Śrī Hari Bol Sūktā
Reverend Quatrains on the Injunction to Chant Hari’s Names
Supreme His Names, this Names sublime
Of Substrate & of Supersoul!
Repeat Rām Rām, released from time
And māyā’s measures, Hari bol!
No noun His Name beyond declension,
Unbound by sound or rounds that toll,
For transcendental of dimension,
This unstruck noise AUM, Hari bol!
All speech doth reek with karma’s taint
But for God’s Glories, Lore, & Rule;
With no ill echo, as a saint
Speak solely holy—Hari bol!
Through all thoughts keep the chant incessant:
One pointed mind will make you whole
For in His Names He’s fully present,
Ye shall not want more, Hari bol!
His Name is subtle sweet prasād
To sate Its taster, ever full.
Guests, fill your guts with gusts for God
To breathe His Name’s praise, Hari bol!
His Name was better far to taste—
Why crave the butter Kṛishṇa stole?
And so His savoury Name He praised
As Śrī Gauranga, Hari bol!
With flooding eyes & heart aflame,
Ecstatic, quiver, dance, & roll,
With hairs on end shout Hari’s Name
And hear His pastimes, Hari bol!
The Causal Ocean’s lactose tide
Will rise to bathe your bosom’s shoal
And from your heart will rise inside
The Lord Who dreameth, Hari bol!
Let tongue as compass needle point
To Hari’s Name’s magnetic pole
To guide you rightly till rejoined
To God’s own Being, Hari bol!
What use to seek sex, wealth, or virtue?—
Make love of God life’s only goal!
This sole Objective won’t desert you:
Subjective World-Soul, Hari bol!
Why fear mind’s moods or foes or gods
When Nature’s modes He doth control?
So move the beads & sing His lauds,
Seek mantra’s shelter, Hari bol!
Take refuge at His feet beneath
His cobra hooded parasol,
Linked fast by japa-mālā wreath
To God’s Name’s pillar, Hari bol!
Surrender, else for sure be sorry—
His Name’s peace will all woes console.
Here’s happiness, hurrah for Hari!
Now hurry bawling: Hari bol!
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