Milan Madhuri · Pad 5
kachhū sakhi! kai gayo mo pai āja
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
(A gopī meets beloved Shyāmasundara for the first time, and relates this sweet meeting to her most intimate friend.) Oh sakhi! Shyāmasundara has cast some magic spell on me. I had gone to fetch water from the panaghaṭa when all of a sudden that Nandakumāra arrived there. I, being innocent, did not understand anything. Just then, my eyes met Shyāmasundara’s, forgetting even the sense of propriety. The sidelong glances of Shyāmasundara made my body, mind and soul His own in the same way as an eagle captures a skylark by attacking it suddenly. From that very moment, oh sakhi, I am extremely restless. I have no peace even momentarily. I don’t even enjoy doing household chores. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “Oh sakhi! Soon take hold of the ship of faith and hope that Beloved will surely meet you, otherwise, drowning in the fathomless ocean of separation, you will even lose your life.”
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 page 100 · printed page 435.
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.
kachhū sakhi! kai gayo mo pai āja
hauṁ panaghaṭa-taṭa gaī bharana ghaṭa, chaṭa āyo brajarāja
hauṁ anajānī, bheda na jānī, jure naina gai lāja
naina-saina tana, mana aru prānana, gahyo lavā janu bāja
aba hama bikala, na kala ika pala kahaṁ, lagata na chita gharakāja
sāgara biraha ‘kripālu’ būd̤ihau, na tu chad̤hu āsa jahāja