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Song Lyrics: Radha
Krsna Bol
Purport Author: A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami
‘Radha-krsna’ bolo bolo bolo re sobai. This is a song sung by Thakura
Bhaktivinode. It is said that Lord Caitanya and Nityananda, They are
walking through the streets of the of Nadiya town
chanting this instruction, addressing everyone. They say, “You all people, please chant Radha-Krsna
or Hare Krsna.” ‘Radha-krsna’ bolo bolo bolo re sobai.
“Every one of you, simply chant Radha-Krsna or Hare
Krsna.” This is the instruction. Ei sikha diya.
Lord Caitanya and Nityananda,
both together, while walking and dancing through the street, He was instructing
that “All of you simply say Radha-Krsna.” Ei sikha diya, sab
nadiya, phirche (abhay?) gaura-nitai. Phirche, phirche means walking.
All over the town Nadiya They were
teaching this. Ei sikha diya, sab nadiya, phirche
(abhay?) gaura-nitai.
Then he says, (keno?) mayar bose,
jaccho bhese’, “Why you are
being washed away on the waves of this maya, material
nescience?” Khaccho habudubu, bhai.
“And whole day and night you are merged into full of anxieties, simply. Just
like a man, when he is put into the water, sometimes drowning, sometimes coming
up, but he is struggling very hard. Similarly, in the ocean of maya, why you are so much struggling? Sometimes being
drowned, sometimes coming up, sometimes feeling happiness, sometimes no
happiness. Actually, there is no happiness. In the water, if you are put into
the water, and if you are sometimes drowned and sometimes come out, that does
not mean happiness. To come out for the temporary time, for the time being, and
again being drowned up, that is not happiness.” So Caitanya Mahaprabhu is
instructing that “Why you are troubling so much,” mayar
bose, “under the spell of maya?”
Then what is to be done? He says that jiv krsna-das, e visvas, “Simply just
believe it that you are servant of God, you are servant of Krsna.” Jiv krsna-das, e visvas, korle to’ ar duhkha nai:
“As soon as you come to this point that you are servant of God or servant of
Krsna, immediately all your troubles become ceased. There is no more trouble.”
So this instruction is given by Lord Caitanya walking
over the streets. Jiv krsna-das, e visvas,
korle to’ ar duhkha nai. Then Bhaktivinode Thakura gives his
own personal experience. He says, jay sakal vipod, “I become released from all kinds of dangers.” Gai bhaktivinod. Bhaktivinode Thakura, he is acarya, he is
experienced, he says that “Whenever I chant Radha-Krsna
or Hare Krsna, I become freed from all kinds of dangers.” Jay
sakal vipod. Jakhon ami o-nam
gai, “Whenever I chant this Holy Name, Hare Krsna or Radha-Krsna, immediately all my dangers are over.” ‘Radha-krsna’ bolo, sange
calo. So Lord Caitanya
therefore says that “I am walking on the street and begging from you. What is
that begging? That you simply chant. This is my request, begging.” ‘Radha-krsna’ bolo, sange
calo. “And just follow Me.”
‘Radha-krsna’ bolo, sange calo, ei-matra bhiksa cai,
“I am simply asking you for this contribution, that you chant Hare Krsna and
follow Me so that your struggle for existence in this material ocean will
cease.”
UPDATED: April 1, 2009