Hori Madhuri · Pad 22
lāla saṁga, kheliya hilamila phāga
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
(The description of the Holī of love between the individual soul and the Supreme Lord Shyāmasundara.) A saint addresses the individual soul thus, “Oh sakhi in the form of an individual soul! Now, the dark night of material ignorance has passed and the morning has come, and you have also woken up. So let us go and play divine Holī with Shyāmasundara. Look sakhi, fill the pichakārī of love with the saffron-colour of emotion and, throwing that colour on Shyāmasundara with the hands of romantic side-glances, forget yourself in the love of your Beloved without any effort at all. And then, being drowned in the colour of conjugal love by your Beloved, become the most fortunate one.” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “In this way, make your married life eternal and immortal by imprisoning beloved Shyāmasundara in your heart forever.”
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 213 · printed page 548.
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.
lāla saṁga, kheliya hilamila phāga
chalu rī sakhī! bhava-nishā sirānī, bhaī bhora gai jāga
keshara ghora bhāva kī gorī!, pichakārī anurāga
pāni tāni māriya dṛiga-bānana, sahaja piyā-rasa-pāga
rati-rasa-raṁga-saraborī gorī, lakhu apuno bad̤abhāga
imi ‘kripālu’ kari ura-paṭa-bandī, karu nija amara suhāga