Where's this verse from?

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Hare Krsna, dear Mahamantra Prabhu. Please accept my humble obeisances. All

glories to Srila Prabhupada.

 

Looks like you have the same old book that I have. I, too, in vain looked

for this "intoxication" verse in the BBT Mukunda Mala Stotra when it came

out.

 

 

>So Where is it from? Now I'm not sure.. was it from a commentary on Mukunda

>Mala stotram?

 

No idea, but there could be various versions of MMS in circulation, and in

such a case one would expect that the BBT chose the most authentic one. The

BBT version has 53 verses. The old one (it doesn't give translator's name)

has 60.

 

The verse could be a later interpolation. But beautiful it is!

 

Here is another one that is not found in the BBT edition, yet it is

beautiful:

 

yat krtam yad karisyami

tat sarvam na maya krtam

tvaya-krtam tu phala-bhuk

tvam eva madhusudana

 

"O Lord Krsna, O killer of the Madhu demon, O rightful enjoyer of the fruits

of action, whatever I have been or will be able to do, is not done by me,

but by You."

 

And here is yet another one that did not make it into the BBT edition... and

I am glad it didn't:

 

ma me stritvam ma ca me syat kubhavo

ma murkhatvam ma kudesesu janma

mithyadrstin ma ca me syat kadacij

jatau jatau visnu-bhakto bhaveyam

 

"Let me never take birth as a woman, or in a wretched condition, or as a

fool, or in a sinful country, or bewildered by an untrue conception of life.

Let me simply remain a devotee of Lord Visnu, birth after birth."

 

Ys Dhkdd