Udilo Aruna
udilo aruṇa pūraba-bhāge,
From Songs of Vaishnava Acaryas by Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
This chapter draws twenty-four of Bhaktivinoda Thakura's songs into a single anthology alongside comparable selections from Narottama dasa Thakura and other Vaishnava acaryas elsewhere in this same book, distinct from his own standalone songbooks — Saranagati, Gitavali, Kalyana-kalpataru, and Gita-mala — covered individually elsewhere on this site, each of which has its own dedicated essays by section. A song can appear both in its original book and again here, since the two represent different ways of organising the same body of work: one by the songbook Bhaktivinoda himself compiled it into, the other by author, alongside his contemporaries and predecessors in the Gaudiya line.
24 songs
udilo aruṇa pūraba-bhāge,
jīv jāgo, jīv jāgo, gauracānda bole
gāy gorā madhur sware
gopīnātha mama nibedana śuno
gurudev!
mānasa, deho, geho, jo kichu mor
vidyāra vilāse, kāṭāinu kāla,
tumi sarveśvareśvara, brajendra-kumāra!
bhāi-re!
bhāi re
'rādhā-kṛṣṇa' bol bol bolo re sobāi
(jaya) rādhā-mādhava (jaya) kuñja-bihārī
kabe gaura-bane, suradhuni-tate,
kabe ha'be bolo se-dina āmār
śuddha-bhakata-caraṇa-reṇu,
bhaja bhakata-vatsala śrī-gaurahari
(kiba) jaya jaya gorācānder āratiko śobhā
yaśomatī-nandana, braja-baro-nāgara,
ohe!
vibhāvarī śeṣa, āloka-praveśa,
āmāra jīvana, sadā pāpe rata,
anādi' karama-phale, paḍi' bhavārṇara jale,
bhuliyā tomāre, saṁsāre āsiyā,
nārada muni, bājāy vīṇā