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Kṛpānivāsa · Song 21

The poverty that surrenders everything

Unit 21 of 40 · printed source page 18–19

Original · Devanagari

लगन गरीबी गवे गमायो भई दीन मति हारी री। चलि न सकौं थकि द्वार सजन के, सुख दुख चाह बिसारी री॥ १ ॥ काम क्रोध मद मोह विसर गये, काज लाज कुल डारी री। मातु पिता सुत बंधु मित्र सों घरबर तजि भई न्यारी री॥ २ ॥ कर्म कराँ नाहीं भ्रम भुलावा, योग भोग जग टारी री। प्रीतम बिन उझको नाहीं, ओरन गाँठी लगन हमारी री॥ ३ ॥ मन की दोर जहाँलगि सिमी अटकी इक सों यारी री। जने जने सों प्यार करे सो जन्म जन्म की ख्वारी री॥ ४ ॥ ओरन को आदर विष जानौं, सुधा सजन किरकारी री। ओर मिले घरद्वार न मिलिहो, प्रीतम पारि पुकारा री॥ ५ ॥ हाहा खाई हाइ फिर होहो हारी हारे हिय हारी री। कृपानिवास उपास रामसियातन मन धन सब हारी री॥ ६ ॥ २१ ॥

Fresh English translation

Attachment has stripped away pride and possessions and made me poor, humble, and defeated in mind. Exhausted at the Beloved's door, I cannot move; I have forgotten the desire for either pleasure or pain. Lust, anger, pride, and delusion are forgotten; work, shame, and family standing have been cast aside. Leaving mother, father, children, kin, friends, and household, I have become separate from all. I perform no worldly action and am not misled by wandering notions; yoga, enjoyment, and the world's business have been put away. Apart from the Beloved I have no entanglement—my bond is tied only to attachment. The cord of my mind reaches as far as that one love and catches there. To distribute love from person to person is merely age after age of humiliation. I know the regard of others as poison and the Beloved's rebuke as nectar. Others may grant me a house and home, but without the Beloved I shall keep calling from the farther shore. Crying 'alas' and 'ah,' defeated again and again, I have lost my heart. Says Kripanivasa: worshipping Rama and Sita, I have surrendered mind, wealth, and everything.