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Songs on Srila Prabhupada - Srila Prabhupadadeva Pranaty Ashtakam

(1)
yan-nathyamano natanatha-natho
su-mangalam pascima-jangaleshu
gaurangacandras caranam dadhati
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Because of his prayers, Lord Gaurangacandra, the king of dancers, has placed His auspicious lotus feet in the jungle of the Western countries.

(2)
yad-yatnatas cakra-gada-pataka-
candrardha-vidyuj-jalajankusankaih
alankrita hrit-saranisa-padaih
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Because of his efforts. Lord Krishna's footprints, which bear the marks of cakra, club, flag, half-moon, lightning bolt, conch, fish, lotus, and rod for controlling elephants, are now imprinted on the pathway of the living entities' hearts.

(3)
samarpayantam vara-krishna-namna
amramritam san-mrita-jivanartham
jivaj-jane tu mrita-hasta-graste
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. To the living entities in the grip of death he gives the elixir of immortality that is Lord Krishna's holy name.

(4)
tyaktvanyakan padaka-pallave 'dya
yad-yatnatah sri-vraja-ballavasya
karoti lokah para-vallabhatvam
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Because of his efforts, the people of this world are turning from everything else and are learning to repose their love at the lotus feet of Lord Krishna.

(5)
vrindatavivira-padatapatra-
varena viryena prajah prapantam
pida-vipad-varshanakat karalan
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. With the umbrella of the feet of Vrindavana's hero, Krishna, he protects the living entities from the monsoon of continued material suffering.

(6)
punar-bhavat kuncita-marga-jalat
prajavalih krishna-padaravindam
sahasra-patram paramam nayantam
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. He leads the conditioned souls from the winding labyrinth of repeated birth and death to Lord Krishna's thousand-petalled lotus-flower world.

(7)
maya-pisasaci-ku-hrishika-harsha-
svapam vihayadya hrishika-devam
bhajanti lokah karunena yasya
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. By his mercy the conditioned souls are awakening from the nightmare of material sense happiness created by the witch Maya. They now see the reality of devotional service to Lord Krishna, the master of the senses.

(8)
visvam tv acaitanyam idam tu krishna-
caitanya-purnatvam alambataiva
caitanya-sandesa-vadena yena
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. By speaking the message of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, he fills this lifeless and inert universe with Krishna consciousness.


Reference: Sri Vyasa puja offerings 1985





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