna, You possess a perfect form, and You are the fountainhead of all divine ecstasy and joy. I am falling at Your feet, singing Your glories.
ye kare tomara pade ekanta asraya When souls take exclusive shelter at Your feet, You certainly destroy all their desires and offences, even the offences to You, O Holy Name. Clearing their hearts from all defects, You take Your seat on the throne of their pure hearts, granting them the highest shelter.
ati-ramya chid-ghana-ananda-murtimana An abode of exquisite beauty, You are a holy personification of profound spiritual bliss. The Vedas glorify You as an ‘embodiment of all possible ecstasy.’
bhakativinoda rupa-gosvami-charane Bhaktivinod constantly begs at the holy feet of Rupa Goswami, ‘May this Holy Name play on my tongue at every moment.’ (VERSE EIGHT)
narada-vinojjivana sudhormi niryasa madhuri-pura O Holy Name of Sri Krishna! You are the very life of Sri Narad’s vina, a current of sweetness, the very essence of the waves of nectar. Therefore, may You please always lovingly sport on my tongue to my heart’s content.
narada-muni, bajaya vina, Narad Muni plays his vina, chanting the Holy Name of ‘Radhika-Raman’. The Name arises on His own when devotees chant Him.
amiya-dhara, varise ghana, You are a rain cloud pouring down a torrent of nectar – when it enters devotees’ ears, they start to dance continuously to their hearts’ content.
madhuri-pura, asaba pasi’, When You enter, You intoxicate all living entities of the world with the wine of Your nectar. Some cry; some dance; and some go into a frenzy, feeling overjoyed at heart.
pancha-vadana, narade dhari’, Five-headed Lord Siva grabs Narad, and together they get rowdy, swooning with divine love. Lord Brahma dances and sings, ‘Chant! Chant “Hari”! Chant!’
sahasranana, parama-sukhe, Thousand-headed Sri Anantadev rejoices and sings, ‘Hari Hari!’ The Holy Name drives the whole universe mad – everybody is relishing the nectar of the Name.
sri-krsna-nama, rasane sphuri’, Bhaktivinod Das prays at the holy feet of Sri Rupa, ‘May Lord Sri Krishna’s Name appear on my tongue, satisfying my hankering.’
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