yaha chhorā hai, sakhī yā chhorī hai

English meaning

Catching hold of Shyāmasundara defeated in the game of Holī, the sakhīs have adorned Him as a young damsel, seeing which a sakhī quips, “Oh sakhi! Is this a boy or a girl? Looking at Her sixteen traditional embellishments, one is led to think that She is certainly a girl, but upon beholding Her blandishments, it seems as if She is obviously a boy, not a girl.” Another sakhī said, “Looking at Her beauty, it appears as if She is definitely someone’s wife.” Yet another sakhī said, “Upon carefully viewing the limbs of Her body, it seems that She is undoubtedly a boy.” In the meanwhile, Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī also joined in the fun of Holī and said, “It is neither a girl nor a boy, it is Brahma and the gender of Brahma is eternally neither feminine nor masculine. Hearing this, the sakhīs, too, started shouting ‘It’s Holī’, ‘It’s Holī’ in the mockery of 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 205 · printed page 540.

Meanings: Smt. Padmā Devī. English translation and transliteration: Sushrī Braj Parikarī Devī. Source details.