Dainya Madhuri · Pad 84
shyāma tuma kaise ho ghanashyāma?
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
Oh Shyāmasundara! You have falsely named Yourself Ghanashyāma. One type of Ghanashyāma (black cloud) is looked at by farmers intently but it does not accomplish anything for anyone of them because, even though it is full of water, it does not rain, leaving the farmers yearning for water. The other type of Ghanashyāma is that, which makes farmers happy by raining water. Oh Shyāmasundara! Everybody knows that You are the crest-jewel of rasikas. Why then are You behaving as a niggard. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “Shower the rain of divine love-nectar which we can drink unceasingly.”
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 218, 219 · printed pages 163, 164.
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.
shyāma tuma kaise ho ghanashyāma?
ika ghanashyāmahiṁ lakhata kṛishaka jana, banata na tina kachhu kāma
tarasata kṛishaka na barasata so ghana, jala bhari ura abhirāma
ika ghanashyāma barasi kṛishakana mana, harashāvata tehi ṭhāma
saba jānata ghanashyāma tihāro, rasika shiromaṇi nāma
do ‘kripālu’ barasāya prema rasa, piyata rahauṁ basu yāma