Payonidhi das:
Today on the 1 of October I missed the Bhagavatam class from LA, I found the link sometime back here on dandavats. com under Live events. However the devotee that gave class was singing some bhajans of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. And the question at the end was :How many songs did Bhaktivinoda Thakura write? No one offered an answer. Actually Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura wrote 3 books that are all songs , Gitavali- where most of the bhajans we sing from him is from. He laos wrote Saranagati, and Gitamala ,he also wrote Baul Sanget (the song of the madman) and Däläler Gitä—“The Song of the Broker”
That song there is very famous:
(1)
boro sukher khabor gäi
surabhi-kuïjete nämer häö khule’che / khoda nitäi
.
1) I am singing news of the greatest happiness! At the place known as Surabhi Kuïja
in Sri Navadvépa, the Marketplace of the Holy Name has now been opened—and Lord
Nityänanda Himself is the Proprietor.
(2)
boro mojär kathä täy
Sraddhä-mülye Suddha-näma sei häöete bikäy
2) Such wonderful things are going on in that blissful marketplace! Sri Nityänanda
Prabhu is selling the pure Holy Name wholesale, merely for the price of one’s faith.
(3)
jata bhakta-bånda basi’
adhikäré dekhe’ näma becche daro kasi’
3) Seeing the assembly of devotees eagerly waiting to purchase the Name, Lord
Nityänanda first examines each of them to test their qualification; then He sells
them the Name by bargaining for His price accordingly.
(4)
jadi näma kinbe, bhäi
ämär saìge calo, mahäjaner käche jäi
4) O my dear friends! If you really want to buy this pure Holy Name, then just come
along with me, for I am now going to meet with this Nityänanda Mahäjana.
(5)
tumi kinbe kåñëa-näma
dasturi loibo ämi, pürëa ha’be käma
5) Thus, you will finally be able to acquire the pure Holy Name. I will also take my
due commission, and in this way all three of us will fulfill our desires.
(6)
boro doyäl nityänanda
çraddhä-mätra lo’ye den parama-änanda
6) Sri Nityänanda Prabhu is so extraordinarily merciful—accepting only one’s faith
in the Holy Name, He bestows the topmost divine bliss.
(7)
ek-bär dekhle cakñe jal
‘gaura’ bole’ nitäi den sakala sambal
7) When Nitäi sees a tear welling in someone’s eye upon chanting the name of
“Gaura!” He instantly gives His support to that person; indeed, He bestows all
divine opulences.
(8)
den çuddha kåñëa-Sikñä
jäti, dhana, vidyä, bala nä kore apekñä
8) He gives that person genuine realization of the pure teachings of Sri Krsna as
found in the Bhagavad-gétä and Srimad-Bhägavatam. While displaying all this
inconceivable mercy, He pays no attention to one’s caste, material wealth, mundane
knowledge, or physical ability.
(9)
amani chäòe mäyä-jäl
gåhe thäko, bane thäko, nä thäke jaïjäl
9) Now, dear friends, please reject all of mäyä’s entangling snares. If you are a
householder, then just remain at your home; if you are renounced, then just live in
the forest. Either way, nothing more will trouble you.
(10)
är näiko kalir bhoy
äcandòäle den näma nitäi doyämoy
.
10) We no longer need to fear the terrible Age of Quarrel, for the most merciful
Lord Nityänanda gives the Holy Name to anyone and everyone—even to the lowest among
men.
(11)
bhaktivinoda däki’ koy
nitäi-carana binä är nähi äsroy
11) Bhaktivinoda loudly calls out and proclaims to all, “OTHER THAN THE LOTUS FEET
OF LORD NITYÄNANDA, THERE IS NO SHELTER!”
your servant
Payonidhi das