First Class

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First Class

via KKS Blog by noreply@blogger.com (Hina) on 11/18/10

First class person - they learn from hearing only.

Second class person - they hear but still they do not learn. So they only learn through experience.

Third class person – they hear and then they experience the trouble - and still they don't learn – those are fools.

But as a devotee, most of us are second class. Most of us learn through experience.

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Canberra, October 2010)

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Chain me nearby and maintain me as You will

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Song Name: Sarvasva Tomar Carane

Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Book Name: Saranagati (Section: Goptritve Varana Song 3)

http://audio.iskcondesiretree.info/03_-_ISKCON_Prabhujis/His_Grace_Swarupa_Damodar_Prabhu/He_Gopinath/Swarupa_Damodar_Pr_Bhajans_-_04-Sarvasva_Tomara.mp3

(1)

sarvasva tomār, caraṇe saṁpiyā,

poḍechi tomāra ghare

tumi to' ṭhākur, tomāra kukur,

boliyā jānaho more

(2)

bāṅdhiyā nikaṭe, āmāre pālibe,

rohibo tomāra dwāre

pratīpa-janere, āsite nā dibo,

rākhibo gaḍera pare

(3)

tava nija-jana, prasād seviyā,

ucchiṣṭa rākhibe jāhā

āmāra bhojan, parama-ānande,

prati-din ha'be tāhā (44)

ISKCON desire tree

(4)

bosiyā śuiyā, tomāra caraṇa,

cintibo satata āmi

nācite nācite, nikaṭe jāibo,

jakhona ḍākibe tumi

(5)

nijera poṣana, kabhu nā bhāvibo,

rohibo bhāvera bhore

bhakativinoda, tomāre pālaka,

boliyā varaṇa kore

TRANSLATION

1) Now that I have surrendered all I possess, I fall prostrate before Your house. You are the Supreme Lord. Kindly consider me Your household dog.

2) Chain me nearby and maintain me as You will. I shall remain at the doorstep and allow no enemies to enter Your house. I will keep them at the bounds of the moat surrounding Your home.

3) Whatever remnants Your devotees leave behind after honoring Your prasada will be my daily sustenance. I will feast on those remnants with great ecstasy.

4) While sitting up, while lying down, I will constantly meditate on Your lotus feet. Whenever You call, I will immediately run to You and dance in rapture.

5) I will never think of my own maintenance but rather remain transported by a multitude of ecstasies. Bhaktivinoda accepts You as his only support.

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I am a wicked materialist, always addicted to worldly desires, and no good qualities do I possess

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Song Name: Gopinath Mama Nivedana Suno

Official Name: Gopinath (Part one)

Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Book Name: Kalyana Kalpataru (Section: Upalabdhi Vijnapti Song 1)

http://audio.iskcondesiretree.info/03_-_ISKCON_Prabhujis/His_Grace_Swarupa_Damodar_Prabhu/He_Gopinath/Swarupa_Damodar_Pr_Bhajans_-_01-Gopinath.mp3

(1)

gopīnāth, mama nivedana śuno

viṣayī durjana, sadā kāma-rata,

kichu nāhi mora guṇa

(2)

gopīnāth, āmāra bharasā tumi

tomāra caraṇe, loinu śaraṇa,

tomāra kiṅkora āmi

(3)

gopīnāth, kemone śodhibe more

nā jāni bhakati, karme jaḍa-mati,

porechi soṁsāra-ghore

(4)

gopīnāth, sakali tomāra māyā

nāhi mama bala, jñāna sunirmala,

swādhīna nahe e kāyā

(5)

gopīnāth, niyata caraṇe sthāna

māge e pāmara, kāndiyā kāndiyā,

korohe karuṇā dāna

(6)

gopīnāth, tumi to' sakali pāro

durjane tārite, tomāra śakati,

ke āche pāpīra āro

(7)

gopīnāth, tumi kṛpā-pārābāra

jīvera kāraṇe, āsiyā prapañce,

līlā koile subistāra

(8)

gopīnāth, āmi ki doṣe doṣī

asura sakala, pāilo caraṇa,

vinodá thākilo bosi'

TRANSLATION

1) O Gopinatha, Lord of the gopis, please hear my request. I am a wicked materialist, always addicted to worldly desires, and no good qualities do I possess.

2) O Gopinatha, You are my only hope, and therefore I have taken shelter at Your lotus feet. I am now Your eternal servant.

(28)

ISKCON desire tree

3) O Gopinatha, how will You purify me? I do not know what devotion is, and my materialistic mind is absorbed in fruitive work. I have fallen into this dark and perilous worldly existence.

4) O Gopinatha, everything here is Your illusory energy. I have no strength or transcendental knowledge, and this body of mine is not independent and free from the control of material nature.

5) O Gopinatha, this sinner, who is weeping and weeping, begs for an eternal place at Your divine feet. Please give him Your mercy.

6) O Gopinatha, You are able to do anything, and therefore You have the power to deliver all sinners. Who is there that is more of a sinner than myself?

7) O Gopinatha, You are the ocean of mercy. Having come into this phenomenal world, You expand Your divine pastimes for the sake of the fallen souls.

8) O Gopinatha, I am so sinful that although all the demons attained Your lotus feet, Bhaktivinoda has remained in worldly existence.

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