Siddhānta Pada 1
Sourceराग विभास ज़्यौंही ज़्यौंही तुम राखत हौ त्यौंही त्यौंही रहियत है हो हरि। और तो अचरचे पाँइ धरौं सो तौ कहौं कौन के पैंड़ भरि ।। जद्यपि कियौ चाहौं अपनौ मन भायौ सो तौ कैसे करि सकौं जो तुम राखो पकरि। कहिं श्रीहरिदास पिंजरा के जनावर लौं तरफराइ रह्यौ उड़िवे कौं कितौक करि ।।
rāga vibhāsa zyauṃhī zyauṃhī tuma rākhata hau tyauṃhī tyauṃhī rahiyata hai ho hari| aura to acarace pā~i dharauṃ so tau kahauṃ kauna ke paiṃr̤a bhari || jadyapi kiyau cāhauṃ apanau mana bhāyau so tau kaise kari sakauṃ jo tuma rākho pakari| kahiṃ śrīharidāsa piṃjarā ke janāvara lauṃ tarapharāi rahyau ur̤ive kauṃ kitauka kari ||
English translation
As you keep one, just so one remains, oh Hari; And were I unthinkingly to set foot somewhere else whose tracks would I follow? Even should I want to do what pleases my mind, how could I hold and keep it? Haridās says: like a bird in a cage, which remained fluttering despite all its attempts to fly.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 2
Sourceराग विभास काहू कौ बस नाहिं तुम्हारी कृपा तें सब होइ बिहारी बिहारनि। और मिथ्या प्रपंच काहे कौं भाखिये सो तौ है हारनि ॥ जाहि तुमसौं हित तासौं तुम हित करौ सब सुख कारनि। श्रीहरिदास के स्वामी स्यामा कुंजबिहारी प्राननि के आधारनि॥
rāga vibhāsa kāhū kau basa nāhiṃ tumhārī kṛpā teṃ saba hoi bihārī bihārani| aura mithyā prapaṃca kāhe kauṃ bhākhiye so tau hai hārani || jāhi tumasauṃ hita tāsauṃ tuma hita karau saba sukha kārani| śrīharidāsa ke svāmī syāmā kuṃjabihārī prānani ke ādhārani||
English translation
No one has any power, all happens by your grace, Bihārī-Bihāriṇī; The rest is falsehood and illusion, why speak [of it]? It is defeat. To him who loves you, show love, source of all happiness; Haridās's sovereigns Śyāmā and Kuñjabihārī are the support of life.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 3
Sourceराग विभास कबहुँ कबहुँ मन इत उत जात यातेंब कौन अधिक सुख। बहुत भाँतिन घत आनि राख्यौ, नाहिं तौ पावतौ दुख ॥ . कोटि काम लावन्य बिहारी ताके, मुँहाचुही सब सुख लियें रहत रुख। श्रीहरिदास के स्वामी स्यामा कुंजबिहारी कौं, दिन देखत रहौं विचित्र मुख ।।
rāga vibhāsa kabahu~ kabahu~ mana ita uta jāta yāteṃba kauna adhika sukha| bahuta bhā~tina ghata āni rākhyau, nāhiṃ tau pāvatau dukha || . koṭi kāma lāvanya bihārī tāke, mu~hācuhī saba sukha liyeṃ rahata rukha| śrīharidāsa ke svāmī syāmā kuṃjabihārī kauṃ, dina dekhata rahauṃ vicitra mukha ||
English translation
At times the mind strays, [but] what joy is greater than this now? There are many different traps, keep it in restraint, or you will find unhappiness; Bihārī is lovely as myriads of cupids, looking at him one obtains all happiness and is kept in countenance; May I remain constantly gazing at the wondrous faces of Haridās's sovereigns Śyāmā and Kuñjabihārī.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 4
Sourceराग विभास हरि भजि हरि भजि, छाँड़ि न मान नर तन कौं । मति वंछै मति वंछै रे, तिल तिल धन कौं ॥ अनमाँग्यौ आगें आवैगौ, ज्यौं पल लागै पल कौं । कहिं श्रीहरिदास मीच ज्यौं आवै, त्यौं धन है आपन कौं ।।
rāga vibhāsa hari bhaji hari bhaji, chā~r̤i na māna nara tana kauṃ | mati vaṃchai mati vaṃchai re, tila tila dhana kauṃ || anamā~gyau āgeṃ āvaigau, jyauṃ pala lāgai pala kauṃ | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa mīca jyauṃ āvai, tyauṃ dhana hai āpana kauṃ ||
English translation
Worship Hari, worship Hari, do not desert him, value your birth as a man; Do not wish, do not wish for even the least particle of wealth; It will come to you unsought as one eyelid droops upon the other; Haridās says: when death comes, wealth is left behind alone.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 5
Sourceराग बिलावल ए हरि मोसौ न बिगारनि कौं तोसौं न सँवारनि कौं, मोहिं तोहिं परी होड़। कौंन धौं जीतै कौन धौं हारै, पर बदी न छोड़ ॥ तुम्हारी माया बाजी पसारी विचित्र मोहे सुर मुनि का के भूले कोड़ । कहिं श्रीहरिदास हम जीते हारे तुम, तऊ न तोड़ ॥
rāga bilāvala e hari mosau na bigārani kauṃ tosauṃ na sa~vārani kauṃ, mohiṃ tohiṃ parī hor̤a| kauṃna dhauṃ jītai kauna dhauṃ hārai, para badī na chor̤a || tumhārī māyā bājī pasārī vicitra mohe sura muni kā ke bhūle kor̤a | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa hama jīte hāre tuma, taū na tor̤a ||
English translation
Oh Hari, there is no destroyer like me, and no sustainer like you, a contest has arisen between you and me; Whoever wins, whoever loses, still do not give up the combat; The wondrous games of your illusion beguile sages, [even] the cunning are deceived by its feints; Haridās says: I won and you lost, but even so there is no conclusion.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 6
Sourceराग आसावरी बंदे अखतियार भला चित न डुलाव । आव समाधि भीतर, न होहु अगला ॥ न फिर दर-दर, पिदर-दर, न होहु अँधला। कहिं श्रीहरिदास करता किया सो हुआ, सुमेरु अचल चला ॥
rāga āsāvarī baṃde akhatiyāra bhalā cita na ḍulāva | āva samādhi bhītara, na hohu agalā || na phira dara-dara, pidara-dara, na hohu a~dhalā| kahiṃ śrīharidāsa karatā kiyā so huā, sumeru acala calā ||
English translation
Oh worshipper, this choice is good: Waver not in mind, enter into profound meditation, be not an adversary; Do not wander from door to door [or seek] your father’s door, do not be blind; Haridās says: what the creator causes, comes to pass - even immovable Meru moved.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 7
Sourceराग आसावरी हित तौ कीजै कमलनैन सौं, जा हित कै आगें और हित लागै सब फीकौ। कै हित कीजै साधु संगति सौं, ज्यौं कलमष जाइ सब जी कौ ॥ हरि कौ हित ऐसौ, जैसौ रंग मजीठ, ' संसार हित रंग कसूँभ दिन दुती कौ । कहिं श्रीहरिदास हित कीजै बिहारीजू सौं, ओर निबाहू जानि जी कौ ॥
rāga āsāvarī hita tau kījai kamalanaina sauṃ, jā hita kai āgeṃ aura hita lāgai saba phīkau| kai hita kījai sādhu saṃgati sauṃ, jyauṃ kalamaṣa jāi saba jī kau || hari kau hita aisau, jaisau raṃga majīṭha, ' saṃsāra hita raṃga kasū~bha dina dutī kau | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa hita kījai bihārījū sauṃ, ora nibāhū jāni jī kau ||
English translation
Set your affection on the lotus-eyed, in comparison with whose love all love seems insipid, Or set your affection on the company of saints, through which all the sins of your soul may depart. The love of Hari is like the [durable] dye of the madder plant, and the love of the world is like the dye of saffron that lasts only two days; Haridās says: set your affection on Bihārī, and know that he is the sustainer of the soul for ever.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 8
Sourceराग आसावरी तिनुका ज्यौं बयार के बस । ज्यौं चाहै त्यौं उड़ाय लै डारै, अपने रस ॥ ब्रह्मलोक सिवलोक, और लोक अस । कहिं श्रीहरिदास बिचारि देखौ, बिना बिहारी नाहिं जस ॥
rāga āsāvarī tinukā jyauṃ bayāra ke basa | jyauṃ cāhai tyauṃ ur̤āya lai ḍārai, apane rasa || brahmaloka sivaloka, aura loka asa | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa bicāri dekhau, binā bihārī nāhiṃ jasa ||
English translation
Like a straw in the power of the wind; As [it] pleases just so it blows [the straw] away and casts it down at a caprice; Such are the realm of Brahma, the realm of Siva and other realms; Says Haridās: I kept on reflecting and did not see anyone like Bihārī.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 9
Sourceराग आसावरि संसार समुद्र,मनुष्य-मीन-नक्र-मगर और जीव बहु बंदसि । मन-बयार प्रेरे सनेह फंद फंदसि।। लोभ पिंजर, लोभी मरजिया, पदारथ चारि खंद खंदसि । कहिं श्रीहरिदास तेई जीव पार भए, जे गहि रहे चरन आनंद-नंदसि ॥
rāga āsāvari saṃsāra samudra,manuṣya-mīna-nakra-magara aura jīva bahu baṃdasi | mana-bayāra prere saneha phaṃda phaṃdasi|| lobha piṃjara, lobhī marajiyā, padāratha cāri khaṃda khaṃdasi | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa teī jīva pāra bhae, je gahi rahe carana ānaṃda-naṃdasi ||
English translation
In the ocean of existence there are men, fish, crocodiles, alligators and other creatures of numerous kinds; The wind of the mind spreads the net of love; Avarice is the cage, the avaricious are divers who break the four goals of life into pieces; Haridās says: only those souls have crossed who remained seizing the feet of the son of bliss.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 10
Sourceराग आसावरी हरि के नाम को आलस कत करत है रे, काल फिरत सर साँधैं । बेर-कुबेर कछु नहिं जानत, चढ्यौ रहत है काँधैं ॥ हीरा बहुत जवाहर संचे, कहा भयौ हस्ती दर बाँधैं । कहिं श्रीहरिदास महल में बनिता बनि ठाढ़ी भई, एकौं न चलत, जब आवत अंत की आँधैं ॥
rāga āsāvarī hari ke nāma ko ālasa kata karata hai re, kāla phirata sara sā~dhaiṃ | bera-kubera kachu nahiṃ jānata, caḍhyau rahata hai kā~dhaiṃ || hīrā bahuta javāhara saṃce, kahā bhayau hastī dara bā~dhaiṃ | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa mahala meṃ banitā bani ṭhār̤hī bhaī, ekauṃ na calata, jaba āvata aṃta kī ā~dhaiṃ ||
English translation
Why are you lazy in Hari's praises, Death roams about and aims his arrows; He knows nothing of suitable and unsuitable time, he roams riding on [your] shoulder. So what if you have accumulated pearls and many jewels, and elephants are tied up at your gate? Haridās says: though a woman in finery awaits you in the palace, nothing helps when the darkness of the end arrives.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 11
Sourceराग आसावरी देखौ इन लोगन की लावनि । बूझत नाहिं हरि चरन-कमल कौं मिथ्या जनम गँवावनि ॥ जब जमदूत आनि घेरत, तब करत आप मन-भावनि। कहिं श्रीहरिदास तबहिं चिरजीवौ, जब कुंजबिहारी चितावनि ।।
rāga āsāvarī dekhau ina logana kī lāvani | būjhata nāhiṃ hari carana-kamala kauṃ mithyā janama ga~vāvani || jaba jamadūta āni gherata, taba karata āpa mana-bhāvani| kahiṃ śrīharidāsa tabahiṃ cirajīvau, jaba kuṃjabihārī citāvani ||
English translation
See the attachment of these people; They do not perceive Hari's lotus-feet, wasting their life in falsehood; When Yama’s messenger comes and confines them, he does what pleases him; Haridās says: one is immortal only when one’s attention is drawn to Kuñjabihārī.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 12
Sourceराग आसावरी मन लगाइ प्रीति कीजै, कर करुवा सौं, ब्रज-वीथिन दीजै सोहनी । वृन्दावन सौं, बन-उपवन सौं, गुंज-माल हाथ पोहनी ॥ गो गो-सुतन सौं मृगी मृग-सुतन सौं,और तन नेंकु न जोहनी । श्रीहरिदास के स्वामी स्यामा-कुंजबिहारी-सौं चित, ज्यौं सिर पर दोहनी॥
rāga āsāvarī mana lagāi prīti kījai, kara karuvā sauṃ, braja-vīthina dījai sohanī | vṛndāvana sauṃ, bana-upavana sauṃ, guṃja-māla hātha pohanī || go go-sutana sauṃ mṛgī mṛga-sutana sauṃ,aura tana neṃku na johanī | śrīharidāsa ke svāmī syāmā-kuṃjabihārī-sauṃ cita, jyauṃ sira para dohanī||
English translation
Feel love with dedicated heart; with an earthen pot in your hand, sweep the lanes of Vṛndāvana. String with your hand a rosary of gunja berries from Vṛndāvana and its forests and groves. As a cow [watches] her calf and a doe its fawns and does not look at anybody else at all, [Fix your mind] on Haridās's sovereigns Śyāmā and Kuñjabihārī as [a milkmaid concentrates] on a milk-pail on her head.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 13
Sourceराग कल्याण हरि कौ ऐसौई सब खेल। मृग तृष्ना जग व्यापि रह्यौ है, कहूं बिजौरौ न बेल। धन-मद, जोवन-मद, राज-मद, ज्यौं पंछिन में डेल। कहिं श्रीहरिदास यहै जिय जानौ, तीरथ कैसौ मेल ॥
rāga kalyāṇa hari kau aisauī saba khela| mṛga tṛṣnā jaga vyāpi rahyau hai, kahūṃ bijaurau na bela| dhana-mada, jovana-mada, rāja-mada, jyauṃ paṃchina meṃ ḍela| kahiṃ śrīharidāsa yahai jiya jānau, tīratha kaisau mela ||
English translation
Just such is all the sport of Hari. The world is pervaded by mirage, nowhere is there seed or flower. The intoxication of wealth, youth and power is like a clod [thrown] amidst birds. Haridās says: I know this with my heart, [it is] like a meeting at a place of pilgrimage.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 14
Sourceराग कान्हरौ झूँठी बात सांची करि-दिखावत हौ हरि नागर। निस-दिन बुनत-उधेरत जात, प्रपंच कौ सागर॥ ठाठ बनाइ धर्यौ मिहरी कौ, है पुरुष तैं आगर। सुनि श्रीहरिदास यहै जिय जानौ, सपने कौ सौ जागर ॥
rāga kānharau jhū~ṭhī bāta sāṃcī kari-dikhāvata hau hari nāgara| nisa-dina bunata-udherata jāta, prapaṃca kau sāgara|| ṭhāṭha banāi dharyau miharī kau, hai puruṣa taiṃ āgara| suni śrīharidāsa yahai jiya jānau, sapane kau sau jāgara ||
English translation
You make the false appear true, oh clever Hari; Day and night [you] keep on weaving and unravelling the ocean of illusion. [You] have formed the woman, but [she] is shrewder than the purusa. Listen, [says] Haridās: I know this with my heart, it is like awareness in sleep.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 15
Sourceराग कान्हरौ जगत प्रीति करि देखी, नाहिंनें गटी कौ कोऊ । छत्रपति रंक लौं देखे, प्रकृति-विरोध बन्यौ नहीं कोऊ ॥ दिन जो गये बहुत जनमनि के, ऐसैं जाउ जिन कोऊ । कहिं श्रीहरिदास मीत भले पाये बिहारी, ऐसे पावौ सब कोऊ ॥
rāga kānharau jagata prīti kari dekhī, nāhiṃneṃ gaṭī kau koū | chatrapati raṃka lauṃ dekhe, prakṛti-virodha banyau nahīṃ koū || dina jo gaye bahuta janamani ke, aisaiṃ jāu jina koū | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa mīta bhale pāye bihārī, aise pāvau saba koū ||
English translation
Having tried worldly love I have found that there is no one [to forge] a bond with; From king to pauper no opposition of [one’s] own nature has succeeded. The days of many births have passed, may no more pass thus; Haridās says: I have found a good friend in Bihārī, may everyone attain him likewise.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 16
Sourceराग कान्हरौ लोग तौ भूलैं भलैं भूलैं, तुम जिनि भूलौ मालाधारी। अपुनौ पति छँड़ि औरन सौं रति, ज्यौं दारनि में दारी ॥ स्याम कहत ते जीव मोते बिमुख भए, जिन दूसरी करि डारी। कहिं श्रीहरिदास जज्ञ-देवता-पितरन कों श्रद्धा भारी ॥
rāga kānharau loga tau bhūlaiṃ bhalaiṃ bhūlaiṃ, tuma jini bhūlau mālādhārī| apunau pati cha~r̤i aurana sauṃ rati, jyauṃ dārani meṃ dārī || syāma kahata te jīva mote bimukha bhae, jina dūsarī kari ḍārī| kahiṃ śrīharidāsa jajña-devatā-pitarana koṃ śraddhā bhārī ||
English translation
People go astray. Well, let them do so, but you, rosary-bearer, do not stray; To leave your lord and love others is to be like a prostitute among wives; Śyāmā says: those people who have turned their faces from me, who are they? [They are] those who have formed another tie. Haridās says: faith in sacrifice, gods and ancestors is burdensome.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 17
Sourceराग कान्हरौ जौलौं जीवै तौलौं हरि भज रे मन और बात सब बादि। द्यौस चार के हला-भला में कहा लेइगौ लादि माया-मद, गुन-मद, जोवन-मद भूल्यौ नगर विवादि। कहिं श्रीहरिदास लोभ चरपट भयौ, काहे की लगै फ़िरादि ॥
rāga kānharau jaulauṃ jīvai taulauṃ hari bhaja re mana aura bāta saba bādi| dyausa cāra ke halā-bhalā meṃ kahā leigau lādi māyā-mada, guna-mada, jovana-mada bhūlyau nagara vivādi| kahiṃ śrīharidāsa lobha carapaṭa bhayau, kāhe kī lagai firādi ||
English translation
Oh heart, as long as you live, worship Hari, all other things are vain; They are only transient gains, will you bear them off with you? Intoxicated by wealth, virtues and youth you are lost in the squabbles of the town; Haridās says: you are struck by greed, so what complaint will succeed?
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.
Siddhānta Pada 18
Sourceराग कान्हरौ प्रेम-समुद्र रूप-रस गहरे, कैसैं लागैं घाट । बेकार्यौं दै जान कहावत, जानिपन्यौं की कहा परी बाट ।। काहू कौ सर सूधौ न परै, मारत गाल गली-गली हाट । कहिं श्रीहरिदास जानि ठाकुर-बिहारी तकत ओट पाट ॥
rāga kānharau prema-samudra rūpa-rasa gahare, kaisaiṃ lāgaiṃ ghāṭa | bekāryauṃ dai jāna kahāvata, jānipanyauṃ kī kahā parī bāṭa || kāhū kau sara sūdhau na parai, mārata gāla galī-galī hāṭa | kahiṃ śrīharidāsa jāni ṭhākura-bihārī takata oṭa pāṭa ||
English translation
In the ocean of love deep with the essence of beauty, how could one reach the shore? Calling one knowledgeable is useless; where does the path of knowledge lie? No one’s arrow flies straight, for all their boasting in streets and market-places. Haridās says: Know that the lord Bihārī sees through the screen of clothing.
Normalized Braj controlled against the 1961/62 Mittal witness; English follows Rosenstein's complete critical translation, with note calls and obvious ABBYY spacing/name artefacts removed.