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Song Name: Nitai Guna Mani
Official Name: None
Author: Locana Dasa Thakura
Book Name: Caitanya Mangala
Language: Bengali
LYRICS:
(1)
nitāi guṇa-maṇi
āmār nitāi guṇa-maṇi
āniyā premer vanyā bhāsāilo avanī
(2)
premer vanyā loiyā nitāi āilā gauḍa-deśe
ḍubilo bhakata-gaṇa
dīna hīna bhāse
(3)
dīna hīna patita pāmara nāhi bāche
brahmār durlabha prema sabākāre jāce
(4)
ābaddha karuṇā-sindhu
niṭāi kāṭiyā
mohān
ghare ghare bule prema-amiyār bān
(5)
locan bole mor nitāi jebā nā bhajilo
jāniyā śuniyā
sei ātma-ghātī
hoilo
TRANSLATION
1) My Lord Nityananda, the jewel of all virtues, my Lord Nityananda, the jewel of all virtues, has brought the flood
of ecstatic love of God that has drowned the entire world.
2) Bringing this
overwhelming deluge of prema when He returned to
Bengal from Jagannatha Puri
on Lord Caitanya's order, Nitai
has inundated the assembly of devotees. The fallen nondevotees
did not drown, however, but remained floating on that ecstatic ocean.
3) Lord Nityananda
freely offered this exalted prema, which is difficult
for Lord Brahma to attain, even to the fallen and wretched souls who did not
desire it.
4) The ocean of mercy had formerly
been sealed tight, but Nitai cut a channel in its
boundary to allow the great flooding waves of nectarean
prema to splash from house to house.
5) Locana
dasa says, "Whoever has not worshiped my Nitai or taken advantage of this excellent opportunity
offered by Him knowingly commits suicide."
REMARKS/EXTRA INFORMATION:
This song was
featured in Visvanatha Cakravarti
Thakura’s compilation, Sri Ksanada
Gita Cintamani, Saptadasa Ksanada Sukla Dvitiya
(the 17th night, the second day of bright portion of the month), as
the second song.
This
can be rendered in Raga Sri.
(3B)
brahmāra durlabha prema yāre tāre yāce
(5)
locana bale āmāra nitā-i yebā nāhi māne
ānala bhejā-i tāra mājha mukha-khāne
“Locana
dāsa says: Anyone who will not say, "Lord Nitāi is my master", sets a fire in his mouth.”
BENGALI SCRIPT:
UPDATED:
November 20, 2010