CD 1-1

Dipping Into the Ocean of Ecstatic Love for Krsna

Vocal & Harmonium:His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Mrdanga (Drum):Hamsadūta dasa
Tampura: Vedavyasa dasa
Karatalas: Cakravarti dasa, Purujit dasa, Himavati dasi
Sound Engineer:Uthala dasa

Originally Recorded at Schloss Rettershof, Germany, 1974.
Remixed and Mastered to Digital by Krsna-kanti dasa, 1990

(1)

krsnotkirtana-gana-nartana-parau premamrtambho-nidhi
dhiradhira-jana-priyau priya-karau nirmatsarau pūjitau
sri-caitanya-krpa-bharau bhuvi bhuvo bharavahantarakau
vande rūpa-sanatanau raghu-yugau sri-jiva-gopalakau

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Six Gosvamis, namely Sri Rūpa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, and Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, who are always engaged in chanting the holy name of Krsna and dancing. They are just like the ocean of love of God, and they are popular both with the gentle and with the ruffians, because they are not envious of anyone. Whatever they do, they are all-pleasing to everyone, and they are fully blessed by Lord Caitanya. Thus they are engaged in missionary activities meant to deliver all the conditioned souls in the material universe.]

(2)

nana-sastra-vicaranaika-nipunau sad-dharma-samsthapakau
lokanam hita-karinau tri-bhuvane manyau saranyakarau
radha-krsna-padaravinda-bhajananandena mattalikau
vande rūpa-sanatanau raghu-yugau sri-jiva-gopalakau

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Six Gosvamis, namely Sri Rūpa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, and Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, who are very expert in scrutinizingly studying all the revealed scriptures with the aim of establishing eternal religious principles for the benefit of all human beings. Thus they are honored all over the three worlds and they are worth taking shelter of because they are absorbed in the mood of the gopis and are engaged in the transcendental loving service of Radha and Krsna.]

(3)

tyaktva tūrnam asesa-manḍala-pati-srenim sada tuccha-vat
bhūtva dina-ganesakau karunaya kaupina-kanthasritau
gopi-bhava-rasamrtabdhi-lahari-kallola-magnau muhur
vande rūpa-sanatanau raghu-yugau sri-jiva-gopalakau

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Six Gosvamis, namely Sri Rūpa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, and Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, who kicked off all association of aristocracy as insignificant. In order to deliver the poor conditioned souls, they accepted loincloths, treating themselves as mendicants, but they are always merged in the ecstatic ocean of the gopis' love for Krsna and bathe always and repeatedly in the waves of that ocean.]

(4)

he radhe vraja-devike ca lalite he nanda-sūno kutaḥ
sri-govardhana-kalpa-padapa-tale kalindi-vane kutaḥ
ghosantav iti sarvato vraja-pure khedair maha-vihvalau
vande rūpa-sanatanau raghu-yugau sri-jiva-gopalakau

[I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Six Gosvamis, namely Sri Rūpa Gosvami, Sri Sanatana Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, and Sri Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, who were chanting very loudly everywhere in Vrndavana, shouting, "Queen of Vrndavana, Radharani! O Lalita! O son of Nanda Maharaja! Where are you all now? Are you just on the hill of Govardhana, or are you under the trees on the bank of the Yamuna? Where are you?" These were their moods in executing Krsna consciousness.]

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