2 prayers in seperation of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

[Paramananda das]

Please accept my humble obaisences
All glories to Srila Prabhupada,his GuruMaharaja and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura

I found these gem like prayers to Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura:


Shrimad-Bhaktivinoda-viraha-dashakam

(Ten verses describing the feelings of separation from Shrila Bhaktivinoda Thakur written for the occasion of his disappearance day by His Grace Bhakti-rakshaka Shridhara Deva Goswami in 1936)

ha ha bhaktivinoda öhakkura guro dvavimshatis te sama
dirghad-duhkha-bharad ashesha-virahad duhkhikrita bhur iyam |
jivanam bahu-janma-punya-nivahakrishöo mahimandale
avirbhava-kripam cakara ca bhavan shri-gaura-shaktih svayam ||1||

Alas! Alas! My guru Bhaktivinoda Thakur! It is now twenty-two long years that the world has been burdened with the grief of your separation. You are the personification of Shri Gauranga’s energy and you mercifully appeared in this world being attracted by many lifetimes of the living beings’ pious activities.

dino’ham cira-dushkritir na hi bhavat-padabja-dhuli-kana-
snanananda-nidhim prapanna-shubhadam labdhum samartho’bhavam
kintv audarya-gunat tavati-yashasah karunya-shaktih svayam
shri-shri-gaura-mahaprabhoh prakaöita vishvam samanvagrahit ||2||

Being most fallen and possessing nothing but sinful activity in my past, I have not been able to attain the joyful treasure of being bathed in the dust of your lotus feet, which brings all auspiciousness to the surrendered. Even so, you are deservedly renowned for your magnanimity. You are the personification of Lord Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu’s compassionate powers who have appeared in this world in order to bestow upon it his divine blessings.

he deva! stavane tavakhila-gunanam te virincadayo
deva vyartha-manorathah kim u vayam martyadhamah kurmahe |
etan no vibudhaih kadapy atishayalankara ity ucyatam
shastreshv eva na paraye’ham iti yad gitam mukundena ca ||3||

O Lord! The gods led by Brahma are frustrated when they endeavor to glorify your unlimited virtues. What then can low-born humans such as we accomplish? This is no rhetorical exaggeration, as some scholars may claim, for even Mukunda himself has said the same to the gopis in the Bhagavat (10.32.22).

dharmash carmagato’jnataiva satata yogash ca bhogatmako
jnane shunya-gatir japena tapasa khyati-jighamsaiva ca |
dane dambhikatanuraga-bhajane dushöapacaro yada
buddhim buddhimatam bibheda hi tada dhatra bhavan preshitah ||4||

You were sent by the Lord when even the most intelligent people’s wisdom was ruined through religious activities which only sought bodily pleasures, through a constant state of ignorance, in yoga which had sensual enjoyment as its goal, in the idea that the goal of knowledge is the void, in the desire to destroy individual consciousness through prayer and austerity, in arrogant pride in giving charity, and from evil practices spread in the name of raganuga-bhajana.

vishve’smin kiranair yatha himakarah sanjivayan naushadhir
nakshatrani ca ranjayan nija-sudham vistarayan rajate |
sac-chastrani ca toshayan budha-ganam sammodayams te tatha
nunam bhumi-tale shubhodaya iti hlado bahuh satvatam ||5||

Just as in this universe, the moon gives life to the world’s vegetation, revitalizes the constellations and spreads its own nectar with its rays, so too, your auspicious appearance on Earth brought satisfaction to the holy scriptures, joy to the intelligent and a great amounts of ecstasy to the Vaishnavas.

lokanam hita-kamyaya bhagavato bhakti-pracaras tvaya
granthanam racanaih satam abhimatair nanavidhair darshitah|
acaryaih krita-purvam eva kila yad ramanujadyair budhaih
premambhodhi-vigrahasya bhavato mahatmya-sima na tat ||6||

Desiring the welfare of everyone in the world, you displayed the method of preaching devotion to the Supreme Lord through writing a variety of books which were appreciated by the saintly. The glorious achievements of all the previous acharyas such as Ramanuja, etc., cannot match yours, for you are the embodiment of the ocean of prema.

yad-dhamnah khalu dhama caiva nigame brahmeti samjnayate
yasyamshasya kalaiva duhkha-nikarair yogeshvarair mrigyate |
vaikunöhe para-mukta-bhringa-carano narayano yah svayam
tasyamshi bhagavan svayam rasa-vapuh krishno bhavan tat-pradah ||7||

You came to give the Supreme Person Krishna himself, whose body is the form of sacred rapture, the effulgence of whose abode is known in the Veda as Brahman, whose mere partial expansion is the goal of the great yogis’ austere practices, who is the source of Narayan himself, whose lotus feet are surrounded by the most advanced, bee-like liberated souls in Vaikuntha.

sarvacintya-maye paratpara-pure goloka-vrindavane
cil-lila-rasa-rangini parivrita sa radhika shri-hareh |
vatsalyadirasaish ca sevita-tanor madhurya-seva-sukham
nityam yatra mada tanoti hi bhavan tad-dhama-seva-pradah ||8||

You bestowed service to the completely inconceivable divine abode of Goloka Vrindavan, which lies beyond the other spiritual worlds, where Radha, surrounded by her sakhis, whose pleasure is in the transcendental nectar of the spiritual pastimes, joyfully constantly serves in the erotic mood Shri Hari who is worshiped in the moods of parenthood, etc.

shri-gauranumatam Svarupa-viditam rupagrajenadritam
rupadyaih pariveshitam raghu-ganair asvaditam sevitam |
jivadyair abhirakshitam shuka-shiva-brahmadi-sammanitam
shri-radha-pada-sevanamritam aho tad datum isho bhavan ||9||

You are perfectly competent to give the nectar of service to Shri Radha’s feet, which was approved by Gauranga Mahaprabhu, which was understood by Svarupa Damodar, adored by Sanatan Goswami, distributed by Shri Rupa Goswami, relished and enjoyed by Raghunath and the rest of Shri Rupa’s followers, and which is respected by Suka, Shiva and Brahma, etc.,

kvaham manda-matis tv ativa patitah kva tvam jagat-pavanah
bho svamin kripayaparadha-nicayo nunam tvaya kshamyatam |
yace’ham karuna-nidhe varam imam padabja-mule bhavat-
sarvasvavadhi-radhika-dayita-dasanam gane ganyatam ||10||

I am a wicked-minded fallen soul, so far from you who purify the entire universe. O Master! Please forgive me all my offenses out of your great compassion. I beg you, O ocean of mercy, to grant me this boon that I be included amongst the followers of Shrila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Thakur, for whom your lotus feet are everything.






Shrimad-Bhaktivinoda-dashakam

(This poem appeared in the Gaudiya magazine, July 1939, 7.47)

amanda-karunya-gunakara shri-
chaitanya-devasya dayavatarah |
sa gaura-shaktir bhavita punah kim
padam drishor bhakti-vinoda-devah ||1||

O ocean of unlimited compassion, you are the incarnation of Chaitanya Deva’s mercy. You are the energy of Gauranga. O Bhaktivinoda, when will you again be visible to me? ||1||

shrimaj-Jagannath-prabhu-priyo ya
ekatmako gaura-kishorakena |
shri-gaura-karunya-mayo bhavet kim
nityam smritau bhakti-vinoda-devah ||2||

When will Bhaktivinoda Prabhu, the embodiment of Mahaprabhu’s blessings, remain fixed in my memory? He is dear to Jagannath Prabhu and is not different from Gaura Kishora Das Babaji.

shri-nama-cintamani-sampracarair
adarsham acaravidhau dadhau yah |
sa jagarukah smriti-mandire kim
nityam bhaved bhakti-vinoda-devah ||3||

When will Bhaktivinoda Prabhu, who gave the example how to act by preaching the jewel of the Holy Name, remain alive in the temple of my memory?

namaparadhai rahitasya namno
mahatmya-jatam prakaöam vidhaya |
jive dayalur bhavita smritau kim
kritasano bhakti-vinoda-devah ||4||

When will Bhaktivinoda Prabhu, most merciful to all living beings, take his place in my mind after revealing the glories of the Holy Name, void of any offenses?

gaurasya gudha-prakaöalayasya
sato’sato harsha-kunaöyayosh ca |
prakashako gaurajano bhavet kim
smrityaspadam bhakti-vinoda-devah ||5||

When will I remember Bhaktivinoda Prabhu, the member of Gauranga’s entourage who revealed his hidden birthplace, to the joy of the saintly and the envious reaction of the wicked?

nirasya vighnan iha bhakti-ganga-
pravahanenoddhrita-sarvalokah |
bhagiratho nitya-dhiyam padam kim
bhaved asau bhakti-vinoda-devah ||6||

Like King Bhagiratha, he saved the entire world by destroying all impediments and allowing the Ganga of pure devotion to flow. When will Bhaktivinoda Prabhu be the permanent object of my meditation?

vishveshu chaitanya-katha-pracari
mahatmya-shamsi guru-vaishnavanam |
nama-grahadarsha iha smritah kim
citte bhaved bhakti-vinoda-devah ||7||

When will I remember Bhaktivinoda Prabhu, who preached the message of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu throughout the world, who glorified the guru and the Vaishnavas and who set the example for chanting the Holy Name.

prayojanam sann abhidheya-bhakti-
siddhanta-vanya samam atra gaura- |
kishora-sambandha-yuto bhavet kim
cittam gato bhakti-vinoda-devah ||8||

When will Bhaktivinoda Prabhu, himself the representative of the proyojana-tattva, appear in my mind, accompanied by Gaura Kishora Das Babaji, the personification of the sambandha-tattva, and by Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, the incarnation of the abhidheya-tattva. [bhakti-vinoda or taking delight in devotional service is the ultimate goal of prema, sambandha is the relationship with Mahaprabhu (Gaura-kishora) and the devotional processes established by the doctrine, or bhakti-siddhanta are the abhidheya-tattva.]

shikshamritam sajjana-toshanim ca
cintamanim catra sajaiva-dharmam |
prakashya chaitanya-prado bhavet kim
citte dhrito bhakti-vinoda-devah ||9||

When will Bhaktivinoda Prabhu, who made people conscious of Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu through his publications Chaitanya-shikshamrita, Sajjana-toshani, Harinama-cintamani, and Jaiva Dharma, be held constantly in my mind.

ashadha-darshe’hani gaura-shakti-
gadadharabhinna-tanur jahau yah |
prapanca-lilam iha no bhavet kim
drishyah punar bhakti-vinoda-devah ||10||

When will Bhaktivinoda Prabhu appear to us again? Being non-different from Gaura-shakti Gadadhara Pandit, he left the material world on the same day as he, the dark-moon-day of Asharha month.


your servant
 Paramananda das