Bhajana-Rahasya
by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura Mahasaya | 2010 | 123,965 words
The Bhajana-rahasya Text 12, English translation, including commentary (vritti). The Bhajana-rahasya is a compilation of verses describing the mercy of the eight pairs of names (Yugala-nama) of the Maha-mantra. This is text 12 belonging to the chapter “Prathama-yama-sadhana (Nishanta-bhajana–shraddha)” representing the last six dandas of the night: approximately 3.30 a.m.–6.00 a.m.
Text 12
The seventh verse of Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī’s Śrī Kṛṣṇa-nāmāṣṭaka describes the holy name as the embodiment of concentrated transcendental bliss and knowledge:
सूदिताश्रित-जनार्ति-राशये रम्य-चिद्-घन-सुख-स्वरूपिणे
नाम! गोकुल-महोत्सवाय ते कृष्ण! पूर्ण-वपुषे नमो नमःsūditāśrita-janārti-rāśaye ramya-cid-ghana-sukha-svarūpiṇe
nāma! gokula-mahotsavāya te kṛṣṇa! pūrṇa-vapuṣe namo namaḥO destroyer of the numerous sufferings of those who have taken shelter of You, O embodiment of delightful transcendental bliss, O great festival for the residents of Gokula, O all-pervading one, O Kṛṣṇa-nāma, time and again I offer respects to You, who are replete with these qualities.
आश्रित जनेर सब आर्ति-नाश करि’
अति-रम्य चिद्घन स्वरूपे विहरिāśrita janera saba ārti-nāśa kari’
ati-ramya cidghana svarūpe vihariगोकुलेर महोत्सव कृष्ण पूर्न-रूप
हेन नामे नमि’ प्रेम पाइ अपरूपgokulera mahotsava kṛṣṇa pūrna-rūpa
hena nāme nami’ prema pāi aparūpaनाम-सङ्कीर्तने हय सर्वानर्थ नाश
सर्व शुभोदय कृष्णे प्रेमेर उल्लासnāma-saṅkīrtane haya sarvānartha nāśa
sarva śubhodaya kṛṣṇe premera ullāsa
Commentary: Bhajana-rahasya-vṛtti:
“The name of Śrī Kṛṣṇa removes all kinds of distress and sorrow for those who have taken its shelter. He especially removes the Vrajavāsīs’ extreme pain of separation. Kṛṣṇa-nāma sports as Nanda-nandana Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the personification of supremely delightful, condensed, transcendental happiness. The holy name is the great festival of Nanda-Gokula and the very embodiment of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. Please let Me (Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu) attain undivided love for śrī kṛṣṇa-nāma. Aho! All anarthas will be completely destroyed through nāma-saṅkīrtana, and all varieties of auspiciousness, as well as joyful love for Śrī Kṛṣṇa, will arise.”
A question may arise here. The holy name is able to destroy the thirty-two kinds of sevā-aparādha, but how can criticism of devotees and saintly persons (sādhu-nindā) and the other nine kinds of nāma-aparādha be destroyed? The answer is that they can also be destroyed by chanting harināma. Śrīman Mahāprabhu is speaking with this mood.