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AuthorLocana dāsa Ṭhākura

Akordha Paramananda Nityananda Ray

1

akrodha
paramānanda nityānanda rāya abhimāna
śūnya nitāi nagare beḍāya

Word for word

akrodha - not angry; paramānanda - supreme bliss; nityānanda rāya - Lord Nityananda; abhimāna - false ego; śūnya - void; nitāi - Lord Nityananda; nagare - in the villages; beḍāya - wanders;

The noble Lord Nityananda is never angry, for He is the personification of supreme transcendental bliss. Devoid of any concept of false ego, Nitai wanders about the town.

2

adhama
patita jīvera dvāre dvāre giyā harināma
mahā-mantra dicchena bilāiyā

Word for word

adhama - wretched; patita - the destitute; jīvera - of the souls; dvāre dvāre - door to door; giyā - having gone; harināma mahā-mantra - the great chanting of the Holy Names; dicchena - He gives; bilāiyā - distributing

Going from door to door in the residences of the most fallen and wretched souls, He freely distributes the gift of the Hari-nama mahamantra.

3

jā're
dekhe tā're kahe dante tṛṇa dhari' 'āmāre
kiniyā laha bala gaurahari'

Word for word

jā're dekhe - whoever He sees; tā're kahe - to them He says; dante - in the teeth tṛṇa dhari' - holding straw; āmāre kiniyā - purchasing Me; laha - please take; bala - say; gaurahari - Lord Caitanya

He exclaims to whomever he sees while holding straw between his teeth, "Please purchase me by worshipping Gaurahari!"

4

eta
bali' nityānanda bhūme gaḍi' jāya sonāra
parvata jena dhūlāte loṭāya

Word for word

eta - thus; bali' - having said; nityānanda - Lord Nityananda; bhūme - on the ground; gaḍi' jāya - rolls about; sonāra parvata - the mountain of gold; jena - just like; dhūlāte loṭāya - tumbling in the dust

Saying thus, Nityananda Prabhu rolls about on the ground, appearing like a golden mountain tumbling in the dust.

5

hena
avatāre jā'ra rati nā janmila locana
bale sei pāpī ela āra gela

Word for word

hena avatāre - for such an incarnation; jā'ra rati - whose affection; nā janmila - has not come about; locana - Locana dasa Thakura; bale - says; sei pāpī - that sinful person; ela - comes; āra - and; gela - goes (in repeated birth and death).

Locana Dasa Thakura says, "Whoever has not experienced the awakening of affection for such an avatara as this, that sinful person simply comes and goes uselessly in the cycle of repeated birth and death."

Translation

1

The noble Lord Nityananda is never angry, for He is the personification of supreme transcendental bliss. Devoid of any concept of false ego, Nitai wanders about the town.

2

Going from door to door in the residences of the most fallen and wretched souls, He freely distributes the gift of the Hari-nama mahamantra.

3

He exclaims to whomever he sees while holding straw between his teeth, "Please purchase me by worshipping Gaurahari!"

4

Saying thus, Nityananda Prabhu rolls about on the ground, appearing like a golden mountain tumbling in the dust.

5

Locana Dasa Thakura says, "Whoever has not experienced the awakening of affection for such an avatara as this, that sinful person simply comes and goes uselessly in the cycle of repeated birth and death."