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MADHUR E HARINAMA


This Holy Name is So Sweet

By Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura


hare krsna hare

nitai ki nam eneche re

(nitai) nam eneche, namer hate

sraddha-mulye nam diteche re

hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare re

hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare re

(nitai) jiver dasa malina dekhe',

nam eneche braja theke re


e nam siva jape pancha-mukhe re

(madhur e harinam)


e nam brahma jape catur-mukhe re

(madhur e harindm)


e nam narada jape bina-jantre re

(madhur e harindm)


e nama base ajamilo vaikunthe gelo re

e nam bolte bolte braje calo re

(bhaktivinoda bole)


TRANSLATION

Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai (Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda) are so wonderfully merciful. They brought this harinama from Goloka-Vrndavana. Golokera prema-dhana hari-nama sankirtana. It doesn't belong to this material world. Sri Sri Gaura-Nitai brought it here because they are so wonderfully merciful. Who is the custodian of nam-hatta? Sri Nitai! Nama-hatta means marketplace. A market-place where the (holy) name is sold and purchased. What is the price? The price is unflinching faith. He who has strong faith, unflinching faith in the Holy Name and faith in the words of sadhu, sastra, Sri Guru and Sri Krishna, only he can purchase it. The market is always eternally open.

hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare re

hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare re


Sri Nitai is more merciful than Sriman Gauranga Mahaprabhu. Sri Gaurasundara (Lord Caitanya) is wonderfully merciful. Sri Nitai is more merciful than Sri Gaurasundara. Sri Nitai is so merciful. He saw that the jivas have been suffering here, drowning in this ocean of materialistic existence from time immemorial. His heart bleeds, so Sri Nitai felt love, affection and compassion for them. He became sympathetic for the suffering souls, so He brought the Holy Name from Sri Vrajabhumi for those Kali-yuga people.

Lord Sivaji with His five faces is chanting this madhura e harinama; this is so sweet this harinama! Lord Brahma chants this Sri- nama with His four faces, because it is so sweet!

Sri Narada Muni sings this Holy Name with his stringed instrument,

hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare

hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

All are chanting because it is so sweet!

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, "By only obtaining the namabhasa stage (offenseless chanting), Ajamila, a greatly sinful person was delivered. All his sinful reactions were destroyed, then at last he went to Vaikuntha!" So Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, "Just chant this Name, utter this Holy Name and go to Sri Vrajabhumi."


AKRODHA PARAMANANDA NTTYANANDA RAYA


Sri Nityananda Prabhu Never Gets Angry

By Srila Locana dasa Thakura


akrodha paramananda nityananda raya

abhimana shunya nitai nagare bedaya


adhama patita jivera dware dware giya

harinama maha mantra dena bilaiya


jare dekhe tare kahe dante trina dhori'

amare kiniya laha bhaja gaurahari


eta boli' nityananda bhume gadi jaya

sonara parvata jena dhulate lotaya


hena avatare jara rati na janmilo

locana bole sei papi elo ara gelo


TRANSLATION

1. Lord Nityananda Raya never gets angry. He is always in ecstasy, supreme bliss. He has no false ego. He wanders to every town and village in Nadia chanting Hare Krishna, dancing, and offering krsna-prema (love of Krishna) to everyone indiscriminately.

2. Sri Nitai goes to every doorstep and knocks on the door, 'Tap! Tap!Tap!' He goes to those who are very much distressed, degraded, and fallen. He goes to them and gives them krsna-prema. He says, "Please Chant! Please Chant! ": hare krishna, hare krishna, krishna Krishna, hare hare / hare rama, hare rama, rama rama, hare hare. If they do not chant and shut the door, then He rolls there on the ground and cries!

3. Whomever He meets, catching a straw between His teeth, He begs, "0 Brothers! Please do the bhajana of Sri Gaurahari and purchase Me, purchase Me, purchase Me."

4. Saying this, Lord Nityananda rolls on the ground in the dust, cries, and sheds tears, looking like a mountain of gold rolling on the ground.

5. Such a merciful incarnation is Lord Nityananda. If someone doesn't develop love for such an incarnation as Sri Nityananda-Rama, Locana says, "Such a sinful person wastes his life, remaining in the cycle of birth and death. He cannot be delivered."


DOYA KORO MORE NITAI


My Dear Lord Nitai! Please Be Merciful To Me

By Srila Kanu Ramadasa Thakura


Doya koro more nitai, doya koro more

agatira gati nitai sadhu loke bole


jaya prema bhakti data-pataka tomara

uttama adhama kichhu na kaila bichara


prema dane jagajanera mana kaila sukhi

tumi hena doyara thakura ami kene dukhi


kanu rama dasa bole ki boliba ami

e bada bharasa more kulera thakura tumi


TRANSLATION

1. 0 my Nitai, please shower your mercy on me. All sadhus say, "You are so merciful. You give the right destination to the fallen souls."

2. Lord Nityananda has a flag. That flag gives prema-bhakti. He never discriminates whether one is uttama or adhama, most elevated or most degraded. He gives prema-bhakti to one and all.

3. Sri Nityananda Prabhu gives prema to one and all and makes the whole world happy. You are such a merciful Thakura, why am I so unhappy?

4. Kanu Ramadasa says, "What more shall I say? 0 Lord Nityananda, You are the Lord of our parampara; so this is a great hope for me, that You are such a merciful Lord.”


NITAI GUNA-MANI AMARA


My Lord Nitai is the Jewel of all Transcendental Qualities

By Srila Locana dasa Thakura


nitai guna-mani amara, nitai guna-mani

aniya premera banya bhasailo avani


premera banya loiya nitai aila gauda-dese

dubilo bhakata-gana dina hina bhase


dina hina patita pamara nahi bachhe

brahmara durlabha prema sabakare jache


abaddha karuna-sindhu katiya muhana

ghare ghare bule prema-amiyara bana


lochan bole hena nitai jeba na bhajilo

janiya suniya sei atma-ghati hoilo


TRANSLATION

It is said that Srila Nityananda Prabhu is more merciful, more magnanimous, more munificent than Sriman Gauranga (Sri Caitanya) Mahaprabhu.

1. My Nitai is the jewel of transcendental qualities, the jewel of transcendental qualities. Bringing the flood of prema, He inundated the earth.

2. Sri Nitai came to Gauda-desa with a flood of krishna-prema. dubilo bhakata-gana dina hind bhase, those who are bhaktas drowned in that flood, premera banya. But the dina hina, the fallen souls and unfortunate, floated on the surface!

3. Lord Nityananda Prabhu offers this pure love of Godhead, pure love of Krishna indiscriminately. He distributes this prema with two hands! He never discriminates whether one is patita or pamara: most degraded, most fallen or most elevated, qualified or not qualified. He never discriminates. Even it is very difficult for Brahma to get such prema. But Sri Nitai gives indiscriminately.

4. That prema is karuna-sindhu—like an ocean of mercy. Nitai broke down the strong embankment of the ocean of love. Completely devastated that dam! That ocean of love is an unlimited ocean of love. So then there was a heavy rush flowing, heavy rush! Such a flood came. A flood in every home. That flood came to every home. It inundated the whole world!

5. Locana says, "He is an unfortunate fellow who does not take shelter of Nitai and does not do the bhajana of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, begging for the mercy of Sri Nitai. He willingly commits suicide.

NITAI AMAR DAYAR AVADHI


My Most Merciful Nitai

By Srila Vrndavana dasa Thakura


are bhai! nitai amar doyara avadhi!

jivere karuna kori,' dese dese phiri' phiri'

prema-dhana jache nirabadhi

adwaitera sange ranga, dharane na jaya anga,

gora-preme gada tanu khani

dhuliya dhuliya chale, bahu tuli' hari bole,

du-nayane bahe nitaiera pani


kapale tilaka sobhe, kutila-kuntala-lole

gunjara antuni chuda taya

kesarijiniya kati, kati tate niladhati

bajana nupura ranga paya


bhubana-mohana besa! majaila sava desa!

rasd bese atta atta hasa!

prabhu mora nityananda kevala ananda-kanda

guna gaya vrindavana dasa


TRANSLATION

1. 0 Brothers! My Nitai's mercy is limitless. He wanders village to village giving prema-dhana (the mood of love of God) to one and all.

2. He always cuts jokes with Sri Advaita Acarya. His whole body is made of love for Gauranga Mahaprabhu. He is always intoxicated with prema-rasa. An intoxicated person is unable to walk properly. How does He walk? Like that: dhuliya dhuliya chale. Raising His arms and saying, "Haribol! Haribol! Haribol!" and shedding tears from His two lotus eyes.

3. Nice tilaka and curly locks beautifully decorate His forehead. His hair is bound up with red gunja. A blue belt encircles His lion-like waist. His feet look red. He wears nupura on his reddish feet always making a tinkling, tinkling sound.

4. His beauty enchants the whole world. Always absorbed in prema-rasa, He smiles and laughs! —Atta atta hasa! Vrndavana dasa sings, "Lord Nityananda Prabhu is my Prabhu (master). He's full of nothing but pleasure."


sad-runya-svarnbham nnalankra-bhsitam

hinam mlinam divyopavtam prema-varshinam

ghrnita-locanam cha nlmbara-dharam prabhum

prema-dam paramnandam nitynandam smarmy aham

I meditate on Lord Nityananda Prabhu, supreme bliss personified. For bestowing pure love of God, he has created a shower of that love. His body, shining with the luster of red-tinged gold, is decorated with various ornaments and a necklace. Donned in blue garments, he wears a flower garland and divine sacred thread.

uddha-svarna-vidambi-sundara-tanum ratndi-bhshсchitam

premonmatta-gajendra-vikrama-lasat-premru-dhrkulam

uklam skshma-navmbardi-dadhatam sankrtanaika-priyam

nitynandam aham bhaje sa-karunam premrnavam sundaram

I worship Lord Nityananda, who is the beautiful ocean of prema endowed with compassion and the sole lover of saktana. His handsome bright form, dressed in fresh fine clothes and decorated with ornaments like precious jewels, derides the glow of pure gold. Possessing the prowess of an intoxicated regal elephant and mad in pure love of God, Lord Nityananda is filled with the streams of tears shed out of that love.

vidyud-dma-madbhimardana-rucim vistrna-vakshah-sthalam

premodghrnita-locanchala-lasat-smerbhiramynanam

nn-bhshana-bhshitam su-madhuram bibhrad-ghanbhmbaram

sarvnanda-karam param pravara-nitynanda-chandram bhaje

I worship the transcendental moon of the foremost Lord Nityananda, who, being exquisitely sweet, makes everyone blissful. His effulgence defeats the pride of a string-like lightning. His chest is broad and his face extremely pleasing with its shining smile, and its eyes, restless out of pure love of God, making sidelong glances. He wears garments resembling a raincloud and is adorned with various ornaments.

— Translated by Nityananda Das from r Manohara Bhajana Dpik, published by Sri Sudhasindhu Das. Govardhan.