Sādhu Saṅga Nā Hoilo Hāya
Alas! I did not associate with devotees. My days passed uselessly. I earned money, but where was my spiritual wealth?
Rejecting gold, I fell in love with clumps of earth. That was my misfortune. Rejecting the saintly devotees, I associated with non-devotees. I passed my life in passion and pride.
Seeing someone bearing the signs of devotion to the Lord, I would laugh in my heart. "That is craziness", I would say. Thinking I had already attained the company of the most cultured and civilized people, I rejected a cintāmaṇi jewel. Where am I now?
Forgetting my true benefit, I was proud of my material knowledge and contemptuous of devotional service. Now my wicked material knowledge has disappeared. Now I have only the results of my karma.
If the saintly devotees mercifully give to this sinner a single drop from the ocean of devotional service, then I will be freed from the noose of birth and death. Then I will easily cross to the farther shore of the ocean of birth and death.
About Sādhu Saṅga Nā Hoilo Hāya
From Anutapa-laksana-upalabdhi, lamenting the failure to seek out sadhu-sanga, the association of genuine devotees — treating that missed association as one of the central regrets of a life not yet turned toward devotion.
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Sādhu Saṅga Nā Hoilo Hāya was composed by Bhaktivinoda Thakura. It appears in Kalyanakalpataru.
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Alas! I did not associate with devotees. My days passed uselessly. I earned money, but where was my spiritual wealth?
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