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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 Lofa or Bengali ektal, or Bhairavi in kaherva or bhajani tala.
PURPORTS:
MUSICAL NOTATION:
♫ Namamisvaram Saccidananda Rupam (Var I) (12 matra version)
♫ Namamisvaram Saccidananda Rupam (Var II) (8 matra version)
FOREIGN TRANSLATIONS:
SPANISH TRANSLATION: Saludo Al Señor De Eterna Forma De Gozo
SYNONYMS:
✏ Namamisvaram Saccidananda Rupam
UPDATED: September
20, 2011