Joy Joy Aanondomoyi
The Vedanta Kesari|June 2022
Songs dear to Sri Ramakrishna
Joy Joy Aanondomoyi

Sri Ramakrishna loved songs. There probably was no normal day when he did not sing some songs. His conversations with devotees were interspersed with songs that drove home the point of discussion and intensified the spiritual mood of the gathering. Sri Ramakrishner Priyo Sangeet is a collection of songs that were sung by Sri Ramakrishna or sung in his presence by others. In this section we serialise these songs giving the English and Devanagari transliteration of the Bengali song, along with its English translation.

The Song

जय् जय् आनोन्दोमोयी ब्रह्मोरूपिणी

Joy joy aanondomoyi brahmorupini

Victory to Her, the embodiment of bliss

The veritable form of Brahman

Setting

Date: Saturday, 03 December 1881

Venue: Manomohan Mitra's house, Shimulia

Singer: Trailokya Sanyal

Sri Ramakrishna arrived at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Along with Keshabchandra Sen, Trailokya Sanyal, Rajendranath Mitra, Surendranath Mitra, and other devotees he is listening to the reading from the Bhagavata. After the reading, Sri Ramakrishna tells the devotees:

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