Tritiya Caitanyastaka

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Gatha Chandah Stava

Rupa Goswami has written this song “Upasita Padambujas”. The official name of this song is Volume 1 Tritiya Caitanyastaka. This song is taken from the book Stavamala. In this song, Rupa Goswami describes the divine glories of Lord Caitanya. He also prays to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to grant auspicious love to anyone who reads these 8 verses.
 
(1)
upasita-padambujas tvam anurakta-rudradibhih
prapadya purusottamam padam adabhram udbhrajitah
samasta-nata-mandali-sphurad-abhista-kalpa-drumam
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(2)
na varnayitum isate gurutarasvatarayita
bhavantam uru-buddhayo na khalu sarvabhaumadayah
paro bhavatu tatra kah patu-rato namas te param
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(3)
na yat katham api srutav upanisadbhir apy ahitam
svayam ca vivrtam na yad gurutaravatarantare
ksipann asi rasambudhe tad iha bhakti-ratnam ksitau
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(4)
nija-pranaya-visphuran-natana-ranga-vismapita-
tri-netra-nata-mandala-praktitanuragamrta
ahankrti-kalankitoddhata-janadi-durbodha he
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(5)
bhavanti bhuvi ye narah kalita-duskulotpattayas
tvam uddharasi tan api pracura-caru-karunyatah
iti pramuditantarah saranam asritas tvam aham
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(6)
mukhambuja-pariskalan-mrdula-van-madhuli-rasa-
prasanga-janitakhila-pranata-bhrnga-rangotkara
samasta-jana-mangala-prabhava-nama-ratnambudhe
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(7)
mrganka-madhuranana sphurad-anidra-padmeksana
smita-stabaka-sundaradhara visankatoras-tata
bhujoddhata-bhujangama-prabha manoja-koti-dyute
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(8)
aham kanaka-ketuki-kusuma-gaura dustah ksitau
na dosa-lava-darsita vividha-dosa-purne 'pi te
atah pravanaya dhiya krpana-vatsala tvam bhaje
saci-suta mayi prabho kuru mukunda mande krpam
 
(9)
idam dharani-mandalotsava bhavat-padankesu ye
nivista-manaso narah paripathanti padyastakam
saci-hrdaya-nandana prakata-kirti-candra prabho
nija-pranaya-nirbharam vitara deva tebhyah subham
 
 
(1) O Lord Caitanya, Your lotus feet are worshiped by the devoted Siva and other demigods. You are splendidly manifested in the best of cities, Jagannatha Puri. For the surrendered devotees You are a desire tree. O Sacinandana, O Mukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(2) Neither the great incarnations [headed by Dattatreya and Vyasadeva] nor the great intellectuals, headed by Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya, can properly describe You. Who is more intelligent than You? I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. O Sacinandana, O Mukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(3) The Upanisads did not reveal the jewel of pure devotional service, nor did the great incarnations describe it, yet You have now cast this priceless jewel into this world from the nectar ocean. O Sacinandana, O Mukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(4) O Lord whose dancing in ecstatic love filled Siva with wonder, O Lord who revealed to the surrendered devotees the nectar of pure devotion, O Lord who cannot be understood by the proud egoists, O Sacinandana, O Mukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(5) Out of Your great and splendid mercy You deliver even the low-born and sinful. This has made me very happy at heart, and thus I take shelter of You. O Sacinandana, OMukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(6) You delight the bumblebees of Your surrendered devotees with the honey of the words trickling from Your lotus mouth. You are an ocean of the jewels of the holy names, which are auspicious for all people. O Sacinandana, O Mukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(7) O moon-faced Lord, O Lord with glistening, wide-awake lotus-eyes, O Lord whose smile is a cluster of flowers, O Lord whose lips are handsome, O Lord whose chest is broad, O Lord whose arms are like two glorious snakes, O Lord as splendid as millions of Cupids, O Sacinandana, O Mukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(8) O Lord as splendid as a golden ketaki flower, I am the most wicked person in the world. Still, even if a person is filled with a great host of faults, You do not see the slightest fault in him. For this reason, O Lord who is kind to the fallen, I worship You with a humble heart. O Sacinandana, O Mukunda, please be merciful to this great fool.
 
(9) O festival of happiness for this world, O pleasure of the heart of Saci, O splendid moon of glory, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, please grant auspicious love for You to those persons who, their hearts rapt in meditation on Your footprints, read these eight verses.