Śrī Śrī Gurvāṣṭaka

I worship the lotus feet of the Divine Master, whose heart is maddened in nectarean love for Śrīman Mahāprabhu by the grand congregational chanting of the Holy Name. Dancing, singing, and playing the khol and karatāls,etc.; his body thrills with joy, trembles, and waves of tears flow from his eyes.

I worship the lotus feet of the Divine Master, who personally engages in many types of worshipful services such as dressing the deity and cleansing the Lord’s holy temple, and similarly engages the devotees (in his retinue).

I worship the lotus feet of the Divine Master, who fully satisfies the devotees of Śrī Krishna with four types of nectarean prasādam foodstuffs that are chewed, sucked, licked, and drunk (that is, he brings about the dispellation of mundanity and the awakening of the joy of love that develops from respecting prasādam), and he is thereby himself satisfied.

I worship the lotus feet of the Divine Master, whose heart is insatiably desirous of tasting the infinite Holy Names, Forms, Qualities and Pastimes of Śrī Rādhā-Mādhava that are full of the sweetness of love divine.

I worship the lotus feet of the Divine Master, who is extremely dear to the Supreme Divine Couple who sport in the groves of Vraja, because he is greatly expert in those appropriate engagements that are performed by the sakhīs in order to serve the amorous Pastimes of the Divine Couple.

I worship the lotus feet of the Divine Master (who is the simultaneously inconceivably distinct and nondistinct manifest embodiment of the Supreme Personality of Godhead): all the Scriptures sing the glories of his being the direct non-different form of the Supreme Lord Śrī Hari, and the pure saints also concede this; yet, he is the most beloved of the Lord.

I worship the lotus feet of the Divine Master, ever singing his glories and meditating upon him at the three junctions of the day. By his grace alone one gains the grace of the Lord, and if he is displeased the soul has no shelter anywhere.

One who, during the Brāhma-muhūrta (nintysix minutes before sunrise) with meticulous regularity wholeheartedly sings these eight prayers to the Divine Master, attains, upon leaving the body in his spiritual perfection, the qualification to engage in the direct service of the Lord of Vṛndāvan.