Boro Krpa Koile Krsna - A Bengali poem by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada from His book Jaladuta Dairy 1965.  Composed in Boston harbour, whilst awaiting disembarkation from the steamship Jaladuta, before setting foot on American soil for the first time. 

LYRICS:
(1)
boro-kṛpā kaile kṛṣṇa adhamer prati
ki lāgiyānile hethā koro ebe gati
 
(2)
āche kichu kārja taba ei anumāne
nahe keno āniben ei ugra-sthāne
 
(3)
rajas tamo guṇe erā sabāi ācchanna
bāsudeb-kathā ruci nahe se prasanna
 
(4)
tabe jadi taba kṛpā hoy ahaitukī
sakal-i sambhava hoy tumi se kautukī
 
(5)
ki bhāve bujhāle tārā bujhe sei rasa
eta kṛpā koro prabhu kori nija-baśa
 
(6)
tomāra icchāya saba hoy māyā-baśa
tomāra icchāya nāśa māyār paraśa
 
(7)
taba icchā hoy jadi tādera uddhār
bujhibe niścai tabe kathā se tomār
 
(8)
bhāgavater kathā se taba avatār
dhīra haiyā śune jadi kāne bār bār

śṛṇvatāḿ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ
punya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ
hṛdy antaḥ-stho hy abhadrāṇi
vidhunoti suhṛt satām
 
naṣṭa-prāyeṣv abhadreṣu
nityaḿ bhāgavata-sevayā
bhagavaty uttama-śloke
bhaktir bhavati naiṣṭhikī
 
tadā rajas-tamo-bhāvāḥ
kāma-lobhādayaś ca ye
ceta etair anāviddhaḿ
sthitaḿ sattve prasīdati
 
evaḿ prasanna-manaso
bhagavad-bhakti-yogataḥ
bhagavat-tattva-vijñānaḿ
mukta-sańgasya jāyate
 
bhidyate hṛdaya-granthiś
chidyante sarva-saḿśayāḥ
kṣīyante cāsya karmāṇi
dṛṣṭa evātmanīśvare
 
(9)
rajas tamo hate tabe pāibe nistār
hṛdayer abhadra sate ghucibe tāhār
 
(10)
ki ko're bujhābo kathā baro sei cāhi
kṣudra āmi dīna hīna kono śakti nāhi
 
(11)
athaca enecho prabhu kathā bolibāre
je tomār icchā prabhu koro ei bāre
 
(12)
akhila jagat-guru! bacana se āmār
alańkṛta koribār kṣamatā tomār
 
(13)
taba kṛpā ha'le mor kathā śuddha habe
śuniyā sabāra śoka duḥkha je ghucibe
 
(14)
āniyācho jadi prabhu āmāre nācāte
nācāo nācāo prabhu nācāo se-mate
kāṣṭhera puttali jathā nācāo se-mate
 
(15)
bhakti nāi veda nāi nāme khub daro
"bhaktivedānta" nām ebe sārthak kor
 
TRANSLATION
1) My dear Lord Krishna, You are so kind upon this useless soul, but I do not know why You have brought me here. Now You can do whatever You like with me.
 
2) But I guess You have some business here, otherwise why would You bring me to this terrible place?
 
3) Most of the population here is covered by the material modes of ignorance and passion. Absorbed in material life, they think themselves very happy and satisfied, and therefore they have no taste for the transcendental message of Vasudeva. I do not know how they will be able to understand it.
 
4) But I know Your causeless mercy can make everything possible because You are the most expert mystic.

5) How will they understand the mellows of devotional service? O Lord, I am simply praying for Your mercy so that I will be able to convince them about Your message.
 
6) All living entities have become under the control of the illusory energy by Your will, and therefore, if You like, by Your will they can also be released from the clutches of illusion.
 
7) I wish that You may deliver them. Therefore if You so desire their deliverance, then only will they be able to understand Your message.
 
8) The words of Srimad-Bhagavatam are Your incarnation, and if a sober person repeatedly receives it with submissive aural reception, then he will be able to understand Your message. It is said in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (1.2.17-21):
 
"Sri Krishna, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramatma [Supersoul] in everyone’s heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted. By regular attendance in classes on the Bhagavatam and by rendering of service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact. As soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of nature’s modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust, desire and hankering, disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness, and he becomes completely happy. Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional service to the Lord gains positive scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead in the stage of liberation from all material association. Thus the knot in the heart is pierced, and all misgivings are cut to pieces. The chain of fruitive actions is terminated when one sees the self as master."
 
9) He will become liberated from the influence of the modes of ignorance and passion and thus all inauspicious things accumulated in the core of the heart will disappear.
 
10) How will I make them understand this message of Krishna consciousness? I am very unfortunate, unqualified and the most fallen. Therefore I am seeking Your benediction so that I can convince them, for I am powerless to do so on my own.
 
11) Somehow or other, O Lord, You have brought me here to speak about You. Now, my Lord, it is up to You to make me a success or failure as You like.
 
12) O spiritual master of all the worlds! I can simply repeat Your message, so if You like You can make my power of speaking suitable for their understanding.
 
13) Only by Your causeless mercy will my words become pure. I am sure that when this transcendental message penetrates their hearts they will certainly feel engladdened and thus become liberated from all unhappy conditions of life.
 
14) O Lord, I am just like a puppet in Your hands. So if You have brought me here to dance, then make me dance, make me dance, O Lord, make me dance as You like.
 
15) I have no devotion, nor do I have any knowledge, but I have strong faith in the holy name of Krsna. I have been designated as Bhaktivedanta, and now, if You like, You can fulfill the real purport of Bhaktivedanta.

Boro Krpa Koile Krishna ~ Swarupa Damodar Prabhu

This song describes Krishna's early childhood pastime of running from His mother when she tried to chastise Him for stealing butter.
During the month of Kartika, devotees around the world sing this prayer each day while offering ghee lamps or candles to Krishna. Each verse describes various qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who, in this pastime, appears as a child and allows Himself to be captured by the love of His devotees.

Damodarashtakam Ishwari

This is a bhajan Mero man lagyo Barsane me jahan viraje Radha Rani Written, Composed and Sung by Sri Sri Vinod Bihari Das Babaji Maharaj at Priyakunj Ashram, Barsana
More Kirtans at: www.vinodbaba.com

Mero man lagyo Barsane me jahan viraje Radha Rani

Hare Krishna Maha Mantra

MAMA MANA MANDIRE
By Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.

(1)
mama mana mandire raha niśi-din
kṛṣṇa murāri śrī kṛṣṇa murāri
Please abide in the temple of my heart both day and night, O Krsna Murari, O Sri Krsna Murari!

(2)
bhakti pritī mālā candan
tumi nio he nio citta-nandan
Devotion, love, flower garlands, and sandalwood- please accept them, O Delighter of the Heart! 

(3)
jīvana maraṇa tava pūja nivedan
sundara he mana-hāri
In life or in death I worship You with these offerings, Beautiful One, O Enchanter of the Heart! 

(4)
eso nanda-kumār ār nanda-kumār
habe prema-pradīpe āratī tomār
Come, son of Nanda, and then, O Son of Nanda, I will offer Your arati ceremony with the lamplight of my love.

(5)
nayana jamunā jhare anibār
tomāra virahe giridhāri
The waters of the Yamuna River cascade incessantly from my eyes in your separation, O Holder of Govardhana Hill!

(6)
bandana gane tava bajūk jīvana
kṛṣṇa murāri śrī kṛṣṇa murāri
May I pass my life absorbed only in songs of Your praise, O Krsna Murari, Sri Krsna Murari!

Damodarashtakam Ishwari

ISHWARI

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