Virah Madhuri · Pad 172
sakhī! ina, aṁkhiyana kachhu na lakhāya
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A virahiṇī says, “Oh sakhi! I am unable to see anything with these eyes now. Wherever I flutter my glance, I see nothing but Shyāmasundara’s blackish, bewitchingly beautiful face. My eyes constantly shed tears, sometimes resulting from the bliss of sweet union and at other times caused by the agony of separation. But even after thus continuously shedding tears in both ways, I failed to quench the fire of separation even in the least. Oh sakhi! The material opulence up to the realm of Brahmā, liberation and even the happiness of Baikuṇṭha etc. do not attract my mind even in a dream.” Hearing this, Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī commented, “Oh sakhi! (It is but natural because) who will be tempted towards a ghuṁghachī after attaining a pārasa-gem?”
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 339, 340 · printed pages 674, 675.
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.
sakhī! ina, aṁkhiyana kachhu na lakhāya
jita dekhūṁ tita sāṁvari sūrati, dīkhati ati mana-bhāya
kabahuṁ milana-sukha, kabahuṁ biraha-dukha, aṁkhiyana nīra bahāya
jala barasāvata hāri gaī pai, neku na tapana bujhāya
bhukti mukti baikuṇṭha ādi sakhi!, sapanehuṁ nāhiṁ suhāya
kaha ‘kripālu’ lahi pārasa-maṇi sakhi, kata guñjana bhaṭakāya