Gopinatha

Translation :

(1) 0 Gopinatha, Lord of the gopis, please hear my request. I am a wicked materialist, always addicted to
worldly desires, and no good qualities do I possess.

(2) 0 Gopinatha, You are my only hope, and therefore I have taken shelter at Your lotus feet. I am now
Your eternal servant.

(3) 0 Gopinatha, how will You purify me? I do not know what devotion is, and my materialistic mind is
absorbed in fruitive work. I have fallen into this dark and perilous worldly existence.

(4) 0 Gopinatha, everything here is Your illusory energy. I have no strength or transcendental knowledge,
and this body of mine is not independent and free from the control of material nature.

(5) 0 Gopinatha, this sinner, who is weeping and weeping, begs for an eternal place at Your divine feet.
Please give him Your mercy.

(6) 0 Gopinatha, You are able to do anything, and therefore You have the power to deliver all sinners. Who
is there that is more of a sinner than myself?

(7) 0 Gopinatha, You are the ocean of mercy. Having come into this phenomenal world, You expand Your
divine pastimes for the sake of the fallen souls.

(8) 0 Gopinatha, I am so sinful that although all the demons attained Your lotus feet, Bhaktivinoda has
remained in worldly existence.

Translation :

(1) 0 Gopinatha, please remove the torment of worldly existence. I can no longer tolerate the pain of
ignorance and the repeated succession of births and deaths.

(2) 0 Gopinatha, indeed I am a servant of lust. Worldly desires are awakening in my heart, and thus the noose
of fruitive work is beginning to tighten.

(3) 0 Gopinatha, when will I wake up and abandon afar this enemy of lust, and when will You manifest
Yourself in my heart?

(4) 0 Gopinatha, I am Your devotee, but having abandoned You and thus having forgotten my real treasure, I
have worshiped this mundane world.

(5) 0 Gopinatha, You know everything. Now, having punished Your servant, please give him a place at Your
lotus feet.

(6) 0 Gopinatha, is this Your judgment, that seeing me averse to You, You abandon Your servant and don’t
bestow even a particle of mercy upon him?

(7) 0 Gopinatha, I am certainly very foolish, and I have never known what is good for me. Therefore such is
my condition.

(8) 0 Gopinatha, You are indeed the wisest person. Please look for a way to bring about auspiciousness for
this fool, and please do not consider this servant as an outsider.

Translation :

(1) 0 Gopinatha, I have no means of success, but if You take me, having bestowed Your mercy upon me, then
I will obtain deliverance from this world.

(2) 0 Gopinatha, I have fallen into the perils of material illusion. Wealth, wife, and sons have surrounded me,
and lust has wasted me away.

(3) 0 Gopinatha, my mind is crazy and does not care for any authority. It is always senseless and has remained
in the dark pit of worldly affairs.

(4) 0 Gopinatha, I have accepted my defeat. All of my various endeavors were useless. Now You are the only hope.

(5) 0 Gopinatha, how shall I make any advancement when my mind has come under the control of the
powerful senses and does not abandon its attachment to materialism?

(6) 0 Gopinatha, after sitting down in the core of my heart and subduing my mind, please take me to You. In
this way the horrible dangers of this world will disappear.

(7) 0 Gopinatha, You are Hrishikesa, the Lord of the senses. Seeing me so helpless, please control these senses
of mine and deliver me from this dark and perilous worldly existence.

(8) 0 Gopinatha, the noose of materialism has become fixed around my neck. Taking up the sword of Your
mercy and cutting this bondage, make this Bhaktivinoda Your humble servant.

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