Today I desire
(Dedicated To My Beloved Spiritual Father Srila Prabhupada)
Today I desire to live in Vrindavan, where there is The Lotus Dust of my beloved Lord Shri Krishna,
Today I desire to smear myself with that Dust, with which the most sinful become purified as the milky ocean…
Today I desire to chant and glorify the names of Shri Radha and Krishna, and want to know nothing else more than this…
Today I desire to become mad with ecstasy, when I chant their names…
Today I desire to be in the mad people, who have even forgotten their own names and only remember Madhava’s ..
If being mad is the criteria, I desire to be mad, knowing no obligations, nothing else but remember Keshva’s names…
How long do I need to pretend to be one of these materialistic people, who only want to satisfy their own senses…
Today I desire to forget my own senses forever and satisfy the senses of my most dear Friend Krishna…
Today I desire to abandon everything, today I desire to give up all the opulences I have,
Today I desire to even give up my remaining breaths, if they don’t recite the names of Krishna…
The world has taken the shelter of that Madhusudan, and I am left here alone tied up my unnecessary worldly desires…
Today I desire to break up all unnecessary relations and reestablish my forgotten relationship with my Friend…
Tell me where can I find Him… I am looking everywhere, having no sign of Him –
but when I am in the association of His pure devotees, who simply want nothing else but to hear/chant His names..
I find Him – I find HIM right in the center – enjoying the ecstasies that His devotees relish…
Today I desire to sing His glories out loud – as loud as I can so the everyone can hear and revive their lost relationship with that Govardhan lifter….