Original
Braj Bhasha and Hindi
श्रीकृष्णके प्रेमोद्गार
[534]
(Rāga Māṇḍa - Tāla Kaharavā)
बरबस करषौं मुनि-मनहि निज गुण-रूप दिखाय। मेरौ मन सो राधिका करष्यौ सहजहि आय॥ दोऊ हम नित एक हैं, दोऊ एक-सरूप। पै राधा विभु-प्रेम की महिमा अमित अनूप॥
[535]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tāla Kaharavā)
राधा बिना अशोभन नित मैं रहता केवल कोरा कृष्ण। राधा-संग सुशोभित होकर बन जाता हूँ मैं श्रीकृष्ण॥ राधा बिना बना रहता मैं क्रियाहीन, निश्चल, निःशक्ति। राधा-संग बनाता मुझको सक्रिय, सचल, अपरिमित शक्ति॥ राधा मेरी परम आत्मा, जीवन-प्राण नित्य आधार। राधासे मैं प्रेम प्राप्तकर करता निज जनमें विस्तार॥ राधा मैं हूँ, राधा मैं है, राधा-माधव नित्य अभिन्न। एक सदा ही बने सरस दो करते लीला ललित विभिन्न॥
[536]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
मैं हूँ पूर्णानन्द परम शुचि, मैं हूँ नित्य सच्चिदानन्द। मैं रसमय, रसराज, सदा रसपूर्ण, रसिकजन-मन-आनन्द॥ मुझ आनन्द-सिन्धुका पाकर सीकर एक अखिल संसार। पाता रहता नित्य-निरन्तर विविध भाँति आनन्द अपार॥ मुझसे भी हो जिसमें निर्मल शत-शतगुना अधिक आनन्द। एक वही, बस, दे सकता है मेरे मनको परमानन्द॥ ऐसी एक राधिका ही है, जो मुझको देती आह्लाद। लेता रहता हूँ अतृप्त मैं मधुर निरन्तर उसका स्वाद॥
English translation
Sri Krishna's Outpourings of Love
[534]
(Raga Manda - Tala Kaharava)
By displaying My qualities and form, I forcibly draw the minds of sages. Yet Radhika came and effortlessly drew away this mind of Mine. We two are eternally one, both of a single nature, but the glory of Radha's all-pervading love is boundless and incomparable.
[535]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharava)
Without Radha I remain forever unadorned, merely bare Krishna. Adorned by Radha's company, I become Sri Krishna. Without Radha I remain inactive, motionless and without power. Radha's company makes Me active and moving, filled with limitless power. Radha is My supreme self, My life and breath, My eternal foundation. Receiving love from Radha, I extend it among My own people. I am Radha and Radha is Me; Radha and Madhava are eternally nondifferent. Forever one, We become two filled with rasa and perform varied, beautiful lila.
[536]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
I am complete bliss and supremely pure; I am eternal existence, consciousness and bliss. I am made of rasa, the king of rasa, forever filled with rasa and the joy of rasika hearts. Receiving a single spray from Me, the ocean of bliss, the whole universe forever receives boundless happiness in countless ways. Only one whose pure bliss is hundreds upon hundreds of times greater than Mine can bestow supreme bliss upon My mind. Radhika alone is such a one, and She gives Me delight. Forever unsatisfied, I continually taste Her sweetness.
Original
Hindi
Continuation of [536]
कोटि-कोटि कंदर्प-दर्पका करता मर्दन मेरा रूप। सकल जगत्को मोहित, आप्यायित करता वह नित्य अनूप॥ वह मैं छविकी छवि राधाका सौन्दर्यामृत करके पान। नहीं अघाता कभी, विकल दर्शन-हित रहते मेरे प्रान॥ मेरी मुरलीकी स्वर-लहरी त्रिभुवनको कर्षित करती। राधा-वचन-सुधाकी माधुरी अविरत मेरा मन हरती॥ मेरे तनकी मधुर गन्धसे अखिल विश्व होता सुरभित। राधा-अंग-सुगन्ध हरण करती बरबस मेरा मन नित॥ अग-जगको है आदि सृष्टिसे सरस बनाता मेरा रस। राधा-अधर-सुधारसने कर रक्खा मुझे सदा निज वश॥ यद्यपि मेरा स्पर्श कोटि शरदिन्दु-सदृश अति है शीतल। राधा-अंग-स्पर्श-सुख मेरा तुरत बुझाता हृदयानल॥ मेरा सुख-कण पाकर सुख अनुभव करता जगका जन-जन। राधाके गुण-रूप सुरक्षित रखते नित मेरा जीवन॥
[537]
(Rāga Bhīmapalāsī - Tāla Kaharavā)
मुझ 'रस' को, मेरे 'रसके जीवन' को अपने 'रस' से भरकर। सरस किया, माधुर्य भर दिया, हुआ पूर्णसे परम पूर्णतर॥ 'रस' में जगी पिपासा 'रस' की नित्य बढ़ रही उत्तरोत्तर। इस 'विशेष सुख' की इच्छा करता नित 'सच्चित्-सुख निरीह वर'॥
[538]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
नहीं चुका सकता मैं बदला, कर सकता न कभी ऋण-शोध। बँधा प्रेम-बन्धन, मैं करता स्वतन्त्रताका कभी न बोध॥ सहज स्वतन्त्ररूप मैं रहता स्वयं-रचित सुखमय परतन्त्र। नहीं छूटना कभी चाहता, नहीं चाहता बनूँ स्वतन्त्र॥ मधुर प्रेम-परवशता मेरी प्रभुतापर प्रभुत्व करती। रस-स्वरूप मुझमें यह पल-पल मधुर नित्य नव रस भरती॥
English translation
Continuation of [536]
My form crushes the pride of millions upon millions of Cupids. It eternally enchants and nourishes the entire world in incomparable ways. Yet I drink the nectar of Radha's beauty, the beauty of beauty itself, and never become satisfied; My life remains restless to behold Her. The waves of sound from My flute draw the three worlds, but the sweetness of the nectar of Radha's words continually steals My mind. The sweet fragrance of My body perfumes the whole universe, yet the fragrance of Radha's limbs forever carries My mind away by force. From the beginning of creation, My rasa has filled the moving and unmoving world with savor, but the nectar-rasa of Radha's lips keeps Me forever under Her control. Although My touch is as cooling as millions of autumn moons, the happiness of touching Radha's limbs immediately extinguishes the fire in My own heart. Every creature in the world experiences happiness by receiving a particle of My joy, yet Radha's form and virtues forever preserve My life.
[537]
(Raga Bhimapalasi - Tala Kaharava)
Filling My "rasa" and the very "life of My rasa" with Her own "rasa," She made it flavorful, filled it with sweetness, and made the Complete more perfectly complete. A thirst for "rasa" arose within "rasa" and increases forever. The desireless Lord of conscious bliss eternally desires this "special happiness."
[538]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
I cannot repay Her, nor can I ever discharge My debt. Bound by the bonds of love, I never feel Myself independent. Though naturally independent, I remain happily dependent by My own making. I never wish to escape and never wish to become free. My sweet subjection to love rules even over My sovereignty. Moment by moment it fills Me, who am rasa embodied, with sweet, ever-new rasa.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
Continuation of [538]
भूल सभी सत्ता-भगवत्ता मैं रस-सागर बन जाता। नयी-नयी रस-सरिताओंसे भर, मैं रससे सन जाता॥ यह मेरा रस-लुब्ध, नित्य रस-मत्त, सदा रस-पूर्ण स्वरूप। ब्रह्म सच्चिदानन्द पूर्णसे नित्य विलक्षण, परम अनूप॥ अतः सिद्ध-मुनि, परमहंस-योगी-विज्ञानी-आत्माराम। इसे जाननेके प्रयत्नमें रहते लगे सदा अविराम॥ किंतु न पाते इस सागरकी गहराईका थाह कभी। हार मान, ऊपर आ जाते परम सिद्ध वे लोग सभी॥ निर्मल प्रेम-बन्धसे जो मेरा रसरूप बाँध पाते। वही विलक्षण इस स्वरूपको रसिक सुजान देख पाते॥ वे फिर इसमें अवगाहन कर करते मधुमय रसका पान। वे ही फिर मुझको देते मेरा अभिलषित मधुर रस-दान॥
[539]
(Rāga Pīlū - Tīna Tāla)
कहत स्याम निज मुख सदा - हौं चिन्मय पर-तत्त्व। पूर्व ज्ञानमय, पै न लखि पायौ प्रिया-महत्त्व॥ रहे सदा बरबस लग्यौ, राधा में मन मोर। रहीं प्रेम-विह्वल सदा, लखि राधा चित-चोर॥ राधा-प्रेम अगाध निधि परयौ रहौं दिन-रात। विविध वीचि सँग मधुर नित नाचौं प्रमुदित गात॥ रहत लोभ मो मन सदा, पाऊँ राधा-प्रेम। दुर्लभ, दोष-रहित, परम शुचि ज्यों निर्मल हेम॥ राधा-प्रेमास्वाद की महिमा अमित अपार। मो सुख तें कोटिन गुनौ वामें सुख-विस्तार॥
English translation
Continuation of [538]
Forgetting all authority and divinity, I become an ocean of rasa. Filled by ever-new rivers of rasa, I become saturated with rasa. This form of Mine, greedy for rasa, eternally intoxicated by rasa and always filled with rasa, is forever distinct from the complete Brahman of existence, consciousness and bliss, supremely incomparable. Therefore perfected sages, paramahamsas, yogis, realized knowers and self-satisfied souls remain ceaselessly engaged in the attempt to know it. Yet they can never fathom the depth of this ocean. Admitting defeat, all those supremely perfected souls return to the surface. Only those who bind My form of rasa with the bond of stainless love can behold this extraordinary form as wise rasikas. They immerse themselves in it and drink honeyed rasa. They alone then give Me the sweet gift of rasa for which I long.
[539]
(Raga Pilu - Tina Tala)
Syama forever says from His own mouth, "I am the conscious supreme reality. Formerly I was filled with knowledge, yet I could not perceive the Beloved's greatness. Now My mind remains helplessly fastened to Radha. Seeing Radha, thief of My heart, I remain forever overwhelmed with love. Day and night I lie within the fathomless treasury of Radha's love. With its varied waves, My delighted body forever dances sweetly. My mind always remains greedy to obtain Radha's love, rare, faultless and supremely pure, like stainless gold. The glory of tasting Radha's love is boundless and immeasurable. Its expanse of happiness is millions of times greater than My own joy."
Original
Hindi
[540]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tāla Kaharavā)
अन्त-विहीन, अनादि, नित्य हम दोनों एक सनातन-रूप। बने सदा दो लीला करते, सहज अनन्त अचिन्त्य-अनूप॥ नित्य पुरातन, नित नूतन हम, सदा एकरस, एक अभिन्न। पर भिन्नतामयी रस-लीला-धारा बहती नित अविच्छिन्न॥ सुखमय मिलन सहज, नित दारुण विरह-वियोग नित्य उर दाह। नित्य मधुर-मृदु-हास्य-मनोहर, करुण-रुदन नित आह-कराह॥ है अनादि क्रन्दन यह मेरा, हैं अनन्त सुखमय दुख-भार। अमिलन-मिलन, मिलन-अमिलन नित परम अतर्क्य मधुर सुख-सार॥
[541]
(Rāga Bhīmapalāsī - Tāla Kaharavā)
दूर रहें या पास, नित्य ही रहते एक साथ निर्बाध। लहराता अनन्त सागर है, भरा प्रेम-रस-अमृत अगाध॥ उठती रहतीं विविध भाँतिकी ऊपर लहरें क्षुद्र-महान। लोग देखकर उन्हें लगाते दूर-पासका मन अनुमान॥ हम दोनों नित एकरूप हैं, एक तत्त्व हैं नित संयोग। नित्य मिलन रहता अटूट, हो चाहे विप्रलम्भ-सम्भोग॥ नित्य मिलन, नित रस-आस्वादन, नित्य अतृप्ति, नित्य नव चाह। मिलन विरहमय, विरह मिलनमय, लीलोदधि विचित्र अवगाह॥ मोद-विषाद, हास्य मृदु, रोदन, निपट निराशा, अति उत्साह। परम मधुरतम, परम दिव्य, शुचि लीला रस-माधुरी-प्रवाह॥
[542]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tāla Kaharavā)
कैसे किसे बताऊँ अब मैं अपने मनकी अकथ कहानी। मेरे अभ्यन्तरमें नित्य समायी मेरी राधा रानी॥ नूतन नित्य ललित लीलाओंका करती उद्भव रस-खानी। बाहर भी उसका ही मिलता मधुमय स्पर्श सरस सुख-दानी॥
English translation
[540]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharava)
Without end, beginningless and eternal, We two are one everlasting form. Forever becoming two, We perform lila that is naturally infinite, inconceivable and incomparable. Eternally ancient and ever-new, We are always of one rasa, one and nondifferent, yet an unbroken current of rasa-lila filled with difference forever flows. There is natural, blissful meeting and forever-fierce separation that continually burns the heart. There are eternally sweet and gentle enchanting smiles, compassionate weeping, sighing and lamentation. This crying of Mine is beginningless, and these bliss-filled burdens of sorrow are infinite. Nonmeeting within meeting and meeting within nonmeeting are eternally the utterly inconceivable essence of sweet happiness.
[541]
(Raga Bhimapalasi - Tala Kaharava)
Whether far or near, We remain eternally together without obstruction. An infinite ocean surges, filled with fathomless nectar of love-rasa. Small and great waves of many kinds continually rise upon its surface. Seeing them, people mentally imagine nearness and distance. We two are eternally of one form and one reality, forever united. Our eternal meeting remains unbroken, whether the lila appears as separation or union. There is eternal meeting, eternal tasting of rasa, eternal dissatisfaction and ever-new longing. Meeting is filled with separation and separation with meeting; the wondrous ocean of lila cannot be fathomed. Joy and sorrow, gentle laughter and weeping, utter despair and immense enthusiasm form the supremely sweet, divine and pure current of the sweetness of lila-rasa.
[542]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharava)
How and to whom can I tell the ineffable story of My heart? My Queen Radha is eternally contained within Me. That mine of rasa forever gives rise to ever-new, beautiful lilas, and outside too I encounter only Her honeyed, flavorful, joy-giving touch.
Original
Braj Bhasha and Hindi
[543]
(Rāga Jaunapurī Toḍī - Tīna Tāla)
मो मन राधा-छबि पै अटक्यौ। मिलत नाहिं, छोड़त न बनत पुनि, रहत सदा ही लटक्यौ॥ प्रथमहिं निरखि सफल भए लोचन, मन न कतहूँ फिरि भटक्यौ। सुख-सागर लहरात तबहि तैं, रूप-सुधा-रस गटक्यौ॥ पद-पल्लव उदार सेवन-हित मम मानस अति मटक्यौ। पद-पराग पाएं बिनु मो मन-मधुकर कबहूँ न सटक्यौ॥
[544]
(Rāga Vāgeśrī - Tāla Kaharavā)
राधासे भी लगता मुझको अधिक मधुर प्रिय 'राधा' नाम। 'राधा' शब्द कान पड़ते ही खिल उठती हिय-कली तमाम॥ मूल्य नित्य निश्चित है मेरा - 'प्रेम-प्रपूरित राधा-नाम'। चाहे जो खरीद ले, ऐसा मुझे सुनाकर राधा-नाम॥ नारायण, शिव, ब्रह्मा, लक्ष्मी, दुर्गा, वाणी मेरे रूप। प्राण-समान सभी प्रिय मेरे, सबका मुझमें भाव अनूप॥ पर राधा प्राणाधिक मेरी, अतिशय प्रिय, प्रियजन-सिरमौर। राधा-सा कोई न कहीं है मेरा प्राणाधिक प्रिय और॥ अन्य सभी ये देव-देवियाँ बसती हैं नित मेरे पास। प्रिया राधिकाका है मेरे वक्षःस्थलपर नित्य निवास॥
[545]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tāla Kaharavā)
जिह्वाके मम अग्रभागपर रहे विराजित राधा-नाम। मेरी आँखोंके सम्मुख नित रहे राधिका-रूप ललाम॥ कानोंमें नित रहे गूँजती राधा-कीर्ति-कथा अभिराम। बना रहे श्रीश्रीराधाका गुण-गण-चिन्तन मन अविराम॥
English translation
[543]
(Raga Jaunapuri Todi - Tina Tala)
My mind is caught upon Radha's beauty. It cannot attain Her, yet cannot withdraw, and so remains forever suspended there. At the very first sight My eyes became fulfilled, and the mind never wandered elsewhere again. Since then an ocean of joy has surged as I swallowed the nectar-rasa of Her form. My mind sways intensely in longing to serve the generous tender shoots of Her feet. Without receiving their pollen, the bee of My mind never moves away.
[544]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharava)
Even sweeter and dearer to Me than Radha is the name "Radha." The instant the word "Radha" enters My ears, every bud of My heart blossoms. My eternal fixed price is "Radha's name overflowing with love." Anyone may purchase Me simply by making Me hear Radha's name in that way. Narayana, Siva, Brahma, Lakshmi, Durga and Sarasvati are forms of Mine. All are as dear as life, and each has a wonderful relation within Me. But Radha is dearer than My life, supremely beloved and the crown of all My dear ones. Nowhere is there another as dear to Me as Radha, more precious than life. All these other gods and goddesses eternally dwell near Me, but beloved Radhika forever resides upon My breast.
[545]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharava)
May Radha's name forever shine upon the tip of My tongue. May Radhika's exquisite form remain eternally before My eyes. May the delightful account of Radha's glory forever resound within My ears. May My mind remain ceaselessly absorbed in contemplating Sri Sri Radha's countless virtues.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
[546]
(Rāga Jaṅgalā - Tāla Kaharavā)
मानो या मत मानो, मुझको भी न मनानेकी कुछ चाह। करो पूर्ण विश्वास भले, या मुझे जान लो बेपरवाह॥ मेरे पास 'प्रेम' नामक था जो कुछ, जैसा विमल पदार्थ। उसको मैं दे चुका पूर्ण तुमको, मैं कहता तुम्हें यथार्थ॥
[547]
(Rāga Kāliṅgaṛā - Tāla Kaharavā)
'मैं प्रियतम, तू प्रेयसि मेरी' - यों कहना है निरा प्रवाद। 'तू मम प्राण, प्राण मैं तेरे' - यह भी है प्रलाप-संवाद॥ 'तू मेरी, मैं तेरा' - राधे! यह भी नहीं साधु व्यवहार। समुचित नहीं कभी हममें - 'तू-मैं' का कोई भेद-विचार॥
[548]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
प्रिये! लखौ तुम सर्व-विलक्षण अपनौ रूप अनूप। दोउ अनादि विहरत-विलसत हम, नव पद्धति, नव रूप॥ हम न रमण-रमणी यथार्थमें, न स्वकीय-परकीय। प्रकृति-पुरुषहू नहीं, निरत नित शुचि क्रीड़ा कमनीय॥ निराकार-साकार न हम हैं, निर्विशेष-सविशेष। नहीं सगुण-निर्गुण हम दोऊ, नहिं शेषी, नहिं शेष॥ माया-ब्रह्म, न मायामय हम, नहीं व्यक्त-अव्यक्त। प्रेम पूर्णतम, प्रेम-रस-रसिक, रसमय, रस-आसक्त॥ नित नव विकसित मधुर हमारौ रूप अनन्त, अपार। बढ़त नित्य निष्काम कामना, नित्य नवीन विहार॥ द्विभुज रूप, लावण्य ललित अति, अतुल, अनिर्वचनीय। प्रेम-मूर्ति शुचि रूप-सुधा, सौन्दर्य नित्य रमणीय॥ प्रेम आत्मा, प्रेम बुद्धि-मन, इंद्रिय पूरण प्रेम। स्थूल-सूक्ष्म-कारण-विरहित नित देहहू चिन्मय प्रेम॥
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[546]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharava)
Believe it or do not believe it; I have no desire to persuade you. Place complete faith in Me if you wish, or regard Me as careless. Whatever pure substance called "love" I possessed, I have given entirely to you. I am telling you the truth.
[547]
(Raga Kalingara - Tala Kaharava)
To say, "I am the beloved and you are My lover," is merely a popular tale. To say, "You are My life and I am your life," is also only the speech of delirium. "You are Mine and I am yours," Radhe, is likewise not proper language. No thought of a distinction between "you" and "I" is ever fitting between Us.
[548]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
Beloved, behold Our incomparable nature, utterly distinct from everything. We two, beginningless, eternally sport and shine in ever-new ways and ever-new forms. In truth We are neither lover and beloved, nor wedded and unwedded lovers. We are not even nature and spirit, though forever absorbed in pure and beautiful play. We are neither formless nor formed, neither without attributes nor possessed of distinction. We two are neither qualified nor unqualified, neither the whole nor a dependent part. We are neither maya and Brahman nor made of maya, neither manifest nor unmanifest. We are love at its fullest, rasikas of love-rasa, made of rasa and attached to rasa. Our sweet, infinite and boundless form unfolds ever-new. Desireless longing forever increases, and Our play is eternally fresh. Our two-armed forms possess exceedingly graceful beauty, incomparable and indescribable. They are embodiments of love, pure nectar of form and eternally enchanting beauty. Love is Our self, love Our understanding and mind, and all Our senses are filled with love. Without gross, subtle or causal bodies, even Our eternal bodies are conscious love.
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लीला सकल प्रेम-रसरूपा, नित नव प्रेमानन्द। नित्य अबाध, अपरिमित, नव-नव लीला-गति स्वच्छन्द॥ सुर-मुनि समझि न पाये या कौं, गये जतन करि हार। नित्य अचिन्त्यानन्त, अनिर्वचनीय विचित्र विहार॥
[549]
(Rāga Bhīmapalāsī - Tāla Kaharavā)
सुन्दर-मधुर सदा मैं मुनि-मनको भी करता आकर्षण। ऋषि-मुनि, मनुज-दनुज-सुर - सबपर करता सदा सुधा-वर्षण॥ वह मैं खिंचा नित्य रहता तव मुख-शशि-सुधा-पानके हेतु। ललचाता, मैं सदा तरसता, करता भंग स्वयं श्रुति-सेतु॥ जिसके गुण-गण गाते नहीं अघाते अज-भव-शारद-शेष। वही समुचित करता गुण-गान तुम्हारा मैं साग्रह सविशेष॥ जिसकी महिमाका न पा सका अबतक कोई कहीं न अन्त। वही तुम्हारी महिमाका अनुभव करता अज्ञात, अनन्त॥ जो सब लोक-महेश्वर, अतुलैश्वर्य विश्व-भर्ता-धर्ता। वह मैं तव पद-सेवनरत सुख-गौरवका अनुभव करता॥ नित्य सच्चिदानन्द-रूपकी भी वे वाञ्छित भाव-तरंग। लहरातीं जब मुझे दीखतीं अति शुचि, पुलकित होते अंग॥ बह जाता मैं उनमें, प्यारी! रहता नहीं भिन्न कुछ तत्त्व। कौन बता सकता कैसा, क्या अतुल तुम्हारा मर्म-महत्त्व॥
[550]
(Rāga Mālakauṃsa - Tīna Tāla)
राधिके! तुम मम जीवन-मूल। अनुपम अमर प्राण-संजीवनि, नहिं कहूँ कोउ समतूल॥ जस सरीर में निज-निज थानहिं सबही शोभित अंग। किंतु प्रान बिनु सबहि व्यर्थ, नहिं रहत कतहूँ कोउ रंग॥ तस तुम प्रिये! सबनि के सुख की एकमात्र आधार। तुम्हरे बिना नहीं जीवन-रस, जासौं सब कौ प्यार॥
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Continuation of [548]
Every lila is made of love-rasa and ever-new bliss of love. Its course is eternally unobstructed, immeasurable and freely assumes ever-new movements. Gods and sages could not understand it and abandoned their efforts in defeat. Its wondrous play is eternally inconceivable, infinite and indescribable.
[549]
(Raga Bhimapalasi - Tala Kaharava)
Forever beautiful and sweet, I attract even the minds of sages. I eternally shower nectar upon seers, sages, humans, demons and gods. Yet I remain forever drawn to drink the nectar of the moon of Your face. I continually yearn and thirst, Myself breaking the boundaries of revealed scripture. Brahma, Siva, Sarasvati and Sesa never tire of singing My countless virtues, yet I am the one who earnestly and especially sings Your virtues as they deserve. No one anywhere has yet discovered an end to My glory, yet I experience Your glory as unknowable and infinite. I am the great Lord of every realm, of incomparable sovereignty, sustainer and bearer of the world, yet absorbed in serving Your feet I experience happiness and honor. When I see those supremely pure waves of feeling, desired even by the eternal form of existence, consciousness and bliss, surging before Me, every limb thrills. Beloved, I am swept into them and no separate reality remains. Who can describe the incomparable nature and greatness of Your mystery?
[550]
(Raga Malakaunsa - Tina Tala)
Radhike, You are the root of My life, the incomparable, immortal, life-restoring elixir, without an equal anywhere. Just as all the limbs adorn the body, each in its own place, yet without life all are useless and no beauty remains anywhere, so, Beloved, You alone are the foundation of everyone's happiness. Without You there is no rasa of life, through which all become dear.
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तुम्हरे प्राननि सौं अनुप्रानित, तुम्हरे मन मनवान। तुम्हरौ प्रेम-सिन्धु-सीकर लै करौं सबहि रसदान॥ तुम्हरे रस-भंडार पुण्य तैं पावत भिक्षुक चून। तुम सम केवल तुमहि एक हौ, तनिक न मानौ ऊन॥ सोऊ अति मरजादा, अति सम्भ्रम-भय-दैन्य-सँकोच। नहिं कोउ कतहूँ कबहुँ तुम-सी रसस्वामिनि निःसंकोच॥ तुम्हरौ स्वत्व अनन्त नित्य, सब भाँति पूर्ण अधिकार। कायव्यूह निज रस-वितरण करवावति परम उदार॥ तुम्हरी मधुर रहस्यमई मोहनि माया सौं नित्य। दक्षिण वाम रसास्वादन हित बनतौ रहूँ निमित्त॥
[551]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tīna Tāla)
हे आराध्या राधा! मेरे मनका तुझमें नित्य निवास। तेरे ही दर्शन कारण मैं करता हूँ गोकुलमें वास॥ तेरा ही रस-तत्त्व जानना, करना उसका आस्वादन। इसी हेतु दिन-रात घूमता मैं करता वंशीवादन॥ इसी हेतु स्नानको जाता, बैठा रहता यमुना-तीर। तेरी रूपमाधुरीके दर्शनहित रहता चित्त अधीर॥ इसी हेतु रहता कदम्बतल, करता तेरा ही नित ध्यान। सदा तरसता चातककी ज्यों, रूप-स्वातिका करने पान॥ तेरी रूप-शील-गुण-माधुरी मधुर नित्य लेती चित चोर। प्रेमगान करता नित तेरा, रहता उसमें सदा विभोर॥
[552]
(Rāga Paraja - Tīna Tāla)
हे वृषभानुराजनन्दिनि! हे अतुल प्रेम-रस-सुधा-निधान! गाय चराता वन-वन भटकूँ, क्या समझूँ मैं प्रेम-विधान! ग्वाल-बालकोंके सँग डोलूँ, खेलूँ सदा गँवारू खेल। प्रेम-सुधा-सरिता तुमसे मुझ तप्त धूलका कैसा मेल!
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Continuation of [550]
All lives are animated by Your life, and all minds receive mind from Yours. Taking a droplet from Your ocean of love, I bestow rasa upon everyone. Through the merit of Your treasury of rasa, beggars receive a pinch. You alone are equal to Yourself; never consider Yourself lacking in the slightest. Even the highest beloved remains restrained by decorum, awe, fear, humility and reserve. Nowhere and never is there another fearless sovereign of rasa like You. Your ownership is eternally infinite and Your authority complete in every way. Supremely generous, You distribute Your rasa through expansions of Your own body. By Your sweet, mysterious and enchanting maya, I eternally become the instrument for tasting the submissive and contrary moods of rasa.
[551]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tina Tala)
O worshipful Radha, My mind dwells eternally in You. Only to behold You do I reside in Gokula. To know the reality of Your rasa and taste it, I wander day and night playing the flute. For that same purpose I go to bathe and sit upon the Yamuna's bank. My heart remains restless to behold the sweetness of Your form. For that purpose I remain beneath the kadamba tree and forever meditate only upon You. Like a cataka bird I continually thirst to drink the Svati rain of Your beauty. The sweetness of Your form, character and virtues eternally steals My heart. I forever sing Your song of love and remain always absorbed within it.
[552]
(Raga Paraja - Tina Tala)
O daughter of King Vrsabhanu, O incomparable treasury of the nectar of love-rasa! I wander from forest to forest herding cows; what can I understand of love's ordinance? I roam with cowherd boys and always play rustic games. What kinship could there be between You, a river of love's nectar, and Me, heated dust?
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तुम स्वामिनि अनुरागिणि! जब देती हो प्रेमभरे दर्शन। तब अति सुख पाता मैं, मुझपर बढ़ता अमित तुम्हारा ऋण॥ कैसे ऋणका शोध करूँ मैं, नित्य प्रेम-धनका कंगाल! तुम्हीं दया कर प्रेमदान दे मुझको करती रहो निहाल॥
[553]
(Rāga Bhairavī, tune - Tīna Tāla)
हे प्रियतमे राधिके! तेरी महिमा अनुपम अकथ अनन्त। युग-युगसे गाता मैं अविरत, नहीं कहीं भी पाता अन्त॥ सुधानन्द बरसाता हियमें तेरा मधुर वचन अनमोल। बिका सदाके लिये मधुर दृग-कमल कुटिल भ्रुकुटीके मोल॥ जपता तेरा नाम मधुर अनुपम मुरलीमें नित्य ललाम। नित अतृप्त नयनोंसे तेरा रूप देखता अति अभिराम॥ कहीं न मिला प्रेम शुचि ऐसा, कहीं न पूरी मनकी आश। एक तुझीको पाया मैंने, जिसने किया पूर्ण अभिलाष॥ नित्य तृप्त, निष्काम नित्यमें मधुर अतृप्ति, मधुरतम काम। तेरे दिव्य प्रेमका है यह जादूभरा मधुर परिणाम॥
[554]
(Rāga Jūjharī - Tāla Kaharavā)
राधे, हे प्रियतमे, प्राण-प्रतिमे, हे मेरी जीवन-मूल! पलभर भी न कभी रह सकता, प्रिये मधुर! मैं तुमको भूल॥ श्वास-श्वासमें तेरी स्मृतिका नित्य पवित्र स्रोत बहता। रोम-रोम अति पुलकित तेरा आलिंगन करता रहता॥ नेत्र देखते तुझे नित्य ही, सुनते शब्द मधुर यह कान। नासा अंग-सुगन्ध सूँघती, रसना अधर-सुधा-रस-पान॥ अंग-अंग शुचि पाते नित ही तेरा प्यारा अंग-स्पर्श। नित्य नवीन प्रेम-रस बढ़ता, नित्य नवीन हृदयमें हर्ष॥
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Continuation of [552]
O loving sovereign, when You grant a vision filled with love, I receive immense happiness, and My immeasurable debt to You increases. How can I repay that debt when I am eternally impoverished of love's wealth? Be merciful and forever bless Me by giving the gift of love.
[553]
(Raga Bhairavi, tune - Tina Tala)
O most beloved Radhike, Your glory is incomparable, ineffable and infinite. Age after age I sing it without cease, yet nowhere find its end. Your priceless sweet speech rains the bliss of nectar within My heart. I have sold Myself forever for the price of Your sweet lotus eyes and curving brows. Within My flute I continually repeat Your incomparable sweet name. With eternally unsatisfied eyes I behold Your supremely delightful form. Nowhere else have I found such pure love, and nowhere else was My heart's hope fulfilled. I found You alone, and You fulfilled every longing. Within Me, eternally fulfilled and eternally desireless, are sweet dissatisfaction and the sweetest desire. This is the magical, honeyed result of Your divine love.
[554]
(Raga Jujhari - Tala Kaharava)
Radhe, O most beloved, image of My life, root of My existence! Sweet Beloved, I cannot forget You even for a moment. With every breath, the eternally pure current of Your remembrance flows. Every hair, thrilled with joy, remains engaged in embracing You. My eyes forever see You, and these ears hear Your sweet words. The nose inhales the fragrance of Your limbs, and the tongue drinks nectar-rasa from Your lips. Every limb eternally receives the pure touch of Your beloved limbs. Ever-new love-rasa increases, and ever-new joy arises within the heart.
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[555]
(Rāga Śivarañjanī - Tīna Tāla)
मेरा तन-मन सब तेरा ही, तू ही सदा स्वामिनी एक। अन्योंका उपभोग्य न भोक्ता है कदापि, यह सच्ची टेक॥ तन समीप रहता न स्थूलतः, पर जो मेरा सूक्ष्म शरीर। क्षणभर भी न विलग रह पाता, हो उठता अत्यन्त अधीर॥ रहता सदा जुड़ा तुझसे ही, अतः बसा तेरे पद-प्रान्त। तू ही उसकी एकमात्र जीवनकी जीवन है निश्चित॥ हुआ न होगा अन्य किसीका उसपर कभी तनिक अधिकार। नहीं किसीको सुख देगा, लेगा न किसीसे किसी प्रकार॥ यदि वह कभी किसीसे किंचित् दिखता करता-पाता प्यार। वह सब तेरे ही रसका बस, है केवल पवित्र विस्तार॥ कह सकती तू मुझे सभी कुछ, मैं तो नित तेरे आधीन। पर न मानना कभी अन्यथा, कभी न कहना निजको दीन॥ इतने पर भी मैं तेरे मनकी न कभी हूँ कर पाता। अतः बना रहता हूँ संतत तुझको दुखका ही दाता॥ अपनी ओर देख तू मेरे सब अपराधोंको जा भूल। करती रह कृतार्थ मुझको दे पावन पद-पंकजकी धूल॥
[556]
(Rāga Vāgeśrī - Tīna Tāla)
राधे! तू ही चित्तरंजनी, तू ही चेतनता मेरी॥ तू ही नित्य आत्मा मेरी, मैं हूँ बस, आत्मा तेरी॥ तेरे जीवनसे जीवन है, तेरे प्राणोंसे हैं प्राण। तू ही मन, मति, चक्षु, कर्ण, त्वक्, रसना, तू ही इन्द्रिय-घ्राण॥ तू ही स्थूल-सूक्ष्म इन्द्रियके विषय सभी मेरे सुखरूप। तू ही मैं, मैं ही तू बस, तेरा-मेरा सम्बन्ध अनूप॥ तेरे बिना न मैं हूँ, मेरे बिना न तू रखती अस्तित्व। अविनाभाव विलक्षण यह सम्बन्ध, यही बस, जीवन-तत्त्व॥
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[555]
(Raga Sivaranjani - Tina Tala)
My body and mind belong wholly to You; You alone are forever My sovereign. They can never be enjoyed by or enjoy another; this is a true and steadfast vow. Though My gross body does not remain physically near You, My subtle body cannot remain apart for even a moment and becomes intensely restless. It remains always joined only to You and therefore dwells at the border of Your feet. You alone are certainly the single life of its life. No one else has ever had the slightest right over it. It will give pleasure to no one, nor receive pleasure from anyone in any way. If it ever appears to give or receive even a little love from someone, that is only a pure extension of Your own rasa. You may say anything to Me, for I am eternally under Your rule. But never misunderstand, and never call Yourself poor or subordinate. Even so, I can never act fully according to Your heart, and therefore continually remain the giver of sorrow to You. Look toward Your own goodness and forget all My offenses. Keep blessing Me with the dust of Your holy lotus feet.
[556]
(Raga Vagesri - Tina Tala)
Radhe, You alone delight My heart; You alone are My consciousness. You alone are eternally My self, while I am only Your self. My life comes from Your life, and My breath from Your breath. You are mind, understanding, eyes, ears, skin, tongue and the power of smell. You are every gross and subtle object of the senses, each a form of My happiness. You are Me and I am You; the relationship of Yours and Mine is incomparable. Without You I do not exist, and without Me You do not retain existence. This extraordinary, inseparable relationship alone is the reality of life.
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[557]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tīna Tāla)
राधा! तुम-सी तुम्हीं एक हो, नहीं कहीं भी उपमा और। लहराता अत्यन्त सुधा-रस-सागर, जिसका ओर न छोर॥ मैं नित रहता डूबा उसमें, नहीं कभी ऊपर आता। कभी तुम्हारी ही इच्छासे हूँ लहरोंमें लहराता॥ पर वे लहरें भी गाती हैं एक तुम्हारा रम्य महत्त्व। उनका सब सौन्दर्य और माधुर्य तुम्हारा ही है स्वत्व॥ तो भी उनके तदाकार रूपमें ही बस, मैं हूँ लहराता। केवल तुम्हें सुखी करनेको सहज कभी ऊपर आता॥ एकछत्र स्वामिनि तुम मेरी अनुकम्पा अति बरसाती। रखकर सदा मुझे सन्निधिमें जीवनके क्षण सरसाती॥ अमित नेत्रसे गुण-दर्शन कर, सदा सराहा ही करती। सदा बढ़ाती सुख अनुपम, उल्लास अमित उरमें भरती॥ सदा सदा मैं सदा तुम्हारा, नहीं कदा कोई भी अन्य। कहीं जरा भी कर पाता अधिकार दासपर सदा अनन्य॥ जैसे मुझे नचाओगी तुम, वैसे नित्य करूँगा नृत्य। यही धर्म है, सहज प्रकृति यह, यही एक स्वाभाविक कृत्य॥
[558]
(Rāga Kāliṅgaṛā - Tāla Kaharavā)
राधे! तुम-सी तुम्हीं एक हो, नहीं कहीं भी उपमा और। रहता मैं तुममें ही निशि-दिन, अन्य कहीं भी मुझे न ठौर॥ सदा तुम्हारा ही मैं पूरा, तब भी नित ललचाता चित्त। तुम ही मेरी नित्य सम्पदा, तुम ही मेरा जीवन-वित्त॥ सदा मानती रहो प्रियतमे! अपना ही तुम मुझको दास। सदा तुम्हारा ही मैं केवल, रखो प्रिये! यह दृढ़ विश्वास॥ नहीं वासना किसी तरहकी, नहीं मुझे कोई भी चाह। नहीं मुझे किंचित् भी कैसी भी कुछ स्थितिकी है परवाह॥
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[557]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tina Tala)
Radha, You alone are like Yourself; nowhere is there another comparison. An immense ocean of nectar-rasa surges without shore or limit. I remain forever submerged within it and never rise to the surface. Only by Your desire do I sometimes move among its waves. Yet even those waves sing only of Your lovely greatness. All their beauty and sweetness belong to You alone. Even then I move only within their forms, which are shaped entirely like You. Only to make You happy do I sometimes naturally rise above them. You are My sole sovereign and shower immense compassion. Keeping Me always near, You fill every moment of life with rasa. Beholding My virtues with countless eyes, You forever praise them. You continually increase incomparable joy and fill the heart with limitless delight. Always and forever I am eternally Yours; no other can ever exercise even the slightest right over this eternally exclusive servant. However You make Me dance, so shall I dance forever. This is My dharma, My natural disposition and My one spontaneous act.
[558]
(Raga Kalingara - Tala Kaharava)
Radhe, You alone are like Yourself; nowhere is there another comparison. Day and night I dwell only within You; nowhere else have I a place. I am always wholly Yours, yet My heart remains forever eager. You are My eternal wealth and the treasure of My life. Most beloved, always regard Me as Your own servant. I am forever Yours alone; hold this firm faith, Beloved. I have no craving of any kind and no desire whatever. I do not care in the slightest about any condition whatsoever.
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तुम्हें छोड़ यदि अन्य कहीं भी, कभी दीखता मेरा वास। उस क्षण भी यथार्थमें रहता तुममें मेरा नित्य निवास॥ किसी रूप-गुण-शील-महत्ताका न कभी मेरे मन चाव। एक तुम्हारे सिवा दीखता सब कुछ मुझे अवस्तु, अभाव॥ अतः कहीं भी, कभी न होता मेरा सत्य प्रेम, सद्भाव। मिलना-जुलना, कहना-सुनना होते सभी बाहरी भाव॥ एक तुम्हारा ही होता शुचि उसमें भी महत्त्व-विस्तार। जिससे तव पद-कमलोंमें आ झुक जाये सारा संसार॥ समझ सकें सब विषय-वासना-रहित विशुद्ध प्रेमका तत्त्व। जान सकें सब पूर्ण त्यागमय रतिका जिससे पूत महत्त्व॥ यह भी गौण, सहज ही केवल होता लीलाका उन्मेष। केवल एक तुम्हारे अंदर, तुमसे ही सब शेषी-शेष॥ तुममें कभी, कहीं कैसी भी नहीं वासनाका लवलेश। स्व-सुख-वाञ्छारहित परम शुचि मत्सुख-सुखी भाव सविशेष॥ इसी परम रस मधुर सदा शुचितमका करता मैं आस्वाद। नहीं अघाता, नित्य नयी बढ़ती रहती आशा अविवाद॥
[559]
(Rāga Jaṅgalā - Tāla Kaharavā)
हे राधे वृषभानुनन्दिनी, मम मन-नन्दिनि सुषमागार। तेरी परम सुखद सुस्मृति ही है मेरी जीवन-आधार॥
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If I ever appear to dwell anywhere apart from You, even at that moment My eternal dwelling truly remains within You. My mind never longs for anyone's form, virtues, character or greatness. Apart from You alone, everything appears to Me unreal and absent. Therefore nowhere and never do My true love and pure feeling arise elsewhere. Meeting, social exchange, speaking and listening are all merely outward actions. Even within them only Your pure greatness expands, so that the entire world may come and bow before Your lotus feet. Thus all may understand pure love free from craving for sense objects and know the holy greatness of affection composed of complete renunciation. Even this is secondary, merely a spontaneous unfolding of lila. Within You alone, and only through You, all relations of whole and part exist. Within You there is never, anywhere, even the slightest trace of craving. Yours is the distinctive, supremely pure mood free of desire for Your own happiness, finding joy only in My joy. I forever taste this sweetest, purest and supreme rasa. I am never satisfied, and ever-new longing continually increases.
[559]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharava)
O Radhe, daughter of Vrsabhanu, delight of My mind and treasury of beauty, Your supremely blissful remembrance alone is the foundation of My life.
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कुटिल नयन कज्जल-अनुरंजित, अति विशाल, रसभरे ललाम। बंकिम भ्रुकुटि पंचशर-शर-सी, सुघड़ नासिका शोभा-धाम॥ परमाह्लादिनि ह्लादिनि श्यामा प्रेम-सुधा-रस-उदधि अपार। तेरी० मधुकर-कृष्ण, मनोहर, चिक्कण चिकुर सुशोभित वेणि अनूप। सुमन सुगन्धित गुँधे मनोरम, मणिमय मुकुट, विलक्षण रूप॥ नित नव अनुरागिनि, बड़भागिनि, भूषण विविध विराजित अंग। वक्ष उतुंग कंचुकी-शोभित, शीश चूनरी मोहन रंग॥ चिबुक मनोहर, कम्बु-कण्ठ, कमनीय कुसुम-मुक्ता-मणिहार। तेरी० मन्द उदर रेखात्रय-राजित, नाभि गभीर-मधुर-अभिराम। कृश कटि सुन्दर किंकिणि शोभित, कर-पद मेंहदी रची सुठाम॥ सकल कला-निधि, गुण-निधि, गुण-वर्णन-अक्षम श्रुति-शारद-शेष। मन्मथ-मन्मथ-मानस-मन्थिनि सदा सुहागिनि सुन्दर वेष॥ नित्य निकुंजेश्वरी नव-कुंजविहारिणि करती नित्य विहार। तेरी०
[560]
(Rāga Bhīmapalāsī - Tāla Kaharavā)
प्रिये! तुम्हारा-मेरा यह अति निर्मल परम प्रेम-सम्बन्ध। सदा शुद्ध आनन्दरूप है, इसमें नहीं काम-दुर्गन्ध॥ कबसे है, कुछ पता नहीं, पर जाता नित अनन्तकी ओर। पूर्ण समर्पण किसका किसमें, कहीं नहीं मिलता कुछ छोर॥ सदा एक, पर सदा बने दो करने लीला-रस-आस्वाद। कभी न बासी होता रस यह, कभी नहीं होता विस्वाद॥ नित्य नवीन मधुर लीला-रस भी न भिन्न, पर रहता भिन्न। नव-नव रस-सुख सर्जन करता, कभी न होने देता खिन्न॥ परम सुहृद, धन परम, परम आत्मीय, परम प्रेमास्पदरूप। हम दोनों दोनोंके हैं नित, बने रहेंगे नित्य अनूप॥ कहते नहीं, जनाते कुछ भी कभी परस्पर भी यह बात। रहते बसे हृदयमें दोनों दोनोंके पुनीत अवदात॥
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Your curving eyes, darkened with collyrium, are vast, exquisite and filled with rasa. Your arched brows are like the arrows of the five-arrowed god, and Your graceful nose is an abode of beauty. O supreme giver of delight, dark Hladini, boundless ocean of the nectar of love-rasa, Your... Your dark, enchanting, glossy curls are beautifully braided in an incomparable plait. Fragrant flowers are woven through it, and a jeweled crown gives it extraordinary beauty. Ever-fresh in love and greatly blessed, Your limbs shine with varied ornaments. Your high breast is adorned by a bodice, and a captivating veil covers Your head. Your chin is lovely, Your neck conch-like, and charming garlands of flowers, pearls and jewels adorn You. Your... Your gentle abdomen is graced by three lines, and Your deep navel is sweet and delightful. A beautiful girdle of bells adorns Your slender waist, and henna elegantly colors Your hands and feet. You are the treasury of every art and virtue; scripture, Sarasvati and Sesa cannot describe Your qualities. You churn the mind of Him who agitates Cupid, forever auspiciously married and beautifully dressed. Eternal queen of the bowers, You forever sport within ever-new groves. Your...
[560]
(Raga Bhimapalasi - Tala Kaharava)
Beloved, this supremely pure relationship of love between You and Me is forever a form of pure bliss, without the foul odor of lust. No one knows when it began, yet it moves eternally toward infinity. Whose complete surrender is within whom? No boundary can be found anywhere. Forever one yet eternally becoming two, We taste lila-rasa. This rasa never grows stale and never becomes tasteless. The ever-new sweet rasa of lila is not different, yet remains distinct. It creates ever-new happiness of rasa and never permits weariness. Each is the other's supreme friend, greatest treasure, closest intimate and highest object of love. We two belong eternally to one another and shall remain forever incomparable. We never tell or indicate this even to each other. Each dwells in the other's pure and stainless heart.
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नहीं किसीसे लेन-देन कुछ, जगमें नहीं किसीसे काम। नहीं कभी कुछ इन्द्रिय-सुखकी कलुष-कामना अपगति-धाम॥ नहीं कर्मका कहीं प्रयोजन, नहीं ज्ञानका तत्त्वादेश। नहीं भक्ति-साधन विधि-संगत, नहीं योग अष्टांग विशेष॥ नहीं मुक्तिका स्थान कहीं भी, नहीं बन्ध-भयका लवलेश। आत्मसात् सब हुआ प्रेम-सागरमें, कुछ भी बचा न शेष॥ प्रेम-उदधि वह तल गभीरमें रहता शान्त, अडोल, अतोल। पर उसमें उन्मुक्त उठा करते हैं नित्य अमित हिल्लोल॥ उठती वहीं असंख्य रूपमें ऊपर उसमें विपुल तरंग। पर उन तरुण तरंगोंमें भी उसकी शान्ति न होती भंग॥ अडिग, शान्त, अक्षोभ सदा गम्भीर सुधामय प्रेम-समुद्र। रहता नित्य उच्छलित, नित्य तरंगित, नृत्य-निरत अक्षुद्र॥ शान्त नित्य नव-नर्तनमय वह परम मधुर रस-निधि सविशेष। लहराता रहता अनन्त वह नित्य हमारे शुचि हृद्देश॥ उसकी विविध तरंगें ही करतीं नित नव-लीला-उन्मेष। वही हमारा जीवन है, है वहीं हमारा शेषी-शेष॥ कौन निर्वचन कर सकता, जब सुर-मुनि-परमहंस असमर्थ। भोक्ता-भोग्य-रहित विचित्र अति गति, कहना-सुनना सब व्यर्थ॥
[561]
(Rāga Jaṅgalā - Tāla Kaharavā)
प्राणेश्वरि! निश्चय ही तू ही है मेरी आत्मा अभिराम। तुममें सदा रमण करता मैं, इससे कहते 'आत्माराम'॥ मेरे तन-मन, मति-गतिकी है एकमात्र तू ही आधार। तू ही जीवनका मधुमय रस, तू ही है बस, जीवन-सार॥ तू ही है सर्वस्व प्रिये! है तू ही मेरी जीवन-मूल। तब कैसे यह है सम्भव मैं लवभर तुझको जाऊँ भूल॥
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There is no transaction with anyone and no worldly business with another. Never is there a polluted desire for sensory pleasure, that abode of degradation. There is no purpose for action, no instruction in the principles of knowledge, no regulated practice of devotion and no special eight-limbed yoga. Liberation has no place, and there is not the slightest fear of bondage. Everything has been absorbed into the ocean of love; nothing remains. At its profound depth that ocean of love stays peaceful, motionless and immeasurable, yet immeasurable surges rise freely within it forever. Countless abundant waves in many forms rise upon its surface, but even those youthful waves do not disturb its peace. Steady, peaceful, unagitated and profound, that nectar-filled ocean of love forever overflows, eternally waves and remains absorbed in a boundless dance. Peaceful yet filled with ever-new dancing, that supremely sweet treasury of rasa surges infinitely and eternally within the pure region of Our hearts. Its varied waves alone unfold ever-new lilas. It is Our life, and within it rests every relation of whole and part. Who can define it when gods, sages and paramahamsas are powerless? Its movement, devoid of enjoyer and enjoyed, is utterly wondrous; speaking and hearing are futile.
[561]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharava)
Sovereign of My life, You alone are certainly My delightful self. Because I forever delight within You, I am called Atmarama, one who delights in the self. You alone are the foundation of My body and mind, understanding and movement. You are the honeyed rasa of life; You alone are life's essence. Beloved, You are My everything and the very root of My life. How then could it be possible for Me to forget You even for an instant?
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[562]
(Rāga Bhinnaṣaḍja - Tāla Kaharavā)
प्रिये! तुम्हारी महान महिमा मन-वाणीसे परे अनन्त। लाख देव-जीवनमें गानेपर भी कहीं न आता अन्त॥ दिव्य रूप-सौन्दर्य, भाव, गुण, दिव्य-मधुर माधुर्य महान। पूर्ण अनन्त सहज पावन तुम, इन सबकी अनन्त हो खान॥ तुम्हें दीखता किंतु न निजमें तनिक रूप, गुण, भाव, महत्त्व। यह है शुचितम दैन्य प्रेम-पावनका, जो स्वाभाविक तत्त्व॥ देती रहती मुझे अमित सुख नित्य-निरन्तर परम उदार। होता कभी विराम न पलभर, बहती नित्य अमृत रस-धार॥ सहज समर्पण किया सहित मन-बुद्धि दिव्य आत्मा सर्वस्व। रखा एक मेरी स्मृतिको, मेरे सुखको ही बना निजस्व॥ सतत दे रही रत्न दिव्य सुख नित्य नवीन, नवीन प्रकार। घटता नहीं तथापि तुम्हारा रंचक दिव्य रत्न-भण्डार॥ पर न देखती, नहीं जानती इस अनवरत दानकी बात। वस्तु-योग्यता हीन-दीन लखती रहती निजको दिन-रात॥ मिलता तुमसे मुझे अनोखा सुख, मिलता नित नव रस-भाव। बढ़ता ऋण, पर बढ़ता तुमसे नित नव सुख पानेका चाव॥ मूल-व्याज दोनों नित बढ़ते - यों नित ऋण बढ़ रहा अपार। सदा रहूँगा ऋणी तुम्हारा मैं प्रियतमे! जीवनाधार॥
[563]
(Rāga Bhīmapalāsī - Tāla Kaharavā)
मिली सदा रहतीं तुम मुझमें, मैं तुममें रहता नित युक्त। प्रेम-हेतु दो बने परस्पर रहते लीलासे अनुरक्त॥ दोके बिना न हो पाता यह लीला-रस-वितरण-आस्वाद। इसीलिये दो बने हुए नित लीला-रत रहते अविवाद॥
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[562]
(Raga Bhinnasadja - Tala Kaharava)
Beloved, Your great and infinite glory lies beyond mind and speech. Even if sung through a hundred thousand divine lifetimes, its end could not be reached. Divine beauty of form, feeling and virtue, great divine and honeyed sweetness, You are complete, infinite and naturally pure, the boundless treasury of them all. Yet You perceive not the slightest beauty, virtue, feeling or greatness within Yourself. This is the purest humility, the natural essence of love's holiness. Supremely generous, You bestow immeasurable happiness upon Me eternally and without cease. The current of nectar-rasa forever flows, never pausing even for a moment. You naturally surrendered everything: mind, understanding, divine self and all possessions. You retained only remembrance of Me and made My happiness Your sole property. You continually give jewels of divine happiness, ever-new and of ever-new kinds, yet Your divine treasury of jewels does not diminish in the slightest. You neither see nor know that this ceaseless giving occurs. Day and night You regard Yourself as poor, unworthy of the gift and without substance. From You I receive extraordinary happiness and ever-new moods of rasa. My debt increases, yet My desire to receive ever-new joy from You also grows. Principal and interest both continually increase; thus the boundless debt grows forever. Beloved foundation of My life, I shall remain eternally indebted to You.
[563]
(Raga Bhimapalasi - Tala Kaharava)
You remain forever united within Me, and I eternally dwell joined within You. For love's sake We become two and remain mutually absorbed in lila. Without two, the distribution and tasting of lila-rasa could not occur. Therefore We eternally remain as two, indisputably absorbed in lila.
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[564]
(Rāga Vāgeśrī - Tāla Kaharavā)
सुमधुर स्मरण तुम्हारा - मेरा बना आजकल पूरा जीवन। पलभर बिना तुम्हारे रहना नहीं मानता है मचला मन॥ जाग्रत्-स्वप्न - सभीमें, राधे! भरी सदा रहती तुम अंदर। बना तुम्हारे लिये मधुर यह मेरा अति सुखमय मन-मन्दिर॥ रहती सदा बसी तुम इसमें, निज अधिकार पूर्ण इसपर कर। क्षण-क्षणमें नव-नव सुख देती मुझको, राधे! परम मधुरतर॥ मधुर, मधुरतम मिलन तुम्हारा नित्य बना रहता है प्रतिपल। परम पवित्र भाव-मुख-दर्शन कर मैंने पाया वाञ्छित फल॥
[565]
(Rāga Toḍī - Tāla Kaharavā)
तेरी चिन्ता, तेरी पीड़ा, तेरा दुःख, विषम उर-दाह। तेरे मनकी सभी असुन्दर-सुन्दर मीठी-खारी चाह॥ सभी, प्रिये! वे मुझमें होतीं, होंगी आगे भी अनुभूत। तन-मन तेरे सारे मुझमें मिलकर परम हो गये पूत॥ मेरे पावन पूत हृदयकी पूत वासना तुममें जाग। करती सदा मुझे प्रतिभावित, प्रकटाती विशुद्ध अनुराग॥ वही परम अनुराग-भाव बन सदा खेलता नाना रंग। महाभावमें परिणत हो, वह करता उदय अनन्त तरंग॥ ये विशुद्धतम विपुल तरंगें हैं सब मेरा मधुमय रूप। मैं ही तू-मैं दोनों बन नित करता रास-विलास अनूप॥ बन जाता मैं दारुण दुःख-वियोग, परम सुखमय संयोग। तेरे अंदर रोकर-हँसकर करता नित निज रस-सम्भोग॥ इस अनुपम लीला-रहस्यको समझ, पृथकताका तज भान। लीला, लीलाकर्ता-भोक्ता, मैं-तू सदा एक भगवान॥
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[564]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharava)
These days, Your supremely sweet remembrance has become My entire life. My restless mind refuses to remain without You even for an instant. In waking and dream, Radhe, You forever fill My interior. This sweet and exceedingly blissful temple of My mind was made for You. You always dwell within it, exercising complete authority. Supremely sweet Radhe, You give Me ever-new happiness moment by moment. Your sweet, sweetest meeting remains eternally present at every moment. Beholding the face of Your supremely pure mood, I have received the fruit I desired.
[565]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharava)
Your anxiety, Your pain, Your sorrow and the fierce burning of Your heart, all the ugly and beautiful, sweet and bitter desires within Your mind, Beloved, all are experienced within Me and will be experienced hereafter. Your entire body and mind, blended into Me, have become supremely pure. The pure longing of My holy, stainless heart awakens within You, forever making Me manifest in You and revealing stainless love. That same feeling becomes supreme attachment and forever plays in countless colors. Transforming into mahabhava, it gives rise to infinite waves. All these abundant and utterly pure waves are My honeyed form. I alone eternally become both You and Me and perform incomparable rasa play. I become the terrible sorrow of separation and the supremely blissful union. Weeping and laughing within You, I eternally enjoy My own rasa. Understand this incomparable secret of lila and abandon awareness of separateness. The lila, the performer and enjoyer of lila, I and You, are eternally the one Bhagavan.
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[566]
(Rāga Kāliṅgaṛā - Tāla Kaharavā)
आतुर मैं अत्यन्त सदा तुमसे मिलनेको रहता। मनकी बात किसीसे पर मैं कभी नहीं कुछ कहता॥ मेरी वह आत्यन्तिक आतुरता आकर्षित करती। तुमको तुरत खींचकर मेरे तन-मनमें है भरती॥ भीतर-बाहर तुम्हें प्राप्तकर मैं निहाल हो जाता। मधुमय स्पर्श तुम्हारा पाकर मेरा 'मैं' खो जाता॥ रह जाती हो एक तुम्हीं अपनी ही महिमा लेकर। मुझे मिला लेती अपनेमें अपना सब कुछ देकर॥ हो जाते हम एक उसी क्षण, पृथक भान मिट जाता। अतुल, अनिर्वचनीय, अचिन्त्यानन्त प्रेम छा जाता॥ किससे कौन मिले हैं, किसके कौन प्रिया-प्रियतम हैं? जान नहीं पाते, कह पाते नहीं, कौन तुम-हम हैं? सदा एक थे, सदा एक हैं, एक सदैव रहेंगे। नहीं सुनेंगे कभी किसीकी, कुछ भी नहीं कहेंगे॥
[567]
(Dohā)
विषय-कामना, भोग-रति इन्द्रिय-सुखका चाव। नहीं तुम्हारे हृदयमें ये तीनों दुर्भाव॥ इह-परके सुख-भोगसे तुमको सहज विराग। मेरे सुखमें ही सदा पूर्ण नित्य अनुराग॥ छोड़ न सकता इसीसे प्रिये! तुम्हारा संग। अनुपम रस मिलता मुझे, मधुर नित्य नव रंग॥ रहता प्यारी! सदा मैं बसा तुम्हारे पास। क्षणभर भी हटता नहीं, करता नित्य निवास॥ हर स्थितिमें, हर समयमें, शुचि आनन्द-निधान। लेता प्रेमानन्द-रस स्वयं बिना व्यवधान॥
English translation
[566]
(Raga Kalingara - Tala Kaharava)
I remain eternally and intensely restless to meet You, yet I never tell anyone what lies within My heart. That extreme restlessness of Mine exerts its attraction, immediately draws You and fills My body and mind with You. Attaining You within and without, I become completely blessed. Receiving Your honeyed touch, My "I" disappears. You alone remain with Your own glory. Giving everything of Yourself, You blend Me into You. At that instant We become one and awareness of separation vanishes. Incomparable, indescribable, inconceivable and infinite love pervades all. Who has met whom, and whose beloved and lover are whose? We cannot know or say who are You and I. We were always one, are always one and shall remain one forever. We shall never listen to anyone and shall say nothing at all.
[567]
(Doha)
Desire for objects, attachment to enjoyment and longing for sensory pleasure, these three corruptions do not exist within Your heart. You are naturally detached from pleasures and enjoyments here and hereafter. Your eternal and complete attachment rests only in My happiness. Therefore, Beloved, I cannot leave Your company. From You I receive incomparable rasa in sweet, ever-new colors. Dearest, I remain forever dwelling beside You. I do not move away even for a moment but reside there eternally. In every condition and at every time, as a pure treasury of bliss, I personally taste the rasa of love's bliss without obstruction.
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Continuation of [567]
देख-देख तुम रीझतीं, करतीं मधु रस-दान। तुम ही मेरी हो परम शुचितम सुखकी खान॥ बिका तुम्हारे हाथ में, इन भावोंके मोल। तो भी ऋण न चुका सका, कैसे तुले अतोल॥
[568]
(Dohā)
प्रिये! तुम्हारी मूर्ति नित अपृथक, हिय कौ अंग। जुड़ी रहत हिय सौं सदा सुधा-सरस लै संग॥ मधुर मनोहर परम यह पै न कबहूँ जड़-तत्त्व। चेतन घन आनन्दमय लिये विचित्र शिवत्व॥ नित अभिन्न, पै भिन्न नित, लै सँग सखिन समूह। खेलत मो सँग लै तिनहि, जो निज काय-व्यूह॥ नित्य मिलन नव, नित्य नव लीला-रस-संचार। बढ़त विलक्षण नित्य नव, सुख-सौंदर्य उदार॥ सखिदल सकल दुराइ जब खोलि सुरस-भंडार। पियौ-पियावौ रस अमित नित बिनु प्रकृति-विकार॥ मो सुख-निधि में परम सुख उपजत नित्य नवीन। बढ़त नित्य सुख-लालसा, नव-नव अवधि-विहीन॥ नित अतृप्ति नित तृप्त में, नित कामना अकाम। सुख-घन में सुख की स्पृहा, अकथ प्रेम के धाम॥
[569]
(Rāga Sāraṅga - Tīna Tāla)
राधे! क्यों मैं रीझा तुमपर, क्यों मैं तुममें हूँ आसक्त। आज बताता हूँ - रहस्य कुछ, क्यों मैं सदा तुम्हारा भक्त॥ तुममें जो सौन्दर्य अतुल है निर्मल मधुर विचित्र अपार। वैसा कहीं न देखा मैंने, वर्द्धनशील सतत सुकुमार॥ तनका भी सौन्दर्य तुम्हारा सर्व-विलक्षण परम अनूप। पर मैं देख पा रहा, उत्तम परम तुम्हारा मानस रूप॥
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Continuation of [567]
Beholding Me again and again, You become delighted and give honeyed rasa. You alone are My supremely pure treasury of happiness. I have sold Myself into Your hands for the price of these feelings, yet still could not repay My debt. How could the immeasurable be weighed?
[568]
(Doha)
Beloved, Your form is eternally inseparable, a limb of My heart. Forever joined to the heart, it brings nectar and rasa with it. It is supremely sweet and enchanting, yet never inert matter. It is a compact mass of consciousness and bliss, possessing extraordinary auspiciousness. Eternally nondifferent yet forever distinct, You bring a company of friends, Your own bodily expansions, and play with Me together with them. There is ever-new eternal meeting and ever-new circulation of lila-rasa. Generous happiness and beauty continually increase in extraordinary new ways. When all the friends are hidden away and the treasury of exquisite rasa is opened, We drink and give each other limitless rasa without any material transformation. Ever-new supreme happiness arises within My treasury of joy. Longing for happiness grows eternally, ever-new and without limit. I am eternally unsatisfied and eternally fulfilled, desireless yet forever desiring. Within condensed happiness arises longing for happiness, O abode of ineffable love.
[569]
(Raga Saranga - Tina Tala)
Radhe, why am I delighted by You, and why am I attached to You? Today I reveal something of the secret of why I am forever Your devotee. The incomparable beauty within You is pure, sweet, wondrous and boundless. I have seen nothing like it anywhere, ever-increasing and eternally tender. Even the beauty of Your body is utterly distinct and supremely incomparable, but I can perceive that the beauty of Your mind is still higher and supreme.
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Continuation of [569]
पावन मन है बना तुम्हारा शुद्ध प्रेमका पारावार। नहीं कहीं कुछ मिश्रण उसमें, नहीं तनिक-सा कहीं विकार॥ नहीं मलिन ममता, मैं-पन कुछ, नहीं मोह कुछ राग-द्वेष। नहीं कहीं अभिमान तनिक, निज-सुख-इच्छाका कहीं न लेश॥ सर्व त्यागकर, मेरे सुखके लिये किया जो आत्मोत्सर्ग। नहीं कहीं भी तुलना उसकी सहज, विमलतम वर्जित-वर्ग॥ अग-जग भुक्ति-मुक्ति सबसे तुम, हृदय-देशको खाली कर। रक्खा केवल शुद्ध हृदयमें नित्य निरन्तर मुझको भर॥ यह मानस-सौन्दर्य तुम्हारा, प्रकट नित्य अंग-प्रत्यंग। मुग्ध बनाता रहता मुझको, नव-नव नित्य दिखाता रंग॥
[570]
(Rāga Paraja - original Tāla)
है कर्तव्य नहीं कुछ मुझको, नहीं कहीं कुछ पाना शेष। सत्य, तुम्हारी किंतु रूप-सुषमासे मैं खिंच रहा अशेष॥ सत्य, सभीका आत्मा हूँ मैं, करते हैं सब मुझमें प्रेम। किंतु 'अहं' से भरे, चाहते सभी 'अहं' का 'योगक्षेम'॥ अतुल गुणवती रूपवती तुम, अनुपम पावन रससे पीन। रहती अहंकारसे विरहित, नित्य मानती निजको दीन॥ तुम फिर जो वह नहीं जानती अपने शुद्ध सत्त्वका तत्त्व। मानरहित नित भूली रहती अपना उपमा-रहित महत्त्व॥ इससे पल-पल और निखरता पावन रूप तुम्हारा सत्य। पल-पल मुझे खींचता रहता, यह नव-नव आकर्षण नित्य॥ ललचाता रहता मेरा मन, करनेको इस रसका पान। शुचितम, परम सुखाकर, सुन्दर, मधुर-मधुर, अति दिव्य महान॥ इसीलिये मैं रहता करता नित्य प्रलुब्ध रसास्वादन। मेरी आत्माकी तुम आत्मा, मेरी एक साध्य-साधन॥ रहता बसा तुम्हारे मन-मन्दिरमें, सन्निधिमें दिन-रैन। इसी हेतु मैं तुम्हें छोड़कर पलक नहीं पा सकता चैन॥
English translation
Continuation of [569]
Your holy mind has become a boundless ocean of pure love. Nothing is mixed within it, and nowhere is there the slightest corruption. There is no impure possessiveness or ego, no delusion, attachment or aversion, not the least pride anywhere, nor any trace of desire for Your own happiness. Renouncing everything, You offered Yourself entirely for My happiness. Nothing anywhere can compare with that natural and stainless act, beyond every category. Emptying the realm of Your heart of enjoyment and liberation in the moving and unmoving world, You filled the pure heart only with Me, eternally and without cease. This beauty of Your mind appears eternally through every limb, continually enchants Me and reveals ever-new colors.
[570]
(Raga Paraja - original Tala)
I have no duty and nothing anywhere remains for Me to attain. Yet in truth I am drawn without limit by the splendor of Your form. I am indeed the self of everyone, and all direct their love toward Me, but filled with ego, they all seek the preservation and gain of that ego. You possess incomparable beauty and virtues and are full of peerless, pure rasa, yet remain free of ego and forever regard Yourself as lowly. Moreover, You do not know the reality of Your own pure being. Without pride, You eternally forget Your incomparable greatness. Therefore Your true and holy form becomes more radiant at every moment, and this ever-new attraction draws Me moment by moment. My mind continually yearns to drink this rasa, supremely pure, joy-giving, beautiful, sweet beyond sweetness, divine and great. Therefore I remain forever enticed to taste this rasa. You are the self of My self, My one goal and means. Day and night I dwell within the temple of Your mind, in Your presence. Therefore I cannot find peace for even a blink apart from You.
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Continuation of [570]
विवश, प्रेमवश हूँ मैं, तुमपर नहीं कहीं कुछ भी एहसान। सहन नहीं कर सकता मैं हूँ, कैसा कभी क्षणिक व्यवधान॥
[571]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tīna Tāla)
एक तुम्हारे सिवा न राधे! अन्य किसीकी चाह। बिगड़े-सुधरे, उजड़े-बने न कुछ मुझको परवाह॥ रहो पास तुम सदा, रहूँ मैं सदा तुम्हारे पास। समझो तुम चाहे निज प्रियतम या समझो निज दास॥ मिले रहें हम, सब स्थितियोंमें बना रहे संयोग। देह कहीं भी रहे, न हो पर अपना कभी वियोग॥ इतने दूर द्वारका-ब्रज, पर रहते हम नित संग। कभी नहीं हटते, न बदलता पक्का प्यारा रंग॥
[572]
(Rāga Kāliṅgaṛā - Tāla Kaharavā)
नहीं जानता मैं भगवत्ता, नहीं मुझे प्रभुताका ध्यान। मेरे तो, बस, एकमात्र हो तुम ही मन-मति जीवन-प्रान॥ रहता सदा तुम्हारे पावन प्रेम-सुधा-रस-निधिमें मग्न। इसी हेतु रहता मैं तुमसे हूँ प्रियतमे! सदा संलग्न॥ सुखी देखता हूँ जब तुमको, मिलता मुझको मोद-महान। इसी स्वार्थ-रक्षामें रहता, नहीं तनिक तुमपर एहसान॥ स्थान तुम्हारे सदा सुरक्षित, सदा तुम्हारा ही अधिकार। एकमात्र तुम ही हो स्वामिनि, तुम ही उनकी हो आधार॥ तुमने दिव्य मनोहर अपना देकर प्रेम-सुधा-रस-दान। ऋणी बनाया मुझे सदाके लिये सहज ही, हे रसखान!
English translation
Continuation of [570]
I am helpless and ruled by love; I confer no favor upon You. I cannot endure any momentary obstruction of any kind.
[571]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tina Tala)
Radhe, apart from You alone I desire no one else. Whether things improve or worsen, are ruined or restored, I do not care. Remain forever near Me, and let Me remain forever near You. Regard Me as Your beloved if You wish, or regard Me as Your servant. May We remain united in every condition and Our union endure. Wherever the bodies may be, let Us never be separated. Although Dvaraka and Vraja are so far apart, We remain eternally together. We never move away and the firm, beloved color of love never changes.
[572]
(Raga Kalingara - Tala Kaharava)
I know nothing of divinity and retain no awareness of sovereignty. For Me You alone are mind, understanding, life and breath. I remain forever immersed in the treasury of the nectar-rasa of Your holy love. For this reason, most beloved, I remain eternally joined to You. When I see You happy, I receive immense delight. I act only to protect this self-interest and bestow not the slightest favor upon You. Your place is forever secure, and the right over it belongs always to You. You alone are its sovereign and sole foundation. By giving the divine, enchanting gift of the nectar-rasa of Your love, O treasury of rasa, You naturally made Me indebted forever.
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[573]
(Rāga Lāvanī - Tīna Tāla)
कभी न होता, कभी न होगा मेरा-तेरा सुखद बिछोह। तो भी नित मिलनेच्छा बढ़ती रहती, यह कैसा प्रिय मोह॥ नित्य मिलन-अनुभूति साथ ही, तदपि दीखता कभी वियोग। नित्य मिलनमें अमिलन दिखता, अमिलनमें दिखता संयोग॥ रहती लगी प्रतीक्षा मधुर स्मृतियुत, बढ़ता रहता वेग। बढ़ती असहिष्णुता उत्तरोत्तर, बढ़ता मनका संवेग॥ मिलन-विरहके इसी परम सुखमें रहता मन सदा विभोर। अविरत चलता रहता यह नित शुचि प्रवाह अनन्तकी ओर॥
[574]
(Rāga Bhairava - Tāla Tritāla)
जिससे मुझ 'आनन्द-रूप' को मिलता है अति परमानन्द। सदा-खिला जिससे खिल उठता है, वह मधुर कौन-सा छन्द? जिससे नित्य-तृप्त मुझमें जग उठती सहज अतृप्ति अपार। मचला नित रहता मन मेरा जिसके लिये अमन अविकार॥ मैं रस-रूप स्वयं जिसके रस-आस्वादनको बना अधीर। रहते नित्य देखते मेरे नेत्र अतृप्त बहाते नीर॥ राधे! एक तुम्हीं हो मेरी वही मधुरतम मञ्जुल मूर्ति। हो सकती न कदापि किसीसे रंचक मात्र तुम्हारी पूर्ति॥ नहीं बजारू सौदा हो तुम, नहीं लेन-देन व्यापार। शुद्ध प्रेमका मधुर उछलता हो अनन्त रस-पारावार॥
[575]
(Rāga Paraja - original Tāla)
प्रिये! तुम्हारी मधुर मनोहर स्मृतिका होता नहीं विराम। सदा तुम्हारी मूर्ति-माधुरी रहती मुझसे मिली ललाम॥ मुझे बनानेको अपना, अति तुमने किया अनोखा त्याग। जाग्रत्-स्वप्न-सुषुप्ति-तुरीयमें रक्खा मुझमें ही अनुराग॥
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[573]
(Raga Lavani - Tina Tala)
The delightful separation of Yours and Mine has never occurred and never will, yet the desire to meet continually increases. Beloved, what enchantment is this? The experience of eternal meeting remains present, yet sometimes separation appears. Nonmeeting appears within eternal meeting, and union appears within nonmeeting. Sweet waiting joined with remembrance remains, and its force continually increases. Impatience grows more and more, and the mind's momentum intensifies. The heart remains forever absorbed in this supreme happiness of meeting and separation. This pure current flows ceaselessly and eternally toward infinity.
[574]
(Raga Bhairava - Tala Tritala)
What sweet meter gives supreme bliss to Me, the form of bliss? What makes the eternally blossomed One blossom anew? What naturally awakens boundless dissatisfaction within Me, eternally fulfilled? For what does My changeless, desireless mind remain forever restless? I am rasa embodied, yet become impatient to taste its rasa. My unsatisfied eyes behold it forever and stream with tears. Radhe, You alone are that sweetest, lovely form of Mine. No one else could fulfill even the smallest part of You. You are not merchandise in a marketplace and no transaction of exchange. You are the sweet, surging, infinite ocean of pure love-rasa.
[575]
(Raga Paraja - original Tala)
Beloved, Your sweet and enchanting remembrance never pauses. The exquisite sweetness of Your form remains forever united with Me. To make Me Your own, You performed an extraordinary renunciation. In waking, dream, deep sleep and the fourth state, You kept Your love fixed only upon Me.
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नहीं लिया देनेपर भी कुछ जगका सुख-वैभव-सौभाग्य। दिव्य लोक, कैवल्य मुक्तिमें भी रक्खा अनुपम वैराग्य॥ फिर, उस शुचि वैराग्य विलक्षणमें भी नहीं रखा कुछ राग। उसकी भी परवाह न की, करके मुझमें विशुद्ध मधु-राग॥ नहीं तुम्हारे मनमें भोगासक्ति, नहीं वैराग्यासक्ति। भोग-त्याग कर त्याग सभी, की मुझमें ही अनन्य अनुरक्ति॥ बना तुम्हारा शुचि सेवक मैं, बना ऋणी रहता मैं सत्य। रहती बसी प्रियतमे! तुम मेरे बाह्याभ्यन्तरमें नित्य॥ रसमय मैं अति सरस तुम्हारा निर्मल रस चखनेके हेतु। रहता नित्य प्रलुब्ध छोड़ मर्यादा, तोड़ सभी श्रुति-सेतु॥ प्रिये! तुम्हारे लिये सहज बन रहता मैं कामी, निष्काम। सहज तुम्हारे रसका लोभी - मैं रस-रत रहता अभिराम॥ भोग मोक्षकी शुद्ध कामनाका भी जिसमें रहा न शेष। वही मधुर रस निर्मल मुझको आकर्षित करता सविशेष॥ तुम अति, और तुम्हारी व्यूह-स्वरूपा गोपीगण भी धन्य। जिनमें भरा समुद्र इसी रसका लहराता नित्य अनन्य॥
[576]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tāla Kaharavā)
अन्तरकी रस-धाराकी हो मेरी तुम्हीं मूर्ति प्रत्यक्ष। स्मृतिकी क्या चर्चा, जब हो तुम जीवन-रस, जीवनका लक्ष्य? जहाँ वचन हैं पहुँच न पाते, जहाँ न खिंच पाता है चित्र। मुझमें वही स्थान हो तुम ही, नित अनुभवकी वस्तु विचित्र॥ कैसे कोई कहे किसीसे, इस स्थितिकी कैसी क्या बात। रसलीला-सागर मधुमयमें, होता दिव्य रास दिन-रात॥ अपने अंदर तुम्हीं देख लो, कहीं न कभी अन्य अस्तित्व। यही हमारे दिव्य नित्य-जीवनकी लीलाका है चित्र॥
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Continuation of [575]
Even when offered, You accepted none of the world's happiness, splendor or good fortune. You maintained incomparable detachment even toward divine realms and absolute liberation. Then within that extraordinary pure detachment You retained no attachment even to detachment. You disregarded it too and placed pure, honeyed love solely in Me. Within Your mind there is neither attachment to enjoyment nor attachment to renunciation. Renouncing enjoyment and then renouncing all renunciation, You placed exclusive love in Me alone. I have become Your pure servant and truly remain Your debtor. Most beloved, You dwell eternally within and without Me. Though made of rasa, I remain deeply enticed to taste Your supremely flavorful, stainless rasa, abandoning propriety and breaking every boundary of revealed scripture. Beloved, for You I naturally remain both desirous and desireless, naturally greedy for Your rasa and delightfully absorbed in it. That stainless sweet rasa, in which even the pure desire for enjoyment or liberation leaves no remainder, draws Me with special force. Supremely blessed are You and the gopis who are expansions of Your form, within whom an ocean filled with this very rasa eternally surges in exclusive love.
[576]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharava)
You alone are the visible embodiment of the current of rasa within Me. Why speak of remembrance when You are the rasa of life and life's goal? Where words cannot reach and no picture can be drawn, You are that very place within Me, the wondrous object of eternal experience. How could anyone tell another what this state is like? Within the honeyed ocean of rasa-lila, divine rasa dance occurs day and night. Look within Yourself: nowhere and never does another existence appear. This is the picture of the lila of Our divine eternal life.
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[577]
(Rāga Śivarañjanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
एक तुम्हींमें मन अटका है, एक तुम्हारी ही है याद। ललचाता रहता पानेको नव-नव नित्य मधुर-रस-स्वाद॥ प्राण-इन्द्रियाँ बुद्धि-चित्त - सब तुममें ही संतत संलग्न। अतल अथाह प्रेम-रस-सागरमें ही हूँ मैं नित्य निमग्न॥ मिलती परम प्रेरणा तुमसे, मिलता अमित शक्तिका दान। बना हुआ हूँ जिसको पाकर मैं नित अतुलित शक्ति-निधान॥ जीवन-मूल तुम्हीं हो, केवल तुम्हें देखता हूँ नित पास। मधुर मनोहर तुममें ही, बस, रहता मेरा नित्य निवास॥
[578]
(Rāga Vāgeśrī - Tīna Tāla)
प्रिये! प्राण-प्रतिमे! मैं कबसे आया बैठा तेरे पास। कबसे तुझे निहार रहा हूँ, देख रहा शुचि प्रेमोच्छ्वास॥ धन्य पवित्र प्रेम यह तेरा, हूँ मैं धन्य, प्रेमका पात्र। नित्यानन्द-विधायिनि मेरी, तू ही एक ह्लादिनी मात्र॥
[579]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
प्रिये! तुम्हारी वाणी सुननेको जी हरदम ललचाता। तुम्हें बोलनेको उकसाने, सुनी अनसुनी कर जाता॥ जब मैं नहीं बोलता कुछ, तब तुम उत्तेजित हो जाती। प्रणय-कोपमें हरदम मुझको युक्त-अयुक्त सुना जाती॥ तब मुझको होता प्रमोद अति, भर उठता मनमें उल्लास। विनय-विनम्र मनाने लगता, करने लगता हास-विलास॥ तब तुम प्रेम-सुधा-रस-पूरित अतिशय मधुर सुनाती बैन। जिन्हें न सुन पाता पलभर तो हो उठता बिल्कुल बेचैन॥
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[577]
(Raga Sivaranjani - Tala Kaharava)
My mind is caught in You alone, and remembers only You. It continually longs to receive ever-new tastes of sweet rasa. Life, senses, understanding and consciousness are all continually joined only to You. I remain eternally submerged in the bottomless, fathomless ocean of love-rasa. From You I receive the highest inspiration and the gift of immeasurable power. Receiving it, I have become an eternally incomparable treasury of strength. You alone are the root of life; I behold only You eternally near. My eternal dwelling remains solely within sweet and enchanting You.
[578]
(Raga Vagesri - Tina Tala)
Beloved, image of My life, how long have I sat here beside You? How long have I gazed at You, beholding the pure sighs of love? Blessed is this holy love of Yours, and blessed am I as its recipient. You alone are My Hladini, the sole bestower of eternal bliss.
[579]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
Beloved, My heart always longs to hear Your voice. To provoke You into speaking, I pretend not to hear. When I say nothing, You become excited and in loving anger continually tell Me what is fitting and unfitting. Then I feel immense delight and My heart fills with joy. Humbly and submissively I begin to conciliate You and engage in laughing play. Then You speak exceedingly sweet words filled with the nectar-rasa of love. If I cannot hear them even for a moment, I become completely restless.
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[580]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
पल भर नहीं छोड़ते बनता मुझसे प्रिये! तुम्हारा संग। देख-देख नव-नव ललचाता मैं सागर-रस-सुधा-तरंग॥ नित्य चाहता मन मेरा करना अविरत अवगाहन-पान। तनिक सह नहीं सकता मैं तुमसे पलभरका भी व्यवधान॥ भरता नहीं कभी मन मेरा, बढ़ती ही रहती नित चाह। नहीं देखता द्वन्द्व एक भी, करता नहीं कभी परवाह॥ तुमसे घुला-मिला रहता मैं हर हालतमें हूँ दिन-रैन। अमिलनका कल्पना-लेश भी कर देता मुझको बेचैन॥ रहो कहीं तुम, कभी किसी भी स्थितिमें, कैसे भी प्यारी। सदा रहूँगा मिला साथ मैं, हो न सकोगी तुम न्यारी॥
[581]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tāla Kaharavā)
तेरे उरकी शुचि सुन्दरता, पावन वह माधुर्य महान। तेरा शोभा-शील-भरा वह सरल हृदय सद्गुणकी खान॥ तेरी अनुपम वह अनन्यता, तेरा वह पवित्रतम त्याग। तेरा वह सम्पूर्ण समर्पण, आत्मनिवेदन, शुचितम राग॥ तेरा वह संकोच सुधामय, तेरा वह आदर्श सु-भाव। तेरी अमर्याद मर्यादा, गोपनीय उत्सुकता, चाव॥ सभी पवित्र, सभी सुषमामय, सहज दिव्य आचार-विचार। उज्ज्वल, त्यागपूर्ण, प्रेमामृत-पूरित, परमानन्दाधार॥ कभी विस्मरण हो न पा रहा, बनी विलक्षण स्मरणासक्ति। तेरे पद-कमलोंमें मेरी बढ़ती रहे सदा अनुरक्ति॥
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[580]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
Beloved, I cannot leave Your company even for a moment. Seeing ever-new waves of nectar-rasa within the ocean, I continually long for more. My mind eternally wishes to immerse itself and drink without cease. I cannot bear even the slightest interruption from You for an instant. My heart is never filled; its desire continually increases. I see not a single duality and never care about any circumstance. Day and night, in every condition, I remain blended with You. Even the slightest conception of nonmeeting makes Me restless. Beloved, wherever You may be and in whatever condition, I shall remain forever united beside You; You can never become separate.
[581]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharava)
The pure beauty of Your heart and its great holy sweetness, Your simple heart filled with beauty and noble character, a treasury of virtues, Your incomparable exclusivity, Your supremely pure renunciation, Your complete surrender, self-offering and purest love, Your nectar-filled reserve, Your ideal noble feeling, Your boundless propriety, secret eagerness and longing, all are pure and filled with beauty, naturally divine in conduct and thought, radiant, renunciation-filled, overflowing with love's nectar and the foundation of supreme bliss. They can never be forgotten; an extraordinary attachment to remembrance has arisen. May My attachment to Your lotus feet forever continue to increase.
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[582]
(Rāga Kāliṅgaṛā - Tāla Kaharavā)
देख छबीली छटा, देख छरहरा बदन छाया आनन्द। छकी-लुभाई लगी देखने अपलक, अति अतृप्त, अद्वन्द्व॥ उमड़ा उर आनन्द-सुधानिधि, बही नेत्र शीतल रस-धार। देख अतुल छवि, माधव मृदु हँस बोले अमृत-वचन सुख-सार॥ 'प्रिये! तुम्हारा तन-मनका यह दिव्य अतुल लीला-विस्तार। सहज निरीहरूप मुझमें भी करता इच्छाका संचार॥ परमानन्दरूप मैं पाता इसे देख अतिशय आनन्द। इसीलिये मैं छिप-छिपकर अविरत देखा करता स्वच्छन्द॥ परमसिद्ध योगीन्द्र, ब्रह्मवेत्ता मुनीन्द्र, शुचितम सब संत। छू सकते न तुम्हारी छाया, पा सकते न भावका अन्त॥ ललचाते नित रहते, कहते धन्य, धन्य गोपी-जन-भाव। चरण-धूलि-कण सदा चाहते, सेवाका अति रखते चाव॥ इसीलिये वे पशु-पक्षी-द्रुम बन व्रजमें लेते अवतार। पद-रज-कण ले गोपीजनका होते धन्य सिरोंपर धार॥
[583]
(Rāga Bhīmapalāsī - Tāla Kaharavā)
कैसे तुम्हें दिखाऊँ, हे वृषभानुलली! मेरा मन खोल। कैसे तुम्हें बताऊँ मनके भावोंका स्वरूप अनबोल॥ तुम्हें देखता जब वियोगपीड़ित, मन व्यथित कभी क्षण एक। दारुण पीड़ार्णव उरमें अति पड़ता उमड़, छोड़ सब टेक॥ कितनी व्यथा भयानक, कितनी मर्मघातिनी वह पीड़ा। नहीं बता सकता, बतलाना चाहूँ भी यदि तज व्रीड़ा॥ किंतु इसीके साथ अनोखा मिलन सदा होता रहता। उससे एक अजस्र विलक्षण मधुमय रस-सोता बहता॥ अति गम्भीर अमल उस सुधा-स्रोतमें कर अवगाहन-पान। सुख अनुपम अनवद्य प्राप्तकर निरवधि शीतल होते प्राण॥
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[582]
(Raga Kalingara - Tala Kaharava)
Seeing Her charming radiance and slender form, bliss spread everywhere. Intoxicated and captivated, He gazed without blinking, utterly unsatisfied and beyond duality. An ocean of blissful nectar surged within His heart, and cooling streams of rasa flowed from His eyes. Beholding that incomparable beauty, Madhava smiled gently and spoke nectarous words, the essence of happiness: "Beloved, this divine and incomparable unfolding of lila through Your body and mind awakens desire even within Me, whose nature is naturally desireless. Though I am supreme bliss embodied, beholding it gives Me immense delight. Therefore I continually hide and freely gaze upon You. Supremely perfected masters of yoga, sages who know Brahman and all the purest saints cannot touch even Your shadow or discover the limit of Your feeling. They continually yearn and proclaim, 'Blessed, blessed are the feelings of the gopis.' They eternally seek particles of dust from their feet and intensely desire service. Therefore they incarnate in Vraja as animals, birds and trees. Receiving particles of the gopis' foot-dust upon their heads, they become blessed."
[583]
(Raga Bhimapalasi - Tala Kaharava)
Daughter of Vrsabhanu, how can I open My heart and show it to You? How can I describe the unspoken nature of its feelings? When I see You tormented by separation and Your mind anguished even for a moment, a terrible ocean of pain surges within My heart, abandoning every restraint. How dreadful is that anguish and how deeply that pain pierces the core! I cannot describe it, even if I wished to cast aside reserve and speak. Yet together with it, extraordinary meeting continually takes place, and from that union an unbroken, wondrous, honeyed spring of rasa flows. Immersing Myself and drinking from that profoundly deep, stainless stream of nectar, My life receives incomparable, faultless happiness and becomes endlessly cool.
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Continuation of [583]
अनुभव होता प्रिये! तुम्हारा रहता नित अभिन्न संयोग। होता नहीं तुम्हारा मुझसे राधे! पलभर कभी वियोग॥ सदा मिले रहते हम दोनों सूर्य-सूर्यकी रश्मि समान। विलग नहीं हो सकते तुम-हम दोनों भगवत्ता-भगवान॥ इतनेपर भी होता रहता सदा मिलन-बिछुड़नका भान। ललित लहरि-लीलोत्सव प्रेम-सुधा-सरिता यह दिव्य महान॥ अथवा प्रेम-तटिनिके ये दो सुन्दरतम तट अति पावन। विप्रलम्भ, प्रिय-मिलन विमल रसवर्द्धक प्रियजन-मन-भावन॥ विरह-तप्त हो जब तुम दिखलाया करती हो मुझपर रोष। मुझे दिखायी देने लगते तब मुझमें अति अगणित दोष॥ सोचा करता तब मैं, हे प्राणेश्वरि! तुम कर सोच-विचार। त्याग क्यों नहीं कर देती हो, क्यों सहती यों अत्याचार? कर जाता प्रवेश तब शुचितम उर-मन्दिरमें मैं तत्काल। देख वहाँका दृश्य दुःख सब मिटते, होता तुरत निहाल॥ सुन्दर विकसित सुमनावलि सुरभितसे सज्जित नवल निकुंज। रस-साधन समस्त आपूरित मधुर मनोहर सुषमा-पुंज॥ बाह्य रोषको देखा मैंने वहाँ मधुर-रस प्रेमाधार। दोष-कल्पना-शून्य नित्य निरवधि गुण-दर्शन सहज अपार॥ बिछी कुसुम-कोमल सुख-शय्या, प्रिये कर रही आलिंगन। परम सुखास्वादन-रत, अति व्यवधान-रहित सुस्मित तन-मन॥ नहीं लेशभर क्लेश-कल्पना, नहीं कदापि वियोग-विछोह। नहीं जगतकी-भोगोंकी स्मृति, नहीं विषय-ममता-मद-मोह॥ इसी तरह बाह्याभ्यन्तरमें रहता सदा तुम्हारा संग। करते शुभ संस्पर्श परस्पर सदा-सर्वदा ही सब अंग॥ कभी तुम्हारे सिवा किसीको यदि देता मनमें कुछ स्थान। विमल तुम्हारे रसका केवल अधिकाधिक करनेको पान॥ सभी जानती हो तुम मेरे मनकी छोटी-मोटी बात। क्योंकि स्वामिनी बन तुम उसमें करती हो निवास दिन-रात॥
English translation
Continuation of [583]
Beloved, I experience that Our nondifferent union remains eternal. Radhe, You are never separated from Me even for a moment. We two remain forever united like the sun and its rays. You and I, divinity and Bhagavan, can never be divided. Even so, awareness of meeting and separation continually arises. This is the great divine river of love's nectar, its graceful waves a festival of lila. Or these are the two beautiful and holy banks of love's river: separation and pure meeting with the Beloved, increasing rasa and enchanting loving hearts. When burned by separation You display anger toward Me, I begin to see countless faults within Myself. Then I wonder, "Sovereign of My life, after careful thought, why do You not abandon Me? Why do You endure such mistreatment?" At once I enter the supremely pure temple of Your heart. Seeing the scene within, every sorrow vanishes and I am immediately blessed. A new grove is adorned with beautiful blooming rows of fragrant flowers, a sweet and enchanting mass of beauty, filled with every instrument of rasa. There I see that the outward anger rests upon sweet rasa and love, without any conception of faults, eternally and naturally beholding endless virtues. A soft bed of flowers is spread, and You embrace Me there, Beloved. Body and mind smile without obstruction, absorbed in tasting supreme joy. There is not the slightest conception of pain, never any separation or severance, no memory of the world or its enjoyments, no possessiveness, pride or delusion toward objects. Thus within and without, Your company remains forever. All Our limbs continually touch one another auspiciously. If I ever give anyone besides You some place within My mind, it is only to drink more and more of Your stainless rasa. You know every small and great matter within My heart, because as its sovereign You dwell there day and night.
Original
Hindi
Continuation of [583]
करो प्रशंसा-निन्दा या दुत्कारो, करो परम सत्कार। नित नव-रस-आस्वादन, नित्य नवीन मधुर लीला-विस्तार॥
[584]
(Rāga Jaṅgalā - Tāla Kaharavā)
जब तुम कहती हो - 'हे छलिया, जादूगर, निष्ठुर, शठराज'! कहती - 'हृदय छीनकर अब यों नहीं रुलाते आती लाज॥ समझ न सकी तुम्हें मैं, भूली देख मधुरतम मोहन वेश। वज्र-कठोर हृदय है, जिसमें नहीं तनिक करुणाका लेश॥ व्याकुल-विह्वल होती मैं अति, पाती नहीं पलकभर चैन। नित रहते सावन-भादों-से सतत बरसते दुखिया नैन॥ भूले, नहीं बुलाते मुझको, आनेकी न चलाते बात। जलती रहूँ विरह-ज्वालामें मैं चाहे अविरत दिन-रात॥ होने लगी तुम्हें क्यों मेरी कितव! तनिक-सी भी अब चाह। डूबे रहते सुख-सागरमें, क्यों मेरी करते परवाह॥ करना था यदि यही तुम्हें, तो क्यों मुझसे जोड़ा था नेह। मनमें आता, कर दूँ तुमसे त्यक्त भस्म यह पापी देह'॥ सम्बोधन अति लगते मीठे, सुनता रहूँ चाहता मन। पर जब उनके साथ देखता मलिन-विषण्ण सुधांशु-वदन॥ यद्यपि करता सदा तुम्हारे ही पावन तन-मनमें वास। छोड़ नहीं जा सकता पलभर अन्य किसीके भी मैं पास॥ पर जब हृदय-सुधोदधिमें भड़का तव विरहज बड़वानल। मेरे जुड़े हृदयमें भी जल उठी तुरत विरहाग्नि प्रबल॥ सुनकर दुःखभरे फिर भीषण प्रिये! तुम्हारे ये उद्गार। मर्म-वेदना बढ़ी भयानक, उमड़ा दुःखका पारावार॥ दीर्घ कालसे सहन कर रहा मानो मैं वियोग-संताप। मानो लगा मुझे है कोई दारुण अति विछोह-अभिशाप॥ कितनी पीड़ा है अन्तरमें, कितना है भीषण उर-दाह। नहीं बता सकता कैसे भी, करनेपर भी शत-शत चाह॥
English translation
Continuation of [583]
Praise or criticize Me, reject or supremely honor Me: each brings ever-new tasting of rasa and eternally fresh expansion of sweet lila.
[584]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharava)
When You say, "O deceiver, magician, merciless king of rogues!" and say, "After stealing my heart, are You not ashamed to make me weep like this? I could not understand You and was deceived by Your sweetest enchanting dress. Your heart is hard as diamond, without the slightest trace of compassion. I become intensely restless and overwhelmed and find no peace even for a blink. My sorrowful eyes pour continually like the rains of Sravana and Bhadra. You have forgotten me and do not summon me or even speak of coming. I may burn without cease in the flame of separation day and night. Deceiver, why should even the slightest desire for me arise in You now? Immersed in an ocean of happiness, why would You care for me? If this is what You intended, why did You join me to You in love? I feel like reducing this sinful body abandoned by You to ashes." These forms of address taste exceedingly sweet, and My heart wishes to hear them forever. But together with them I see Your moon-face darkened and despondent. Although I eternally dwell only within Your holy body and mind and cannot leave for even a moment to go near anyone else, when the submarine fire born of separation flares within the nectar-ocean of Your heart, the powerful fire of separation immediately ignites within My joined heart too. Beloved, hearing these fierce outpourings filled with sorrow, pain at the core grows terrible and an ocean of grief surges. It seems I have endured the torment of separation for a very long age, as though a dreadful curse of utter severance has fallen upon Me. How much pain lies within and how fierce is the burning of the heart! I cannot describe it, even after a hundred attempts.
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Hindi
Continuation of [584]
अब तो तुम्हीं मिटाओ, प्यारी! दे दर्शन, मधु आलिंगन। बिना तुम्हारे अब तो सम्भव नहीं पलकभर यह जीवन॥ प्यारी! किंतु तुम्हारा-मेरा सम्भव नहीं कदापि वियोग। मैं तुम, तुम मैं, कभी न न्यारे - नित्य ऐक्य संतत संयोग॥
[585]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
तुम्हें क्या कहूँ, क्या न कहूँ, कुछ नहीं उपजती मनमें बात। रहता हूँ अधिकांश समय मैं पास तुम्हारे ही दिन-रात॥ दूर रहे या पास रहे तन, इसका कुछ भी है न महत्त्व। नित्य मिलनमें नित्य बना है सुखमय पूर्ण नित्य अस्तित्व॥ अनुभव जब होगा, तब तुमको भी यह दीखेगा अति सत्य। मिट जायेगी भ्रमयुत सब अमिलनकी यह धारणा असत्य॥ संशय त्याग, करो तुम मनमें दृढ़ निश्चय, दृढ़तम विश्वास। दर्शन होंगे तुम्हें सत्यके, मैं जो रहता हूँ नित पास॥ विस्मृतिकी है नहीं कल्पना, जहाँ न होता कभी वियोग। सदा सर्वदा रहता है जब मधुर मनोहर शुचि संयोग॥
[586]
(Ghazal tune - Tāla Dādarā)
मैं न तुमसे एक क्षण भी दूर हूँ। नित्य ही तुममें निरत भरपूर हूँ॥ नित्य तुम रहतीं मुझीसे हो मिली। नित्य ही रहती कलित कलि है खिली॥ चल रही है ललित लीला सर्वदा। बह रही है मधुर-रस-सरिता सदा॥ उसीमें नित डुबकियाँ हैं लग रही। नित्य आस्वादन-स्पृहा नव जग रही॥ रस-सुधा-निधि अमित है, परितृप्त है। किंतु आस्वादन सदा अवितृप्त है॥
English translation
Continuation of [584]
Beloved, dispel it now by granting Your vision and honeyed embrace. Without You, life is no longer possible even for a moment. Yet, Beloved, separation between You and Me can never occur. I am You and You are Me; We are never distinct, forever one and eternally united.
[585]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
What shall I say to You and what leave unsaid? No thought arises within the mind. Most of the time, day and night, I remain only beside You. Whether the body is distant or near has no importance. Within eternal meeting, complete and blissful eternal existence forever remains. When You experience it, You too will see that this is perfectly true. Every false conception of nonmeeting, filled with delusion, will disappear. Abandon doubt and establish firm resolve and the strongest faith within the mind. You will behold the truth: I remain eternally near. Where separation never occurs, forgetfulness cannot even be imagined, for sweet, enchanting and pure union remains forever and always.
[586]
(Ghazal tune - Tala Dadara)
I am not distant from You even for a moment. I am eternally absorbed and completely filled within You. You forever remain united only with Me. The blossoming bud remains eternally adorned and open. Beautiful lila continues forever, and the river of sweet rasa flows eternally. Within it We continually immerse Ourselves, and ever-new longing to taste it forever awakens. The treasury of nectar-rasa is immeasurable and fully satisfied, yet the act of tasting remains forever unsatisfied.
Original
Hindi
Continuation of [586]
चल रहा पर रास नित्य अबाध है। रासकी नित नयी मनमें साध है॥
[587]
(Rāga Jaṅgalā - Tāla Kaharavā)
तुमने मुझे दिया सुख नित ही, मैंने तुम्हें सताया। तुमने निर्मल प्रेम दिया, मैंने उसको ठुकराया॥ तुमने अपनी शुद्ध हँसी-सेवासे मुझे हँसाया। मैंने तुमको तुरत तिरस्कृत कर अविराम रुलाया॥ तुमने सर्व-समर्पण कर मुझको सब भाँति सजाया। मैंने तुमपर बुरी तरहसे वाग्बाण बरसाया॥ तुमने सदा सहा, अब भी सह रही छोड़ मद-माया। तुम्हें दुःख देनेमें मैं कर रहा सदा मनभाया॥ इतनेपर भी तुमने मुझको रखा सदा अपनाया। नहीं तुम्हारे चरणोंकी मैं छूने लायक छाया॥ तुम-सी तुम्हीं एक हो, मुझ-सा मैं हूँ एक अभाया। रहता सदा तुम्हारे शुचि मधु-रससे मैं सरसाया॥
(Dohā)
नहीं देखना तुम कभी मेरे अगणित दोष। स्थित निज महिमामें सदा रहना तजकर रोष॥ देना अपने प्रेमका मधुर सुधा-रस-बिंदु। बने अमृतमय हृदय यह मेरा, जो विष-सिन्धु॥ कहता क्या, मैं कह गया, देख तुम्हें अति खिन्न। प्रेम-सिन्धुकी हैं सभी ये लहरियाँ विभिन्न॥ इस रस-वारिधिमें सदा डूबी रहो अनन्त। मिटा सभी प्रतिकूलता, भय-श्रमका कर अन्त॥
English translation
Continuation of [586]
Yet the rasa dance proceeds eternally and unobstructed. Ever-new longing for rasa continually arises within the mind.
[587]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharava)
You forever gave Me happiness, while I tormented You. You gave stainless love, and I rejected it. Through the service of Your pure laughter, You made Me laugh. I immediately scorned You and made You weep without cease. Surrendering everything, You adorned Me in every way. I cruelly showered arrows of words upon You. You always endured it and still endure, abandoning pride and illusion, while I continually please My mind by giving You sorrow. Even after all this, You always kept Me as Your own. I am not worthy even to touch the shadow of Your feet. You alone are like Yourself, and I alone am shameless like Me. I remain forever flavored by Your pure, honeyed rasa.
(Doha)
Never look upon My countless faults. Abandon anger and remain forever established in Your own glory. Give Me one sweet drop of the nectar-rasa of Your love, so that this heart of Mine, now an ocean of poison, may become nectar-filled. What did I intend to say, and what have I said on seeing You deeply distressed? These are all different waves of the ocean of love. Remain forever and infinitely submerged in this ocean of rasa. Destroy every adversity and bring fear and weariness to an end.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
[588]
(Rāga Sohanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
रोजकी आदत मेरी यह छूटनी सम्भव नहीं। भूल जाओ तुम मुझे, यदि चाहती हो सुख कहीं॥ भरा दोषोंसे, तुम्हारे साथ कुछ तुलना नहीं। रूप-गुण-माधुर्यमें तुम-सी नहीं ललना कहीं॥ दिव्य प्रतिमा प्रेमकी तुम त्यागकी शुचि मूर्ति हो। इस अभावोंसे भरे जीवनकी मधुमय पूर्ति हो॥ अतुल निज गुणसे मुझे गुणवान ही तुम जानती। प्रेम-गुण-माधुर्य-पूरित हो, मुझे तुम मानती॥ गुण अमल अति, पर असलमें है तुम्हारा भ्रम महान। भूलसे तुम जानती हो मुझे नित शुचि प्रीतिमान॥ प्रेम निर्मलसे रहित, शुचि रूप सद्गुणहीन मैं। मधुरिमा मुझमें न कुछ, हूँ कलुष-पूरित दीन मैं॥ योग्यताकी दृष्टिसे मैं अनधिकारी हूँ सदा। पर न करती तुम मधुर निज प्रीतिसे वंचित कदा॥ इस तुम्हारे एक-अंगी प्रेमका मैं दास हूँ। इसीसे रहता तुम्हारे पद-युगलके पास हूँ॥ चाहता, तुम छोड़कर मुझको बनो, बस, सुखी अब। देखकर तुमको सुखी होगा मुझे सुख परम तब॥ पर सकोगी छोड़ तुम, सम्भव नहीं लगता मुझे। तुम्हीं प्राणाधार, भारी दुःख भी होगा मुझे॥
[589]
(Rāga Deśa - Tīna Tāla)
प्रियतमे! मैं नित ऋणी तिहारौ। तेरे प्रेमरसाम्बुधि के सीकर कौ मोय सहारौ॥ प्रेम-सुधा पावन अति तेरी, मो नित जीवन देत। तन-मन-इंद्रियगन की ज्वाला सब छिन-छिन हरि लेत॥
English translation
[588]
(Raga Sohani - Tala Kaharava)
This daily habit of Mine cannot possibly be abandoned. Forget Me if You wish to find happiness anywhere. I am filled with faults and bear no comparison with You. Nowhere is there a young woman like You in form, virtue and sweetness. You are the divine image of love and the pure embodiment of renunciation, the honeyed fulfillment of this life filled with deficiency. Through Your own incomparable virtue, You regard Me as virtuous. Filled with love, virtue and sweetness, You imagine Me the same. Your virtues are utterly pure, yet in truth Your delusion is immense. By mistake You regard Me as eternally pure and loving. I am devoid of stainless love, pure form and noble virtue. No sweetness exists within Me; I am lowly and filled with corruption. From the standpoint of qualification, I am eternally unworthy, yet You never deprive Me of Your sweet love. I am the servant of this one-sided love of Yours. Therefore I remain beside Your pair of feet. I want You to abandon Me now and simply become happy. Seeing You happy would then give Me supreme happiness. But I do not think You could leave Me, and because You alone sustain My life, that too would bring Me profound sorrow.
[589]
(Raga Desa - Tina Tala)
Most beloved, I am eternally indebted to You. A droplet from Your ocean of love-rasa is My sole support. Your nectar of love is supremely pure and continually gives Me life, removing moment by moment every flame within body, mind and senses.
Original
Braj Bhasha and Hindi
Continuation of [589]
हौं तेरे अति विमल प्रेम के हौं सर्वथा अयोग। तू उदार-चूड़ामणि निज दिशि देखि देय संयोग॥ तू अनन्य, हौं घर-घर डोलौं, मेरौ प्रेम अपावन। तौहू तू मेरी आराध्या, करत रहत मोहि पावन॥ तेरौ प्रेम सदा ही निर्मल, नित्य परम सुख-मूल। तू नित ही अति क्षमा-परायण, नित्य करौं मैं भूल॥ मत मेरी दिशि कबौं देखियो, नित अनुकंपा रखियौ। अपने पावन पद-कमलनि महँ मोय निरंतर लखियौ॥
[590]
(Rāga Sohanī - Tāla Dādarā)
तुम कभी मनमें तनिक भी नहीं दुःख-विषाद करना। कभी तुमसे पृथक हूँ मैं, भूल मन यह भ्रम न भरना॥ नित्य दोनों एक हैं, दो थे न, दो होने असम्भव। प्रकृतिमें होता रहे कुछ भी, कहीं भी नाश-उद्भव॥ नित्य आत्माका मिलन है, नित्य सुखमय स्पर्श-अनुभव। हृदय-अभ्यन्तर सतत चलता मिलनका मधु-महोत्सव॥ नित्य नव रस, नित्य नव अनुराग, निर्मल नित्य सुख नव। नित्य मिलन-वियोग-विरहित, नहीं पलक विछोह त्रुटि-लव॥ भावमय यह मिलन अविनाशी, अबाधित, नित्य निर्भय। मधुरतम, अति दिव्य, अमृत, पवित्र, परमानन्द-रसमय॥ पंचभौतिक देहकी इसमें न कुछ भी है महत्ता। भावकी पावन समुज्ज्वल अमल छायी नित्य सत्ता॥ प्रकृति-नियमोंका न बन्धन, देशकालातीत स्तर है। शुद्ध सच्चित्-सुधामय यह भाव-तत्त्व परात्पर है॥ परम दुर्लभ, अति सुलभ है, मिली भाव-ज्योति शुचितम। तनिक भी आने न देता पापमय संदेहका तम॥
English translation
Continuation of [589]
I am wholly unfit for Your utterly stainless love. You are the crown of generosity and, looking only toward Yourself, grant union. You are exclusive, while I wander from house to house and My love is impure. Even so, You are My worshipful beloved and continually purify Me. Your love is forever stainless and eternally the root of supreme happiness. You are always devoted to forgiveness, while I continually make mistakes. Never look in My direction; maintain only Your eternal compassion. See Me continually within Your holy lotus feet.
[590]
(Raga Sohani - Tala Dadara)
Never allow even the slightest sorrow or despondency within Your mind. Do not mistakenly fill it with the delusion that I am ever separate from You. We two are eternally one, were never two, and becoming two is impossible, whatever destruction or arising may occur anywhere in material nature. There is eternal union of the self and eternal experience of blissful touch. Within the heart, a honeyed festival of meeting proceeds without cease. There is ever-new rasa, ever-new attachment and eternally fresh stainless happiness. Union is eternal and free from separation; not even a blink or smallest instant of severance exists. This feeling-filled meeting is imperishable, unobstructed and eternally fearless, sweetest, supremely divine, nectarous, holy and made of supreme bliss-rasa. The body of five material elements has no importance within it. The holy, radiant and stainless reality of feeling forever pervades it. It is not bound by the laws of nature and exists beyond place and time. This principle of feeling, made of pure conscious nectar, transcends all. Supremely rare yet exceedingly accessible, the purest light of feeling has been received. It does not permit even the slightest darkness of sinful doubt to enter.
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[591]
(Lāvanī tune - Tāla Kaharavā)
प्राणाधिके! प्रियतमे! मुझको सतत स्मरण होता तेरा। भूल नहीं सकता मैं पल भर कभी शशांक-वदन तेरा॥ तेरे प्रेम-सुधानिधिमें नित डूबा रहता मन मेरा। मधुमय वाणी सुननेको नित चित्त लुभाता है मेरा॥ प्रेम छलकती आँखें तेरी नित मेरे सम्मुख रहतीं। सदा समीप खड़ी तू मन भर मनकी सब बातें कहती॥ आलिंगन करती, सुख देती, गल-बैयाँ देकर मिलती। चिपटी सदा हृदयसे रहती, कभी न रत्तीभर हिलती॥ कभी मधुर संगीत सुनाती, कभी हँसाती औ हँसती। कभी नयन मटकाती, भौंह चलाकर मनमें आ धँसती॥ प्रीति-विवश हो कभी मनोहर, रसमय तीव्र व्यंग कसती। रोकर कभी रुलाती, कभी फँसाती, अपने ही फँसती॥ हो अति आतुर कभी दीन, दयनीय बनी चरणों पड़ती। कभी विचित्र भंगिमा करती, कटु वाणी कहकर लड़ती॥ कभी परम संतोष दिलाकर, मनकी सभी व्यथा हरती। हो करबद्ध कभी अति करुणापूर्ण मधुर विनती करती॥ भोली-भाली निपट मनोहर सूरत मधुर कभी धरती। कभी सरल-हृदया हो, अति सीधी-सादी बातें करती॥ कभी चतुर, अति बुद्धिमती बन, तर्क-विवाद विशद करती। कभी कला-नैपुण्य दिखाती, कभी ज्ञान उत्तम भरती॥ बनती कभी भीरु अतिशय, पा आहट तनिक सहज डरती। कभी निडर हो, परम साहसी, भीषणतम भयको हरती॥ मुरली कभी चुराती, ले छिप जाती मोर-मुकुट सुन्दर। कभी भुलाती छद्मवेश धर, कर देती सब इधर-उधर॥ कभी हृदयसे हृदय सटाकर करती मधुमय रसका दान। करती, कभी कराती अति सुखदायक अधर-सुधा-रस-पान॥
English translation
[591]
(Lavani tune - Tala Kaharava)
Dearer than life, most beloved, I continually remember You. I can never forget Your moon-face even for a moment. My mind remains eternally submerged in the treasury of Your love's nectar. My heart continually longs to hear Your honeyed voice. Your eyes overflowing with love remain eternally before Me. Standing forever near, You speak every matter within Your heart to Your complete satisfaction. You embrace Me, give happiness and meet Me with Your arms around My neck. You remain forever pressed against My heart and never move even a grain's breadth. Sometimes You sing sweet music; sometimes You laugh and make Me laugh. Sometimes You roll Your eyes, move Your brows and penetrate My heart. Overcome by affection, You sometimes make delightful, rasa-filled and piercing jokes. Sometimes You weep and make Me weep; sometimes You ensnare Me and become caught in Your own snare. Sometimes intensely restless, humble and pitiable, You fall at My feet. Sometimes You adopt wondrous gestures and quarrel with harsh words. Sometimes You give supreme contentment and remove every anguish of the mind. Sometimes, hands joined, You make exceedingly compassionate and sweet entreaties. Sometimes You assume a sweet, innocent and utterly enchanting appearance. Sometimes simple-hearted, You speak very plain and guileless words. Sometimes You become clever and highly intelligent and engage in elaborate debate. Sometimes You display mastery of the arts, and sometimes fill all with the highest knowledge. Sometimes You become exceedingly timid and naturally fear the slightest sound. Sometimes fearless and supremely courageous, You dispel the most terrible fear. Sometimes You steal the flute and hide away with the lovely peacock crown. Sometimes You assume a disguise, bewilder Me and throw everything into confusion. Sometimes, pressing heart to heart, You give honeyed rasa. Sometimes You drink, and sometimes make Me drink, the supremely delightful nectar-rasa of the lips.
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Continuation of [591]
यों नित होता सरस सुधामय सुख-स्पर्श तेरा अभिराम। मनमें सदा चटपटी रहती, छटपट हिय करता अविराम॥ रहता सदा चित्त यह मेरा तेरे शुभ दर्शनमें लीन। हट सकता न कभी, ज्यों जलसे नहीं पलक हट सकता मीन॥ सदा मिले रहते सारे अंग, होता सदा ब्रह्म-संस्पर्श। मग्न प्रेम-रस, रहित शोक-भय, अनुभव करता चिन्मय हर्ष॥
[592]
(Rāga Sāraṅga - Tīna Tāla)
तोसे मिलहौं, हे राधिके! रहै कैसे एक छिन हूँ प्राण तुम बिन दीन, राधिके॥ रहै कैसे अग्नि जीवित दहन-शक्ति-विहीन, राधिके। रहै सूरज-चाँद कैसे प्रभा-आभा-हीन, राधिके॥ सत्ता-भगवत्ता बिना भगवान जीवनहीन, राधिके। ज्यों परस जहँ, स्याम-जीवन राधिका-आधीन, राधिके॥
[593]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
जबसे छूटा था राधे! वह मधुर तुम्हारा प्रिय संयोग। तबसे व्याप रही थी दारुण व्यथा, बढ़ रहा मानस-रोग॥ नहीं चैन पड़ता पलभर था, नहीं सुहाता था कुछ और। रहना नहीं चाहता था मन लवभर कभी दूसरी ठौर॥ प्रिये! तुम्हारी प्यारी स्मृतिसे भरा चित्त मेरा भरपूर। रोम-रोम खिल उठा अचानक, व्यथा हो गयी सारी दूर॥ मधुर तुम्हारा प्यारा विग्रह तुरत सटा आकर सब-अंग। तिलभर पृथक न रहा, बढ़ चला परम नवीन अतुल रस-रंग॥ कभी बड़ी व्याकुलता होती, फिर जब होता अमिलन-भान। तुरत प्रकट होकर स्मृतिमें तुम करतीं सुखद स्पर्शका दान॥ तबसे कभी वियोग-मिलन होता, फिर कभी मिलन-सम्भोग। रहती प्रिय अनुभूति बाह्य, अन्तर रहता नित रस-संयोग॥
English translation
Continuation of [591]
Thus the delightful touch of Your flavorful, nectar-filled happiness occurs eternally. A constant impatience remains within the mind, and the heart continually trembles with longing. My consciousness stays forever absorbed in Your auspicious vision. It can never turn away, just as a fish cannot turn its gaze from water even for a blink. All Our limbs remain forever united, and there is eternal contact with Brahman. Submerged in love-rasa, free of grief and fear, I experience conscious joy.
[592]
(Raga Saranga - Tina Tala)
Let Me meet You, O Radhike! How can this lowly life remain for even a moment without You, Radhike? How can fire live without the power to burn, Radhike? How can sun and moon remain without radiance and light, Radhike? Without being and divinity, Bhagavan is lifeless, Radhike. Just as touch remains there, Syama's life depends upon Radhika, O Radhike.
[593]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
Radhe, from the moment that sweet and beloved union with You was broken, terrible anguish pervaded Me and the illness of the mind increased. I found no peace even for an instant, and nothing else gave pleasure. The mind would not remain anywhere else even for the smallest moment. Beloved, My consciousness became completely filled with dear remembrance of You. Every hair suddenly blossomed and all anguish went away. Your sweet, beloved form immediately came and pressed against every limb. Not a grain's breadth remained separate, and supremely new, incomparable colors of rasa increased. Sometimes great restlessness arose when awareness of nonmeeting returned. At once You appeared within memory and bestowed Your delightful touch. Since then there is sometimes meeting within separation and sometimes the enjoyment of union. The beloved experience remains outwardly present, while within there is eternal union of rasa.
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Continuation of [593]
इस प्रकार तुम राधे! मुझसे होती दूर न पलक कभी। रहती सदा परिस्थिति अब मेरी रस-आनन्दमयी सभी॥
[594]
(Rāga Jaṅgalā - Tāla Kaharavā)
भूल गया मैं अन्य सभी कुछ, केवल एक तुम्हारी याद। राधे! एक तुम्हीं हो मेरा परमानन्द बिना मर्याद॥ एक तुम्हारी प्यारी स्मृतिमें डूबा रहता है नित चित्त। तुम ही प्राण-प्राण हो मेरी, लोभनीय अति तुम ही वित्त॥ अनुभव करता मैं प्रतिपल ही - कभी नहीं तुम रहती दूर। सदा मिली ही रहती हो तुम अणु-अणु कण-कणमें भरपूर॥ कहीं रहूँ मैं, कभी नहीं हो पाता तुमसे तनिक वियोग। तना हुआ है, बना रहेगा, निर्मल नित्य सरस संयोग॥
[595]
(Rāga Jaṅgalā - Tāla Kaharavā)
राधा! तेरे दर्शनको मैं उत्सुक रहता, नित्य अधीर। कोई नहीं जान सकता यह मेरे अन्तस्तलकी पीर॥ पीड़ा वह अति व्यथित बनाती, व्याकुल करती अति स्वच्छन्द। सीमासे अतीत उस स्मृतिसे होता उदय अमित आनन्द॥ वह आनन्द नित्य पल-पल नव-पीड़ाका उद्भव करता। पीड़ासे फिर स्मृति बढ़ती, फिर नवानन्द मनमें भरता॥ यों ही अमिलन-दुख स्मृति-सुखका सागर रहता लहराता। उसमें सहज प्रिये! मैं रहता सतत डूबता-उतराता॥ बीच-बीचमें मिलनाकांक्षा बढ़कर उग्र रूप धरती। तब हो उदित रूप-माधुरी मधु मनके सारे दुख हरती॥
English translation
Continuation of [593]
In this way, Radhe, You are never distant from Me even for a blink. Every condition of Mine now remains forever filled with rasa and bliss.
[594]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharava)
I have forgotten everything else; only Your remembrance remains. Radhe, You alone are My boundless supreme bliss. My consciousness forever remains submerged in Your dear remembrance alone. You are the life of My life, and You alone are My supremely desirable treasure. At every moment I experience that You are never far away. You remain forever united, filling every atom and particle. Wherever I may be, not the slightest separation from You can occur. Stretched everywhere, this stainless, eternal and flavorful union remains forever.
[595]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharava)
Radha, I remain eternally impatient and eager to behold You. No one can know this pain at the deepest level of My heart. That pain makes Me intensely anguished and freely restless, while remembrance beyond all limit gives rise to immeasurable bliss. At every moment that bliss creates ever-new pain. Pain then increases remembrance, which again fills the mind with new bliss. Thus an ocean of the sorrow of nonmeeting and happiness of remembrance forever surges. Beloved, I naturally remain continually sinking and rising within it. From time to time the desire to meet increases and assumes a fierce form. Then the honey of the sweetness of Your form arises and removes every sorrow of the mind.
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[596]
(Rāga Bhairavī - Tāla Kaharavā)
प्रिये! तुम्हारी विरह-वेदना मुझे सताती है भारी। पल-पलमें पीड़ा है बढ़ती, सुध-बुध मिट जाती सारी॥ सोते-जगते सभी समय है मीठी याद बनी रहती। बुद्धि-चित्त सब इन्द्रियगण हैं तुमसे सदा सनी रहतीं॥ तो भी तुम्हें देखनेको नित व्याकुल रहता मेरा मन। आँखें अकुलाती रहतीं, नित परसनको ललचाता तन॥ अधरामृत दे मधुर प्रियतमे! मुझको सुखी करोगी कब? आठों याम तरसते हैं ये प्राण, न कल पड़ती पल अब॥ मोर-मुकुट, मुरली, माखन, मधुसे अब मेरा मन भगता। बिना तुम्हारे नन्द-भवनका सुख सारा खारा लगता॥ वंशीवट, कालिन्दीका तट, शरद-रैन सब लगते घोर। मचला मन है, कहीं न टिकता, पाता नहीं कहीं भी ठौर॥ मान त्यागकर मुझे हृदयसे कब चिपटाओगी अब तुम? चरण-धूलि अपनी पावन दे, कब सुख सरसाओगी तुम॥ कृपा करो इस तुच्छ दासपर अब प्यारी राधारानी। सुखी करो अब मुझे सुना निज अमृत-मधुर रसयुत बानी॥
[597]
(Dohā)
विधु-वदनी श्रीराधिके! मेरी जीवन-मूल। तेरे विषम वियोगकी चुभी हृदयमें शूल॥ असहनीय अति वेदना, छिपा न रक्खी जाय! कहना भी सम्भव नहीं, हुआ निपट असहाय॥ पूर्वपुण्य-परिपाकसे पाऊँ निभृत अरण्य। पथिक-रहित पथ, जो कभी दीर्घकाल तक शून्य॥ तो विछोहके शोककी बहे अश्रु-जल-धार। मिश्रित घर्घर शब्द, सब प्लावित हो संसार॥
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[596]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharava)
Beloved, the pain of separation from You torments Me severely. The anguish increases moment by moment until all ordinary awareness disappears. In sleep and waking, Your sweet remembrance remains at every time. Understanding, consciousness and every sense remain forever saturated with You. Even so, My mind is continually restless to behold You. My eyes remain agitated, and the body continually longs to touch You. Sweetest beloved, when will You make Me happy by giving the nectar of Your lips? This life thirsts through all eight watches, and not a moment's peace remains. My mind now flees from peacock crown, flute, butter and honey. Without You, every happiness in Nanda's house tastes bitter. Vamsivata, the bank of the Kalindi and the autumn night all appear dreadful. The restless mind stays nowhere and finds no place at all. When will You abandon pride and press Me against Your heart? When will You grant the holy dust of Your feet and fill happiness with rasa? Dear Queen Radha, show mercy now to this insignificant servant. Make Me happy by letting Me hear Your nectar-sweet words filled with rasa.
[597]
(Doha)
Moon-faced Sri Radhike, root of My life, the thorn of severe separation from You has pierced My heart. The pain is utterly unbearable and cannot be concealed, yet speech too is impossible; I have become completely helpless. If through the ripening of former merit I might find a secluded forest and a travelerless path that remains empty for a long age, then the stream of tears born from the grief of separation could flow, mixed with roaring sobs, until the entire world were flooded.
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[598]
(Tāla Ghanāśrī - Tīna Tāla)
राधिके! तुम सलिल, हौं मीन। रहैं कैसे एक छिन हूँ प्रान तुम बिन दीन॥ रहें कैसे अग्नि जीवित दहन-शक्ति-विहीन। रहैं सूरज-चाँद कैसे प्रभा-आभा-छीन॥ शक्ति-भगवत्ता बिना भगवान जीवन-हीन। त्यों सरस यह स्याम-जीवन राधिका-अधीन॥
[599]
(Tune of Lāvanī - Tāla Kaharavā)
तुम्हारी स्मृति नित बन साकार। चित्तपर रहती मधुर सवार॥ दुःख-सुख देती उभय अपार। अनिर्वचनीय सुरस-आगार॥ तुम्हारा मधुर समर्पण-भाव। तुम्हारा संयम शील-स्वभाव॥ दूसरेपनका निपट अभाव। सदा उपजाता नव-नव चाव॥ बना देता अविलम्ब विदेह। भरा नेत्रोंमें पावन स्नेह॥ सदा बरसाता सुखका मेह। सरस नित ही रखता मन-देह॥
[600]
(Rāga Bhairava - Tāla Kaharavā)
रहता पुरी द्वारिकामें मैं, करता हूँ सबका शासन। सभी सदा अनुगत रह मेरा सतत मानते अनुशासन॥ विविध प्रचुर ऐश्वर्योंसे युत सुन्दर भव्य राज-प्रासाद। रमणी-रत्न सहस्रोंसे जगमग, उपजाते अति आह्लाद॥ तन-मनसे सेवा-रत विनय-विभूषित, गलित-गर्व सारी। एक-एकसे बढ़कर शुभ गुण-रूपवती निर्मल नारी॥ राज-काज करता सब अनलस, शत्रु-मित्रसे सदा सचेत। राष्ट्र-नीतिकी रक्षा करता, सदा सतर्क, धर्म-समवेत॥ ये सब, और अनेकों अति दायित्वपूर्ण सब करता काम। पर क्षणभर भी नहीं भूल सकता मैं तव मुख-चन्द्र ललाम॥
English translation
[598]
(Tala Ghanasri - Tina Tala)
Radhike, You are water and I am the fish. How can this lowly life remain even for a moment without You? How can fire live without the power to burn? How can sun and moon remain deprived of radiance and light? Without power and divinity, Bhagavan is lifeless. Thus this rasa-filled life of Syama depends upon Radhika.
[599]
(Tune of Lavani - Tala Kaharava)
Your remembrance eternally assumes visible form and rides sweetly upon consciousness. It gives boundless sorrow and happiness alike, an indescribable treasury of exquisite rasa. Your sweet mood of surrender, Your restraint, character and natural disposition, and the complete absence of otherness forever give rise to ever-new longing. At once they make Me bodiless and fill the eyes with holy affection. They forever rain happiness and keep mind and body eternally filled with rasa.
[600]
(Raga Bhairava - Tala Kaharava)
I dwell in the city of Dvaraka and rule everyone. All remain forever obedient and continually observe My command. Beautiful, splendid royal palaces filled with abundant varieties of majesty shine with thousands of jeweled women and give immense delight. Each stainless woman surpasses the other in auspicious virtues and beauty, adorned with humility, free of pride and engaged in serving with body and mind. Without weariness I conduct every affair of state, forever alert to friend and enemy. I protect the policy of the kingdom, always vigilant and united with dharma. I perform all these and countless other highly responsible duties, yet cannot forget the exquisite moon of Your face even for a moment.
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Hindi
Continuation of [600]
स्वप्न-राज्यमें भी, प्यारी! मैं पाता सदा तुम्हारा संग। दर्शन-मिलन-विलास विविध होते, बढ़ता नूतन रस-रंग॥ बहता नित्य प्रवाह तुम्हारी मधुर रूप-सरिका निर्बाध। पल-पल बढ़ती रूप-माधुरी, पल-पल नयी-नयी मन साध॥ दूर रहो या पास रहो तुम, हम दोनोंका रस-संयोग। अटल, अचल, अतुलित, अनुभवमय रहता, होता नहीं वियोग॥ सदा नाचती रहती प्रिय छवि, प्रिये! तुम्हारी मधुर अशेष। पल-पल नव उल्लास उपजता, पल-पल रस-आस्वाद विशेष॥ नहीं देहमें सीमित यह अति पावन दिव्य प्रेम-सम्बन्ध। जन्म-मरण, परलोक-लोकका भी न कभी होता प्रतिबन्ध॥ नित अक्षुण्ण, नित्य वर्धनमय, नित्य प्रेम-रस मधुर अपार। रहता सदा सुधा शुचि चिन्मयका सीमा-विरहित विस्तार॥
[601]
(राग भीमपलासी - ताल कहरवा)
तुम यह शायद समझ रही, मैं करता तुम्हें नहीं हूँ याद। पर मेरे मन कैसा अति छाया रहता नित विषम विषाद॥ किसे बताऊँ मैं मनकी स्थिति, किससे करूँ, प्रिये! फरियाद। किसे सुनाऊँ हृदय-दाहका भीषण ज्वालामय संवाद॥ जलता हृदय वियोगानलसे, झूर रहे दृग दर्शन-हेतु। चाह रहा मिलना अति सत्वर, तोड़ सभी मर्यादा-सेतु॥ कैसे देखूँ तुम्हें इसी क्षण, बीत रहा युग-तुल्य निमेष। छूट रहा सब धैर्य, बचा कुछ नहीं हृदयमें धृतिका शेष॥ बसा दूर मैं पुरी द्वारिका, घेरे रहते अगणित लोग। विविध विचित्र विषय मनहारी, लोकदृष्टिके सुखकर भोग॥ कहीं नहीं लगता मन मेरा, रहा तुम्हारी स्मृतिमें डूब। लगते सब सुख-भोग परम दुःखरूप, गया इनसे मन ऊब॥ यों तो सदा तुम्हारा मुझसे रहता सरस सुभग संयोग। होता नहीं स्वप्नमें भी, पलभर भी तुमसे कभी वियोग॥
English translation
Continuation of [600]
Even in the realm of dreams, beloved, I am forever in Your company. There are many visions, meetings and pastimes, and ever-new colors of rasa increase. The current of the sweet river of Your beauty flows eternally without obstruction. At every moment the sweetness of Your form increases, and at every moment new longings arise in the mind. Whether You remain far away or near, Our union of rasa remains firm, unmoving, incomparable and known through direct experience; separation never occurs. Your dear and infinitely sweet image dances forever, beloved. At every moment new delight arises, and at every moment there is a special savoring of rasa. This supremely holy, divine bond of love is not confined to the body. Neither birth and death nor this world and the next can ever obstruct it. Ever unbroken, eternally increasing and filled with boundless sweet love-rasa, it remains an unlimited expanse of pure, conscious nectar.
[601]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tala Kaharava)
You may perhaps think that I do not remember You, but what severe sorrow continually overshadows My mind! To whom can I describe the state of My mind, beloved? To whom can I appeal? To whom can I relate the dreadful, flaming tale of My heart's burning? My heart burns in the fire of separation, and My eyes languish to behold You. I long to meet You at once, breaking every bridge of restraint. How can I see You this very moment? Each instant passes like an age. All patience is leaving Me; not a trace of fortitude remains in My heart. I live far away in the city of Dvaraka, surrounded by countless people. There are many strange and captivating objects and pleasures considered delightful by the world. My mind finds rest nowhere; it remains submerged in remembrance of You. Every pleasure and enjoyment appears as supreme sorrow, and My mind has grown weary of them. Even so, Your beautiful, flavorful union with Me remains eternal. Not even in a dream does separation from You occur for a single moment.
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Hindi
Continuation of [601]
और किसी लीलाका मुझको रहता कभी नहीं अब ज्ञान। तुम ही एकमात्र लीलाकी हो रसमयी अनोखी खान॥ डूबा रहता हूँ प्राणेश्वरि! मैं इस लीलामें दिन-रात। नहीं सुहाती तन-मनसे है कभी दूसरी मुझको बात॥
[602]
(राग बिहारी - ताल कहरवा)
हे ब्रजरमणि-मुकुटमणि राधे! मत्सुख-सुखिनि मधुर रसखानि। नित-नूतन उत्कर्षशील शुचि महाभावरूपा द्युतिमान्॥ पल-पल पद-पदपर जो करती सहज सदा मम सुख-सुविधान। नहीं लेश गुण-गौरवकी स्मृति, नहीं कहीं कुछ भी अभिमान॥ स्थिति, गति, भाव, विचार, भंगिमा, इंगित, सकल अंग-प्रत्यंग। विविध विचित्र नित्य रस-पूरित प्रेम-पयोनिधि मधुर तरंग॥ जिसका कनक-कमल-मुख होता परम प्रफुल्लित नित्य नवीन। पा रवि-रश्मि-दृष्टि मम उज्ज्वल हृदय स्व-सुख-अभिलाषा-हीन॥ मम जीवन-जीवन, मम मन-मन, नित मत्प्राण-प्राण परिपूत। अविनाभाव भाव सत्ता सब क्रिया सहज ही एकीभूत॥ मिली सदा रहती तुम मुझमें, मैं तुममें रहता नित युक्त। प्रेम हेतु दो बने परस्पर रहते लीलासे अनुरक्त॥ दोके बिना, न हो पाता, यह लीला-रस-वितरण-आस्वाद। इसीलिये दो बन लीलारत रहते अमर्याद अविवाद॥
[603]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
सर्वनियन्ता सर्वेश्वर मैं, सब गुण-रहित सर्व-गुण-धाम। सर्वभूतमय, सर्वाश्रय मैं सर्वातीत, सर्वविश्राम॥ सर्वमूल मैं, पूर्ण तृप्त नित, आप्तकाम हूँ, नित निष्काम। नित्य निरीह, पूर्ण नित सुखसे, निज महिमा-स्थित, आत्माराम॥ नहीं अभाव कहीं कुछ भी है, नहीं कदापि चाह-परवाह। नहीं किसी सुखकी प्रसन्नता, नहीं दुःखकी आह-कराह॥
English translation
Continuation of [601]
I now remain unaware of any other pastime. You alone are the unique, rasa-filled treasury of the one pastime. Queen of My life, I remain submerged in this pastime day and night. No other matter ever pleases My body or mind.
[602]
(Raga Bihari - Tala Kaharava)
Radhe, crown jewel among the jewels of Vraja's women, delighting in My happiness, treasury of sweet rasa, ever-new and ever-increasing, pure, radiant embodiment of mahabhava! At every moment and every step You naturally and continually arrange My happiness. You retain not the slightest awareness of Your own excellence and glory, nor any pride whatsoever. Your state, movement, mood, thought, gesture and indication, and every limb and part of Your body are varied and wondrous sweet waves of an ocean of love, eternally filled with rasa. Your golden lotus-face becomes supremely radiant and ever-new upon receiving the sunbeam of My gaze, while Your bright heart remains free of desire for personal happiness. You are the life of My life, the mind of My mind and forever the sanctified life of My life. Our inseparable mood, being and every action naturally become one. You remain forever united within Me, and I remain eternally joined within You. For the sake of love We become two and remain mutually absorbed in the pastime. Without the two of Us, the distribution and savoring of this pastime-rasa could not occur. Therefore We become two and remain engaged in unrestricted, undisputed play.
[603]
(Raga Shivaranjani - Tala Kaharava)
I am the ruler of all and Lord of all, beyond every quality yet the abode of every virtue. I pervade all beings, shelter all, transcend all and am the resting place of all. I am the root of everything, eternally complete and satisfied, with every desire fulfilled and forever without desire. Eternally without personal endeavor and wholly filled with happiness, I abide in My own glory and delight in the Self. Nothing is lacking anywhere; I never have desire or concern. No happiness elates Me, and no sorrow makes Me sigh or cry out.
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Hindi
Continuation of [603]
पर राधे तेरा अति पावन, मधुर प्रेमरस-सिन्धु अपार। आकर्षित नित करता रहता, प्रति तरंगमें मुझे पुकार॥ क्षुधा-तृषा जग उठी विलक्षण, नित्यतृप्त मुझमें सुमहान। आतुर मैं तटपर आ करने लगा मधुर अवगाहन-पान॥ पर न कदापि तृप्त हो पाता, बढ़ता नया-नया अभिलाष। बढ़ता लोभ हरेक लाभमें, बढ़ती नित नव क्षुधा-पिपास॥ अनुपम अतुल त्याग-परिपूरित तेरा यह रस-निधि अभिराम। मेरे लिये हो गया अब तो यही जीवनाधार ललाम॥ इस रस-सिंधु मधुरमें ही मैं रहा चाहता नित्य निमग्न। राधे! रहूँ सदा ही तेरे दिव्य प्रेममें मैं संलग्न॥
[604]
(राग देशकार - तीन ताल)
राधा मेरी प्राण-प्रतिमा, मैं राधाका प्राणाराम। राधा मेरी, मैं राधाका, नित्य मधुर सम्बन्ध ललाम॥ राधा मैं हूँ, मैं राधा है, भिन्न तथापि, कदापि न भिन्न। नित्य भिन्न नव-नव लीला-रस-आस्वादन अनवद्य अभिन्न॥ राधामय जीवन नित मेरा, मैं नित राधा-जीवन-रूप। राधाकी-मेरी यह एकमेकता दिव्य पवित्र अनूप॥ मेरे हित राधा उन्मादिनि, राधा-हित मुझमें उन्माद। करते किंतु एक-दूसरेके मनका अनुभव अविवाद॥ करते एक-दूसरेके मनकी, प्रेमी-प्रेमास्पद भाव। नित्य निरन्तर नव-नव सुख-देनेका बढ़ा परस्पर चाव॥
[605]
(राग धनाश्री - तीन ताल)
राधिके! तुम सौं होड़ लगी। हौं अनुरक्त रहौं या तुम नित रहौ सनेह-पगी॥ ठगौ मोय तुम प्रेम-अमिय दे, तुम ही जाउ ठगी। लगन लगै मो मैं, या मेरी तुम मैं रहै लगी॥
English translation
Continuation of [603]
Yet Radhe, Your supremely holy and boundless ocean of sweet love-rasa continually draws Me and calls to Me through every wave. Extraordinary hunger and thirst awaken immensely within Me, though I am eternally satisfied. Restless, I come to its shore and begin to immerse Myself and drink its sweetness. Yet I can never become satisfied, and ever-new desire continues to increase. Greed grows with every gain, and new hunger and thirst arise eternally. This delightful treasury of rasa, filled with Your incomparable, immeasurable self-sacrifice, has now become the exquisite foundation of My very life. I desire to remain eternally submerged only in this sweet ocean of rasa. Radhe, may I remain forever absorbed in Your divine love.
[604]
(Raga Deshakara - Tina Tala)
Radha is the image of My life, and I am the delight of Radha's life. Radha is Mine and I am Radha's; this eternal, sweet relationship is exquisite. Radha is I and I am Radha. Though distinct, We are never separate. Eternally distinct for the ever-new savoring of pastime-rasa, We remain flawlessly one. My life is forever filled with Radha, and I am forever the form of Radha's life. This complete oneness of Radha and Me is divine, pure and incomparable. Radha is mad with love for My sake, and I am mad with love for Radha's sake. Yet We unquestionably experience one another's mind. We experience the moods in one another's hearts as lover and beloved. Our mutual eagerness to give one another ever-new happiness grows eternally and without interruption.
[605]
(Raga Dhanashri - Tina Tala)
Radhike, a loving contest has begun with You: shall I remain devoted, or shall You remain forever steeped in affection? You beguile Me by giving the nectar of love, yet You Yourself become beguiled. Does attachment arise in Me, or does My attachment remain fixed in You?
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Braj Bhasha
Continuation of [605]
सगबग सदा रहौं तुम मैं, या तुम ही रहौ रँगी। रहौं सचेत प्रीति मैं हौं, या तुम नित रहौ जगी॥ मैं जीतूँ या तुम ही जीतो, अब तौ बात दगी। जो हारै सो स्वामि बनै, दे पद-रज समुद सगी॥
[606]
(राग मालकोस - तीन ताल)
गोपिका! (प्रिया सब) हौं नित रिनी तिहारौ। नव-नव बढ़त जात रिन छिन-छिन, नहिं घटिबे कौ बारौ॥ घटै तबहिं, जब तुम गोपिन हौं सुख बिसेष दे पाऊँ। तुम्हरे सुख बिसेष कौ साधन हौं निज सुखहि बढ़ाऊँ॥ ज्यों-ज्यों बढ़ै तिहारे द्वारा मेरौ नव सुख प्रति छिन। त्यों-त्यों बढ़ती रहै तिहारौ रिन मो पै नित नूतन॥ या बिधि तुम्हरे रिन-सोधन कौ जो उपाय कछु करियै। तौ उलटौ रिन बढ़ै, न साधन कोउ, जासौं रिन भरियै॥ तन-मन-धन-जीवन अरपन करि मेरौ ही सुख साधौ। धर्म-लोक-परलोक-स्वजन-कुल त्यागि मोहि आराधौ॥ या रिन तैं नहिं उरिन कबहूँ ह्वै सकौं, न होनौ चाहूँ। नित नव सेवा कौ अवसर लहि नित नव मनहि उमाहूँ॥ कबहूँ सोधि पाऊँ न तिहारौ रिन अति मधुर मनोहर। बँध्यौ रहौं तुव प्रेम-दाम सौं, भूलि सबहिं जोगैस्वर॥ खेलूँ सदा तिहारे सँग, हौं नित नव रास रचाऊँ। तुम्हरे रस तैं परम सुखी बनि तुम्हरौ सुख सरसाऊँ॥
[607]
(राग नट - तीन ताल)
निर्मल प्रेम नित्य यों बोलै। अपने दोष विमल गुन पिय के लाख-लाख करि काढ़ै-तोलै॥ छक्यौ प्रेम-रस-सुधा निरंतर अग-जग भयौ बावरौ डोलै। दीखै हियौ प्रेम-रस छूँछी पाय प्रेम-धन-रतन अमोलै॥
English translation
Continuation of [605]
Do I remain forever stirred within You, or do You alone remain colored by Me? Do I stay awake and alert in love, or do You remain forever wakeful? Will I win, or will You alone be victorious? The matter is now settled: the one who loses becomes the master and gives an ocean of foot-dust to the beloved companion.
[606]
(Raga Malakosa - Tina Tala)
O gopis, all My beloveds, I am eternally indebted to you. The debt grows ever new at every moment, and the time for its decrease never comes. It could diminish only if I were able to give you some special happiness. Yet to accomplish your special happiness, I increase My own happiness. The more My new happiness increases through you at every moment, the more My ever-new debt to you continues to increase. In this way, whatever means I adopt to repay your debt instead increases it; no means exists by which the debt can be paid. You surrender body, mind, wealth and life solely to accomplish My happiness. Abandoning dharma, this world, the next world, relatives and family, you worship Me. I can never become free of this debt, nor do I wish to be free. Receiving ever-new opportunities for service, may I cherish ever-new enthusiasm within My heart. May I never repay your supremely sweet and enchanting debt. May I remain bound by the cord of your love, forgetting all lordly mystic power. May I play eternally with you and arrange ever-new rasa dances. Becoming supremely happy through your rasa, may I make your happiness flavorful.
[607]
(Raga Nata - Tina Tala)
Pure love eternally speaks in this way: it draws out and weighs its own faults by the hundreds of thousands, and the beloved's stainless virtues likewise by the hundreds of thousands. Intoxicated without end by the nectar of love-rasa, the whole moving and unmoving world wanders madly. Even after receiving the priceless jewel-treasure of love, the heart sees itself as empty of love-rasa.
Original
Braj Bhasha
Continuation of [607]
प्रेम-पियास बढ़त नित पावन-प्रेम अभाव दिखावत रोलै। धनि-धनि ऐसौ प्रेम-धनी जो नित नव प्रेम-गोलकहि खोलै॥ मोय परम सुख पहुँचावन-हित नित अति मधुर अमी-रस घोलै। तुम ऐसी, तातैं मैं रिनिया, सेवौं सकुचत हौले-हौले॥
English translation
Continuation of [607]
Its thirst for love continually increases; seeing an absence of pure love, it weeps. Blessed, blessed is such a possessor of love, who forever opens ever-new realms of love. To bring Me supreme happiness, You continually blend exceedingly sweet nectar-rasa. Such are You; therefore I am indebted and serve You shyly, gently and softly.