Spiritualbased on Śrīla Prabhupāda’s prayer Mārkine bhāgavata-dharma
Great mercy, O Krishna, You bestow upon me, a wretched soul now lying in Your hands. Yet why You have brought me here, I cannot see, to a terrible place in foreign lands.
Some purpose must You have, this I surmise, why else bring me here to illusion’s domain, where the people are trapped under darkened skies, where passion and ignorance dictate and reign.
Absorbed in the joys of fleeting delight,
no taste for Vāsudeva’s kathā.
How they will be able to understand,
I cannot perceive it so far.
But there is hope within my heart:
Your causeless and mercy-laden glance.
Everything is possible by Your mystic art:
Even the dumb and lame can sing and dance.
O Lord, I am like a puppet in Your hands.
If You have brought me here to dance,
then make me dance, O Lord, make me dance,
make me dance under Your merciful glance.
How will these people savor bhakti’s sweet flow? I’m praying for Your mercy, boundless and deep. Only by Your grace can their taste for it grow. Let me awaken them from fathomless sleep.
6-7 Under illusion's spell all beings reside; by Your will alone can they be released. I pray for their redemption, let illusion subside. Then only will they understand and be freed.
Bhāgavata-kathā is Your sound incarnation; submissive hearing will lead to understanding pure, cleansing the heart by spiritual vibration, a pleasing treatment and most effective cure.
(SB 1.2.17) The well-wishing friend in everyone’s heart helps the devotee eager to hear His kathā, and cleanses all desires for material pleasure, bestowing His mercy beyond any measure.
(SB 1.2.18) By serving the bhagavata person and scripture all troubles of the heart are almost destroyed, and loving service to the Lord in blissful rapture becomes an irrevocable fact unalloyed.
(SB 1.2.19) When bhakti irrevocable blooms in the heart, lust, greed, and hankering quickly depart. Established in pure goodness, joy finally found, the devotee enjoys happiness unbound.
(SB 1.2.20) When unalloyed goodness rules the mind, enlivened by devotional service refined, scientific knowledge of the Lord is gained, and from bondage the soul is finally unchained.
(SB 1.2.21)
Thus the knot in the heart is pierced,
all misgivings are cut to pieces.
The chain of karma ends,
when one sees the self as master.
O Lord, I am like a puppet in Your hands.
If You have brought me here to dance,
then make me dance, O Lord, make me dance,
make me dance under Your merciful glance.
Whoever hears Your message attentively, from passion and nescience will be free. Evil desires in their heart will disappear, that soul will become Your servant dear.
How can I convince them of Your words divine? I’m fallen, unfortunate, and unqualified. Your blessings I implore, I seek Your guiding hand, grant me strength, so their hearts will understand.
12-13 O Lord, You brought me here, Your glory to profess; in Your hands, my fate rests, be it failure or success. Master of the world, through me Your words will flow; shape my speech for their hearts Your wisdom to bestow.
By Your mercy alone my words will become pure, then touching their hearts all sorrow they’ll cure. Your message transcendental and sublime will free from all worry, bring bliss anytime.
Devotion I don’t have, nor knowledge can I claim, but strong faith I have in Krishna's holy name. The title "Bhaktivedanta" was given to me by devotee friends; to fulfill the true meaning of “Bhaktivedanta” now on You depends.
O Lord, I am like a puppet in Your hands.
If You have brought me here to dance,
then make me dance, O Lord, make me dance,
make me dance under Your merciful glance.