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"Sri Gita-govinda is a 'jewel book' brought by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. We all know that Sri Jayadeva Gosvami has written this beautiful Gita-govinda, but without Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu it would have remained locked like a pearl in the oyster shell or a jewel in a locked case. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu manifested the glories of Sri Gita-govinda. Just as without Srila Rupa Gosvami no one would have known the inner moods of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, similarly, by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu relishing the moods of Sri Gita-govinda its glories became manifest for the whole world. I have explained this very high-class philosophy, but only rare devotees in this world can understand it. I have called you here only to give you this."
-An excerpt from a lecture entitled "The Jewel Book" by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayan Goswami Maharaj

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Sri Gita-govinda

Song 13 – yami he kam iha saranam

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Real Separation - Aindra Das

Song Name: Radha Kunda Tata Kunja Kutir
Official Name: Bhakti Anukula Matra Karyera Svikara Song 4
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Book Name: Saranagati
Language: Bengali
LYRICS:

(1)
rādhā-kunḍa-taṭa-kuñja-kuṭīr
govardhana-parvata, jāmuna-tīr

(2)
kusuma-sarovara, mānasa-gańgā
kalinda-nandinī vipula-tarańga

(3)
vaḿśī-vaṭa, gokula, dhīra-samīr
bṛndābana-taru-latikā-bānīr

(4)
khaga-mṛga-kula, malaya-bātās
mayūra, bhramara, muralī-vilās

(5)
venu, śṛńga, pada-cihna, megha-mālā
vasanta, śaśańka, śańkha, karatāla

(6)
yugala-vilāse anukūla jāni
līlā-vilāse-uddīpaka māni

(7)
e saba choḍato kańhi nāhi jāu
e saba choḍato parāna hārāu

(8)
bhakativinoda kohe, śuno kān!
tuwā uddīpaka hāmārā parān

TRANSLATION
1-6) The cottage in the grove on the banks of Radha-kunda, the great Govardhana Hill, the banks of the Yamuna, Kusuma-sarovara, Manasa-ganga, the daughter of Kalinda (the Yamuna) with her many waves, the Vamsi-vat, Gokula, Dhira-samira, the trees and creepers and reeds of Vrndavana, the different varieties of colorful birds, the deer, the cooling breeze from the Malaya Mountains, the peacocks, the bumblebees, the pastimes with the flute, the flute itself, the buffalo horn bugle, the footprints of cows in the dust of Vraja, the rows of blackish rain clouds, springtime, the moon, the conch-shell, and the karatalas – all these I know to be very conductive for the pastimes of Radha and Krsna. I recognize in them a transcendental stimulus for making the Lord’s charming pastimes more intense.

7) I refuse to go anywhere if there stimuli to devotional service are not there, for to abandon them is to abandon life itself.

8) Bhaktivinoda says, “Please hear me, O Kana! Your entourage and paraphernalia stimulate remembrance of You and are the very source of my life.”

Bhajan Lalasa

Radhakunda Tata

Choices - Sri Prahlad

Caring - Krishna Nandini Mataji

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Shri Krishnah Sharanam Mamah

Om Namoh Narayana

Om Hari Om

Mithe Ras Se Bharo Re, Radha Rani Lage

Manglacharan

Jai Radha Madhava

Krishna Govind Gopala

When a devotee gives in charity, he doesn’t think that ‘I am giving something which is mine.’ He thinks that ‘this is the property of God and is meant for the benefit of others, and I am simply the servant delivering it for the benefit of others. I don’t get credit, the master who has created it, the Lord who has sent it to this person, he gets the credit, I am only did the deliverer, I am only the servant.’ This is knowledge. But even such charitable understanding of life is so rare in this age of kaliyuga. In this age everything wants to take more and more and more and more. For me, for my family, for my society. This is the mentality of Shishupal, who want to take the property of Krishna and enjoy. And the jiva soul which is part and parcel of Krishna, is also meant simply meant for Krishna’s service. As Rukmini is simply meant for Krishna’s service. And the exploitative forces of this world being directed by material energy or maya are trying to take our consciousness which is meant for Krishna, trying to take it and exploit it, rape it, use it for its own exploitative purposes. And the whole human society is simply victimized by the exploitation of materialistic forces.

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