નમામીશ્વરં સચ્ચિદાનન્દરૂપં,લસત્કુણ્ડલં ગોકુલે ભ્રાજમાનમ્।
યશોદાભિયોલૂખલાધાવમાનં,પરામૃષ્ટમત્યં તતો દ્રુત્ય ગોપ્યા।।૧।।
I bow down to the Supreme Lord, whose form is the embodiment of eternity, knowledge, and bliss. His shark-shaped earrings swing to and fro. He is shining beautifully in Gokula. Out of fear of mother Yashoda, He is running swiftly away from the wooden grinding mortar, but He is caught from behind by her who ran faster than Him. (1)
રુદન્તં મુહુર્નેત્રયુગ્મં મૃજન્તં,કરામ્ભોજ-યુગ્મેન સાતંકનેત્રમ્।
મુહુઃશ્વાસકમ્પ – ત્રિરેખાપ્રકણ્ઠ –સ્થિત ગ્રૈવ-દામોદરં ભક્તિબદ્ધમ્।।૨।।
[Seeing the whipping stick in His mother's hand,] He is crying and rubbing His eyes again and again with His two lotus hands. His eyes are filled with fear, and the necklace of pearls around His neck, which is marked with three lines like a conch shell, is shaking because of His quick breathing due to crying. To this Supreme Lord, Sri Damodara, whose belly is bound not with ropes but with His mother's pure love, I offer my humble obeisances. (2)
ઇતીદૃક્ સ્વલીલાભિરાનન્દ કુણ્ડે,સ્વઘોષં નિમજ્જન્તમાખ્યાપયન્તમ્।
તદીયેશિતજ્ઞેષુ ભક્તૈર્જિતત્વં,પુનઃ પ્રેમતસ્તં શતાવૃત્તિ વન્દે।।૩।।
By such childhood pastimes as this, He is drowning the inhabitants of Gokula in pools of ecstasy, and is revealing to those devotees who are absorbed in knowledge of His supreme majesty and opulence that He is only conquered by devotees whose pure love is imbued with intimacy and is free from all conceptions of awe and reverence. With great love I again offer my obeisances to Lord Damodara hundreds and hundreds of times. (3)
વરં દેવ ! મોક્ષં ન મોક્ષાવધિં વા,ન ચાન્યં વૃણેઽહં વરેશાદપીહ।
ઇદન્તે વપુર્નાથ! ગોપાલબાલં,સદા મે મનસ્યાવિરાસ્તાં કિમન્યૈઃ।।૪।।
O Lord, although You are able to give all kinds of benedictions, I do not pray to You for the boon of impersonal liberation, nor the highest liberation of eternal life in Vaikuntha, nor any other boon. O Lord, I simply wish that this form of Yours as Bala Gopala in Vrindavana may ever be manifest in my heart, for what is the use to me of any other boon besides this? (4)
ઇદન્તે મુખામ્ભોજમવ્યક્તનીલૈ -ર્વૃતં કુન્તલૈઃ સ્નિગ્ધ-રક્તૈશ્ચ ગોપ્યા।
મુહુશ્ચુમ્બિતં બિમ્બરક્તાધરં મે,મનસ્યાવિરાસ્તામલં લક્ષલાભૈઃ।।૫।।
O Lord, Your lotus face, which is encircled by locks of soft black hair tinged with red, is kissed again and again by mother Yashoda, and Your lips are reddish like the bimba fruit. May this beautiful vision of Your lotus face be ever manifest in my heart. Thousands and thousands of other benedictions are of no use to me. (5)
નમો દેવ દામોદરાનન્ત વિષ્ણો ! પ્રસીદ પ્રભો ! દુઃખજાલાબ્ધિમગ્નમ્।
કૃપાદૃષ્ટિ-વૃષ્ટ્યાતિદીનં બતાનુગૃહાણેશ ! મામજ્ઞમેધ્યક્ષિદૃશ્યઃ।।૬।।
O Supreme Godhead, I offer my obeisances unto You. O Damodara! O Ananta! O Vishnu! O master! O my Lord, be pleased upon me. By showering Your glance of causeless mercy upon me, deliver this poor ignorant fool who is immersed in an ocean of worldly sorrows, and become visible to my eyes. (6)
કુબેરાત્મજૌ બદ્ધમુરત્યૈવ યદ્વત્,ત્વયા મોચિતૌ ભક્તિભાજૌ કૃતૌ ચ।
તથા પ્રેમભક્તિં સ્વકાં મે પ્રયચ્છ,ન મોક્ષે ગ્રહો મેઽસ્તિ દામોદરેહ।।૭।।
O Lord Damodara, just as the two sons of Kuvera—Manigriva and Nalakuvara—were delivered from the curse of Narada and made into great devotees by You in Your form as a baby tied with rope to a wooden grinding mortar, in the same way, please give to me Your own prema-bhakti. I only yearn for this and have no desire for any kind of liberation. (7)
નમસ્તેઽસ્તુ દામ્ને સ્ફુરદ્દીપ્તિધામ્ને,ત્વદીયોદરાયાથ વિશ્વસ્ય ધામ્ને।
નમો રાધિકાયૈ ત્વદીય-પ્રિયાયૈ,નમોઽનન્તલીલાય દેવાય તુભ્યમ્।।૮।।
O Lord Damodara, I first of all offer my obeisances to the brilliantly effulgent rope which binds Your belly. I then offer my obeisances to Your belly, which is the abode of the entire universe. I humbly bow down to Your most beloved Srimati Radharani, and I offer all obeisances to You, the Supreme Lord, who displays unlimited pastimes. (8)
