Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
अनुभूति
[११२०]
(राग पीलू - तीन ताल)
मेरे परम सुखके धाम, बसत मेरे उर निरन्तर प्राण-धन घनश्याम॥ नित्य नव सुन्दर मनोहर, नित्य परमानन्द। नित्य नूतन मधुरतम लीला करत स्वच्छन्द॥ रह्यो नहिं कछु और हियमें लोक अरु परलोक। मिटे सारे द्वन्द्व जगके, हटे भय अरु शोक॥ रहे होय स्वरूप मेरे, खिली प्रभुकी कान्ति। नित्य आत्यन्तिक परम सुख, नित्य शाश्वत शान्ति॥
[११२१]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
क्षणभर नहीं छोड़ते मोहन, नित्य बने रहते हैं संग। देश-कालका भेद नहीं कुछ, पल-पल उठती अमित उमंग॥ घरमें-वनमें, बाहर-भीतर, बहुत काममें या बेकाम। शयन-जागरण, खान-पानमें, संग सदा ही रहते श्याम॥ भोग-वासना मिटी सभी, मिट गया मोक्षका भी व्यामोह। रहे एक वे नागर नटवर नित्य निरन्तर बिना बिछोह॥ नहीं लोक-परलोक किसीका रहा कहीं कोई भी अर्थ। सभी समय सर्वत्र स्वयं वे नाच रहे विशुद्ध परमार्थ॥ इन्द्रिय-मन-मति - सभी हो गये श्यामरूप बनकर अति धन्य। रहा न प्राणि-पदार्थ दूसरा, श्याम एक रह गये अनन्य॥
English translation
Realization
[1120]
(Raga Pilu - Tintal)
Ghansyama, the treasure of my life, eternally dwells within my heart, the abode of my supreme happiness. Forever new, beautiful and enchanting, He is eternal supreme bliss. Forever fresh, He freely performs His sweetest lila. Nothing else remains within my heart, whether of this world or the next. All worldly dualities have dissolved, and fear and grief have departed. He has become my very nature, and the Lord's radiance has blossomed. There is eternal, absolute and supreme happiness, and everlasting peace.
[1121]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
Mohana does not leave me even for a moment; He remains forever with me. There is no distinction of place or time, and immeasurable joy rises every moment. At home or in the forest, outside or within, amid much work or none, while sleeping or waking, eating or drinking, Syama remains forever beside me. Every desire for enjoyment has disappeared, as has the delusion of liberation. That one graceful Natavara alone remains, eternally and ceaselessly, without separation. Neither this world nor the next retains any meaning anywhere. At all times and everywhere, He Himself dances as the pure supreme purpose. Senses, mind and understanding have all become profoundly blessed by taking Syama's form. No second being or object remains; Syama alone remains, exclusive and one.
Original
Braj Bhasha and Hindi
[११२२]
(राग पीलू - तीन ताल)
जबतें हिये बिराजे स्याम, तबतें बन्यौ मंजु रस-मन्दिर पावन परम ललाम॥ जगके राग-कामना-ममता-मोह-मान-मद-रोष, लोभ, दम्भ, भय, शोक, ईर्ष्या, मत्सर, हिंसा, दोष॥ मन्दिरमें न रहन कोउ पावत, छिनहूँ करि परवेश। भानु उदय जिमि तनिक अँधेरौ रहन न पावत शेष॥ प्रगट भए सब लीला-परिकर, उद्दीपन-सँभार। उमग्यौ रस-वारिधि तजि तट-भुवि, बही रस-सुधा-धार॥ चल्यौ प्रिया-प्रीतम कौ चिन्मय रसमय रास-विलास। सेवा-सुख-संलग्न सखीं सब उर अति भर्यो हुलास॥ छायौ प्रखर प्रकाश सकल दिसि, आत्यन्तिक आनन्द। नित नव-नव निरुपम रस-लीला प्रगटत शुचि स्वच्छन्द॥
[११२३]
(राग पीलू - ताल कहरवा)
राधा-माधव बसि रहे हिय महँ नित्य ललाम। मुख निरतत नित नव मधुर राधा-माधव-नाम॥ राधा-माधव-प्रेम-रस-सुधा दिव्य सुमहान। स्वसुख-वासना-रहित चित करत निरन्तर पान॥
[११२४]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
मेरे द्वारा बोल रहे हैं केवल मेरे वे भगवान। मेरे द्वारा छेड़ रहे हैं वे निज मधु मुरलीकी तान॥ मेरे जीवनमें है अब तो एकमात्र उनका ही स्थान। अतः उन्हींकी होती मुझमें क्रिया नित्य सब क्षुद्र-महान॥
English translation
[1122]
(Raga Pilu - Tintal)
Since Syama came to reign within my heart, it has become a lovely temple of rasa, supremely sacred and splendid. Worldly attachment, desire, possessiveness, delusion, honor, pride and anger, greed, hypocrisy, fear, grief, envy, rivalry, violence and fault cannot gain entry into this temple even for an instant. As no darkness remains when the sun rises, not a trace of them survives. All the companions and stimulating elements of lila have manifested. The ocean of rasa has surged beyond its shores, and a stream of rasa's nectar flows. The conscious, rasa-filled rasa play of the Beloved and His beloved has begun. Every sakhi, absorbed in the joy of service, feels immense delight within her heart. Brilliant light and absolute bliss have spread in every direction. Ever-new and incomparable lila-rasa manifests purely and freely.
[1123]
(Raga Pilu - Tala Kaharva)
Radha-Madhava dwell eternally and beautifully within my heart. My mouth continually dances with Their ever-new and sweet Names. The heart, free from desire for personal happiness, continually drinks the divine and sublime nectar of the rasa of Radha-Madhava's love.
[1124]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
My Bhagavan alone speaks through me. Through me He begins the sweet melody of His own flute. Now He alone has any place within my life. Therefore every action in me, small or great, is forever His alone.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
[११२५]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
हटते नहीं एक पल भी वे, मुझे छोड़कर प्रियतम श्याम। सोते-जगते, खाते-पीते, हरदम रहते पास ललाम॥ नित्य दिखाते रहते अपनी अति पवित्र लीला सुख-धाम। बाहर-भीतर, तनमें-मनमें देते रहते सुख अविराम॥
[११२६]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
कर दिया प्रभुने मुझे निहाल, हटा आवरण, कटा जंजाल॥ दीखते अनावरण नन्दलाल, बजाते मुरली मधुर रसाल॥ सदा-सर्वत्र सभीमें श्याम, विविध लीला करते अभिराम॥ खेलते अपनेमें अविराम, भरे होठों मुसकान ललाम॥ बनाकर विविध वेष औ साज, साथ ले तदनुकूल समाज॥ गान गाते ही उठते गाज, रचाते कभी मिटाते राज॥ नित्य रसरूप रसिक-सिरमौर, एक ही तत्त्व, न कोई और॥ बहाते रस-धारा सब ठौर, युगल मनमोहन श्यामल-गौर॥ सर्वपर, सर्व, सर्व-अधिराज, एक ही, दो बन, रहे विराज॥ देख मैं महाभाव-रसराज, हो गया सफल, मिटे सब काज॥
[११२७]
(गजल तर्ज - ताल कहरवा)
सच्ची सुहागिन, मैं दुहागिन हूँ मेरे भर्तारकी। भूखी हूँ अपनत्वकी, भूखी नहीं सत्कारकी॥ मुझको अपनी मानते हैं, याद रखते नित मुझे। इसीसे डरते नहीं हैं दुःख देनेमें मुझे॥ हैं सताते वे मेरे प्यारे, मुझे दिल खोलकर। हूँ सदा उनकी, हिचकते हैं नहीं यों बोलकर॥
English translation
[1125]
(Raga Shivaranjani - Tala Kaharva)
Beloved Syama does not move away for even a moment or abandon me. Sleeping or waking, eating or drinking, He remains beautifully near at all times. He continually reveals His supremely sacred lila, the abode of happiness. Outside and within, in body and mind, He ceaselessly gives joy.
[1126]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
The Lord has fulfilled me; the covering is removed and the entanglement cut. Nandalala appears unveiled, playing His sweet, rasa-filled flute. Forever and everywhere, within all, Syama performs many delightful lilas. He plays ceaselessly within Himself, a splendid smile filling His lips. He assumes many costumes and ornaments, accompanied by companions suited to each. Songs arise in thunder; He sometimes establishes kingdoms and sometimes dissolves them. Eternally the form of rasa and crown jewel of rasikas, He is the one Reality and no other. The enchanting dark and fair Couple pours streams of rasa everywhere. Beyond all, all that is, and sovereign of all, the One reigns by becoming two. Beholding Mahabhava and the King of Rasa, I am fulfilled and every task has ended.
[1127]
(Ghazal melody - Tala Kaharva)
I am my Husband's true wedded beloved, though bereft of worldly good fortune. I hunger for belonging, not for ceremonious respect. He considers me His own and remembers me forever. Therefore He does not fear to give me sorrow. My Beloved torments me openly and wholeheartedly. Knowing I am forever His, He does not hesitate to speak so.
Original
Hindi
[११२७, क्रमशः]
दुःख देनेमें मुझे यदि उनको मिलता तनिक सुख, यही तो सौभाग्य मेरा, यही मेरा परम सुख॥ चाहती हूँ मैं नहीं उनसे निजेन्द्रिय-सुख कभी। इसीसे सुखदायिनी हैं हरकतें उनकी सभी॥ उनकी अपनी वस्तुपर उनका सदा अधिकार है। मारें, ठुकरायें, सतायें, चूँकि वे भर्तार हैं॥ अपने मनसे बरतते, कर भोगसे वंचित मुझे। यही तो आत्मीयता है, इसीका गौरव मुझे॥
[११२८]
(राग काफी - ताल कहरवा)
अन्तरमें हो रहा खेल अति मधुर विलक्षण। बाहर कैसे दीखे वह निर्शब्द, अलक्षण॥ कौन बताये, किसे, वहाँके कैसे अनुभव? आ न सके पल एक छोड़कर वह रस नित नव॥ बाहर आते समय रोक देती वह लीला। भीतर ही है रमा रही वह चारु सुशीला॥ उस लीलाका त्याग बड़ा ही कठिन, असम्भव। इसीलिये बन रहा नहीं बाहर कुछ सम्भव॥ चलती लीला ललित अपरिमित नित नव नूतन। कुसुम-सरोवर ही क्यों, अगणित सर-निकुंज-वन॥ मधुर, मनोहर, सुधामयी लीला नित होती। जगी उसीमें वृत्ति, बाह्य जगमें वह सोती॥ मन-इन्द्रिय, सब अंग, बुद्धि उसमें ही तन्मय। हुए इसीसे बाह्य बुद्धिके कार्य सभी लय॥
English translation
[1127, continued]
If giving me sorrow brings Him even slight happiness, that is my good fortune and my supreme joy. I never desire from Him happiness for my own senses. Therefore every one of His actions brings happiness. He forever possesses full authority over His own property. He may strike, reject or torment me, for He is my Husband. He treats me according to His own mind and deprives me of enjoyment. This itself is intimacy, and in this lies my honor.
[1128]
(Raga Kafi - Tala Kaharva)
An exceedingly sweet and extraordinary play unfolds within. How can that soundless and unmarked play appear outside? Who could describe those experiences, and to whom? One cannot leave that ever-new rasa for even a moment. When one tries to come outside, that lila restrains her. That beautiful and noble Lady delights only within. Renouncing that lila is exceedingly difficult, indeed impossible. Therefore nothing outward can become possible. The lovely, measureless lila continues forever, fresh and new. Why speak only of Kusuma-sarovara? There are countless lakes, groves and forests. The sweet, enchanting and nectarean lila occurs forever. The inward faculty is awake within it and sleeps toward the external world. Mind, senses, every limb and intellect are absorbed in it alone. Therefore every operation of outward understanding has dissolved.
Original
Hindi
[११२९]
(राग सोहनी - ताल दादरा)
हर वस्तुका आधार जो, हर वस्तु जिसकी मूर्ति है। जिसके सिवाय न कहीं कुछ भी, जो सभीकी पूर्ति है॥ जो स्वयं सबमें सदा सम, जो सर्वथा निर्लेप है। करता विविध लीला विषम, लगता न जिसको लेप है॥ जो नित्य निर्गुण-सगुण, बिन आकार नित साकार है। जो सब विकारोंसे भरा, जो सर्वथा अविकार है॥ जो सर्वमय, जो सर्व, सर्वातीत, जो सविशेष है। जो निर्विशेष सदा, बना शेषी स्वयं जो शेष है॥ है नित्य ही अनुस्यूत सबमें, सभीमें भरपूर है। सबसे निराला, नित्य एकाकी, सभीसे दूर है॥ शुचि एक जिसका रूप शाश्वत सत्य-चित्-आनन्द है। जो अचल, नित कूटस्थ, केवल ज्ञानमय स्वच्छन्द है॥ जिसमें सदा रहते विरोधी गुण परस्पर एक साथ। है परम भगवत्ता सभीको संग रख करती सनाथ॥ जो दिव्य मधु-रसपूर्ण सागर, शान्त अति गम्भीर है। जो नित्य बन लहरें उछलता, लाँघ जाता तीर है॥ अति अमित ये उत्ताल मृदुल तरंग जिसका रूप है। जो सर्वसुलभ, सुचिन्त्य अति, जो नित अचिन्त्य-स्वरूप है॥ जो उछलता-कूदता आनन्दका आनन्द है। जो ब्रह्म, शाश्वत धर्म, सुखका भी प्रतिष्ठान है॥ मुनि-परमहंसोंके मरे मनको तुरत देता जिला। देता परम आनन्द निज गुण-रूपका मधुरस पिला॥ हरता सहज मन सिद्ध-मुनियोंके, रमणियोंके सदा। जो प्रेम-बन्धनमें बँधा खुद, छूट नहिं पाता कदा॥
English translation
[1129]
(Raga Sohani - Tala Dadra)
He is the foundation of every object, and every object is His form. Nothing exists anywhere apart from Him, and He fulfills all. He Himself remains equally present within all and is wholly untouched. He performs varied and unequal lilas, yet no taint adheres to Him. He is eternally beyond qualities and possessed of qualities, without form yet forever embodied. He appears filled with every change and yet is entirely changeless. He pervades all, is all, transcends all and possesses distinctive attributes. He is forever without distinctions, the possessor of all parts and Himself the remainder. He is eternally threaded through all and fills everyone completely, yet remains distinct from all, forever alone and distant from everyone. His one pure and eternal form is being, consciousness and bliss. He is unmoving, forever immutable, composed solely of knowledge and utterly free. Opposing attributes forever dwell together within Him. His supreme divinity shelters everyone by holding all together. He is the divine ocean filled with honeyed rasa, peaceful and profoundly deep. Yet He forever rises as waves and surges beyond His shore. Those immeasurable, towering and tender waves are His own form. He is accessible to all and readily contemplated, yet eternally inconceivable in nature. Leaping and dancing, He is the bliss within bliss. He is Brahman, eternal Dharma and the foundation of happiness itself. He instantly revives the deadened minds of sages and paramahamsas, giving supreme bliss by making them drink the honey-rasa of His qualities and form. He naturally steals the minds of perfected sages and beautiful women alike. Bound by the bonds of love, He Himself can never escape.
Original
Hindi
[११२९, क्रमशः]
नटवर वही नित नृत्यरत, सौन्दर्य-निधि घनश्याम है। प्रति अंगपर जिसके निछावर नित करोड़ों 'काम' हैं॥ ये सुनी बातें हैं सभी, है वस्तुतः वह क्या बला? देखा, वह कहते खो गया, फिर कौन बतलाता भला॥ कुछ जानता मैं हूँ नहीं, वह कहाँ, कैसा, कौन है। पर मन उसीमें रत सदा, यह बुद्धि उसमें मौन है॥ मैं किसलिये, कैसे उसे भजता, नहीं कुछ जानता। पर भूल पाता हूँ नहीं, मन ही नहीं है मानता॥ जो हो, जैसा हो, मुझे बस एक उससे काम है। वही प्रियतम एक मेरा, वही प्राणाराम है॥ ज्ञात यह अज्ञातका, परिचय अपरिचितका विमल। प्रेम यह अनजानका है गूढ़ अति उज्ज्वल धवल॥ वह हो प्रकट प्रियतम अभी, प्रत्यक्ष हो न भले कभी। बेशर्त मेरी हो चुकी सत्ता समर्पित है सभी॥ सम्बन्ध सारे मिट गये, बस एक प्रियतम रह गया। रस-सुधा-सुरसरिता बना 'मैं' रस-जलधिमें बह गया॥
[११३०]
(राग देश - तीन ताल)
रात-दिवस मनमें रहे, रहे सदा तन साथ। कैसे देखूँ औरकीं, कैसे जोड़ूँ हाथ॥ नित नवीन लीला करै, कभी न दे अवकाश। कैसे सोचूँ अन्य कुछ, कैसे रक्खूँ पास॥ रात-दिवस बातें करे, रचे नित नये खेल। कैसे बोलूँ औरसे, कैसे रक्खूँ मेल॥ तन-मन-वाणीमें सदा बस्यौ रहे स्वच्छन्द। धन-जन सब मेरौ वही, एकमात्र आनन्द॥
English translation
[1129, continued]
That same Natavara forever dances, Ghansyama, the treasury of beauty, upon each of whose limbs millions of Cupids are forever offered. All these are things I have heard, but what is He actually? Whoever saw Him, they say, became lost; who then could explain Him? I know nothing: where He is, what He is like or who He is. Yet my mind remains forever absorbed in Him, while intellect falls silent before Him. I do not know why or how I worship Him, yet I cannot forget Him; the mind simply refuses. Whatever He may be and however He may be, He alone concerns me. He alone is my Beloved and the delight of my vital breath. This is knowledge of the Unknown and a stainless acquaintance with the Unfamiliar. This love for One I do not know is profound, exceedingly radiant and pure. Whether the Beloved appears now or never becomes directly visible, my entire being has already been surrendered without condition. Every other relationship has dissolved; the one Beloved alone remains. Becoming a heavenly river of rasa's nectar, the "I" has flowed into the ocean of rasa.
[1130]
(Raga Des - Tintal)
He remains in my mind day and night and forever accompanies the body. How could I look toward another or fold my hands before anyone else? He continually performs fresh lila and never gives me leisure. How could I think of anything else or keep another near? Day and night He converses and devises ever-new games. How could I speak to another or maintain another association? He dwells forever and freely in body, mind and speech. He alone is my wealth, my people and my one joy.
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[११३०, क्रमशः]
कहीं वक्त हो तो मिलूँ, बात करूँ किसी गैरसे। रात-दिनकी गुफ्तगूमें मुझे फुरसत है नहीं॥
[११३१]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
मेरी 'मति-गति' के, मेरे 'मन-तन' के तुम ही हो उल्लास। मेरे 'जीवन-धन' तुम ही, 'जीवन' के मेरे श्वासोच्छ्वास॥ मेरी सारी 'ममता' के हो एक तुम्हीं आस्पद भगवान। मेरी 'सुखासक्ति' के तुम ही एकमात्र हो 'विषय' महान॥ मेरे परम 'काम्य' हो केवल, 'वस्तु' एक तुम ही अभिराम। जनक-जननि-सुत, सखा-बन्धु, गुरु-स्वामी, बल-विद्या, सुख-धाम॥
[११३२]
(राग सोहनी - ताल दादरा)
बस गया उनके हृदयमें, हो गया जो उनका प्यारा। सब अमंगल मिट गये उसके, हुआ वह सबसे न्यारा॥ दीखती जो तनिक उसमें दुःख-संकटकी-सी छाया, है वह प्रियतमकी अनोखी प्रीतिकी शुचि मधुर माया॥ मलिन माया हरणकर वह नित्य निर्मल कर रही है। दिव्य कर सब भाँति, सब चिन्मय मधुर रस भर रही है॥ बन रहा है प्राणधन श्रीश्यामका एकान्त-सेवी। कर रहे हैं सभी अभिवादन समस्त छिपे देव-देवी॥ नहीं चिन्ताका तनिक भी कार्य-कारण-कल्पना है। नहीं रोग-विषाद-भयकी तनिक-सी भी जल्पना है॥ स्वयंमें ही प्रेमधनकी प्रेमलीला चल रही है। सभी तम-जड़ता सुद्युतिमय दिव्यतामें ढल रही है॥ नहीं चिन्ता, नहीं भय है, नहीं कहीं विषाद-कण है। खेलते स्वच्छन्द निज गृहमें मधुर राधा-रमण हैं॥
English translation
[1130, continued]
If any time remained, I might meet and speak with a stranger, but our conversation day and night leaves me no leisure.
[1131]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
You alone are the joy of my understanding and path, of my mind and body. You alone are the treasure of my life and the inhalation and exhalation of my living. Bhagavan, You alone are the resting place of all my possessive love. You alone are the one sublime object of my attachment to happiness. You alone are my supreme desire and my one delightful reality: father, mother, son, friend and relative, teacher and master, strength, learning and abode of happiness.
[1132]
(Raga Sohani - Tala Dadra)
The one who has settled within His heart and become dear to Him has had every inauspicious thing erased and become distinct from all. Whatever slight shadow of sorrow or adversity appears within him is the pure, sweet maya of the Beloved's extraordinary love. Removing impure maya, it continually makes him stainless. Divinizing everything in every way, it fills all with conscious, sweet rasa. He becomes the exclusive servant of Sri Syama, treasure of his life. All the hidden gods and goddesses offer him homage. Not the slightest imagining of cause and effect for anxiety remains. There is not the least talk of disease, despair or fear. The love-lila of the treasure of love unfolds within Himself alone. All darkness and insentience transform into radiant divinity. There is no anxiety, no fear and not a particle of despair anywhere. Sweet Radha-Ramana plays freely within His own home.
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[११३२, क्रमशः]
देख पाता दिव्य नेत्रोंसे जो यह लीला परम है। मुग्ध होता वह, समझकर छिपा इसका मधु-मर्म है॥
[११३३]
(दोहा)
नहीं भूलती है कभी मीठी-मीठी याद। स्मृतिमें ही मिलता अतुल नित नव-नव आस्वाद॥ रहता है नित ही मुझे सरस गुणोंका ध्यान। नित्य बसा रहता हृदय विधु-मुख रूप-निधान॥ रहता सदा प्रफुल्ल मन, पा सन्निधि सुख-खान। कभी नहीं होता तनिक पल वियोग-व्यवधान॥ मिले सदा रहते, सदा करते रस-आलाप। मिटे जगतके अघ सभी, मिटे सभी सन्ताप॥
[११३४]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
प्रियके अमिलन-जनित दुःख-चिन्तनमें रात-दिवस कटते। प्रियकी मोहन मूर्ति, मधुर वे भाव नहीं मनसे हटते॥ जान रहा ही नहीं, देख मैं रहा सदा तव मनके चित्र। अष्टयाम मैं बसा निरखता, उठते जो मधु भाव पवित्र॥ नित्य मिलनमें अमिलनकी यह पावन प्रेममयी अनुभूति, प्रेम-राज्यकी परम मधुर आदर्श विलक्षण विमल विभूति॥ इससे होनेवाले दुःख-सुखका मैं ही अनुभव करता। एक पलक भी कभी तुम्हारे बिना नहीं मुझको सरता॥ दूर रहे या पास देह यह, रहे नहीं या रहे कदापि। होगा नहीं वियोग कभी भी, हो सकता भी नहीं तथापि॥ अचल, अटल सम्बन्ध तुम्हारा - प्रेम यह अनवद्य, अमोल। एक बने दो सदा, बिक रहे स्वयं परस्परके सुख-मोल॥
English translation
[1132, continued]
The one who beholds this supreme lila with divine eyes becomes enchanted on understanding its hidden honeyed secret.
[1133]
(Doha)
That sweet remembrance is never forgotten. Within remembrance itself comes an incomparable and ever-new relish. The Beloved's delightful virtues remain forever in my contemplation. The moonlike face, treasury of beauty, is eternally established in my heart. The mind remains ever joyful, finding the nearness of the mine of happiness. Not even a moment's obstruction of separation ever arises. We remain forever united and forever converse in rasa. All the world's sins disappear, and every anguish is extinguished.
[1134]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
Day and night pass in contemplating the sorrow born from not meeting the Beloved. The Beloved's enchanting form and those sweet feelings never leave the mind. Without even realizing it, I forever behold the images within Your mind. Throughout all eight watches I dwell there, observing the pure, honeyed feelings as they arise. Within eternal union, this sacred, love-filled experience of nonunion is the supremely sweet, ideal, extraordinary and stainless glory of love's kingdom. I alone experience the sorrow and happiness it produces. I cannot pass even a single instant without You. Whether this body remains far or near, whether it remains or does not remain, separation will never occur, and indeed cannot occur. Your unwavering, immovable relationship is this flawless and priceless love. The One eternally becomes two, each selling the self for the price of the other's happiness.
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[११३४, क्रमशः]
रोते कभी, हृदयमें जलती विषम विरहकी अति ज्वाला। कभी मिलनमें हँसते, बनते तुरत परस्पर गल-माला॥ बने परस्पर प्रेमास्पद-प्रेमी, हम करते नित नव खेल। छिपते, कभी प्रकट होते, पर रहता नित स्वरूपगत मेल॥
[११३५]
(राग देश)
मेरे तुम प्रियतम परम, मेरे तुम सुख-रूप। मेरे तुम सुन्दर परम, मेरे मधुर अनूप॥ मेरे तुम स्वामी-सखा, मेरे सर्वाधार। मेरे तुम सर्वस्व नित, आत्मरूप अविकार॥
[११३६]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
तन-मन-धन-जीवन सब, प्यारे, हुआ तुम्हारे अर्पण। तुम ही देखो निज मुख इसमें, बना तुम्हारा दर्पण॥ मेरी चीज न रही कहीं कुछ, बनी तुम्हारी छाया। वैसे ही हो, जहाँ तुम्हारी जैसी सुकलित काया॥ रहा न कुछ भी मनमें, तुम ही रहे स्व-चिन्तन प्रिय बन। तुम ही बने विरह, अपना ही करते नित आक्रन्दन॥ तुम ही बन मधु मिलन, स्वयं करते अपना आलिंगन। ढाँचा रहा देखनेको भर पृथक् परम आनन्दन॥
[११३७]
(लावनी तर्ज - ताल कहरवा)
मिलनेपर भी नहीं मिटेगी सदा मिले रहनेकी चाह। मिलनेपर भी बनी रहेगी अमिलनकी शंका-परवाह॥ मिलना हो या न हो - जानता कौन इसे, कह सकता कौन? पर सच्चा जो नित्य-मिलन है, इसे मिटा सकता है कौन?॥
English translation
[1134, continued]
Sometimes we weep as the terrible flame of separation burns fiercely in the heart. Sometimes in union we laugh and at once become garlands around one another's necks. Becoming each other's object and lover, we perform ever-new play. We hide and sometimes appear, yet union in essential nature remains forever.
[1135]
(Raga Des)
You are my supreme Beloved and my very form of happiness. You are my supreme beauty and my incomparable sweetness. You are my master and friend, my foundation of all. You are forever my everything, the immutable Self.
[1136]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
Beloved, body, mind, wealth and life have all been offered to You. Look upon Your own face within them, for they have become Your mirror. Nothing anywhere remains mine; all has become Your shadow, taking beautiful form wherever Your own lovely body appears. Nothing remains within the mind; You alone remain, becoming the beloved who contemplates Yourself. You Yourself become separation and forever cry out for Yourself. You Yourself become sweet union and embrace Yourself. Only an outward frame remains separate to behold this supreme bliss.
[1137]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
Even after meeting, the desire to remain forever united will not disappear. Even after meeting, concern over possible nonunion will remain. Who knows or can say whether outward meeting will occur? But who can erase the true and eternal union?
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[११३७, क्रमशः]
एक पलक भी नहीं छूटता, छूट नहीं सकता वह मेल। नित्य-निरन्तर चलता, सदा रहेगा चलता मीठा खेल॥ तुम मैं, मैं तुम, सदा एक हैं, सदा रहेंगे पूर्ण अभिन्न। होते सदा रहेंगे मधुमय मधुर मनोहर खेल विभिन्न॥
[११३८]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
सभी वस्तुओंमें तुम देते नित्य दिव्य दर्शन अनुपम। सभी वस्तुएँ दिखतीं तुममें, तुम सबके परमाश्रय सम॥ पर न वस्तु भी हैं वे तुमसे कभी पृथक्, मेरे प्रियतम। तुम उनमें, वे तुममें, या हो वस्तुमात्र तुम ही, प्रियतम॥ नहीं किसी सौन्दर्यराशिमें सीमित हो तुम, सुन्दरतम। तुम असीम हो, तुम अनन्त हो, तुम अशेष हो, रहित नियम॥ भरे अमित ब्रह्माण्ड तुम्हारे रोम-रोममें, अन्तरतम। फिर भी तुम नन्दनन्दन हो, गोपीजनवल्लभ हो, सत्तम॥
(दोहा; राग पीलू - ताल कहरवा)
तुम ही सब, सब ही तुम्हीं हो, तुम मेरे नाथ। मोरपिच्छधर मुरलीधर, पर रहते नित साथ॥
[११३९]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
रहते सदा पास वे मोहन, कभी न होते न्यारे। जब चाहो, तब मिलो हृदय भर, मिलनोत्सुक वे प्यारे॥ हर हालतमें, हर मुकाममें, आठों पहर निरन्तर। जब चाहो तब मिलो, मिटे सब मनके मिथ्या अन्तर॥
English translation
[1137, continued]
That union does not break even for an instant and cannot be broken. The sweet game proceeds eternally and ceaselessly, and will forever continue. You are I and I am You; we are eternally one and will forever remain completely undivided. Yet varied, honey-filled, sweet and enchanting games will always continue.
[1138]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
Within every object You forever grant an incomparable divine sight. Every object appears within You, for You are equally the supreme refuge of all. Yet no object is ever separate from You, my Beloved. You are within them and they are within You, or perhaps You alone are every object. Most beautiful Lord, You are not limited within any treasury of beauty. You are boundless, infinite, all-encompassing and free from restriction. Limitless universes fill every pore of Your innermost being. Yet You remain Nanda's son and the beloved of the gopis, O supreme Reality.
(Doha; Raga Pilu - Tala Kaharva)
You alone are everything and everything is You, yet You are my Master, the flute bearer crowned with a peacock feather who remains forever beside me.
[1139]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
Mohana remains forever near and never becomes separate. Whenever you wish, meet Him to your heart's content; that Beloved longs to meet. In every condition and place, continually through all eight watches, meet Him whenever you wish and let every false distance in the mind dissolve.
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[११४०]
(राग पीलू - ताल कहरवा)
मैं देखूँ नित श्यामको, मुझको नित घनश्याम। उनमें मैं नित ही रहूँ, वे मुझमें सुखधाम॥ विलग-अलगकी कल्पना रही न किंचित् शेष। नित्य मिलन सुखमय, नहीं लव वियोग-संश्लेष॥
[११४१]
(राग माड़ - ताल कहरवा)
जाग्रत्-स्वप्न-सुषुप्तिका मिटा विचार-विवेक। रहें सभीमें मधु-मधुर छाये प्रियतम एक॥ खेलें मर्यादा-रहित, हो निर्भय, निःशंक। प्रेम अलौकिक दें मुझे, लगा-लगा निज अंक॥ प्राप्त करें प्रतिपल नवल मन-इन्द्रिय-संस्पर्श। दिव्य सुखार्णव-मग्न हो, भरे हृदय नव हर्ष॥ नहीं भेद, लज्जा, सकुच, भय, विषाद, मद, मान। आलिंगन-एकत्वमें दोका रहा न ज्ञान॥ नित्य एक, नित बने दो, रचते लीला-रंग। ललित, अलौकिक, पर, रुचिर, कर श्रुति-सीमा-भंग॥ आस्वादक-आस्वाद्यमें नहीं तत्त्वतः भेद। दोष-कल्पना अतः कुछ नहिं उपजाती खेद॥ नित्य मधुरतम, नित सरस, नित नूतन आस्वाद। सहज तृप्त-अवितृप्त नित पाते परमाह्लाद॥ सुखमयको सुखदायिनी यह शुचि रसकी रीति। भुक्ति-मुक्तिसे विरत कर, देती पावन प्रीति॥
English translation
[1140]
(Raga Pilu - Tala Kaharva)
May I forever behold Syama and Ghansyama forever behold me. May I dwell forever within Him, and may He, the abode of happiness, dwell within me. Not the slightest imagination of separateness remains. Eternal union is blissful, without even a trace of the conjunction called separation.
[1141]
(Raga Mand - Tala Kaharva)
Erase all thought and discrimination concerning waking, dream and deep sleep. May the one Beloved, honeyed and sweet, pervade them all. May we play beyond convention, fearless and free from doubt. Embracing me again and again, may He give supernatural love. May mind and senses receive a fresh touch at every moment. Immersed in the divine ocean of happiness, may the heart fill with fresh joy. There is no difference, modesty, hesitation, fear, despair, pride or honor. Within the oneness of embrace, no awareness of two remains. Eternally one, forever becoming two, They create the colors of lila, graceful, supernatural, transcendent and beautiful, breaking the limits of scripture. In reality there is no difference between the relisher and the relished. Therefore imagined fault produces no sorrow. The relish is eternally sweetest, forever full of rasa and ever new. Naturally fulfilled yet unfulfilled, They continually receive supreme delight. This is the pure way of rasa that gives joy to the Blissful One. Turning one away from enjoyment and liberation, it grants sacred love.
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[११४२]
(लावनी तर्ज - ताल कहरवा)
अति आश्चर्य, बदल दी तुमने मेरी दृग-पुतली, प्राणेश! दीख रहे अब मुझको तुम सर्वत्र सभीमें, हे हृदयेश! मानवकी क्या बात, सुरासुर, पशु-पक्षी सब, कीट-पतंग। जल-थल-अनल-अनिल-नभ सब ही एक तुम्हारे ही श्रीअंग॥ वृक्ष-लता-गिरि-कूट, नद-नदी, दिशा-सूर्य-शशधर-नक्षत्र, मुझे दीखते तुम, प्रियतम, जीवनके जीवन, नित सर्वत्र॥ सबका स्पर्शित पवन, सभीका पद-रज अमल परम पावन। सदा समादरणीय, सदा शुचि सेवनीय, मम मनभावन॥
[११४३]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
मनकी बात जानता मन है, सदा अप्रकट रहते भाव। मनमें मनका खुला रूप नित, नहीं कहीं कुछ भेद-दुराव॥ मन नित रहता पास उसीके, जिसका है अनन्य अधिकार। सोचे, कौन बताये कैसे, क्या होता उसमें व्यापार॥ अपनी वस्तु सँभाले रखता वह, जिसकी वह है अनिवार। कहना-सुनना और सोचना सभी सदा ही है बेकार॥ करता और कराता सब कुछ वही निजेच्छाके अनुसार। व्यर्थ दूसरे हैं सब ही मेरे अपने आचार-विचार॥
[११४४]
(राग भीमपलासी - ताल कहरवा)
तुम छाये आ उरमें जबसे, कर उसपर निज पूर्णाधिकार। तबसे सब भय-भ्रम भाग गये, मर गये मान-मद-अहंकार॥ मिट गये भोग-सुख-काम, सूख सब गये विषय-आराम वाम। हो गये ध्वंस सब दुरित दोष, जल गयीं एषणा दुःखधाम॥
English translation
[1142]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
Lord of my life, what a wonder: You have transformed the pupils of my eyes. Lord of my heart, now You appear to me everywhere within everyone. Not only human beings, but gods and demons, animals and birds, insects and moths, water, earth, fire, wind and sky are all limbs of Your one sacred body. Trees and vines, mountain peaks, streams and rivers, directions, sun, moon and stars: Beloved, life of my life, You forever appear to me everywhere. The wind touched by all and the dust of everyone's feet are stainless and supremely sacred, always worthy of honor and pure service, forever enchanting my mind.
[1143]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
The mind knows what is within the mind, though feelings forever remain unmanifest. Within mind, mind's form lies eternally open, with no division or concealment. The mind forever remains near the One who possesses exclusive authority over it. Who could think, explain how, or tell what transaction occurs there? The One to whom an object necessarily belongs preserves His own possession. Speaking, hearing and thinking about it are forever useless. He does and causes everything according to His own will. All my other actions and thoughts are futile.
[1144]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tala Kaharva)
Since You came and pervaded my heart, assuming full authority over it, every fear and delusion has fled, and honor, pride and ego have died. Desire for sensual happiness has disappeared, and every contrary comfort of the senses has dried away. Every sin and fault has been destroyed, and the painful cravings have burned to ash.
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Hindi
[११४४, क्रमशः]
फैला प्रकाश अतिशय उज्ज्वल, प्रकटे सब सद्गुण दिव्य साज। लीला नित होने लगी ललित, लावण्य-सार प्रकटा समाज॥ हो गया दिव्य जीवन, मधुमय बह चली अमित रस-सुधा-धार। प्लावित कर सारे देश-काल, हो गया मग्न सब आर-पार॥ छा गया नित्य बढ़ता सुन्दर चिन्मय सुषमामय लता-पुंज। बन गया श्याम-श्यामाका यह अन्तः उदार निर्जन निकुंज॥
[११४५]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
तेरा मधुर प्रेम, शुचितम सौन्दर्य और चिन्मय आनन्द छाया मेरी सारी सत्तामें, है भरा पूर्ण स्वच्छन्द॥ त्रिविध रूपकी सरिता होकर एक, बढ़ी अति, ओर न छोर। बही वेगसे, प्लावित हो मैं विवश बढ़ चला तेरी ओर॥ ओत-प्रोत हुआ, न रहा अस्तित्व स्वतन्त्र कहीं मेरा। तेरी ही चेतना, शक्ति, द्युति, भाव-अभाव सभी तेरा॥ है अनन्त आनन्द, प्रेम सीमा-विरहित, सौन्दर्य अपार। पूर्ण ज्ञानयुत, परम शान्ति-माधुर्य-पूर्ण सारा आधार॥ पूर्ण प्रकाशित ज्योति बना यह मूर्तिमान तेरा शुचि धाम। तुझमें ही तेरी लीलाका बना विलक्षण रूप ललाम॥
[११४६]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
तुमने जो कहलाया मुझसे, वही कहा मैंने अविकल। तुमने जो करवाया मुझसे, वही किया मैंने निष्छल॥ तुमने जो सिखलाया मुझको, सीखा मैंने वही सकल। तुमने जो दिखलाया मुझको, देखा मैंने वही अखिल॥ यह जो कुछ भी कहा, किया, सीखा, देखा मैंने, प्रियतम, सो सब तुमने ही अपनेमें अपनी की लीला उत्तम॥
English translation
[1144, continued]
Exceedingly brilliant light has spread and every divine virtue has appeared in sacred array. Lovely lila has begun to unfold eternally, and the assembly embodying beauty's essence has manifested. Life has become divine, and an immeasurable honeyed stream of rasa's nectar flows. Flooding every place and time, it has immersed everything from shore to shore. An ever-growing, beautiful and conscious cluster of splendid vines has spread. This inner being has become Syama and Syama's generous, solitary grove.
[1145]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
Your sweet love, purest beauty and conscious bliss have spread throughout my entire being and filled it completely and freely. Becoming one river with a threefold form, it has grown without shore or end. It rushed onward, flooding me, and I helplessly moved toward You. Completely permeated, I retain no independent existence anywhere. There is only Your consciousness, power and radiance; presence and absence alike are Yours. There is infinite bliss, love without limit and boundless beauty, all founded in complete knowledge, supreme peace and perfect sweetness. This has become fully manifested light, Your sacred abode embodied. Within You it has become a wondrous and splendid form of Your own lila.
[1146]
(Raga Shivaranjani - Tala Kaharva)
Whatever You caused me to say, I said without alteration. Whatever You caused me to do, I did without deceit. Whatever You taught me, that alone I learned completely. Whatever You showed me, that alone I beheld in full. Beloved, everything I said, did, learned and saw was only Your sublime lila, performed by You within Yourself.
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Hindi
[११४६, क्रमशः]
मन-मति कैसे होते मुझमें, जब मैं ही हूँ नहीं स्वयं? बना तुम्हारा ही सुख-सदन, तुम्हीं इसमें रहते हरदम॥
[११४७]
(राग देश - ताल दादरा)
नाथ, तू सर्वस्व मेरा। भरा अन्तरमें सदा है एक बस आनन्द तेरा॥ हो गया सब कुछ समर्पण बिना ही आयासके अब। रह गया कुछ भी न, छूटा त्यागका अभिमान भी सब॥ पूर्ण निर्भरता हुई है, मिला संरक्षण अनोखा। हृदयका सूखा हलाहल, सुधा-सरोवर भरा चोखा॥ हट गया अवरोध सारा, मिट गयी बाधा सकल है। हो गया निज घर हृदय तव, आ बसा तू सदल-बल है॥
[११४८]
(राग इमन - ताल दादरा)
कौन तुम जो साथ रहते? नित्य पलभर भी न हटते, देखते सब, कुछ न कहते॥ मैं मुखर करता अवज्ञा, घोर अवहेला सदा ही। मूढ़तापर मुसकरा देते, सभी चुपचाप सहते॥ कभी जो गिरने लगा मैं अन्ध अपनी मूर्खतासे, तुरत दे करका सहारा तुम बचा लेते, सहमते॥ नहीं आते सामने, पर सदा सब सँभाल रखते। हो अनोखे सत्य-स्नेही, जो कभी बदला न चाहते॥
[११४९]
(राग भैरव - ताल कहरवा)
दिया अचल सुख मुझे अनूठा, दिया अनोखा आत्मप्रसाद। खोला शक्ति-स्रोत जीवनमें, चखा दिया निज रसका स्वाद॥ अब कोई न परिस्थिति मुझको कदापि विचलित कर सकती। हर्ष और उद्वेगरहित शुचि शान्ति कदापि न टल सकती॥
English translation
[1146, continued]
How could mind or understanding belong to me when I myself no longer exist? This being has become only the abode of Your happiness, and You alone dwell here forever.
[1147]
(Raga Des - Tala Dadra)
Master, You are my everything. Your one bliss forever fills my inner being. Everything has now become surrendered without any effort. Nothing remains, and even all pride in renunciation has departed. Complete dependence has arisen and extraordinary protection has been found. The heart's deadly poison has dried up, and a pure lake of nectar fills it. Every obstruction has withdrawn and every impediment vanished. The heart has become Your own home; You have settled there with all Your companions and powers.
[1148]
(Raga Iman - Tala Dadra)
Who are You who remain beside me? You never withdraw for even a moment, see everything and say nothing. Outspoken, I forever disobey and neglect You terribly. You only smile at my foolishness and silently endure everything. Whenever blindness and folly make me begin to fall, You at once give the support of Your hand and anxiously save me. You do not come before me, yet always keep everything protected. You are a wondrous and true lover who never seeks repayment.
[1149]
(Raga Bhairava - Tala Kaharva)
You gave me extraordinary, unwavering joy and the unique grace of the Self. You opened the source of power in life and gave me the taste of Your own rasa. Now no circumstance can ever disturb me. Pure peace, free from elation and agitation, can never be displaced.
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Hindi
[११४९, क्रमशः]
काम-लोभ-मद-क्रोध आदि हैं कभी न आ पाते मनमें। सदा तुम्हारा तेज, तुम्हारा सत्त्व भरा रहता तनमें॥ बल अमोघसे डरकर भागे पापी पाप-ताप सारे। मिटा दुःख-सन्ताप, हुआ कृतकृत्य तुम्हें पाकर, प्यारे॥ अतुल तुम्हारे शक्ति-शान्ति-सुख फैलें सबमें शुभ्र महान। सुखी-शान्त हों जगके प्राणी, दुर्लभ यह पाकर वरदान॥
[११५०]
(राग काफी - ताल कहरवा)
नहीं कामका रहा, छोड़ दो इसकी आशा। रक्खोगे तो तुम्हें मिलेगी नित्य निराशा॥ भस्म हो गयी बुद्धि जागतिक, जल-भुनकर सब। रही न कोई इसमें भोग-विचार-भूमि अब॥ क्या करना, क्या नहीं - सोच सकता न तनिक यह। सदा सहज ही उदासीन रहता, सब कुछ सह॥ होता जो होना है, उसके ही करनेसे। नहीं इसे कोई मतलब जीने-मरनेसे॥ नहीं रहा अब किसी द्वन्द्वसे भी परिचय है। हुआ करे कुछ भी, यह तो अब नित निर्भय है॥ लिखता-लिखवाता वही, करता-करवाता वही। पता नहीं क्या गलत है, पता नहीं क्या है सही॥
[११५१]
(राग सोहनी - ताल दादरा)
हुआ जबसे मैं तुम्हारा, भूलकर सम्बन्ध सारे, तभीसे आने लगे क्रमशः सभी सद्गुण तुम्हारे॥ वस्तु जो विपरीत थी या थी विरोधी भाव-धारा, मिटी अपने-आप सारी, रह गया कोई न चारा॥
English translation
[1149, continued]
Lust, greed, pride, anger and their companions can never enter the mind. Your radiance and Your essential purity forever fill the body. Frightened by Your unfailing strength, every sinful fault and torment fled. Beloved, sorrow and anguish disappeared, and finding You I became fulfilled. May Your incomparable power, peace and happiness spread brilliantly within all. Receiving this rare blessing, may the world's creatures become happy and peaceful.
[1150]
(Raga Kafi - Tala Kaharva)
This intellect is no longer useful; abandon hope in it. If you keep such hope, you will meet continual disappointment. The worldly intellect has burned and roasted until it became ash. No ground for thoughts of enjoyment remains within it now. It cannot think even slightly about what should or should not be done. It naturally remains indifferent, enduring everything. What must happen occurs only through His action. It has no concern with living or dying. It is no longer acquainted with any duality. Whatever may happen, it now remains forever fearless. He alone writes and causes writing, acts and causes action. It knows neither what is wrong nor what is right.
[1151]
(Raga Sohani - Tala Dadra)
Since I became Yours and forgot every other relationship, all Your noble qualities have gradually begun to enter me. Whatever was contrary or flowed in opposition has disappeared by itself, with no alternative remaining.
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Hindi
[११५१, क्रमशः]
सूर्यके शुभ उदयसे ज्यों नष्ट होता सब अँधेरा, मिटा त्यों सञ्चित युगोंसे था तिमिर उरमें घनेरा॥ हुआ ज्यों खाली हृदय, त्यों ही जला कूड़ा-कबाड़ा। आ विराजे तुम सदल-बल, जम गया पूरा अखाड़ा॥ अब तुम्हारे इस भवनमें अन्य कोई आ न पाता। छा रहे सर्वत्र तुम, कोई यहाँ कैसे समाता? चल रही लीला तुम्हारी, बना लीला-धाम जीवन। दे रहा आनन्द सबको, बना सबका सहज निज जन॥
[११५२]
(लावनी तर्ज - ताल कहरवा)
जीवनमें मेरे शक्ति तुम्हारी आई। जीवनमें मेरे शान्ति तुम्हारी छाई॥ मिल गया मुझे जीवनमें तेज तुम्हारा। मेरे मस्तकपर हस्त-सरोज तुम्हारा॥ है दिव्य प्रेमको मैंने तुमसे पाया। है हृदय तुम्हारा रूप अनूप समाया॥ तुम बसे हृदय निज गृहमें प्राण-पियारे। आनन्द-सूर्यमें मिटे द्वन्द्व-तम सारे॥
[११५३]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
मनमें, तनमें, बुद्धि-प्राणमें सदा तुम्हारा संग रहता बना निरन्तर, नव-नव नित्य दिखाता रंग॥ होता नहीं वियोग पलकभर, रहता नित संयोग। देता विविध विलक्षण, विस्मयकारक सुख-संयोग॥ होती नहीं तृप्ति पर मनमें, पल-पल बढ़ता चाव। होते उदय रुचिर, शुचि, सुन्दर, मधुर, मनोहर भाव॥
English translation
[1151, continued]
As all darkness is destroyed by the sun's auspicious rising, so the dense darkness accumulated in the heart through ages disappeared. As soon as the heart became empty, all its rubbish and refuse burned away. You arrived and reigned with all Your companions and powers; the full arena was established. Now no one else can enter this dwelling of Yours. You pervade everything; how could anyone else fit here? Your lila proceeds and life has become its abode. Becoming everyone's natural relative, it gives joy to all.
[1152]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
Your power has entered my life. Your peace has spread throughout my life. I have received Your radiance within my life. Your lotus hand rests upon my head. From You I have received divine love. Your incomparable form has entered my heart. Beloved of my life, You dwell within the heart as Your own home. In the sun of bliss every darkness of duality has disappeared.
[1153]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
Within mind and body, intellect and vital breath, Your companionship remains forever, continually revealing ever-new colors each day. Separation does not occur for even an instant; union remains eternal. It gives manifold, extraordinary and astonishing conjunctions of happiness. Yet the mind is never satisfied, and eagerness increases every moment. Lovely, pure, beautiful, sweet and enchanting feelings continually arise.
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Hindi
[११५३, क्रमशः]
हृदय-कली खिल उठती, होता मधुमय सुमन-विकास। मँडराते मधु-लोभी दृग-मधुकर पा मधुर सुवास॥
[११५४]
(राग पीलू - ताल कहरवा)
'मेरा' कुछ भी है नहीं, कोई प्राणि-पदार्थ। 'मैं' भी जब कुछ नहीं, तब कैसा मेरा स्वार्थ॥ एक तुम्हीं हो सभीमें, सभी जगह, सब काल। लीलामय कर रहे नित लीला विविध रसाल॥ जन्म-मरण, सुख-दुःख - सब मधुर-भयानक रूप। खेल-खिलौने - सब तुम्हीं, खेलनहार अनूप॥
[११५५]
(राग भैरव - ताल कहरवा)
मेरी जीवन-सरिता-धारा बहती तुम समुद्रकी ओर। नित्य-निरन्तर सदा सजग, पर अपनी धुनमें बनी विभोर॥ रखती तनिक न जगत्-जहरको, रहती सदा सुधा-भरपूर। बढ़ती नित्य तुम्हारे सम्मुख, करती सब विघ्नोंको चूर॥ इसीलिये इसके दोनों ही तट बन रहे परम मनहर। लहराती सुख-शान्ति-सुधाकी उनपर सदा सुरम्य लहर॥ पाते सभी जीव नित इस जीवनसे शुचि मधुमय आनन्द। सुखी देख उनको सेवासे बढ़ता मेरा परमानन्द॥ यों सुख देते-पाते मैं जा पहुँचूँगा प्रियतमके पास। हो निमग्न चरणाम्बुधिमें मैं मिल जाऊँगा बिना प्रयास॥
[११५६]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल कहरवा)
मधुर हुआ जीवन सारा माधुर्य प्राप्त करके तेरा। पा तेरा सौन्दर्य, हुआ सुन्दर बाह्याभ्यन्तर मेरा॥ तेरी निर्मल अतुल शान्तिने यहाँ जमाया आ डेरा। तेरी उज्ज्वलतम आभाने सभी ओर मुझको घेरा॥
English translation
[1153, continued]
The bud of the heart blossoms and a honey-filled flower unfolds. Bees of the eyes, greedy for honey, hover on finding its sweet fragrance.
[1154]
(Raga Pilu - Tala Kaharva)
No being or object is in any way "mine." When even the "I" is nothing, how can there be selfish interest? You alone are within everyone, everywhere and at every time. Filled with lila, You forever perform manifold, rasa-filled play. Birth and death, happiness and sorrow are all Your sweet and terrifying forms. You alone are every game and toy, and the incomparable Player.
[1155]
(Raga Bhairava - Tala Kaharva)
The current of my life's river flows toward Your ocean. Forever alert and ceaseless, it remains absorbed in its own melody. It retains not the slightest poison of the world and remains filled with nectar. It advances continually toward You, pulverizing every obstacle. Therefore both its banks are becoming supremely enchanting, with lovely waves of the nectar of happiness and peace forever playing upon them. Every being continually receives pure, honeyed joy from this life. Seeing them happy through service increases my supreme bliss. Thus giving and receiving happiness, I shall reach the Beloved. Immersed in the ocean of His feet, I shall merge without effort.
[1156]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharva)
All life became sweet after receiving Your sweetness. Receiving Your beauty, my outer and inner being became beautiful. Your stainless and incomparable peace has established its dwelling here. Your most radiant splendor has surrounded me on every side.
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Hindi
[११५६, क्रमशः]
तेरे विमल ज्ञानने कर दी दूर हृदयकी सब भ्रम-श्रान्ति। मिली अनिर्वचनीय, सकल श्रमहारिणी, सुखकारिणी विश्रान्ति॥ हुआ हृदय सारेपर तेरा एकमात्र मंगल अधिकार। धन्य हुआ, बन वह सब जग-मंगलका मंगलमय आधार॥
[११५७]
(राग भैरव - ताल कहरवा)
तुम ही सब दुःखहर, सब सुखकर, मेरे तुम ही जीवन-प्राण। तुम ही एकमात्र आशा, ध्रुवतारा, तुम्हीं परम कल्याण॥ पाकर तुमसे अमित शक्ति-सुख, मैं भी बना शक्ति-सुख-धाम। निर्बलता, भय, पाप-तापका हुआ सर्वथा काम तमाम॥ निर्भय मैं, निश्चिन्त हो गया, उदित तुम्हारा मुझमें ज्ञान। देख रहा मैं अखिल विश्वमें एक तुम्हींको, हे भगवान॥ त्रिभुवन-मंगलकर, मंगलमय त्याग-प्रेमके अमितागार, त्याग-प्रेमका बना आज मैं भी हूँ शुभ विग्रह साकार॥
[११५८]
(राग रामकली - ताल कहरवा)
इस चर-अचर जगतके सब जीवोंमें किससे छोटा कौन? सबमें सदा छिपा रहता तू, सभी मुखर, तू रहता मौन॥ सबमें छायी सत्ता तेरी, तुझसे ही सबका जीवन। सबमें भरी महत्ता तेरी, तेरा ही प्रकाश तन-मन॥ हाथ-पैर-सिर-उदर-कमर ज्यों एक देहके सब अवयव, त्यों ही तेरे अंग सभी हैं जीव, देव-दानव-मानव॥ हैं विभिन्न अति सबके शील-स्वभाव-कर्म-गुण-रुचि-आकार। तेरी ही अभिव्यक्ति सभी हैं, तेरी दिव्य मूर्ति साकार॥ सभी प्रणम्य, सुसेव्य सभी हैं, सभी सदा मेरे स्वामी। मैं सबका अनन्य लघु अनुचर, अति नगण्य पद-अनुगामी॥
English translation
[1156, continued]
Your stainless knowledge has removed every delusion and weariness from the heart. I have found indescribable, happiness-giving rest that removes all fatigue. Your one auspicious authority has extended over the entire heart. Becoming the auspicious foundation of the whole world's welfare, it has been blessed.
[1157]
(Raga Bhairava - Tala Kaharva)
You alone remove every sorrow and give every happiness; You alone are my life and vital breath. You alone are my one hope, guiding pole star and supreme welfare. Receiving limitless power and happiness from You, I too have become an abode of power and joy. Weakness, fear, sin and suffering have ended completely. I have become fearless and free from anxiety as knowledge of You arose within me. Bhagavan, I behold You alone throughout the entire universe. You bless the three worlds and are the limitless treasury of auspicious renunciation and love. Today I too have become an embodied, auspicious form of renunciation and love.
[1158]
(Raga Ramakali - Tala Kaharva)
Among all beings of this moving and unmoving world, who is smaller than whom? You remain forever hidden within all; everyone speaks, while You remain silent. Your being pervades all, and everyone lives through You. Your greatness fills all; Your light alone illumines body and mind. As hands, feet, head, belly and waist are limbs of one body, so every creature, god, demon and human being is Your limb. Their character, nature, action, qualities, tastes and forms differ greatly, yet all are manifestations of You, embodiments of Your divine form. All are worthy of reverence and service; all are forever my masters. I am the tiny, exclusive servant of all, an insignificant follower at their feet.
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[११५९]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल कहरवा)
अवनि, अनिल, जल, अनल, सकल आकाश भरे तुम पूर्णानन्द। जिधर दृष्टि जाती, दिखते सर्वत्र हँस रहे तुम स्वच्छन्द॥ वृक्षोंके पत्ते-पत्तेसे बहा रहे तुम आनन्द-स्रोत। रूप-सुगन्ध बने रहते तुम पुष्प-पुष्पमें ओत-प्रोत॥ तुम ही मधुर नृत्य करते हो, बने विचित्र-पक्षधर मोर। शशि बन ज्योति-सुधा बरसाते नित तुम ही आनन्द-विभोर॥ नित्य सत्य आनन्दपूर्ण, नित निर्मल तमहर दिव्य प्रकाश, तुम सर्वत्र कर रहे लीला, नित्य चल रहा आत्म-विलास॥
[११६०]
(राग परज - तीन ताल)
तुच्छ नगण्य सलिल-सीकर मैं, तुम रस-सुधा-समुद्र अगाध। पर चाहते डूबना मुझमें, पता नहीं यह कैसी साध? क्षुद्र जन्तु मैं परम संकुचित, तुम अनन्त हो विश्वाधार। चाह रहे छिपना पर मुझमें, पता नहीं क्या किया विचार? मैं अति दीन-दरिद्र, दिव्य तुम मूर्तिमान ऐश्वर्य अपार। पता नहीं तुम बार-बार क्या लेने आते मेरे द्वार? मैं अति पामर, पापी, तुम शुचि, पुण्यश्लोक, सच्चिदानन्द। गले लगाकर मुझसे मिलते, तुम क्या पाते हो आनन्द? सभी तुम्हारी बात अनोखी, सभी अनोखी चोखी चाल। स्वयं अनोखे हो, प्रियतम, तुम, दिया अनोखा मुझको ढाल॥
[११६१]
(राग बहार - तीन ताल)
देख एक तू ही तू, तू ही तू। सर्वव्यापक जग, तू ही तू॥ सत्, चित्, घन आनन्द, नित, अज, अव्यक्त, अपार, अलख, अनादि, अनन्त, अगोचर, पूर्ण विश्व-आधार॥
English translation
[1159]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharva)
You fill earth, wind, water, fire and the entire sky as perfect bliss. Wherever sight turns, You appear everywhere, laughing freely. From every leaf of every tree You make streams of bliss flow. As form and fragrance, You remain fully permeating every flower. Becoming the peacock with wondrous plumage, You alone perform the sweet dance. Becoming the moon, You continually rain nectar-light, overwhelmed with bliss. Eternally true and filled with bliss, forever pure divine light dispelling darkness, You perform lila everywhere, and the Self's play proceeds eternally.
[1160]
(Raga Paraj - Tintal)
I am a trivial, insignificant droplet of water; You are the unfathomable ocean of rasa's nectar. Yet You wish to drown within me; I do not understand this aspiration. I am a tiny, constricted creature, while You are infinite, the universe's foundation. Yet You wish to hide within me; I do not know what You considered. I am extremely humble and poor; You are divine, limitless majesty embodied. I do not know what You repeatedly come to take at my door. I am exceedingly fallen and sinful; You are pure, gloriously sacred, being-consciousness-bliss. Embracing and meeting me, what happiness do You find? Everything about You is extraordinary, and all Your excellent ways are wondrous. Beloved, You Yourself are extraordinary and have cast me in an extraordinary mold.
[1161]
(Raga Bahar - Tintal)
Behold, there is only You, only You. Pervading the world, there is only You. Being and consciousness, concentrated bliss, eternal, unborn, unmanifest and boundless, unseen, beginningless, infinite, beyond the senses, complete foundation of the universe.
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[११६१, क्रमशः]
एकरस, अव्यय, तू ही तू॥ सर्वव्यापक०॥ सत्यरूपसे जगत् सब तेरा ही विस्तार। जग माया-कल्पित है सारा, तव संकल्पाधार। रचयिता-रचना तू ही तू॥ सर्वव्यापक०॥ तुझ बिन दूजी वस्तु नहिं किंचित् भी संसार। सूत सुत-मणियोंमें गूँथा, जल-तरंगवत् सार। भरा एक तू ही, तू ही तू॥ सर्वव्यापक०॥ माता-पिता-धाता तू ही, वेदवेद्य ओंकार। पावन परम, पितामह तू ही, सुहृद, शरणदातार। सृजत, पालत, संहारत तू॥ सर्वव्यापक०॥ क्षर-अक्षर, कूटस्थ तू, प्रकृति-पुरुष तव रूप। मायातीत, वेदवर्णित पुरुषोत्तम, अतुल, अरूप। रूपमय, सकल रूप ही तू॥ सर्वव्यापक०॥ मोह-स्वप्नको भंग कर, निज रूपहि पहिचान। नित्य, सत्य, आनन्द, बोध-घन निजमें निजको जान। सदा आनन्दरूप एक तू॥ सर्वव्यापक०॥
[११६२]
(राग पहाड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
इस अखिल विश्वमें भरा एक तू ही तू। तुझमें-मुझमें 'तू', मैं 'तू', तू 'तू' ही तू॥ नभमें तू, जल-थल-वायु-अनलमें भी तू। मेघ-ध्वनि, दामिनी, वृष्टि प्रबलमें भी तू॥ सागर अथाह, सरिता-प्रवाहमें भी तू। शशि-शीतलता, दिनकर-प्रभामें भी तू॥ वन सघन, पुष्प-उद्यान मनोहरमें तू। प्रस्फुटित कुसुम-रस-लीन भ्रमरमें भी तू॥
English translation
[1161, continued]
One in essence and imperishable, there is only You. Pervading all, only You. As reality, the entire world is Your expansion. The whole world is imagined by maya and rests upon Your intention. Creator and creation alike are only You. Pervading all, only You. Apart from You not even the slightest second thing exists in the world. Like a thread woven through its own beads, like water within its waves, You alone fill everything, only You. Pervading all, only You. You are mother, father and sustainer, the Om known through the Vedas, the supremely purifying Grandfather, friend and giver of refuge. You create, preserve and dissolve. Pervading all, only You. You are the perishable, imperishable and immutable; nature and spirit are Your forms. Beyond maya, the incomparable, formless Purusottama praised by the Vedas, You are filled with form and are every form. Pervading all, only You. Break the dream of delusion and recognize Your own nature. Know Yourself within Yourself as eternal, real, blissful and concentrated awareness. You alone are forever the form of bliss. Pervading all, only You.
[1162]
(Raga Pahari - Tala Kaharva)
Only You fill this entire universe. Within You and me is "You"; I am "You," and You are only You. You are in the sky and in water, earth, wind and fire. You are in thunder, lightning and torrential rain. You are in the unfathomable ocean and the river's current. You are in the moon's coolness and the sun's radiance. You are in the dense forest and enchanting flower garden. You are in the bee absorbed in the rasa of a blossoming flower.
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[११६२, क्रमशः]
है सत्य-असत्, विष-अमृत, विनय-मदमें तू। शुभ क्षमा-तेज, अति विपद्-सुसम्पदमें तू॥ मृदु हास्य सरल, अति तीव्र रुदन-रवमें तू। चिर-शान्ति, क्रान्ति, अति भीषण विप्लवमें तू॥ है प्रकृति-पुरुष, पुरुषोत्तम-मायामें तू। अति असह धूप, सुखदायक छायामें तू॥ नारी-अन्तर, शिशु सुखद वदनमें भी तू। कामारि, कुसुम-शरपाणि मदनमें भी तू॥ घन अन्धकार, उज्ज्वल प्रकाशमें भी तू। जड़ मूढ़ प्रकृति, अतिमति-विकासमें भी तू॥ है साध्वी घरनी, कुलटा-गणिकामें भी तू। है गुँथा सूत, माला, मणिकामें भी तू॥ तू पाप-पुण्यमें, नरक-स्वर्गमें भी तू। पशु-पक्षी, सुरासुर, मनुज-वर्गमें भी तू॥ है मिट्टी-लोह, पाषाण-स्वर्णमें भी तू। चतुराश्रममें तू, चतुर्वर्णमें भी तू॥ है धनी-रंक, ज्ञानी-अज्ञानीमें तू। है निरभिमानमें, अति अभिमानीमें तू॥ है बाल-वृद्ध, नर-नारी, नपुंसकमें तू। अति करुण-हृदयमें, निर्दय हिंसकमें तू॥ है शत्रु-मित्रमें, बाहरमें, घरमें तू। है ऊपर, नीचे, मध्य, चराचरमें तू॥ 'हाँ' में, 'ना' में तू, 'तू' में, 'मैं' में 'तू' तू। हूँ तू, तू तू, तू तू तू, बस तू ही तू॥
English translation
[1162, continued]
You are in truth and falsehood, poison and nectar, humility and pride. You are in auspicious forgiveness and radiance, in terrible adversity and fine prosperity. You are in gentle, simple laughter and the sound of intense weeping. You are in enduring peace, revolution and terrifying upheaval. You are nature and spirit, Purusottama and maya. You are in unbearable sunlight and comforting shade. You are within a woman and in an infant's delightful face. You are the enemy of lust and Cupid bearing flower arrows. You are in dense darkness and brilliant light. You are in dull, unconscious nature and in the highest development of intelligence. You are in the virtuous wife and in the unfaithful courtesan. You are the woven thread, the garland and its jewel. You are in sin and virtue, in hell and heaven. You are in animals and birds, gods and demons, and humankind. You are in clay, iron, stone and gold. You are in the four stages of life and the four social orders. You are in the rich and poor, the learned and ignorant. You are in the humble and the exceedingly proud. You are in child and elder, man, woman and the sexless. You are in the deeply compassionate heart and the pitiless aggressor. You are in enemy and friend, outside and at home. You are above, below and between, within all that moves and does not move. You are in "yes" and "no," in "You" and "I"; You are only You. I am You; You, You, You and You: only You.
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[११६३]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
प्रकृति-पुरुष-परमात्मा तुम ही, माया, शुद्ध ब्रह्म तुम हो। जगदीश्वर भगवान तुम्हीं हो, सर्वान्तर्यामी तुम हो॥ दिव्यलोक वैकुण्ठ तुम्हीं हो, हो कैवल्य मोक्ष तुम ही। देव तुम्हीं हो, दानव तुम ही, हो सुरलोक-नरक तुम ही॥ आश्रय तुम्हीं, अनाश्रय तुम ही, कीर्ति तुम्हीं, अकीर्ति तुम ही। वैभव तुम्हीं, गरीबी तुम ही, कीर्ति तुम्हीं, अकीर्ति तुम ही॥ मान तुम्हीं, अपमान तुम्हीं हो, स्तुति तुम्हीं, निन्दा तुम ही। जन्म तुम्हीं, बीमारी तुम ही, तुम ही जरा, मृत्यु तुम ही॥ किसी रूपमें मिलो, मिलोगे मुझको सदा एक तुम ही। रक्खो कहीं मुझे, नित भरे रहोगे वहाँ एक तुम ही॥
[११६४]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल मूल)
बाहर-भीतर तुम ही मेरे, ऊपर-नीचे तुम सब ओर। कण-कणमें तुम भरे हुए हो, नित्य-निरन्तर सब ही ठौर॥ श्वासोंके तुम श्वास, हृदय हृदयोंके, चित्तोंके तुम चित्त। बुद्धि बुद्धियोंके, प्राणोंके प्राण, सर्व वित्तोंके वित्त॥ जीवनके जीवन हो तुम ही, सत्ताओंकी सत्ता एक। सर्वरूपसे छाये सबमें, एक बने तुम नित्य अनेक॥ सभी दिशाओंके, देशोंके, सभी काल-गुणके आधार। प्राणिमात्र, जड़-चेतन, अग-जग, सभी तुम्हारे ही आकार॥ जबतक तुम्हें देखना इच्छित, इस निजांशका पृथक् विकास, तबतक दीखो, देखो अपनेमें ही अपना विमल विलास॥
English translation
[1163]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
You alone are nature, spirit and the Supreme Self; You are maya and pure Brahman. You alone are Bhagavan, Lord of the universe, the indwelling ruler of all. You are the divine realm Vaikuntha and the liberation of absolute oneness. You are god and demon, the celestial world and hell. You are refuge and absence of refuge, fame and infamy. You are splendor and poverty, renown and disgrace. You are honor and dishonor, praise and blame. You are birth, disease, old age and death. Whatever form I meet, it is always You alone whom I meet. Wherever You keep me, You alone will forever fill that place.
[1164]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Mul)
You alone are mine outside and within, above, below and on every side. You fill every particle, eternally and ceaselessly, in every place. You are the breath of breaths, heart of hearts and mind of minds, intelligence of intelligences, life of lives and treasure of all treasures. You alone are the life of life and the one being of all beings. Pervading all in every form, the One eternally becomes many. You are the foundation of every direction, country, time and quality. Every creature, conscious and unconscious, moving and unmoving, is Your form. As long as this separate development of Your own portion wishes to behold You, keep appearing and behold Your own stainless play within Yourself.
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[११६५]
(राग भैरवी)
सूर्य-सोममें, वायु-व्योममें, सलिल-धार, धरणीमें तुम। सुत-कलत्रमें, पुष्प-पत्रमें, स्वर्ण-अश्म-अरणीमें तुम॥ शत्रु-मित्रमें, सुख-अमर्षमें, अनल, अतल-सागरमें तुम। सबमें, सभी दिशाओंमें छाये, केवल हे नटनागर, तुम॥
[११६६]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल त्रिताल)
किससे, कैसे, कब हो सकता है मेरा सचमुच कल्याण, नहीं जानता उसे अज्ञ मैं, पूर्ण जानते हैं भगवान॥ सर्वशक्तियुत, सबके ज्ञाता, सब लोकोंके ईश महान, सहज सुहृद् मेरे, वे जो कुछ करते मेरे लिये विधान॥ निश्चय ही वह है मंगलमय, सब कल्याणोंका आधान। हिम-आतप, वर्षा-सूखा - कब किससे कैसा लाभ अमान॥ रोग-निरोग, मरण-जीवनके सब रहस्यका उनको ज्ञान। इससे वे जब भी जो कुछ भी करते हैं रखकर अवधान॥ भरा उसीमें है हित सबका, परम चरम शुभ अभ्युत्थान। निर्भय मैं रहता हूँ इससे, प्रभु-अनुकम्पाका कर ध्यान॥
[११६७]
(राग माड़ - ताल कहरवा)
सबमें मैं ही रम रहा, सब ही मेरे अंग। सब ही 'मैं', फिर कौन-सा करूँ अंग मैं भंग? किसी अंगपर लगेगी चोट - बड़ी या अल्प, निश्चय ही वह लगेगी मुझको, बिना विकल्प॥ तब फिर कैसे करूँ मैं किस परका अपकार? कैसे किसको दुःख दूँ, कैसे करूँ प्रहार?
English translation
[1165]
(Raga Bhairavi)
You are in sun and moon, wind and sky, flowing water and earth. You are in son and spouse, flower and leaf, gold, stone and kindling wood. You are in enemy and friend, happiness and resentment, fire and the bottomless ocean. O graceful divine lover, You alone pervade everyone and every direction.
[1166]
(Raga Todi - Trital)
Ignorant, I do not know through whom, how or when my true welfare can occur, but Bhagavan knows it perfectly. Endowed with every power, knower of all and great Lord of every world, He is my natural friend, and whatever ordinance He makes for me is certainly auspicious and contains every form of welfare. What benefit comes, when and through cold, heat, rain or drought? He knows every mystery of sickness and health, death and life. Therefore whenever He does anything, He acts with full attention. Within it lies everyone's welfare and the supreme, ultimate and auspicious upliftment. Thus I remain fearless, contemplating the Lord's compassion.
[1167]
(Raga Mand - Tala Kaharva)
I alone delight within all, and all are my limbs. All are "I"; which limb could I then break? Any wound to any limb, whether great or small, will certainly strike me, without exception. How then could I harm anyone? How could I give anyone sorrow or strike them?
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[११६७, क्रमशः]
नाम-रूप हैं देहके कल्पित, असत् विभिन्न। सबमें अन्तर्निहित हैं ईश्वर एक अभिन्न॥
[११६८]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल कहरवा)
मेरा जो कुछ था, सब हीपर हुआ एक उनका अधिकार। वे ही अब सब कुछ हैं मेरे - प्राण, हृदय, मन, प्राणाधार॥ ममता सब छूटी अग-जगकी, मिटा सभी जगका अभिमान। रहा न कोई, कुछ भी 'मेरा', रहा न 'मैं'का भी सन्धान॥ एकमात्र है उनसे ही बस सभी भाँति मेरा सम्बन्ध। टूट गये सब कठिन दुर्ग अति, टूट गये सब मिथ्या बन्ध॥ रहा न किसी दुःख-सुखसे अब मेरा कोई भी सम्पर्क। रहा न कोई कैसा भी सन्देह, मिट गये सारे तर्क॥ रहे कहीं भी, कैसा भी, यह देह पाञ्चभौतिक सविकार। मैं उनमें, वे मुझमें, वे-मैं नित्य-निरन्तर एकाकार॥
[११६९]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
मेरी परम शान्ति, जीवनकी कान्ति, परम आनन्द महान, मेरी शक्ति-सुमति, गति-सम्पति, एकमात्र हैं श्रीभगवान॥ नहीं भूलता पथ, रक्षा पाता, नित मैं रहता हूँ स्वस्थ। मेरे पथदर्शक, संरक्षक, निपुण चिकित्सक वे अन्तःस्थ॥ रहते नित सर्वत्र निकटतम मेरे वे प्रभु सभी प्रकार। हृदय हृदयके, प्राण प्राणके मेरे वे सर्वस्व उदार॥ प्रभु मेरे सौन्दर्य सत्य, शुचि प्रेम परम, उज्ज्वलतम ज्ञान। प्रभुसे हुआ पूर्णतम जीवन, सफल सदा, सब गत-उपमान॥ पाप-कलुष, दुःख-दैन्य, रोग-भय, शोक-अशान्ति, वैर-विद्वेष, कभी न रह सकता मेरे शुभ जीवनमें इनका कुछ लेश॥
English translation
[1167, continued]
Names and forms are imagined distinctions belonging to the body and are unreal. Within all abides the one undivided Lord.
[1168]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharva)
He alone has assumed authority over everything that was mine. Now He alone is my everything: vital breath, heart, mind and life's foundation. All possessiveness toward the moving and unmoving world has departed, and all worldly pride dissolved. No person or thing remains "mine," and even the "I" can no longer be found. In every way, my one relationship is with Him alone. Every formidable fortress has fallen and every false bond broken. I now retain no connection with any happiness or sorrow. No doubt of any kind remains, and every argument has ended. Wherever and however this changing body of five elements may remain, I am within Him and He within me; He and I are eternally and ceaselessly one form.
[1169]
(Raga Shivaranjani - Tala Kaharva)
Sri Bhagavan alone is my supreme peace, life's radiance and highest bliss, my power and right understanding, path and treasure. I do not lose the way, I receive protection and remain forever whole. He dwells within as my guide, protector and skillful physician. That Lord remains forever and everywhere nearest to me in every way, the heart of my heart, life of my life and generous all-in-all. The Lord is my true beauty, pure and supreme love, and most radiant knowledge. Through Him life has become utterly complete, forever successful and beyond comparison. No trace of sin or impurity, sorrow or helplessness, disease or fear, grief, unrest, hostility or hatred can ever remain within my auspicious life.
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[११६९, क्रमशः]
क्योंकि बना जीवन मेरा केवल प्रभुका ही नित्य निवास। लीलारत प्रभु सदा कर रहे मधुमय इसमें रास-विलास॥
[११७०]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
मैं हूँ दृढ़, मैं सदा साहसी, हूँ विजयी, मैं हूँ बलवान। क्योंकि सुदृढ़ता-साहस, जय-बल मुझे दे रहे नित भगवान॥ उनके बिना कहीं कुछ भी मैं नहीं, सर्वथा शून्य-समान। पर वे मुझमें नित्य विराजित, सर्वेश्वर, बल-बुद्धि-निधान॥ दुर्गुण-दुर्विचार-दुःख मुझको कर पाते न कभी हैरान। क्योंकि सदा निज संरक्षणमें रखते प्रभु रख अति अवधान॥ सर्वसमर्थ दे रहे प्रभु मुझको गुण-बल निज नित्य महान। रखते विनय-विनम्र सदा, हो पाता नहीं उदय अभिमान॥ जीवन्मुक्त नित्य रहता, करता प्रभुके गुण ग्रहण अमान। प्रभु-इंगितसे होता रहता फिर उनका दुनियामें दान॥ करते और कराते प्रभु यह सभी स्वयं आदान-प्रदान। मैं तो बना यन्त्र हूँ केवल, यन्त्री वे स्वतन्त्र मतिमान॥
[११७१]
(राग विहाग - ताल कहरवा)
प्रभु मेरे रहते नित पास, प्रभु देते नित दिव्य प्रकाश॥ प्रभुसे होता प्रेम-विकास, प्रभुसे बढ़ता मन उल्लास॥ प्रभु पूरी करते मम आस, प्रभुमें मेरा दृढ़ विश्वास॥
[११७२]
(राग भैरवी - तीन ताल)
प्रभुसे प्यारा है, न्यारा है, जैसा जो कुछ भी सम्बन्ध। काट दिये हैं उसने मेरे यहाँ-वहाँके सारे बन्ध॥ रहते मेरे साथ निरन्तर, प्रभु क्षण दूर नहीं होते। अनुभव सदा कराते अपना, हर स्थितिमें जगते-सोते॥
English translation
[1169, continued]
For my life has become only the Lord's eternal dwelling. The playful Lord continually performs His honeyed rasa play within it.
[1170]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
I am steadfast, forever courageous, victorious and strong, because Bhagavan continually gives me firmness, courage, victory and strength. Without Him I am nothing anywhere, utterly equal to emptiness. But He eternally reigns within me, Lord of all and treasury of strength and wisdom. Bad qualities, evil thoughts and sorrow can never trouble me, for the Lord keeps me forever under His vigilant protection. The omnipotent Lord continually gives me His own sublime virtues and strength, yet keeps me modest and humble so that pride cannot arise. Forever liberated while living, I selflessly receive the Lord's qualities, and at His indication they are then given to the world. The Lord Himself performs and causes this entire exchange. I have become merely the instrument; He is the free and wise Player.
[1171]
(Raga Vihag - Tala Kaharva)
My Lord remains forever near and continually gives divine light. Love develops through the Lord, and joy in the mind increases through Him. The Lord fulfills my hope; my faith in Him is firm.
[1172]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tintal)
Whatever the relationship with the Lord may be, it is dear and unique. It has severed all my bonds here and elsewhere. The Lord remains ceaselessly with me and is not distant even for an instant. Waking or sleeping, in every condition, He forever gives the experience of Himself.
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[११७२, क्रमशः]
रहूँ कहीं भी, कैसे भी, वे रहते नित्य पास मेरे। रहते नित भीतर-बाहरसे चारों ओर मुझे घेरे॥ वे मेरे कैसे अपने हैं, इसे बताऊँ मैं कैसे? अनुभव होता है, पर नहीं बता सकता, गूँगा जैसे॥
[११७३]
(खट तर्ज - ताल दादरा)
प्रभु मुझसे जरा भी दूर कभी नहीं हैं। प्रभु मेरे समीप हैं, प्रभु अभी यहीं हैं॥ दे रहे वे प्रेम, ज्ञान, शक्ति अजित हैं। भर रहे वे मधुर सुधा मुझमें अमित हैं॥ मिट गया है घोर दाह मोह-श्रान्तिका। बह रहा प्रवाह सतत परम शान्तिका॥ निर्मल शीतल प्रकाश मुझमें छा गया। प्रभुका सुप्रभाव मेरे मनमें आ गया॥
[११७४]
(राग भैरव - तीन ताल)
हुआ सच्चिदानन्द एकमें ही अब मेरा नित्य निवास। हटी सभी मायाकी छाया, हुआ ज्योतिका विमल विकास॥ मिटी अहन्ता-ममता सारी, रहा न निज-परका सम्बन्ध। मुक्ति-कामना मिटी, खुल गये यहाँ-वहाँके सारे बन्ध॥ मेरा-तेरा हटा, मिट गया देश-कालका सब व्यवधान। एक तत्त्व परिपूर्ण सत्य, अब रहा न कुछ भी क्षुद्र-महान॥ मिटा सभी भिन्नत्व, एकमें एक हो गया सबका रूप। द्वन्द्वरहित आनन्द छा रहा नित्य एकरस दिव्य अनूप॥
English translation
[1172, continued]
Wherever and however I may remain, He remains eternally near. Within and without, He forever surrounds me on every side. How can I explain how truly He is my own? I experience it but cannot describe it, like a mute tasting sweetness.
[1173]
(Khat melody - Tala Dadra)
The Lord is never even slightly distant from me. The Lord is near me; the Lord is right here now. The unconquered Lord gives love, knowledge and strength. He fills me with limitless sweet nectar. The terrible burning of delusion and exhaustion has disappeared. A stream of supreme peace flows ceaselessly. Pure, cooling light has spread within me. The Lord's excellent influence has entered my mind.
[1174]
(Raga Bhairava - Tintal)
Now my eternal dwelling is solely in the one being-consciousness-bliss. Every shadow of maya has withdrawn, and stainless light has unfolded. All ego and possessiveness have vanished; no relation of self and other remains. Desire for liberation has disappeared, and all bonds here and elsewhere have opened. Mine and yours have ended, and every obstruction of place and time has dissolved. The one Reality is complete and true; nothing small or great remains. All difference has vanished; the form of everything has become one within the One. Free from duality, divine and incomparable bliss pervades eternally and uniformly.
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[११७५]
(राग माड़ - ताल कहरवा)
ईश्वरकी शुभ दृष्टिका मुझमें हुआ पसार। मैं भी अब शुभ बन गया, करता शुभ व्यवहार॥
[११७६]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
देते हैं भगवान सदा ही सहज मुझे निज दिव्य प्रकाश। करते हैं नित मंगल मेरा, है यह मेरा दृढ़ विश्वास॥ संकटकी प्रत्येक घड़ीमें रहते हैं वे मेरे पास। हर लेते संकट तत्क्षण ही, जैसे रवि करता तम-नाश॥ नये-नये पथसे आ-आकर करते घोर विपद्से त्राण। विविध अनन्त साधनोंसे प्रभु करते हैं मेरा कल्याण॥ बरसाते इतनी अनुकम्पा - गणना नहीं, नहीं परिमाण। अनुभव मुझे कराते अपना, भर देते प्रकाशसे प्राण॥
[११७७]
(राग भीमपलासी - ताल कहरवा)
देख रहा प्रत्यक्ष पूर्ण मैं, उतर रहे मुझमें भगवान। भरे दे रहे अपने दिव्य गुणोंको परम उदार महान॥ हँसकर बोल रहे यों - 'बच्चे, देख इधर, देकर कुछ ध्यान। चारों ओर छा रहा कैसा है शीतल प्रकाश निर्मान॥ स्नेह, शील, सौन्दर्य, सत्य शुभ, शोभा-श्री, समता सुखसार, शान्ति, क्षान्ति - सब गुण मेरे तुझमें हो प्रकट रहे अनिवार'॥ अनुभव यह हो रहा मुझे भी, भगवदीय शुचि गुण-आचार छाये आ मेरे जीवनमें, बढ़ा रहे अपना परिवार॥ जबसे किया स्वयं प्रभुने आ मेरे अन्दर नित्य निवास, तबसे गुण भी प्रकटे, ज्यों रवि रहता, होता वहीं प्रकाश॥
English translation
[1175]
(Raga Mand - Tala Kaharva)
God's auspicious vision has spread within me. I too have now become auspicious and act auspiciously.
[1176]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
Bhagavan naturally and forever gives me His divine light. He continually brings about my welfare; this is my firm faith. At every moment of adversity He remains near me. He removes the danger instantly, as the sun destroys darkness. Arriving by ever-new paths, He delivers me from terrible calamity. Through limitless and varied means, the Lord secures my welfare. He rains such compassion that it can neither be counted nor measured. He gives me experience of Himself and fills my life with light.
[1177]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tala Kaharva)
I behold it directly and fully: Bhagavan is descending into me, filling me with His own divine qualities, supremely generous and great. Laughing, He says, "Child, look here and pay attention. See how cooling, stainless light spreads on every side. Affection, character, beauty, auspicious truth, splendor, equality and the essence of happiness, peace and forbearance: all My qualities inevitably manifest within you." I too experience these pure divine qualities and conduct entering my life and increasing their family. Since the Lord Himself came to dwell eternally within me, the qualities too have appeared, as light necessarily appears wherever the sun abides.
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[११७७, क्रमशः]
रह न सके इससे अब कोई मुझमें दुर्गुण-दुष्टाचार। भगे सभी भय-शोक, शत्रु कामादि, मिटे मानसिक विकार॥
[११७८]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
हर स्थितिमें, हर जगह, हमेशा रहते हैं प्रभु मेरे साथ। रहता मस्तकपर मेरे नित उन मेरे प्रिय प्रभुका हाथ॥ सुखमय बीते हुए समयकी कभी न आती मुझको याद। वर्तमानके विषम समयमें पाकर प्रभुका आशीर्वाद॥ स्थितियाँ सदा बदलतीं, आते नये-नये जीवनमें मोड़। किन्तु मोदपूरित रहता मन, क्योंकि न जाते प्रभु पल छोड़॥ मेरे परम सुहृद् पावन प्रभु करते पलक न मेरा त्याग। हर स्थितिमें बरसाते रहते मुझपर सदा सुधा-अनुराग॥ इससे मैं पा रहा सुनिश्चित घोर पाप-तापोंसे त्राण। कोई भी स्थिति रहे, हो रहा मेरा नित्य परम कल्याण॥
[११७९]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
मेरे चारों ओर विराजित भीतर-बाहर हैं भगवान। अतः नहीं रह सकते मुझमें भय-भ्रम-चिन्ता-मद-अभिमान॥ कहीं भी रहूँ, चाहूँ, सोचूँ, करूँ सदा मैं कुछ भी काम, संरक्षण करते मेरा प्रभु शक्ति-प्रेममय आठों याम॥ सदा साथ हैं, सदा एक हैं, स्वयं कराते अनुभव नाथ। स्नेहभरे अन्तससे मेरे सिरपर रक्खे रहते हाथ॥ प्रतिपल मैं प्रत्येक श्वासमें उनका पावन पाता संग। रहता मैं निश्चिन्त, नम्र, निर्मम, निर्भय नित प्रभुके रंग॥
English translation
[1177, continued]
Therefore no bad quality or wicked conduct can now remain within me. Every fear and grief has fled, the enemies headed by lust have departed, and mental distortions vanished.
[1178]
(Raga Shivaranjani - Tala Kaharva)
In every condition and place, at all times, the Lord remains with me. The hand of my beloved Lord rests forever upon my head. I never remember past times merely because they were pleasant, for in the difficult present I receive the Lord's blessing. Conditions continually change and fresh turns enter life, yet the mind remains filled with joy because the Lord does not leave for even an instant. My supremely friendly and sacred Lord does not abandon me for the blink of an eye. In every condition He forever rains the nectar of love upon me. Thus I receive certain deliverance from terrible sin and suffering. Whatever the condition, my supreme welfare is continually unfolding.
[1179]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
Bhagavan reigns all around me, within and without. Therefore fear, delusion, anxiety, pride and ego cannot remain in me. Wherever I dwell, whatever I desire, think or do, the Lord filled with power and love protects me through all eight watches. He is always with me and forever one with me; the Master Himself grants this experience. With a heart filled with affection, He keeps His hand upon my head. At every moment and in every breath I receive His sacred companionship. I remain carefree, humble, without possessiveness and fearless, forever dyed in the Lord's color.
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[११८०]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
मेरे द्वारा होता जो कुछ, करते वह सारा भगवान। 'मैं' न रहा, 'मेरा' न रहा कुछ, कर्ता कौन, कहाँ अभिमान॥ ढाँचा एक बना रक्खा है अपनेसे ही अपने काम। नियमित सब चलते कल-पुर्जे, होती दिखती क्रिया तमाम॥ भोग-त्याग, ममता-निर्ममता, अकुशल-कुशल सभी व्यापार, लीलामय कर रहे स्वयं ही लीला निज-इच्छा अनुसार॥ नहीं बच रहा करनेवाला, करना, करने योग्य पदार्थ। मिटा स्व-पर, हो गये एक, अविभक्त स्वार्थ, सारे परमार्थ॥
[११८१]
(राग भीमपलासी - ताल कहरवा)
मेरे मनमें नित प्रविष्ट रह, ईश्वरका मन करता काम। ईश्वरके मनके ही होते उदय दिव्य संकल्प ललाम॥ रहा न मेरे मनमें कुछ भी ईश्वरके मनके अतिरिक्त। रहता सदा इसीसे वह मधुमय भगवद्-रससे अभिषिक्त॥ मेरे मनको नित्य बनाये रखते प्रभु निज मनका यन्त्र। करते उससे अपने मनकी, मनमोहन वे परम स्वतन्त्र॥ रहा न कोई मुझमें करनेवाला अब शुचि-अशुचि विचार। अन्तर्द्वन्द्व मिट गये सारे, मिटे मोहके सभी विकार॥ प्रभुके मनमें निजको खोकर, मन हो गया अमन मेरा। उठा असत् आशा-तृष्णाका, ममताका सारा डेरा॥ क्रीड़ा करते अब उसमें, उससे प्रियतम इच्छा-अनुसार। करते रहते नित उसमें, उससे वे अब स्वच्छन्द विहार॥
English translation
[1180]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
Whatever occurs through me is all performed by Bhagavan. The "I" no longer remains and nothing is "mine"; who then acts, and where could pride arise? He has fashioned one frame from Himself for His own work. All its mechanical parts move regularly, and the whole activity appears to occur. Enjoyment and renunciation, possessiveness and freedom from it, unskillful and skillful action: the playful Lord Himself performs lila according to His own will. No doer, doing or object worthy of action survives. Self and other have vanished and become one; every selfish end and supreme purpose is undivided.
[1181]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tala Kaharva)
God's mind remains forever entered within mine and performs its work. Only the splendid divine intentions of God's mind arise. Nothing remains in my mind apart from God's mind. Therefore it remains forever honeyed and bathed in divine rasa. The Lord continually keeps my mind as an instrument of His own mind. Through it the supremely free Enchanter acts according to His pleasure. No one remains within me to form pure or impure judgments. Every inner conflict has disappeared, as have all distortions of delusion. Losing itself within the Lord's mind, my mind has become no-mind. The entire camp of unreal hope, thirst and possessiveness has departed. Now the Beloved plays within it and through it according to His will. Within and through it He continually wanders in complete freedom.
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[११८२]
(लावनी तर्ज - ताल कहरवा)
मैं अपने प्यारे ईश्वरका हूँ प्यारा अतिशय बालक। ईश्वर हैं मेरे संरक्षक, संवर्धक, सच्चे पालक॥ यही चाहता हूँ, ईश्वर वे मुझे बना रक्खें निज यन्त्र। यन्त्री बन वे सदा चलायें मुझे स्वयं अपने ही तन्त्र॥ दुःसह विकट परिस्थितिमें भी रहता मैं निर्भय-निश्चिन्त। रखते सदा सुरक्षित मुझको, अनुकम्पा कर प्रकट अनन्त॥ कहाँ नगण्य, तुच्छ मैं, पामर, कहाँ परात्पर प्रभु भगवान। अमित स्नेहसे मुझे पालते परमेश्वर कर कृपा महान॥ पाकर मैं चरणाश्रय दुर्लभ जगमें आज हो गया धन्य। उपजी मेरे मन अति पावन पद-कमलोंमें प्रीति अनन्य॥
[११८३]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
मैं कैसा भी हूँ, पर मेरे प्रभु रहते नित मेरे पास। हैं अनन्त वे प्रेममूर्ति प्रभु, हैं अनन्त वे स्नेह-निवास॥ मुझपर स्वाभाविक ही उनका है अनन्त अतिशय अपनत्व। अविरत मुझे देखते रहते, रखते सहज पवित्र ममत्व॥ काम-क्रोध-लोभ-भय-चिन्ता-मोह-मान-मद-शोक-विषाद, सभी समूल मिटे, जब प्रभुका लगा बरसने कृपा-प्रसाद॥ मैं हूँ नित निर्भय, उनका कर-कंज देख सिरपर पावन। मुझपर सदा स्नेह बरसाते रहते वे प्रभु मनभावन॥
[११८४]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
मैं प्रभुका, प्रभु मेरे, भरा उन्हींका बल मेरे अन्दर। सहज सुनिर्मल स्नेह अमित है खेल रहा विशुद्ध सुन्दर॥ उनकी अतुल शक्तिसे मैं नित शक्तिमान निजको पाता। उनका अतुल प्रेम-रस-सागर मेरे अन्दर लहराता॥
English translation
[1182]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
I am the exceedingly dear child of my beloved God. God is my protector, nourisher and true guardian. I desire only that He keep me as His own instrument, becoming the Player and forever directing me through His own system. Even in unbearable and terrible circumstances, I remain fearless and carefree. Manifesting infinite compassion, He forever keeps me safe. How insignificant, trivial and fallen I am, and how transcendent is the Lord Bhagavan. Yet the Supreme Lord cares for me with limitless affection and sublime grace. Today I have become blessed by attaining rare refuge at His feet. Supremely sacred and exclusive love for His lotus feet has arisen within my mind.
[1183]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
Whatever I may be, my Lord remains forever near me. That Lord is the infinite embodiment of love and infinite abode of affection. He naturally feels limitless and extraordinary belonging toward me. He watches me ceaselessly and preserves pure possessive affection for me. Lust, anger, greed, fear, anxiety, delusion, honor, pride, grief and despair were all uprooted when the gracious gift of the Lord's mercy began to rain. I remain forever fearless, seeing His sacred lotus hand upon my head. That enchanting Lord forever rains affection upon me.
[1184]
(Raga Shivaranjani - Tala Kaharva)
I belong to the Lord and the Lord belongs to me; His strength fills my inner being. Limitless, naturally stainless affection plays there in purity and beauty. Through His incomparable power I continually find myself powerful. The incomparable ocean of His love-rasa surges within me.
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[११८४, क्रमशः]
जीवनमें भर गया उन्हींका मेरे आत्यन्तिक आनन्द। मिटे दुःख, सब दुःखके कारण, मिटे सभी अति दारुण द्वन्द्व॥ जाग उठा मुझमें उनका अब पूरा आत्यन्तिक अनुराग। मिटा लोक-परलोक - सभीका ममता-मोह, कामना-राग॥ छायी प्रभुकी सहज अभयता, मिथ्या भयका भागा भूत। निर्भय-निर्विवाद हो, मैं निःशंक हो गया निश्चित पूत॥ उदय हो गयी मेरे अन्दर उनकी परम क्षमा सुपुनीत। हुआ क्रोध निर्मूल, नहीं अब होता कोई मुझसे भीत॥ सबका ही हित, सबका ही सुख, मेरा अपना हित-सुख सत्य। मुझे दिखायी दिया स्पष्ट, सब विषय-वासना मिटी अनित्य॥ काम-क्रोध, भय-मोह-लोभका, हुआ शोकका पूर्ण विनाश। परमानन्दपूर्ण नित प्रभु-अनुकम्पाका हो रहा विकास॥
[११८५]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
हम उनके हैं सदा सर्वथा, वही हमारे हैं सर्वस्व। पता नहीं हम कौन, कहाँ हैं, कैसे करें कभी कुछ गर्व॥ बल-दुर्बलता, गुण-अवगुण - सब हैं उनकी इच्छा-अनुसार। चाहे जैसे करें-करायें, कौन करे फिर सोच-विचार॥
[११८६]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल कहरवा)
मैं प्रभुका, वे प्रभु हैं मेरे, मेरा-उनका नित सम्बन्ध। जान गया मैं इसको, इससे सब कट गये जगतके बन्ध॥ भोगोंका जो राग-काम-तम छाया था मन-मध्य अनन्त, प्रभुके परमोज्ज्वल प्रकाशसे आज हो गया उसका अन्त॥ हटा सभी अज्ञान-तिमिर, अब मिटी सभी ममताकी श्रान्ति। प्रकट हो गयी जीवनमें मम प्रभुकी सुधा-मधुर शुभ शान्ति॥
English translation
[1184, continued]
His absolute bliss has filled my life. Sorrow and all its causes have disappeared, as have every terrible duality. His complete and absolute love has now awakened within me. Possessive delusion and desirous attachment toward this world and the next have vanished. The Lord's natural fearlessness has spread, and the ghost of false fear has fled. Fearless and beyond dispute, free from doubt, I have become certainly pure. His supremely sacred forgiveness has arisen within me. Anger has been uprooted, and now no one feels afraid of me. Everyone's welfare and happiness are truly my own welfare and happiness. This has become clear to me, and every impermanent craving for sense objects has disappeared. Lust, anger, fear, delusion, greed and grief have been utterly destroyed. The Lord's compassion, forever filled with supreme bliss, continually unfolds.
[1185]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
We belong to Him forever and completely, and He alone is our everything. We do not know who or where we are; how could we ever take pride? Strength and weakness, virtue and fault all arise according to His will. Let Him do and cause whatever He wishes; who then should keep deliberating?
[1186]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharva)
I belong to the Lord and He is my Lord; this is our eternal relationship. Knowing it, every worldly bond has been severed. The darkness of attachment and desire for enjoyments that had spread endlessly through the mind has ended today through the Lord's supremely radiant light. Every darkness of ignorance has withdrawn and all weariness of possessiveness disappeared. The Lord's auspicious peace, sweet as nectar, has manifested within my life.
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[११८७]
(राग भैरव - तीन ताल)
मैं रहता हूँ प्रभुमें ही नित, प्रभुका मुझमें नित्य निवास। प्रभुके सिवा अन्य कोई भी सत्ता नहीं, नहीं अवकाश॥ जब जो भी मिलता, उसमें ही दिखता प्रभुका मोहन रूप। भले बना हो वह अति सुन्दर अथवा हो वीभत्स-कुरूप॥ सबमें है प्रभुकी गुण-गरिमा, सबमें हैं मंगलमय भाव। सबके द्वारा अपने ही प्रभु करते प्रकट विचित्र विभाव॥ कहते प्रभु, 'खेलो तुम मेरे अपने विविध स्वाँग-अनुसार, किन्तु देखते रहो निरन्तर मुझे, न भूलो किसी प्रकार'॥ सदा कराते रहते अनुभव, कर अनन्त लीला-विस्तार। कभी न सोते, सोने देते जग-प्रपञ्चमें प्रभु बेकार॥ देख-देख मैं प्रभुको, प्रभुकी लीलाको पाता आह्लाद। नित्य-नवीन मधुरतम रसका लेता मैं दुर्लभ आस्वाद॥
[११८८]
(राग भैरव - ताल कहरवा)
आज मिल गया मुझे सहज ही प्रभुका मधु-मंगल वरदान। शब्द-शब्दमें सुन पाता मैं अतः तुम्हारा ही गुण-गान॥ देख पा रहा अखिल विश्वमें रूप तुम्हारा ही अभिराम। स्पर्श पा रहा स्पर्शमात्रमें एक तुम्हारा ही सुखधाम॥ गन्धमात्रमें पाता मैं नित अंग-गन्ध तव परम मधुर। प्रति रसमें पा रहा तुम्हारा नित्य दिव्य रस-सुधा-अधर॥ एक तुम्हारे सिवा कहीं भी कुछ भी नहीं बचा अवशेष। इससे होता कभी न प्रभुके दर्शनका अभाव लवलेश॥
English translation
[1187]
(Raga Bhairava - Tintal)
I dwell forever within the Lord, and the Lord eternally dwells within me. No being or space exists apart from the Lord. Whoever or whatever I meet, I behold the Lord's enchanting form within it, whether fashioned exceedingly beautiful or terrifying and ugly. The glory of the Lord's virtues dwells within all, and auspicious feelings inhabit all. Through everyone, my own Lord manifests wondrous stimulants of rasa. The Lord says, "Play according to the many disguises I Myself assume, but keep beholding Me ceaselessly; do not forget Me in any way." Expanding infinite lila, He continually gives the experience of Himself. The Lord never sleeps and never allows me to sleep uselessly within the world's display. Beholding the Lord and His lila again and again, I attain delight. I receive the rare relish of eternally fresh and supremely sweet rasa.
[1188]
(Raga Bhairava - Tala Kaharva)
Today I naturally received the Lord's honeyed and auspicious blessing. Therefore within every word I hear the praise of Your virtues alone. Throughout the entire universe I behold only Your delightful form. Within every touch I receive only the touch of You, abode of happiness. Within every fragrance I forever receive the supremely sweet scent of Your limbs. Within every flavor I receive the divine rasa of Your nectar lips. Apart from You alone, nothing remains anywhere. Therefore not even the slightest absence of the Lord's sight ever occurs.
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[११८९]
(लावनी तर्ज - ताल कहरवा)
रहूँ कहीं, कैसे भी, रहते नित्य साथ मेरे भगवान। जाऊँ कहीं, वहीं दिखती मुझको उनकी मधु-मूर्ति महान॥ बसे सदा मेरे अन्दर, वे बाहर भी नित रहते पास। ममता-मोह मरे सब जगके, प्रभुमें हुआ पूर्ण विश्वास॥ पाप-ताप, भय-शोक मिटे सब, नष्ट हो गया मोह समूल। मिटे मोहके कार्य भयानक, सभी जातिके सारे शूल॥ मधुर-भयानक जगका कुछ भी, कैसा भी परिवर्तन आज, दिखता मुझे मधुर लीलामय प्रभुका ही सब लीला-साज॥ प्रभुके दर्शन-स्पर्श-मिलनसे नित्य मिटे जगके सब द्वन्द्व। परम शान्तिसे पूर्ण विलक्षण छाया नित्य परम आनन्द॥
[११९०]
(राग भीमपलासी - ताल कहरवा)
भगवत्कृपा अलौकिकने कैसे कर चमत्कार-व्यापार, नरक-कीटसे बदल बनाया मुझको श्रेष्ठ, विशुद्ध, उदार॥ उतरे स्वयं मलिन जीवनमें मेरे परम सुहृद् भगवान, लेकर प्रेम-ज्ञान-रसकी अति उज्ज्वल सम्पद अमित महान॥ मिटे जगतके दुःखद सारे द्वन्द्व, छा गया परमानन्द। भुक्ति-मुक्तिकी मिटी वासना, लगे खेलने प्रभु स्वच्छन्द॥ अब तो सतत चल रहा केवल प्रभुका मधुर-मनोहर नृत्य। यों कर दिया कृपाने मुझको अपनी करुणासे कृतकृत्य॥
[११९१]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
नित्य प्रकाशरूप प्रभु रहते सदा-सर्वदा मेरे साथ। सुखद मार्ग दिखलाते, रक्खे वरद अभय मस्तकपर हाथ॥ प्रभु ही मेरे जीवन बनकर रहते नित शरीरमें संग। रहता स्वस्थ, नित्य मिलता बल, रहते सत्त्वपूर्ण सब अंग॥
English translation
[1189]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
Wherever and however I remain, Bhagavan stays forever with me. Wherever I go, His sublime honeyed form appears there. He dwells forever within me and also remains continually near outside. Every worldly possessiveness and delusion has died, and complete trust in the Lord has arisen. Sin and suffering, fear and grief have vanished, and delusion has been uprooted. Every terrible effect of delusion and every kind of thorn has disappeared. Whatever sweet or terrifying change now occurs in the world appears to me only as the lila array of the Lord filled with sweet play. Through seeing, touching and meeting the Lord, every worldly duality continually dissolves. Extraordinary supreme bliss, filled with perfect peace, forever pervades.
[1190]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tala Kaharva)
What a miraculous work the Lord's supernatural grace has performed: transforming me from a worm of hell into one noble, pure and generous. Bhagavan, my supreme friend, personally descended into my impure life, bringing the limitless, radiant and sublime treasure of love, knowledge and rasa. Every sorrowful worldly duality disappeared and supreme bliss spread everywhere. Desire for enjoyment and liberation vanished, and the Lord began to play freely. Now only His sweet and enchanting dance proceeds without cease. Thus through compassion, grace has made me completely fulfilled.
[1191]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
The Lord, eternal light embodied, remains forever and always with me. He reveals the joyful path and keeps His blessing, fear-dispelling hand upon my head. The Lord Himself becomes my life and remains forever with the body. I stay healthy, continually receive strength, and every limb remains filled with purity.
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[११९१, क्रमशः]
प्रेमरूपसे करते मुझमें परम सुहृद् प्रभु नित्य निवास। काम-राग-कटुता-विरहित जीवनमें छाया पूर्ण मिठास॥ परम शान्ति बन बसे हृदयमें, मिटे श्रान्ति-चिन्ता-भय-शूल। रहता शान्त-समुज्ज्वल जीवन, होते सभी कार्य अनुकूल॥ दिव्य शक्ति बन रहते मुझमें, करते नित नव शक्ति-विकास। शुचितम जीवन मधुर बना सत्-चित्-आनन्दका नित्य विलास॥
[११९२]
(राग माड़ - ताल कहरवा)
करुणामयने कर लिया मुझे सम्यक् स्वीकार। पाप-ताप सब मिट गये, मिटे समस्त विकार॥ रहा न रंचक मोह, भय, श्रम, प्रमाद, अवसाद। हुआ पुण्य-जीवन सफल प्रभुके कृपा-प्रसाद॥ निर्मल मनमें आ बसे परम सुहृद् भगवान। दीख रहे आठों पहर लिये मधुर मुसकान॥
[११९३]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
जड़ शरीर मैं नहीं, दिव्य हूँ ईश्वरांश - सत्-चित्-आनन्द। कुछ भी मेरा विलग न उनसे कभी, सर्वगत वे स्वच्छन्द॥ मन-मतिमें प्रकाश उनका, अन्तसमें है उनका शुचि प्रेम। जीवनमें सर्वत्र-सर्वथा छाया उनका योग-क्षेम॥ मेरी प्रति इच्छामें रहती केवल उनके मनकी बात। उनका शुभ संकल्प व्याप्त नस-नसमें मेरे है दिन-रात॥ मेरी सभी क्रियाओंमें नित होता उनका भाव-प्रकाश। उनके ही सौन्दर्य-शीलका रहता मुझमें नित्य विकास॥ अमर, निरामय, स्वस्थ नित्य वे मुझमें करते सहज निवास। मृत्यु-रुग्णता-दोषरहित यह दिव्य रूप कर रहा विलास॥
English translation
[1191, continued]
As love, the supremely friendly Lord dwells eternally within me. Complete sweetness pervades a life free from lust, attachment and bitterness. Becoming supreme peace, He abides in the heart; weariness, anxiety and the thorns of fear have vanished. Life remains peaceful and radiant, and every action becomes favorable. As divine power He dwells within me and continually develops fresh strength. Life has become purest and sweet, the eternal play of being, consciousness and bliss.
[1192]
(Raga Mand - Tala Kaharva)
The compassionate Lord has accepted me completely. Every sin and suffering has disappeared, as have all distortions. Not the slightest delusion, fear, weariness, heedlessness or depression remains. Through the gracious gift of the Lord's mercy, this sacred life has become fruitful. Bhagavan, the supreme friend, has come to dwell within the stainless mind. Through all eight watches He appears wearing a sweet smile.
[1193]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
I am not the inert body; I am divine, a portion of God, being-consciousness-bliss. Nothing of mine is ever separate from Him, for He is all-pervading and free. His light fills mind and understanding; His pure love dwells within. His attainment and preservation pervade life everywhere and in every way. Within every desire of mine remains only the intention of His mind. His auspicious resolve pervades every vein in me day and night. Within all my actions His feeling continually shines. His own beauty and character forever develop within me. Immortal, free from illness and eternally whole, He naturally dwells within me. This divine form, free from death, sickness and fault, performs its play.
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Hindi
[११९४]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
आया, छाया मेरे अन्दर प्रभुका निर्मल पूर्ण प्रकाश। असद्विचार-तमोन्धकारका हुआ तुरन्त समूल विनाश॥ मेरे कण-कणमें प्रभुकी वह दिव्य ज्योति अब है छायी। प्रति विचार, प्रत्येक कार्यमें इससे उज्ज्वलता आयी॥ बाहर-भीतर, सभी समय, सब ओर छा गया उजियाला। मिटा सर्वथा मोहजनित जो लगा हुआ धब्बा काला॥ उमड़ा अति आनन्द हृदयमें दिव्य ज्योति-धाराके साथ। मिटे शोक-भय-दुःख, लगे सर्वत्र दीखने मेरे नाथ॥
[११९५]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल कहरवा)
घेरे हुए मुझे है प्रभुका सभी ओर सब समय प्रकाश। बाँधे हुए मुझे है प्रतिपल प्रभुके दिव्य प्रेमका पाश॥ रक्षा करती है मेरी नित प्रभुकी शक्ति अमोघ विशाल। प्रभुकी नित्य कृपा अब मेरी करती सारी सार-सँभाल॥ सहज सुहृद् प्रभुका वह पावन मिला मुझे सौहार्द अपार। हुआ सरस जीवन, उमड़ा शुचि स्नेह-सुधाका पारावार॥ अपना लिया मुझे अब प्रभुने, रक्खा मेरे सिरपर हाथ। रखने लगे निरन्तर मुझको करुणामय प्रभु अपने साथ॥ प्रभुकी शाश्वत शान्ति आ बसी मेरे जीवनमें सब ओर। करती रहती मुझे सर्वदा आत्यन्तिक आनन्द-विभोर॥
[११९६]
(राग भीमपलासी - ताल कहरवा)
प्रभु मेरे, मैं केवल प्रभुका - नित्य-निरन्तर यह सम्बन्ध। टूट गये अब तो अग-जगके सारे ममताके चिर-बन्ध॥ रही न कुछ आसक्ति कहीं भी, नहीं कामना-भय-अभिमान। नहीं कहीं कुछ लेना-देना, नहीं मोह, मद, मिथ्या ज्ञान॥
English translation
[1194]
(Raga Shivaranjani - Tala Kaharva)
The Lord's pure and perfect light entered and spread within me. The dark blindness of evil thought was instantly uprooted. That divine radiance of the Lord now pervades every particle of my being. Through it every thought and action has become luminous. Inside and outside, at all times, light has spread in every direction. The black stain born of delusion has disappeared completely. Immense bliss surged within the heart with the stream of divine light. Grief, fear and sorrow vanished, and my Master began to appear everywhere.
[1195]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharva)
The Lord's light surrounds me on every side at every time. The noose of His divine love binds me at every moment. The Lord's immense and unfailing power forever protects me. His eternal grace now preserves and manages my entire being. I have received the limitless sacred affection of the Lord, my natural friend. Life has become filled with rasa, and the boundless ocean of pure affection's nectar has surged. The Lord has now made me His own and placed His hand upon my head. The compassionate Lord keeps me ceaselessly beside Him. His eternal peace has come to dwell throughout my life. It keeps me forever overwhelmed by absolute bliss.
[1196]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tala Kaharva)
The Lord is mine and I belong only to Him: this is our eternal, unbroken relationship. Every ancient bond of possessiveness toward the moving and unmoving world has now broken. No attachment remains anywhere, nor desire, fear or pride. There is nothing anywhere to give or take, no delusion, vanity or false knowledge.
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Hindi
[११९६, क्रमशः]
मिटे द्वन्द्व सब, रहे एक तुम मेरे अपने प्रभु स्वच्छन्द। मुझे बनाकर केवल अपना, देते सदा अतुल आनन्द॥ बुझी जगत्की ज्वाला सारी, छाया शीतल शान्ति अपार। बहने लगी अजस्र, अनवरत दिव्य मधुर रसकी शुचि धार॥
[११९७]
(राग भैरव - ताल कहरवा)
प्रभुकी परम कृपासे मैं अब देख पा रहा हूँ सर्वत्र - प्राणि-पदार्थ-परिस्थिति - सब हैं रूप उन्हींके अत्र-परत्र॥ सृष्टि-प्रलय, अव्यक्त-व्यक्त - सब देश-काल उनके ही रूप। खेल रहे अपनेमें अपने, अपनेसे ही खेल अनूप॥ प्रिय-अप्रिय, सुख-दुःख, शुभाशुभ, जीवन-मरण, मान-अपमान, छिपे सभीमें सदा, बने वे ही अणु-विभु, अति क्षुद्र-महान॥ बुद्धि-प्राण-मन-इन्द्रिय - सब वे, वही भोग्य-भोक्ता भगवान। विविध विचित्र अनन्त वस्तु चिज्जड़में छाये एक समान॥ प्रभुकी सर्वरूपताने कर लिया मुझे भी अंगीकार। फटा मोह-ममताका पर्दा, मिटा सभी मिथ्या अहंकार॥
[११९८]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
बसे निरन्तर मेरे अन्तर सदा-सर्वदा श्रीभगवान, सहज परम कल्याणरूप प्रभु, पूर्ण सच्चिदानन्द महान॥ नित्य समुचित सेवन करते जो, रहते नित प्रभुहीके पास, हुआ सहज उन दैवी गुणों-विचारोंका मम मनमें वास॥ इससे काम-अमर्ष, लोभ-मद, भय-चिन्ता, विषाद-अभिमान, ईर्ष्या-द्रोह, वैर-हिंसाको नहीं रह गया रंचक स्थान॥ ममता रही एक प्रभुमें ही, 'अहं' बसा प्रभु-पद स्वच्छन्द। छाये नित्य-निरन्तर रहते समता-शान्ति, परम आनन्द॥
English translation
[1196, continued]
Every duality has vanished; You alone remain, my own free Lord. Making me wholly Yours, You forever give incomparable bliss. The entire world's flame has been extinguished, and boundless cooling peace has spread. A ceaseless, uninterrupted and pure stream of divine, sweet rasa has begun to flow.
[1197]
(Raga Bhairava - Tala Kaharva)
Through the Lord's supreme grace I now behold everywhere that every being, object and circumstance here and beyond is His form. Creation and dissolution, unmanifest and manifest, every place and time are His forms. He plays within Himself, through Himself, His incomparable game. Pleasant and unpleasant, happiness and sorrow, auspicious and inauspicious, life and death, honor and dishonor: He remains hidden within all, becoming minute and all-pervading, extremely small and great. Intellect, vital breath, mind and senses are all He; Bhagavan is both enjoyed and enjoyer. He equally pervades the limitless, manifold and wondrous conscious and inert objects. The Lord's all-formed nature has accepted me too. The curtain of delusion and possessiveness has torn, and every false ego dissolved.
[1198]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
Sri Bhagavan dwells ceaselessly and eternally within me, the Lord who naturally embodies supreme welfare, the great perfection of being-consciousness-bliss. Because I continually render fitting service and remain forever near the Lord, those divine qualities and thoughts have naturally come to dwell within my mind. Thus lust and resentment, greed and pride, fear, anxiety, despair and ego, envy, malice, hostility and violence retain not the slightest place. Possessive affection remains for the Lord alone, and the "I" rests freely at His feet. Equality, peace and supreme bliss spread eternally and without interruption.
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Hindi
[११९८, क्रमशः]
अब न कदापि किसीका होता तनिक अकल्याण-अपमान। क्योंकि सर्वहित, सर्वसुखाकर यहाँ बसे रहते भगवान॥
[११९९]
(राग वागेश्री - तीन ताल)
दिनकर उगता, रजनी आती, कालचक्र चलता अविराम। जीवमात्र सब निज-निज रुचिके करते भले-बुरे सब काम॥ पर जाती न वृत्ति अन्तरकी काल-कर्म-कर्ताकी ओर। रहती नित्य एक ही रसके आस्वादनमें मत्त-विभोर॥ सोते-जगते होते रहते सहज प्रकृतिवश सारे काम। किन्तु बसा रहता मनमें कुछ 'अन्य-विलक्षण' आठों याम॥ नहीं हटाया हटता पलभर, नहीं छूटता किसी प्रकार। दुःख परम शुचि नित्य परम सुख देता रहता वह अविकार॥
[१२००]
(राग माड़ - ताल कहरवा)
प्रेमरूप हरि बस गये हियमें नित्य सुबोध। रह न सकेंगे अब वहाँ द्वेष, ईर्ष्या, क्रोध॥ हरिका सुन्दर विनय-वपु रहा हृदयमें छाय। गर्व-दर्प-अभिमान-मद पलमें गये विलाय॥ सत्यरूप आनन्दमय प्रभु हिय रहे विराज। शोक-दुःख-भय-दम्भका नष्ट हो गया राज॥ प्रभुका शीतल विमल अति छाया हृदय-प्रकाश। राग-कामना-अहं-मम-तमका हुआ विनाश॥ क्षमा-मूर्ति प्रभु कर रहे हियमें नित्य निवास। हुआ असूया अघमयी हिंसाका अति नाश॥ हियमें जबसे आ बसे नित्य निरामय राम। त्रिविध व्याधि सब मिट गयीं, मिला मधुर विश्राम॥
English translation
[1198, continued]
Now not even the slightest harm or dishonor ever comes to anyone through me, for Bhagavan, source of everyone's welfare and happiness, dwells here.
[1199]
(Raga Vagesri - Tintal)
The sun rises, night arrives, and the wheel of time turns ceaselessly. Every being performs good and bad actions according to individual taste. But the inward faculty does not turn toward time, action or the doer. It remains forever intoxicated and absorbed in relishing the one rasa. Sleeping or waking, every action occurs naturally under nature's influence, yet through all eight watches something wholly other and extraordinary dwells within the mind. It cannot be removed even for a moment and cannot be lost in any way. Immutable, it continually gives the supreme happiness of utterly pure and eternal sorrow.
[1200]
(Raga Mand - Tala Kaharva)
Hari, love embodied, has settled within the heart as eternal right understanding. Hatred, envy and anger can no longer remain there. Hari's beautiful and humble form pervades the heart. Pride, arrogance, ego and vanity dissolved in a moment. The Lord, truth embodied and filled with bliss, reigns within the heart. The rule of grief, sorrow, fear and hypocrisy has been destroyed. The Lord's exceedingly cool and stainless light pervades the heart. Attachment, desire and the darkness of "I" and "mine" have vanished. The Lord, forgiveness embodied, dwells eternally within the heart. Malicious envy and sinful violence have been utterly destroyed. Since Rama, eternally free from illness, came to dwell in the heart, all three kinds of disease have disappeared and sweet rest has been found.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
[१२००, क्रमशः]
मेरे ही प्रभु बस रहे जब सबके हिय आप, तब किससे कैसे रहे द्वेष-वैरका पाप॥ निज-पर-भेद मिटा सभी, सबमें प्रभु पहचान। प्राणिमात्र-प्रति प्रेमकी धारा बही महान॥ सबमें प्रभु, सब ही प्रभु, सब लीला-विस्तार। लीला-लीलामय सदा करते मधुर विहार॥
[१२०१]
(राग पीलू - ताल कहरवा)
सारी ममता सदाको हटी जगतसे पूर्ण। लगी जाय प्रभु-पद-कमल-रज पवित्रके चूर्ण॥ एकमात्र प्रभु-पद-कमल-रज ही मेरी वस्तु। ममता क्या, सत्ता मिटी, हुआ समस्त अवस्तु॥ मैं, मेरे प्रियतम परम केवल रहे ललाम। मोह मिटा, माया मरी, रहा प्रेम अभिराम॥
[१२०२]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
हम उनके, वे सदा हमारे, परमानन्द-सुधा-सागर। सदा हृदयमें रखते हमको परम मधुर वे नटनागर॥ रहते सदा हमारे उरमें, करते विविध स्वयं नित खेल। हो कुछ भी, कैसे भी जगमें, उनका हमसे रहता मेल॥ देते रहते वे हमको निज सहज अमित आनन्द उदार। आ सकती विषादकी छाया कभी न कुछ भी किसी प्रकार॥ दुःखयोनि भोगोंका कुछ भी रहा न जीवनमें संश्लेष। भगवत्-रससे रहित तनिक भी बचा न देश-काल अवशेष॥
English translation
[1200, continued]
When my own Lord personally dwells within every heart, how and toward whom could the sin of hatred and enmity remain? Every difference of mine and another has vanished; the Lord is recognized within all. A mighty current of love flows toward every living being. The Lord is within all, all are the Lord, and everything is the expansion of lila. Lila and the playful Lord forever perform sweet recreation.
[1201]
(Raga Pilu - Tala Kaharva)
Every worldly possessiveness has been completely and forever removed. It has gone and attached itself to the sacred powder of the Lord's lotus-foot dust. The dust of the Lord's lotus feet alone is now my possession. What possessiveness could remain when being itself has dissolved and everything else has become unreal? Only I and my supreme Beloved remain beautifully. Delusion has disappeared, maya has died, and enchanting love remains.
[1202]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
We belong to Him and He forever belongs to us, the ocean of supreme bliss's nectar. That supremely sweet divine lover forever keeps us within His heart. He dwells continually within our hearts and personally performs manifold play. Whatever may occur in the world and however, His union with us remains. He continually gives us His naturally limitless and generous bliss. No shadow of despair can ever arise in any way. No conjunction with sorrow-producing enjoyments remains within life. Not the slightest place or time remains devoid of divine rasa.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
[१२०३]
(राग देश - ताल दादरा)
सफल जीवन हो गया, वैराग्यका आनन्द आया। मिटा सबमें राग अब, वैराग्यमें सब राग छाया॥ भय हटा, सब शोक भागे, हो गया निश्चिन्त जीवन। आयें या जायें जगतके दुःख-सुख, सम्मान, जन, धन॥ मोहका पर्दा फटा, दीवार ममताकी गिरी सब। हुआ समुदय ज्ञान-रविका, मर गया अज्ञान-तम अब॥ रह गयी सब ओर सबमें एक प्रभुकी नित्य सत्ता। उसीकी अभिव्यक्ति सब है, उसीकी लीला-महत्ता॥ है भरा जल-थल-अनलमें, अनिल-नभमें वही चेतन। खेलता जीवन-मरण, सुख-दुःखमें लीला-निकेतन॥ हुआ भोग-विरागसे अब पूर्ण उसमें राग अनुपम, जो प्रकाशित हो रहा हर विषम लीलामें सदा सम॥
[१२०४]
(राग माड़ - तीन ताल)
काहू कौ नहिं दास मैं, कोउ न मेरौ दास। नित्य दास मैं राम कौ, एक टेक-बिस्वास॥ रह्यो न कबहूँ कतहूँ कछु मेरौ अपनौ काम। प्रभु-सेवामें ही सने तन-मन-बुद्धि तमाम॥ सेवाऊँ जो कछु बने, वामें नहिं कछू मोर। प्रभु मनमानी करन कौं रहें हलावत डोर॥ स्फुरणा, मति, बल, पुरुषता, करन-करावनहार, सब कछु तिनमें, तिनहिं कौं, तिनहीसों व्यवहार॥ रह्यो न रंचक मैं-पनौ, भयो एक ही भाव। हर्ष-शोक-भय-मान-मद - सबकौ भयो अभाव॥
English translation
[1203]
(Raga Des - Tala Dadra)
Life has become successful and the bliss of detachment has arisen. Attachment to all has vanished, and every love now rests in detachment. Fear has withdrawn, every grief fled and life became carefree. Let worldly happiness and sorrow, honor, people and wealth come or go. The curtain of delusion has torn and every wall of possessiveness fallen. The sun of knowledge has fully risen and the darkness of ignorance died. The Lord's one eternal being alone remains everywhere within all. Everything is His manifestation and the glory of His lila. That one conscious being fills water, earth and fire, wind and sky. The abode of lila plays within life and death, happiness and sorrow. Attachment to enjoyment has ended, and incomparable love for Him has become complete, shining equally within every unequal lila.
[1204]
(Raga Mand - Tintal)
I am no one's servant and no one is my servant. I am Rama's eternal servant; this is my one support and faith. Nothing anywhere remains as my separate task. Body, mind and intellect are entirely absorbed in the Lord's service. Whatever service occurs contains nothing of mine. The Lord holds and moves the strings to act as He pleases. Inspiration, understanding, strength and agency, the doer and cause of doing: everything is within Him, belongs to Him and is transacted with Him alone. Not a trace of "I-ness" remains; one feeling alone has arisen. Elation, grief, fear, honor and pride have all disappeared.
Original
Hindi
[१२०४, क्रमशः]
रही न सत्ता भिन्न कछु, एकमात्र भगवान। लीलामय लीला करें नित अति मधुर महान॥
[१२०५]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल कहरवा)
जीवन-मरण, निरोग-रोगकी मिटीं कल्पनाएँ सारी। नहीं कहीं अस्तित्व किसीका रहा तनिक सुख-दुःखधारी॥ लीला-सुधा-तरंगिणीकी अगणित लहरें अति मनहारी, उठतीं, ललित लास्य करतीं, लावण्यमयी, जगसे न्यारी॥
[१२०६]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
मेरे अन्दर भरी नित्य है प्रभुकी सत्ता-शक्ति-विभूति। होती सदा उन्हींकी मुझको है सर्वत्र सत्य अनुभूति॥ बजता मेरे जीवनमें अति मधुर नित्य प्रभुका संगीत। कर सकती न इसीसे मुझको कोई भी स्थिति कुछ भयभीत॥ जीयें-मरें, बनें-बिगड़ें ये 'मैं-मेरे'के सभी पदार्थ। मेरा नहीं बिगड़ता-बनता, रहा न कुछ भी इनमें स्वार्थ॥ प्रभु हैं, प्रभुकी लीला है सब, लीला-लीलामय हैं एक। वे बस बसे हुए रहते नित मेरे अन्तरमें सविवेक॥ बाहर-भीतर उन्हें देखता, उनमें ही करता नित वास। वे ही हैं सर्वत्र-सर्वथा-सदा, दूर अति, अतिशय पास॥ शोक-मोह-भय मिटे, रह गया केवल उनका ही अस्तित्व। उनका ही गुण-गौरव सारा, उनका ही सर्वत्र महत्त्व॥
[१२०७]
(राग परज - ताल कहरवा)
जान गया मैं, परम सुहृद् प्रभु करते मेरा नित कल्याण। जान गया, वे सर्वशक्तिमय हैं मेरे शुचि बन्धु महान॥ रहते सदा सजग वे, करते नहीं भूलकर भी कुछ भूल। शूलरूपमें भी देते वे प्रभु मुझको मृदु सुरभित फूल॥
English translation
[1204, continued]
No separate being remains; Bhagavan alone exists. Filled with lila, He eternally performs sublime and exceedingly sweet play.
[1205]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharva)
Every conception of life and death, health and disease has dissolved. No being that bears even slight happiness or sorrow remains anywhere. Countless, exceedingly enchanting waves of lila's nectar river arise, dancing gracefully, filled with beauty and unlike the world.
[1206]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
The Lord's being, power and glory eternally fill my inner self. Everywhere I forever experience Him alone as reality. The Lord's exceedingly sweet music plays continually within my life. Therefore no circumstance can frighten me in any way. Let every object of "I" and "mine" live or die, be formed or destroyed. Nothing of mine improves or deteriorates, for no selfish interest remains in them. The Lord exists, and everything is His lila; lila and the playful Lord are one. He simply remains forever established within me, joined with discrimination. I behold Him outside and within and dwell eternally in Him alone. He alone is everywhere, in every way and forever, extremely distant yet exceedingly near. Grief, delusion and fear have vanished; His being alone remains. Every virtue and glory is His, and His importance alone pervades all.
[1207]
(Raga Paraj - Tala Kaharva)
I have understood that the Lord, my supreme friend, continually secures my welfare. I know He is omnipotent, my great and sacred relative. He remains forever vigilant and never commits even an inadvertent error. Even in the form of a thorn, that Lord gives me a tender, fragrant flower.
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Hindi
[१२०७, क्रमशः]
उन प्रभुका मुझपर अतिशय है सदा हृदयका निर्मल प्यार। मैं इससे अब पहुँच गया हूँ भय-चिन्ता-भ्रमके उस पार॥ निर्भय, नित्य शान्त, निर्मम, निश्चिन्त हुआ अब मैं मलहीन। रहता सदा प्रफुल्ल-उल्लसित, प्रभु-सेवामें ही तल्लीन॥ मैं प्रभुका हूँ नित्य दास प्रिय, वे मेरे स्वामी बस एक। योग-क्षेम-वहन करते सब, रखते नित्य सुरक्षित टेक॥
[१२०८]
(राग देश - ताल दादरा)
राम मेरा बल, न मैं असहाय हूँ। राम मेरा धन, न मैं निरुपाय हूँ॥ राम मेरी बुद्धि, मैं मतिमान हूँ। राम मेरी ज्योति, मैं द्युतिमान हूँ॥ राम मेरा ज्ञान, मैं अश्रान्त हूँ। राम मेरी शान्ति, मैं नित शान्त हूँ॥ राम मेरा रूप, मैं अभिराम हूँ। राम मेरा सुख, सदा सुखधाम हूँ॥ हूँ नहीं अस्वस्थ, मैं नित स्वस्थ हूँ। राममें स्थित हूँ, नहीं प्रकृतिस्थ हूँ॥ देह भौतिक हूँ नहीं, अमृतत्व हूँ। हीन ह्रास-विनाशसे सत्-तत्त्व हूँ॥
[१२०९]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
किसमें पाप-दोष देखूँ मैं, किसमें अब देखूँ शैतान? कैसे किसे पराया समझूँ, जबकि भरे सबमें भगवान॥ भू-जल-अनल-अनिल-नभ हैं, नक्षत्र सभी उनके ही नाम। मनुज-दनुज-सुर-पितर, चराचर - उनकी ही अभिव्यक्ति तमाम॥ कर्म-अकर्म-विकर्म, सत्-असत् - सब केवल उनके ही रूप। वे ही प्रलय-सृष्टि-पालन-लीलामय, लीला-निरत अनूप॥ नहीं मोह-मायाकी सत्ता, वे ही सब कुछ बनते आप। देश-काल सब ही उनमें, वे नित्य सनातन अमित अमाप॥ मेरे लिये कभी कुछ भी अब रही न कहीं अन्य सत्ता। हैं सर्वत्र एक मेरे वे श्याम, उन्हींकी भगवत्ता॥
English translation
[1207, continued]
That Lord forever bears extraordinary, pure and heartfelt love for me. Through it I have crossed beyond fear, anxiety and delusion. Fearless, eternally peaceful, without possessiveness and carefree, I have become stainless. I remain forever joyful and delighted, absorbed solely in the Lord's service. I am the Lord's dear and eternal servant; He alone is my Master. He bears my attainment and preservation and forever safeguards my support.
[1208]
(Raga Des - Tala Dadra)
Rama is my strength; I am not helpless. Rama is my wealth; I am not without recourse. Rama is my intelligence; I am wise. Rama is my light; I am radiant. Rama is my knowledge; I am unwearied. Rama is my peace; I am forever peaceful. Rama is my form; I am delightful. Rama is my happiness; I am always its abode. I am not unwell; I am eternally whole. I am established in Rama, not in material nature. I am not the material body but immortality, the reality of being free from decline and destruction.
[1209]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
In whom could I see sin or fault, and in whom could I now see a devil? How could I regard anyone as other when Bhagavan fills all? Earth, water, fire, wind and sky, and every star are His Names. Humans, demons, gods and ancestors, all that moves and does not move, are entirely His manifestations. Action, inaction and wrong action, real and unreal, are only His forms. He alone is the playful Lord of dissolution, creation and preservation, absorbed in incomparable lila. Delusion and maya possess no independent being; He Himself becomes everything. Every place and time dwell in Him, and He is eternal, everlasting, limitless and immeasurable. For me, no other being now remains anywhere or at any time. My one Syama is everywhere, and divinity belongs to Him alone.
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Hindi
[१२०९, क्रमशः]
एक बचा, मैं उनकी सेवा करने, करने नित्य प्रणाम। सदा सर्वथा उनकी पूजा - एकमात्र मेरा यह काम॥ अपने प्रति संकल्प-कार्यसे मैं उनकी पूजा करता। देख विचित्र रूप अगणित अति, मैं नित नये मोद भरता॥ देख-देख उनको, उनकी अपनी स्वरूपभूता लीला, सच्चिन्मय आनन्द-सुधा-सरिता बहती वर्धनशीला॥
[१२१०]
(राग जंगला - तीन ताल)
प्रभु-प्रसादसे प्रकट हो गया मुझमें प्रभुका परमानन्द। मिटे सभी चिन्ता-विषाद-भय-शोक, रहे जो नित स्वच्छन्द॥ प्रभुकी अति पवित्र सम्पदका मुझमें निश्चय हुआ विकास। मिटी सभी आसुरी सम्पदा जिसका था मुझमें नित वास॥ प्रभुकी समता आयी, जागा सबमें प्रभुमयताका ज्ञान। मिटी विषमता, भेद मिटा सब, मिटा सभी निज-पर-अज्ञान॥ सब रूपोंमें सदा दीखते अब सर्वत्र मुझे भगवान। सबको मैं प्रणाम करता नित, सबकी सेवा, अति सम्मान॥
[१२११]
(राग भैरव - तीन ताल)
किया कृपा कर प्रभुने मुझको अपना चिर सेवक स्वीकार। रहा न प्राणि-पदार्थ किसीका मुझपर अब कुछ भी अधिकार॥ मेरा भी उठ गया सहज अधिकार सभीपरसे अनिवार। एकमात्र मैं सेवक प्रभुका, केवल प्रभु मेरे भर्तार॥
English translation
[1209, continued]
One task alone remains: to serve Him and bow forever. Worshiping Him always and completely is my sole work. Through every intention and action directed toward me, I worship Him. Beholding countless wondrous forms, I continually fill with fresh delight. Seeing Him again and again and beholding His own lila, which is His essential nature, the ever-increasing river of conscious bliss's nectar flows.
[1210]
(Raga Jangala - Tintal)
Through the Lord's grace, His supreme bliss has manifested within me. Every anxiety, despair, fear and grief that wandered freely within has disappeared. The Lord's supremely sacred treasure has certainly unfolded within me. Every demonic quality that continually dwelt there has vanished. The Lord's equality has arisen, and knowledge that all are filled with Him has awakened. Inequality and difference have disappeared, as has all ignorance of self and other. Now Bhagavan forever appears to me everywhere within every form. I continually bow to all, serve all and offer the highest respect.
[1211]
(Raga Bhairava - Tintal)
Showing grace, the Lord accepted me as His eternal servant. No being or object now possesses any authority over me. Likewise, my assumed authority over all has naturally and inevitably withdrawn. I am solely the Lord's servant, and the Lord alone is my Husband.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
[१२१२]
(राग पूर्वी - ताल कहरवा)
ममता एकमात्र प्रभु-पदमें, मन प्रभुकी स्मृतिमें ही लीन। प्रभुकी इच्छामें सब निज इच्छा अर्पित, मन इच्छा-हीन॥ प्रभुमें राग अनन्य, चित्त अन्यत्र नित्य आसक्ति-विहीन। प्रभु-प्रेमामृत-रस-सागरका जीवन बना निवासी मीन॥ रहता सदा समाया उनमें, करता नाना भाँति विहार। छाये नित रहते प्रभु सभी दिशामें, करते अनुपम प्यार॥ होते उनमें ही सब मेरे अच्छे-बुरे शुभा-शुभ कर्म। उनका रखना, मेरा रहना, यही सहज दोनोंका धर्म॥
[१२१३]
(राग काफी - ताल कहरवा)
हम उनके ही, केवल वे हैं नित्य हमारे। एक उन्हींसे सदा सभी सम्बन्ध हमारे॥ एकमात्र आत्मीय, परम धन वही हमारे। प्रीति अनन्य, विशुद्ध परमके पात्र हमारे॥ उन-से वे ही हैं परम जीवनके शुचि सार। सभी स्वार्थ-परमार्थके एकमात्र आधार॥
[१२१४]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
छाये मधुर-मधुर वे रहते मुझमें सर्व देश, सब काल। घुले-मिले नित रहते मुझमें, करते रहते नित्य निहाल॥ आधि-व्याधि, दुःख-दैन्य, शोक-भय, मान-मोह-मद, काल-व्याल, पास न आ पाते मेरे, वे क्योंकि साथ रहते हर हाल॥
English translation
[1212]
(Raga Purvi - Tala Kaharva)
My one possessive love rests at the Lord's feet, and my mind is absorbed solely in remembering Him. Every will of my own is offered into the Lord's will, leaving the mind without desire. My love for the Lord is exclusive, and the heart remains forever free of attachment elsewhere. Life has become a fish dwelling in the ocean of divine love's nectarean rasa. It remains forever absorbed in Him and sports there in manifold ways. The Lord continually pervades every direction and bestows incomparable love. All my good and bad, auspicious and inauspicious actions take place in Him alone. His keeping me and my abiding in Him are the natural dharma of us both.
[1213]
(Raga Kafi - Tala Kaharva)
We belong to Him alone, and He alone is eternally ours. Every one of our relationships is forever with Him alone. He alone is our intimate relation and our supreme treasure, the sole recipient of our exclusive, utterly pure and highest love. He alone is the sacred and supreme essence of our life, the one foundation of every worldly and spiritual good.
[1214]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
Sweetly, sweetly He pervades me in every place and at every time. He remains forever blended and united with me, continually filling me with joy. Mental and bodily afflictions, sorrow and poverty, grief and fear, honor, delusion and pride, and time's serpent cannot draw near me, for He remains beside me in every circumstance.
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Hindi
[१२१५]
(राग देश)
प्रभुकी अनुकम्पा परम छायी चारों ओर। आत्यन्तिक सुख-शान्तिका मिलता ओर-न-छोर॥ कोई कैसी भी विषम हो स्थिति, अति प्रतिकूल, चुभा नहीं सकती तनिक मेरे उरमें शूल॥ सभी परिस्थितिमें सदा रहती शाश्वत शान्ति। हटती कभी न हृदयसे मोहनकी मुख-कान्ति॥
[१२१६]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
कभी विलग होते न पलकभर वे मेरे प्यारे भगवान। रखते सदा पास मुझको, वे रहते स्वयं पास मतिमान॥ सदा देखते रहते मेरी सारी छोटी-मोटी बात। रखते सदा सँभाल, निभाते योग-क्षेम बिना व्यवधान॥ मुझको सुखी देखने-करनेको रहते तत्पर वे श्याम। ममता-भरे हृदयसे नित नव मुझसे करते प्यार ललाम॥ थकते नहीं कभी वे, देते-देते मुझे परम आनन्द। मुझ नगण्यको नहीं भूलते पलभर एक सच्चिदानन्द॥ मैं प्रियतमका, प्रियतम मेरे - यही नित्य निर्मल सम्बन्ध। सदा अटूट, सदा ही सुस्थिर, बढ़ता पल-पल प्रेम-निबन्ध॥
[१२१७]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
मिले मधुर मुझको, मेरे हो, मेरे वे प्रियतम भगवान। पूरी हुई साध जीवनकी, पूरे हुए सभी अरमान॥ बुझी सभी विषकी ज्वाला, कर रूप-सुधा-रसका मधु-पान। हुई विकीर्ण किरण शुचि तनकी दिव्याभामय परम महान॥
English translation
[1215]
(Raga Des)
The Lord's supreme grace pervades every direction. Ultimate happiness and peace extend without limit or shore. However difficult or utterly adverse a circumstance may be, it cannot pierce my heart even slightly with its thorn. Eternal peace forever abides through every circumstance. Mohana's radiant face never departs from my heart.
[1216]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
My beloved Bhagavan is never separated from me even for the blink of an eye. He always keeps me near and, all-knowing, remains close Himself. He continually watches every one of my smallest concerns. He always tends me and bears my attainment and preservation without interruption. That Syama is ever eager to see me happy and to make me so. With a heart full of tender possessiveness, He bestows ever-fresh and beautiful love upon me. He never tires of giving me supreme bliss. The one Saccidananda does not forget insignificant me for even a moment. I belong to my Beloved and my Beloved is mine: this is our eternal and stainless relationship. Forever unbroken and forever secure, its bond of love grows from moment to moment.
[1217]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
My sweet, beloved Bhagavan has met me and become mine. Life's longing has been fulfilled, and every cherished desire has come true. Every poisonous flame was quenched when I drank the honey of His form's nectarean rasa. The pure body's ray spread forth, supremely glorious with divine splendor.
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Hindi
[१२१७, क्रमशः]
छाया अति शीतल प्रकाश सर्वत्र, मिटा सब तम-अज्ञान। दिखने लगे श्यामसुन्दर मन-मोहन अब सर्वत्र समान॥
[१२१८]
(राग वसन्त - ताल दादरा)
करना, न करना, न कराना, कराना। कैसे, क्या, कब, क्यों करना-कराना॥ करो तुम वही, जो मन तुम्हें भाता। मुझे न कुछ भी है पाना, न पाना॥ हो कुछ, न मेरा कुछ आता-जाता। मैं तो कठपुतली, तुम्हें है नचाना॥ केवल हो छाये तुम ही सभीमें। यह सब तुम्हारा ही है ताना-बाना॥ रस भी तुम्हीं हो, रसिक भी तुम्हीं हो। तुम्हींको बस रस है चखना-चखाना॥ लीला तुम्हीं, लीलामय भी तुम्हीं हो। दर्शक तुम्हीं हो, धरे रूप नाना॥
[१२१९]
(तर्ज लावनी - ताल कहरवा)
इस जगकी कोई वस्तु न हमें सुहाती। पल-पलमें श्यामल मूर्ति स्मरण है आती॥
[१२२०]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
मेरे मंगलमय रसमय प्रभु रहते नित ही मेरे पास। देते नव-नव नित्य मधुर आनन्द, विविध कर दिव्य विलास॥ डूबे रहते स्वयं, डुबाये रखते मुझको पारावार - परम दिव्य रसके, स्वाभाविक करते विशद विशुद्ध विहार॥
English translation
[1217, continued]
An exceedingly cool light spread everywhere and dispelled all darkness and ignorance. Syamasundara, the enchanter of the mind, now appeared equally everywhere.
[1218]
(Raga Vasanta - Tala Dadra)
Doing, not doing, causing and not causing; how, what, when and why anything is done or caused: do only what pleases Your heart. There is nothing whatever for me to gain or not gain. Let anything happen; nothing of mine comes or goes. I am merely a puppet, and You are to make me dance. May You alone pervade everyone. All this is solely Your warp and weft. You are rasa, and You are also the relisher of rasa. You alone taste rasa and cause it to be tasted. You are lila, and You are the playful Lord. You are the spectator, assuming manifold forms.
[1219]
(In the style of Lavani - Tala Kaharva)
No object of this world delights us. At every moment Syama's form returns to remembrance.
[1220]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
My auspicious Lord, filled with rasa, forever remains beside me. Performing manifold divine pastimes, He continually gives ever-new and sweet bliss. He remains immersed Himself and keeps me submerged in the boundless ocean of supremely divine rasa, naturally performing lucid and utterly pure play.
Original
Hindi and Braj Bhasha
[१२२०, क्रमशः]
नहीं अन्यको मुझे देखने देते, नहीं देखते आप। करते रहते सदा मधुरतम दिव्य मुझीसे रस-आलाप॥ रखा नहीं मुझमें-अपनेमें किंचित् भेद-भिन्नता-भाव। हुआ पूर्ण ऐकात्म्य, मिट गया मिथ्या सब अलगाव-दुराव॥
[१२२१]
(राग खमाज - ताल कहरवा)
जायें कहीं, मिलें, न मिलें वे, करें सदा सब कुछ विपरीत। झंकृत होंगे बस उनमें ही कर्कश-मधुर सभी संगीत॥
× × ×
जबतक अपनी मौज मौज थी, तबतक कभी न थी कुछ मौज। मौज बने जबसे वे मेरे, तबसे सदा मौज-ही-मौज॥
[१२२२]
(राग भैरव - तीन ताल)
मिटे सभी संकल्प, हो गया तुममें ही सबका अवसान। कौन, कहाँ, कैसे, क्या करता, रहा न इसका भी कुछ भान॥
[१२२३]
(राग लावनी - ताल कहरवा)
बँधा, बँधा, मैं सदा बँधा हूँ, अद्भुत एक किसीके पाश। बँधा रहूँ मैं सदा और भी दृढ़तासे, मनमें अभिलाष॥ पद-पदपर, पल-पलमें देता यह बन्धन नित नव उल्लास। मेरी 'परतन्त्रता' मधुर यह करती रहे सदा सुविकास॥
[१२२४]
(तर्ज गजल - ताल कहरवा)
बड़भागी है वही, जिसे हरिने अपनाया। हरकर धन-जन-मान, मोह-तम दूर हटाया॥ भोग-लाभकी क्रिया सभीकी असफल चोखी। घर-समाजसे मिली सहज दुत्कार अनोखी॥
English translation
[1220, continued]
He lets no one else behold me, nor does He Himself look elsewhere. He continually shares the sweetest divine dialogue of rasa with me alone. He has retained not the slightest feeling of difference or distinction between Himself and me. Perfect oneness has arisen, and every false separation and concealment has disappeared.
[1221]
(Raga Khamaja - Tala Kaharva)
Wherever He may go, whether He meets me or not, and though He may always act contrary to my wishes, every harsh and sweet strain of music will resonate in Him alone.
× × ×
As long as delight belonged to me, there was never any real delight. Since He became my delight, there has forever been delight upon delight.
[1222]
(Raga Bhairava - Tintal)
Every intention has dissolved and found its end in You alone. No awareness remains of who acts, where, how or what is done.
[1223]
(Raga Lavani - Tala Kaharva)
Bound, bound, I am forever bound in someone's wondrous snare. My heart longs to remain bound forever with still greater firmness. At every step and every moment, this bondage gives ever-new delight. May this sweet dependence of mine forever develop in fullness.
[1224]
(In the style of a Ghazal - Tala Kaharva)
Fortunate indeed is the one whom Hari has made His own, whose wealth, people and honor He has taken away and whose darkness of delusion He has dispelled. Every endeavor for enjoyment and gain has been thoroughly frustrated, and home and society have naturally bestowed their extraordinary rejection.
Original
Hindi
[१२२४, क्रमशः]
सात्त्विक हुआ प्रकाश, असत् आशा-निशि टूटी। प्रभुकी स्मृति अनमोल मिली संजीवन-बूटी॥ जाग्रत हुआ विवेक, मिटी चिन्ता अब सारी। बढ़ी परम प्रभु-चरण-प्रीतिकी आशा भारी॥
[१२२५]
(राग पीलू - ताल कहरवा)
क्रोध, कपट, भय, चपलता, दुःख असीम, अशान्ति - दूर हुआ अरि-दल सकल, मिटी निराशा, श्रान्ति॥ शान्ति, सरलता, अभयता, स्थिरता, सुख-विश्राम - जीवनके लक्षण हुए आशामय, अभिराम॥ उमड़ा मेरे हृदयमें आनन्द-सुधा-समुद्र। नष्ट हो गये सर्वथा शोक-विषाद अभद्र॥ निकल रहा मुझसे सदा स्वर अति मधुर उदार। दुःख-कष्टकी मिट गयी सारी आर्त-पुकार॥ मेरे जीवनमें भरा अतुल अमित आनन्द। रहते नित मुझमें भरे पूर्ण सच्चिदानन्द॥ सुखमय, शान्ति-प्रसादमय, सुधापूर्ण, गुण-धाम, प्रभु-प्रसादसे हो गया पावन परम ललाम॥ हँसता अब मेरा सदा जीवन आठों याम। फैलाता सबमें सदा सात्त्विक हँसी तमाम॥ बरस रहा अब सर्वदा सुखद सुधाका मेह। जो समीप आता, वही पाता पावन नेह॥ बुझ जाती उसकी सभी विष-ज्वाला दुःख-रूप। पा जाता वह तुरत ही शीतल शान्ति अनूप॥ निशा-निराशा नष्ट कर उगता आशा-भानु। हँस उठता जीवन, सभी मरते दुःख-परमाणु॥
English translation
[1224, continued]
Sattvic light arose, and the night of unreal hopes broke apart. Priceless remembrance of the Lord was received as a life-restoring herb. Discernment awakened and every anxiety disappeared. An immense hope for supreme love of the Lord's feet grew strong.
[1225]
(Raga Pilu - Tala Kaharva)
Anger, deceit, fear, restlessness, limitless sorrow and agitation: the entire hostile army withdrew, and despair and weariness vanished. Peace, simplicity, fearlessness, steadiness, happiness and repose became life's hopeful and delightful qualities. An ocean of bliss's nectar surged within my heart. Every inauspicious grief and despondency was utterly destroyed. An exceedingly sweet and generous voice now continually issues from me. Every anguished cry of sorrow and distress has ended. Measureless, limitless bliss fills my life. Perfect Saccidananda forever fills and dwells within me. Filled with happiness, the grace of peace and nectar, and an abode of virtue, through the Lord's grace I have become supremely sacred and beautiful. My life now laughs forever through all eight watches. It continually spreads sattvic laughter among everyone. A pleasing rain of nectar now falls without cease. Whoever draws near receives sacred affection. Every poisonous flame of sorrow within that person is extinguished, and at once they obtain incomparable, cooling peace. Destroying the night of despair, the sun of hope rises. Life smiles, and every atom of sorrow dies.
Original
Hindi
[१२२५, क्रमशः]
छूट गया सब द्वन्द्वसे, हटा तापका भार। अन्योंका दुःख-द्वन्द्व भी हुआ मिटावनहार॥
[१२२६]
(तर्ज लावनी - ताल कहरवा)
बीत रहा है मेरा पल-पल उनकी सेवामें दिन-रात। लगे हुए मन-मति-इन्द्रिय, आती अब अन्य न मनमें बात॥ छूट गये जब जप-तप, सेवा-पूजा आदि भले सब काम, तब फिर कर पाते कुछ कैसे मोहामर्ष-लोभ-मद-काम॥
[१२२७]
(राग भीमपलासी - तीन ताल)
रहूँ भले यात्रामें, चाहे करूँ कहीं भी - घर-वन वास। नहीं अकेला मैं हूँ रहता, प्रभु नित रहते मेरे पास॥ प्रभु मेरे अंशी हैं, मैं हूँ अंश सनातन उनका नित्य। पृथक न रह सकते मुझसे प्रभु कभी, कहीं भी - निश्चित सत्य॥ बदल जाय यह देह-परिस्थिति, बदल जाय चाहे यह लोक। नहीं बदलता प्रभुका फैला नित सर्वत्र सत्य आलोक॥ मेरी देख-रेख नित रखते, नित्य निभाते योग-क्षेम। पग-पगपर मैं अनुभव करता धन्य-धन्य प्रभुका शुचि प्रेम॥
[१२२८]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
हटा मोहका पर्दा गहरा, मिटी सभी मनकी भ्रम-श्रान्ति। नहीं सताती अब मनकी कल्पित वह घोर अपार अशान्ति॥ क्रियाशीलता अति विशालमें भी रहती सुखदायिनी शान्ति, क्योंकि दीख पड़ती मुझको सर्वत्र श्यामकी ही मुख-कान्ति॥ आकर भरा इसीसे जीवनमें अब आत्यन्तिक आनन्द। नहीं देख पाते इसको, जो भोग-वासनारत, मति-मन्द॥
English translation
[1225, continued]
Every duality has fallen away and the burden of affliction withdrawn. It has also become a destroyer of other people's sorrow and conflict.
[1226]
(In the style of Lavani - Tala Kaharva)
Every moment of my days and nights passes in His service. Mind, intelligence and senses are absorbed, and no other thought now enters the mind. When even worthy works such as repetition, austerity, service and worship have fallen away, how could delusion, anger, greed, pride and desire accomplish anything further?
[1227]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tintal)
Whether I am traveling or dwelling anywhere, at home or in the forest, I do not remain alone, for the Lord is always beside me. The Lord is my whole, and I am His eternal and everlasting part. The Lord can never remain separate from me anywhere: this is certain truth. This body and its circumstances may change, and even this world may change, but the Lord's true light, eternally spread everywhere, does not change. He continually watches over me and eternally bears my attainment and preservation. At every step I experience the Lord's blessed, sacred love.
[1228]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
The deep curtain of delusion has lifted, and every confusion and weariness of mind has vanished. That dreadful and boundless unrest imagined by the mind no longer torments me. Even amid immense activity, a pleasing peace abides, for I behold Syama's radiant face everywhere. Through this, ultimate bliss has now come and filled my life. Those whose minds are dull and absorbed in the craving for enjoyment cannot behold it.
Original
Hindi
[१२२८, क्रमशः]
तुलता नहीं कभी हीरा पत्थरके काँटेपर अनमोल। होते विफल 'स्वमति-काँटे', जो इसे चाहते लेंगे तौल॥ मेरी अन्तःस्थितिका पूरा है अन्तर्यामीको ज्ञान। बसे विशेषरूपसे नित उसमें रहते मेरे भगवान॥
[१२२९]
(राग पीलू - ताल कहरवा)
टूट गये जगके सभी ममताके दृढ़ बन्ध। भय-विषाद-मद मिट गये पा उनका सम्बन्ध॥ हुआ सभी चिरकालका मोह-अन्धतम नाश। छाया प्रभुकी प्रीतिका निर्मल नित्य प्रकाश॥ वे प्रभु प्रिय रहते सदा पास मधुर दिन-रात। करते रहते हृदयकी मधुर मनोहर बात॥ करते वे मधुपूर्ण रस-सुख-विहार स्वच्छन्द। उनकी संनिधिमें सदा छाया परमानन्द॥
[१२३०]
(राग विहाग - ताल कहरवा)
मिट गये श्रम-भय, दुःख-विषाद। मिट गये सब सन्देह-विवाद॥ जग गया निश्चल प्रभु-विश्वास। छा गया मनमें अति उल्लास॥ प्रकट हो गये हृदय भगवान। परम ज्योतिर्मय, ज्ञान-निधान॥ मिट गया विषम मोह-तम घोर। छा रही दिव्य द्युति सब ओर॥ सहज जो चिदानन्दमय रूप। अनिर्वचनीय, अचिन्त्य, अनूप॥ रह गया वही एक एकान्त। हो गया सब द्वन्द्वोंका अन्त॥
[१२३१]
(राग जंगला - तीन ताल)
तुम्हीं सदा सुखरूप, दुःखमें भी नित भरे एक तुम ही। तुम्हीं मधुर आनन्द-गानमें, करुणाक्रन्दनमें तुम ही॥ तुम ही दिव्य स्वर्ग-भोगोंमें, नरक-यन्त्रणामें तुम ही। तुम ही मधुर सृजनमें, स्वामी! महाप्रलयमें भी तुम ही॥
English translation
[1228, continued]
A priceless diamond can never be weighed upon a stone's balance. The scales of personal judgment fail when they attempt to weigh it. The indwelling Knower fully knows my inward state. My Bhagavan forever dwells there in a special way.
[1229]
(Raga Pilu - Tala Kaharva)
Every strong worldly bond of possessiveness has broken. Fear, despair and pride disappeared when I entered relationship with Him. The ancient and utter darkness of delusion has been destroyed. The stainless, eternal light of the Lord's love pervades all. That beloved Lord remains forever near through sweet day and night. He continually speaks the heart's sweet and enchanting words. Freely He enjoys honey-filled recreation in the happiness of rasa. In His presence, supreme bliss forever prevails.
[1230]
(Raga Vihaga - Tala Kaharva)
Weariness and fear, sorrow and despair have vanished. Every doubt and dispute has disappeared. Unshakable trust in the Lord has awakened, and immense delight pervades the mind. Bhagavan has manifested within the heart, supremely radiant and the treasury of knowledge. The dreadful darkness of uneven delusion has vanished, and divine splendor fills every direction. His natural form is conscious bliss, indescribable, inconceivable and incomparable. That One alone remains in absolute solitude, and every duality has ended.
[1231]
(Raga Jangala - Tintal)
You alone are forever happiness embodied, and You alone forever fill sorrow too. You are within the sweet song of bliss and within the cry of compassion. You alone are within divine heavenly enjoyments and within the torments of hell. You are within sweet creation, O Master, and You alone are within the great dissolution.
Original
Hindi
[१२३१, क्रमशः]
तुम ही हो प्रकाश उज्ज्वलमें, नित्य घोर तममें तुम ही। तुम ही प्रिय-शुभ-मंगल, अप्रिय-अशुभ-अमंगल भी तुम ही॥ तुम्हीं विशद जन-कोलाहलमें, निर्जन वनमें भी तुम ही। तुम्हीं अस्तिमें भरे, नास्तिमें भी हो नित्य एक तुम ही॥ तुम्हीं सभीमें सदा पूर्ण हो, जड़-चेतन - सब हो तुम ही। मुझे दिखायी देते केवल नित सर्वत्र एक तुम ही॥
[१२३२]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
जीवन-मरण, दुःख-सुख जगके सभी तुम्हारे अंग। नाच रही है सबमें मूर्ति तुम्हारी ललित त्रिभंग॥ सभी अवस्थाओंमें सबमें मिलता स्पर्श तुम्हारा। तुम्हीं दिखायी देते सबमें, बदल गया दृग-तारा॥ लीलामय! लीला करते तुम सकल विश्वमें छाये। अपनेमें ही आप खेलते, वेष विभिन्न बनाये॥ तुम अनादि हो, अन्तहीन तुम, तुम-ही-तुम हो, प्यारे। निज स्वरूप-महिमामें सुस्थित, जगमें, जगसे न्यारे॥
[१२३३]
(तर्ज गजल - ताल कहरवा)
कभी तुम बन सुखमय सम्मान। कभी बन आत्यन्तिक अपमान॥ कभी बन सुख-सौभाग्य अनूप। कभी बन दुःख-दुर्भाग्य कुरूप॥ कभी बन सुहृद्-स्वजन-परिवार। कभी अरि घोर अहित-आगार॥ कभी बन धन-ऐश्वर्य अपार। कभी दारुण दारिद्र्य-सँभार॥ कभी बन भीषण झंझावात। कभी बन विषम वज्र, हिमपात॥ कभी बन शीतल सुखद बयार। कभी बन मधुर वसन्त-बहार॥ सभी रूपोंमें तुम ही नित्य। दे रहे दर्शन सबको सत्य॥ छा रहा था जबतक अज्ञान। हुई थी प्राप्त नहीं पहचान॥
English translation
[1231, continued]
You are the radiance within brilliant light, and You are within eternal, dreadful darkness. You are the beloved, auspicious and blessed, and You are also the unpleasant, inauspicious and ill-omened. You are within the manifest clamor of people and You are within the solitary forest. You forever fill existence, and within nonexistence You alone are present. You are always complete within all; everything inert and conscious is You. I forever behold only You, the One, everywhere.
[1232]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
Life and death and the world's happiness and sorrow are all Your limbs. Your graceful threefold-bending form dances within them all. Your touch is found within everyone in every state. You alone appear within all, for the very star of my sight has changed. O playful Lord, You pervade the entire universe performing lila. Assuming diverse costumes, You play by Yourself within Yourself. You are beginningless and endless; only You are, O Beloved. Established in the glory of Your essential being, You dwell within the world yet remain beyond it.
[1233]
(In the style of a Ghazal - Tala Kaharva)
At times You become happiness-filled honor; at times You become absolute disgrace. At times You become incomparable happiness and good fortune; at times ugly sorrow and misfortune. At times You become friends, relatives and family; at times a fierce enemy and abode of harm. At times You become boundless wealth and majesty; at times a mass of dreadful poverty. At times You become a terrible storm; at times a harsh thunderbolt or snowfall. At times You become a cool, pleasant breeze; at times the sweet splendor of spring. You alone are eternal within every form, truly giving everyone Your vision. So long as ignorance prevailed, recognition had not been attained.
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[१२३३, क्रमशः]
दुःखमय हर्ष-शोकके यान चढ़ा फिरता था मैं बेभान॥ हर्ष-मदका होता उन्माद। काँपता कभी, भरा अवसाद॥ बता दी तुमने जब पहचान। हट गया पर्दा, उपजा ज्ञान॥ भाव, गुण हैं अनन्त, आकार। सभी हो तुम्हीं सगुण-साकार॥ विश्वके कण-कणमें भगवान। भरे तुम हो सर्वत्र महान॥ अतः होता न कदापि वियोग। बना रहता है नित संयोग॥ दीखते रहते तुम नित साथ। मधुर मुसकाते छिप-छिप नाथ॥ कर दिया तुमने मुझे निहाल। मिटाकर सारा जग-जंजाल॥ करो अब नित प्रणाम स्वीकार। दीन पामरके करुणागार॥
[१२३४]
(राग भैरवी, गजल - ताल कव्वाली)
प्रियतम! न छिप सकोगे, चाहे जो वेष धर लो। अब हो चुकी है मुझको पहचान वह तुम्हारी॥ ढूँढ़ा तुम्हें अभीतक मन्दिर या मस्जिदोंमें, पर देख तो न पाया वह माधुरी पियारी॥ जिसने बताया जैसे, वैसे ही ढूँढ़ा मैंने। भटका, कहीं न दीखे, चैतन्य! चित्तहारी॥ बस बेतरह हराया, आया जो पास मेरे, तुमको बता-बताकर शब्दोंकी मार मारी॥ पर देखकर न तुमको, था सोचता यों मनमें, है वा नहीं है जगमें सत्ता कहीं तुम्हारी॥ सन्देह जब यों होता, झाँकी-सी मार जाते। तिरछी नजरसे हँसकर, छिपते तुरत विहारी॥ बिजली-सी दौड़ जाती, सन-सन शरीर करता। होती थीं इन्द्रियाँ सब प्रखर प्रकाशकारी॥ तब दीखता था मुझको फैला प्रकाश सबमें। प्राणेश! बस तुम्हारा वह दिव्य मोदकारी॥
English translation
[1233, continued]
Unaware, I wandered aboard the sorrowful vehicle of elation and grief. At times the pride of joy drove me mad; at times I trembled, filled with despair. When You revealed Your identity, the curtain lifted and knowledge arose. Feelings, qualities and forms are infinite; You alone are all of them, endowed with qualities and form. O Bhagavan, You fill every particle of the universe; You are the Great One everywhere. Therefore separation never occurs, and union forever remains. You continually appear beside me, O Lord, hiding and smiling sweetly. Dispelling the whole world's entanglement, You have filled me with blessed joy. O compassionate refuge of the lowly and fallen, now forever accept my bow.
[1234]
(Raga Bhairavi, Ghazal - Tala Qawwali)
Beloved, You cannot hide, whatever disguise You assume. Now I have come to recognize You. Until now I sought You in temples and mosques, but I could not behold that beloved sweetness. I searched exactly as each person instructed me. I wandered, yet nowhere did You appear, O consciousness embodied, enchanter of the heart. Whoever approached me merely bewildered me terribly, describing You again and again and striking me with words. Unable to behold You, I wondered within my mind whether Your being existed anywhere in the world at all. Whenever such doubt arose, You flashed a sudden glimpse. Smiling from the corner of Your eye, O playful Lord, You immediately hid again. Lightning seemed to race through me, and my body thrilled with a rushing sound. All the senses became intensely radiant. Then I beheld light spread through everything, O Lord of my life, Your divine and joy-bestowing light alone.
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[१२३४, क्रमशः]
आँधी-सी एक आती, धन-कीर्ति-कामिनीकी। सारा प्रकाश ढकता, उस तमसे अन्धकारी॥ आ-आके इस तरह तुम, यों बार-बार जाते। मुझको न थी तुम्हारी पहचान पुण्यकारी॥ आँखोंमें बैठ करके, तुम देखते हो सबको। कानोंमें बैठ सुनते तुम शब्द सौख्यकारी॥ नाकोंसे गन्ध लेते, रसनासे चाखते तुम। हो स्पर्श तुम ही करते, लीला विचित्रकारी॥ प्राणोंमें, चित्त-मनमें, मतिमें, अहंमें, तूँमें, सबमें पसार करके तुम खेलते खिलारी॥ बेढब नकाबपोशी रखी है सीख तुमने। अन्दर समाके सबके छिपते, अजीब यारी॥ जिसको दिखाया तुमने परदा हटाके अपना, वह रूप-रँग अनोखा, प्रेमोन्मत्तकारी॥ फिर भूलता नहीं वह, औ भूल भी न सकता। पहचान नित्य होती पारस्परिक तुम्हारी॥ आँधी कभी न आती, आँखें न चौंधियातीं। वह दिव्य दृष्टि पाकर होता सदा सुखारी॥ सुख-दुःख, जय-पराजय, तम-तेज, यश-अयशमें, दिखतीं उसे सभीमें छवि मोहिनी तुम्हारी॥ फिर देखता वह तुमसे सारा जगत भरा है। अपनी जरा-सी सत्ता वह देखता न न्यारी॥ तुम हो समाये सबमें, वह है समाया तुममें। भय-भेद-श्रान्ति मिटती उस एक क्षणमें सारी॥
English translation
[1234, continued]
Then a storm of wealth, fame and sensual beauty would arise, and its darkening gloom would cover all the light. In this way You repeatedly came and went, for I had not yet attained the blessed recognition of You. Seated within the eyes, You behold everyone. Seated within the ears, You hear every pleasing sound. Through the nose You receive fragrance, and through the tongue You taste. You alone touch as the sense of touch, performing wondrous lila. Within the vital airs, heart and mind, intelligence, ego and body, You spread through all and play, O divine Player. You have learned an astonishing art of veiling Yourself. Entering within everyone, You hide in wondrous intimacy. The one to whom You reveal Yourself by lifting Your curtain beholds that unique form and color that intoxicate with love. Such a person never forgets again and indeed cannot forget, for recognition between You both becomes eternal and mutual. No storm ever rises again, nor are the eyes dazzled. Having attained that divine sight, the person remains forever happy. Within happiness and sorrow, victory and defeat, darkness and radiance, fame and disgrace, that person beholds Your enchanting beauty in them all. Then the whole universe is seen as filled with You, and one's own tiny being is no longer seen as separate. You pervade all, and that person is immersed in You. In that single moment, every fear, division and weariness disappears.
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[१२३५]
(धुन लावनी - ताल कहरवा)
ज्यों-ज्यों मैं पीछे हटता हूँ, त्यों-त्यों तुम आगे आते। छिपे हुए परदोंमें अपना मोहन मुखड़ा दिखलाते॥ पर मैं अन्धा नहीं देखता परदोंके अन्दरकी चीज। मोह-मुग्ध मैं देखा करता परदे बहुरंगे नाचीज॥ परदोंके अन्दरसे तुम हँसते प्यारी मधुरी हाँसी। चित्त खींचनेको तुम तुरत बजा देते मीठी बाँसी॥ सुनता हूँ, मोहित होता, दर्शनकी भी इच्छा करता। पाता नहीं देख, पर जड़मति इधर-उधर मारा फिरता॥ तरह-तरहसे ध्यान खींचते, करते विविध भाँति संकेत। चौकन्ना-सा रह जाता हूँ, नहीं समझता मूर्ख अचेत॥ तो भी नहीं ऊबते हो तुम, परदा जरा उठाते हो। धीरेसे सम्बोधन करके अपने निकट बुलाते हो॥ इतनेपर भी नहीं देखता, सिंह-गर्जना तब करते। तन-मन-प्राण काँप उठते हैं, नहीं धीर कोई धरते॥ डरता, भाग छूटता, तब आश्वासन देकर समझाते। ज्यों-ज्यों मैं पीछे हटता हूँ, त्यों-त्यों तुम आगे आते॥
[१२३६]
(राग भूपाली - तीन ताल)
भला किया प्रभु! तुमने मुझको देकर कटु औषधका दान। भला किया तन चीर निकाला अन्दरका मवाद भगवान॥ भला किया जो छीना तुमने मीठा जहर भोगका घोर। भला किया जो दिया अभावोंका पूरा समूह सब ओर॥ भला किया जो छीन मान-विष, दिया सुधा-सुन्दर अपमान। भला किया जो छुड़ा दिया दुःसंग भोगियोंका अघ-खान॥
English translation
[1235]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
The farther I withdraw, the farther You advance. Hidden behind the curtains, You reveal Your enchanting face. But blind as I am, I do not see what lies behind them. Bewildered by delusion, I merely gaze at the worthless, many-colored curtains. From behind them You laugh Your beloved and sweet laughter. To draw my heart, You immediately play Your sweet flute. I hear it, become enchanted and long to behold You, yet unable to see, I wander here and there with a dull mind. In manifold ways You draw my attention and offer many kinds of signs. I remain startled and alert, yet foolish and unaware, understand nothing. Even then You do not grow weary; You lift the curtain slightly and, addressing me softly, call me near. When even then I fail to see, You roar like a lion. Body, mind and life-breath tremble, and no composure remains. Terrified, I flee; then You reassure and instruct me. The farther I withdraw, the farther You advance.
[1236]
(Raga Bhupali - Tintal)
You did well, O Lord, to give me the gift of bitter medicine. You did well, O Bhagavan, to cut open the body and drain the pus within. You did well to take away the terrible sweet poison of enjoyment. You did well to surround me with the whole array of privations. You did well to remove the poison of honor and give the beautiful nectar of disgrace. You did well to free me from the evil company of pleasure-seekers, a mine of sin.
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[१२३६, क्रमशः]
मिटा मोह, मद हटा, घटा सब विषयोंका दुःखद व्यामोह। बड़ी कृपा की कृपासिन्धु! तुमने हरि! चिदानन्द-सन्दोह॥ करुणा कर निकाल नरकोंसे दिया पदाश्रय शुचि सुख-मूल। सहज अहैतुक सुहृद्! मिटा दी मेरी मोहजनित सब भूल॥ भोग-वासना कभी न उपजे, कभी न जागे ममता-राग। छूटे नहीं चरण-आश्रय अब, बढ़ता रहे शुद्ध अनुराग॥
[१२३७]
(राग वागेश्री - तीन ताल)
(१)
परम प्रिय मेरे प्राणाधार! स्वजनोंसे सम्बन्ध छूटते मैं निराश हो घबराया। पर निरुपाय, विवश हो तत्क्षण गृह नवीनमें मैं आया॥ लगा पुरातन चिर नूतन सब, 'मेरापन' सबमें पाया। विस्मृत हुआ पुरातन, नूतनको ही मैंने अपनाया॥ सबल, सुन्दर, सुसंगठित देह। जनक-जननीका अविरल स्नेह॥ प्रियाका मधुर वचन, मृदु हास। सरल सन्ततिका रम्य विकास॥ कर रहा नित सुखका संचार। परम प्रिय मेरे प्राणाधार!
(२)
पिता चले, जननी भी बिछुड़ी, शक्ति और सौन्दर्य गया! पत्नी भी चल बसी, शेष वयमें उसने भी न की दया॥ धीरे-धीरे पुत्रोंसे भी सारा नाता टूट गया। पूर्वजन्मकी भाँति पुनः यम-दूतोंके आधीन भया॥ हुआ परवश, अधीर, बेहाल। चल सकी एक न मेरी चाल॥
English translation
[1236, continued]
Delusion vanished, pride withdrew, and the painful bewilderment of every sense-object diminished. O ocean of grace, O Hari, mass of conscious bliss, You bestowed immense mercy. Compassionately drawing me out of hell, You gave refuge at Your feet, the sacred source of happiness. O naturally causeless Friend, You removed every error born of my delusion. May craving for enjoyment never arise, and may possessive attachment never awaken. May refuge at Your feet never be lost, and may pure love continually increase.
[1237]
(Raga Vagesri - Tintal)
(1)
My supremely beloved foundation of life! As my relationships with relatives fell away, I grew despairing and afraid. But helpless and compelled, I immediately entered a new home. Everything seemed ancient yet eternally new, and I found a sense of "mine" in all. The former life was forgotten, and I embraced only the new. A strong, beautiful and well-formed body; the unbroken affection of father and mother; my beloved's sweet words and gentle smile; the delightful growth of innocent children: all continually spread happiness, my supremely beloved foundation of life!
(2)
Father departed, mother too was lost, and strength and beauty disappeared. My wife also passed away; in the remaining years she too showed no mercy. Gradually every bond with my sons also broke. As in a former birth, I again fell under the sway of Yama's messengers. I became helpless, restless and overwhelmed; not one strategy of mine could prevail.
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[१२३७, क्रमशः]
भटकते बीता अगणित काल। विविध देहोंमें क्षुद्र-विशाल॥ अनोखा यह कैसा व्यवहार। परम प्रिय मेरे प्राणाधार!
(३)
बाल, युवा, वृद्धावस्था हैं तीनों पूरी हो जातीं। मरण अनन्तर पुनर्जन्मकी सतत है बारी आती॥ घूम रही मायाचक्री, यह कभी नहीं रुकने पाती। पर 'मैं-मैं' की एक भावना कभी नहीं मेरी जाती॥ भले हो कोई कैसा स्वाँग। पड़ गयी सब कुओंमें भाँग॥ इसीसे यह 'मैं-मैं' की राग। गा रहा, कभी न सकता त्याग॥ कौन यह 'मैं', कैसा आकार? परम प्रिय मेरे प्राणाधार!
(४)
'मैं-मैं' कहता भटक रहा, भव-सागरकी चोटें सहता। नहीं परन्तु जानता 'मैं' है कौन तथा कैसे कहता? यदि शरीर ही 'मैं' होता, तो सबमें 'मैं' कैसे रहता? होता 'मैं' मन-इन्द्रिय, तो इनको मेरे कैसे कहता? सुन रहा छिपकर सारी बात। देखता सभी घात-प्रतिघात॥ हो गयी उससे अब पहचान। वही मैं, भेद गया हूँ जान॥ उसीमें समा रहा तू यार! परम प्रिय मेरे प्राणाधार!
(५)
समझा, इस 'मैं'में औ तुझमें किसी तरहका भेद नहीं। इस विशाल 'मैं'की व्यापकतामें कोई विच्छेद नहीं॥
English translation
[1237, continued]
Countless ages passed in wandering through manifold bodies, tiny and vast. What extraordinary conduct is this, my supremely beloved foundation of life?
(3)
Childhood, youth and old age all run their full course. After death, the turn of rebirth continually arrives. Maya's wheel keeps revolving and can never stop, yet the single feeling of "I, I" never leaves me. Whatever the disguise may be, the same intoxicant has entered every well. Therefore I go on singing this refrain of "I, I" and can never abandon it. Who is this "I," and what is its form, my supremely beloved foundation of life?
(4)
Crying "I, I," I wander and suffer the blows of the ocean of becoming, yet I do not know who this "I" is or how it speaks. If the body alone were "I," how could the "I" remain in every body? If "I" were mind and senses, how could I call them mine? Hidden, it hears every word and witnesses every blow and counterblow. Now I have come to recognize it: that alone is I, and I have understood the distinction. You, my Friend, are merging into that very One, my supremely beloved foundation of life!
(5)
I understood that there is no distinction whatever between this "I" and You. There is no interruption within the all-pervasiveness of this vast "I."
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[१२३७, क्रमशः]
तुझसे भरे हुए इस 'मैं'में हुआ कभी भी खेद नहीं। सदानन्द-परिपूर्ण एकरस, कोई भेदाभेद नहीं॥ बिगड़ता, बनता यह संसार। किन्तु 'तू' चिर-नूतन, सुकुमार॥ 'मैं' तथा 'तू'का यह उपचार। सभी कुछ है तेरा विस्तार॥ धन्य तू और तेरा व्यापार! परम प्रिय मेरे प्राणाधार!
[१२३८]
(राग देश - ताल कहरवा)
दारुण अशान्तिकी आग बुझी, आ गयी तुम्हारी परम शान्ति। हो गया सबल जीवन, नीरुज, मिट गयी रुग्णता, असह श्रान्ति॥ शंका-विषाद-भय-श्रान्ति मिटे, अब रहा न कोई प्रश्न शेष। मति-मन-इन्द्रिय - सब नित्य युक्त हो रहे तुम्हींमें, हृषीकेश! दुर्लभ दैवी सम्पदा जगी, बह चली अमिय-धारा अनन्त। मिल गया अमर आनन्दरूप, हो गया मरणका पूर्ण अन्त॥
[१२३९]
(धुन लावनी - ताल कहरवा)
सौंप दिये मन-प्राण उसीको, मुखसे गाते उसका नाम। कर्माकर्म चुकाकर सारे चलते हैं अब उसके धाम॥ इन्द्रियगण लेकर विषयोंको मरा करें इच्छा-अनुसार। हम तो हैं अनुगत उसके ही, वही हमारा प्राणाधार॥ प्रेम उसीके-से प्रेमिक बन, गाते सब उसका गुण-गान। उसकी नासा पुष्प उसीके-से लेती नित उसकी घ्राण॥ उसके प्राणोंकी व्याकुलता सब प्राणोंमें जाग रही। इसी हेतु बैठे योगासन, वृत्ति उसीमें लाग रही॥
English translation
[1237, continued]
Within this "I," filled with You, sorrow has never arisen. It is one uniform rasa, completely filled with eternal bliss, without either difference or nondifference. This world deteriorates and is remade, but You remain eternally new and tender. This way of speaking of "I" and "You" is only a convention, for everything is Your expansion. Blessed are You and Your activity, my supremely beloved foundation of life!
[1238]
(Raga Des - Tala Kaharva)
The fire of dreadful unrest has been quenched, and Your supreme peace has arrived. Life has become strong and healthy; illness and unbearable exhaustion have vanished. Doubt, despair, fear and weariness have disappeared, and no question remains. Intelligence, mind and senses are forever becoming joined to You alone, O Hrsikesa. Rare divine wealth has awakened, and an endless current of nectar flows. The immortal form of bliss has been found, and death has ended completely.
[1239]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
Mind and life-breath have been entrusted to Him, while the mouth sings His Name. Settling every action and inaction, all now journey toward His abode. Let the senses take their objects and die according to their desire. We follow Him alone, for He is the foundation of our life. Becoming lovers through His own love, all sing His virtues. His nose forever receives His fragrance through flowers that are His own. The longing of His life-breath awakens within every living breath. For this alone they sit in yogic posture, with every mental movement absorbed in Him.
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Hindi
[१२३९, क्रमशः]
उसके ही रससे रसिका बन रसना हो गयी दीवानी। विषयोंके रस विरस हुए सब, नहीं कर सकें मनमानी॥ आँख उसीकी देख रहीं नित उसका रूप परम सुन्दर। कान उसीके सुनते उसका सदा सुरीला कण्ठ-स्वर॥ देह उसीकी करती नित आवेग-भरा परसन उससे। मन-प्राण भर उठे, दीखता सारा जगत भरा उससे॥ सभी भुलाकर सोच रहा, वह कहाँ? कौन? मेरा मनचोर। हृदय-सलिलके अगाध तलमें खोजूँगा, यदि पाऊँ छोर॥ जब वह अपने प्राणोंको मेरे प्राणोंमें दिखलाता, दोनों कूल डूब जाते हैं, कुछ भी नजर नहीं आता॥ माता-पिता वही हम सबका, भाई-बन्धु, पुत्र-दारा। है सर्वस्व वही सबका, बस उससे भरा विश्व सारा॥ है वह जीवन-सखा हमारा, है वह परम हमारा धन। अन्तस्तलमें बैठे हैं टुक करनेको उसके दर्शन॥ जब वह दोनों भुजा उठाकर अपनी ओर बुलाता है, सब सुख तजकर मन उसके ही पीछे दौड़ा जाता है॥ सब कुछ भूल नाच उठते हैं, हँसना औ रोना तजकर। चरण-कूलकी तरफ दौड़ते, भग्न-जीर्ण नौका लेकर॥ आशा सकल बहाकर उस प्यारेके अरुण चरण-तलमें, कूद पड़ेंगे, डूबें चाहे तर निकलें कूलस्थलमें॥ इस जगके जो कुछ भी सुख हैं, सो सब रहें उसीके पास। अरुण चरणके स्पर्शमात्रसे मिटी हमारी सारी आस॥ किसी वस्तुकी चाह नहीं है, मिटा चाहना, पाना सब। बैठे हैं भव-तीर भरोसा किये युगल चरणोंका अब॥ अब तो बन्ध-मोक्षकी इच्छा व्याकुल कभी न करती है। मुखड़ा ही नित नव बन्धन है, मुक्ति चरणसे झरती है॥
English translation
[1239, continued]
Made a connoisseur through His rasa alone, the tongue has gone mad with love. Every taste of the sense-objects has become tasteless and can no longer impose its will. His eyes forever behold His supremely beautiful form. His ears forever hear His own melodious voice. His body continually touches Him with surging passion. Mind and life-breath overflow, and the whole universe appears filled with Him. Forgetting everything, my heart wonders, "Where is He? Who is He, the thief of my mind?" I shall search in the fathomless depths of the heart's waters, if only I can find their shore. When He reveals His own life-breath within mine, both banks are submerged and nothing whatever remains visible. He alone is the mother and father of us all, our brother, relative, son and spouse. He is everyone's all-in-all; the whole universe is simply filled with Him. He is our companion in life and our supreme treasure. We sit within the inmost heart to gain one brief vision of Him. When He raises both arms and calls us toward Himself, the mind abandons every pleasure and runs after Him alone. Forgetting everything, we rise and dance, leaving both laughter and weeping behind. Carrying a broken, worn-out boat, we run toward the shore of His feet. Pouring every hope at the soles of that Beloved's ruddy feet, we shall leap in, whether we drown or cross to the farther shore. Let every happiness in this world remain with Him. At the mere touch of those ruddy feet, every hope of ours disappeared. No desire for any object remains; all wanting and gaining have ended. We now sit upon the shore of becoming, trusting in His pair of feet. No desire for bondage or liberation can trouble us now. His face itself is an ever-new bond, while liberation streams from His feet.
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[१२३९, क्रमशः]
चाहे अपने पास बिठा लें, चाहे दूर फेंक देवें। दूर रहें या पास रहें, हम सतत चरण-मूल सेवें॥
[१२४०]
(राग जंगला - ताल कहरवा)
छीनकर सहज सभी संसार, कर दिया मुझे अवस्तु-असार। पकड़ पाता न, हुआ लाचार, प्रकृतिका रहा न एक विकार॥ रहे तुम केवल एक अनन्य, दृश्य-द्रष्टा न रह गया अन्य। बोध यह नहीं किसीका जन्य, तुम्हीं अपनेसे अपने धन्य॥ इन्द्रियाँ रहीं न इन्द्रिय-भोग, मिट गया सभी अविद्या-रोग। समझ पाते न मर्म वे लोग, देखते प्रकृतिज जो संयोग॥ हो गये भोग्य-भोक्ता एक, मुक्ति-बन्धनका मिटा विवेक। हो गये एक तमाम अनेक, कौन अब रखे किसकी टेक॥ रहा कुछ भी न मान-अपमान, हो गये जीवन-मरण समान। मित्र-अरिका न रहा कुछ ज्ञान, भेदका रहा न नाम-निशान॥ कर रहे मधुमय नित्य विहार, आप अपनेमें ही अविकार। स्वयं बन निराकार-साकार, रहित-इच्छा इच्छा अनुसार॥ शून्य-संकल्प समाधि-विभोर, नहीं सन्ध्या-विभावरी-भोर। कहीं भी कोई ओर-न-छोर, बने रहते जड़वत् सब ओर॥ कभी करते मधुमय आलाप, हरण कर लेते सब सन्ताप। न कोई तौल न कोई माप, नित्य स्वच्छन्द आपमें आप॥ तुम्हारे ये समाधि-व्युत्थान, सृष्टि सुन्दर, भयकर अवसान। तुम्हारे सभी रूप निर्माण, निरतिशय, निरुपम, नित्य समान॥ कभी करते अनुभव बन भिन्न, कभी दिखलाते भाव विभिन्न। पर न पल होने देते खिन्न, कभी होते न स्वयं विच्छिन्न॥ रहा अब कहीं न अहं-ममत्व, तुम्हारी छाया सहज समत्व। तुम्हीं बस हो 'मैं', तुम्हीं ममत्व, तुम्हीं तत्त्वज्ञ, तुम्हीं पर-तत्त्व॥
English translation
[1239, continued]
Whether He seats us beside Himself or casts us far away, whether He remains distant or near, we shall continually serve at the root of His feet.
[1240]
(Raga Jangala - Tala Kaharva)
Taking away the entire world with ease, You rendered me without substance or essence. I could grasp nothing and became helpless; not one modification of nature remained. You alone remained, the one without a second; no other seen or seer survived. This realization was not produced by another; through Yourself, You alone know Yourself as blessed. Neither senses nor their enjoyments remained, and every disease of ignorance disappeared. Those who behold conjunctions born of nature cannot understand this mystery. The enjoyed and enjoyer became one, and discrimination between liberation and bondage vanished. The entire many became one; who now could support whom? Nothing of honor or disgrace remained, and life and death became equal. No knowledge of friend or enemy survived; no name or trace of distinction remained. Immutable, You eternally perform honey-filled recreation within Yourself alone. Personally becoming both formless and formed, free of desire, You act according to desire. Absorbed in samadhi without intention, there is no dusk, night or dawn. There is no limit or shore anywhere; everything remains as though inert. At times You hold honey-filled dialogue and carry away every affliction. There is no scale and no measure; You remain eternally free within Yourself. These are Your absorptions into and emergences from samadhi, beautiful creation and dreadful dissolution. Every form You fashion is unsurpassed, incomparable and eternally equal. At times You become separate experience; at times You reveal diverse feelings. Yet You do not allow sorrow for even a moment and are never divided Yourself. No ego or possessiveness remains anywhere; Your shadow is natural equality. You alone are the "I," You alone are possessiveness, You alone know reality and You alone are the Supreme Reality.
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[१२४१]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
दुःख-सुख सारे, हर्ष-विषाद। मान-अपमान, शोक-आह्लाद॥ अमरता-मरण, ज्ञान-अज्ञान। नरक अति घोर, परम कल्याण॥ सभीमें भरे तुम्हीं भगवान। सभी करते तव लीला-गान॥ दृश्य, द्रष्टा, दर्शनके भेद। सभी तुममें, तुम सदा अभेद॥ इसीसे नित्य शान्त, आनन्द। हृदयमें बसे नित्य स्वच्छन्द॥ दीखता मधुर तुम्हारा रूप। सदा सर्वत्र पवित्र अनूप॥ मिट गया सारा ममता-मोह। छा रहे चिदानन्द-सन्दोह॥ हुआ संकल्प-तमोंका नाश। छा गया चारों ओर प्रकाश॥
[१२४२]
(राग शिवरंजनी - ताल कहरवा)
प्राणि-पदार्थ किसीपर भी अब मेरा रहा न कुछ अधिकार। मुझपर भी अब रहा किसीका किंचित् भी न कहीं अधिकार॥ कर्म, अकर्म, विकर्म - सभी मिट गये, रहा न कहीं कुछ शेष। भोक्ताके अभावमें अब कुछ रहा न फल-गतिका निर्देश॥ मिटे सभी संकल्प, हो गया सबका तुममें ही अवसान। कौन, कहाँ, कैसे, क्या करता - रहा न इसका भी कुछ भान॥ हो जाता, होता दिखता सब, सबमें भरे पूर्ण तुम एक। मुझे सोचने-कहनेका भी रहा न कुछ अभिमान, विवेक॥ जीवन-मृत्यु मिटे सारे, मिट गये सभी अब इह-परलोक। देश-कालकी मिटी कल्पना, रहा न किंचित् हर्ष न शोक॥ नहीं मत्तता, न बुद्धिमत्ता, नहीं शून्यता, नहीं प्रकाश। तुम परिपूर्ण एक बस छाये, रहा न तनिक कहीं अवकाश॥
English translation
[1241]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
Every sorrow and happiness, joy and despair; honor and disgrace, grief and delight; immortality and death, knowledge and ignorance; dreadful hell and supreme welfare: You alone, O Bhagavan, fill them all, and they all sing Your lila. The distinctions of the seen, the seer and seeing are all within You, while You remain forever undivided. Therefore I am eternally peaceful and joyful, for You dwell freely within the heart. Your sweet form appears forever, everywhere, sacred and incomparable. Every possessive delusion has vanished, and masses of conscious bliss pervade all. The darkness of intention has been destroyed, and light fills every direction.
[1242]
(Raga Sivaranjani - Tala Kaharva)
I no longer possess any authority over any being or object. Nor does anyone anywhere possess the slightest authority over me. Action, inaction and wrong action have all vanished; nothing remains anywhere. In the absence of an enjoyer, no course or destination of results remains. Every intention has dissolved and found its end in You alone. No awareness remains of who acts, where, how or what is done. Everything simply happens and appears to happen, while You, the one Perfect Being, fill all. No pride or discrimination remains even concerning my thinking or speaking. Every life and death has vanished, and this world and the next have both disappeared. The conception of place and time has ended, and not the slightest joy or grief remains. There is no intoxication, no intelligence, no emptiness and no light. You alone, perfectly complete, pervade all, leaving not the slightest space anywhere.
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[१२४३]
प्राणनाथ! तुम्हारे बिना जगमें है कौन मेरा। तुम्हारे ही स्नेहने मुझको है सब ओर घेरा॥ किसीमें, कहीं भी, कैसे भी न लगता चित्त मेरा। पा लिया मैंने बस तुम्हारे चरणोंमें ही डेरा॥ तुम्हीं मेरे हो सर्वस्व, और कोई नहिं मेरा। न भोग, न लोक, न परलोक, न घर, न रैन-बसेरा॥ तुम्हारा रूप, नाम व गुण ही है परम धन मेरा। तुम-सा न पाया कहीं कोई भी, खोजा घनेरा॥ बसे रहो सुखसे नित्य, तुम्हारा घर है मन मेरा। बसूँ मैं भी सदा तुममें, न कुछ रहे मेरा-तेरा॥
[१२४४]
(राग सोहनी - ताल दादरा)
भर गया मेरे हृदयमें नित्य दिव्य प्रकाश तेरा। मिट गया अगणित युगोंसे छा रहा था जो अँधेरा॥ ज्योति तेरीसे समुज्ज्वल अब क्रिया सम्पूर्ण मेरी। कामना-आसक्ति भोगोंकी कहीं मिलती न हेरी॥ हो रही तव अर्चना हर कर्मसे प्रत्येक पल है। है चढ़ा शिव-चरण यह जीवन बना शुचि बिल्वदल है॥
[१२४५]
(राग शिवरंजनी - तीन ताल)
नाथ! तुम्हारी कृपा अहैतुक मुझपर सदा अनन्त, अपार। दूर हुए सब विघ्न विकट, मैं पहुँच गया भव-सागर-पार॥ चिन्मय परम धाममें पहुँचा, छूटा मायामय संसार। हुआ तुम्हारे अमल अकल परतत्त्व रूपका साक्षात्कार॥ बना यन्त्र उस यन्त्रीका मैं, मिटा मोह, सब मिटे विकार। प्रभुने स्वयं बनाया मुझको शुचि सेवा-विग्रह साकार॥
English translation
[1243]
O Lord of my life, who is mine in this world apart from You? Your love alone has surrounded me on every side. My heart cannot attach itself to anyone, anywhere or in any way. I have found my dwelling solely at Your feet. You alone are my all-in-all, and no one else is mine. Neither enjoyment, this world nor the next, neither home nor a night's shelter is mine. Your form, Name and virtues alone are my supreme treasure. Though I searched intensely, nowhere did I find anyone like You. Dwell happily forever, for my mind is Your home. May I too dwell eternally in You, with nothing left as mine or Yours.
[1244]
(Raga Sohani - Tala Dadra)
Your eternal divine light has filled my heart. The darkness that had prevailed for countless ages has vanished. Every action of mine is now fully illumined by Your radiance. Craving and attachment for enjoyments can no longer be found anywhere. At every moment, worship of You proceeds through every action. This life has become a pure bilva leaf offered at Siva's feet.
[1245]
(Raga Sivaranjani - Tintal)
O Lord, Your causeless grace toward me is eternally infinite and boundless. Every formidable obstacle has withdrawn, and I have crossed the ocean of becoming. I have reached the supreme conscious abode and left the world of maya behind. I have directly realized Your stainless, indivisible form as the Supreme Reality. I became an instrument of that divine Player; delusion vanished and every impurity disappeared. The Lord Himself fashioned me as a sacred and embodied form of service.
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[१२४६]
(तर्ज लावनी - ताल कहरवा)
नाथ! तुम्हारी कितनी करुणा, कैसा अतुल तुम्हारा दान। हटा असत् मायाका पर्दा, दिया स्वयं ही दर्शन-ज्ञान॥ नहीं रह गया अब तो कुछ भी अन्य, छोड़कर तुमको एक। मिथ्या जगमें रमनेवाले रहे न मिथ्या बुद्धि-विवेक॥ आते लोग, सुनाते अपनी विषम समस्याओंकी बात। सुलझानेको उन्हें, पूछते साधन सविनय, कर प्रणिपात॥ कहूँ उन्हें, समझाऊँ क्या मैं, जब न दीखता कुछ सत्, सार। सुलझानेवाले उस मनको गया सर्वथा लकवा मार॥
[१२४७]
(राग भीमपलासी - ताल कहरवा)
होता नहीं कभी चंचल मैं, होता नहीं निराश-उदास। होता नहीं दुःखी, रहता मेरा तुममें नित दृढ़ विश्वास॥ सदा प्रसन्न, सदा ही आशापूर्ण, सदा शुचि बुद्धि-विकास। सदा तुम्हारे चरणोंमें ही करता मैं आनन्द-निवास॥ जो कुछ तुम देते अपने गुण - अभय, शान्ति, आह्लाद, प्रकाश - सत्वर उन्हें ग्रहणकर जीवनमें भर लेता मैं सोल्लास॥ जो करते संकेत, दिखाते पथ जो, तुम करके मृदु हास, चलता मैं निश्चिन्त उसी पथ, कर सब तर्कोंका संन्यास॥ जाना कहाँ, कहाँ ले जाते तुम अपनी इच्छा-अनुसार, इसे जानना नहीं चाहता, मैं करता कुछ नहीं विचार॥ परम सुहृद् तुम, सदा प्रेम-रसपूर्ण, अमित मंगल-दातार। जो देते, जो करते, सबमें सदा तुम्हीं रहते, सरकार!॥
English translation
[1246]
(In the style of Lavani - Tala Kaharva)
O Lord, how immense is Your compassion and how incomparable Your gift. You removed the curtain of unreal maya and personally gave vision and knowledge. Nothing whatever now remains apart from You, the One. Neither false intellect nor discrimination remains to delight in the false world. People come and describe their difficult problems. Bowing reverently, they humbly ask for a means to solve them. What could I tell or explain to them when nothing substantial or real appears? The mind that would solve them has become utterly paralyzed.
[1247]
(Raga Bhimpalasi - Tala Kaharva)
I am never restless and never despairing or dejected. I never become sorrowful, for my firm trust in You abides eternally. Forever joyful, forever filled with hope, my pure understanding continually develops. I forever make my dwelling of bliss at Your feet alone. Whatever of Your virtues You give, fearlessness, peace, delight and light, I quickly receive and joyfully fill my life with them. Whatever sign You make and whichever path You reveal with a gentle smile, I walk carefree upon that path, renouncing every argument. Where I am to go and where You lead according to Your will, I do not wish to know and give it no thought. You are my supreme Friend, forever filled with the rasa of love and the giver of limitless welfare. Within everything You give and everything You do, You alone forever remain, O Sovereign.
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Hindi
[१२४८]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
जगमें सुख-दुःख, लाभ-हानि, चिरजीवन-मृत्यु, मान-अपमान - सभी तुम्हारे खेल, सभीमें भरे तुम्हीं, मेरे भगवान॥ इससे मिलता मुझे सर्वदा सबमें सुखद तुम्हारा स्पर्श। अतः नहीं हो पाते मनमें कभी शोक, उद्वेग, अमर्ष॥ किसी अवस्थामें भी होती नहीं अशान्ति, नहीं उर-दाह। हँसमुख सदा दीखता, प्रभुका नित्य नवीन पूर्ण उत्साह॥ दुःख-मरण दारुणमें भी तुम मधुर दिखाते मोहन रूप। होता सब विस्मरण, एक बच रहता चिन्मय मोद अनूप॥ छाये रहते सतत नित्य प्रति-दिक्में परम शान्ति-आनन्द। हो चाहे कैसा भी कहीं मनोहर-घोर काण्ड स्वच्छन्द॥ सभी दृश्य हैं, सभी तुम्हीं लीलामयके अभिनय सुन्दर। सबमें तुम्हीं नृत्य करते नित नटनागर, ऋषि-मुनि-मन-हर॥
[१२४९]
(राग वागेश्री - ताल कहरवा)
आओ सब मिल, कर दो हमला, सबसे मैं कह रहा पुकार। खुलकर खूब चला लो मुझपर सब अपने-अपने हथियार॥ किन्तु न लग पायेगी मुझको इन हथियारोंकी कुछ चोट। छूते ही मुझसे सब होकर नष्ट जायेंगे भू पर लोट॥ क्योंकि नहीं अब कहीं रह गया जगसे मेरा कुछ सम्बन्ध। प्रकृति-राज्यके गिरे टूट सब चिरकालीन अविद्या-बन्ध॥ रहे शरीर, जाय या अब ही, आये धन या जाय तमाम। मिले मान या कीर्ति, भले अपमान-अकीर्ति मिले बेकाम॥ नहीं स्पर्श कर सकते मुझको चिन्ता-भय-विषाद-मद-मान। निज स्वरूपसे बसे एक बस बाहर-भीतर हैं भगवान॥
English translation
[1248]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
The world's happiness and sorrow, gain and loss, long life and death, honor and disgrace are all Your play, and You alone, my Bhagavan, fill them all. Therefore within everything I continually receive Your pleasing touch. Thus grief, agitation and resentment can never arise in my mind. No state brings unrest or burning within the heart. I remain forever smiling, filled with the Lord's eternally fresh and perfect enthusiasm. Even within dreadful sorrow and death, You reveal Your sweet and enchanting form. Everything else is forgotten, and incomparable conscious joy alone remains. Supreme peace and bliss continually pervade every direction, whatever delightful or dreadful event may freely unfold anywhere. Every sight and every beautiful performance belongs to You, the playful Lord. Within them all You eternally dance, O divine Dancer who enchants the minds of sages and seers.
[1249]
(Raga Vagesri - Tala Kaharva)
Come, all of you together, and attack; I call this aloud to everyone. Freely wield every one of your weapons against me. Yet these weapons cannot inflict the slightest wound upon me. The moment they touch me, all will be destroyed and fall rolling upon the earth. For no relationship between the world and me remains anywhere. Every ancient bond of ignorance within nature's kingdom has broken and fallen. Let this body remain or depart this very moment; let wealth come or disappear entirely. Let honor or fame be received, or useless disgrace and infamy. Anxiety, fear, despair, pride and honor cannot touch me. Bhagavan alone, established in His essential being, dwells outside and within.
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Hindi
[१२४९, क्रमशः]
घुले-मिले प्रभुसे मुझको अब नहीं सकेगा कोई मार। कर दें भले रुद्र प्रलयंकर सकल विश्वका अब संहार॥ जबतक था प्रकृतिस्थ, लगे थे लगातार सब पीछे चोर। प्रभु-पदस्थ होते ही वे सब भगे प्राण ले चारों ओर॥ नाम-रूपके परिवर्तनसे मेरा कुछ न लाभ-नुकसान। मैं तो हूँ बस प्रियतम प्रभुकी निज-स्वरूपगत वस्तु महान॥ प्रियतमका आनन्द दिव्य है मेरा सहज नित्य आनन्द। परम शान्ति प्रियतमकी है बस मेरी सहज शान्ति स्वच्छन्द॥
[१२५०]
(राग भैरव - तीन ताल)
तुम्हारा नाथ! अनोखा प्यार। नहीं छोड़ते कभी, देखकर भी पापोंका भार॥ बँधा विषय-बन्धनमें मैं नित, फँसा मोहके जाल। विमुख तुम्हारे पद-कमलोंसे, व्यर्थ गँवाता काल॥ पर तुम मुझको नहीं भूलते, सदा भेजते दूत। सम्पद-विपदरूपमें करने मुझे निरामय, पूत॥ मीठी-कड़वी औषध होती, जैसा जिसका रोग। यथायोग्य वैसे ही करते कृपा-सुधा-संयोग॥ करुण अकारण, सुहृद् सहज शुचि, तुम-सा कहीं न और। देते बरबस खींच मुझे तुम मृदुल गोदमें ठौर॥
[१२५१]
(राग भैरवी - ताल कहरवा)
नीच नराधम होनेपर भी, मुझको कम न दिया तुमने। समझ अयोग्य नहीं फिर कुछ भी मुझसे छीन लिया तुमने॥१॥ नहीं शरणमें गया तुम्हारी, नहीं दयाका बना भिखारी, रहा सदा प्रतिकूल, भुलाया मुझको किन्तु नहीं तुमने। दिया दयाका दान, न मुझसे बदला कुछ चाहा तुमने॥२॥
English translation
[1249, continued]
Now that I am blended and united with the Lord, no one can strike me. Even if Rudra the destroyer annihilates the entire universe, it does not matter. So long as I was situated in nature, thieves pursued me without cease. The moment I became established at the Lord's feet, they all fled in every direction for their lives. Changes of name and form bring me neither profit nor loss. I am simply a great reality inherent in the essential being of my beloved Lord. My Beloved's divine bliss is my natural and eternal bliss. My Beloved's supreme peace alone is my natural and unfettered peace.
[1250]
(Raga Bhairava - Tintal)
How wondrous is Your love, O Lord. You never abandon me, even seeing the burden of my sins. I remain bound by sense-objects, caught in delusion's net, turned away from Your lotus feet and wasting time in vain. Yet You do not forget me and continually send messengers in the forms of prosperity and adversity to make me whole and pure. Medicine is sweet or bitter according to the patient's disease. As appropriate, You join each one with the nectar of Your grace. No one else is causelessly compassionate and naturally a pure friend like You. Drawing me irresistibly, You give me a place within Your tender lap.
[1251]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Kaharva)
Though I was low and the vilest of men, You gave me no less. Nor, judging me unworthy, did You take anything away from me. (1) I did not seek Your refuge or become a beggar for Your mercy. I remained forever opposed to You, yet You did not forget me. You gave the gift of compassion and sought no return from me. (2)
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Hindi
[१२५१, क्रमशः]
भटक रहा भव-अटवीमें नित, किन्तु न सोचा क्या होगा हित, सुधा त्याग विष-पान रहा रत, तदपि नहीं छोड़ा तुमने। करते रहे सँभाल, वहन सब योग-क्षेम किया तुमने॥३॥ मुझे बनाकर तुम नित अपना, अपने पास चाहते रखना, मैं मायाको नहीं छोड़ता, नहीं तजी परवा तुमने। करते रहे सदा प्रयत्न तुम, मुझसे क्या पाया तुमने॥४॥ कभी हँसाया, कभी रुलाया, कभी नचाया, कभी सुलाया, मीठी-कड़वी औषध दे-दे किया निरोग मुझे तुमने। आखिर निज स्वभाववश मुझको बना लिया अपना तुमने॥५॥
[१२५२]
(राग पलास)
पुत्र-शोक-सन्तप्त कभी कर दारुण दुःख है देती। कभी अयश, अपमान दानकर मान सभी हर लेती॥ कभी जगतके सुन्दर सुख सब छीन दीन मन करती। पथ-श्रान्त कर कभी कठिन व्यवहार विषम आचरती॥ दारुण दुःख-दारिद्र्य-दीनता क्षणभरमें हर लेती। पल-पलमें प्रत्येक दिशामें सतत कार्य है करती। कड़वी-मीठी औषध देकर व्यथा हृदयकी हरती॥ पर वह नहीं कदापि सहज ही परिचय अपना देती। चमक तुरत चंचल चपला-सी दृग-अंचल ढक लेती॥ जबतक इस घूँघटवालीका मुख नहीं देखा जाता, नाना भाँति जीव तबतक अकुलाता, कष्ट उठाता॥ जिस दिन यह आवरण दूर कर दिव्य द्युति दिखलाती, परिचय दे पहचान बताकर शीतल करती छाती॥ उस दिनसे फिर सभी वस्तु परिपूर्ण दीखती उससे। संसृति-हारिणी सुधा-वृष्टि हो रही निरन्तर जिससे॥
English translation
[1251, continued]
I wandered continually through the forest of becoming without considering what would bring my welfare. Abandoning nectar, I remained absorbed in drinking poison; even then You did not forsake me. You continued to care for me and bore all my attainment and preservation. (3) Having made me eternally Your own, You wished to keep me close. I would not abandon maya, yet You did not abandon concern for me. You continued Your efforts forever. What did You ever gain from me? (4) At times You made me laugh, at times weep, at times dance and at times sleep. Giving medicine both sweet and bitter, You restored me to health. At last, compelled by Your own nature, You made me Your own. (5)
[1252]
(Raga Palasa)
At times she torments one with grief for a son and inflicts dreadful sorrow. At times, giving infamy and disgrace, she takes away every honor. At times she takes all the world's lovely pleasures and makes the mind destitute. At times, exhausting one upon the path, she behaves harshly and adversely. Then in a moment she removes dreadful sorrow, poverty and lowliness. At every moment and in every direction she continually performs her work. Giving medicine both bitter and sweet, she removes the heart's pain. Yet she never readily reveals her identity. Flashing suddenly like restless lightning, she covers the edge of one's vision. Until the face of this veiled Lady is seen, the living being remains agitated in many ways and suffers distress. On the day she removes the covering and reveals her divine splendor, she introduces herself, makes her identity known and cools the heart. From that day onward, every object appears filled completely by her, from whom a ceaseless rain of samsara-destroying nectar falls.
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Hindi
[१२५२, क्रमशः]
सहज दयाकी मूरति देवीने जबसे अपनाया, महिमामय मुखमण्डल अपनेकी दिखला दी छाया॥ तबसे अभय हुआ, आकुलता मिटी, प्रेम-रस छलका। मनका उतरा भार सभी, अब हृदय हो गया हलका॥ जिन विभीषिकाओंसे डरकर पहले था थर्राता, उनमें भव्य दिव्य दर्शन कर अब प्रमुदित मुसकाता॥ भगवत्कृपा! 'अकिंचन' तेरे ज्यों-ज्यों दर्शन पाता, त्यों-ही-त्यों आनन्द-सिन्धुमें गहरा डूबा जाता॥
[१२५३]
(धुन लावनी - ताल कहरवा)
भीषण तम-परिपूर्ण निशीथिनी, निविड़ निरर्गल झंझावात। नभ घनघोर महारव-पूरित, विकट, विद्याती विद्युत्पात॥ सागर-वक्ष क्षुब्ध-उल्लोलित, क्षिति-क्षितिधर क्षत, कम्पित-गात। प्रलय-शिखा-पावक अप्रतिहत, त्रिभुवन त्रस्त सहत अभिघात॥ कैसा यह भीषण वेष! काँपता जगत्, न कोई शेष बचा, हुआ निर्भय, जिसने उस 'प्रियतमको पहचान लिया'॥ धन्य वेशधारिन्! बस मैंने 'छिपे हुएके जान लिया'॥ विस्तृत अति दारिद्र्य, रोग-पीड़ित, अपमानित दुःसहनीय, त्यक्त-बन्धु, जग-हसित, श्रमित-तनु, भ्रमित, वेदना दुर्दमनीय, एकमात्र सुत-शव निपतित सम्मुख, प्राणोपम अति कमनीय, हा! हा! रव-रत, विगत-शान्ति-सुख, शोक-सरितगत, नहीं कथनीय॥ नहीं सुख-स्वप्नका लेश! निदारुण महाभयानक क्लेश! आवृत वदन निरखकर जिसने 'प्रियतमको पहचान लिया'॥ धन्य वेशधारिन्! बस मैंने 'छिपे हुएके जान लिया'॥ अन्नहीन तन, मृतप्राय जन, वस्त्राभाव-अनावृत देह, अबला अवलम्बन-विहीन, नित घृणा, दोष-दर्शन, सन्देह॥
English translation
[1252, continued]
Ever since the Goddess, the natural embodiment of mercy, made me her own and revealed the radiance of her majestic face, I have become fearless, agitation has vanished and the rasa of love overflows. Every burden has fallen from the mind, and the heart has become light. Within those terrors before which I once trembled in fear, I now behold a sublime divine vision and smile with delight. O grace of Bhagavan, the more Akincana beholds You, the deeper he sinks into the ocean of bliss.
[1253]
(Lavani melody - Tala Kaharva)
A midnight filled with dreadful darkness, an impenetrable and unrestrained tempest; the sky filled with the immense roar of dense clouds and rent by terrible lightning; the ocean's breast agitated in towering waves, earth and mountains wounded, their bodies trembling; the unhindered fire of dissolution's flames, while the three worlds suffer terrified blows: what a dreadful guise! The world trembles, and no one remains unafraid except the one who has recognized the Beloved within it. Blessed Disguised One, I have recognized the One who hides. Vast and extreme poverty, torment from disease, unbearable humiliation; abandoned by relatives, mocked by the world, body exhausted, mind bewildered, pain unconquerable; the corpse of one's only child lying before one, exceedingly lovely and dear as life; unceasing cries of grief, peace and happiness gone, swept into the river of sorrow beyond description: not the faintest dream of happiness, only cruel and terrifying anguish. Seeing the veiled face, the one who has recognized the Beloved within it declares: Blessed Disguised One, I have recognized the One who hides. A body without food, a person near death, a naked body for want of clothing; a helpless woman without support, ceaseless contempt, fault-finding and suspicion.
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Hindi
[१२५३, क्रमशः]
स्वजनहीन, अति दीन-छीन, जग वैरभावयुत विगत-स्नेह, दलित, स्खलित, पतित, निष्कासित, देश-जाति-धन-जन-सुत-गेह॥ रह गया निपट अकेला शेष, दिगम्बर, शुष्क अस्थि-अवशेष। रुद्ररूप दर्शनकर जिसने 'प्रियतमको पहचान लिया'॥ धन्य वेशधारिन्! बस मैंने 'छिपे हुएके जान लिया'॥
[१२५४]
(राग भैरवी - ताल धुमाली)
देख दुःखका वेष धरे मैं नहीं डरूँगा तुमसे, नाथ! जहाँ दुःख, वहाँ देख तुम्हें मैं पकड़ूँगा जोरोंके साथ॥ नाथ! छिपा लो तुम मुँह अपना चाहे अति अँधियारेमें। मैं लूँगा पहचान तुम्हें इक कोनेमें, जग सारेमें॥ रोग-शोक, धन-हानि, दुःख, अपमान घोर, अति दारुण क्लेश - सबमें तुम, सब ही है तुममें, अथवा सब तुम्हरे ही वेष॥ तुम्हरे बिना नहीं कुछ भी जब, तब फिर मैं किस लिये डरूँ? मृत्यु-साज सज यदि आओ, तो चरण पकड़ सानन्द मरूँ॥ दो दर्शन चाहे जैसा भी दुःख-वेष धारणकर, नाथ! जहाँ दुःख, वहाँ देख तुम्हें मैं पकड़ूँगा जोरोंके साथ॥
[१२५५]
(राग तोड़ी - ताल कहरवा)
मृत्यु! भयानक आयी तुम ले प्रियतम प्रभुका मधु-सन्देश। तोड़ सभी मायाके बन्धनकी मिथ्या ममता निःशेष॥ रहने कहीं न दिया तनिक भी मिथ्या अहंकारका लेश। चला दिया तुरन्त उस पथपर जो जाता प्रियतमके देश॥ जन्म-मरणके क्लेश, भविष्यत्के कर सभी नष्ट सविकार, अमर बनाया, दिला दिया प्रभु-पदमें नित निवास-अधिकार॥ मुक्तिदायिनी, प्रभु-पद-प्रेम-प्रदायिनी मृत्यु परम सुखरूप! करो कृतार्थ मुझे तुम लेकर निज प्रभावमें अमल अनूप॥
English translation
[1253, continued]
Bereft of relatives, utterly poor and dispossessed, facing a hostile world without affection; crushed, fallen, degraded and expelled from country, caste, wealth, people, children and home; left entirely alone, naked and reduced to dry bones: the one who beholds this fierce form and recognizes the Beloved within it declares, Blessed Disguised One, I have recognized the One who hides.
[1254]
(Raga Bhairavi - Tala Dhumali)
Seeing You assume the guise of sorrow, I shall not fear You, O Lord. Wherever sorrow is, I shall behold You there and seize You firmly. O Lord, hide Your face even within the deepest darkness if You wish. I shall recognize You in one corner and throughout the whole universe. Disease and grief, loss of wealth, sorrow, terrible humiliation and exceedingly cruel anguish: You are within them all, all are within You, or all are merely Your disguises. When nothing exists apart from You, why then should I be afraid? If You arrive adorned as death, I shall clasp Your feet and die in joy. Grant Your vision, whatever guise of sorrow You assume, O Lord. Wherever sorrow is, I shall behold You there and seize You firmly.
[1255]
(Raga Todi - Tala Kaharva)
O Death, you have come in terrifying form bearing the sweet message of my beloved Lord. Break completely every false possessiveness that binds me to maya. You have allowed not the slightest trace of false ego to remain anywhere and immediately set me upon the path that leads to my Beloved's realm. Destroying every afflicted torment of birth and death and every fear of the future, you made me immortal and gave me the eternal right to dwell at the Lord's feet. O death, giver of liberation and love for the Lord's feet, form of supreme happiness, fulfill my life by drawing me into your stainless and incomparable power.
Original
Hindi
[१२५५, क्रमशः]
स्वागत-अर्घ्य कृतज्ञ हृदयका करो कृपा करके स्वीकार। करता मैं शुचि सुरभित मन-सुमनोंसे पूजन बारम्बार॥
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भूला मैं, पहचान न पाया मृत्यु-वेशमें तुमको, नाथ! तुम्हीं रूप धर घोर मृत्युका आये करने मुझे सनाथ॥ लीलामय-लीला विचित्र अति, कोई भी न पा सका पार। तुम्हीं पिलाते स्वयं कृपा कर रूप-सुधा निज मधुर अपार॥ कर आवरण-भंग, तुमने ही मायाका कर पर्दा छिन्न, देकर मुझे गाढ़ आलिंगन किया सदाके लिये अभिन्न॥
[१२५६]
(राग सोहनी - ताल दादरा)
हैं भरे भगवान मुझमें, नित्य भगवत्ता लिये। हैं भरे भगवान मुझमें, शाश्वती सत्ता लिये॥ हैं भरे भगवान मुझमें, चेतना चिन्मय लिये। हैं भरे भगवान मुझमें, ज्ञान शुचि अक्षय लिये॥ मैं सदा हूँ शोक-भयसे रहित अतिशय इसलिये। मैं सदा हूँ सहज सुखके सहित अतिशय इसलिये॥ मैं सदा हूँ शान्त नित, निर्धान्त अतिशय इसलिये। मैं सदा हूँ पूर्ण, कोमल, कान्त अतिशय इसलिये॥
English translation
[1255, continued]
Graciously accept the welcoming offering of my grateful heart. Again and again I worship you with the pure and fragrant flowers of my mind.
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I was mistaken and failed to recognize You beneath the guise of death, O Lord. You Yourself assumed the form of dreadful death and came to give me a Protector. The playful Lord's lila is exceedingly wondrous, and no one has found its limit. Through Your own grace, You Yourself give me the boundless, sweet nectar of Your form to drink. Breaking the covering and tearing apart maya's curtain, You drew me into a deep embrace and made me forever nondifferent from You.
[1256]
(Raga Sohani - Tala Dadra)
Bhagavan fills me, bearing eternal divinity. Bhagavan fills me, bearing everlasting being. Bhagavan fills me, bearing consciousness made of pure spirit. Bhagavan fills me, bearing pure and imperishable knowledge. Therefore I am forever utterly free of grief and fear. Therefore I am forever abundantly endowed with natural happiness. Therefore I am forever deeply peaceful and free of delusion. Therefore I am forever perfectly complete, tender and radiant.