Liberation by Sound

Song Name: Yadi Te Hari Pada Saroja Sudha
Official Name: Sri Godruma Candra Bhajanopadesa
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Language: Sanskrit
 
LYRICS:
(1)
yadi te hari-pāda-saroja-sudhā-
rasa-pāna-paraḿ hṛdayaḿ satatam
parihṛtya gṛhaḿ kali-bhāva-mayaḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(2) 
dhana-yauvana-jīvana-rājya-sukhaḿ
nahi nityam anukṣaṇa-nāśa-param
tyaja grāmya-kathā-sakalaḿ viphalaḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(3) 
ramaṇī-jana-sańga-sukhaḿ ca sakhe
carame bhayadaḿ puruṣārtha-haram
hari-nāma-sudhā-rasa-matta-matir
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(4) 
jaḍa-kāvya-raso nahi kāvya-rasaḥ
kali-pāvana-gaura-raso hi rasaḥ
alam any-kathādy-anuśīlanayā
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(5) 
vṛṣabhānu-sutānvita-vāma-tanuḿ
yamunā-taṭa-nāgara-nanda-sutam
muralī-kala-gīta-vinoda-paraḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(6) 
hari-kīrtana-madhyagataḿ svajanaiḥ
pariveṣṭita-jāmbunadābha-hariḿ
nija-gauḍa-janaika-kṛpā-jaladhiḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(7)
girirāja-sutā-parivīta-gṛhaḿ
nava-khaṇḍa-patiḿ yati-citta-haram
sura-sańgha-nutaḿ priyayā sahitaḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(8)
kali-kukkura-mudgara-bhāva-dharaḿ
hari-nāma-mahauṣadha-dāna-param
patitārta-dayārdra-sumūrti-dharaḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(9) 
ripu-bāndhava-bheda-vihīna-dayā
yad abhīkṣṇam udeti mukhābja-tatau
tam akṛṣṇam iha vraja-rāja-sutaḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(10) 
iha copaniṣat-parigīta-vibhur
dvija-rāja-sutaḥ purṭābha-hariḥ
nija-dhāmani khelati bandhu-yuto
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(11)
avatāra-varaḿ paripūrṇa-phalaḿ
para-tattvam ihātma-vilāsa-mayam
vraja-dhāma-rasāmbudhi-gupta-rasaḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(12)
śruti-varṇa-dhanādi na yasya kṛpā-
janane balavad-bhajanena vinā
tam ahaituka-bhāva-pathā hi sakhe
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(13) 
api nakra-gatau hrada-madhya-gataḿ
kam amocayad ārta-janaḿ tam ajam
avicintya-balaḿ śiva-kalpa-taruḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(14) 
surabhīndra-tapaḥ-parituṣṭa-mano
vara-varṇa-dharo harir āvirabhūt
tam ajasra-sukhaḿ muni-dhairya-haraḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(15) 
abhilāṣa-cayaḿ tad abheda-dhiyam
aśubhaḿ ca śubhaḿ ca tyaja sarvam idam
anukūlatayā priya-sevanayā
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(16)
hari-sevaka-sevana-dharma-paro
hari-nāma-rasāmṛta-pāna-rataḥ
nati-dainya-dayā-paramāna-yuto
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(17) 
vada yādava mādhava kṛṣṇa hare
vada rāma janārdana keśava he
vṛṣabhānu-sutā-priyanātha sadā
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(18)
vada yāmuna-tīra-vanādri-pate
vada gokula-kānana-puñja-rave
vada rāsa-rasāyana gaura-hare
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(19) 
cala gaura-vanaḿ nava-khaṇḍamayaḿ
paṭha gaurahareś caritāṇi mudā
luṭha gaura-padāńkita-gāńga-taṭaḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
(20)
smara gaura-gadādhara-keli-kalāḿ
bhava gaura-gadādhara-pakṣa-caraḥ
śrṇu gaura-gadādhara-cāru-kathāḿ
bhaja godruma-kānana-kuñja-vidhum
 
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Real Separation - Aindra Das

smerāṁ bhaṅgī-traya-paricitāṁ sāci-vistīrṇa-dṛṣṭiṁ
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mā prekṣiṣṭhās tava yadi sakhe bandhu-saṅge 'sti raṅgaḥ
TRANSLATION
"My dear friend, if you are indeed attached to your worldly friends, do not look at the smiling face of Lord Govinda as He stands on the bank of the Yamunā at Keśīghāṭa. Casting sidelong glances, He places His flute to His lips, which seem like newly blossomed twigs. His transcendental body, bending in three places, appears very bright in the moonlight."

Song Name: Bandhu Sange Yadi Tava Range
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakur
Language: Bengali

LYRICS
(1)
bandhu-sańge yadi tava rańga parihāsa, thāke abhilāṣa (thāke abhilāṣa)
tabe mora kathā rākha, jeyo nāko jeyo nāko,
mathurāya keśī-tīrtha-ghāṭera sakāśa

(2)
govinda vigraha dhari’, tathāya āchena hari,
nayane vańkima-dṛṣṭi, mukhe manda-hāsa
kivā tri-bhańgama ṭhāma, varṇa samujjvala śyāma,
nava-kiśalaya śobhā śrī ańge prakāśa

(3)
adhare vaḿśī-ṭī tā’ra, anarthera mūlādhāra,
śikhi-cūḍākeo bhāi koro nā viśvāsa
se mūrti nayane here, keha nāhi ghare phire,
saḿsārī gṛhīra je go hoya sarva-nāśa
(tāi mora mane baḍa trāsa)
ghaṭibe vipada bhārī, jeyo nāko he saḿsāri,
mathurāya keśī-tīrtha-ghāṭera sakāśa

TRANSLATION
1) If you want to enjoy laughing and joking with friends and family, if this is really your desire, then listen to me. Don’t go, don’t go to Mathura (Vrndavana) to Kesi-ghata.
 
2) There Sri Hari has taken the form of Govinda, who gives pleasure to all, whose crooked glance is quite captivating, whose mouth is gently smiling, who is standing in His tribanga pose, whose complexion is a very effulgent syama color, and whose limbs are attractive like tender new leaves.

3) The sound of His vamsi enthroned upon His lips is the root cause of madness. Brother, have no faith in that person who wears a crest of peacock feathers. If you see that form, you will not be able to return home again. Your family life will be destroyed. (This is my great fear!) There will be great danger if you go there. If you want to enjoy family life, don’t go to Mathura near Kesi-ghata.

Bhajan Lalasa

06 - Bandhu Sange Jadi

Heroic Archetypes - Jai Jagannath Das

The example is given here by Srila Prabhupada of a tree. In the blazing sun a tree gives us shelter. We do not even have to ask the tree. All we have to do is be near the tree. Its not that you go under the tree and say, “Oh, please tree give me shade”. You do not have to ask. You get it, without asking. That’s the nature of a tree. But you have to take the shelter of the tree. The problem is, when it is cloudy day, we do not even look at the tree, right? we just walk by another tree and so many trees. But when the sun is blazing, then we look at the tree. We understand its value. So similarly, unfortunately, when there is not crisis in our lives, we chant yes, the holy name and so many names. “I am chanting so many names”. We come before the deities yes, yes so many deities and saying such a nice deity. But when there is crisis, Hare Krishna. We chant. When there is crisis and we come before the deities we are no longer just nice to again see Krishna. Krishna save me.

Krishna Is The Only Shelter

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Om Hari Om

Mithe Ras Se Bharo Re, Radha Rani Lage

Govind Bolo Hari Gopal Bolo

Radhe Radhe Govinda

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Jai Radha Madhava

Shri Radhe Govinda Man Bhaj Le Hari Ka Pyara Naam Hai

Krishna Govind Gopala

Initiation is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to this path. As soon as we have faith in a guru and the willingness to serve and to follow, then our relationship with our Guru has been established. But the particular ceremony, the particular offering of initiation is a deep, sincere, lifelong commitment to follow. ‘yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado’ to please our Guru, and please all the previous acharya and Krishna, though the sincerity of our efforts, 
So these vows that are taken, sometimes Prabhupad would call them rules and regulations. And especially Srila Prabhupada explains from Krishna’s words in Bhagavad Gita ‘raga-dvesa-vimuktais tu’ these are the regulative principles of freedom. They're not meant to bind us, they're meant to the parade us because we're already bound. Sometimes people think that these rules and regulations are too restrictive. But the reality is we are already restricted, our hands, our legs, our heads, our feets, our hearts, our brains, every part of us is shackled, like prisoners of Maya’s dictations. And whatever principles there are in Bhakti, are there to liberate us from those shackles, liberate us from that bondage, so that we could actually be free to live by the real spirit of the soul, to be free, to love Krishna, to be an instrument of Krishna’s love and to be happy, to be free from the fear of death and all the uncertainties of life. So, we're taking vows for this purpose.

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