Virahastakam

First Octet -- The Flood of Krsna Prema

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally
suffer to see the suffering of the fallen
conditioned souls. On this anniversary of
your separation I am utterly despondent.

"The ocean of mercy was previously held back by a dam,
but Lord Nityananda personally cut a channel
in it and thereby released the outpouring
flood of pure ecstatic love of God. " (
from Locana's dasa's song Nitai Guna mani )

Those devotees to whom the
responsiblity was given to continue
spreading this flood of love somehow became overpowered
by Maya and were thus reduced
to simply performing ritualistic
Hindu ceremonies for the benefit of the materialists.

Lord Nityananda's inundation of
prema was thus completely stopped by
those known as jati-gosai (caste
gosvamis ) But then you personally came,
O Master to open wide the floodgates once again.

Again you engulfed everyone in the deluge
of pure divine love- even such a low,
wretched, fallen and sinful soul as myself.

On the strength of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's command
you sent all of your servants as spiritual masters,
going from door to door,
just to deliver the fallen souls.

The devotees were enthusiastically preaching
everywhere- from the oceans to the Himalaya mountains,
But now that you have gone from our midst
everything today has become very dark.

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see
the suffering of the fallen conditioned souls. On
this day of your separation I am utterly despondent.
Second Octet -- The Merciful Flood Has Been Stopped

Just as Advaita Prabhu had prayed fervently
and thus induced Sri Gauranga to descend,
so did your father, Bhaktivinoda Thakura,
pray for you to incarnate.

Due to Bhaktivinoda's eagerness, O Master,
you came and proclaimed to everyone that India is
the most holy land of the Lord's divine pastimes.

"One who has taken birth in this land of
Bharata-bhumi (India) should first make his
own life successful and then work for the
benefit of all other people" (C.C Adi 9.41)

This is the most significant message of Lord Caitanya that
you boldly preached everywhere. But now in your absence,
O Master, everything has fallen into darkness.

The overflowing ocean of your compassion
has once again been dammed up. This
makes me feel as if a spear of great
misery has indeed pierced my heart.

Without Caitanya Mahaprabhu's
message being spread there is only
confusion and upheaval in the
movement. Seeing this situation,
all the Vaisnavas are also feeling
overwhelmed with the pangs of your separation.

The spirit souls have once again been captured by Maya and
plunged into absolute darkness.
Desperately searching for relief,
they are simply perishing in
a fathomless ocean of anxiety.

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see
the suffering of the fallen conditioned souls. On
this day of your separation I am utterly despondent.
Third Octet -- Practical Chanting and Preaching

You instructed everyone you met to
chant the holy name of Lord Krsna. You
showed the example of continually
reciting the maha -mantra into their ears.

You empowered everyone with the qualification
to further distribute that holy name But now,
by the influence of Maya,
there is only darkness on all sides.

The souls who are truly attached to
worshiping the Lord always sing and dance
in joyful sankirtana. Following in the
footsteps of their spiritual master,
they deliver the whole world.

But those who have no such
qualification perform nirjana bhajana or
so-called confidential worship in a
solitary place. Thus acting whimsically,
all of them actually remain absorbed
in personal sense gratification.

[As stated in the Srimad Bhagavatam 10, 33,
30]: "An ordinary soul should never
imitate the activities of the Supreme Lord,
even in his mind." According to these
instructions in devotional service,
the unqualified imitators are ruined.

You preached "utility is the principle"- that is,
one should act without attachment and use anything that is
deemed appropriate in the devotional service of the Lord.

In such detached devotional service to Lord
Krsna there would be a temple established
in every house But now just the opposite
situation is apparent everywhere.

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see
the suffering of the fallen conditioned souls. On
this day of your separation I am utterly despondent.
Fourth Octet -- The Essential Purport Neglected

Everything regarding material prosperity
as well as mystic perfection is fully
present in your transcendental message:
"Because the residents of Vraja have life,
therefore they engage in preaching
work." ( Dusta Mana verse)

The "resolute intelligence" (" vyavasayatmika buddhi ")
explained by Srila Visvanatha
Cakravarti [in his commentary
to Bhagavad Gita 2.41] is now spoiled since your disciples
have become ensnared in the bewildering noose of Maya.

Those disciples who were irresolute
in performing devotional service
according to your instructions
have now divided your mission in
many factions. It appears that the
tigress of ambition for material
names and fame has appeared and
personally provoked this upheaval.

The essential purport of your message
obviously did not enter their ears.
O where will I get the strength to
perform this hari-nama-sankirtana?

To chant the holy name of the
Lord is the explicit command of my
worshipful spiritual master. I could
never honestly neglect that order

Your greatest acclaim is that you
propagated the topmost religious culture.
Anyone who accepts the holy name from
you becomes spiritually qualified.

If all those who attained this qualification
were to go out and make disciples then the
miserable conditioned souls would all be
delivered from this world of birth and death.

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see
the suffering of the fallen conditioned souls. On
this day of your separation I am utterly despondent.
Fifth Octet -- The Disciple's Empowerment is Lost

The greatest mantra of all,
consisting of thirty-two letters,
is hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna
hare hare hare rama hare rama rama rama
hare hare People who are possessed by
gross foolishness refuse to chant it.

Your so-called disciple,
the jackal named Ananta Vasudeva,
disobeyed your final instructions
to keep the mission united,
and thereby created a scandalous fiasco. The
result of this philosophical deviation is
evident to this day as imitative sahajiyas
are being worshiped as gurus in your temples.

Is there a single temple to be found
where your instructions are still being
followed? As it is said: " punar musiko
bhava "- Everyone has "again become a mouse."

The lion's food has been stolen away by
the deceptive tricks of the jackal Now
caught in Maya's mighty clutches everyone
is reduced to wailing and weeping.

O Master! If your are merciful to us one again,
then even though we are trapped here
on the shores of the ocean of death,
we will finally behold a change for the better.

Then once again we can blissfully
remember the holy name of Krsna,
and once again we will have firm
faith in your " Vaikuntha messages."

Once again you will make us dance
in the pure holy name of Krsna.
thus you will personally dispel
all this confusion caused by Maya.

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see
the suffering of the fallen conditioned souls. On
this day of your separation I am utterly despondent.
Sixth Octet -- The Preaching Mission is Scattered

"Continue dancing,
singing and performing sankirtana in
the association of devotees." ( C.C. Adi
7.92) These words spoken by Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu are especially nectarine.

If we have complete faith in
these instructions given by you,
our spiritual master,
then in the performance of sankirtana
actual love for Krsna will be aroused in us.

Without love of God,
our tiny intelligence only
becomes entangled in the network
of Maya's delusions Because no
one actually attained prema,
now there has been great upheaval in your mission.

The whole world has become filled with impersonalists,
and the Vaisnavas have given up the
work of preaching that was entrusted
unto them and have simply gone
off to perform solitary worship.

The Vaisnava's were famous as " patita pavana " (
deliverers of the fallen) but now this title has
fallen into disgrace. Countless numbers of your
disciples have been forced to leave your movement.

At such an inauspicious time, O Master,
what can be done to repair the damage
that is done? The beautiful garden
that you had so carefully planted
is now parched and withered away.

O Master,
please awaken some good intelligence in
this insignificant disciple of yours so
that my firm faith in your transcendental
message may increase more and more.

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see the
suffering of the fallen conditioned souls. On this
day of your separation I am utterly despondent. Seventh
Octet -- Distributing the Pure Devotional Process

The most magnanimous incarnation of the
Lord is Sri Krsna Caitanya. Distributing
the process of attaining love of God
by chanting the holy names of Krsna,
He thus blessed the entire universe.

O Master,
you are the personification of the
transcendental message of Lord Caitanya. You are the distributor of that
message to every town and village.

You sent your devotees to preach in the
faraway lands of the Western countries,
and you personally traveled all over India,
even to the South.

You preached the pure philosophy
of Lord Gauranga in such a way that
intelligent persons could understand.
And you showed such great concern,
O Master, in convincing all you adversaries!

Lord Gauranga used many tricks just to engage
the conditioned souls in devotional service,
and you have also understood how to
use all those tricks perfectly well.

You understood time, place and circumstance,
and utilized everything as a strategy for preaching.
Although observing your activities with their very
eyes. those who are blind like owls and other
creatures of the night could not see your true purpose.

What will the Auls and the Sahajiyas and
the other nonsense groups ever understand?
And what will the sheep-like common
people or dry logicians ever understand?

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally suffer to see
the suffering of the fallen conditioned souls. On
this day of your separation I am utterly despondent.
Eighth Octet -- If Only You would Come Again

Lord Caitanya's method of devotional
service is not performed in
solitude. You preached this again
and again to your own devotees.

Just as the Lord delivered Jagai and
Madhai out of His own causeless mercy,
you explained to everyone that this same
method of preaching work has to go on.

The world has now filled up with many
Jagais and Madhais to deliver. Everyone is
anxiously looking down the road waiting
for Caitanya-Nitai to come to their rescue.

If, at such a time as this,
you were to personally return to this world and once more
preach about all these things
the way you always used to do

If there were enthusiastic preaching activities
again taking place in every direction,
then all the people as before would
be stirred up in blissful excitement.

Your profound shouting would cause
the demons and atheists to flee,
and your narrations of Lord Caitanya's message
would fill the hearts of the innocent souls.

Again the whole world would be
excitedly bustling with good tidings;
but as it is,
in your absence now there is nothing of value anywhere.

O Srila Prabhupada! You personally
suffer to see the suffering of the fallen
conditioned souls. On this day of your
separation I am utterly despondent.

O Master! My heart is broken in your
absence. This disciple named Abhay
has hereby revealed only a small token
of his wretched agony of separation.