HIGHER TASTE THROUGH PRAYERS

My Dear Lord, You are so wonderful. Why do I need anyone else to love?

he goplaka he kp-jala-nidhe he sindhu-kany-pate he kasntaka he gajendra-karu-pra he mdhava he rmnuja he jagat-traya-guro he puarkka m he gopjana-ntha playa para jnmi na tv vin

dr vr-kara-vara-sut te tanjo virici stot vedas tava sura-ga bhtya-varga prasda muktir my jagad avikala tvak devak te mt mitra bala-ripu-sutas tat tvad anya na jne Your wife is the beautiful daughter of the ocean, and Your son is Lord Brahm. The Vedas are Your panegyrist, the demigods comprise Your company of servants, and liberation is Your benediction, while this entire universe is a display of Your magic power. rmat Devak is Your mother, and Arjuna, the son Indra, is Your friend. For these reasons I have no interest in anyone but You.

My Dear Lord, I am very fallen. You are my only hope.

shriman nma procya narayanakhyam ke na prpur vanchitam ppino 'pi h nah prvam vk pravrtt na tasmims tena prptam garbha-vsdi-dukham
What person, even if most sinful, has ever said aloud the blessed name Nryaa and failed to fulfill his desires? But we, alas, never used our power of speech in that way, and so we had to suffer such miseries as living in a womb.

nthe nah purushottame tri-jagatm ekdhipe cetas sevye svasya padasya dtari pare nryanee tisthati ya kancit purushadhamam katipaya-grmesham alprtha-dam sevyai mrgaymahe naram aho mdh vark vayam
Our master, the Personality of Godhead Nryaa, who alone rules the three worlds, whom one can serve in meditation, and who happily shares His personal domain, is manifest before us. Yet still we beg for the service of some minor lord of a few villages, some lowly man who can only meagerly reward us. Alas, what foolish wretches we are!

Meditations of Devotion

tyaktv su-dustyaja-surepsita-rjya-lakm dharmiha rya-vacas yad agd arayam my-mga dayitayepsitam anvadhvad vande mah-purua te cararavindam
O Mah-purua, I worship Your lotus feet. You gave up the association of the goddess of fortune and all her opulence, which is most difficult to renounce and is hankered after by even the great demigods. Being the most faithful follower of the path of religion, You thus left for the forest in obedience to a brhmaa's curse. Out of sheer mercifulness You chased after the fallen conditioned souls, who are always in pursuit of the false enjoyment of illusion, and at the same time engaged in searching out Your own desired object, Lord ymasundara.

shuklambara dharam vishnum Shashi varnam catur bhujam Prasanna vadanam dhyayet Sarva vighna upashantaye

Ekena cakram aparena karena shankham Anyena sindhutanyam avalambya tisthan Vametarena varadabhaya padma cinhaa Lakshmi narsimha mam dehi karavalambam