Siddhanta Madhuri · Pad 62
pad̤o sakhi! nema prema jhagad̤o
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
Oh sakhi! There has issued a quarrel between love and the decorum of this world and the world beyond. My mind and intellect have been fighting with each other since the day my eyes fell on Shyāmasundara, the performer of ever-new līlās who was standing in a creeper-grove. Mind says that love is greater but intellect says that the observance of worldly and religious decorum is greater than love. Mind tells to abandon the dos and don’ts of the Veda and love Shyāmasundara alone but intellect says, ‘No, no, even the Veda is the word of God, therefore to renounce it is to insult God.’ Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī gives the judgement, “The goal of the Veda is to make the mind of the individual soul attached to God. Isn’t it? Therefore, the rule of loving Shyāmasundara alone is good. To love the rules which don’t generate love for Shyāmasundara in our heart ought to be abandoned.”
Complete whole-pad meaning transcribed from the supplied English edition. The source provides no separate line-by-line or word-by-word meaning.
Prem Ras Madira (English), Part 1 · PDF page 109 · printed page 54.
Meanings: Smt. Padmā Devī. English translation and transliteration: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. Source details.
Pad · Roman transliteration
The original verse in Roman letters, as printed in the English edition.
pad̤o sakhi! nema prema jhagad̤o
jā dina lakhyoṁ naina manamohana, kuñja latāna ṭhad̤o
tā dina te ina mana budhi mahaṁ ika, jhagad̤o āna pad̤o
mana kaha premahiṁ bad̤o, buddhi kaha, nemahiṁ hota bad̤o
mana kaha chhāṁd̤u veda maryādahiṁ, budhi kaha, tina pakad̤o
premahiṁ nema ‘kripālu’ na nemahiṁ, prema bad̤o na lad̤o