Victory to the Protector of All Who Surrender
Bala Kanda, Chhand 20
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Brahma's hymn rises through the assembly: victory, victory to the Lord of the gods, giver of joy to devotees and protector of everyone who comes in surrender.
He invokes the welfare of cows and the twice born, the very lives Ravana's reign has made its targets. The prayer names the Lord as slayer of demons, not for conquest alone, but to restore the conditions in which gentleness, learning, worship, and dharma may breathe.
Victory is offered also to the beloved husband of Sindhusuta, Shri Lakshmi born from the ocean. Compassion and power, preservation and abundance, the Lord and his Shakti are remembered together before Earth and heaven.
Brahma's victory hymn gathers the cow, the sage, the surrendered heart, and Lakshmi beneath one protection.
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Sincere hymn/petition led contextually by Brahma; four stanzas retained fully, other classes outside crop.
Source reference and artistic choices
Gita Press code81 undated · PDF pages 188, 189, 190 · printed pages 186, 187, 188. Reader passage: bala-kanda-chhand-020. Printed numbering may differ.
Source facts
- Stanza1: victory to the gods' leader, giver of devotees' joy, protector of surrendering ones; benefactor of cows and Brahmins, foe of asuras and beloved husband of Sindhusuta; sustains gods and earth, wondrous deeds whose mystery none knows; petition the naturally gracious friend of the lowly for favor.
- Stanza2: praise the imperishable Lord in every heart, all-pervading supreme bliss, unknowable beyond senses, pure deeds, free from Maya, Mukunda; detached sages freed of delusion become loving, meditate day and night and sing virtues; praise existence-consciousness-bliss.
- Stanza3: Lord created threefold creation with no second helper; ask the sin-destroyer to take thought for us, for WE know neither devotion nor worship (जानिअ भगति न पूजा). Lord breaks worldly fear, delights sages and destroys calamities; all gods surrender, leaving cleverness in mind, word and deed.
- Stanza4: Saraswati, Vedas, Shesha and all sages do not fully know Him; Vedas call Him lover of the lowly, ask compassion. Worldly ocean churning-rod comparison, beauty, abode of virtues, mass of bliss; sages, siddhas and all gods greatly afraid bow to His lotus feet.
- Context preceding doha186: Brahma has joyful tears and joins hands to praise; following heaven voice is separate and not depicted.
- Snapshot सिधुंसुता / primary witness सिंधुसुता variant retained unresolved; no corpus edit.
Artistic choices
- One Brahma selected from contextual gods; other gods, sages, siddhas and Earth outside frame are not denied.
- Conventional four-head/four-arm iconography, lotus seat, bead/book props, crowns, dress, pavilion and sparse flowers are imagined art conventions; no literal cosmic metaphors.
- Complete source facts retained in metadata; source and existing translations unchanged.
- Actual cream scalloped pavilion, distant wooded landscape, ornate robe motifs and lotus crop are imaginative staging. A tiny eye glint appears in joy; no actual tears guaranteed beyond contextual praise.
An imaginative interpretation, not a historical portrait or documentary evidence.
जय जय सुरनायक जन सुखदायक प्रनतपाल भगवंता। गो द्विज हितकारी जय असुरारी सिधुंसुता प्रिय कंता।। पालन सुर धरनी अद्भुत करनी मरम न जानइ कोई। जो सहज कृपाला दीनदयाला करउ अनुग्रह सोई।। जय जय अबिनासी सब घट बासी ब्यापक परमानंदा। अबिगत गोतीतं चरित पुनीतं मायारहित मुकुंदा।। जेहि लागि बिरागी अति अनुरागी बिगतमोह मुनिबृंदा। निसि बासर ध्यावहिं गुन गन गावहिं जयति सच्चिदानंदा।। जेहिं सृष्टि उपाई त्रिबिध बनाई संग सहाय न दूजा। सो करउ अघारी चिंत हमारी जानिअ भगति न पूजा।। जो भव भय भंजन मुनि मन रंजन गंजन बिपति बरूथा। मन बच क्रम बानी छाड़ि सयानी सरन सकल सुर जूथा।। सारद श्रुति सेषा रिषय असेषा जा कहुँ कोउ नहि जाना। जेहि दीन पिआरे बेद पुकारे द्रवउ सो श्रीभगवाना।। भव बारिधि मंदर सब बिधि सुंदर गुनमंदिर सुखपुंजा। मुनि सिद्ध सकल सुर परम भयातुर नमत नाथ पद कंजा।।
"Victory, victory to the Lord of the gods, giver of joy to His devotees, protector of all who surrender. O Bhagavan! Welfare of cows and the twice-born, victory to the slayer of demons, beloved husband of Sindhusuta, the daughter of the ocean, Shri Lakshmi!"