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Songs on Srila Prabhupada - Srila Prabhupadadeva Lokopadhyayashtaka

(1)
amoditah pada-lasat-saroja-
yugena krishnasya parena lokah
yad-yatnato gopapati-priyasya
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, by whose efforts this world is now fragrant with the remembrance of Lord Krishna's lotus feet.

(2)
sudhah satam nada-sahasra-vrindat
sri-krishna-san-nama-nadi-sahasrah
sravanti loke karunena yasya
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, by whose mercy thousands of nectar currents of the glories of Lord Krishna's holy names spring from thousands of voices in this world.

(3)
sraddhanvitam balisha-loka-siksha-
karam vidagdham paramam titikshum
asrantam adyam sukhinam dayalum
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the faithful, cheerful, kind, patient, persistent teacher of a childish world.

(4)
maya-kritam visvasiti pratijna-
sahasram adyaiva na loka-balah
praudhas tu satsv eva vachsu yasya
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, because of whose words the child of this world no longer believes the thousand empty promises Maya has no intention to ever fulfill.

(5)
lokeshu yad-divya-pada-pradipah
sandipayaty andhakare ku-marge
maya-ku-jalam kali-kala-jate
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the light of whose words now illumines the darkened path of the Kali-yuga, exposing the trap set by the illusory potency, Maya.

(6)
nanarta yo naga-patisa-bhoge
jaghana nandasana-nagam enah
mridnati padah sa tu yat-kripato
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, by whose mercy the same lotus foot that danced on Kaliya's hoods and kicked the Vidyadhara Sudarsana now crushes the sins of this world.

(7)
samsara-cakrat karunena raksha
mam krishnacandreti su-prarthanedam
sruyeta loke karunena yasya
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, by whose mercy the appeal "O Lord Krishnacandra, please pick me up from this whirlpool of repeated birth and death! Please save me! Please be kind to me!" is now heard in many places of this world.

(8)
vilasi-radha-ramanasya pada-
lasat-saroje sirasi priyasya
dadhati lokah karunena yasya
namami tam sri-prabhupadadevam

I offer my respectful obeisances to His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, by whose mercy the world has now placed the splendid lotus feet of srimati Radharani's playful lover on its head.


Reference: Sri Vyasa puja offerings 1987