Song Name: Nitai Guna Mani

Author: Locana Das Thakura

Book Name: Caitanya Mangala

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(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 nitāi kāṭiyā muhān

ghare ghare bule prema-amiyār bān

(5)

locan bole mor nitāi jebā nā bhajilo

jāniyā śuniyā sei ātma-ghātī hoilo

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TRANSLATION

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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."

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