prayers to Lord Krishna from Madhusudana Sarasvati's gUdArthadIpikA

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praNams Advaitins,

 

Is there any place where I can get the *sanskrit verses* of

the prayers to Lord Krishna by Madhusudana Sarasvati in

his gUdArthadIpikA? The prayers are too beautiful even

in English!

 

Here are a couple of excerpts from the translation by

Swami Gambhirananda.

 

(I do not know why, but these remind me of the prayers

that Mahaakavi Potana made to Lord Shri Rama at the

beginning of each of the skandas in his translation of

Srimad Bhagavatham.)

 

 

At the end of chapter 10

There are some able persons who, by fixing their own

minds on an infinite, certainly bring about the cessation of

(hankering for) other objects. (But) my mind, O slayer of

Madhu (Madhusudana), gets exhilarated again and again

by tasting a drop of honey dripping from your lotus-feet!

 

Beginning of chapter 13

If the yogis, with their minds which have been brought

under control through the practise of meditation, see some

such transcendental light that is without qualities and action,

let them see!

 

But, for filling our eyes with astonishment, let there be

forever that indescribable Blue (Light) alone which runs about

hither and thither on the sands of the Kaalindi (Yamuna)!

 

 

15.18 yasmaatkshara-matitoham ...

 

The glory of Narayana, the supreme Purusha, whose body

is made up only of Existence-Knowledge-Bliss, who, out

of compassion, acting like a human being taught to Partha

the supreme realities and His own Godhood, indeed baffles

comparison.

 

Some persons having pure minds and intellects strive by

controlling the organs, giving up enjoyment, and practising

Yoga. But I have become liberated by tasting the glory of

Narayana, which is the essence of nectar and is shoreless.

 

15.19 yo maameva sammuDho ...

 

O you who are conversant with good works, worship

again and again the Light which is by nature Consciousness

and Bliss, which has the color of a rain-cloud, which is the

quintessence of Vedic utterances, which is the necklace of

the women of vraja, which is the other shore of the sea of

the world to the wise, and which repeatedly incarnates for

removing the burden on the earth!

 

15.20. iti guhyatamam ...

 

I do not know any reality other than krishna whose

hands are adorned with a flute, whose lustre is like that

of a rain-cloud, who wears a yellow cloth, whose lips are

reddish like the Bimba-fruit, whose face is beautiful like

the full moon, and whose eyes are like lotuses.

 

The mind that is ever merged in the state of constant

Bliss removes (all) mentations, (and) by eradicating the

sorrows consequent on (repeated) births and deaths it

attains at once the Reality transcending cause and effect.

 

I am that supreme Auspicious One in whom get identified

all the followers of Shiva, of the Sun, of Ganesha, of

Vishnu, and the worshippers of Shakti.

 

 

praNams to all Advaitins,

Ramakrishna

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advaitin , " Ramakrishna Upadrasta " <ramakrsn

wrote:

>

> praNams Advaitins,

>

> Is there any place where I can get the *sanskrit verses* of

> the prayers to Lord Krishna by Madhusudana Sarasvati in

> his gUdArthadIpikA?

 

The Gita Supersite has the text: (in several Indic scripts) -

 

http://www.gitasupersite.iitk.ac.in/

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advaitin , " advaitins " <advaitins wrote:

> > Is there any place where I can get the *sanskrit verses* of

> > the prayers to Lord Krishna by Madhusudana Sarasvati in

> > his gUdArthadIpikA?

> The Gita Supersite has the text: (in several Indic scripts) -

 

praNams Advaitins,

 

I cannot thank you enough number of times!

 

Hari Om!

Ramakrishna