Prārthanā · Songs 10-18

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O Lord Hari, Lord Hari, when will I directly serve You as You engage in blissful transcendental pastimes? When will that auspicious day be mine?

Text 2

When in the company of Lalita, Visakha, and their friends, will I directly meet Sri Sri Radha and Krsna? When, seeing Them dancing in Their transcendental pastimes, will my voice become choked up with ecstatic love?

Text 3

After the dancing pastimes are concluded, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna will take rest in a cottage on Govardhana Hill, the best of mountains. Narottama dasa says: I pray that I shall be able to continually serve the lotus feet of the Divine couple.

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In a solitary place on Govardhana Hill, the best of mountains, Sri Sri Radha and Krsna sit on a couch, when, accompanied by Lalita and Visakha, will I jubilantly serve Their reddish lotus feet?

Text 2

When will I take camphor and betel-nuts from a golden box, and place it in Their lotus mouths? When will I give them sashes made with jewelled bells, and when will I place jewelled ankle-bells on Their lotus feet?

Text 3

When will I fill a golden goblet for the Divine couple? When will I anoint Their limbs with aromatic sandalwood paste? When, my spiritual master in his original form as a gopi, at my left, will I fan Their three-fold bending forms with a camara wisk?

Text 4

When, seeing the lotus eyes of the Divine couple, will the hairs of my body stand up in ecstasy? When will I be able to directly touch Their lotus feet? Narottama dasa, who is the servant of Lord Caitanya's servants, desires in this way. He has no other desires.

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When will I take birth as a gopi in the town of Maharaja Vrsabhanu, where many gopas and gopis live? O Lord Hari, Lord Hari, will I someday attain this condition of life?

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When will I live in the city of Vrsabhanu and be accepted by its residents as one of their kin? When will I become the dear friend of the exalted gopis, and when will I be able to directly serve them?

Text 3

When Lord Krsna is merciful to me I will be able to attain His reddish lotus feet. When I attain the louts feet of the Divine couple, then my life will be successful, and all the desires of my mind will be fulfilled.

Text 4

When will I be able to directly serve the Divine Couple, who are surrounded by Their gopi-friends? When I obtain the facility to directly serve the Divine Couple in the association of the gopis, then all the desires of my mind will be fulfilled.

Text 5

When will I be able to approach very near to the Divine Couple? When will streams of tears flow from my eyes by seeing the moonlike faces of the Divine Couple? when will I receive direct orders from Vrnda-devi, the close friend of the the Divine Couple? When will that day be mine?

Text 6

When will Sri Rupa-manjari, seeing me helpless and without any shelter, become my protectress? When will I attain the shelter of the reddish lotus feet of the Divine Couple? Narottama dasa; When will I become one of the maidservants of the gopis?

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When, relinquishing this male material body, and obtaining the spiritual body of a gopi, will I anoint the limbs of the Divine Couple with sandalwood paste? O Lord Hari, Lord Hari, when will this day be mine?

Text 2

When will I arrange the hair of the Divine Couple? When will I give them gunja-necklaces and garlands; strung with various flowers? When will I give Them yellow garments? When, accompanied by the other gopis, will I place betel- nuts in Their lotus mouths?

Text 3

When will gaze at the beautiful forms of the Divine Couple? When will I dress Srimati Radharani in blue garments, and decorate her braided hair with garlands of jasmine flowers and strings of nine different kinds of jewels on a golden thread.

Text 4

My desire is that some day I shall be able to directly see the sweet beauty of the transcendental forms of the Divine Couple. O Srila Rupa Gosvami and Srila Sanatana Gosvami, all glories to you both. Please bestow this treasure upon me. Please grant my desire. Narottama dasa appeals to you in this way.

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Vrndavana is filled with blossoming flowers, the dancing of peacocks and the sounds of cuckoos and bumble-bees. When, in the association of the dear gopis, will I melodiously sing in a charming cottage in a grove of this Vrndavana?

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When, seeing the slowly and gracefully moving Divine Couple, will my hairs will stand on end because of the ecstasy in my heart?

Text 3

When, in the company of the gopis, will Srimati Radharani gesture that she wants me to comb her hair, and when will I then take the comb in my hand, and carefully comb her curling locks?

Text 4

When will I anoint Srimati Radharani's limbs with sandalwood paste and musk? When will I give her a beautiful garland? When will I gaze on her moonlike face as I decorate it with tilaka markings drawn in sandlewood paste and kunkuma?

Text 5

When will I carefully dress Srimati Radharani in blue garments? When will I place jewelled ankletson her feet? When will I take water from a jar and wash her reddish lotus feet? When will I then dry her feet using my own hair as a towel?

Text 6

When will I make a couch of lotus petals for the Divine Couple? When will I gently fan Them with a white camara wisk?

Text 7

When from a golden box will I take betel-nuts and camphor, and place them in the lotus mouths of the Divine Couple? When will I carefully chew the aromatic remnants of such betel-nuts, which have become mixed with nectar from mouths of the Divine Couple?

Text 8

O Lokanatha Gosvami, O my spiritual master, O friend of the poor and wretched conditioned souls, O ocean of mercy, please hear the appeal of this person who is very misrable and poor-hearted. O Radha and Krsna, O holy land of Vrndavana, O intimate gopi-friends of the Divine Couple, I beg that you all grant this charity to me. Please fulfill these desires.

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When, in a secluded cottage on Govardhana Hill, the best of mountains, will I prepare a couch for Sri Sri Radha and Krsna? O Lord Hari, Lord Hari, when will that auspicious day be mine?

Text 2

When will I take water from a jar and wash the lotus feet of the Divine Couple? When will I then dry Their feet using my own har as a towel? When, from a golden box will I take betel-nuts and camphor, and place them on the lotus-lips of the Divine Couple?

Text 3

When, in the association of the gopis, will I directly serve the lotus feet of the Divine Couple with my own hand? When, by seeing the lotus eyes of the Divine Couple, will the hairs of my body stand erect because of the ecstasy within my heart?

Text 4

When shall I string garlands of mallika and malati flowers and place them on the necks of the Divine Couple? When shall I fill a golden goblet with camphor and sandalwood paste, and then anoint the transcendental forms of the Divine Couple with this mixture?

Text 5

When will I directly see the lotus faces of the Divine Couple? When will Narottama dasa jubilantly hear Kundalata-devi's narration of the nectarean pastimes performed by the Divine Couple in the groves of Vrndavana? When will that day be?

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Sri Rupamanjari's lotus feet are my only treasure. They are my dovotional service and my worship. they are my life's breath. They are the ornament I wear. They are the sustainer of my life.

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For me they are an ocean of nectar. They are the fulfillment of my desires. For me they are the spiritual path outlined in the Vedas. They are my religious vows. They are my austerities. They are my chanting of mantras. They are my pious activities.

Text 3

Those feet will make destiny become kind to me. Those feet will grant me perfection. Those feet will enable me to directly see the Divine Couple with my own eyes. Those feet are a great reservoir of beauty and sweetness. Those feet are like a moon which causes the lotus flower of my life-breath to blossom. Those lotus feet bloom within my heart through the entire day and night.

Text 4

The venom of the snake of separation from You has caused this spirit soul to wither and decay. for many days my life-breath has burned in the fire of separation from you. O Rupa-manjari, please be merciful to me. Please give me the shade of your lotus feet. Narottama dasa takes shelter of you.

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I have heard from the mouths of the saintly devotees that everyone says that by the mercy of Srila Rupa Gosvami one may approach the lotus feet of the Divine Couple.

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O Sanatana Prabhu, O personal associate of Lord Caitanya, please fulfill my desire.

Text 3

Please fulfill my desire that saintly Srila Rupa Gosvami may be merciful to me, and that I will be able to take shelter of his lotus feet.

Text 4

When will my master, Lokanatha Gosvami, place me at the lotus feet of Srila Rupa Gosvami?

Text 5

When, by your mercy, will your faithful followr Narottama dasa become elibigle to receive direct instruction from the gopi-friends of the Divine Couple?

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When will I be a young gopi-maidservant? When will Sri Rupa-manjari directly order me? When will that auspicious time be?

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When will Sri Rupa-manjari repeatedly order me about, saying: "O maidservant, come here. Quickly arrange for my fancy garments and ornaments."

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By hearing these orders I will become delighted. These orders will completely absorb the attention of my purified.

Text 4

When, in Sri Rupa-manjari's service, will I fill a jewelled tray with various paraphernalia for worship? When, engaged in her service. will I fill a golden goblet with aromatic water?

Text 5

When will I be able to quickly approach the Divine Couple? When will Narottama dasa attain this condition of life?