श्री श्री दामोदराष्टकं
नमामीश्वरं
सच्-चिद्-आनन्द-रूपं
लसत्-कुण्डलं गोकुले
भ्राजमनम्
यशोदा-भियोलूखलाद् धावमानं
परामृष्टम् अत्यन्ततो
द्रुत्य गोप्या ॥ १॥
namāmīśvaraṁ
sac-cid-ānanda-rūpaṁ
lasat-kuṇḍalaṁ gokule
bhrājamanam
yaśodā-bhiyolūkhalād
dhāvamānaṁ
parāmṛṣṭam atyantato drutya
gopyā ॥ 1॥
रुदन्तं मुहुर् नेत्र-युग्मं
मृजन्तम्
कराम्भोज-युग्मेन
सातङ्क-नेत्रम्
मुहुः
श्वास-कम्प-त्रिरेखाङ्क-कण्ठ
स्थित-ग्रैवं दामोदरं
भक्ति-बद्धम् ॥ २॥
rudantaṁ muhur netra-yugmaṁ
mṛjantam
karāmbhoja-yugmena
sātaṅka-netram
muhuḥ
śvāsa-kampa-trirekhāṅka-kaṇṭha
sthita-graivaṁ dāmodaraṁ
bhakti-baddham ॥ 2॥
इतीदृक् स्व-लीलाभिर्
आनन्द-कुण्डे
स्व-घोषं निमज्जन्तम्
आख्यापयन्तम्
तदीयेषित-ज्ञेषु भक्तैर्
जितत्वं
पुनः प्रेमतस् तं शतावृत्ति
वन्दे ॥ ३॥
itīdṛk sva-līlābhir
ānanda-kuṇḍe
sva-ghoṣaṁ nimajjantam
ākhyāpayantam
tadīyeṣita-jñeṣu
bhaktair jitatvaṁ
punaḥ prematas taṁ
śatāvṛtti vande ॥ 3॥
वरं देव मोक्षं न मोक्षावधिं
वा
न चन्यं वृणे ‘हं
वरेषाद् अपीह
इदं ते वपुर् नाथ गोपाल-बालं
सदा मे मनस्य् आविरास्तां
किम् अन्यैः ॥ ४॥
varaṁ deva mokṣaṁ na
mokṣāvadhiṁ vā
na canyaṁ vṛṇe ‘haṁ
vareṣād apīha
idaṁ te vapur nātha
gopāla-bālaṁ
sadā me manasy āvirāstāṁ
kim anyaiḥ ॥ 4॥
इदं ते मुखाम्भोजम्
अत्यन्त-नीलैर्
वृतं कुन्तलैः
स्निग्ध-रक्तैश् च गोप्या
मुहुश् चुम्बितं
बिम्ब-रक्ताधरं मे
मनस्य् आविरास्ताम् अलं
लक्ष-लाभैः ॥ ५॥
idaṁ te mukhāmbhojam
atyanta-nīlair
vṛtaḿ kuntalaiḥ
snigdha-raktaiś ca gopyā
muhuś cumbitaṁ
bimba-raktādharaṁ me
manasy āvirāstām alaṁ
lakṣa-lābhaiḥ ॥ 5॥
नमो देव दामोदरानन्त विष्णो
प्रसीद प्रभो
दुःख-जालाब्धि-मग्नम्
कृपा-दृष्टि-वृष्ट्याति-दीनं
बतानु
गृहाणेष माम् अज्ञम् एध्य्
अक्षि-दृश्यः ॥ ६॥
namo deva dāmodarānanta
viṣṇo
prasīda prabho
duḥkha-jālābdhi-magnam
kṛpā-dṛṣṭi-vṛṣṭyāti-dīnaṁ
batānu
gṛhāṇeṣa mām ajñam
edhy akṣi-dṛśyaḥ ॥ 6॥
कुवेरात्मजौ बद्ध-मूर्त्यैव
यद्वत्
त्वया मोचितौ भक्ति-भाजौ
कृतौ च
तथा प्रेम-भक्तिं स्वकां मे
प्रयच्छ
न मोक्षे ग्रहो मे
‘स्ति दामोदरेह ॥ ७॥
kuverātmajau
baddha-mūrtyaiva yadvat
tvayā mocitau bhakti-bhājau
kṛtau ca
tathā prema-bhaktiṁ svakāṁ
me prayaccha
na mokṣe graho me
‘sti dāmodareha ॥ 7॥
नमस् ते ‘स्तु दाम्ने
स्फुरद्-दीप्ति-धाम्ने
त्वदीयोदरायाथ विश्वस्य
धाम्ने
नमो राधिकायै त्वदीय-प्रियायै
नमो ‘नन्त-लीलाय देवाय
तुभ्यम् ॥ ८॥
namas te ‘stu dāmne
sphurad-dīpti-dhāmne
tvadīyodarāyātha viśvasya
dhāmne
namo rādhikāyai
tvadīya-priyāyai
namo ‘nanta-līlāya
devāya tubhyam ॥ 8॥
1) To the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of eternal existence,
knowledge, and bliss, whose shark-shaped earrings are swinging to and fro, who
is beautifully shining in the divine realm of Gokula,
who I (due to the offense of breaking the pot of yogurt that His mother was churning
into butter and then stealing the butter that was kept hanging from a swing) is
quickly running from the wooden grinding mortar in fear of mother Yasoda,
but who has been caught from behind by her who ran after Him with greater speed--to
that Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, I offer my humble
obeisances.
2) (Seeing the whipping stick in His mother's hand) He is crying and rubbing
His eyes again and again with His two lotus hands. His eyes are filled with fear,
and the necklace of pearls around His neck, which is marked with three lines like
a conch shell, is shaking because of His quick breathing due to crying. To this
Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, whose belly is bound not
with ropes but with His mother's pure love, I offer my humble obeisances.
3) By such childhood pastimes as this He is drowning the inhabitants of
Gokula in pools of ecstasy, and is revealing to those
devotees who are absorbed in knowledge of His supreme majesty and opulence that
He is only conquered by devotees whose pure love is imbues with intimacy and is
free from all conceptions of awe and reverence. With great love I again offer
my obeisances to Lord Damodara
hundreds and hundreds of times.
4) O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not
pray to You for the boon of impersonal liberation, nor the highest liberation
of eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon (which may be obtained by
executing the nine processes of bhakti). O Lord, I
simply wish that this form of Yours as Bala Gopala
in Vrndavana may ever be manifest in my heart, for what is
the use to me of any other boon besides this?
5) O Lord, Your lotus face, which is encircled by locks of soft black hair
tinged with red, is kissed again and again by mother Yasoda,
and Your lips are reddish like the bimba
fruit. May this beautiful vision of Your lotus face be ever manifest in my heart. Thousands and
thousands of other benedictions are of no use to me.
6) O Supreme Godhead, I offer my obeisances
unto You. O Damodara! O Ananta!
O Vishnu! O master! O my Lord,
be pleased upon me. By showering Your glance of mercy
upon me, deliver this poor ignorant fool who is immersed in an ocean of worldly
sorrows, and become visible to my eyes.
7) O Lord Damodara, just as the two sons of
Kuvera--Manigriva and
Nalakuvara--were delivered from the curse of Narada and made into great devotees by You in Your form
as a baby tied with rope to a wooden grinding mortar, in the same way, please
give to me Your own prema-bhakti. I only long for this and have no desire for
any kind of liberation.
8) O Lord Damodara, I first of all offer my
obeisances to the brilliantly effulgent rope which
binds Your belly. I then offer my obeisances to Your belly, which
is the abode of the entire universe. I humbly bow down to Your
most beloved Srimati Radharani,
and I offer all obeisances to You, the Supreme Lord,
who displays unlimited pastimes.
This song is sung during the Month of Kartik,
also known as the month of Damodara. As quoted in
the Sri Hari-Bhakti-Vilasa, "In the month of
Kartika one should worship Lord Damodara
and daily recite the prayer known as Damodarastaka,
which has been spoken by the sage Satyavrata and which
attracts Lord Damodara. (Sri Hari-bhakti-vilasa 2.16.198).”
When Lord Krsna, the Supreme
Personality of Godhead, appears on earth, He performs extraordinary pastimes as
a transcendental cowherd boy. As a child, Lord Krsna lived with His pure devotees
in the village of Vrndavana, or Gokula. In the spiritual world (Vaikuntha) the
Lord, in His form called Narayana, is worshiped with great awe and reverence,
but the devotees in Vrndavana have such great love for the Lord that they even
forget that He is the Lord. Because of their intense love for Him, they think
of Him as their friend, son or lover. And the Lord, to please His devotees, responds
in the roles in which the devotees think of Him.
As a transcendental pastime,
Lord Krsna used to steal butter from the gopis, the ladies of Vrndavana. Once,
however, His mother caught Him, bound His waist with a rope, and tied Him to a
grinding mortar to punish Him. The Lord is therefore also known as Damodara (dama
means "rope," and udara means "waist").
In Lord Krsna's courtyard
were two trees, who were actually sons of the demigod Kuvera but had been cursed
to stand as trees. By His mercy, Lord Krsna crawled between these trees, dragging
the heavy mortar behind Him, and pulled the trees down, thus liberating Kuvera's
two sons. The details of these pastimes are described in Srila Prabhupada's book
entitled Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The eight-verse prayer on
the following page is chanted daily by devotees during the Krsna conscious month
of Damodara (November).
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