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Gokulananda Govinda Devastakam

(1)

koti-kandarpa-sandarpa-vidhvamsana-

sviya-rupamrtaplavita-ksma-tala

bhakta-lokeksanam saksanam tarsayan

gokulananda govinda tubhyam namah

 

(2)

yasya saurabhya-saulabhya-bhag gopika-

bhagya-lesaya laksmyapi taptam tapah

ninditendivara-srika tasmai muhur

gokulananda govinda tubhyam namah

 

(3)

vamsika-kanthayor yah svaras te sa cet

tala-ragadiman sruty-anubhrajitah

ka sudha brahma kim ka nu vaikuntha-mud

gokulananda govinda tubhyam namah

 

(4)

yat pada-sparsa-madhurya-majjat-kuca

dhanyatam yanti gopyo ramato'py alam

yad yaso dundubher ghosana sarva-jid

gokulananda govinda tubhyam namah

 

(5)

yasya phelalavasvadane patratam

brahma-rudradayo yanti naivanyake

adharam sidhum ete'pi vindanti no

gokulananda govinda tubhyam namah

 

(6)

yasya lilamrtam savathakarsakam

brahma-saukhyad api svadu sarve jaguh

tat-pramanam svayam vyasa-sunuh suko

gokulananda govinda tubhyam namah

 

(7)

yat sad-aisvaryam apy arya-bhaktatmani

dhyatam udyac-camatkaram anandayet

natha tasmai rasambhodhaye kotiso

gokulananda govinda tubhyam namah

 

(8)

gokulananda-govinda-devastakam

yah pathen nityam utkanthitas tvat-padoh

prema-sevaptaye so'ciran madhuri-

sindhu-maj-janmana vanchitam vindatam

 

 

(1) Flooding the world with the nectar of Your handsomeness, a million times You drown the happiness of material love and at every moment increase the devotees thirst to see You with their eyes. O Govinda, O Gokulananda, I bow down before You.

 

(2) Your handsomeness rebukes the blue lotus. The goddess of fortune performed severe austerities to attain a fragment of the good fortune of the gopis, who easily attained Your fragrance. O Govinda, O Gokulananda, I bow down before You.

 

(3) The tala-raga and other melodies sung by Your voice and flute shine in the ear. What is nectar in comparison? What is impersonal Brahman? What is the happiness of Vaikuntha? O Govinda, O Gokulananda, I bow down before You.

 

(4) The breasts plunged into nectar by the touch of Your feet, the gopis attain a good fortune much greater than the goddess of fortune's. The sound of the dundubhi drums of Your fame conquers all. O Govinda, O Gokulananda, I bow down before You.

 

(5) Brahma, Siva and the other demigods taste the remnants of Your meals. They do not find nectar in the remnants from any other lips. O Govinda, O Gokulananda, I bow down before You.

 

(6) Everyone proclaims that the all-attractive nectar of Your pastimes is greater than the impersonal Brahman. Vyasa's son Sukadeva Gosvami is a testament to this. O Govinda, OGokulananda, I bow down before You.

 

(7) Your six wonderful opulences delight the hearts of the saintly devotees who meditate on them. O Lord, O ocean of nectar, O Govinda, O Gokulananda, I bow down before You millions of times.

 

(8) May he who regularly reads this Gokulananda-Govindadevastaka and yearns to attain pure love and service for Your feet find his desire to plunge his heart in the ocean of Your sweetness fulfilled.

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