Nikunj Madhuri · Pad 27
shyāma! tuma rasikana nāma lajāyo
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
Kishorī Jī teasingly says to Shyāmasundara who is braiding and decorating Her hair: Oh Shyāmasundara! You have put the name of rasikas to shame. You tend the cows in the forest with illiterate cowherd boys all day; how then can You know the delicate ways of love? You are just entangling My hair in the name of braiding. Which guru has taught You this unique art of braiding hair? Now stop it and sit at a distance from Me, otherwise if My friends see it, they will laugh at Both of Us. I like loose hair. When You decorate My hair with flowers, it looks as if somebody is putting the flowers on the image of Shiva Jī as an offering. Again, You fan Me so fast, as if some windstorm has set in; consequently, all those flowers fall down. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī teasingly says to Shyāmasundara, “It is really strange that even someone as illiterate as You are, claims to be the crest-jewel of the rasikas. Blessed are You and blessed is our Kishorī Jī, who is coping with You.”
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 2 · PDF pages 94, 95 · printed pages 429, 430.
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 rasikana nāma lajāyo
saba dina gwāra gaṁvārana saṁga lai, bana bana ḍhora charāyo
veṇī guhata, kesha urajhāvata, kina guru tohiṁ sikhāyo?
lakhi sakhiyana haṁsihaiṁ basa karu, haṭu, laṭa chhūṭī mohiṁ bhāyo
kusuma-guchchha imi dharata shīsha janu, shiva-pratimāhiṁ chad̤hāyo
vyajana karata puni girata kusuma janu, jhañjhāvāta chalāyo
dhani ‘kripālu’ tuma rasika-shiromaṇi, dhani jina tohiṁ nibhāyo