Govinda Damodara Stotra (7)

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Jai Krishna. Vichitravarnabharanabhirame Bhidehivatram Bhujarajahamse Sadamadhiye Rasnegrarange Govinda Damodar Madhaveti Vichitravarnabharanabhirame So, he is describing that Vichitra means not strange as it means in Hindi or Marathi, but it means special. It comes from Chitra, specially beautiful.
Vichitravarna Varna is letters. These beautiful letters Bharanabhirame they are abharan abharan is ornament and abhirame they bring great joy. Vaktra is the mouth.
So, Balwamangal Thakur is praying that let the holy name become the ornament of my mouth and this ornament in one sense is like the swan for the lotus of the mouth. Sadamadhiye Rasnegrarange O tongue agrarange let this be your foremost joy. What? Chanting these holy names.
So, it’s a beautiful implied metaphor over here. Just as the swan delight in lotuses and nothing else. Similarly, O holy name O my tongue which is like a swan please delight in the lotus of the holy name of the lord.
So, our tongue desires various pleasures and the whole principle of bhakti is to become a connoisseur of pleasure. A connoisseur is a person who carefully selects among various options and then settles for nothing less than the best. A connoisseur of art will look for the best art pieces through a museum and will only purchase them and will be ready to pay whatever price is required for that.
Similarly, a connoisseur of pleasure will not settle for anything less than the best pleasure. And the best pleasure that we can ever get is the pleasure of remembrance of Krishna. Not only is this the highest pleasure in the sense that it connects with our innermost core.
All other pleasures connect only with our body and mind. This is the only pleasure that connects with our soul. But also it is highest because it connects with Krishna who is the highest source of pleasure.
Our tongue can connect us with food, which is a source of pleasure no doubt, but it is a finite and temporary source of pleasure. Our tongue can connect us with mundane music. That might also be a source of pleasure, but that is also a source of temporary mundane pleasure that often invokes worldly and ungodly desires within us.
So among the various pleasures the tongue can offer us, the prayer over here is to let the tongue become like a connoisseur for pleasure and seek pleasure not in any of the worldly objects which cheat us of our potential for supreme pleasure and make us settle for something far lesser. So he’s praying to the tongue, oh become like a swan. This is a swan that selects only the best.
Similarly, please, select only the best pleasure. The best pleasure is the pleasure of the holy name and be delighted in that. Now, agrarange, there are many pleasures but this is the highest pleasure and the highest can also be the constant pleasure for us if we chant prayerfully and develop a taste for the holy name.
So let us keep this beautiful vision in mind. Krishna is manifesting with his lotus feet on our tongue, so let our tongue become like a swan which relishes the nectar of those lotus feet. So let us chant the holy of the Lord.