Itani BInati Raghunandan Se - Daniel Maharaj - 2018

Itani Binati Raghunandan Se - Daniel Maharaj - 2018

July 24, 2018

     We first heard this beautiful bhajan by Tulasidas sung by Revd. Swami Dayatmanandaji Maharaj when he visited us in Dallas in the late 1998s. Subsequently we heard Daniel Maharaj sing this in the UK Vedanta centre shrine. After many years, we had had the great opportunity to hear Daniel Maharaj singing this again with his own beautiful twist in tune.

     Original account of the event is available at:
https://drikags-stories.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-story-of-love-daniel-mj-to-sd-2018.html

 

https://youtu.be/hfFeXVRDpqY

    The lyrics are as follows:

ईतनि बिनती रघुनन्दन से - सिन्धु खमाज -कावाली	ītani binatī raghunandana se - sindhu khamāja -kāvālī
ईतनि बिनती रघुनन्दन से दुःख-द्वन्द हमारा मिटाओ जी॥	ītani binatī raghunandana se duḥkha-dvanda hamārā miṭāo jī ||
अपने पदपंकज पिंजर में चित हंस हमारा बैठाओ जी॥	apane padapankaja pinjara mein cita haṁsa hamārā baiṭhāo jī ||
तुलसीदास कहे करजोड़ी भवसागर पार उतारो जी॥	tulasīdāsa kahe karajoṛī bhavasāgara pāra utāro jī ||
- तुलसीदास	- tulsīdāsa

Meaning of the above bhajan.

The famous ardent devotee of Lord Rama, Sant Tulsidas, here is beseeching (Binati) his beloved Lord, Sri Rama (Raghunandan) to
- eradicate (mitana) all his suffering and doubts (Dukha-dwanda).
- capture and seat the swan (hamsa) , which is the heart (chita) of Tulsidas, into the cage (pinjara) of lotus (pankaja) feet (pada) of Lord and
- with folded hands Tulsi prays "please ferry-across (para) the ocean (sagara) of this world (bhava)"! 

(c) Nandini Mitra Banerjee