Hari Gopinath Das

Mathura Mahatmya

Text 1

Harir api bhajamanebhyah prayo muktim dadati na tu bhaktim vihita-tad-unnati-satram mathure dhanyam namamı tvamharır – Harı, api even: bhajamanebhyah worshiping: prayah for the most part: muktım liberation; dadatı gives, na not, tu but: bhaktım bhakti vihita -placed: tad-unnati-satram – great sacrifice: mathure in Mathura: dhanyam -auspicious: namami obeisances, tvam to you.

Generally Lord Hari gives mukti, but not bhakti, to his worshipers. O Mathura. to you who gives a great sacrifice of pure bhakti and who are very auspicious. I offer my respectful obeisances.

Text 8

As darkness is destroyed by the rising of the sun, as elephants fear the goad. as snakes that have seen Garuda, as clouds broken by the wind, as unhappiness destroyed by knowledge, and as deer that have seen a lion, so are sins destroved by the sight of Mathura.

Text 34

na not tirtham mathuraya hina devah keśavat parahna not, tirtham – holy place, mathurayah – than Mathura; hi indeed; na not; devah – demigod, keśavat – than Krsna, parah – greater.No holy place is better than Mathura, and no demigod is better than Lord Kesava

Text 39

trimsad-varsa-sahasranitrimsad-varsa-satani ca yat phalam bharate varse tat phalam mathuram smarantrimsad-varsa-sahasranı – thirty thousand years; trimsad-varsa-satani – three thousand years; ca and: yat phalam the result: bharate varse on earth: tat phalam that result: mathuram Mathură, smaran remembering.

The pious result attained by three thousand years or thirty thousand years of endeavor on earth is attained by simply once remembering Mathura.

Text 173

bhuktim muktım harır dadyadarcito ‘nyatra sevinambhaktım tu na dadaty eva vato vasya-kari harchbhuktim sense gratification: muktim-liberation: harir Krsna; dadyad – gives; arcitah – worshiped, anyatra in another place, sevinam of the servants: bhaktim – devotional service, tu indeed, na not: dadati gives, eva indeed: yatah -because: vasva-kari – brought under the domimon: harch – of Krsna.

When He is worshiped in any other place. Lord Harı gives only liberation or sense-gratification to His servants. He does not give them pure devotional service for that service brings Him under their dominion.

Text 17

sa tv añjasa harer bhaktir labhyate karttike naraih mathurayam sakrd api sri-damodara-sevanatsa- this; tu indeed, añjasacasıly: harer to Krsna; bhaktir – devotion: labhvate is attained: karttike in karttika: naraih – by people; mathurayam Mathură, sakrd – once: api – even: sri-damodara-sevanat – from serving Lord Damodara.

By once serving Lord Damodara in Mathurā during Kärttika, the people can easily attain pure devotional service to Lord Hari

Text 316

Yas tatra nivased devisamyato hi jitendriyahtri-kalam api bhuñjanovayu-bhaksa-samo hi sahyah – who: tatra – there; nivased – resides: devi – O goddess: samyatah -controlled; hi – indeed: jita-indriyah – conquered the senses, tri-kalam – three times; api also: bhunjanah eating, vayu-bhaksa-samah equal to someone who eats the wind: hi -indeed: sah – he.

O goddess. a person who lives there (in Mathură), although he be a prisoner of his senses, is like one who has conquered them, and although he cats three times a day is like an ascetic that only eats the wind.

Text 444

atha mathure deva-varahnarayananya-paryayah kesavo madhya-samsthitahsvayambhuh padmanabhaś ca dirgha-visnur gataśramahgovindo hari-varahav iti mathura-devatahatha now, mathure in Mathura; deva-varah – the great Deities: naravananya-paryavah – beginning with Lord Nārāyana, kesavah – Kesava; madhya-samsthitah -in the middle, svayambhuh Svayambhū padmanabhah – Padmanabha, ca – and dirgha-visnur – Dirgha-Visnu, gatasramah – Lord Gatasrama: govindah – Govinda. harı+hari, varahau – and Varaha, iti thus mathura in Mathura, devatah the Deities.

The Deities of Mathura Nárayana Kesava Svavambhú Padmanabha Dirgha-Visnu Gatasrama Govinda Hari and Varaha are the Deities of Mathura