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SRI GAUDIYA GITANJALI : SRI VAISHNAV VANDANA
(ohe) vaisnava thakura, dayara sagara,
e dase karuna kari’
diya pada-chhaya, sodha he amare,
tomara charana dhari [1]
O Vaishnav Thakur! You are an ocean of mercy; please be merciful to this
servant – grant me the shade of your feet and purify me. I am clasping your
feet.
chhaya vega dami’, chhaya dosa sodhi’,
chhaya guna deha dase
chhaya sat-sanga, deha he amare,
basechhi sangera ase [2]
Please subjugate my six urges1, rectify my six defects2
and bestow the six good qualities3 upon this servant. Please grant
me the six kinds of good association4. I am waiting, hoping to
attain good association.
1Six urges: speech, mind, anger, tongue, stomach, genitals.
2Six defects: greed, doing what is unfavourable to devotion, idle
talks, attachment to inferior rules, material association, being
fickle-minded.
3Six good qualities: enthusiasm, faith, patience, doing what is
favourable to devotion, avoiding bad association, following sadhus’
practices.
4Six kinds of good association: giving devotees gifts, accepting
gifts from devotees, confiding in devotees, enquiring from devotees, taking
prasad, feeding devotees prasad.
ekaki amara, nahi paya bala,
hari-nama sankirtane
tumi krpa kari’, sraddha-bindu diya,
deha krsna-nama-dhane [3]
Alone I am not getting strength to chant the Lord’s Holy Name. Please give me
a drop of faith and bestow upon me the treasure of Krishna’s Name.
krsna se tomara, krsna dite para,
tomara sakati achhe
ami ta’ kangala, ‘krsna krsna’ bali’,
dhai tava pachhe pachhe [4]
Krishna is yours, so you have the power to give Him. I am very poor – calling
out, ‘Krishna! Krishna!’ I am running behind you.
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