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Song Name: Ki Ar Bolibo Tore Mana
Official Name: Upadesa:
Song 18
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Book Name: Kalyana
Kalpataru
Language: Bengali
LYRICS:
(1)
ki ar bolibo tore mana?
mukhe bolo "prema prema" bastutah tyajiya hema,
sunya-grantha ancale bandhana
(2)
abhysiya asrupata, lampha jhamph akasmat,
murccha-pray thakaha padiya
e loka bancite
ranga, pracariya asat-sanga,
kamini-kancana labha giya
(3)
premer sadhana-"bhakti", ta'te
noila anurakti,
suddha prema kenome milibe?
dasa-aparadha tyaji', nirantara nama bhaji',
krpa hale su-prema paibe
(4)
na manile su-bhajana, sadhu-sange sankirtana,
na korile nirjane smarana
na uthiya brksopari, tanatani phal dhori',
dusta-phal korile arjana
(5)
akaitaba krsna-prema,
ei phal nrloke durlabha
kaitabe bancana-matra, hao age jogya-patra,
tabe prema hoibe sulabha
(6)
kame-preme dekho bhai, laksanaete
bheda nai,
tabu
tumi to' barile
aropile kise subha hoy?
TRANSLATION
1)
What more shall I say to you, my dear mind? You are expert at giving
lip-service by always speaking of "love for Krsna,
love for Krsna", but the real fact is that you
are renouncing the real gold simply to tie an empty knot in the border of your
cloth. (In other words, you lose the substance to grasp at something false).
2)
Well-practiced in artificially shedding tears and in suddenly leaping here and
there, you like to fall on the ground and pretend to be unconscious in ecstatic
love for Krsna. You perform such mischievous pranks
only to cheat the innocent public and thereby broadcast and popularize your own
wicked association. This is all such nonsense just so you can attract women and
money.
3)
The means for attaining pure, ecstatic love for Godhead is called
"devotional service". If you have no inclination or attachment to
this pure devotional process, then how do you expect to factually come into
contact with pure love for Krsna? Carefully avoiding
the ten offences in chanting the holy name, just worship that name incessantly,
and you will attain the highest quality of pure ecstatic love when the mercy
comes to you.
4)
But your idea, dear mind, is to neglect the best and most auspicious process of
worshiping Krsna, namely the congregational chanting
of His holy names in the association of purified devotees. And you don't even
bother to try to remember Him in a lonely place. This is just like trying to
pick fruits forcibly from a tree by jumping at them from the ground. Instead of
climbing the tree to properly pick the sweet, ripened fruits from the top of
the tree, you will simply get the sour, unripe fruits by such a jumping
process.
5)
Ecstatic love for Krsna which is completely freed
from the propensity to cheat is just like spotlessly pure gold, and the fruits
of such pure love are rarely found in this world. However, my dear mind, your
cheating process of imitation so-called love is simply a fraud. To get the real
pure love, you have to first make yourself a fit candidate, and then true
transcendental love will become very easily obtainable for you.
6)
My dear brother, just compare the characteristics of your bogus lust with the
characteristics of true love for Krsna, there is
practically no difference at all in the external symptoms of both.
Nevertheless, this artificial lust is definitely not true love at all. You are
completely covered with lust, but you lie and falsely call it "prema". Therefore how will you be blest with real
spiritual well-being?
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UPDATED: June 28, 2009