Syamananda Sataka (verses 96-101)

These 101 slokas in honor of Syamananda Prabhu were written by Sri Rasikananda.

96

kridantim yamuna-jale

ghanarasam pranesvare sincatim

alibhih saha radhikam su-vasanam

mugdha-smitam mohinim

tasya locana-khanjarita-natana-

stabdhayitam yah smaran

smeram krishnam api kvacit

sa-pulako magno rase vepate

… Sri Syamananda, whose bodily hairs stood erect, whose limbs trembled, and who was plunged into sweet nectar as he meditated on the pastime where, beautiful, enchanting, playfully smiling, gloriously garbed and decorated Radha and Her friends playfully splashed water on Lord Krishna as They played in the Yamuna, and where Lord Krishna became momentarily stunned as the khanjana birds of Sri Radha’s eyes happily danced…

97

kanta-sri-rasikendra-ballava-

mane sri-radhika-vallabha-

pranesa-pranayambudhe vraja-

pate govinda gopi-pate

vrindaranya-mahendra-rasa-

rasika-pratyagra-megha-dyute

krishneti-pramadati-gadgada-

padam yo manju vakti kvacit

… Sri Syamananda who, overcome with ecstatic love, calls out with broken words, “O Kanta[1]! O Sri Rasikendra[2]! O Ballava-mani[3], O Sri Radhika-vallabha[4]! O Pranesa[5]! O Pranayambudhi[6]! O Vraja-pati[7]! O Govinda[8]! O Gopi-pati[9]! O Vrindaranya-mahendra[10]! O Rasa-rasika[11]! O Pratyagra-megha-dyuti[12]! O Krishna[13]!

98

sri-saurer virahe trivarna-

kulise karnanganantam gate

sadyas taj-janita-jvara-vyatikara-

prodbhuta-vadharditah

vicchedo na hi varnyatam mama

purah sri-ghosha-lakshmi-pater

ity antah-klamavan vadann

ahaha yo vaivarnyam eti kvacit

… Sri Syamananda who, when he heard the words, “Sri Saurer virahe”[14], felt the three syllables “viraha”[15] to be like a thunderbolt striking the courtyard of his ears, and who, gravely wounded and now burning with fever, said, “Please do not tell me how the goddesses of Vraja suffered in separation from Lord Krishna”, and who, suffering at heart, then became very pale,…

99

khelantau vimale kalinda-duhitur

gunjad-dvirephakule

kule pushpita-kanane dvija-rute

radha-vidhu yauvate

pasyantau kusumavali-kshana-

mishad raktendu-bimbam mitho

gayan yo muditah kvacid

vitanute kancin nadim drig-jalaih

… Sri Syamananda who shed a river of tears as he happily described the pastime where, as They sat among the gopis in a flower-filled forest grove by the glorious Yamuna’s bank, a grove filled with humming bees and cooing birds, Radha and Krishna, pretending to look at the many flowers, gazed at the glorious moons of each other’s faces,…

100

sri-gopijana-vallabhasya

madhure rasotsave kirtite

sadyas tat-pranayanugah

kvacid aho yo nartane murchati

kampa-stambha-su-gadgadokti-

pulaka-svedasru-vaivarnya-bhak

tam karshnim pranamamy aham

prati-lavam bhavatmakam bhava-dam

… to that Sri Syamananda who, hearing of Lord Krishna’s sweet rasa-dance festival with the gopis, became filled with ecstatic love, began to dance, and then fell unconscious as he danced, and who then manifested the ecstatic symptoms of trembling, being stunned, speaking words in a choked voice, perspiring, weeping, becoming pale, and having a body with hairs standing erect, and who was at every moment overcome with ecstatic love, and who taught others how also to be overcome with ecstatic love, I offer my respectful obeisances.

101

etad yah satakam rasotsava-

mayam piyusha-dharadhikam

syamananda-gunancitam

vrajapati-krida-katha-sangatam

premananda-vivardhanam

pratipadam sraddhanvitah kirtayet

sa prapnoti gurau dhruvam

vraja-vadhu-nathe ca bhaktim param

Any person who faithfully and regularly reads or recites these hundred verses, which are a great festival of nectar, which are a flood of sweet nectar, which describe the glories of Sri Syamananda, which are filled with descriptions of Lord Krishna’s pastimes, and which increase the reader’s blissful love for the Lord, will attain eternal and great faith for his spiritual master and for Lord Krishna, the master of the Vraja-gopis.

[1] Beloved.

[2] Best of those who taste nectar.

[3] Jewel of the gopas.

[4] Radharani’s beloved.

[5] Master of my life.

[6] Ocean of love.

[7] Master of Vraja.

[8] Lord who pleases the cows, land, and senses.

[9] Master of the gopis.

[10] Great king of Vrindavana.

[11] Enjoyer of the rasa dance.

[12] Splendid like a monsoon cloud.

[13] All-attractive.

[14] Separation from Lord Krishna.

[15] Separation.

This is a section of the book “Syamananda, the Joy of Radharani (English)”.

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