hare krishna hare krishna krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

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Nitai Gaura Hari Bol

Néctar de Srila Prabhupada

Mukunda-mālā-stotra

King Kulaśekhara

kṛṣṇa tvadīya-pada-pańkaja-pañjarāntam
adyaiva me viśatu mānasa-rāja-haḿsaḥ
prāṇa-prayāṇa-samaye kapha-vāta-pittaiḥ
kaṇṭhāvarodhana-vidhau smaraṇaḿ kutas te

TRANSLATION
O Krsna! Please allow my mind to immediately yield to Your lotus flowerlike feet, just as the flamingo enters into the labyrinth of the lotus flowers' stems. When at the moment of my last breath my throat becomes constricted by the action of the bodily humors air, bile, and phlegm, how will I be able to remember You?

Krsna tvadiya-pada-pankaja-panjarantam. This verse was sung by King Kulashekar, a great king, but at the same time a great devotee of the Lord. His songs are recorded in the book known as Mukunda Mala Strotra. That is a very famous book. It is sung by many devotees. So it does not matter whether a man is king or a poor mendicant. Everyone has the facility to become the greatest devotee of the Lord. So he is praying, "My dear Krsna, Your feet is lotus." Generally we say lotus feet, but where the lotus flower is there, the white swan they come to the lotus flower and try to play with the stem. The sport, going down the water, and be entangled with the stem of that lotus flower. That is their sporting. So King Kulashekara is praying, that, "Let the swan of my mind be immediately entered into the network of the stem of Your lotus feet. Now my mind is sound. Let me enter immediately in the stem of Your lotus feet." That means that he is praying let me die in the sound condition of my life, so that I can think of Your lotus feet. In other words, he is giving us lessons that if we do not practice to engage our mind on the lotus feet of Krsna, when our mind is sound, how it is possible to think of Him at the time of death?

Prabhupāda:

...tvadīya-pada-paṅkaja-pañjarāntam
adyaiva me viśatu mānasa-rāja-haṁsaḥ
prāṇa-prayāṇa-samaye kapha-vāta-pittaiḥ
kaṇṭhāvarodhana-vidhau smaraṇaṁ kutas te

[My Lord Kṛṣṇa, I pray that the swan of my mind may immediately sink down to the stems of the lotus feet of Your Lordship and be locked up in their network; otherwise at the time of my final breath, when my throat is choked up with cough, how will it be possible to think of You?]

...verse was sung by King Kulaśekhara, a great king and, at the same time, a great devotee of the Lord. His songs are recorded in the book known as Mukunda-mālā-stotra. That is very famous book. It is sung by many devotees. So it does not matter whether a man is king or a poor mendicant, everyone has the facility to become the greatest devotee of the Lord.

So he's praying, "My dear Kṛṣṇa, Your feet is lotus.'' Generally we say "lotus feet." But where the lotus flower is there, the white swans, they come to the lotus flower and try to play with the stem. They sport, going down the water, and be entangled with the stem of that lotus flower. That is their sporting. So King Kulaśekhara is praying that "Let the swan of my mind be immediately entered into the network of the stem of Your lotus feet.''

So that means he wants to engage his mind on the lotus feet of the Lord immediately. There is no question of delaying. He says that "Now I am in sound mind. If I think that I shall think of Your lotus feet at the time of death, there is no certainty. Because at the time of death, the whole body becomes dislocated. The whole function becomes dismantled."

The body's supposed to be conducted by three elements, kapha-pitta-vāyu, cold and bile and air. So when these three elements work simultaneously, there is no disease in the body, but as soon as there is overlapping disruption of these three elements, the body becomes diseased. And when it is not possible to bring them again in their regulative principle, a man dies. That is the verdict of Āyurveda śāstra.

So death takes place when these three elements become overlapped with one another. And the symptom is that there is a sound on the throat which is called "garhh, garhh." That means the patient cannot speak. The throat is choked up, and he becomes suffocated and dies. So this is the last stage, symptom of his body.

So King Kulaśekhara says that "I cannot wait up to that time when everything will be topsy-turvied. Now my mind is sound. Let me enter immediately in the stem of your lotus feet.'' That means he's praying, "Let me die in the sound condition of my life, so that I can think of your lotus feet.'' In other words, he's giving us lessons that if we do not practice to engage our mind on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa when our mind is sound, how it is possible to think of Him at the time of death? [end]

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Shri vallava iti barada iti dayapara iti bhaktapriya iti bhava lunthna kobidaiti natha iti nagasayana iti jaggannibasa iti alapinam pratidinam kuru mam Mukunda.

Translation:

Oh Mukunda my Lord! please do it unto me so that I can become a constant reciter of addressing you thus:— Oh very dear to Laxmi (goddess of beauty and goodluck), endower of benediction, causeless merciful, very dear to devotees, expert in plundering the status quo of repeated birth and death, the real lord who lies on the bed of serpent and the resort of the cosmos.

Explanation:

A devotee of Godhead is he who glorifies the Personality of Godhead by transcendental ecstasy. This ecstasy is a byproduct of profound love for the Supreme Lord which is also attained by the same process of glorification. In this age of quarrel and fight only such glorificatory chanting process, as is recommended here by the king Kulashekhara, is the proper way of self realisation. Diseased persons infected with material attachment and thereby suffering from the pangs of repeated birth and death cannot realise the effect of such spiritual realisation by recitation of glories of the Lord, as much as a patient suffering from the disease of jaundice cannot relish the taste of sugar candy. Patient suffering from jaundice tastes sugar candy as bitter as anything although sugar candy by its very nature is as sweet as anything. Similarly the transcendental Name, Fame, Attributes, Pastimes, Entourage etc. of the Personality of Godhead are sweet to those only who are recovered from the infection of material sufferings in respect of the gross body and subtle mind, in respect of dealings with other living beings, and in respect of our cosmic relations. On the other hand sugar candy is the only medicine for a jaundiced patient. By regular doses of sugar candy treatment one can gradually get relieved from the affection of jaundice and when he is perfectly cured—the same sugar candy becomes as sweet as it is naturally. The whole world is now suffering from the jaundice of material disease and they require the sugar candy treatment of glorifying the Lord.

The mundane people in general, the so-called philosophers and religionists of different sects are in spite of all good will suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence. They are all after a peaceful condition of the world and the panch sheel propaganda is targeted to this end only. The only way of getting out of this entangling environment is transcendental chanting of glories of the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord is all spirit Absolute Truth and therefore His Name, Fame etc. are nondifferent from Him. All of them are identical with one another and it is a question of realisation only. By chanting the holy Name of the Lord which are innumerable, one can actually associate himself with the Lord personally. And by such constant personal touch with the Lord, one can get himself spiritually realised which means to become qualified with all the good qualities of Gods. Unless there is individual awakening of the Divine consciousness—there is no use of crying for world peace. Therefore the process of self-realisation, in this fallen age, by chanting the transcendental glories of the Lord is the most suitable procedure. This process is the only process because the people in general of this age are short-lived, slow in understanding the importance of spiritual value, unfortunate in material prosperity and specially prone to be misguided by false leaders. And to crown all the above, they are constantly disturbed in mind by unfavourable situation in life.

The king Kulashekhara, who is an ideal pure devotee of the Lord, shows us the way of offering prayers to the Lord by his own personal realisation. As he is a ‘Mahajan’ or the man in authority in the line of devotional services, it is our prime duty to follow his footprints in order to achieve to the highest rank of devotional stage.

The first address of the Lord is said that He is very dear to the goddess of beauty and prosperity called by the name "Shree" of whom the Lord is "Vallava" endearment. Therefore the goddess of beauty and prosperity is the consort of the Lord. The goddess is the same as the Lord but she is only the manifestation of His internal potency. By expansion of His internal potency, the Lord enjoys His spiritual paraphernalia. He is not an imperson or voidness in the highest spiritual realisation-as it is conceived by different empiric philosophers with poor fund of knowledge. The actual position is that He is nothing of this material world but yet in His spiritual identity He is not merely a negation of material variegatedness but also He is spiritually the positive enjoyer of everything of which "Shree" or the internal potency is the fountainhead.

The Lord is then addressed as "Baroda" because it is He only who can deliver the substance. By detaching ourselves from His association we are always in the midst of perpetual want and scarcity but as soon as we get into touch with Him, the gradual process of endowment of bliss begins.

The first installment of such endowment is the clearance of the layer of dust accumulated in the heart by material association of lacs and crores of years. As soon as, however, the dust is brushed aside the clear mirror of heart reflects the presence of the Lord and as soon as we can see Him we are automatically freed from the bondage of all sorts of aspirations frustrations the two primary and principles of material existence. We do aspire for what we have not and we lament for things in frustration. A liberated soul has nothing to do with such material aspiration or frustration. He is concerned with spiritual business. Following this endowment of spiritual bliss, full knowledge, full life and full satisfaction come in order covering the total existence of perpetual want.

The Lord is then addressed as Dayapara or the compassionate. Actually there is nobody else who can become so causelessly merciful friend of us, except the Lord. He is called the friend of the needy. Unfortunately we seek our friendship in the flesh and blood without knowing a spiritual spark of the Lord cannot be happy in non-spiritual flesh and blood. A needy man cannot help another needy fellow. No mundane man thinks himself complete in every respect. Everybody is a needy fellow. Even the greatest of all rich men thinks himself needy because he is perpetually in search after spiritual bliss which is a missing clue. This missing clue is found out in the complete spiritual Whole the Lord of one’s heart. Everything is evaluated as zero without the Lord. The Lord is the positive digit with which zero added the number becomes multiplied by ten.

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Srila Prabhupada:
Srila Shukadeva Goswami - Bhag. 2.4.21 - "O Processo da Criação"

Verso 21

yad-aìghry-abhidhyäna-samädhi-dhautayä
dhiyänupaçyanti hi tattvam ätmanaù
vadanti caitat kavayo yathä-rucaà
sa me mukundo bhagavän prasédatäm

É a Personalidade de Deus Sri Krishna quem dá liberação. Por pensar em Seus pés de lótus a cada segundo, por seguir os passos das autoridades, o devoto em transe pode ver a Verdade Absoluta. Os especuladores mentais estudados, entretanto, pensam Nele de acordo com seus caprichos. Que o Senhor fique satisfeito comigo.

Iluminação de Srila Prabhupada:

Os yogis místicos, depois de um esforço extenuante para controlar os sentidos, podem ficar situados num transe de yoga justamente para ter uma visão da Superalma dentro de todos, porém o devoto puro, simplesmente por lembrar os pés de lótus do Senhor a cada segundo, imediatamente fica estabelecido em transe real porque por essa realização sua mente e inteligência estão completamente limpas das doenças do desfrute material. O devoto puro se sente caído no oceano de nascimento e morte e ora incessantemente para o Senhor levantá-lo. Ele só aspira em se tornar uma partícula de poeira transcendental nos pés de lótus do Senhor. O devoto puro, pela graça do Senhor, perde absolutamente toda atração por prazer material, e para se manter livre da contaminação ele sempre pensa nos pés de lótus do Senhor. O Rei Kulashekhara, um grande devoto do Senhor, orou:

kåñëa tvadéya-pada-paìkaja-païjaräntam
adyaiva me viçatu mänasa-räja-haàsaù
präëa-prayäëa-samaye kapha-väta-pittaiù
kaëöhävarodhana-vidhau smaraëaà kutas te

(Mukunda-mālā-stotra 33)

"Meu querido Senhor Krishna, eu oro para que o cisne da minha mente possa imediatamente afundar nos caules dos pés de lótus de Vossa Divindade e fique enroscado na rede deles; senão na hora da minha respiração final, quando minha garganta estiver engasgada com tosse, como será possível pensar em Você"?

Há uma relação íntima entre o cisne e o caule do lótus. Por isso a comparação é bem apropriada: sem se tornar um cisne, ou paramahamsa, não se pode entrar dentro da rede dos pés de lótus do Senhor. Como está afirmado no Brahma-samhita, os especuladores mentais, mesmo por mérito de erudição acadêmica, não podem nem mesmo sonhar com a Verdade Absoluta por especular sobre isso pela eternidade. O Senhor reserva o direito de não Se expor para tais especuladores mentais. E porque eles não podem entrar dentro da rede de caules do caule de lótus do Senhor, todos especuladores materiais diferem em conclusões, e no fim eles fazem um comprometimento inútil por dizer, "tantas conclusões, tantos caminhos", de acordo com sua própria inclinação (yatah-rucam). Porém o Senhor não é igual um lojista que tenta satisfazer todos tipos de clientes no intercâmbio de especuladores mentais. O Senhor é o que Ele é, a Personalidade de Deus Absoluta, e Ele demanda rendição absoluta a Ele somente. O devoto puro, entretanto, por seguir os caminhos dos acharyas prévios, ou autoridades, pode ver o Supremo Senhor através do meio transparente do mestre espiritual fidedigno (anupasyanti). O devoto puro nunca tenta ver o Senhor por especulação mental, mas por seguir os passos dos acaryas (mahajano yena gatah sa panthat (Cc. Madhya 17.186)). Por isso não existe nenhuma diferença de conclusões entre os acaryas Vaishnava em relação ao Senhor e Seus devotos. O Senhor Chaitanya afirma que o ser vivo (jiva) é eternamente o servidor do Senhor e que ele é simultaneamente uno e diferente do Senhor. Esse tattva do Senhor Chaitanya é compartilhado por todas quatro sampradayas da escola Vaishnava (todas aceitam servidão eterna para o Senhor mesmo depois da salvação), e não existe nenhum acarya Vaishnava autorizado que possa pensar no Senhor e ele como unos.

Essa humildade do devoto puro, que está cem por cento dedicado em Seu serviço, põe o devoto sincero do Senhor num transe pelo qual para realizar tudo, porque para o devoto sincero do Senhor, o Senhor Se revela, como afirmado no Bhagavad-gita (10.10). O Senhor, por ser o Senhor da inteligência dentro de todos (mesmo no não devoto), favorece Seu devoto com inteligência apropriada para que automaticamente o devoto puro fique iluminado com a verdade de fato sobre o Senhor e Suas diferentes energias. O Senhor não é revelado pelo poder especulativo de alguém ou pelo malabarismo verbal de alguém sobre a Verdade Absoluta. Em vez disso, Ele Se revela para um devoto quando Ele fica plenamente satisfeito pela atitude de serviço do devoto. Shukadeva Goswami não é um especulador mental ou comprometido com a teoria de "tantos caminhos, tantas conclusões". Em vez disso, ele ora para o Senhor somente, por invocar Seu prazer transcendental. Assim é o caminho para conhecer o Senhor.

 

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Param Vijayate Sri Krsna Sankirtanam!

  

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