3) Nama-sankirtana
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hari haraye namah krsna yadavaya namah
yadavaya madhavaya kesavaya namah
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gopala govinda rama sri-madhusudana
giridhari gopinatha madana-mohana
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sri-caitanya-nityananda sri-adwaita-sita
hari guru vaisnaba bhagavata gita
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sri-rupa sanatana bhatta-raghunath
sri jiva gopala-bhatta dasa-raghunath
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ei chay gosair kori carana vandan
jaha hoite bighna-nas abhista-puran
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ei chay gosai jar-- mui tar das
ta-sabara pada-renu mora panca-gras
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tadera carana-sebi-bhakta-sane bas
janame janame hoy ei abhilas
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ei chay gosai jabe braje koila bas
radha-krsna-nitya-lila korila prakas
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anande bolo hari bhaja brndaban
sri-guru-vaisnaba-pade majaiya man
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sri-guru-vaisnaba-pada-padma kori as
nama-sankirtana kohe narottama das
PURPORT
by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This song of Srila Narottama Dasa
Thakura is very famous among devotees in Bengal and Orissa. When Lord Caitanya
returned from Gaya, where He was initiated by Sri Isvara Puri, He was
completely transformed into a God-intoxicated personality whom His students of
grammar had never known before. Instead of teaching ordinary grammar studies,
Lord Caitanya explained every sentence in such a way that every Sanskrit word
and every letter was understood to indicate Krsna, the Supreme Personality of
Godhead. This form of grammar was later on developed by Srila Jiva Gosva mi in
a book called Hari-namamrta-vyakarana, the Grammar of the Nectar and Name of
Sri Hari. But Lord Caitanya's students thought that their teacher had become
mad, and they rubbed His head with Visnu oil, an oil that cools the brain.
Finally they asked Him, "You say that everything means Krsna and we should
ultimately always be chanting the names of Krsna. Just how should we do
this?" Then Lord Caitanya began to sing the names of Krsna and clap His
hands, and He began His nama-sankirtana movement. The names He sang are the
first two lines of this song, and Narottama Das Thakura and others have placed
these names in the beginning of their writings to immortalize these events in
the memory of everyone.
Narottama Dasa Thakura chants the names of Lord Caitanya,
Nityananda, Sri Advaita and Sita (Lord Advaita's consort). Since Lord Hari, the
spiritual matter and the Srimad Bhagavad-gita are all on the transcendental
platform, they are given the same respect. Then Srila Narottama Dasa chants the
names of the six Gosvamis. "I offer my obeisances at their feet," he
sings, "which destroy sufferings accumulated over many long years. I am
the servant of these six Gosvamis, and the dust of their lotus feet is my five
kinds of foodstuffs. To solve their lotus feet and keep the association of
devotees is my only business, birth after birth." When the six Gosvamis
were staying at Vrndavana, they revealed the eternal transcendental pastimes of
Sri Sri Radha-Krsna. Before Lord Caitanya the exact location of the places of
Lord Krsna's pasti- mes we're not known, and therefore Lord Caitanya instructed
the Gosvamis to uncover the holy places and construct temples. The temple of
Sri Radha-Damodara is situated near the location of the rasa dance, and Srila
Rupa Gosvami and the other Gosvamis used to gather there and discuss the topics
of their literatures, which scientifically explained the super-excellent
pastimes of Sri-Sri Radha-Krsna. Narottama Dasa Thakura says, "In great
ecstasy shout the name of Hari and serve the real transcendental master and
devotees." He concludes by saying, "With all hopes in the lotus feet
of my guru and the holy Vaisnavas. Narottama Dasa sings the sankirtana of Lord
Hari:- Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna-Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama,
Rama Rama, Hare Hare."
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