Sri Garga Samhita
BY: SUN STAFF
Mar 05, CANADA (SUN) —
Canto Four, Volume Two
Chapter Seventeen
Sri Yamuna-stava
Prayers to Sri Yamuna
Text 1
sri-mandhatovaca
yamunayah stavam divyam
sarva-siddhi-karam param
saubhare muni-cardula
vada ma krpaya tvaram
Sri Mandhata said: O Saubhari, O tiger among sages, please
kindly tell me the transcendental Yamuna-stava, which brings all
perfection.
Text 2
sri-saubharir uvaca
martanda-kanyakayas tu
stavam crnu maha-mate
sarva-siddhi-karam bhumau
catur-vargya-phala-pradam
Sri Saubhari said: O noble-hearted one, please hear the
Yamuna-stava, which grants all perfection and brings the four
goals of life.
Text 3
krsna-vamamsa-bhutayai
krsnayai satatam namah
namah sri-krsna-rupinyai
krsne tubhyam namo namah
Obeisances to Sri Yamuna, who was bron from Sri Krsna's left
shoulder! Obeisances to Sri Yamuna, who has a spiritual form like
that of Lord Krsna! O Sri Yamuna, obeisances to you! Obeisances
to you!
Text 4
yah papa-pagkambu-kalagka-kutsitah
kami kudhih satsu kalim karoti hi
vrndavanam dhama dadati tasmai
nadan-milindadi-kalinda-nandini
To a person that is lusty, foolish, polluted with many sins,
and fond of quarreling with the devotees, Sri Yamuna, who is
filled with many buzzing bees, gives residence in the
transcendental abode of Goloka.
Text 5
krsne saksat krsna-rupa tvam eva
vegavarte vartase matsya-rupi
urmav urmau kurma-rupi sada te
bindau bindau bhati govinda-devah
O Yamuna, you have a spiritual form like that of Sri Krsna.
In your whirlpools Lord Matsya appears. In your waves Lord Kurma
appears. In each drop of your water, Lord Krsna is splendidly
manifest.
Text 6
vande lilavatim tvam sa-ghana-ghana-nibham krsna-vamamsa-bhutam
vegam vai vairajakhyam sakala-jala-cayam khandayantim balat svat
chittva brahmanda-bharat sura-nagara-nagan ganda-cailadi-durgan
bhittva bhu-khanda-madhye tata-nidhrtavatir bhumi-malam prayantim
I offer my respectful obeisances unto you, who are playful,
who are dark as a monsoon cloud, who were born from Lord Krsna's
left shoulder, who move swiftly, who are also named Viraja, who
carry all waters, who break the coverings of the universe, who
break great mountains and fortresses, who flow through the earth,
who have beautiful shores, and who are a garland decorating the
earth.
Text 7
divyam kau namadheyam crutam atha yamune dandayaty adri-tulyam
papa-vyuham tv akhandam vasatu mama giram mandale tu ksanam tat
dandyamc cakarya-dandyan sakrd api vacasa khanditam yad grhitam
bhratur martanda-sunor atati puri drdhas te pracandeti dandah
O Yamuna, when it is heard on this earth, your holy name
desrtoys a great mountain of sin. When your name is spoken it
again destroys a great host of sins. May your holy name stay in the circle of my words. In the city of your brother, Yamaraja,
who is the son of the sun-god, you are known by the name
Pracanda.
Text 8
rajjur va visayandha-kupa-tarane papakhu-darvi-kari
veny-usnik ca viraja-murti-ciraso malasti va sundari
dhanyam bhagyam atah param bhuvi nrnam yatradi-krd vallabha
goloke 'py ati-durlabhati-cubhaga bhaty advitiya nadi
Sri Yamuna is a rope to pull one out of the blind well of
sense gratification. Sri Yamuna is a snake to eat the rat of sin.
Sri Yamuna is a beautiful crown of flowers on the usnik poems
that are the hair on the head of the Lord's universal form. Sri
Yamuna gives wealth and good fortune to the people of this world.
Even is Goloka, Sri Yamuna is dear, rare, glorious, and without
any rival.
Text 9
gopi-go-kula-gopa-keli-kalite kalindi krsna-prabhe
tvat-kule jala-lola-gola-vicalat-kallola-kolahalah
tvat-kantara-kutuhalali-kula-krj-jhagkara-kekakulah
kujat-kokila-sagkulo vraja-latalagkara-bhrt patu mam
O Yamuna, O place where the gopis, gopas, and cows enjoy
pastimes, O glory of Lord Krsna, by your shores is a great tumult
of swiftly moving waves, by your shores is a great forest filled with the buzzing of bees and the calls of the peacocks, by your
shores is a host of cooing cuckoos. May Sri Yamuna, who is
decorated with the flowering vines of Vraja, protect me.
Text 10
bhavanti jihvas tanu-roma-tulya
giro yada bhu-sikata ivacu
tad apy alam yanti na te gunantam
santo mahantah kila cesa-tulya
Even if they have as many tongues as there are hairs on
their bodies or grains of sand on the beach, or even if they are
as powerful as Lord Sesa, the most exalted devotees still cannot
properly descibe all your virtues.
Text 11
kalinda-giri-nandini-stava usasy ayam vaparah
crutac ca yadi pathito bhuvi tanoti san-maggalam
jano 'pi yadi dharayet kila pathec ca yo nityacah
sa yati paramam padam nija-nikunja-lilavrtam
A person who at sunrise hears or recites these prayers
glorifying Sri Yamuna attains transcendental auspiciousness. A
person who regularly hears and remembers these prayers attains
the supreme transcendental abode, where the Supreme Personality
of Godhead enjoys pastimes in the forests by the Yamuna's shore.
