Saparsada-bhagavad Viraha-janita-vilapa
(Lamentation Due to Separation from the Lord and His Associates)
je anila prema-dhana karuna pracura
hena prabhu kotha gela acarya-thakura
kanha mora svarupa rupa kanha sanatana
kanha dasa raghunatha patita-pavana
kanha mora bhatta-juga kanha kaviraja
eka-kale kotha gela gora nataraja
pasane kutibo matha anale pasiba
gauranga gunera nidhi kotha gele paba
se-saba sangira sange je kaila vilasa
se-sanga na paiya kande narottama dasa
He who brought the treasure of divine love and who was filled with endless compassion and mercy — where has such a personality as Advaita Acarya gone?
Where are my Svarupa Damodara and Rupa Gosvami? Where is Sanatana? Where is Raghunatha dasa, the saviour of the fallen?
Where are my Raghunatha Bhatta and Gopala Bhatta and where is Krsnadasa Kaviraja? Where did Lord Gauranga, the great dancer, suddenly go?
I will smash my head against the rock and enter into the fire. Where will I find Lord Gauranga, the reservoir of all wonderful qualities.
Being unable to obtain the association of Lord Gauranga, accompanied by all of these devotees in whose association He performed His pastimes, Narottama dasa simply weeps.
- Narottama dasa Thakura
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(From the “Songs of the Vaisnava Acaryas” collection)
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(From the “Songs of the Vaisnavas” collection, Vol. 4 – Intense Longing – Songs by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura)
So spiritually, appearance and disappearance, there is no difference. Just like in material point of view, if a person takes birth… Suppose you get a son born, you become very happy. The same son, when passes away, you become very unhappy. This is material. And spiritually, there is no such difference, appearance or disappearance. So although this is the disappearance day of Om Visnupada Sri Srimad Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, so there is nothing to be lamented. Although we feel separation, that feeling is there, but spiritually, there is no difference between appearance and disappearance. There is a song, Narottama dasa Thakura’s song, ye anilo prema-dhana. Do you know, any one of you? Can you sing that song anyone? Oh. Ye anilo prema-dhana, karuna pracura, heno prabhu kotha gelo.
-Srila Prabhupada on His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada’s Disappearance Day, Lecture — Los Angeles, December 13, 1973
Disappearance and appearance the same. His disappearance here, appearance somewhere. Just like sunset somewhere is immediately, sunset and sunrise, simultaneously. So for a Vaisnava, because he is under the order of Krsna, he appears somewhere and disappears somewhere because he is order-carrier. He says, “Now go there. Preach Krsna consciousness. Go there.” So appearance here, disappearance there. Therefore the same thing.
-Srila Prabhupada, Sri Caitanya-caritamrta lecture, Madhya-lila 20.105 — New York, July 11, 1976
Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!
