Sri Damodarastakam

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nammvara sac-cid-nanda-rpa
lasat-kua
la gokule bhrjamanam
yaod-bhiyolkhald dhvamna
parm am
atyantato drutya gopy 1
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rudanta muhur netra-yugma mjantam
karmbhoja-yugmena staka-netram
muhu vsa-kampa-trirekhka-kaha
sthita-graiva dmodara bhakti-baddham 2

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itdk sva-llbhir nanda-kue
sva-ghoa nimajjantam khypayantam
tadyeita-jeu bhaktair jitatva
puna prematas ta atvtti
vande 3

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vara deva moka na mokvadhi v

na canya v
e ha vared apha
ida te vapur ntha gopla-bla
sad me manasy virst kim anyai 4
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ida te mukhmbhojam atyanta-nlair
vta
kuntalai snigdha-raktai ca gopy
muhu cumbita bimba-raktdhara me
manasy virstm ala laka-lbhai 5

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namo deva dmodarnanta vi o
prasda prabho dukha-jlbdhi-magnam
kp-d
i-v
yti-dna

batnu
gh
ea mm ajam edhy aki-dya
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kuvertmajau baddha-mrtyaiva yadvat
tvay mocitau bhakti-bhjau ktau
ca
tath prema-bhakti svak me prayaccha

na moke graho me sti dmodareha 7
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namas te stu dmne sphurad-dpti-dhmne

tvadyodarytha vivasya dhmne
namo rdhikyai tvadya-priyyai
namo nanta-llya devya tubhyam 8
1) To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of

eternal existence, knowledge, and bliss, whose shark-shaped
earrings are swinging to and fro, who is beautifully shining in the
divine realm of Gokula, who I (due to the offense of breaking the
pot of yogurt that His mother was churning into butter and then
stealing the butter that was kept hanging from a swing) is
quickly running from the wooden grinding mortar in fear of
mother Yasoda, but who has been caught from behind by her
who ran after Him with greater speed--to that Supreme Lord,
Sri Damodara, I offer my humble obeisances.
2) (Seeing the whipping stick in His mother's hand) He is crying
and rubbing His eyes again and again with His two lotus hands.
His eyes are filled with fear, and the necklace of pearls around
His neck, which is marked with three lines like a conch shell, is
shaking because of His quick breathing due to crying. To this
Supreme Lord, SriDamodara, whose belly is bound not with
ropes but with His mother's pure love, I offer my
humble obeisances.
3) By such childhood pastimes as this He is drowning the
inhabitants of Gokula in pools of ecstasy, and is revealing to
those devotees who are absorbed in knowledge of His supreme
majesty and opulence that He is only conquered by devotees
whose pure love is imbues with intimacy and is free from all
conceptions of awe and reverence. With great love I again offer
my obeisances to Lord Damodara hundreds and hundreds of
times.
4) O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions,
I do not pray to You for the boon of impersonal liberation, nor the
highest liberation of eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon
(which may be obtained by executing the nine processes
of bhakti). O Lord, I simply wish that this form of Yours

as Bala Gopalain Vrndavana may ever be manifest in my heart,
for what is the use to me of any other boon besides this?
5) O Lord, Your lotus face, which is encircled by locks of soft
black hair tinged with red, is kissed again and again by
mother Yasoda, and Your lips are reddish like the bimba fruit.
May this beautiful vision of Your lotus face be ever manifest in
my heart. Thousands and thousands of other benedictions are of
no use to me.
6)
O
Supreme
Godhead,
I
offer
my obeisances unto You. O Damodara! O Ananta! O Vishnu! O
master!
O
myLord, be
pleased
upon
me.
By
showering Your glance of mercy upon me, deliver this poor
ignorant fool who is immersed in an ocean of worldly sorrows,
and become visible to my eyes.
7) O Lord Damodara, just as the two sons of Kuvera-Manigriva and Nalakuvara--were delivered from the curse
of Narada and made into great devotees by You in Your form as a
baby tied with rope to a wooden grinding mortar, in the same
way, please give to me Your own prema-bhakti. I only long for
this and have no desire for any kind of liberation.
8) O Lord Damodara, I first of all offer my obeisances to the
brilliantly effulgent rope which binds Your belly. I then offer
my obeisances to Your belly, which is the abode of the entire
universe. I humbly bow down to Yourmost
beloved Srimati Radharani, and I offer all obeisances to You, the
Supreme Lord, who displays unlimited pastimes.

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sthita-graiva dmodara bhakti-baddham 2

vara deva moka na mokvadhi v

tath prema-bhakti svak me prayaccha

namas te stu dmne sphurad-dpti-dhmne

1) To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of

of bhakti). O Lord, I simply wish that this form of Yours

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