Virah Madhuri · Pad 157
lakhī sakhi! jaba te sundara-shyāma
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A Braja-gopī says, “Oh sakhi! Since the moment I saw Shyāmasundara, tears flow from my eyes continuously like the constant showers of sāwana. Shyāmasundara has gone away stealing my heart and igniting the fire of separation. Oh sakhi! As my own mind and intellect do not work at all, you tell me one thing. What I am unable to understand is, that the war was between the eyes, how then, oh God, was the mind stolen?” The sakhī replied, “Oh sakhi! Listen. The mind had gone there as a judge to resolve the battle between the eyes but,” in the words of Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī, “what to say of disentangling the entanglement of the eyes, the mind itself was forcibly caught in the trap.”
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 328, 329 · printed pages 663, 664.
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.
lakhī sakhi! jaba te sundara-shyāma
taba te dṛigana sadā sāvana janu, barasata raha avirāma
mana hari lai gayo, dai gayo hari ura, virahāgini basu-yāma
eka bāta samujhāya sakhī! mohiṁ, mana-budhi bhai bekāma
urajhāne nainana puni chorī, mana kī kata bhai rāma!
sakhi kaha ‘suna urajhani surajhāvana, āyo mana tehi ṭhāma
ko ‘kripālu’ surajhāvana kī kaha, biko āpu binu dāma’