Amara Jivan ~ Srila Prabhupada:

A Vedic devotional Bhakti Art slideshow featuring artwork images of The Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Sri Krishna and His Eternal Consort Srimati Radharani, The Goddess Of Fortune. The video is set to "Amara Jivan" a lament directed at the Lotus Feet of Lord Krishna by the powerful Vaisnava Acharya Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
In this song Srila Bhaktivinoda is describing the life of the people in general, taking himself to be one of them. He says that "My life is always engaged in sinful activities, and if you try to find out, you will not find even a trace of pious activities -- only sinful activities." The bhajan is performed by the world renowned Vedic Acharya His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The English translation of the song follows....
AMARA JIVAN
by Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
1) I am an impious sinner and have caused others great anxiety and trouble.
2) I have never hesitated to perform sinful act for my own enjoyment. Devoid of all compassion, concerned only with my own selfish interests, I am remorseful seeing others happy. I am a perpetual liar, and the misery of others is a source of great pleasure for me.
3) The material desires within the core of my heart are unlimited. I am wrathful, devoted to false pride and arrogance, intoxicated by vanity, and bewildered by worldly affairs. Envy and egotism are the ornaments I wear.
4) Ruined by laziness and sleep, I resist all pious deeds; yet I am very active and enthusiastic to perform wicked acts. For worldly fame and reputation I engage in the practice of deceitfulness. Thus I am destroyed by my own greed and am always lustful.
5) A vile, wicked man such as this, rejected by godly people, is a constant offender. I am such a person, devoid of all good works, forever inclined toward evil, worn out and wasted by various miseries.
6) Now in old age, deprived of all means of success, humbled and poor, Bhaktivinoda submits his tale of grief at the feet of the Supreme Lord.