Gauranga Karuna Koro

1) gauränga karunä koro, déna héna jane

mo-samo patita prabhu, nähi tribhuvane

2) dante tåna dhori’gaura, däki he tomär

kåpä kori’eso ämär, hådaya mandire

3) jadi doyä nä koribe, patita dekhiyä

patita pävana nama, kisera lägiyä

4) podeci bhava tuphäne, nähika nistär

çré carana tarané däne, däse koro pär

5) çré kåñëa caitanya prabhu, däser anudäs

prärthanä koraye sadä, narottama däs

1) O my dear Lord Gauranga! Please show Your mercy to this lowly and destitute soul. O Lord! There is no one more fallen than myself in all the three worlds.

2) Holding grass between my teeth, O Lord Gaura, I am calling out to You now! Please be compassionate upon me and come to reside within the temple of my heart.

3) If You do not give Your mercy, seeing how fallen I am, then why are You known as Patita Pavana — the merciful saviour of the fallen?

4) I am plunged amidst the violent hurricane-stricken waves in the ocean of this material world, from which there is no escape. Kindly give me the gift of Your divine lotus feet, which are compared to a boat in which Your servant may cross over the ocean of birth and death.

5) Narottama däsa, the servant of the servant of Çré Kåñëa Caitanya Mahaprabhu, ceaselessly makes this prayer.