Ha Ha Bhaktivinoda Thakura Guro

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Song Name: Ha Ha

Bhaktivinoda

Thakura

Guro

Official Name: Srimad

Bhaktivinoda

Viraha

Dasaka

Author: Sridhara

Goswami

Book Name: None

Language: Sanskrit

 

LYRICS:

(1)

ha

ha

bhaktivinoda-thakura !

guro ! dvavimsatis

te

sama

dirghad-duhkha-bharad

asesa-virahad

duhsthi-krta

bhuriyam

jivanam

bahu-janma-punya-nivahakrsto

mahi-mandale

avirbhava-krpam

cakara ca bhavan

sri

gaura-saktih

svayam

 

(2)

dino ‘ham cira-duskrtir

na hi bhavat

padabja

dhuli kana-

snanananda-nidhim

prapanna-subhadam

labdhum

samartho ‘ bhavam

kintv-audarya-gunat-tavatiyasasah

karunya-saktih

svayam

sri-sri-gaura-mahaprabhoh

prakatita

visvam

samanv

agrahit

 

(3)

he

deva ! stavane

tavakhila-gunanam

te

virincadayo

deva

vyartha-manorathah

kimu

vayam

martyadhamah

kurmahe

etan no vivudhaih

kadapy

atisayalankara

ity

ucyatam

sastresv

eva “ na

paraye

‘ham” iti

yad-gitam

mukundena tat

 

(4)

na

paraye ‘ham niravadya-samyujam

sva-sadhukrtyam

vibudhayusapi

vah

ya ma bhajan

durjara-geha-srnkhalah

samvrscya tad vah

pratiyatu

sadhuna

 

(5)

dharmas-carmagato

‘ jnataiva

satata

yogas ca bhogatmako

jnane

sunya-gatir

japena

tapasa

khyatir

jighamsaiva ca

dane

dambhikatanuraga-bhajane

dustapacaro

yada

buddhim-buddhimatam

vibheda he tada

dhatra

bhavan

presitah

 

(6)

visve

smin

kiranair

yatha

himakarah

sanjivayann-osadhir

naksatrani ca ranjayan

nija-sudham

vistarayan

rajate

sac- chastrani ca

tosayan

budhaganam

sammodayams

te

tatha

nunam

bhumi -tale subhodaya

iti

hlado

bahuh

satvatam

 

(7)

lokanam

hita-kamyaya

bhagavato

bhakti-pracaras

tvaya

granthanam

racanaih

satam

abhimatair nana vidhair

darsitah

acaryaih

krta-purvam

eva

kila tad ramanujadyair

budhaih

premambho-nidhi-vigrahasya

bhavato

mahatmya-sima

na tat

 

(8)

yad

dhamnah

khalu

dhama

caiva

nigame

brahmeti

samjnayate

yasyamsasya

kalaiva

duhkha-nikarair

yogesvarair

mrgyate

vaikunthe

paramukta-bhrnga-carano

narayano

yah svayam

tasyamsi

bhagavan

svayam

rasa-vapuh

krsno

bhavan tat- pradah

 

(9)

sarvacintya-maye

paratpara-pure-goloka-vrndavane

cil-lila

rasa-rangini

parivrta

sa

radhika

sri-hareh

vatsalyadirasais

ca sevita-tanor

madhurya-seva-sukham

nityam

yatra

muda

tanoti

hi bhavan tad dhama-seva-pradah

 

(10)

sri-gauranumatam

svarupa-viditam

rupagrajenadrtam

rupadyaih

parivesitam

raghu-ganair-asvaditam

sevitam

jivadyair

abhiraksitam

suka-siva-brahmadi-sammanitam

sri-radha-pada-sevanamrtam

aho tad-datum iso

bhavan

 

(11)

kvaham

manda-matis

tvativa-patitah

kva

tvam

jagat-pavanah

bho

svamin

krpayaparadha-nicayo

nunam

tvaya

ksamyatam

yace ‘ham karuna-nidhe ! varam

imam padabja -mule bhavat

sarvasvavadhi-radhika-dayita-dasanam

gane

ganyatam

 

TRANSLATION

O Bhaktivinoda

Thakura ! O Gurudeva ! Somehow, a long and trying twenty-two years have passed since your disappearance; a time cursed with the painful and heavy burden that I am constantly feeling due to your separation. My life-substance is a prisoner to that agony. The conditioned souls, in due course of accepting unlimited births through countless species, fortunately come to gather the required pious merits to take a human birth on this Earth. But unlike them, you are a personal manifestation of Lord GaurangaÂ’s

divine potency, your appearance an evident display of His tender compassion.

 

O, how abominable is my existence! From time immemorial I have been trapped by the warden of impiety. I have no expectation of being afforded a chance of bathing in even one particle of the ecstatic dust of your holy feet. Each shining particle clinging to your lotus feet contains an enormous joyful ocean providing the most ambrosial bath, and promises at last, the fulfilment of my life, the taste of selfless surrender. O, but wait! There is some hope – the extensive all-encompassing magnitude of Sriman

MahaprabhuÂ’s manifest pastimes of wide distribution, audarya-lila , have graced our entire universe. O Srila

Bhaktivinoda , you are the personal proprietor and agent of that glorious and gentle grace.

 

O Bhaktivinoda ! O divine master! If all the attempts of the demigods beginning with Lord Brahma have met with disappointment in trying to narrate the totality of your wonderful spiritual qualities, then, Gurudeva , how can we simple and ordinary people, fallen in this material world, glorify you properly? We are not concerned with the highly decorative rhetoric of the learned demigods. For us it was the plain truth when Lord Mukunda said He was incapable of depicting the magnanimity of the cowherd maidens of Vraja , as mentioned in the rasa-lila pastimes:

 

“When the gopis were overwhelmed with dissatisfaction due to Lord Krsna’s absence from the rasa-lila , Krsna returned to them and said, ‘My dear gopis , our meeting is certainly free from all material contamination. I must admit that even within a lifetime of Brahma it would be impossible for Me to repay My debt to you, because you have all cut off the bondage of family life just to search for Me. Consequently I am unable to repay you. Therefore, let your own glorious deeds be your compensation in this regard.”

 

O Bhaktivinoda

Thakura , you appeared at the hour of our greatest need. At that time, everyone practiced body-worship and flesh-religion, which any honest man will admit is ignorance. The yogis were cheating the public with cheap miracles, exploiting them for money and pleasure. The philosophers, bewildered in trying to capture the infinite, found that their knowledge had led them to the void of nihilism. The mutterers of mantras were working to become well-known japa -chanters. Ascetics practiced murderous torture for spiritual suicide. The proud gave in charity only to secure their fame. And all these abominable acts were performed in the name of anuraga-bhajan , the highest devotion to Godhead. At that dark hour, when all good intelligence had been spoiled by misconception, you were sent by the will of Providence.

 

When he appears within the dark evening sky, the full moon gives life to all the medicinal herbs within the universe by his cooling rays. He also helps the stars to twinkle, and their nectarean pleasure increases as they illuminate the world. O Bhaktivinoda

Thakur , you have appeared like the moon to enliven the meaning of the scriptures, which act like medicine to soothe the diseased souls of this world. You advent gives pleasure to the saints, who, like stars helped by the moon, can illuminate others simply by reflecting your light.

 

Desiring to benefit the people in general, you preached the Bhagavata

principles of devotion. Like the great spiritual geniuses Ramanuja ,

Madhva , Nimbarka , and Visnusvami , you composed different scriptures which reveal the divine philosophical vision of the previous acharyas

and great devotees. But, O Bhaktivinoda

Thakura , O Gurudeva , more than that, you are a vast ocean of divine love, and your magnanimity knows no bounds.

 

The effulgent, non-differentiated aspect of divinity known as Brahman is composed of infinite particles of individual consciousness, and has been considered by the Upanisads and by Vedic scholars to be the halo of the Absolute. The localized plenary portion of Godhead known as Paramatma is sought after by the great yogis practicing extreme penance. Narayana Himself, the predominating Lord of the Vaikuntha planets, whose lotus feet are worshipped and served by His unexcelled beelike devotees, is only a partial representation of the original Personality of Godhead. The original or full-fledged aspect of divinity is Krsna . O Bhaktivinoda

Thakura , you have not come to distribute Brahman or Paramatma or even Narayana-bhakti , but svayam-bhagavan

Krsna , the original conception of the Absolute, who is all-ecstasy. It is you, O Gurudeva , who can gently place me in His hands, and you have come to give Him to the public.

 

Within the highest realm of the inconceivable spiritual world, there is a most charming place which is far superior to all others. That place is known as Goloka

Vrndavan . It is there that the original Personality of Godhead Sri Krsna is found. There, KrsnaÂ’s transcendental pleasure is increased by the personal service rendered to Him by His devotees who are absorbed in the mellows of friendship and parenthood. There, surrounded by Her most intimate confidential maidservants, Srimati

Radharani , with all of Her paraphernalia, is offering Sri Krsna the highest form of affectionate service, which is completely inconceivable on the mundane plane. O Bhaktivinoda

Thakura , if you so desire, it is within your power to easily grant this insignificant soul some service within that higher realm. Please bestow that mercy upon me.

 

What was sanctioned by Sri Chaitanya

Mahaprabhu by His descent, was intimately known only to Sri

Swarupa

Damodara

Goswami . Sanatana

Goswami , the elder brother of Sri Rupa

Goswami , was attentive to that divine truth, and Rupa

Goswami Himself served that very thing with his own hands to the devotees. Raghunatha

Dasa

Goswami tasted its sweetness and also added something of his own to its flavour . (He was assisted in doing so by Raghunatha

Bhatta

Goswami and Gopala

Bhatta

Goswami .) What was distributed by Rupa and tasted by Raghunatha was protected by Sri Jiva

Goswami , who lent support to its divinity with scriptural evidence. The taste of that divine truth is aspired after by Sri Sukadeva

Goswami , Lord Siva, and Lord Brahma, who regard it with the highest respect from a distance. What is that inconceivable ambrosia? The sublime sweet nectar of the mellows relished in the service of Srimati

RadharaniÂ’s

holy lotus feet. O Bhaktivinoda

Thakura , within this world, you fully possess the ability to give us that extraordinary nectar.

 

But where am I! I am in a most fallen condition, my intelligence bound with fault. Where are you, O deliverer of the universe? O master! By your causeless mercy alone, my unlimited offences can be pardoned. O ocean of compassion! O Gurudeva ! I humbly be for one favour

before your lotus feet: kindly count me as one of the servitors of Sri Sri

Radha-Krsna , that Divine Couple who are an ocean of matchless wealth.

 

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UPDATED: June 26, 2009