O Gopinatha ,indeed I am a servant of lust.

[krsna]

 

0 Gopinatha, indeed I am a servant of lust.

Worldly desires are awakening in my heart,

and thus the noose of fruitive work

is beginning to tighten.

 

0 Gopinatha, when will I wake up

and abandon afar this enemy of lust,

and when will You manifest Yourself in my heart?

 

0 Gopinatha, I am Your devotee,

but having abandoned You

and thus having forgotten my real treasure,

I have worshiped this mundane world.

 

0 Gopinatha, You know everything.

Now, having punished Your servant,

please give him a place at Your lotus feet.

 

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura's "Gopinatha"

 

[krsna]

 

Gopinatha (part 1)

 

(from Kalyana-kalpataru)

by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakur

 

 

1.

gopinath, mama nivedana suno

visayi durjana, sada kama-rata,

kichu nahi mora guna

 

0 Gopinatha, Lord of the gopis, please hear my request.

I am a wicked materialist, always addicted to worldly desires,

and no good qualities do I possess.

 

 

2.

gopinath, amara bharasa tumi

tomara carane, loinu sarana,

tomara kinkora ami

 

0 Gopinatha, You are my only hope,

and therefore I have taken shelter at Your lotus feet.

I am now Your eternal servant.

 

 

3.

gopinath, kemone sodhibe more

na jani bhakati, karme jada-mati,

porechi somsara-ghore

 

0 Gopinatha, how will You purify me?

I do not know what devotion is,

and my materialistic mind is absorbed in fruitive work.

I have fallen into this dark and perilous worldly existence.

 

 

4.

gopinath, sakali tomara maya

nahi mama bala, jnana sunirmala,

swadina nahe e kaya

 

0 Gopinatha, everything here is Your illusory energy.

I have no strength or transcendental knowledge,

and this body of mine is not independent and free from the control of material nature.

 

 

5.

gopinath, niyata carane sthana

mage e pamara, kandiya kandiya,

korohe karuna dana

 

0 Gopinatha, this sinner, who is weeping and weeping,

begs for an eternal place at Your divine feet.

Please give him Your mercy.

 

 

6.

gopinath, tumi to' sakali paro

durjane tarite, tomara sakati,

ke ache papira aro

 

0 Gopinatha, You are able to do anything,

and therefore You have the power to deliver all sinners.

Who is there that is more of a sinner than myself?

 

 

7.

gopinath, tumi krpa-parabara

jivera karane, asiya prapance,

lila koile subistara

 

0 Gopinatha, You are the ocean of mercy.

Having come into this phenomenal world,

You expand Your divine pastimes for the sake of the fallen souls.

 

 

8.

gopinath, ami ki dose dosi

asura sakala, pailo carana,

vinoda thakilo bosi'

 

0 Gopinatha, I am so sinful

that although all the demons attained Your lotus feet,

Bhaktivinoda has remained in worldly existence.