Hari Haraye Namah

Narottam Das Thakur has written this song. Hari Haraye Namah. The official name of this song is Nama Sankirtana. Narottam Das Thakur sings this song, desiring to serve the lotus feet of Sri Guru and the Vaishnavas, wherein he glorifies Lord Krsna, Lord Caitanya, Lord Nityananda and the six Goswamis.

(1)
hari haraye namah krishna yadavaya namah
yadavaya madhavaya kesavaya namah
(2)
gopala govinda rama sri-madhusudana
giridhari gopinatha madana-mohana
(3)
sri-caitanya-nityananda sri-advaita-sita
hari guru vaishnava bhagavata gita
(4)
sri-rupa sanatana bhatta-raghunatha
sri-jiva gopala-bhatta dasa-raghunatha
(5)
ei chay gosair kori carana vandan
jaha hoite bighna-nas abhishta-puran
(6)
ei chay gosai jar—mui tar das
ta-sabara pada-renu mora panca-gras
(7)
tadera carana-sebi-bhakta-sane bas
janame janame hoy ei abhilash
(8)
ei chay gosai jabe braje koila bas
radha-krishna-nitya-lila korila prakas
(9)
anande bolo hari bhaja vrindaban
sri-guru-vaishnaba-pade majaiya man
(10)
sri-guru-vaishnaba-pada-padma kori as
narottama dasa kohe nama-sankirtana

 

TRANSLATION
(1) O Lord Hari, O Lord Krishna, I offer my obeisances to You, who are known as Hari, Yadava, Madhava, and Kesava.
(2) O Gopala, Govinda, Rama, Sri Madhusudana, Giridhari Gopinatha, and Madana-mohana!
(3) All glories to Sri Caitanya and Nityananda! All glories to Sri Advaita Acarya and His consort, Sri Sita Thakurani. All glories to Lord Hari, to the spiritual master, the Vaishnavas, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and Srimad Bhagavad-Gita.
(4) All glories to Sri Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami, Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami.
(5) I offer my obeisances to the feet of these six Gosvamis. By bowing to them, all obstacles to devotion are destroyed and all spiritual desires are fulfilled.
(6) I am the servant of that person who is a servant of these six Gosvamis. The dust of their lotus feet is my five kinds of foodstuffs.
(7) This is my desire: that birth after birth I may live with those devotees who serve the lotus feet of these six Gosvamis.
(8) When these six Gosvamis lived in Vraja they revealed the lost holy places and explained the eternal pastimes of Radha and Krishna.
(9) Just shout the names of Lord Hari in great ecstasy and worship the transcendental realm of Vrindavana while absorbing your mind in meditation upon the divine feet of the spiritual master and the Vaishnavas.
(10) Desiring to serve the lotus feet of Sri Guru and the Vaishnavas, Narottama dasa sings this sankirtana of the holy names of Lord Hari.

They chanted, “Haraye namaḥ kṛṣṇa yādavāya namaḥ, gopāla govinda rāma śrī-madhusūdana.”

PURPORT

This is another way of chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. The meaning is as follows: “I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. He is the descendant of the Yadu family. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Gopāla, Govinda, Rāma and Śrī Madhusūdana.”

(CC Madhya 25.64)

The managers of this center should see that twenty-four hours a day there is chanting of the holy names of the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, with the addition of haraye namaḥ, kṛṣṇa yādavāya namaḥ, for this song was a favorite of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s.

(CC Adi 17.123 purport)