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Vrindavana Bhajana

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The Vrindavana Bhajana was written by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in the year 1958. It was published in December of that year in Gaudiya Patrika, the magazine of the Gaudiya Vedanta Samiti.




Verse 1

I am sitting alone in Vrindavana-dhama
In this mood I am getting many realizations.
I have my wife, sons, daughters, grandsons, everything,
But I have no money so they are a fruitless glory.
Krishna has shown me the naked form of material nature,
By his strength it has all become tasteless to me today.
yasyaham anugrhnami harisye tad-dhanam shanaih
"I gradually take away all the wealth of those upon whom I am merciful."
How was I able to understand this mercy of the All-merciful?

Verse 2

Everyone has abandoned me, seeing me as penniless,
Wife, relatives, friends, brothers, everyone.
This is misery, but it gives me a laugh. I sit alone and laugh.
In this maya-samsara, whom do I really love?
Where have all my loving father and mother gone to now?
And where are all my elders, who were my own folk?
Who will give me news of them, tell me who?
All that is left of this family life is a list of names.

Verse 3

Like the froth on the sea water mixes again in the sea,
Maya's samsara's play is just like that.
No one is mother or father, or personal relative,
Just like the sea-foam they remain but a short time,
Just as the froth on sea water mixes again in the sea,
The body made of five elements meets with destruction.
How many bodies does the embodied soul take in this way;
His relatives are all simply related to this temporal body.