bera bhai ṭerata nandakumāra!

English meaning

A devotee complains to his Lord, “Oh Nandakumāra! You are said to be the protector of fallen souls, and yet You are not paying any attention to this sinner who has been crying and calling out to You for so long at Your door! The saints call You ‘the Deliverer of the downtrodden’ and yet You are delaying in justifying the validity of this name to me. Oh Shyāmasundara! Have You assumed Your form of Mahāvishṇu and gone to sleep in the milky ocean even before the final dissolution? Or is it so that You have put oil in Your ears, therefore You are unable to hear the cry of my heart? Or could it be that Your supply of mercy is exhausted?” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī remarks, “The above-mentioned arguments cannot be even imagined about Shyāmasundara. Yes, it may be that Kishorī Jī has done māna and Shyāmasundara is probably busy in appeasing Her in the groves of Braja.”

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 pages 212, 213 · printed pages 157, 158.

Meanings: Smt. Padmā Devī. English translation and transliteration: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. Source details.