Advaitastaka

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brahmadimam durlabha-prema-purair

Sri Advaitastaka adinam yah plavayam asa lokam


avirbhavya srila-caitanyacandram
sriladvaitacaryam etam prapadye

Eight Prayers Glorifying brahma-adinam - of Lord Brahma and others;


durlabha - difficult to attain; prema - of pure love of
Lord Advaita Godhead; puraih - with floods; adinam - even to the
lowest persons; yah - Who;plavayam asa - inundated;
lokam - the worlds; avirbhavya - having caused to
appear; srila-caitanyacandram - Lord Caitanyacandra.
by Srila Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya
Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya who, by
making the moon of Lord Caitanya rise, flooded the
Text 1 world with a love even Brahma and the great demigods
cannot attain.

ganga-tire tat-payobhis tulasyah


patraih purpaih prema-hunkara-ghoraih Text 4
prakatyartham gauram aradhayad yah
sailadvaitacaryam etam prapadye
sri-caitanyah sarva-sakti-prapurno
ganga - of the Ganges river; tire - on the shore; tat - yasyaivajna-matrato 'ntardarde 'pi
of that river; payobhih - with the waters; tulasyah - of durvijneyam yasya karunya-katyam
the sacred Tulasi plant; patraih - with leaves; puspaih - sriladvaitacaryam etam prapadye
with flowers; prema - of pure love of God; hunkara -
ghosain - with loud cries; prakatya - for the appearance; sri-caitanyah - Lord Caitanya; sarva - all; sakti -
artham - for the purpose; gauram - Lord Caitanya; ofpotencies; prapurnah - full; yasya - of whom; eva -
aradhayat - worshipped; yah - who; srila-advaita- indeed; ajna - the order; matratah - by only;
acaryam - Srila Advaita /Acarya; etam - to him; antardadhe - disappeared;api - although; durvijneyam -
prapadye - I surrender. difficult to understans; yasya - of Whom; karunya - of
mercy; katyam - activity.

Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya, who with


tulasi leaves, flowers, water from the Ganges' shore, and Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya, whose
loud calls of love, worshiped Lord Gaura and begged mercy is beyond understanding, and by whose request
Him to appear. alone all-powerful Lord Caitanya disappeared from this
world.

Text 2
Text 5

yad-dhunkaraih prema-sindhor vikarair


akartah san gaura-goloka-nathah sarti-sthity-antam vidhatum pravatta
avirbhutah sri-navadvipa-madhye yasyamsamsah brahma-virnv-isvarakhyah
sriladvaitacaryam etam prapadye yenabhinnam tam maha-virnu-rupam
sriladvaitacaryam etam prapadye
yat - of Whom; hunkaraih - because of the loud cries;
prema - of pure love of God; sindhoh - of the ocean; sarti - creation; sthiti - maintenance; antam - and
vikaraih - with ecstatic transformations; akartah - annihillation; vidhatum - to perform; pravattah -
attracted; san - being; gauga - golden; goloka - of engaged;yasya - of Whom; amsa - parts; amsah - of the
Goloka Vrndavana; nathah - the Lord; avirbhutah - parts; brahma - Lord Brahma; visnu - Lord Visnu;
manifested; sri-navadvipa - ofNavadvipa; madhye - in isvara - and Lord Siva; akhyah - named; yena - by
the midst. whom; abhinnam - not different; tam - to Him; maha-
fn 3 visnu - of Lord Maha-Visnu; rupam - form.

Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya. Attracted


by His loud calls, the golden Lord of Goloka Vandavana, Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya, who is not
who is an ocean of ecstatic love, appeared in Sri different from the form of Lord Maha-Virnu, and whose
Navadvipa. parts and parcels are the Brahma, Virnu, and Siva
engaged in the creation, maintenance, and destruction
of the worlds.
Text 3
Text 6 Lord Nityananda, and who is named Acarya because He
teaches devotional service.

kasmimscid yah sruyate casrayatvat


sambhor ittham sambhavan-nama dhama Text 9
sarvaradhyam bhakti-matraika-sadhyam
sriladvaitacaryam etam prapadye
pratah pritah pratyaham sampathed yah
kasmimscit - somewhere; yah - Who; sruyate - is sitanathasyastakam suddha-buddhih
heard; ca - and; asrayatvat - because of being the so 'yam samyak tasya padaravinde
shelter; sambhoh - of Lord Siva; ittham - in this way; vindan bhaktim tat-priyatvam prayati
sambhavat-nama - the name of Lord Siva; dhama -
abode; sarva - by all; aradhyam - worshipable; bhakti - pratah - in the early morning; pritah - delighted;
by devotion; matra - alone; eka - one; sadhyam - pratyaham - every day; sampathey - may read; yah -
attainable; who; sita-nathasya - of Lord Advaita, the Lord of Sita-
devi; astakam - eight verses; suddha - pure; buddhih -
mind; sah - he; ayam - thatvery person; samyak -
Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya, who is completely; tasya - of Him; pada - feet; aravinde - for
worshiped by all, who is attained only by devotional the lotus flower; vindan - attaining; bhaktim - devotion;
service, and who, as is heard in a certain Vedic tat - to Him; priyatvam - the state of being dear;prayati -
literature, because He is Lord Siva's shelter, has a name attains.
and glory like Lord Siva's.

A perse whose intelligence is pure and who every


Text 7 morning happily reads these eight verses glorifying
Lord Advaita, the husband of Sita, attains devotion for
His lotus feet and becomes dear to Him.
sita-namni preyasi prema-purna
putro yasyapy acyutananda-nama
sri-caitanya-prema-pura-prapurnah
sriladvaitacaryam etam prapadye

sita - sita-devi; namni - named; preyasi - dear wife;


prema - of pure love of Godhead; purna - full; putrah -
son; yasya - of Whom; api - and; acyuthananda -
Acyutananda; nama - named; sai-caitanya - for Lord
Caitanya; prema - pure love;pura - with the flood;
prapurnah - filled.

Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya, who is


flooded with love for Lord Caitanya, and whose beloved
Sita-devi and son Acyutananda are also filled with love.

Text 8

nityanandadvaitato 'dvaita-nama
bhaktyakhyanad yah sad-acarya-nama
sasvac-cetah-sancarad-gaura-dhama
sriladvaitacaryam etam prapadye

nityananda - from Lord Nityananda; advaitatah -


because ofnon-difference; advaita - advaita; nama -
named; bhakti - ofdevotional service; akhyanat -
because of description; yah - who; sat - pious; acharya -
acharya; nama - named; sasvat - eternal; cetah - mind;
sancarat - appearing; gaura - LordCaitanya; dhama -
abode.

Let me surrender to Srila Advaita Acarya, whose


heart is Lord Gaura's eternal home, who is named
Advaita because He is not (a) different (dvaita) from

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