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Song Name: Keno Mana Kamere Nacao
Official Name: Upadesa:
Song 19
Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura
Book Name: Kalyana
Kalpataru
Language: Bengali
LYRICS:
(1)
keno mana, kamere
nacao prema-pray?
carma-mamsa-moy kama,jara-sukha abirama,
jara-bisayete sada dhay
(2)
jiber svarupa dharma,cit-svarupe prema-marma,
tahar bisaya-matra hari
kama-abarane hay,prema ebe supta-pray,
prema jagao kama dura
kori'
(3)
sraddha hoite sadhu-sange,
bhajaner kriya-range,
nista-ruci-asakti-udoy
asakti hoite bhava,tahe
prema pradurbhava,
ei krame prema
upajoy
(4)
ihate jatana ja'r,sei pay prema-sar,
krama-tyage prema nahi
jage
e-krama-sadhane
bhoy,keno koro' durasoy,
kame prema kabhu
nahi lage
(5)
natakabhinoy pray,sakapata prema bhay,
tahe matra indriya-santosa
indriya-tosana char,sada koro' parihar,
charo' bhai aparadha-dosa
TRANSLATION
1) Tell me why, my dear
mind? Why are you forced to dance by lust, and why do you think that such
dancing is Krsna conscious? Your lust is simply
abounding in skin and meat, and you are addicted to non-stop material sense
gratification. Thus you factually spend your time in running here and there,
chasing after worldly sense objects.
2) The soul's original
eternal nature is pure love within the innermost core of its spiritually
conscious form, and the sole object of repose for that pure love is Lord Hari. Alas, how lamentable it is, that this inherent
ecstatic love is now lying in a dormant, sleeping state due to the artificial
covering of this temporary lust, My dear mind, banishing this lust to a distant
place, just rouse and reawaken your sleeping prema.
3) Only in the following
sequence does pure love for Krsna awaken: First one
develops sraddha (faith) in the process of Krsna Consciousness; then, due to that faith one becomes
enthusiastic for sadhu-sanga (the association of devotees);
then, by performance of bhajana-kriya (devotional
worship) in the company of the devotees there awakens nista
(steadiness in service), then ruci (taste), then asakti (attachment to the Lord); this attachment then gives
rise to bhava (genuine ecstatic emotions), from which
prema (pure love for Krsna)
manifests its re-awakening. Only in this sequence does prema
come into being.
4) One who endeavors for
this bona fide process gets the essence of pure ecstatic love for Krsna. One who neglects the proper order of this procedure
does not experience the reawakening of pure prema. My
dear mind, why are you maintaining the wicked mentality of apprehension and
fear of this bona fide method of devotional practice? By cultivation of your
lust in this mundane sphere, you will never be able to touch upon genuine
ecstatic love for Krsna.
5) So by the likes of your
dramatic performance of dancing in lust, you think that this is indicative of
your prema, but it is actually a deceptive, feigned
imitation of prema. Thus you whole process is simply
gross sense gratification. My dear brother, always reject such degraded,
contemptible sense gratification, casting out this grave offense to the Lord.
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UPDATED: June 28, 2009