Krishna murari

01 My Body is a Temple (Krishna Murari)
by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur
Language: Bengali

krishna murari krishna murari
krishna murari sri krishna murari

mama mana mandire, mandire, mandire
mama mana mandire

mama mana mandire raha nisi din
krishna murari, sri krishna murari

bhakti priti mala chandan
tumi nio he nio cita-nandan

jivana marana tova puja nivedan
sundara he mana-hari

eso nanda-kumara ar nanda-kumar
habe prema-pradipe aroti tomar

nayana jamuna jare anibar
tomara virahe giridhari

(Radhe! Radhe Govinda!)

Translation
From morning until night, live in my heart, your temple, O Krishna Murari!
Takes these gifts: flower garlands, sandalwood—my love, my devotion. Accept them, O Delight of My Heart.
In life or in death I worship You with these offerings, Beautiful One, O Enchanter of the Heart!
Come, Son of Nanda, with the light of my love, I will offer You arati. Without You, the Yamuna river cascades from my eyes, O holder of Govardhana Hill!
I want to pass my life absorbed in Your song, in Your Praise, O Krsna Murari, Sri Krsna Murari!

TText 38

premanjana cchurita bhakti vilocanena

santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokaianti

yam syamasundaram acintya guna svarupam

govindam adi purusham tam aham bhajami

''i worship Govinda,the primeval Lord,who is Syamasundara,Krishna Himself with inconceivable innumerable attributes,whom the pure devotees see in their hearts with the eye of devotion tinged with the salve of love.''

The Syamasundara form of Krishna is His inconceivable simultaneous personal and impersonal self-contradictory form.True devotees see that form in their purifield hearts under the influence of devotional trance.The form Syama is not the blue color visible in the mundane world but is the transcendental variegated color affording eternal bliss,and is not visible to the mortal eye.On a consideration of the trance of Vyasadeva as in the sloka,bhakti-yogena manasi etc., it will be clear that the form of Sri Krishna is the full Personality of Godhead and can only be visible in the heart of a true devotee,wich is the only true seat in the state of trance under the influence of devotion.When Krishna manifested Himself in Vraja,both the devotees and nondevotees saw Him with this very eye;but only the devotees cherished Him,eternally present in Vraja,as the priceless jewel of their heart. Nowadays also the devotees see Him in Vraja in their hearts,saturated with the devotion although they do not see Him with their eyes.The eye of devotion is nothing but the eye of the pure unalloyed spiritual self of the jiva.The form of Krishna is visible to that eye in proportion to its purification by the pratice of devotion.When the devotion of the neophyte reaches the stage of bhava-bhakti the pure eye of that devotee is tinged with the salve of love by the grace of the Krishna,which enables him to see Krishna face to face.The phrase''in their hearts'' means Krishna is visible in proportion as their hearts purified by the practive of devotion.The sum and substance of this sloka is that the form of Krishna,who Syamasundara,Natavara(best dancer),Muralidhar(holder of the flute) and Tribanga(triple bending),is not a mental concoction but is transcendental,and is visible with the eye of the devotee under trance.

Brahma Samhita.