Sri Navadvipa-sataka-(continued)
Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati
51 When, at every moment shedding tears of deep love, and the hairs of my body erect with joy, will I roll upon the ground where Lord Gaura placed His feet?
52 The secret of pure devotional service rests in they who take shelter of Lord Gaura's sacred place, where my Lord Hari, His transcendental form filled with the nectar of splendid divine love, assumes the role of Sri Radha.
53 If the people speak unbearable insults to me as if I were a candala or a dog or an ass, then I do not feel unhappy as I stay in the nine islands of Navadvipa, where the nine processes of loving devotional service, beginning with hearing about Lord Krsna and culminating in surrendering one's life and heart to Him, shine with great glory.
54 O brother, give up all your spiritual practices and take shelter of Lord Gaura's sacred place. As you desire so your body, words, and heart will act.
55 With a bowl in hand we go begging even on the paths to the houses of the dogeaters in beautiful Navadvipa. We pray that we will never take this body, attained by many past pious deeds, to any other place.
56 When, wearing a kaupina and one old cloth, day and night singing of the waves of Sri Sri Radha-Madhupati's confidential pastimes, and at the end of the day eating a fruit or a root, will I spend this lifetime in the forest of Navadvipa?
57 Above the material nature, in the ocean of happiness that is the Supreme Brahma splendour, is the Spiritual Sky, the Supreme Abode glorified in the Vedas. Within the Spiritual sky the circle of Gauda-bhumi is glorious with all splendour. There gaze on the forest of Vrndavana.
58 Even though staying there himself, he who commits the offense of thinking that the residents of Gaura-sthala do not have spiritual forms of eternity, bliss and knowledge, will not attain the supreme abode.
59 When one understands that the moving and unmoving residents of Navadvipa have forms of eternal spiritual nectar, then he becomes a genuine servant of Sri Radha's beloved.
60 Wandering in Navadvipa is the best of all opulences, the best of all religious principles, the best of all kinds of worship, the best of all perfections, the best of all glories, and the best of all oceans of sweetness.
61 When, singing, dancing, laughing, rolling about on the ground, running, crying, or falling down unconscious, will I, blind with intoxication by drinking the nectar of great spiritual love, and oblivious to the world, wander in Navadvipa?
62 When, oblivious to the world, religious duties, home, body, insults, praise, pleasure, and pain, and intoxicated with the nectar of pure spiritual love, will I become like a madman in Lord Gaura's sacred abode?
63 When, chanting the siddha-mantra of very wonderful names beginning "Hare, Krsna, and Rama" will I, serving Vraja's divine couple day and night in Lord Gaura's sacred abode, attain the success of my life?
64 I meditate on wonderful Gaura-sthala splendid with gold, crystal, and rubies, with great sapphire trees, with courtyards made of many kinds of jewels, with buzzing bees, with blossoming vines, with wonderful parrots, peacocks, cuckoos, and other birds, and with lakes filled with lotuses and other flowers.
65 When, wandering day and night through the valleys of Madhyadvipa on the pathways through the various pastime forest-groves, through groves of newly-blossoming kadamba trees, and through the beautiful places of the rasa dance pastimes, will I become fortunate, with intimate spiritual love for the divine couple shining within me?
66 What is the use of a beautiful young wife, children, and wealth, which give only temporary happiness? I offer my respectful obeisances to the beauty of Vaikuntha. I pray that birth after birth I may be devoted to the forest where Vrajendra's son, who has now assumed the complexion of Sri Radhika, enjoys splendid transcendental pastimes.
67 With my head I bow down before Godruma. With my words I speak about Godruma. With my intelligence I remember Godruma. I do not know anything but Sri Godruma.
68 I long for the pollen of the lotus feet of they whose life and soul is Sri Gaura-sthala, the root that sprouts love for Lord Radhapati.
69 O beloved, when will I meditate on You in Gaura-sthala, which is filled with many pastime forest pavilions, delightful with many lakes and ponds, beautiful with trees, vines and bushes everywhere and with many kinds of joyful birds and beasts, and is glorious with many splendid pastime-places?
70 When, with a faltering voice, will I glorify Lord Madhava's holy names? When will I muddy the ground under a tree with streams of tears flowing from my eyes? When, excited at heart, will I take shelter of the two golden and sapphire splendours that have become one before my eyes in Gaura-sthala?
71 I will not talk of anything else. I will not hear of anything else. I will not meditate on anything else. I will not go anywhere else. I will not worship anything else. I will not take shelter of anything else. In dream or awake I will not see anything but the forest where He who accepted Sri Radhika's splendour enjoyed pastimes.
72 My heart does not yearn to become a Lord Brahma on Satyaloka, nor does it seek the body of an associate of Lord Visnu in Vaikuntha, but it does think very highly of any birth, even as a tiny insect, in the home of the fortunate souls that enjoy festivals of sweet nectar in the pure realm of Navadvipa.
73 I think any birth where, even from a distance, I may gaze at Navadvipa, touch it, and fall down on the ground to offer respects to it, is very fortunate. Will the fortunate day that I take such a birth ever come?
74 Although I have not the slightest fragrance of faith in the exalted glory of Sri Navadvipa-dhama, and although I do not sincerely yearn to live there, nevertheless words like that flow from me.
75 This mostly unconscious world and even they who think they know everything cannot know the truth about Navadvipa. When carefully concealed Lord Hari appears, then His concealed abode also appears. Only a sincere devotee, by his guru's mercy, can know the truth of Navadvipa.
76 When, as I wander in Navadvipa's forests, will I fall unconscious, suddenly seeing Lord Gaura chanting Hari! Rama! Hari! in a kirtana in a sandy courtyard?
77 When, eating ripe fruits fallen to the ground and drinking the delicious river-water, will I wander in the forests by the Ganges' shore?
78 If you worship Navadvipa, they you also worship the forest of Vraja. If you don't worship Navadvipa, then the forest of Vraja is far away. If you worship Lord Caitanya, then you also worship the hero of Vraja. If you don't worship Lord Caitanya, then you cannot worship Lord Krsna.
79 Navadvipa is Vrndavana manifested in the land of Bengal. Lord Caitanya, the son of Saci, is Lord Krsna, the greatest hero, the son of Vraja's king. His complexion now golden with Radha's splendour, He performs in Navadvipa pastimes that even Vrndavana cannot attain.
80 They who chant Hari! Hari! Hari! in Vrndavana become free from all offenses and attain Vraja's divine couple. In Navadvipa Lord Gaura forgives multitudes of sins and freely gives the sweet nectar of the bliss of Vraja.
51 When, at every moment shedding tears of deep love, and the hairs of my body erect with joy, will I roll upon the ground where Lord Gaura placed His feet?
52 The secret of pure devotional service rests in they who take shelter of Lord Gaura's sacred place, where my Lord Hari, His transcendental form filled with the nectar of splendid divine love, assumes the role of Sri Radha.
53 If the people speak unbearable insults to me as if I were a candala or a dog or an ass, then I do not feel unhappy as I stay in the nine islands of Navadvipa, where the nine processes of loving devotional service, beginning with hearing about Lord Krsna and culminating in surrendering one's life and heart to Him, shine with great glory.
54 O brother, give up all your spiritual practices and take shelter of Lord Gaura's sacred place. As you desire so your body, words, and heart will act.
55 With a bowl in hand we go begging even on the paths to the houses of the dogeaters in beautiful Navadvipa. We pray that we will never take this body, attained by many past pious deeds, to any other place.
56 When, wearing a kaupina and one old cloth, day and night singing of the waves of Sri Sri Radha-Madhupati's confidential pastimes, and at the end of the day eating a fruit or a root, will I spend this lifetime in the forest of Navadvipa?
57 Above the material nature, in the ocean of happiness that is the Supreme Brahma splendour, is the Spiritual Sky, the Supreme Abode glorified in the Vedas. Within the Spiritual sky the circle of Gauda-bhumi is glorious with all splendour. There gaze on the forest of Vrndavana.
58 Even though staying there himself, he who commits the offense of thinking that the residents of Gaura-sthala do not have spiritual forms of eternity, bliss and knowledge, will not attain the supreme abode.
59 When one understands that the moving and unmoving residents of Navadvipa have forms of eternal spiritual nectar, then he becomes a genuine servant of Sri Radha's beloved.
60 Wandering in Navadvipa is the best of all opulences, the best of all religious principles, the best of all kinds of worship, the best of all perfections, the best of all glories, and the best of all oceans of sweetness.
61 When, singing, dancing, laughing, rolling about on the ground, running, crying, or falling down unconscious, will I, blind with intoxication by drinking the nectar of great spiritual love, and oblivious to the world, wander in Navadvipa?
62 When, oblivious to the world, religious duties, home, body, insults, praise, pleasure, and pain, and intoxicated with the nectar of pure spiritual love, will I become like a madman in Lord Gaura's sacred abode?
63 When, chanting the siddha-mantra of very wonderful names beginning "Hare, Krsna, and Rama" will I, serving Vraja's divine couple day and night in Lord Gaura's sacred abode, attain the success of my life?
64 I meditate on wonderful Gaura-sthala splendid with gold, crystal, and rubies, with great sapphire trees, with courtyards made of many kinds of jewels, with buzzing bees, with blossoming vines, with wonderful parrots, peacocks, cuckoos, and other birds, and with lakes filled with lotuses and other flowers.
65 When, wandering day and night through the valleys of Madhyadvipa on the pathways through the various pastime forest-groves, through groves of newly-blossoming kadamba trees, and through the beautiful places of the rasa dance pastimes, will I become fortunate, with intimate spiritual love for the divine couple shining within me?
66 What is the use of a beautiful young wife, children, and wealth, which give only temporary happiness? I offer my respectful obeisances to the beauty of Vaikuntha. I pray that birth after birth I may be devoted to the forest where Vrajendra's son, who has now assumed the complexion of Sri Radhika, enjoys splendid transcendental pastimes.
67 With my head I bow down before Godruma. With my words I speak about Godruma. With my intelligence I remember Godruma. I do not know anything but Sri Godruma.
68 I long for the pollen of the lotus feet of they whose life and soul is Sri Gaura-sthala, the root that sprouts love for Lord Radhapati.
69 O beloved, when will I meditate on You in Gaura-sthala, which is filled with many pastime forest pavilions, delightful with many lakes and ponds, beautiful with trees, vines and bushes everywhere and with many kinds of joyful birds and beasts, and is glorious with many splendid pastime-places?
70 When, with a faltering voice, will I glorify Lord Madhava's holy names? When will I muddy the ground under a tree with streams of tears flowing from my eyes? When, excited at heart, will I take shelter of the two golden and sapphire splendours that have become one before my eyes in Gaura-sthala?
71 I will not talk of anything else. I will not hear of anything else. I will not meditate on anything else. I will not go anywhere else. I will not worship anything else. I will not take shelter of anything else. In dream or awake I will not see anything but the forest where He who accepted Sri Radhika's splendour enjoyed pastimes.
72 My heart does not yearn to become a Lord Brahma on Satyaloka, nor does it seek the body of an associate of Lord Visnu in Vaikuntha, but it does think very highly of any birth, even as a tiny insect, in the home of the fortunate souls that enjoy festivals of sweet nectar in the pure realm of Navadvipa.
73 I think any birth where, even from a distance, I may gaze at Navadvipa, touch it, and fall down on the ground to offer respects to it, is very fortunate. Will the fortunate day that I take such a birth ever come?
74 Although I have not the slightest fragrance of faith in the exalted glory of Sri Navadvipa-dhama, and although I do not sincerely yearn to live there, nevertheless words like that flow from me.
75 This mostly unconscious world and even they who think they know everything cannot know the truth about Navadvipa. When carefully concealed Lord Hari appears, then His concealed abode also appears. Only a sincere devotee, by his guru's mercy, can know the truth of Navadvipa.
76 When, as I wander in Navadvipa's forests, will I fall unconscious, suddenly seeing Lord Gaura chanting Hari! Rama! Hari! in a kirtana in a sandy courtyard?
77 When, eating ripe fruits fallen to the ground and drinking the delicious river-water, will I wander in the forests by the Ganges' shore?
78 If you worship Navadvipa, they you also worship the forest of Vraja. If you don't worship Navadvipa, then the forest of Vraja is far away. If you worship Lord Caitanya, then you also worship the hero of Vraja. If you don't worship Lord Caitanya, then you cannot worship Lord Krsna.
79 Navadvipa is Vrndavana manifested in the land of Bengal. Lord Caitanya, the son of Saci, is Lord Krsna, the greatest hero, the son of Vraja's king. His complexion now golden with Radha's splendour, He performs in Navadvipa pastimes that even Vrndavana cannot attain.
80 They who chant Hari! Hari! Hari! in Vrndavana become free from all offenses and attain Vraja's divine couple. In Navadvipa Lord Gaura forgives multitudes of sins and freely gives the sweet nectar of the bliss of Vraja.
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