Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai Bhava Sindhu Para

 Locana Das Thakur has written this song “Ke Jabi Ke Jabi Bhai Bhava Sindhu Para”. 

In this song, Locana Das Thakur has described how can one cross over the ocean of material suffering. The third stanza is sometimes quoted in Srimad Bhagavatam classes, eg: "Harinama is the boat, Sri Guru is the helmsman and the sankirtana party [...] are the oars!"

(1) 

ke jābi ke jābi bhāi bhava-sindhu-pāra

dhanya kali-yugera caitanya-avatāra

Who will go? Who will go, brothers? Who will cross over this ocean of material suffering? This Kali-yuga in which Sri Caitanya-avatara has appeared is blessed. [Caitanya-avatara does not come in every Kali-yuga.]

(2)

āmāra gaurāńgera ghāṭe adāna-kheyā vaya

jada, andha, ātura avadhi pāra haya

At the bathing place of my Gauranga, a free ferry-boat is waiting. There is no restriction – everyone is coming, including the lame, blind and distressed. All are climbing aboard to cross over.

(3)

harināmera naukākhāni śrī guru kāṇḍārī

sańkīrtana kheroyāla du’bāhu pasāri

Harinama is the boat, Sri Guru is the helmsman and the sankirtana party moving with up-raised arms are the oars!

(4)

saba jīva haila pāra premera vātāse

paḍiyā rahila locana āpanāra doṣe

All souls can cross over with the favorable winds of prema. Only Locana dasa is so unfortunate that, due to his own fault, he has been left behind.