# Nīlamaṇi tanu lakhi gai balihāra.

Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj

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Source Roman transliteration

<a id="line-2"></a>Nīlamaṇi tanu lakhi gai balihāra.  
<a id="line-3"></a>tribhuvana sundara kāmadeva aru, rati hai usakī nāra.  
<a id="line-4"></a>unate aganita gunita manohara, haiṁ sundara sarakāra.  
<a id="line-5"></a>unakī sundaratā unake hī, mana ko mohanahāra.  
<a id="line-6"></a>unakī chinmaya tanu lakhi gyānihūṁ, mānata muktīhiṁ khāra.  
<a id="line-7"></a>shiva, shuka, janaka, sanaka tanu chhavi lakhi, deta samādhi bisāra.  
<a id="line-8"></a>umā, ramā, brahmāṇī, vāṇī, lakhi nahiṁ pativrata dhāra.  
<a id="line-9"></a>unake roma roma te santata, baha braja rasa kī dhāra.  
<a id="line-10"></a>kaha ‘Kṛipālu’ una tanu rasa chākhata, bhala vṛishabhānudulāra.

Published English meaning — Dr. Bageeshwari Devi

<a id="line-11"></a>One sakhi describing the beautiful Divine form of Shyāmasundara says  
<a id="line-12"></a>to another, I have sacrificed my mind, body and very life beholding the  
<a id="line-13"></a>matchless beauty of Shyāmasundara’s Divine body. Kāmadeva (Cupid)  
<a id="line-14"></a>and his wife, Rati are the acme of beauty in the three worlds, but the  
<a id="line-15"></a>beauty of Shyāmasundara far surpasses their beauty and is countless  
<a id="line-16"></a>times more charming and captivating. The gyānīs (non-dualists) who  
<a id="line-17"></a>are fortunate to experience the overwhelming sweetness of His Divine  
<a id="line-18"></a>form, find the bliss of liberation to be sour in comparison. Great yogīs  
<a id="line-19"></a>like Shiva, Shukadeva, Janaka and Sanaka etc. forget the joy of their  
<a id="line-20"></a>trance seeing the splendour of Shrī Kṛishṇa’s Divine body. Even  
<a id="line-21"></a>sovereign female personalities like Pārvatī, Laxmī and Saraswatī etc.  
<a id="line-22"></a>could not observe fidelity to their husbands seeing the captivating  
<a id="line-23"></a>unparalleled beauty of Shyāmasundara. The nectar of Divine bliss  
<a id="line-24"></a>perpetually flows from every pore of Nīlamaṇi. According to the saint  
<a id="line-25"></a>poet Kṛipālu, it is only Shrī Rādhā who fully tastes the sweet ineffable  
<a id="line-26"></a>nectar of Shrī Kṛishṇa’s Divine form.

Published English and Roman text from the supplied combined Krishna Dwadashi and Radha Trayodashi scan. Krishna verse 6 is absent from this source; the gap remains explicit. Radha numbering restarts at 1 and is kept in its own group. Published translation: Dr. Bageeshwari Devi.

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