Chapter Eight: Literature of the Rasika Tradition in Hindi
My understanding grows languid while remembering the colourful Name.
Drinking the sweet nectar of love, it finds all other flavours tasteless.
Sleep has left the night and peace the day; within the mind, restless separation laments.
Meeting the sweet Beloved who grants union, it recognises fresh joy and auspiciousness.
Yugalananya says: the Name of Jānaki’s life makes the night graceful.
An unbroken love has arisen between you and me.
It cannot be broken by any means, even if the head is shattered into a hundred pieces.
I shall forget every pleasure of the ailing, Maya-made universe, friend.
Hearing the excellent word of the True Guru and saints, I shall fall into fierce love.
Yugalananyasharan says: receiving the Lord’s strength here, I shall remain boldly surrendered.
Beloved, in what direction shall I gaze to find you?
I thirst for your purifying rasa—make me blessed without delay.
Cruelty does not befit you, for your nature is graceful and filled with nectar.
Without meeting you, the heart remains exceedingly restless, pierced by a hard and painful thorn.
Preserving only this hope, I cry every day and follow the discipline of rasika love.
Yugalananyasharan says: Siyavar, adopt me in every condition.
The colophon records that the work was completed on the fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Jyeshtha at Lakshman Fort in Kosalapuri, beside Sahasradhara. Ramavallabha Sharan copied this steadfast Padāvalī of the Name.
Sri Prema-paratva-prabhā Dohāvalī
By Sri Yugalananyasharan
This collection of Sri Yugalananyasharan “Hemalata” Ji’s dohās on love was published by Sri Lavkushsharan and printed by the Church Mission Press in Gorakhpur on 22 November 1916.
The guru-lineage given at the beginning is:
- Sri Jivaram “Yugala-priya” Ji
- Sri Yugalananyasharan “Hemalata” Ji
- Sri Janakivar Sharan “Pritilata” Ji
- Sri Ramavallabha Sharan “Yugalavihari” Ji