Original · Devanagari
लगन लगी नाहिं छूटे राम सों। कोटि यतन कर कोई भरमावे, प्रीति गाँठि नहिं छूटे॥ १ ॥ अगिन जलावो जल में बोरो, सबस मेरो काहु टूटे। टूक टूक तन के करि डारे कोउ, तऊ न हरि सों रूठे॥ २ ॥ मोरी रामपिया सों जगत भले सब रूठे। मैं प्यासी रस प्रेमसुधा की, छाछ जगत को न घूटे॥ ३ ॥ प्रेम कटारी मनुवा छेदी, घोक सकत न उठे। जाके लागी सोई जाने, मूरख भावे झूठे। कृपानिवास लगी रघुवर सों, चरण कमल रस लूटे॥ ४ ॥ ३७ ॥
Fresh English translation
Once attachment to Rama takes hold, it cannot be released. Let someone try ten million devices or bewilder me—the knot of love will not come undone. Burn me in fire or drown me in water; let every worldly tie be broken. Even if someone cuts this body into pieces, I will not become angry with Hari. Let the whole world turn against me so long as my beloved Rama does not. I thirst for the nectar of love's rasa; I will not gulp down the world's buttermilk. Love's dagger has pierced the mind so deeply that it cannot rise or move. Only the one who has been struck knows this; a fool may call it false. Says Kripanivasa: attached to Raghubara, I plunder the nectar of his lotus feet.