Śrīla-Prabhupāda-Stotram
(Composed by Ananta-rāma Śāstrī)
Ananta Dāsa Śāstrī was a disciple of Śrīla Prabhupāda. He used to travel with Śrīla Prabhupāda in India and he was in the Sanskrit department assisting Śrīla Prabhupāda in translation work. He compiled five ślokas which describe much of Śrīla Prabhupāda’s divine character and his divine mission also. Śrīla Prabhupāda very much liked these five ślokas.
Śrīla-Prabhupāda-Stotram
kṛṣṇaika-ceta mada-moha-vināśa-karin
mad-dṛṣṭi-gocara-prabho prabhupāda-svāmin
doṣābhivṛtti-paridūṣita-manda-buddheḥ
sancintayāmi caraṇau tava bhakti-hetoḥ
“O Lord, O Prabhupāda, may you always be the object of my vision. Only the name of Kṛṣṇa can destroy my pride and illusion. Although my mind and intelligence are contaminated by wicked inclinations, I nevertheless take shelter of Your Divine Grace by constant meditation upon your lotus feet in causeless devotion.’
vṛndāvane ramaṇa-reti-prasiddha-bhūmau
tatrāpi kṛṣṇa-balarāma-supāda-mūle
jñānaṁ paraṁ parama-kṛṣṇa-sudharmity uktam
dantāś tu deva prabhupāda namo namaste
“In the most holy land of Vṛndāvana, in Ramaṇa Reti, at the lotus feet of Śrī Kṛṣṇa-Balarāma, you are preaching the topmost knowledge of Kṛṣṇa the Supreme Personality of Godhead who is the fountainhead of religion. O master of the senses, O my Lord, Śrīla Prabhupāda, let me offer my obeisances unto you.”
namaste namaste kṛpā-pūrṇa-dṛṣṭi
namaste namaste mahānandā-dhātrī
namāmo namāmaḥ punar rakṣa rakṣa
prasiddha-prabho pāhi māṁ dakṣa dakṣa
“I offer my obeisances unto the spiritual master of the entire world, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, whose glances are full of mercy and who is the bestower of transcendental bliss. O renowned lord, protect me and kindly shower your compassion on me again and again.”
bhaktisiddhānta-śiṣyāya
bhaktivedānta-swami-nāmine
prasannāya praśāntāya
tasmai śrī-gurave nāmaḥ
“Let me offer my obeisances unto the lotus feet of my spiritual master, who is a disciple of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Saraswati Ṭhākura, who is always calm and joyful, and who in known by the name of Bhaktivedanta Swami.”
śrī-vaṅga-bhūmi-jana-bhūṣaṇa gaura-līlā
gaurāṅga-bhāva parisaraṇa-mātra-śilā
rādhā-mādhava-pada-padma-mano-vilāsin
ānanda-rāśi prabhupāda namo namas te
“The land of Bengal is worshipable by the whole world because Śrī Gaurāṅga Mahāprabhu performed His pastimes there. I offer my obeisances unto my divine master, who is full of bliss. He is always in the ecstasy of Lord Gaurāṅga and is therefore immersed in the lotus feet of Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava.”
COMMENT: This stotram was composed by Śrī Ananta Rāma Śāstrī, a vaishnava Sanskrit scholar who was requested by Śrīla Prabhupāda to assist Him in the translation of the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam commentaries of the various ācāryas. It was composed and first sung directly in the presence of Śrīla Prabhupāda at Śrī Candrodaya Mandira, Māyāpur Dhāma at Gaura Pūrṇimā just before daily Guru pūjā in 1976.
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