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Kabe Gaura Vani - Siddhi Lalasa song 1, by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur, sung by Srila Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev Goswmi Maharaj.
Radhakundatata-kunjakutira - from Saranagati by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur, sung by Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Maharaj
Kabe Gaura Vani
(1)
kabe gaura-vane, suradhunī-taṭe,
`hā rādhe hā kṛṣṇa' bole'
kāńdiyā beḍā'bo, deho-sukha chāḍi',
nānā latā-taru-tale
(2)
śwa-paca-gṛhete, māgiyā khāibo,
pibo saraswatī-jala
puline puline, gaḍā-gaḍi dibo,
kori' kṛṣṇa-kolāhala
(3)
dhāma-bāsī jane, pranati koriyā,
māgibo kṛpāra leśa
vaiṣṇava-caraṇa- reṇu gāya mākhi',
dhori' avadhūta-veśa
(4)
gauḍa-braja-jane, bheda nā dekhibo,
hoibo baraja-bāsī
dhāmera swarūpa, sphuribe nayane,
hoibo rādhāra dāsī
TRANSLATION
1) When, oh when will I wander here and there, weeping under the shade of the trees and creepers along the bansk of the celestial Ganges River in Navadvipa? I will cry out "Oh Radhe! Oh Krsna!", and I will completely forget about all the so-called pleasures of this material body.
2) When will I be able to live so simply by begging some food from the homes of the untouchables who live here and there? I will drink the water of the Sarasvati, and in ecstasy I will roll to and fro on the banks of the river, raising a loud uproar of "Krsna! Krsna!"
3) When will I bow down to all the inhabitants of the holy land of Navadvipa and receive a bit of their causeless mercy? I will smear the dust of the Vaisnavas' lotus feet all over my body, and I will wear the dress of a mad wandering mendicant.
4) When I factually observe that the transcendental lane of Navadvipa is non different from Sri Vraja-bhumi, then I shall be transformed into a Vrajabasi also. Then I will see the true form of the transcendental realm opening up before my very eyes, and I will thus become one of the maidservants of Srimati Radharanai.
Radhakundatata-kunjakutira
(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 Vrdavana, 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 conchsell, 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.”
- Genre
- Bhakti Rakshak Sridhar Dev