Gītā-mālā (A Garland of Songs)

(translated by Daśaratha-suta Dāsa)

Gītā-mālā (‘A Garland of Songs’) was composed by Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura in 1893. It comprises of five sections containing 80 songs. The first chapter, Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī (‘The sentiments of Yāmuna’) has 27 songs based upon the Stotra-ratna of Yāmunācārya of the Śrī Sampradāya. Chapter two is called Kārpaṇya Pañjikā (‘an almanac of humility’) which is based upon a prayer written in Stava-mālā by Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī. Chapter three is called Śoka Śātana (‘The removal of lamentation’) and consists of 13 songs narrating the death of Śrīvāsa Ṭhākura’s son during Mahāprabhu’s kīrtana at Śrīvāsāṅgana. Chapter four, Rūpānuga Bhajana Darpaṇa (‘A mirror reflecting the bhajana of the followers of Śrī Rūpa’) includes 29 songs describing the sādhana necessary to enter the mādhurya-līlā of Rādhā-Govinda as taught by Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmī. Chapter five, Siddha Lālasā (‘Longing for perfection’) explains the achievment of bhajana-sadhana for the sādhaka.

Gītā-mālā – Chapter One
Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī (The Ecstasies of  Yāmunācārya)

  1. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song One – ‘ohe prabhu doyāmaya’
  2. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Two – ‘tomāra īkṣana hoya’
  3. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Three – ‘para-tattwa bicakṣaṇa’
  4. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Four – ‘jagatera bastu jata’
  5. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Five – ‘tumi sarba-guṇa-juta’
  6. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Six – ‘tomāra gambhīra mana’
  7. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Seven – ‘māyā-baddha jata kṣaṇa’
  8. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Eight – ‘dharma-niṣṭhā nāhi mora’
  9. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Nine – ‘heno duṣṭa karma nāi’
  10. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Ten – ‘nija-karma-doṣa-phale’
  11. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Eleven – ‘anya āśā nāhi jāra’
  12. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twelve – ‘taba pada-pańkajinī’
  13. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Thirteen – ‘bhramite soḿsāra-bane’
  14. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Fourteen – ‘tomāra caraṇa-padma’
  15. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Fifteen – ‘tabāṅghri-kamala-dwoya’
  16. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Sixteen – ‘āmi sei duṣṭa-mati’
  17. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Seventeen – ‘āmi aparādhī jana’
  18. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Eighteen – ‘abibeka rūpa ghana’
  19. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Nineteen – ‘agre eka nibedana kori’
  20. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty – ‘tomā chāḍi’ āmi kabhu’
  21. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty One – ‘A Garland of Songs’
  22. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty Two – ‘veda-vidhi-anusāre’
  23. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty Three – ‘tomāra je śuddha-bhakta’
  24. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty Four – ‘śuno he madhu-mathana’
  25. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty Five – ‘śuno he madhu-mathana’
  26. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty Six – ‘tumi jagatera pitā’
  27. Yāmuna Bhāvāvalī – Song Twenty Seven – ‘āmi to’ cañcala-mati’

Gītā-mālā – Chapter Two
Kārpaṇya Pañjikā (Diary of Selfish Humility)

Gītā-mālā – Chapter Four
Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa (A Mirror Reflecting the Worship Which Follows Śrīla Rūpa Goswāmī)

  1. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song One – ‘śrī-guru śrī-gauracandra’
  2. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Two – ‘bahu-janma-bhāgya-baśe’
  3. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Three – ‘yoga jāga saba chāra’
  4. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Four – ‘chāḍi’ anya abhilāṣa’
  5. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Five – ‘śraddhā-debi nāma jāra’
  6. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Six – ‘rūpānuga tattwa-sāra’
  7. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Seven – ‘rasera ādhāra jini’
  8. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Eight – ‘jei rati janme jāra’
  9. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Nine – ‘madhurera sthāyī bhāba’
  10. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Ten – ‘rati prema sneha māna’
  11. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Eleven – ‘raty-āswāda hetu jata’
  12. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twelve – ‘śrī-nandānandana dhana’
  13. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Thirteen – ‘su-ramya madhura-smita’
  14. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Fourteen – ‘su-ramyādi guṇa-gaṇa’
  15. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Fifteen – ‘śrī-kṛṣṇe sebibo boli’
  16. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Sixteen – ‘nāyikāra śiromaṇi’
  17. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Seventeen – ‘rādhā-kṛṣṇa-guṇa-gāna’
  18. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Eighteen – ‘pañca-sakhī madhye cāra’
  19. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Nineteen – ‘parama caitanya hari’
  20. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty – ‘kṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa-bhakata-gaṇa’
  21. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty One – ‘vibhāvita rati jabe’
  22. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty Two – ‘sthāyī bhābābiṣṭa citta’
  23. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty Three – ‘nirbeda biṣāda mada’
  24. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty Four – ‘sādhāraṇi samañjasā’
  25. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty Five – ‘śrī ujjwala rasa sāra’
  26. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty-Six – ‘darśana āśleṣanwita’
  27. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty Seven – ‘sandarśana saṁsparśana’
  28. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty Eight – ‘rasa-tattwa nitya jaiche’
  29. Śrī Śrī Rūpānuga-bhajana-darpaṇa – Song Twenty Nine – ‘kṛṣṇera jateka khelā’