Bhakti-Kamal Pushpanjali
Srila Prabhupada-anukampita Om Visnupada Srila Bhakti Kamal Avadhut Goswami Maharaja

 [1]
nama om visnupadaya guru-presthaya bhutale
srimate bhaktivilas tirtha goswami-namine

Do I bow down at the lotus feet of Om Visnupada Srila Bhakti Vilas Tirtha Goswami Maharaja, who is the presiding Guru-prestha, the dearest to Sri Guru in the world.

[2]
jaya srila bhaktivilas tirtha goswami
asesa vidhane tava pade nami ami

All glory to Srila Tirtha Goswami, in many-fold ways – do I pay obeisances at your lotus feet.

[3]
vasanti-saptami (tithi) name haya tara khyati
ai tithite janai ami asesa pranatii

Do I pay my innumerable obeisances unto the very famous, holy tithi called vasanti-saptami.

[4]
vasanti-saptami tithi-vara kari dhanya
puruliya gram majhe haila avatirna

The village Puruliya and the tithi vasanti-saptami have become glorious due to your holy appearance.

[5]
guru-seva siksa dite tava agaman
guru-seva tare samarpila dhana jana

You have come to teach the service of Sri Guru; and in order to serve Sri Gurudev you have sacrificed all your wealth and directed all the persons surrounding you towards Sri Guru-seva.

[6]
tumi prakasila asi gaura-saraswati
tomara pada-kamale asesa pranati

You have appeared to manifest Sri Gaura-Saraswati (Prabhpada Srila Saraswati Thakur), for that we all are eternally indebted to your lotus feet and thus we pay you unlimited number of pranams.

[7]
gurudevera mano'bhista karila sthapana
guru-prestha bali toma jane sarvajana

You have established the wish of Gurudev and fulfilled His desire because of which everybody understands you to be the dearest to Gurudev.

[8]
sata duhkha lanchna ganjana sahiya
kariyacha guru-seva janama bhariya

Even though hundreds of sorrow, blesphem and disturbances appeared in the way, yet tolerating all such difficulties you have served Gurudev throughout your life.

[9]
'kunjada' namati tava ativa sundara
kunja-seva dana kari karaha kinkara

Your name ‘Kunja-da’ is very, very sweet which refers to the fact that you give the entrance to the confidential service of divine couple, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna in kunja.

[10]
paravidya siksa dila kari acarana
atayeva nama dhara sri-vidyabhusana

You have taught the scriptural siddhantas by implementing them practically in your own life and thus you have been honored by the divine title ‘Sri Vidyabhusan’ (given by Srila Prabhupada Saraswati Thakur).

[11]
sri-krsna-prestha guru, sri-guru-prestha tumi
tomara mahima sindhu ki varniva ami

Srila Prabhupada, our Gurudev is the dearest to Sri Krishna and you are the dearest to Sri Gurudev and therefore how will it be possible for me to describe your unlimited ocean of glories.

[12]
daiva-varnasrama-dharma, veda-sastra-vani
pracara karile tumi guru ajna mani

Following the order of Gurudev, you have preached wonderfully the daiva-varnasram-dharma, the divine principles of the Vedic Scriptures.

[13]
tomara sri-mukhe suni' madhura hari-katha
atyanta krpana seha haila bada data

Hearing the discourses on Hari from your lotus mouth even very conjuce persons became very great donor, who donated all their wealth for the service of Sri Guru-Gauranga.

[14]
siksita samaje siksa dila paramartha
ya’ asraye bahuloka haila krtartha

You have taught the paramartha, the transcendental knowledge to the learned society and accepting your causeless mercy thousands of such lives have been successful.

[15]
uccapadastha lokere akarsana kari
mayapura-seva prakasila save dhari

By your divine attraction you have attracted many highly reputed, honorable persons and by that you have manifested the service of Sri Mayapura-Dhama.

[16]
prabhupada-satavarsiki kaila yajan
cari dhame karaila nama-sankirtana

You have celebrated the centinental of the appearance of Srila Prabhupada very wonderfully and in a very glorious way and staged Sri Nama-Sankirtan in all the four Sri Dhamas.

[17]
gaurangera nama-dhama-lila-parikara
pradarsani sthapiyacha ati manohara

You have established very attractive transcendental Exhibitions describing Sri Name, Sri Dhama, Divine Pastimes, Confidential Associates of Sri Gauranga.

[18]
gaura-janma-sthana-seva karila ujjvala
darsana matre labhe loka parama mangala

You have enhanced the brightness of the service of Sriman Mahaprabhu’s Birth Place; having the darsan of which the visitors to Sri Dhama get very much benefited.

[19]
guru-sevakera majhe tumi se agrani
sarvadese pracarile gurudeva vani

You are the foremost among the servitors of sri Gurudev. You have preached the teachings of Srila Prabhupada everywhere.

[20]
prabhupada mano'bhista kariya sthapana
tomara adarsa dekhi mugdha sadhujana

You have fulfilled the core desire of Srila Prabhupada. All the saintly persons are wondered observing your such high divine ideal.

[21]
katasata vipada ye ghatila jivane
sava katayila tumi guru-krpa gune

You met hundreds of danger but you got rid of such difficulties by your divine quality of being under the very grace of Sri Guru.

[22]
sarvatra apasiddhanta-mata nirasana kari
mahajana-mata samsthapila sarvopari

You have vanquished all the philosophical adulterations and established the divine principles of Mahajanas ie. the Scriptures, in extreme.

[23]
vani-saha gurudeva-samadhi mandira
prakasile mayapure dekhi manasthira

You have established the beautiful Grand Samadhi Temple, the Temple of Union in Separation, decorating It’s divine columns and walls with Srila Prabhupada’s divine teachings.

[24]
survarna-jayanti utsava kaile sundara
darsana karira citte ananda apara

You have celebrated the Golden Jubilee Festival of Sri Chaitanya Math very nicely, which inundates the heart of the servants and visitors with devotion.

[25]
sri-krsna-caitanya-siksa gavesanagara
prakasiya kaila tate apurva pracara

You have preached unparallelly the teachings of Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu by founding Sri Chaitanya Reasearch Institiute.

[26]
guru-krpa matra tumi kariya sambala
sarvada karile seva acala atala

Just depending upon the grace of Sri Guru and only the grace of Sri Guru, you have served throughout being undisturbed and undeviated in all circumstances.

[27]
guru-seva-adarse toma’sama keha nai
guru-seva aujjvalye bhavita sarvadai

You are the most ideal servitor of Sri Guru without the second, whose thought is always engaged in deep meditation for the glorious, bright service plans for Sri Guru.

[28]
prabhupade janayile e visva-majhare
tomara mahima keva varnivare pare

You are the personality who introduced Srila Prabhupada to the world. Therefore, who can describe your unlimited glories!.

[29]
kate sata dharma-sabhay hai' sabhapati
pracara karila tumi rupanuga bhakti

You have exclusively preached the Rupanuga devotion as the presiding head in hundreds of transcendental assemblies.

[30]
karma-jnana-yogadira kari nivarana
sarvopari suddha-bhakti karila sthapana

You have defied the processes of karma-jnana-yoga etc. and established the glories of suddha-bhakti, pure devotion, over them by proper philosophical arguments.

[31]
he caitanya mathacarya! sri-tirtha goswami
tomara padara-vinde sata sata nami

Oh! The revered Acarya of the Akara Matharaja Sri Chaitanya Math Srila Tirtha Goswami-pada, my hundreds of prostrated obeisances at your lotus feet.

[32]
krpa kara aparadha kariya marjana
tava sri-carane avadhutera nivedana

Kindly bestow your mercy upon me forgiving the offenses – this is the humble prayer of this Avadhut unto your Sri Carana-padma.