Milan Madhuri · Pad 31
banata nahiṁ, bhanata anata yaha bāta
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
(A sakhī talks to her intimate friend about her sweet meeting with beloved Shyāmasundara) Oh sakhi! This matter of the Beloved’s sweet encounter is hard to talk about anywhere. Yesterday, I was bathing in the river Yamunā when all of a sudden Shyāmasundara came right there. Stretching the bow-string of His brows, He shot such an arrow of love-laden look that seeing it, I immediately fell in the water of the river Yamunā sighing ‘oh!’ exactly as a leaf falls from a tree. Seeing this, He ran and lifted me in embraced position, blessing me with His desired touch. The bliss of that divine touch is indescribable.” In the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī, “Now I am yearning for that same darshana and touch day and night.”
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 117, 118 · printed pages 452, 453.
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.
banata nahiṁ, bhanata anata yaha bāta
kāli rahī sakhi! nhāta yamuna tahaṁ, āyo shyāmala-gāta
bhauṁha kamāna tāni asa māryo, naina-bāna balabhrāta
lakhatahiṁ girī ‘hāya!’ kahi yamunahiṁ, jyoṁ taruvara soṁ pāta
taba soi dhāya uṭhāya liyo mohiṁ, milyo parasa manabhāta
aba ‘kripālu’ soi darasa-parasa hita, talaphati hauṁ dina-rāta