Ekhona Bujhinu

Ekhona Bujhinu , sri krishna govinda

Bhaktivinod Thakur has written this song “Ekhona Bujhinu”. The official name for this song is “Vasya Raksibe Krsna Visvasa Palana Song 1. This song is taken from the book Saranagati. Bhaktivinoda Thakura says that there is nothing better than acquiring the lotus feet of Sri Krishna. This lotus feet gives us protection from the material desires of birth and death. Even Laxmidevi went through severe austerities to acquire the lotus feet of Govinda. Even demigods have to under go severe austerities.

(1)
ekhona bujhinu prabhu! tomāra caraṇa
aśokābhoyāmṛta-pūrṇa sarva-kṣana
(2)
sakala chāḍiyā tuwā caraṇa-kamale
poḍiyāchi āmi nātha! tava pada-tale
(3)
tava pāda-padma nāth! rokṣibe āmāre
ār rakṣā-kartā nāhi e bhava-saḿsāre
(4)
āmi tava nitya-dāsa—jāninu e-bāra
āmāra pālana-bhāra ekhona tomāra
(5)
baḍo duḥkha pāiyāchi swatantra jīvane
duḥkha dūre gelo o pada-varaṇe
(6)
je-pada lāgiyā ramā tapasya korilā
je-pada pāiyā śiva śivatwa lobhilā
(7)
je-pada labhiyā brahmā kṛtārtha hoilā
je-pada nārada muni hṛdoye dhorilā
(8)
sei se abhoya pada śirete dhoriyā
parama-ānande nāci pada-guna gāiyā
(9)
saḿsāra-vipada ho’te avaśya uddhār
bhakativinoda, o-pada koribe tomār

TRANSLATION

1) I know now Your divine feet are a refuge free from all sorrow and fear, eternally full of sweet nectar.

2) At the soles of those lotus feet I surrender myself and all I possess.

3) O Lord, there is no other protection but You in this world of birth and death.

4) At last I know myself to be Your eternal servant, whose maintenance You have assured.

5) Life before, without You, held nothing but sorrow. Now I live free from all misery

6) Laksmi, desiring such a place at Your lotus feet, executed austerities. Only after securing a place by Your lotus feet did Lord Siva attain his sivatva, or quality of auspiciousness.

7) Upon obtaining those feet Lord Brahma became successful in life, and the great sage Narada Muni held those two feet to his heart.

8) Your lotus feet drive away all fear. Having held them to my head, I dance in great ecstasy, singing their glories.

9) Your lotus feet will deliver Bhaktivinoda from the perils of worldly journey.

Listen:
Ekhona Bujhinu – Sung by HG Jai Sachinanadana Prabhu
Ekhona Bujhinu – Sung by HH Radhanath Swami