Keno Mana Kamere Nacao

Krsna

Kirtana

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Song Name: Keno Mana

Kamere

Nacao

Official Name: Upadesa : Song 19

Author: Bhaktivinoda

Thakura

Book Name: Kalyana

Kalpataru

Language: Bengali

LYRICS:

(1)

keno

mana , kamere

nacao

prema -pray?

carma-mamsa-moy

kama,jara-sukha

abirama ,

jara-bisayete

sada

dhay

(2)

jiber

svarupa

dharma,cit-svarupe

prema-marma ,

tahar

bisaya-matra

hari

kama-abarane

hay,prema

ebe

supta -pray,

prema

jagao

kama

dura

kori '

(3)

sraddha

hoite

sadhu-sange ,

bhajaner

kriya -range,

nista-ruci-asakti-udoy

asakti

hoite

bhava,tahe

prema

pradurbhava ,

krame

prema

upajoy

(4)

ihate

jatana

ja’r,sei pay prema-sar ,

krama-tyage

prema

nahi

jage

e- krama-sadhane

bhoy,keno

koro ’ durasoy ,

kame

prema

kabhu

nahi

lage

(5)

natakabhinoy

pray,sakapata

prema

bhay ,

tahe

matra

indriya-santosa

indriya-tosana

char,sada

koro ’ parihar ,

charo ’ bhai

aparadha-dosa

TRANSLATION

Tell me why, my dear mind? Why are you forced to dance by lust, and why do you think that such dancing is Krsna conscious? Your lust is simply abounding in skin and meat, and you are addicted to non-stop material sense gratification. Thus you factually spend your time in running here and there, chasing after worldly sense objects.

The soul’s original eternal nature is pure love within the innermost core of its spiritually conscious form, and the sole object of repose for that pure love is Lord Hari . Alas, how lamentable it is, that this inherent ecstatic love is now lying in a dormant, sleeping state due to the artificial covering of this temporary lust, My dear mind, banishing this lust to a distant place, just rouse and reawaken your sleeping prema .

Only in the following sequence does pure love for Krsna awaken: First one develops sraddha (faith) in the process of Krsna Consciousness; then, due to that faith one becomes enthusiastic for sadhu-sanga (the association of devotees); then, by performance of bhajana-kriya (devotional worship) in the company of the devotees there awakens nista

(steadiness in service), then ruci (taste), then asakti (attachment to the Lord); this attachment then gives rise to bhava (genuine ecstatic emotions), from which

prema (pure love for Krsna ) manifests its re-awakening. Only in this sequence does prema

come into being.

One who endeavors for this bona fide process gets the essence of pure ecstatic love for Krsna . One who neglects the proper order of this procedure does not experience the reawakening of pure prema . My dear mind, why are you maintaining the wicked mentality of apprehension and fear of this bona fide method of devotional practice? By cultivation of your lust in this mundane sphere, you will never be able to touch upon genuine ecstatic love for Krsna .

So by the likes of your dramatic performance of dancing in lust, you think that this is indicative of your prema , but it is actually a deceptive, feigned imitation of prema . Thus you whole process is simply gross sense gratification. My dear brother, always reject such degraded, contemptible sense gratification, casting out this grave offense to the Lord.

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UPDATED: June 28, 2009