720922 - Manasa Deha Geha and Purport - Los Angeles

Conversations by Date, 1972

His Divine Grace
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

• The CD version of this song can be found here

720922MU-LOS ANGELES - September 22, 1972 - 31:48 Minutes

Prabhupāda: (Playing the harmonium, singing the musical notes ṣa, ṛ, gā, ma, pa, dha, ni, low and high, high and low etc. Instructing Svarūpa Dāmodara dāsa) Ei shat ta practice korte hobe. (You have to practice these seven.)

Svarūpa Dāmodara: (indistinct Bengali) . . . it's ṣa. ṛ.

Prabhupāda: ṣa, ṛ, gā, ma, pa, dha, ni, ṣa. Now you can play mṛdaṅga?

Devotee: He called me . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: (Plays the harmonium, low and high, high and low etc) Ei shat ta practice koro. (You practice these seven.)

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Accha (Okay.)

Prabhupāda: Ek, dui, teen, char, panch choy, shat. Abar ek, dui, teen, char, panch choy, shat. (One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Again one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.)

Svarūpa Dāmodara: (indistinct Bengali) . . . three, four, five, six, seven.

Prabhupāda: Seven.

Svarūpa Dāmodara: Four, five, six, seven. So. Ṣa, ṛ, gā, ma, pa, dha, ni. ṣa

Prabhupāda: All right. Kṛṣṇa dāsa can play mṛdaṅga? You can play?

Kṛṣṇa dāsa: Yes I can play unless someone else . . . (indistinct)

Devotee (2): . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: (Plays the harmonium)

Devotee: . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: (plays the harmonium) (Karatālas join in).

Stop! (slows the tempo slightly) . . .

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū . . .

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

sampade vipade, jīvane-maraṇe

sampade vipade, jīvane-maraṇe

dāy mama gelā, tuwā o-pada baraṇe

sampade vipade, jīvane-maraṇe

dāy mama gelā, tuwā o-pada baraṇe

mārobi…mārobi rākhobi-jo icchā tohārā

mārobi rākhobi-jo icchā tohārā

nitya-dāsa prati tuwā adhikārā

mārobi…mārobi rākhobi-jo icchā tohārā

nitya-dāsa prati tuwā adhikārā

mārobi rākhobi...

janmāobi moe icchā jadi tor

janmāobi moe icchā jadi tor

bhakta-gṛhe jani janma hau mor

janmāobi moe icchā jadi tor

bhakta-gṛhe jani janma hau mor

(returns to the first verse, 1st line followed by 2nd sings 3 times)

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

(returns to the second verse)

sampade vipade, jīvane-maraṇe

sampade vipade, jīvane-maraṇe

dāy mama gelā, tuwā o-pada baraṇe

sampade vipade, jīvane-maraṇe

dāy mama gelā, tuwā o-pada baraṇe

(returns to the first verse)

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

mānasa...

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

(sings kīṭa-janma hau twice followed by the rest of the first line then followed by 2nd line, then 1st followed by 2nd)

kīṭa-janma hau .. kīṭa-janma hau jathā tuwā dās

bahir-mukha brahma janme nāhi āś

kīṭa-janma hau jathā tuwā dās

bahir-mukha brahma janme nāhi āś

(1st followed by 2nd)

bhukti-mukti-spṛhā vihīna je bhakta

labhaite tāko saṅga anurakta

(1st line followed by 2nd 2 times)

janaka, jananī, dayita, tanay

prabhu, guru, pati-tuhū sarva-moy

(1st line followed by 2nd 2 times)

bhakativinoda kohe, śuno kāna!

rādhā-nātha tuhū hāmāra parāṇa

(returns to the first verse, 1st line followed by 2nd 2 times)

mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor

arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor!

How many minutes?

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: I don’t know I left my watch.

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: I left the stopwatch down in my office. We will find it when we listen and play it back.

Prabhupāda: Oh.

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: I have a real quartz watch. (break)

Prabhupāda: deho, geho, jo kichu mor. Mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor.

This is a song sung by Bhaktivinode Ṭhākur. He is teaching the process of full surrender. Mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor.

First of all, he is surrendering the mind, because mind is the origin of all kinds of speculations; and surrendering, rendering devotional service means first controlling the mind. Therefore he says mānasa, means "mind," then deha: "senses." Śarīra. Deha means this body; body means senses. So, if we surrender the mind unto the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then automatically the senses also become surrendered.

Then, "my home." Deha, geho. Geho means home. Jo kichu mor. Our all possessions are comprising these three things: mind, body and our home. So Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura proposes to surrender everything. Arpilū tuwā pade, nanda-kiśor.

Nanda-kiśor is Kṛṣṇa. So, "I am surrendering my mind, my body and my home unto You."

Now, sampade vipade, jīvane-maraṇe: "Either I am in happiness or I am in distress, either I am in living condition or I am dead."

Dāy mama gelā, tuwā o-pada baraṇe:" Now I am relieved. I am feeling relief because I have surrendered unto You everything."

Mārobi rākhobi-jo icchā tohārā: "Now it is up to You whether You like to keep me or You want to kill me; that depends on You."

Nitya-dāsa prati tuwā adhikārā: "You have got every right to do whatever You think right in relation with Your servant. I am Your eternal servant."

Janmāobi moe icchā jadi tor: "If you so desire"—because a devotee goes back to Home, goes back to Godhead—therefore Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura proposes, "If You like that I shall again take birth, it doesn't matter."

Bhakta-gṛhe jani janma hau mor: "That's only request is that if I have to take my birth, please kindly give me the chance of taking my birth in a devotee's house."

Kīṭa-janma hau jathā tuwā dās: "I don't mind if I am born as an insect, but I must be in the house of a devotee."

Bahir mukha brahma-janme nāhi āś: "I do not like nondevotee life. Even if I am born as a Lord Brahmā. I want to remain with the devotees."

Bhukti-mukti-spṛhā vihīna je bhakta: "I want such devotee who doesn't care for material happiness or spiritual liberation."

Labhaite tāko saṅga anurakta: "I simply desire to be associated with such pure devotees."

Janaka jananī, dayita, tanay: "Now, henceforward You are my father, You are my brother, You are my daughter, You are my son, You are my Lord, You are my spiritual master, You are my husband, everything You are."

Bhakativinoda kohe, śuno kāna: "My Lord, Kāna—Kṛṣṇa, You are the Lover of Rādhārānī, but You are my life and soul, kindly give me protection." . . . So you will play there?

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: I’ll play it in your room . . . (indistinct) . . . stopwatches . . . when I find the right cable.

Devotee (2): . . . (indistinct)

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: Yes but it has to be finer. (break)

Prabhupāda: mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor.

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: Deha, deha?

Prabhupāda: Deha, deha. deha, geha

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: Deha, geha?

Prabhupāda: Ah..g e h a, mānasa, deha, geha.

Kṛṣṇa-kānti: Yes, mānasa, deha, geha.

Prabhupāda: Yes . . . your wife has come here? No?

Pradyumna: No. I would have brought her except I didn’t know if the . . . (indistinct) . . . here.

Prabhupāda: (indistinct) . . . ah Pradyumna . . . (indistinct) . . . did not come? . . . (indistinct) . . . and another thing you remember I sent one article to Madras.

Pradyumna: Nāgarāja Rao. You never received a reply, I don’t think.

Prabhupāda: Ah, you sent it by registered post?

Pradyumna: Oh yes.

Prabhupāda: So, you can remind him that on such and such day we sent one article written like this. We have not received any acknowledgement. So if you have published kindly send us one copy. If you have not published then. You can return us the article.

Devotee (3): I’m here now . . . (indistinct)

Prabhupāda: Eh?

Devotee (3): I’m here to learn.

Prabhupāda: So stay here for some days, yes. That will be nice.

Devotee (3): Is it possible that I may speak to you about on certain matters?

Prabhupāda: Oh yes, oh yes.

Devotee (3): I mean when you have the time. My wife also sent you, when you were in India she made you a bead bag. She sent you did you ever receive it?

Prabhupāda: In India?

Devotee (3): Yes she sent it to India. To Africa first and then they sent it to India, she wanted to know.

Prabhupāda: Maybe.

Devotee (3): She wants to know if you got it?

Prabhupāda: So many beads come.

Devotee (3): Hm.

Śrutakīrti: So many bead bags (laughs).

Prabhupāda: So, oh yes! I received one bead bag, yes.

Devotee (3): From Sweden?

Prabhupāda: Oh yes.

Devotee (3): That's nice, she wanted to know if . . .

Prabhupāda: (sings) Mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor. (break) (end)