CC Madhya Lila 1.56 Lord Caitanya
Mahaprabhu used to sing this song [♪ ♫ ♪seita parana-natha♫ ♪ ♫] especially during the latter part of the
day, and He would think, "Let Me take Krishna and go back to
Vrindavana" This ecstasy was always filling His heart.
"It is there alone [in Vraja] that You attract us by wearing peacock feathers in Your turban and playing enchanting music on Your flute. We can be saved only by seeing You in Vraja and not by any other kind of meditation or theoretical knowledge of the self." Commentary by Visvanath Cakravarti Thakur on Sarartha Darsini 82.48
After long separation from Vraja Krishna resolves to meet the Brijvasis in Kurukshetra and He goes there from Dwarka with all His royal entourage......
So long ago
light left our eyes,
light left our eyes,
the
Moon disappeared
from our nights,
and
many times
our
minds, like
honeybees,
flew to the flowers of Your pastimes;
flew to the flowers of Your pastimes;
So
the wings of our hearts
have
not dried
in
the intense heat of lamentation
but
have led us in this ride.
Now
you have come
under
this alien moonlight
adorned with royal garments
seeming now a
king,
not as we see You
in
our dreams,
decorated without gems,
but with flowers,
not
parading majestically
but wandering and longing
under
the bowers,
your
stick and bugle
tucked
under your sash
on your curls a headband
on your curls a headband
and playing your flute,
harmoniously bent.
Is
this bulky turban to hide
the
feathers and the pearls?
As
simple cowherd girls,
what your messenger said before (1)
and what You just spoke
about yoga and mind control
is not what our hearts are hankering for.
what your messenger said before (1)
and what You just spoke
about yoga and mind control
is not what our hearts are hankering for.
we
do not know meditation
how
can we ...?
this
love, this agitation,
this thinking
of You ~ always
forces us to embrace
the dark trunks of trees,
and in
rainy cloud-like lakes (2)
we
behold You and faint;
You
have stolen our minds...
under many amorous moonlights,
by the many broken promises
You
made ~
How can we be wise, like sages?
These
royal heroes and the Queens,
the
noble friends and relatives,
and
You - bedecked like a king,
have
faded our hopes
to
see You, as our cowherd friend
among
the groves,
back
to Vraj, (3)
in
the land of our love,
still
resounding with the tapping
of
your feet in dance
and
always combed
by
Radha’s loving
searching glance.
searching glance.
1) The messenger was Uddhava.
2) Once in Premadana the Gopis went to fetch water in a lake -Krishna Kunda-. The reflection of dark clouds in the water sparked in the Gopis such intense feelings for Krishna that they fainted. - Lila retold from Nava Vraja Mahima Vol. II p.44
3) KS Anuccheda 170 "Since we cannot meditate on your feet in our minds and it is impossible for us to come to Dvarka -or we do not want to come - we will be saved only if you come personally to Vrindavana."
... and the musical version of this wonder....? already on soundcloud? Mauro prabhuji?
ReplyDeleteNo, Prabhu, we did not put this poem into music ..as of yet. Thank you for appreciating. Haribol.
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