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Name: All Glories to the Chanting of Sri Krsna’s Holy Names
Official Name: Siksastakam
Author: Dravida Dasa
Book Name: None
LYRICS:
(1A)
All glories to the chanting of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s Holy Names!,
Which easily extinguishes saṁsāra’s
blazing flames
By polishing the lust-encrusted mirror of the heart.
That chanting is the waxing moon that knows the secret art
Of causing the white lotus of good fortune to unfurl
Its petals far and wide throughout this bleak and
blighted world.
Of transcendental knowledge, which will take us to
life’s goal,
The chanting of the name of Kṛṣṇa
is the life and soul.
(1B)
The ocean of ecstatic bliss floods far beyond its bounds
Wherever Kṛṣṇa’s merciful
and mystic Name resounds.
Indeed, whenever Kṛṣṇa’s
Names are sung in congregation,
At every step one tastes a joy that knows no limitation.
So hear with great attention as I earnestly proclaim,
Just bathe your consciousness by chanting Kṛṣṇa’s
Holy Name!
By transcendental potency that Name will surely bless
You with pure love for Kṛṣṇa
and the end of all distress.
(2)
“Kṛṣṇa,” “Govinda,” and “Keśava,” too—
Your Names have no end, and in each of them You
Have invested Your potencies, leaving none
out.
Whenever we want, we can chant them without
The slightest restriction of time or of place.
O Lord, who can fathom Your infinite grace?
Yet I am so wretched, devoid of all shame,
That I haven’t developed a taste for Your Name.
(3)
More humble than a blade of grass, more tol’rant
than a tree,
To think “All praise belongs to others, none belongs to me”—
These qualities attract the Lord to bless one with the power
To chant His Name incessantly until the final hour.
(4)
Wealth and women, followers, the fruits of mundane piety,
Liberation from this world of limitless anxiety—
For Me, O Lord, such common goals have not the slightest worth:
Let Me serve You purely now and in each future
birth.
(5)
Your servant for eternity, I lost My true
identity
And fell into this horrid sea of birth and death, O Lord.
O Nanda’s son, please hear My
plea: By Your sweet grace consider Me
A speck of dust upon Your lotus feet forevermore.
(6)
Tears streaming from My eyes, My voice choked
with bliss,
The hairs upon My body standing up in
happiness—
When will all these signs of rapture decorate My
limbs
As I chant your Holy Name, the monarch of all hymns?
(7)
Every moment drags on for a million years or more;
From the rain clouds of My eyes the tears in
torrents pour;
This whole creation’s nothing but a vast and joyless void—
O Govinda! By Your absence I am being
destroyed!
(8A)
Let Mādhava embrace this maid who’s
fallen at His feet,
Or let Him trample Me, or My most ardent hopes
defeat
By never giving Me a chance to see Him
anywhere,
Thus shattering My heart and plunging Me into
despair.
(8B)
You see, He is a reckless libertine and not a saint;
So let Him act in any way He likes, without restraint.
Yet though His cruel and crooked ways may cause Me
constant woe,
Kṛṣṇa is the only
Lord My heart shall ever know.
(9)
These eight essential verses Lord Caitanya
wrote to teach
The practice and the goal of chanting Kṛṣṇa’s Holy Name.
Day by day, whoever chants or hears this hymn will reach
A little closer to perfection, spotless Kṛṣṇa-prem.
REMARKS/EXTRA INFORMATION:
This
is the English translation of the song “Ceto
Darpana Marjanam (Sri Siksastakam).”
UPDATED: May 10, 2009