Milan Madhuri · Pad 44
yaha yārī hai, hāya yā baṭamārī
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A gopī’s first meeting with Shyāmasundara and her description of it to her intimate friend – Oh sakhi! What will you call this, love or robbery? Today, Shyāmasundara said to me, ‘Oh sakhi! Let me see what it is in your eyes.’ Being innocent, I could not infer what He meant and opening my eyes, as soon as I showed them to Him, He poured divine love into them through His eyes. Oh sakhi! How to tell you what happened afterwards? That was it! Inebriated with love, I forcibly lost my heart to Him. Now even the bliss of the four kinds of liberation seems insipid without seeing that lotus-eyed Shyāmasundara. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “Oh sakhi! The secret of this robbery is that Shyāmasundara is the one and only beloved of all individual souls and because of being causelessly merciful, He imparts love forcibly.”
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 126, 127 · printed pages 461, 462.
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 yārī hai, hāya yā baṭamārī
mote kahī ‘sakhī! ṭuka dekhūṁ, tava āṁkhina lāgyo kā rī’
hauṁ anajānī marama na jānī, lakhatahiṁ naina-saina mārī
kahā kahūṁ puni bhayo kahā sakhi!, ahā! ahā! kahi mana hārī
aba to kamalanaina dekhe binu, chārihuṁ mukti lagati khārī
kaha ‘kripālu’ binu hetu sanehī, yaha sāṁcho piya banavārī