Milan Madhuri · Pad 24
chhuvo jani, manamohana tana mora
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
(A sakhī’s humorous dialogue with Shyāmasundara.) Oh Manamohana! Don’t touch my body. Manamohana said, “Oh sakhi! On the one hand, you call Me ‘Manamohana’ (the stealer of heart) and on the other hand, you are also so much attached to your body.” The sakhī said, “I am a devoted wife. I have given You my heart, not the body.” Manamohana said, “Oh sakhi! Devotion to husband or anyone is based only on the attachment of the mind. This is the gist of all the Vedas and scriptures. Oh sakhi! Listen. If an individual soul loves Me single-mindedly abandoning all religions, I” in the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī “forgive his sin of renouncing religions as well as all other sins and drown him in the ocean of divine love.”
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 113 · printed page 448.
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.
chhuvo jani, manamohana tana mora
‘sakhi! mohiṁ kaha manamohana puni kata, ita mamatā tanu tora’
sakhi kaha ‘hauṁ pativratā diyo mana, tana nahiṁ tohiṁ chita chora’
‘sakhi! kāhuhiṁ vrata hota manahiṁ te, sunu yaha shrutina nichora
sakhi sunu marma, sarva-dharmana taji, jo bhaja nandakishora
vāko pāpa ‘kripālu’ kshamā kari, deuṁ prema-rasa bora’