Shri Krishna Madhuri · Pad 44
hamāro kānha prāna ko prāna
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A Braja-gopī tells her friend, “Our Shyāmasundara is the soul of all souls. Oh sakhi! Today I had gone to bathe in the river Yamunā. There, sage Durvāsā told this secret proving it by the Vedas and other scriptures. He said that just as the soul is dearer to the senses, mind and intellect than themselves, in the same way, the soul, too, loves its soul, Shyāmasundara more than it loves itself.” In the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī, the other sakhī said, “Oh sakhi! That is why Shyāmasundara looks lovelier than life. I have understood this secret today.”
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 372 · printed page 317.
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.
hamāro kānha prāna ko prāna
āju sakhī! hauṁ karana gaī rahi, yamunā mahaṁ asanāna
tahaṁ durvāsā marama batāyo, dai vedādi pramāna
muni imi kaha indriya mana budhi kahaṁ, jimi priya prāna bakhāna
timi ina prānana-prāna jāna una, sundara shyāma sujāna
kaha ‘kripālu’ tabahī sakhi! lāgata, prānana pyāro kānha