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I will not hear other talk.  I will not speak other talk.  I will speak about the most precious thing.  I always pray for this.  Aside from the talk I yearn to hear, all other words are useless.

2) How can I describe the Supreme Personality of Godhead?  He is limitless.  Who can know Him?  The love the people of Vraja feel for Lord Krsna is eternal.  It is the true reality.  Always strive to attain that love.

3) Lord Krsna is the pleasure of the cows, land and senses, the moon of Gokula, and the root of transcendental bliss.  He stays with many gopa and gopi friends.  His home is Nandisvara, and His name is Giridhari.  Please, in the company of the gopis, worship Him with love.

4) O brother, the truth of loving devotional service has already been explained to you.  O brother, I will leave all material desires behind and, by my guru's mercy I will perfectly worship Lord Krsna with pure love, and I will become His gopi-maidservant.

5) Follow the path of sincere devotional service.  Stay among the devotees.  Remember Krsna and talk about Him.  When loving devotion comes, your mind will become pure and all sufferings will flee from your heart.

6) Know that sense happiness is a calamity.  Know that the material world is a dream.  Know that this human life is the root from which devotional service may sprout.  With love always worship Lord Krsna.  With love always hear His pastimes.  To do anything else is to plunge a spear in your own heart.

7) If one decorates his body with the dust from Srimati Radharani's lotus feet, then it will be very easy for him to attain Lord Giridhari.  I congratulate such a great soul who takes shelter of Srimati Radharani's lotus feet and I say to him" Well done! Bravo! Excellent!

8) Glory, glory to She who is named Radha, whose home is Vrndavana, and who is Lord Krsna's treasury of blissful pastimes!  Alas, destiny has cheated me, for my ears have not heard Radha's glories.

9) A person who, in the company of the devotees, again and again hears the stories of the pure love in the rasa-dance pastimes will attain Lord Krsna, who is dark as a monsoon cloud.  A person averse to hearing these pastimes will never attain perfection.  I refuse to hear the name of such an offender.

10) O brother, by chanting Krsna's name I will attain Radha, and by chanting Radha's name I will attain Krsna.  Now I have briefly told you how to chase all sufferings from your heart.  What contradicts my words will bring only pain.

11) Abandon false ego, pride, company with materialists, and useless material knowledge, and worship the lotus feet of your spiritual master.  Offer your home, friends, relatives, body and self to him.  His words are supreme.

12) Always serve Sri Krsna Caitanyadeva, who is a kalpa-vrksa tree giving away the treasure of pure love.  He is Lord Krsna Himself, the prince of Vraja and the life of Srimati Radharani.  Talk about Him is full of wonder.

13) Accepting the loving emotions of Sri Radha and accepting Her bodily lustre as the ornament of His limbs, Lord Krsna descended to Navadvipa.  Desiring to attain three things, He appear in Saci's womb.  He attained His desires in the company of His devotees.

14) Appearing in a fair-complexioned form, He made a great monsoon of spiritual love.  In this way He attained His three desires.  Why did Lord Krsna, the master of Radha, cry again and again?  Only the devotees can know.

15) In private I will practice the nine kinds of devotional service and in this way I will attain perfection.  I will always humbly pray for that.  In public I will perform Hari-sankirtana, my heart overcome with love.  Any activity that does not lead to My worshipable Lord is an obstacle.

16) When arrested by the highwaymen of material illusion, bound about the neck with ropes of lust, and about to take his last breath, the devotee of Lord Hari calls out for the Lord's help and is saved.  O devotees, call out in this way, glorifying the nectar topics of pure love for Krsna.  Then the calamity of repeated birth and death will come to an end.

17) Hundreds and hundreds of women, children and other relatives will someday die.  Take care of yourself.  I, who am very fallen, am already killed by sense gratification.  I would not worship Lord Hari's feet.  Now I have no protection.

18) I desire the association of Ramcandra Kaviraja.  Without his company the entire world is a desert.  If I must take birth again, I would feel myself fortunate to have his association.

19) I will not describe the specific devotional activities of each devotee.  Perform your devotional service carefully.  Don't become angry.  Don't find fault with others.  Offer obeisances to the devotees' feet.

20) Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu has enabled me to write these words.  Without His mercy I am simply a fool who cannot distinguish right from wrong.

21) In his heart aspiring to attain the mercy of Srila Lokanatha Gosvami Prabhupada, Narottama dasa speaks this book, Sri Prema-bhakti-candrika (The Moonlight of Loving Devotion).

4) The great ocean of love of Krsna stretches without limit in all directions.  Although Narottama dasa does not know how to swim across that ocean, he plunges head first into it.

1) O Lord, I do not perform the painful activity of talking about anything other than You, but instead I only talk and think about Your lotus feet.  O Lord, I constantly and without deviation glorify Your transcendental attributes in the assembly of devotees.

2) I shall not perform any vows not related to You.  I shall not give in charity except as a service to You.  I shall not acquire knowledge except to serve You.  I shall not worship the demigods.  I shall not serve anyone except You.  I shall blissfully wander about repeatedly calling out: "O Krsna! O Krsna!" No one but You will stay in my mind.

3) During the life of this body and after its death, Sri Sri Radha-Krsna will always remain my goal, and the two masters’ of my life's breath.  I worship the Divine Couple and I swim and float in the nectarean ocean of love for Them.  I pray that the description of Their forms, qualities, and pastimes may always remain within my heart.

8) I shall use these senses to serve Lord Govinda, and I shall decline to worship the various demigods and demigoddesses.  I shall only speak about pure devotional service.  The numberless different philosophies and conceptions of life are all products of the conditioned soul's pride.  Trying to understand them brings no real benefit but only a pain within the mind.

9) The insubordinate senses are like enemies that live within the body.  Tell the ear to hear and it may rebel, refusing to hear.  

Tell the mind to understand a particular point, or become firm in a certain way, and it may very well disobey.

10) I shall fight with lust, anger, bewilderment, greed, madness, envy and pride.  Defeating them, I will become blissful at heart, and I will easily become able to worship Lord Govinda.

11) Lust I will engage in offering the fruits of my work to Lord Krsna.  Anger I will direct towards the enemies of the devotees.  Greed I will engage by being greedy to hear the topics of Lord Hari in the association of the saintly devotees.  Bewilderment will be manifested because I cannot immediately attain my worshipable Lord.  Madness will be there when I madly glorify the transcendental attributes of Lord Krsna.  In this way I will engage each of these in the service of Lord Krsna.

12) If lust is not controlled, then it becomes the breeding ground for a host of vices and checks one's advancement on the path of devotional service.  However, if one stays in the association of the saintly devotees, then that association will carry him beyond the influence of lust, anger, and their friends.

13) I shall not become angry.  I shall renounce anger.  I shall become free from my six enemies, such as greed and bewilderment.  I shall control my mind, and always remember Lord Krsnacandra.

14) When lust and his friends hear the word "Govinda" they immediately begin to flee, as a herd of elephants flees when it hears a lion's roar.  If one engages in single-pointed devotional service to Lord Krsna, then the worshipper attains transcendental bliss, and all kinds of calamities flee from him.

15) Don't sin.  Take no interest in profit, adoration, and distinction.  Instead meditate on the lotus feet of Lord Govinda.  In this way all sufferings will go far away and transcendental bliss and pure love for Lord Krsna will spontaneously come.

16) Give up the association of the impious non-devotees.  Give up the tendency to find fault in others.  Don't follow any spiritual path other than devotional service.  Don't worship the demigods.  If one takes to the worship of the demigods, he becomes deviated from the path of devotional service.

1) O fish like soul, why have you fallen into the entangling nets of Maya? You have not understood that being bound up by those nets you will have to remain in this material world for a long, long time.

2) After becoming captive in Maya’s snare due to your desires for insignificant enjoyments, you remain transformed in a spiritually diseased condition, punishable just like a disobedient servant.

3) Now, by the power of devotional service, always remain subservient to Lord Krsna, swimming and frolicking freely in the nectarine ocean of Krsna-prema.