Virah Madhuri · Pad 81
kānha kī bāta rahī aba kāna
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
(Separated from their beloved Kṛishṇa, the gopīs of Braja are talking to themselves.) Today, those blissful talks of beloved Shyāmasundara exist only in the ears, i.e. that bliss is no longer available. Those days, when beloved Shyāmasundara used to shower ever-new charms of love, have now become like dreams. The words of Shyāmasundara, when He used to tell us, ‘Oh gopīs, I can never repay your debt, I will always be indebted to you’ etc., have become mere stories. Those pleasures of divine love, which we attained through the Beloved, have also disappeared like magic. Even those banks of the Yamunā, Vanshīvaṭa, and Vṛindāvana seem to be unfamiliar. Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “The cows, the cowherd boys and the maidens of Braja have all become pale without Shyāmasundara.”
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 277 · printed page 612.
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.
kānha kī bāta rahī aba kāna
ve dina jaba nita nava-rasa barasata, hvai gaye sapana samāna
ve bāteṁ janu bhaīṁ kahānī, ‘sadā ṛiṇī nija jāna’
ve saba divya vilāsa-rāsa bhaye, indrajāla unamāna
ve yamunā-taṭa vanshīvaṭa aru, vṛindāvana bhaye āna
ve ‘kripālu’ go, gopa, gwālinī, priyatama binu piyarāna