(4) tumi sarbeswareswara brajendra-kumara!
tomara icchaya biswe srjana samhara
taba iccha-mato brahma karena srjana
taba iccha-mato visnu karena palana
taba iccha-mate siba karena samhara
taba iccha-mate maya srje karagara
taba iccha-mate jiber janama-marana
samriddhi-nipate duhkha sukha-samghatana
miche maya-baddha jiba asa-pase fire
taba iccha bina kichu korite na pare
tumi to’ rakhaka ar palaka amara
tomara carana bina asa nahi ara
nija-bala-cesta-prati bharasa chariya
tomara icchay achi nirghara koriya
bhakativinoda ati dina akincana
tomara icchay ta’ra jibana marana
Translation
O youthful son of the King of Vraja, You are Lord of all. Creation and destruction take place in the universe according to Your will.
According to Your will Lord Brahma creates, and in accordance with Your will Lord Visnu maintains.
Lord Siva destroys in similar obedience to You, and by Your wish maya constructs the prison house of this world.
By Your will the living beings take birth and die, and by Your will they meet with prosperity and ruin, happiness and sorrow.
The tiny soul bound up by maya vainly struggles in the fetters of worldly desire. Without Your sanction he is unable to do anything.
You are my protector and maintainerl Without Your lotus feet there is no hope for me.
No longer confident of my own strength and endeavor, I depend solely on Your will.
Bhaktivinoda is most poor, and his pride has been leveled. Now he lives or dies, as You wish.
tomara icchaya biswe srjana samhara
taba iccha-mato brahma karena srjana
taba iccha-mato visnu karena palana
taba iccha-mate siba karena samhara
taba iccha-mate maya srje karagara
taba iccha-mate jiber janama-marana
samriddhi-nipate duhkha sukha-samghatana
miche maya-baddha jiba asa-pase fire
taba iccha bina kichu korite na pare
tumi to’ rakhaka ar palaka amara
tomara carana bina asa nahi ara
nija-bala-cesta-prati bharasa chariya
tomara icchay achi nirghara koriya
bhakativinoda ati dina akincana
tomara icchay ta’ra jibana marana
Translation
O youthful son of the King of Vraja, You are Lord of all. Creation and destruction take place in the universe according to Your will.
According to Your will Lord Brahma creates, and in accordance with Your will Lord Visnu maintains.
Lord Siva destroys in similar obedience to You, and by Your wish maya constructs the prison house of this world.
By Your will the living beings take birth and die, and by Your will they meet with prosperity and ruin, happiness and sorrow.
The tiny soul bound up by maya vainly struggles in the fetters of worldly desire. Without Your sanction he is unable to do anything.
You are my protector and maintainerl Without Your lotus feet there is no hope for me.
No longer confident of my own strength and endeavor, I depend solely on Your will.
Bhaktivinoda is most poor, and his pride has been leveled. Now he lives or dies, as You wish.
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Re: Saranagathi-18
Fri, July 20, 2007 - 1:44 PMIt is good when we can realize this because it is true, without Krsna we cannot find any happiness or peace. For the good cause of free will, the Lord allows us to turn away from him and do our own thing, but out of mercy, he shows us in the meantime what we are capable without him. We want to control things ourselves, be kings ourselves, so we have been given reign over mundane matter, something we are capable of manipulating a little bit. But over time, our dependence on matter, rather than Krsna, wears us down, and we become old and we shrivel up and we die. Then of course Krsna is nice enough to give us another body, so we can begin again, and hopefully at some point we will tire of being "kings" and seek out the Lord, realize how unsatisfying our material lust has made us. At least we able to learn something and evolve through this process, for Krsna always has our best intentions in mind!
