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राम

Yugalānanya Śaraṇa Hemalatā · root unit 10

रूपोत्कण्ठा · 21–31

Form-longing: limbs, garments, and the navel-lotus

Page unit 10 of 39 · printed/source p. 10

Original · Devanagari

एड़ी गुल्फ अजूब श्री प्रणय-पुष्ट-रस-देन ॥ कबहूँ देखिहौं दृगन भरि करि कल नेह अमैन ॥२१॥ जानु जंघ जगमग महा मनहारी कल क्रांति ॥ सरसस्वच्छरुचि निरखिहौं सजि सबविधि चित शांति ॥२२॥ कूस कामद कटि केलिमय रुचि रसराज सुधाम ॥ किंकिनि कलित उछाह-भरि लखिहौं कबहूँ अकाम ॥२३॥ नवल नेह-पूरन युगल निरखि नितंब सप्रेम ॥ निज वपु प्रिय तित लीन ह्वै कब लहिहै छम क्षेम ॥२४॥ नील पीत कौशेय वरवसन लसन लखि नैन ॥ ह्वै जैहौं कबहूँ मगन लगन लगाय सचैन ॥२५॥ कलित किनारी कोरकनि मानिक-मनिन-समेत ॥ अनुरागिन हिय हरषप्रद अद्भुत छवि दुति केत ॥२६॥ पियप्यारी-पोशाक प्रिय परमा प्रभानिवास ॥ पुलकि सजल दृग देखिहौं करि अनन्त अभिलास ॥२७॥ घन-दामिनि-निंदरनि वसन रसन सोहाग-समेत ॥ मम मन-नैन निहाल ह्वै कब हेरिहैं महेत ॥२८॥ नाभि मनोहर निम्न सर सुभग अनूपम देखि ॥ त्रिवली तरल-तरंग-युत लोचन सफल विशेषि ॥२९॥ भाव-उमंग बढ़ाय उर रस परु वपुष सँवारि ॥ लखिहौं नाभि-सरोज-छवि निखिल अपनपौ वारि ॥३०॥ अंबक अचल सराग सुद-मंदिर उदर-समीप ॥ लगि पगि पैहैं प्यार पद पावन दृग दिल-दीप ॥३१॥

Fresh English translation

[21] When will I fill my eyes with the wondrous beauty of their heels and ankles, which give love its nourishing rasa, and make measureless tender affection? [22] Beholding the knees and shining thighs, their immensely captivating lovely radiance and pure relishable beauty, I shall establish peace in the mind in every way. [23] When will I, desireless yet filled with ardour, behold the wish-granting waist, full of play and taste, nectar-Abode of the king of rasa, adorned with a tinkling girdle? [24] Lovingly beholding the Couple's hips, filled with ever-new affection, when will my own body become absorbed there in love and obtain abiding welfare? [25] When will my eyes see their shining excellent silk garments, blue and yellow, and I become absorbed, fastening conscious attachment upon them? [26] Their ornamented borders and buds, set with rubies and jewels, are a wondrous banner of beauty and radiance that gives joy to loving hearts. [27] With thrilled body and tear-filled eyes, and making endless longing, I shall behold the beloved garments of the Beloved Pair, the supreme abode of brilliance. [28] When will my mind and eyes be blessed by beholding those graceful garments that shame cloud and lightning? [29] Seeing the charming deep lake of the incomparable navel, joined to the three folds like moving waves, the eyes become supremely fruitful. [30] Increasing feeling and ardour, filling the heart with rasa, and adorning the body, I shall behold the lotus-beauty of the navel and offer my whole self. [31] Near the abdomen's pure temple, the steady passionate eyes become lamps of heart and sight; clinging there step by step, they obtain the beloved sacred station.