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Song Name: Dekho Mana Brate Jena
Official Name: Upadesa
Song 15
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Book Name: Kalyana
Kalpataru
Language: Bengali
LYRICS
(1)
dekho mana, brate
krsna-bhakti asa kori'acho nana brata dhori',
radha-krsne korite prasanna
(2)
bhakti je sahaja tattva,citte
ta'r ache sattva,
tahar samrddhi taba asa
dekhibe bicara kori',su-katina brata dhori',
sahajer na koro binasa
(3)
krsna-arthe kayaklesa,ta'r phal ache sesa
kintu taha samanya na
hoy
bhaktir badhaka ho'le,bhakti ar nahi phale,
tapah-phal hoibe niscoy
(4)
kintu bheve dekho bhai,tapasyar
kaj nai,
jadi hari aradhita hana
bhakti jadi na phalil,tapasyar
tuccha phal,
baisnaba na loy kadacana
(5)
ihate je gudha marma,bhujo
baisnaber dharma,
patra-bhede adhikara bhinna
binoder nibedana,bidhi-mukta anuksana,
sara-grahi sri-krsna-prapanna
TRANSLATION
1) Be careful, my dear
mind, that you don't become bewildered by ritualistic vows. With an aim to
please Radha-Krsna and make Them
favorably disposed to you, you accept various types of austere vows. You
consider that this will be conducive to practicing devotional service.
2) Devotional service is
actually a very simple and easily understood truth, for it is the soul's
natural, inborn tendency. Your desire is to expand and enrich that devotion
which is already existing in your heart. But you
should be careful to consider that by undertaking unnecessarily difficult vows
and austerities, you don't destroy the simplicity of the natural bhakti process.
3) The results that you get
from hard labor on Krsna's behalf are extraordinary
and should never be considered to be commonplace. However, if such service
turns into an unnecessarily difficult austerity, then it becomes an obstacle to
devotion, and it will prevent you from getting the real benefit of devotion.
Instead, you will only get the benefit of the results of the austerity.
4) But just try to understand
this, my dear brother. If one is worshiping Hari,
then there is no need to labor for penances and austerities. If devotional
service does not manifest as the result of some type of austerity, then the
insignificant result of that austerity will never be accepted by a true Vaisnava at any time.
5) From all
this, just try to understand the deep inner significance of the
principles of Vaisnava behavior. That is, according
to differences in receptivity of different persons, there is a definite difference
in their rightful capacity in devotional service. Bhaktivinoda's
humble submission is that you should just become a sara-grahi
and accept the essence of complete surrender to Krsna, thus becoming freed
from, and transcendental to, all types of scriptural rules and regulations.
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UPDATED: June 25, 2009