Dekho Mana Brate Jena Na Hao

Krsna

Kirtana

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Song Name: Dekho

Mana

Brate Jena

Official Name: Upadesa

Song 15

Author: Bhaktivinoda

Thakura

Book Name: Kalyana

Kalpataru

Language: Bengali

LYRICS

(1)

dekho

mana , brate

jena

hao

acchanna

krsna-bhakti

asa

kori’acho nana brata

dhori ‘,

radha-krsne

korite

prasanna

(2)

bhakti

sahaja

tattva,citte

ta’r ache sattva ,

tahar

samrddhi

taba

asa

dekhibe

bicara

kori’,su-katina

brata

dhori ‘,

sahajer

koro

binasa

(3)

krsna-arthe

kayaklesa,ta’r

phal ache sesa

kintu

taha

samanya

hoy

bhaktir

badhaka

ho’le,bhakti

nahi

phale ,

tapah-phal

hoibe

niscoy

(4)

kintu

bheve

dekho

bhai,tapasyar

kaj

nai ,

jadi

hari

aradhita

hana

bhakti

jadi

phalil,tapasyar

tuccha

phal ,

baisnaba

loy

kadacana

(5)

ihate

gudha

marma,bhujo

baisnaber dharma,

patra-bhede

adhikara

bhinna

binoder

nibedana,bidhi-mukta

anuksana ,

sara-grahi

sri-krsna-prapanna

TRANSLATION

Be careful, my dear mind, that you don’t become bewildered by ritualistic vows. With an aim to please Radha-Krsna and make Them

favorably disposed to you, you accept various types of austere vows. You consider that this will be conducive to practicing devotional service.

Devotional service is actually a very simple and easily understood truth, for it is the soul’s natural, inborn tendency. Your desire is to expand and enrich that devotion which is already existing in your heart. But you should be careful to consider that by undertaking unnecessarily difficult vows and austerities, you don’t destroy the simplicity of the natural bhakti process.

The results that you get from hard labor on Krsna’s behalf are extraordinary and should never be considered to be commonplace. However, if such service turns into an unnecessarily difficult austerity, then it becomes an obstacle to devotion, and it will prevent you from getting the real benefit of devotion. Instead, you will only get the benefit of the results of the austerity.

But just try to understand this, my dear brother. If one is worshiping Hari , then there is no need to labor for penances and austerities. If devotional service does not manifest as the result of some type of austerity, then the insignificant result of that austerity will never be accepted by a true Vaisnava at any time.

From all this, just try to understand the deep inner significance of the principles of Vaisnava behavior. That is, according to differences in receptivity of different persons, there is a definite difference in their rightful capacity in devotional service. Bhaktivinoda’s

humble submission is that you should just become a sara-grahi

and accept the essence of complete surrender to Krsna, thus becoming freed from, and transcendental to, all types of scriptural rules and regulations.

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UPDATED: June 25, 2009