ūdho!, tuma agyāna nidhāna

English meaning

The maidens of Braja, who were incarnations of the Vedic mantras and were burning in the fire of separation from Bhagwan Kṛishṇa, say to Uddhava, “Oh Uddhava! You are very ignorant. You have come to give knowledge to us, who are the incarnations of the Vedic mantras themselves. You don’t know even this that we ourselves are the source of knowledge. Just tell us what is known, knowable and knowledge. The implication is that the knower of Brahma himself is Brahma and the personality whom he has to know is also Brahma and the knowledge through which he has to know is also Brahma, according to what you preach. Oh Uddhava! You are the one who see Brahma everywhere; how then, do you have this feeling that we are ignorant? You don’t know that even the leaders of the greatest men of wisdom, like Sanaka, etc., who are self-realized and liberated, live in Braja in the form of trees and creepers, forgetting their trance of Absolute Brahma, in order to be blessed with the dust of Braja.” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “Oh Uddhava! The knowledge you have come to give us is, in fact, very essential for Shyāmasundara who loves Kubjā more than His life.”

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 248 · printed page 583.

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