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Bhaja Govindam,
Bhaja Govindam Bhaja Govindam
Verses Verse
1: BHAJA GOVINDAM,
BHAJA GOVINDAM Seek
Govinda! Seek Govinda! Seek Govinda! Oh ignoramus, at the
time MOODHA JAHEEHI
DHANAAGAMATRISHNAA| Oh, Fool!
give up your insatiable desire for earthly
possessions; NAAREE
STHANABHARA NABHEEDESAM
Enticed by the physical glamour of a woman, do not lose
your senses NALINEEDALAGATHA
JALAMATITHARALAM
The water droplet on the lotus leaf is tremulous and
unsteady. YAAVADVITTOPAARJANA
SAKTHAH
As long as you are fit to make an earning, so long will
your YAAVATPAVANO
NIVASATI DEHE As long
as there is life in your body, your people may hav BAALASTAAVAT
KREEDAA SAKTHAH
Childhood skips off on sport and play. Youth flies off
in KAA TE
KAANTAA KASTE PUTHRAH Who
indeed is your beloved and who indeed is your son?
Strange SATSANGATWE
NISSANGATWAM
The company of the good weans one away from false
atttachments; VAYASI
GATE KAH KAMAVIKARAH
When youth is gone, where is lust and its play? Where is
the lake MAA KURU
DHANAJANAYOUVANAGARVAM The
pleasures and riches of worldly life are deceptive
appearances. DINAYAAMINYOU
SAAYAM PRAATAH
Day and night, dawn and dusk, winter and spring, all
these are flittin KAA TE
KAANTAA DHANAGATACHINTAA
Crazy man ! Why do you worry so much about your wife and
property? JATILO
MUNDI LUNCHITAKESHAH
The ascetic with matted locks, the man with the shaven
head or ANGAM
GALITAM PALITAM MUNDAM
The body has become decrepit, the hair on the head has
turned AGRE
VAHNIH PRISHTE BHAANUH
Homeless he is; his back is bent down with age. His body
has lost it KURUTE
GANGAASAAGARAGAMANAM
One may have bathed in the holy Ganges or even in the
Ganga Sagar; SURAMANDIRA
TARUMOOLA NIVAASAH Who
can disturb the peace and happiness of a man if he has
the true YOGARATO
VAA BHOGARATO VAA
Whether one is immersed in yoga or is revelling in bhoga
( i.e, outward BHAGAVADGEETA
KINCHIDADHEETAA
Even a little study and understanding of the Bhagawad
Gita, or PUNARAPI
JANANAM PUNARAPI MARANAM
Undergoing the pangs of birth again and again, passing
through the RATHYAACHARPATA
VIRACHITAKANTHAH
Clad in stray rags, treading the path beyond good and
evil, caring for KASTWAM
KOHAM KUTA AAYAATAH
Who are you ? Who am I ? From Where did I come ? Who is
my mother, who is TWAYI
MAYI CHAANYATRAIKO VISHNUH
In you, in me and everywhere, there is but the one
Vishnu, Mistakenly SATROU
MITRE PUTRE BANDHOU
Do not look at anybody in terms of friend or foe, brother
or cousin; do KAAMAM
KRODHAM LOBHAM MOHAM
Free yourself from lust, anger, greed and delusion.
Contemplate on 'who GEYAM
GEETAANAAMASAHASRAM
Recite the Gita; chant the thousand Names of the lord
(Vishnu Sahasranama), SUKHATAH
KRIYATE RAAMAABHOGAH
As readily as one takes to indulging in carnal pleasures,
with the same ARTHAMANARTHAM
BHAAVAYA NITHYAM
It is wealth only that causes all harm and brings about
one's ruin. PRAANAAYAAMAM
PRATYAAHAARAM Regulated
breathing and sense control, discrimination between
the GURUCHARANAAMBUJA
NIRBHARABHAKTHAH Surrender
yourself to the Lotus Feet of the Teacher; with your
senses Back
to: Birth of S'rî Krishna
"Sing the Glory
of Govinda"
Listen to the
refrain, sung by Sathya Sai Baba -
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GOVINDAM BHAJA MUDHAMATE
SAMPRAAPTE SANNIHITE KALE
NA HI NA HI RAKSHATI DUKRINKARANE
of death the rules of grammer, which you are trying to
cram and
master, will not be able to rescue you at all.
(Grammer rules mean all secular knowledge and earthly
acquisitions.)
Mudhamati means a materialist, wholely worldly-minded,
who does not
believe in God or the spiritual entity that is in
man,
i.e., Nastika or Anatmavadi
Verse
2:
KURU SADBUDHIM MANASI VITRISHNAAM
YALLABHASE NIJAKARMOPAATHAM
VITHAM TENA VINODAYA CHITHAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
be sensible and develop serenity and contentment. Be
satisfied
and happy with whatever you may earn by the sweat of your
brow
and whatever has destiny marked for your lot.
Verse
3:
DHRISHTWA MAA GAA MOHAVESAM
YETAN MAAMSAVASAADI VIKAARAM
MANASI VICHINTHAYA VAARAM VAARAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
the body is nothing but a conglomeration of flesh, do not
forget
this any time.
Verse
4:
TADWAJJEEVITAMATHISHAYA CHAPALAM
VIDDHI VYADHYABHIMAANAGRASTA
LOKAM SHOKAHATAM CHA SAMASTHAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
So too is life which is as uncertain. Know the body to be
in
the claws of disease, which may swallow it at any
moment.
Life is ultimately nothing but worry, misery and
grief.
Verse
5:
TAAVANNIJAPARIVAARO RAKTHA
PASCHAAJJEEVATI JARJARADEHE
VAARTHAM KOPI NA PRICHCHATHI GEHE
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
kith and kin be solicitous about you, but no sooner
your
limbs become infirm and your earnings cease, none will
care for
you, not even your own home-folk.
Verse
6:
TAAVATPRICHCHATI KUSHALAM GEH
GATAVATI VAAYO DEHAAPAAYE
BHAARYA BIBHYATI TASMINKAAYE
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
concern for you, but once the life-breath ebbs out of
your
body, even your own wife will run away from you.
Verse
7:
THARUNASTAAVAT THARUNEESAKTHAH
VRIDDHASTAAVAT CHINTHAASAKTHAH
PARASE BRAHMANI KOPI NA SAKTHA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
pursuits of love-making. As one grows older he is
drowned
in worry about the security and future of his wife
and
children. One's whole life gets spent in some kind of
worry or other. And at no stage does man find time to
lift his thoughts to God.
Verse
8:
SAMSAROYAMATEEVA VICHITRA
KASYA TWAM KAH KUTHA AAYAATAH
TATWAM CHINTHAYA TADIHA BHARATAH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
indeed are these family bonds; who belongs to you and to
whom you
belong? whence did you come, Oh brother! Reflect on the
truth of it all.
Verse
9:
NISSANGATWE NIRMOHATWAM
NIRMOHATWE NISCHALATATWAM
NISCHALATATWE JEEVANMUKTHIH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
when attachment is lost, delusion ends; when delusion
ends, the mind
becomes unwavering and steady. An unwavering and steady
mind is merited
for Jeevan Mukti ( liberation even in this life).
Verse
10:
SHUSHKE NEERE, KAH KAASAARA
KSHEENE VITHE KAH PARIVARO
GYNATE TATWE KAH SAMASARAH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
when its waters have dried up? Where are the kinsfolk
when riches
are gone ? When Truth is realised, where is the snare of
Samsara?
Verse
11:
HARATI NIMESHAATKAALAH SAR
MAAYAAMAYAMIDAMAKHILAM HITHWA
BRAHMAPADAM TWAM PRAVISHA VIDITWA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
Understanding that they are all but a passing-show, be
detached and
dispassionate, cultivate renunciation and seek
Brahman.
Verse
12:
SHISHIRAVASANTOW PUNARAAYAATAH
KAALAH KREEDATI GACHCHATYAAYUH
TADAPI NA MUNCHATHYAASAAVAAYUH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM..........)
across the stage of the world. While time thus is
frolicking and
befooling us, our life span is also running out; yet we
do not, even
a little, give up the clinging to our desires, nor do we
let the
desires loosen their grip on us.
Verse
13:
VAATULA KIM TAVA NAASTI NIYANTAA
TRIJAGATI SAJJANASANGATIREKAA
BHAVATI BHAVAARNAVATARANE NOUKAA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
why don't you seek out the Truth ? Know that in these
three worlds
it is only the association with the good and holy that
can help you
in crossing safely the ocean of life.
Verse
14:
KAASHAAYAAMBARA BAHUKRITAVESHAH
PASYANNAPI CHA NA PASYATI MOODHO
HIUDARANIMITAM BAHUKRITAVESHAH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
one with hair pulled out, or the man parading in the
ochre robes
-- they all have eyes but yet do not see. All these are
but deceptions
for cheating the world, for filling their bellies. (
Renunciation
does not lie in external appearance, but in inward
thought, attitude and feeling).
Verse
15:
DASANAVIHEENAM JAATAM TUNDA
VRIDHDHO YAATI GRIHEETWA DANDAM
TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPINDAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
completely gray; the mouth has become totally toothless;
the
back is bent down and the old man cannot take even a step
witout
the aid of his stick; yet he does not loosen even a bit,
his hold
on the bundle of desires.
Verse
16:
RAATHROW CHUBUKASAMARPITAJAANUH
KARATALABHIKASHAS TARUTALAVAASAH
TADAPI NA MUNCHATYAASHAAPAASAH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
heat and he has to warm himself before a fire or in the
sun.
Tree is his only shelter; he lives by begging and by the
crumbs thrown
into his palms by others; in the night he sleeps by
holding his chin
on his knee (because the back is bent and he cannot
stretch himself
and lie down). Yet, he does not let and allow the grip of
desires on
him loosen even a bit.
Verse
17:
VRATAPARIPAALANAMATHAVAA DAANA
JNANAVIHEENAH SARVAMATENA
MUKTIM NA BHAJATI JANMASATENA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
he may have performed many charities and observed many
vows; yet
unless one has glimpsed the Truth ( God), he will not
gain
release even after a hundred lives. (note: this is the
warning of
all the religions)
Verse
18:
SAIYAA BHOOTALAMAJINAM VAASAH
SARVAPARIGRAHA BHOGATYAAGAH
KASYA SUKHAM NA KAROTI VIRAAGAH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
spirit of renunciation and has controlled his desires,
even if he be
the poorest, sleeping only in the temple halls and
choultries or under
trees or on the bare ground and just with a deer skin to
cover.
Verse
19:
SANGARATO VAA SANGAVIHEENAH
YASYA BRAHMANI RAMATE CHITHAM
NANDATI NANDATI NANDATYEVA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
enjoyment), whether he is enjoying himself in social
company or has
retired into solitude, true happiness certainly cannot be
his; but who
alone is revelling inwardly in Brahman, (wherever he be),
he alone
will be truly happy and will verily enjoy.
Verse
20:
GANGAAJALALAVAKANIKAA PEETAA
SAKRIDAPI YENA MURARISAMARCHAA
KRIYATE TASYA YAMENA NA CHARCHA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
sipping of even a tiny drop of the waters of the holy
Ganges or
even a little worship of Murari -- these will surely save
one
from confrontation with death!
Verse
21:
PUNARAPI JANANEE JATARE SAYANAM
IHA SAMSAARE BAHUDUSTAARE
KRIPAYAA(A)PAARE PAAHI MURARE
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
throes of death again and again, lying in the mother's
womb over
and over again, this process of samsara is hard to cross
over.
Save me from it, Oh merciful Lord !
Verse
22:
PUNYAAPUNYA VIVARJITAPANTHA
YOGEE YOGANIYOJITACHITHO
RAMATE BAALONMATTAVADEVA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
neither earning merit by taking to good deeds nor
stooping to do any
evil, and lost in meditation the yogi revels in the
Supreme always,
lost to all outward norms and decorum -- his behaviour
may look
prankish like that of a child or may be even queer like
that of a lunatic.
Verse
23:
KAA ME JANANEE KO ME TAATA
ITI PARIBHAVAYA SARVAMASAARAM
VISWAM TYAKTWAA SWAPNAVICHAARAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
my father ? -- enquire thus and you will, then realise
that the entire
world of experience, all the worries and problems are but
a dream,
mere hallucination, born of imagination and delusion.
With such a
realisation, you will be freed from the delusions of the
world.
Verse
24:
VYARTHAM KUPYASI MAYYASAHISHNUH
BHAVA SAMACHITTAH SARVATRA TWAM
VANCHHASYASHIRAADYADI VISHNUTWAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
viewing me with a sense of difference, you are
ill-disposed towards me.
Try to see in all beings only the Vishnu who is your own
self. Give up
your false and egoistic sense of separateness from other
beings.
Cultivate a sense of kinship, unity and oneness with
all.
Verse
25:
MAA KURU YATNAM VIGRAHASANDHOU
SARVASMINNAPI PASYAATMAANAM
SARVATROTSRIJA BHEDAAJNYANAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
not fritter away your mental energies in thoughts of
friendship or
enemity. Seeking the Self everywhere, be amiable and
equal-minded
towards all, treating all alike.
Verse
26:
TYAKTWAA(a)TMAANAM PASHYATI SOHA
AATMAJNANA VIHEENAA MUDAAH
TE PASYANTE NARAKANIGOODAAH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
you are'. Enquire within yourself, who am I ? The fools
who fail to
apprehend the Self are caught in hell-fire even here and
now itself and suffer torture.
Verse
27:
DHYEYAM SHREEPATIROOPAMAJASRAM
NEYAM SAJJANASANGE CHITTAM
DEYAM DEENAJANAAYA CHA VITTAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
meditate ceaselessly on the Consort and Lord of
Lakshmi,
lead the mind towards association with the good. Give
away your wealth
in charity to those in need and who are poor.
Verse
28:
PASCHADDHANTA SHAREERE ROGA
YADYAPI LOKE MARANAM SARANAM
TADAPI NA MUNJCHATI PAAPAACHARANAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
readiness alas! he is taken over by disease too. Even
seeing death as
the inevitable and only end of all, man does not refrain
from sinful ways.
Verse
29:
NAASTI TATAH SUKHALESAH SATHYAM
PUTHRAADAPI DHANABHAAJAAM BHEETIH
SARVATRAISHA VIHITA REETIH
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
Bear this truth in mind always. Know that the pursuit of
wealth does
not lead one to happiness at all. The rich fear and are
even afraid of their
own sons. This is the outcome of riches anywhere and
ever.
Verse
30:
NITYAANITYA VIVEKAVICHAARAM
JAAPYASAMETA SAMAADHIVIDHAANAM
KURVAVADHAANAM MAHADAVADHAANAM
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
Enduring and the fleeting, the eternal and the transient,
Japa and
meditation, and submerging of the bodily and mental
consciousness in
the Consciousness of the Spirit, merging oneself into the
total Inner
Silence -- one must practice these with unrelenting
fervour.
Verse
31:
SAMSAARAADACHIRAADHAVA MUKTHA
SENDRIYA MAANASA NIYAMAADEVAM
DRAKSHYASI NIJAHRIDAYASTHAM DEVA
(BHAJA GOVINDAM, BHAJA GOVINDAM........)
and mind disciplined, and freed from the shackles of
Samsara you will
behold the Lord who is seated in your heart
"Seek Govinda, Seek the God, Bhaja Govindam",
In this refrain comprising of two words, Sri Sankara
Bhagavatpada, has summed up in a nutshell as it were, the
entire preaching of Vedanta and religion for the
redemption of mankind. It gives us the key for entering
into the realm of Bliss, the abode of Govinda and for
terminating the misery of life we are in at present.
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