Sahasra Sahasra Kane Loliya Loliya Pade Mukhe
With thousands upon thousands of forked tongues moving in thousands upon thousands of mouths, Lord Ananta-Nityananda sings the glories of Gauracandra; Maha-Lakshmi holds His lotus feet to her chest.
Listen, O relishers of devotion, to the glories of Gaura-Govinda; He is Vishnu, the great Vishnu, the Supreme Lord, whose very toenail-effulgence is the state of Brahman itself; You are the life of the gods and sages.
Within, His complexion is different, though outwardly He bears the golden hue of Gauranga; the bodily luster of Sri Radha shines in Him; amid a hundred-petaled lotus with a golden whorl, He sports, adorned at its four gates.
Goloka, Vaikuntha and Svetadvipa are His chief abodes; a single name of His is boundless bliss; with Vasudeva, Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, the four abodes are arrayed on the four sides.
In the waters of the Ocean of Milk, on the lap of the king of serpents, is His pastime of yogic slumber; from there all the incarnations descend; the master of Svetadvipa -- Ananta -- attained the form of Nityananda.
With a thousand jeweled hoods adorning His crown, He bears many-colored radiance upon His white body; countless associates, together with Sanaka and Sanatana in bliss, and hosts of gods and sages, offer Him prayers.
In a single pore of His hair, how many Brahmas, in their own forms, variously create all living beings! Rama and other incarnations are manifest as His partial expansions; He is the ruler of all those universes.
Such are His unlimited pastimes, and so much of this illusory creation has He fashioned; yet He is pierced by the arrows of Sri Radha's sidelong glances. Above all the universes lies an abode named Sri Vrindavana, where His glories are forever sung.
About Sahasra Sahasra Kane Loliya Loliya Pade Mukhe
Composed by Vrndavana Dasa Thakura, the author of Caitanya-Bhagavata, this Bengali hymn is a cosmological glorification that identifies Gauranga and Nityananda with the Vishnu-tattva hierarchy -- Ksirodakasayi Vishnu reclining on Ananta Sesa, the catur-vyuha of Vasudeva-Sankarsana-Pradyumna-Aniruddha, and the transcendent realms Goloka, Vaikuntha and Svetadvipa -- concluding that Sri Vrindavana stands as the supreme abode above all material universes. It reflects Caitanya-Bhagavata's recurring theology equating Nityananda with Ananta Sesa and Gauranga with Krishna Himself in Radha's golden hue.
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- Vrndavana Dasa Thakura · Read biography
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- 8
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Sahasra Sahasra Kane Loliya Loliya Pade Mukhe was composed by Vrndavana Dasa Thakura.
What is the meaning of Sahasra Sahasra Kane Loliya Loliya Pade Mukhe?
With thousands upon thousands of forked tongues moving in thousands upon thousands of mouths, Lord Ananta-Nityananda sings the glories of Gauracandra; Maha-Lakshmi holds His lotus feet to her chest.
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Sahasra Sahasra Kane Loliya Loliya Pade Mukhe has 8 verses.
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