Radha Kunda tata

jaya giraja jaya govadhana
jaya radha kunda jaya shyama kunda , jaya damodara radha jaya damodara radha

Author: Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Book Name: Saranagati

Language: Bengali

LYRICS:

(1)

rādhā-kunḍa-taṭa-kuñja-kuṭīr

govardhana-parvata, jāmuna-tīr

(2)

kusuma-sarovara, mānasa-gańgā

kalinda-nandinī vipula-tarańga

(3)

vaḿśī-vaṭa, gokula, dhīra-samīr

bṛndābana-taru-latikā-bānīr

(4)

khaga-mṛga-kula, malaya-bātās

mayūra, bhramara, muralī-vilās

(5)

venu, śṛńga, pada-cihna, megha-mālā

vasanta, śaśańka, śańkha, karatāla

(6)

yugala-vilāse anukūla jāni

līlā-vilāse-uddīpaka māni

(7)

e saba choḍato kańhi nāhi jāu

e saba choḍato parāna hārāu

(8)

bhakativinoda kohe, śuno kān!

tuwā uddīpaka hāmārā parān

TRANSLATION

1-6) The cottage in the grove on the banks of Radha-kunda, the great Govardhana Hill, the banks of the Yamuna, Kusuma-sarovara, Manasa-ganga, the daughter of Kalinda (the Yamuna) with her many waves, the Vamsi-vat, Gokula, Dhira-samira, the trees and creepers and reeds of Vrdavana, the different varieties of colorful birds, the deer, the cooling breeze from the Malaya Mountains, the peacocks, the bumblebees, the pastimes with the flute, the flute itself, the buffalo horn bugle, the footprints of cows in the dust of Vraja, the rows of blackish rain clouds, springtime, the moon, the conchsell, and the karatalas – all these I know to be very conductive for the pastimes of Radha and Krsna. I recognize in them a transcendental stimulus for making the Lord’s charming pastimes more intense.

7) I refuse to go anywhere if there stimuli to devotional service are not there, for to abandon them is to abandon life itself.

8) Bhaktivinoda says, “Please hear me, O Kana! Your entourage and paraphernalia stimulate remembrance of You and are the very source of my life.”