Song Name: Prabhu Tava Pada Yuge

Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Book Name: Gitavali (Section: Siksastakam Song 4)

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(1)

prabhu tava pada-yuge mora nivedan

nāhi māgi deha-sukha, vidyā, dhana, jan

(2)

nāhi māgi swarga, āra mokṣa nāhi māgi

nā kori prārthanā kono vibhūtira lāgi’

(3)

nija-karma-guna-doṣe je je janma pāi

janme janme jeno tava nāma-guna gāi

(4)

ei mātra āśā mama tomār caraṇe

ahoitukī bhakti hṛde jāge anukṣane

(5)

viṣaye je prīti ebe āchaye āmār

sei-mata prīti hauk caraṇe tomār

(6)

vipade sampade tāhā thākuk sama-bhāve

dine dine vṛddhi hauk nāmera prabhāve

(7)

paśu-pakṣi ho’ye thāki swarge vā niroye

tava bhakti rahu bhaktivinoda-hṛdoye

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TRANSLATION

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1) My Lord: I submit the following prayer at Your holy feet: I do not pray to You for physical leisure, for learning, wealth, or followers.

2) I do not pray for heaven or salvation. I do not pray for any of these opulences.

3) In whatever birth I take, wherever my karma leads me, let me sing the glories of Your Holy Name birth after birth.

4) This alone is my cherished hope, my aspiration, my  prayer at your lotus feet: Let  causeless  and  uninterrupted  devotion  awaken  within  my  heart  and  flow towards You.

5) Let me love Your lotus feet as much as I  now love sense gratification; transfer my affection from the objects of the senses to Your lotus feet.

6) In danger or success, good fortune or disaster, let me remain in equipoise. And let my affection for You increase day by day by the influence of the Holy Name.

7) Whether I live as bird or beast, in heaven or in hell, let the humble Bhaktivinoda always cherish bhakti in his heart of hearts.

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