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sitproperly on Jun 28th 2007 at 10:49 am Download Music, Gaudia Vaisnava, Krishna Music

It’s (Two Days After) Ekadasi! – New Hare Krishna song!

Ok, I was hoping to post this yesterday, but life exploded. The reason that it couldn’t be posted on Ekadasi is clear to most devotees. On Ekadasi, we fast from grains and beans. This past Ekadasi was Nirjala Ekadasi. During Nijala, we do a full fast from all food and water if we have missed or screwed up any Ekadasis over the past year.

So in light of that, I didn’t feel right posting a song about food on a day when nobody was eating. See? I’m a nice guy.

This song, if you haven’t already guessed, is called Prasada-sevaya. This version was on the first Shelter Bhajanas tape. It’s Krishna Caitanya dasa on vocals. He was their bass player.

I first heard this song (though not this version of the song) when I was around the Columbus temple in 1994-95. Before that, at the Philly temple, I would see devotees praying before they ate, but I never knew what they were saying. But when I got to Columbus, all the girls (it was an all-girl temple at that time) would sing this song (though a bit differently, in a sort of call and response fashion).

During my stay in Columbus, I met Ekendra (drummer of Shelter, now doing his own country music project). He was running the Athens temple. We were hanging out one day and he asked me if I had ever heard the first Shelter bhajana tape. I thought that there was only one, so I said that I had. He then asked if I remembered “Prasada-sevaya.” It wasn’t on the one that I had heard, so I was sort of confused.

Well, after all that was cleared up, he played this song for me. And holy crap. What a really interesting version of it. Great voice too.

The lyrics are…


sharira avidya-jal
jodendriya tahe kal,
jive phele vishaya-sagore
tara madhye jihwa ati, lobamoy sudurmati
ta’ke jeta kathina samsare

krishna baro doyamoy, koribare jihwa jay,
swa-prasad-anna dilo bhai
sei annamrita pao,radha-krishna-guna gao,
preme dako chaitanya-nitai

The translation is…

O Lord, this material body is a place of ignorance, and the senses are a network of paths to death. Somehow, we have fallen into this ocean of material sense enjoyment, and of all the senses the tongue is the most voracious and uncontrollable; it is very difficult to control the tongue in this world. But You, dear Krsna, are very kind to us and have given us such nice prasada, just to control the tongue. Now we take this prasada to our full satisfaction and glorify you Lord- Radha and Krsna- and in love call for the help of Lord Caitanya and Nityananda.

So here it is, directly off the Shelter Bhajana tape…

Prasada-sevaya!
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