Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai Bhava Sindhu Para

Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai Bhava Sindhu Para

Lochan Das Thakur has written this song “Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai Bhava Sindhu Para”. In this song, Lochan Das Thakur has described how can one cross over the ocean of material suffering.

(1)
ke jābi ke jābi bhāi bhava-sindhu-pāra
dhanya kali-yugera caitanya-avatāra

(2)
āmāra gaurāńgera ghāṭe adāna-kheyā vaya
jada, andha, ātura avadhi pāra haya

(3)
harināmera naukākhāni śrī guru kāṇḍārī
sańkīrtana kheroyāla du’bāhu pasāri

(4)
saba jīva haila pāra premera vātāse
paḍiyā rahila locana āpanāra doṣe

1) Who will go? Who will go, brothers? Who will cross over this ocean of material suffering? This Kali-yuga in which Sri Caitanya-avatara has appeared is blessed. [Caitanya-avatara does not come in every Kali-yuga.]
2) At the bathing place of my Gauranga, a free ferry-boat is waiting. There is no restriction – everyone is coming, including the lame, blind and distressed. All are climbing aboard to cross over.
3) Harinama is the boat, Sri Guru is the helmsman and the sankirtana party moving with up-raised arms are the oars!
4) All souls can cross over with the favorable winds of prema. Only Locana dasa is so unfortunate that, due to his own fault, he has been left behind.