The Bhajans of the Gaudia Vaisnava acaryas are not just songs but rather deep meditations, realisations, and prayers, and it behoves us all to regularly enter into the spirit of these hymns on a regular daily basis as well as  discuss and meditate on their meanings , as much as we do with our acaryas writings. Srila AC Bhavtivedanta Swami Prabhupada was an excellent musician and composer of melodies and regularly sang the songs of our acaryas so beautifully and the sounds of the Sabdha Brahman emanating from his lotus mouth are still being heard all over the world on a daily basis .

Srila Prabhupada was so fond of singing trancendental bhajans, and they immediately took everyone in his presence to the spiritual planes of Vraj. .Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur and Srila Narottam das Thakur are but  some of the writers of these wondrous trancendental masterpieces .

Just as Srila Jiva Goswami gives as the meaning of the Maha mantra, along with the Goswami’s of Vrndavana,  who were taught by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu , Krishna accepts names given to Him by His devotees,  when he accepts such names He is fully present.

When our acaryas write their songs of devotion,  Krishna is fully present. If we follow their prayers and meditations remembering their pure devotion, we may receive their mercy and understand something of the depths of their bhajans.

nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś
caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ
pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto
’bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ

Synonyms

Translation

“ ‘The holy name of Kṛṣṇa is transcendentally blissful. It bestows all spiritual benedictions, for it is Kṛṣṇa Himself, the reservoir of all pleasure. Kṛṣṇa’s name is complete, and it is the form of all transcendental mellows. It is not a material name under any condition, and it is no less powerful than Kṛṣṇa Himself. Since Kṛṣṇa’s name is not contaminated by the material qualities, there is no question of its being involved with māyā. Kṛṣṇa’s name is always liberated and spiritual; it is never conditioned by the laws of material nature. This is because the name of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa Himself are identical.’

from the Padma Purāṇa.

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