Virah Madhuri · Pad 155
raina-dina virahini talaphata jāta
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A virahiṇī says, “I spend day and night writhing in the agony of my Beloved’s separation. I, getting extremely restless in His separation, repeatedly heave the sighs of pain, saying ‘Hāi daī!’,‘Hāi daī!’. Calling out my Beloved, I search for Him in every grove. Every moment of the night, which seems to me like the night of death, is spent by me counting stars. Like a person possessed by some evil spirit, I sometimes dance, sometimes sing, sometimes weep, sometimes laugh and sometimes, I myself start talking with the Beloved in His separation.” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “This enemy in the form of separation seems to be determined to take my 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 pages 327, 328 · printed pages 662, 663.
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.
raina-dina virahini talaphata jāta
daī! daī!! dai!!! hāya! hāya!! kahi, puni puni ati akulāta
kuñja-puñja ṭerata herata hari, sundara shyāmala gāta
tāre gina gina chhina chhina bitavati, kālanishā-sama rāta
graha-gṛihīta jimi nāchati, gāvati, haṁsati rudati batarāta
bairī viraha ‘kripālu’ lagāyo, prāṇa lena kī ghāta