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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
1)
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 Gauranga’s
divine potency, your appearance an evident display of His tender compassion.
2)
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 Mahaprabhu’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.
3)
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:
4)
“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.”
5)
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.
6)
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.
7)
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.
8)
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.
9)
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, Krsna’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.
10)
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 Radharani’s
holy lotus feet. O Bhaktivinoda Thakura,
within this world, you fully possess the ability to give us that extraordinary
nectar.
11)
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