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परम प्रकाशित पृष्ठपद दृग देखिहौं कदापि ॥ लोक शोक शत वासना निंदरि अमित तम टापि ॥१०॥ अरुन हरन-मन नख-प्रभा राकापति शत-तूल ॥ सुदुल सचिक्कन चाहि कब ह्वै जैहौं भव-भूल ॥११॥ मम मन तम-पूरन सतत संकाशिहै निशंक ॥ श्रीनखदुति अनुभव मिलित लगन डाकिनी डंक ॥१२॥ अंक अनूपम माँह मन कबहूँ उरझिहै देव ॥ कैसेहु बहुरि न सुरझिहै जिमि मन गाँठि अतेव ॥१३॥ नूपुर नेहनिकेत निज जीवन जेहरि जोहि ॥ कबहूँ कृपायतन कतल करि मुद पैहै मन मोहि ॥१४॥ अमल ललित अँगुरीन-छवि मधुर आभरन-संग ॥ कब जोहत युग जाइहै निमिष समान सरंग ॥१५॥ अमल कमल-कोमल-ललित सुपद-विभूषन-बीच ॥ मम मन मनि ह्वै लागिहै सुनत सुरव रससींच ॥१६॥ बिसद आभरन मनिप्रभा-मध्य कबहूँ रस एक ॥ उरझिहै मेरो सुमन संतत सजि दृढ़ टेक ॥१७॥ श्रीरसिकेश-मनोज-मद-दमन विभूषन-रंग ॥ निरखि हरखि बलि जाइहौं छोड़ि देह-गुन-संग ॥१८॥ युगल किशोर-कलानिकर-आकर छवि-गुन-धाम ॥ अति अनुपम दृग देखि दुति हुरवैहौं कुल-काम ॥१९॥ युगल चरन-अरविन्द मृदु मधुर मरन्द अमन्द ॥ मन-मिलिन्द कब चाखिहौं परिहरि वनविष-फंद ॥२०॥
Fresh English translation
[10] When will my eyes see the supremely radiant backs of their feet, despising the world's hundreds of sorrowful desires and crossing immeasurable darkness? [11] The reddish nail-radiance steals the mind and equals a hundred full moons; when will I behold its lovely polished delicacy and forget worldly existence? [12] That nail-light will fearlessly illumine the darkness filling my mind, its experienced brilliance joining longing like a witch's piercing bite. [13] When will the mind become entangled within that incomparable curve, never again to be untied, as though tied in an unbreakable knot? [14] Gazing upon the anklets, abode of love and poison to ordinary life, when will the Abode of Grace slay that life and give my enamoured mind joy? [15] While I behold the stainless beauty of their lovely toes with sweet ornaments, when will an age pass like a moment? [16] Hearing their divine sound, when will my jewel-like mind cling amid the ornaments of those stainless, lotus-soft, lovely feet and be watered with rasa? [17] When will my flower-like heart, firm in its resolve, remain forever caught in a single rasa amid the clear radiance of jeweled ornaments? [18] Beholding the adornment-colour of the Lord of rasikas, which subdues Love's pride, I shall rejoice and offer myself, leaving attachment to body and qualities. [19] Seeing with my eyes the incomparable radiance of the youthful Couple—mine of every art and abode of beauty and virtue—I shall sacrifice all family desires. [20] When will the bee of my mind abandon the snare of forest-poison and taste the abundant, tender, sweet nectar of the Couple's lotus feet?