Sri Hari Vasare Hari Kirtana Vidhana

Song Name: Sri Hari Vasare Hari Kirtana Vidhana

Official Name: Sriman Mahaprabhur Hari Vasara Vrata Palana

Author: Vrndavana Das Thakura

(1)

śrī hari-vāsare hari-kīrtana-vidhāna

nṛtya ārambhilā prabhu jagatera prāṇa

(2)

puṇyavanta śrīvāsa-ańgane śubhārambha

uṭhila kīrtana-dhvani ‘gopāla’ ‘govinda’

(3)

mṛdańga-mandirā bāje śańkha-karatāla

sańkīrtana-sańge saba haila miśāla

(4)

brahmāṇḍe bhedila dhvani pūriyā ākāśa

caudikera amańgala sarva jaya nāsa

(5)

uṣaḥ-kāla haite nṛtya kare viśvambhara

yūtha yūtha haila jata gayana sundara

(6)

śrīvāsa-paṇḍita laiyā eka sampradāya

mukunda laiyā āra jana-kata gāya

(7)

laiyā govinda ghoṣa āra kata-jana

gauracandra-nṛtye sabe karena kīrtana

(8)

dhariyā bulena nityānanda mahābalī

alakṣite advaita layena pada-dhūli

(9)

gadādhara-ādi jata sajala-nayane

ānande vihvala haila prabhura kīrtane

(10)

jakhana uddaṇḍa nāce prabhu viśvambhara

pṛthivī kampita haya, sabe pāya ḍara

(11)

kakhana vā madhura nācaye viśvambhara

jena dekhi nandera nandana naṭavara

(12)

aparūpa kṛṣṇāveśa, aparūpa nṛtya

ānande nayana bhari’ dekhe saba bhṛtya

(13)

nijānande nāce mahāprabhu viśvambhara

caraṇera tāla śuni ati manohara

(14)

bhāva-vese mālā nāhi rahaye galāya

chiṇḍiyā paḍaye giyā bhakatera gāya

(15)

catur-dike śrī-hari-mańgala-sańkīrtana

madhye nāce jagannātha-miśrera nandana

(16)

jā’ra nāmānande śiva-vasana nā jāne

jā’ra raśe nāce śiva, se nāce āpane

(17)

jā’ra nāme vālmīki hailā tapodhana

jā’ra nāme ajāmila pāila mocana

(18)

jā’ra nāma śravaṇe saṁsāra-bandha ghuce

hena prabhu avatāri’ kali-yuge nāce

(19)

jā’ra nāma laiya śuka-nārada beḍāya

sahasra-vadana prabhu jā’ra guṇa gāya

(20)

sarva mahā-prāyaścitta je prabhura nāma

se-prabhu nācaye, dekhe jata bhāgyavāna

(21)

prabhura ānanda dekhi’ bhāgavata-gaṇa

anyonye galā dhari’ karaye krandana

(22)

sabāra ańgete śobhe śrī candana-mālā

ānande gāyena kṛṣṇa-rase hai’ bholā

(23)

jateka vaiṣṇava-saba kīrtana-āveśe

nā jāne āpana deha, anya jana kise

(24)

jaya kṛṣṇa-murāri-mukunda-vanamālī

ahar-niśa gāya sabe hai’ kutūhalī

(25)

ahar-niśa bhakta-sańge nāce viśvambhara

śrānti nāhi kāra, sabe sattva-kalevara

(26)

ei-mata nāce mahāprabhu viśvambhara

niśi avaśeṣa mātra se eka prahara

(27)

ei-mata ānanda haya navadvīpa-pure

prema-rase vaikuṇṭhera nāyaka vihare

(28)

e sakala puṇya kathā je kare śravaṇa

bhakta-sańge gauracandre rahu tā’ra mana

(29)

śrī kṛṣṇa-caitanya-nityānanda-cāda jāna

vṛndāvana-dāsa prabhu pada-yuge gāna

TRANSLATION

1) On Ekadasi day Mahaprabhu, who is the life and soul of all beings, decreed that every-one should gather for kirtana. Hearing the sound of His own name, He began to dance in ecstasy.

2) In Srivasa-angana, Srivasa Thakura’s divine courtyard, He inaugurated the auspicious reverberations of the kirtana in a booming voice: “Gopala! Govinda!”

3) In the courtyard the sounds of the mrdanga, small cymbals, conch, karatalas and beautiful singing all mixed together.

4) The loud sound passed through the entire brahmanda and filled the whole sky reaching Svetadvipa, destroying everything inauspicious in all the fourteen worlds.

5) From morning Visvambhara He who nourishes and maintains the whole universe by bhakti started dancing. Many groups sang charmingly – each group singing a different melody.

6) Srivasa Pandita was the guru of one group of kirtaniyas, and Mukunda was the lead singer of another.

7) Govinda Ghosa was the head of another group. Gauracandra danced in the middle of the whole kirtana party.

8) The mighty Nityananda Prabhu protected Mahaprabhu when He swooned while dancing as Advaita Acarya secretly took His foot-dust at that time.

9) Tears came to Gadadhara, Mukunda, Sridhara and others upon hearing Mahaprabhu’s kirtana, as the rising of asta-sattvika bhavas overwhelmed their hearts.

10) Visvambhara danced with so much force that the earth trembled, causing all the devotees to become afraid.

11) Sometimes Visvambhara danced so gracefully and sweetly that He appeared to be natavara Nanda-nandana, the best of dancers.

12) Mahaprabhu’s beauty is unequalled and unsurpassed; defeating even Krsna’s beauty even Krsna has no mahabhava. All His followers’ eyes filled with ananda seeing His dancing.

13) Mahaprabhu Visvambhara danced, absorbed in ananda. Hearing the rhythm of His dancing feet, the devotees became spellbound.

14) As Mahaprabhu danced, being filled with bhava, His garland could not stay around His neck but broke, all the flowers falling at the feet of His devotees.

15) The auspicious sounds of sri harinama-sankirtana spread in every direction while Jagannatha Misra’s son danced in the midst of all the devotees.

16) Siva chants the same blissful name and becomes so absorbed in prema that his cloth falls down. Hearing Mahaprabhu’s glories, Siva starts to dance, and Mahaprabhu, hearing His own glories, also dances.

17) By this same nama Valmiki achieved the wealth of austerity – he saw all Rama lila. And by this same nama all of Ajamila’s anarthas and aparadhas were pulled out by the root.

18) Hearing sri krsna-nama totally cuts all worldly attachments. Sri Krsna Himself came in Kali-yuga as Mahaprabhu, dancing and advising all to chant krsna-nama.

19) Sukadeva and Narada also chant this krsna-nama and distribute it. With thousands of tongues Mahaprabhu sings the glories of this nama.

20) Taking Mahaprabhu’s name constitutes the highest form of atonement. Seeing Mahaprabhu dancing, the devotees became supremely fortunate.

21) Seeing Mahaprabhu’s bliss, the devotees embraced each other and wept loudly as the rays of Mahaprabhu’s ananda entered their hearts.

22) All the devotees attended kirtana and Mahaprabhu personally decorated their bodies with candana and garlands. Sri Gaurasundara and the devotees sang and tasted krsnarasa with great joy.

23) Absorbed in kirtana, all the Vaisnava devotees completely lost sense of their own bodies and everyone else around them.

24) “Jaya krsna, murari, mukunda, vanamali.” Day and night all the devotees sang kirtana in great happiness.

25) Visvambhara danced twenty-four hours with His devotees but never tired, because His body was sattva-kalevara, fully transcendental.

26) Daily Mahaprabhu in full prema danced in kirtana the whole night, and only stopped three hours before sunrise.

27) Daily Mahaprabhu, the hero who enjoys the prema-rasa of Vaikuntha Svetadvipa, tasted and distributed great bliss in Navadvipa.

28) Gauracandra and all His associates enter in the hearts of the devotees who hear the allvirtuous hari-katha with full faith. Thus their hearts become Srivasa-angana.

29) Vrndavana dasa says, “Sri Krsna Caitanya and the moon-like Nityananda Prabhu are my life and soul and I offer my dandavat-pranama at Their lotus feet.”