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Kṛpānivāsa · Song 16

Why did this cruel attachment find me?

Unit 16 of 40 · printed source page 13–14

Original · Devanagari

लगन निगोड़ी मेरे पेंडे माई क्यों परी री। काटत कलेजो काती, धरकत निसुदिन छाती, नाथी करके हालो मानो तांती शूली पे धरी॥ १ ॥ जहर मिलावत नीके नई नई बात बनावति, सेंचति कठोर हलावति, बंधुवासी में करी री। कुल सुद लाज भागी, दुखभर पीर जागी, अँखियाँ लगोही लागी महाविष सों भरी री। कृपानिवासी कही घर की न बन की भई, गई नहीं वारे गरने प्रीतम प्यारी संग गरी री॥ २ ॥ १६ ॥

Fresh English translation

Mother, why did this wretched attachment fall across my path? It cuts my heart like a blade; my breast throbs night and day. It has bound me and left me as though stretched upon a burning stake. It mixes poison sweetly and invents ever-new devices; hard-hearted, it waters and shakes me and has made me a prisoner among my own kin. Family honor and shame have fled, a pain-filled wound has awakened, and the eyes that fastened upon him are filled with deadly poison. Says Kripanivasa: I belong neither to home nor forest now. I cannot turn back; made poor by love, I have joined my dear Beloved.