Milan Madhuri · Pad 41
mohi liyo, mo mana madana gopāla
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
(A gopī is talking to herself after her first sweet encounter with beloved Shyāmasundara.) “Alas! My heart was stolen by Madanamohana today. I became mad with love and joy as soon as I saw His incomparably beautiful, all-attractive form, curved at three places. And now, whom can I relate it to, and how? Even if I tell, the listeners will only laugh at me, clapping their hands. These eyes of mine did not even ask for my permission before getting involved with Him. (Therefore, I am not to be blamed.) I, being innocent, could not understand their cunningness at all. As soon as I saw Him, He cast a magic spell on me and I, immediately, lost all consciousness. Now, I am desperately yearning to meet my Beloved.” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says to himself, “Thank your luck tremendously for not letting you fall in the trap of that Trickster’s beauty. Otherwise you too, would be suffering like this gopī.”
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 124, 125 · printed pages 459, 460.
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.
mohi liyo, mo mana madana gopāla
dekhata hī chhavi bhaī bāvarī, lalita-tribhaṅgī-lāla
kāsoṁ, kehi vidhi, kahā kahūṁ aba, saba haṁsihaiṁ dai tāla
dou nainā dhainā kari baiṭhe, maiṁ nā samajhī chāla
ṭonā soṁ kachhu kai gayo mo pai, bhaī hāla behāla
tuma ‘kripālu’ nija bhāga sarāhiya, phaṁse na jo yehi jāla