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radhegovinda

namo narayana

 

dear bhaagavatas,

lets continue onwards with surdas...

 

ONLY KRISHNA, NO OTHER

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Chant Krishna's name alone,

none other can free you

from life's bondage.

 

Life after life

you heaped sin on sin,

now only the sharp axe-shaped

name of Krishna

can cleave them.

 

The uncrossable sea of worldly existence

can be crossed only by the boat

of Krishna-devotion-this is the essence

of what the Vedas, Puranas and the Gita say.

 

So start praying to the Lord this very minute,

or your life will go to waste.

Says Suradasa, if you blow the chance

it may never again come your way.

 

 

 

SEEK GOD WITHIN YOURSELF

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O mind, know yourself.

you remained deluded

life after life,

when will you shake off this spoofery,

if not today?

 

The musk-deer smelling musk

runs here, there and everywhere

in search of it,

not knowing that it is within him.

 

So too we search for God

outside ourselves

unaware

that he is seated in our hearts.

 

When the devotee knows God,

then alone

delusion's veil is lifted from his mind.

 

Says Suradasa, be as the water

which washes away all dyes

and makes the cloth white:

fix your wandering mind

on the Almighty;

thus alone

will you be purified.

 

lottsa krishna premai

kalaivani

namo narayana

andal thiruvadigale sharanam

 

 

 

 

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