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The Merciful Qualities of a True Vaishnava

Bhajan | A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Verses

Verse 1

para-duḥkha-duḥkhī haya vaiṣṇava prasiddha

sei khyāti habe saba pracāre pravṛddha

Verse 2

nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-bhakti jāgile sabāra

āpani pālābe kali kari' hā-hā-kāra

Verse 3

"prāṇinām upakārāya" mahāprabhu-vāṇī

iha-kāla-parā-kāla sukhera se khani

Verse 4

eta kāja paḍe āche tomādera hāte

ekatre miliyā kārya karaha tāhāte

Verse 5

vāsudeva vipra bale prabhure namiyā

sakala jīvere dāo uddhāra kariyā

Verse 6

tādera saba pāpa-tāpa mo--hīnere dāo

duḥkhī jīvera duḥkha tumi se ghucāo

Verse 7

sei ta vaiṣṇava-śreṣṭha para-duḥkhe duḥkhī

ātmendriya-tṛpti yāhe nahe tārā sukhī

Verse 8

ki dayā karite pāre avaiṣṇava-jana!

aparādhī haya mātra "daridra nārāyaṇa"!

Verse 9

vijñāna-sammata sei vaiṣṇavera dayā

vaiṣṇava-vihīna bhūme māyā duratyayā

Verse 10

viṣṇu-vaiṣṇava-rājya yadi dharāya haya

tabe-i se sukhī loka muni-ṛṣi kaya

Translation

Verse 1

The Vaisnavas are famous as para-duhkha-duhkhih. This fame will increase as the preaching increases.

Verse 2

If eternally pure devotional service to Krsna is awakened in everyone, then Kali will flee, screaming, of his own accord.

Verse 3

Praninam upakaraya: do work for the benefit of all living beings. This is Mahaprabhu’s teaching. This is the storehouse of happiness in this life and the next.

Verse 4

So which work has fallen into your hands, gather together and do it.

Verse 5

Vasudeva Datta said to the Lord, paying his obeisances: “Save all the living beings in the material world.

Verse 6

“Give all their sins and sufferings to me, who am the lowest of all. In this way all the miseries of the suffering conditioned souls will end.”

Verse 7

He was the best of Vaisnavas, para-duhkha-duhkhi. He knew that there is no real happiness in gratifying the senses.

Verse 8

And what kind of mercy can the non-Vaisnava have? He simply makes offenses by his daridra-narayana philosophy.

Verse 9

The mercy of the Vaisnavas is scientific and authorized. Without the Vaisnavas’ mercy, this world is simply insurmountable Maya.

Verse 10

If there is a kingdom of Visnu and Vaisnavas on the surface of the earth, then the world will be happy. So say all the great sages and Rsis.

TraditionBhajan
ComposerA.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
SourceMiscellaneous Songs
LanguagesEnglish
Verses10 verses

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