Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song My Foolish Heart/Bhaja Govinda, artist - Krishna Das. Date of issue: 16.01.2012
Song language: English
My Foolish Heart/Bhaja Govinda |
| My foolish heart |
| Why do you weep? |
| You throw yourself away again |
| Now you cry yourself to sleep |
| Cry yourself to sleep… |
| My foolish heart |
| When will you learn? |
| You are the eyes of the world |
| And there’s nowhere else to turn |
| Nowhere else to turn… |
| Bhaja Govindam, bhaja Govindam |
| My foolish heart |
| Govindam Govindam Govindam |
| My foolish heart |
| My foolish heart |
| My foolish heart… |
| Raadhe Raadhe Govinda Govinda |
| Raadhe Raadhe Govinda Govinda |
| Govinda Bhaja Govinda |
| Govinda Bhaja Govinda |
| The words «Bhaja Govindam» are an exhortation to adore and love God. |
| In the 8th century, the great saint, Adi Shankaracharya, wrote a beautiful |
| hymn called «Bhaja Govindam.» |
| It is a unique prayer as it unifies the path of |
| Wisdom (Jnana Marg) and the path of Devotion (Bhakti Marg). |
| Shankaracharya |
| praises Devotion as a spiritual path that leads to liberation. |
| The legend is |
| that he was walking with his disciples when he saw an old scholar teaching his |
| young students the rules of Sanskrit grammar. |
| Shankaracharya told the old man |
| that now that he was so old he should turn his mind toward God and stop wasting |
| time. |
| In every verse he described the ways that life is passing by and with it |
| our opportunity to find freedom from suffering. |
| Each verse was addressed to «my |
| foolish mind/heart,» mudhamate in Sanskrit. |
| I wrote a couple of verses in |
| English with the same feeling |