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Pratah-smaranam - Haribhaktivilasa



Jagat - Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:16:33 +0530
Four verses are recommended in HBV to be recited when one wakes up. With the exception of the famous jayati jananivaso, the others are not so well known.

(1) Rather standard type of thing.

smRte sakala-kalyANa-bhAjanaM yatra jAyate |
puruSas tam ajaM nityaM vrajAmi zaraNaM harim ||

I take refuge in Hari, the eternal and unborn person,
by remembering whom one becomes the recipient of all good fortune.


(2) This rather nice verse, which appears to be Gopala Bhatta's own composition:

vidagdha-gopAla-vilAsinInAM
sambhoga-cihnAGkita-sarva-gAtram |
pavitram AmnAya-girAm agamyaM
brahma prapadye nava-nIta-cauram || 3.25 ||

I surrender to the Supreme Brahman, the butter thief,
who is so pure he is unknowable to even the Vedic vibration;
His entire body is marked with the signs of lovemaking,
left there by the ardent cowherd maids.


(3) BhP 10.46.46

udgAyatInAm aravinda-locanaM
vrajAGganAnAM divam aspRzad dhvaniH |
dadhnaz ca nirmanthana-zabda-mizrito
nirasyate yena dizAm amaGgalam ||

The sound of the gopis as they loudly sang
the glories of the lotus-eyed Krishna,
mixed with the tinkling of their bangles
as they churned butter,
reached the heavens
and destroyed all inauspiciousness in every direction.


These are followed by another three verses that can optionally be chanted. So, with the exception of #2, three of the four verses mention the gopis.
lbcVisnudas - Sun, 19 Jun 2005 09:59:41 +0530

QUOTE
Four verses are recommended in HBV to be recited when one wakes up. With the exception of the famous jayati jananivaso, the others are not so well known.


Please tell this ignorant one the famous jayati jananivaso-
I would love to learn these 4.
Jai radhe!
Thank You
Madhava - Sun, 19 Jun 2005 16:16:32 +0530
QUOTE(lbcVisnudas @ Jun 19 2005, 05:29 AM)
Please tell this ignorant one the famous jayati jananivaso-

Here you go. smile.gif