Vijñapti — Spiritual Request

Vijnapti, spiritual request, is a single-song section in Saranagati, standing apart from the book's ten other, larger sections. Its one song, Kabe Habe Bolo, asks when the singer's heart will finally be free of offense and infused with a genuine taste for the holy name — grounding its plea directly in trnad api sunicena, the verse on humility from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's own Siksastaka, the eight verses recorded in the Chaitanya-caritamrta that stand behind much of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura's devotional writing generally. The same song also appears, on this site, filed under a different book, Songs of Vaishnava Acaryas, in the chapter gathering Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura's work alongside other acaryas' — one more instance, after Gitavali's Udilo Aruna and Kalyana-kalpataru's Vibhavari Sesa, of a Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura song that circulated across more than one published collection.