Virah Madhuri · Pad 181
sakhī! maiṁ, bhaī andha anuhāra
Original pad by Jagadguru Shri Kripalu Ji Maharaj
English meaning
A virahiṇī, addressing her intimate friend says, “Oh sakhi! My condition has become like that of a blind person. Just as a blind man sees nothing and the whole world is full of darkness and darkness alone for him, in the same way, even to me, the whole world appears to be black, pervaded with black Shyāmasundara. Oh sakhi! To whom, how, and what should I say? Who can understand the innermost feelings of my heart? Actually, the whole world is crazy itself, but looking at me, it says, ‘Look, look, the crazy woman has come!” Jagadguru Shrī Kripālu Jī says, “What the world says is right. When even after trying innumerable means, a premikā remains unable to hide her love, her condition appears to be like that of a lunatic. Therefore, if the world declares her to be insane, there is nothing wrong in it.”
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 345, 346 · printed pages 680, 681.
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! maiṁ, bhaī andha anuhāra
jyoṁ aṁdharehiṁ nekahuṁ nahiṁ dīkhata, sigaro jaga aṁdhiyāra
tyoṁ mo kahaṁ sigaro jaga bhāsata, kāroi nandakumāra
kāsoṁ, kehi bidhi, kahā kahauṁ aba, ko ura jānanihāra?
mo kahaṁ saba kaha ‘bāvari āī’, bāvaro saba sansāra
rahata ‘kripālu’ prīti nahiṁ chhānī, kījai yatana hajāra