batāo sakhi! kaise dharūṁ maiṁ dhīra?

English meaning

A virahiṇī says to her intimate friend, “Oh sakhi! You tell me, how can I possess steadfastness? The nights that used to be spent like a moment in sweet talks with Shyāmasundara before, have now become so agonizingly slow that it is very hard to spend even one moment. Like Draupadī’s sari, the night keeps on prolonging itself. Before, even few tears in my eyes used to make the Beloved restless, now those very eyes shed continuous stream of tears.” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “Even one moment of whose going away from my sight used to give me stabbing pain in the heart, today about that same Shyāmasundara, I hear only the story that there used to be a blue-complexioned boy in Braja, whose name was 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 306 · printed page 641.

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