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Song Name: Namamisvaram Saccidananda
Rupam
Official Name: Damodarastakam
Author: Vyasadeva
Book Name: Padma Purana
Language: Sanskrit
LYRICS:
(1)
namāmīśvaraḿ sac-cid-ānanda-rūpaḿ
lasat-kuṇḍalaḿ gokule bhrājamanam
yaśodā-bhiyolūkhalād dhāvamānaḿ
parāmṛṣṭam atyantato drutya gopyā
(2)
rudantaḿ muhur netra-yugmaḿ mṛjantam
karāmbhoja-yugmena sātańka-netram
muhuḥ
śvāsa-kampa-trirekhāńka-kaṇṭha-
sthita-graivaḿ dāmodaraḿ bhakti-baddham
(3)
itīdṛk sva-līlābhir
ānanda-kuṇḍe
sva-ghoṣaḿ nimajjantam ākhyāpayantam
tadīyeṣita-jñeṣu bhaktair jitatvaḿ
punaḥ prematas taḿ śatāvṛtti vande
(4)
varaḿ deva mokṣaḿ na
mokṣāvadhiḿ vā
na canyaḿ vṛṇe ‘haḿ vareṣād apīha
idaḿ te vapur nātha gopāla-bālaḿ
sadā me manasy āvirāstāḿ kim anyaiḥ
(5)
idaḿ te mukhāmbhojam atyanta-nīlair
vṛtaḿ kuntalaiḥ snigdha-raktaiś ca gopyā
muhuś cumbitaḿ bimba-raktādharaḿ me
manasy āvirāstām alaḿ lakṣa-lābhaiḥ
(6)
namo deva dāmodarānanta
viṣṇo
prasīda prabho duḥkha-jālābdhi-magnam
kṛpā-dṛṣṭi-vṛṣṭyāti-dīnaḿ
batānu
gṛhāṇeṣa mām ajñam edhy
akṣi-dṛśyaḥ
(7)
kuverātmajau baddha-mūrtyaiva yadvat
tvayā mocitau bhakti-bhājau kṛtau ca
tathā prema-bhaktiḿ svakāḿ me prayaccha
na mokṣe graho me ‘sti dāmodareha
(8)
namas te ‘stu dāmne
sphurad-dīpti-dhāmne
tvadīyodarāyātha viśvasya dhāmne
namo rādhikāyai tvadīya-priyāyai
namo ‘nanta-līlāya devāya tubhyam
TRANSLATION
1)
To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of eternal existence,
knowledge, and bliss, whose shark-shaped earrings are swinging to and fro, who
is beautifully shining in the divine realm of Gokula, who I (due to the offense
of breaking the pot of yogurt that His mother was churning into butter and then
stealing the butter that was kept hanging from a swing) is quickly running from
the wooden grinding mortar in fear of mother Yasoda, but who has been caught
from behind by her who ran after Him with greater speed--to that Supreme Lord,
Sri Damodara, I offer my humble obeisances.
2)
(Seeing the whipping stick in His mother's hand) He is crying and rubbing His
eyes again and again with His two lotus hands. His eyes are filled with fear,
and the necklace of pearls around His neck, which is marked with three lines
like a conch shell, is shaking because of His quick breathing due to crying. To
this Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, whose belly is bound not with ropes but with
His mother's pure love, I offer my humble obeisances.
3)
By such childhood pastimes as this He is drowning the inhabitants of Gokula in
pools of ecstasy, and is revealing to those devotees who are absorbed in
knowledge of His supreme majesty and opulence that He is only conquered by
devotees whose pure love is imbues with intimacy and is free from all
conceptions of awe and reverence. With great love I again offer my obeisances
to Lord Damodara hundreds and hundreds of times.
4)
O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of
benedictions, I do not pray to You for the boon of impersonal liberation, nor
the highest liberation of eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon (which
may be obtained by executing the nine processes of bhakti). O Lord, I simply
wish that this form of Yours as Bala Gopala in Vrndavana may ever be manifest
in my heart, for what is the use to me of any other boon besides this?
5)
O Lord, Your lotus face, which is encircled by locks of soft black hair tinged
with red, is kissed again and again by mother Yasoda, and Your
lips are reddish like the bimba fruit. May this beautiful vision of Your lotus face be ever manifest in my heart. Thousands and
thousands of other benedictions are of no use to me.
6)
O Supreme Godhead, I offer my obeisances unto You. O Damodara! O
Ananta! O Vishnu! O master! O my Lord, be pleased upon me. By showering Your
glance of mercy upon me, deliver this poor ignorant fool who is immersed in an
ocean of worldly sorrows, and become visible to my eyes.
7)
O Lord Damodara, just as the two sons of Kuvera--Manigriva and Nalakuvara--were
delivered from the curse of Narada and made into great devotees by You in Your
form as a baby tied with rope to a wooden grinding mortar, in the same way,
please give to me Your own prema-bhakti. I only long for this and have no
desire for any kind of liberation.
8)
O Lord Damodara, I first of all offer my obeisances to the brilliantly
effulgent rope which binds Your belly. I then offer my
obeisances to Your belly, which is the abode of the
entire universe. I humbly bow down to Your most
beloved Srimati Radharani, and I offer all obeisances to You, the Supreme Lord,
who displays unlimited pastimes.
REMARKS/EXTRA INFORMATION:
This
song was originally spoken by Satyavrata Muni in a conversation with Narada
Muni and Saunaka Rsi.
This
song is sung during the Month of Kartik, also known as the month of Damodara.
As quoted in the Sri Hari-Bhakti-Vilasa, "In the month of Kartika one
should worship Lord Damodara and daily recite the prayer known as
Damodarastaka, which has been spoken by the sage Satyavrata and which attracts
Lord Damodara. (Sri Hari-bhakti-vilasa 2.16.198).”
This
is usually sung in Raga Asavari in Ektala.
PURPORT:
MUSICAL NOTATION:
Namamisvaram Saccidananda Rupam
FOREIGN TRANSLATIONS:
Saludo Al Señor De Eterna Forma De Gozo (SPANISH)
SYNONYMS:
Namamisvaram Saccidananda Rupam
DEVANAGARI SCRIPT:
Namamisvaram
Saccidananda Rupam (DEVA)
UPDATED: July
4, 2009