A Pause for Prayer
Please abide in the temple of my heart both day and night, O Krsna Murari, O Sri Krsna Murari!
Devotion, love, flower garlands, and sandalwood–please accept, O please accept them, delighter of the heart!
In life or in death I worship You with these offerings, beautiful one, O enchanter of the heart!
Come, son of Nanda. And then, O son of Nanda, I will offer Your arati ceremony with the lamplight of my love.
The waters of the Yamuna River cascade incessantly from my eyes in separation from You, O holder of Govardhana Hill!
May I pass my life absorbed only in songs of Your praise, O Krsna Murari, Sri Krsna Murari!
– Mama Mana Mandire ("In the Temple of My Heart"), by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
[I realize that we already ran the verse and some of the purport, but I decided to run it again rather than starting in the middle of the purport.-Nd]