Milan Madhuri · Pad 43
yaha kaisī lāgi balāya re
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A sakhī says to her friend, “Oh sakhi! What a great trouble I have fallen into! Yesterday, I had gone to fetch water to Vanshīvaṭa. The brother of Balarāma, Shyāmasundara, came right there. The infinite sweetness of His beauty made me completely oblivious of myself, the moment my eyes fell on Him. Since then, my eyes have been shedding tears continuously and the only word my tongue is uttering is ‘oh!’ Parrots, partridges, peacocks, cuckoos are all, as if bent upon killing me.” In the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī, the sakhī adds, “Up to what extent can I describe my physical state? Breath alone is left.”
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 125, 126 · printed pages 460, 461.
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.
yaha kaisī lāgi balāya re
kāli gaī banshīvaṭa panaghaṭa, āyo tahaṁ balabhāya re
jākī lakhi sakhi! rūpa-mādhurī, āpuhiṁ āpu gamāya re
dṛiga soṁ nikasati salila-dhāra aru, mukha soṁ nikasati ‘hāya’ re
suka, pika, mora, papiharā sigarei, mili janu mārana dhāya re
kahaṁ lauṁ kahiya ‘kripālu’ dashā tanu, sāṁsahi āve jāya re