DEBT of LOVE (Lyrics) ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

Krsna speaks to Rukmini about His debt of love

“Feeling separation from Me, Radha and the gopis have given up Their lives.  Now I shall also give up My life for her.  You will see me in that condition, O Lokanath” (Text 126-127)  Prema-vilas by Srila Nityananda Das.

BG 9.29 "[...] But those who honor Me with devotion are in Me, and indeed I am in them."

"Sri Radha's love for Lord Krishna has no rival and no equal in this world.  It is the greatest love."  Sri Garga Samhita 6.17-38

Read more at the bottom excerpt from Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu issue No. 134"

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Lyrics for "Debt of Love"

I am not here,

but there with My mind,

I am so bound

‘cause of a promise of love.

I have a debt

since the day I left

“I will return” - I said this to them

They have given everything up for Me

their love is in Me

There isn’t any other way to repay

but to love ‘ em in the same way

I am their air

for this My heart weeps

I’m in big debt

to their love, the tears they shed,

I've gone away

I did not return,

they trust what I said just before I left

my words are their hope and reason to live

they breath for me

O Queen, how they keep alive gives me pain,

they want to see me once again

You asked before

Who’s this love for?

Tears melt my dreams

When I think of Her

She does not know anything else than Me

She lives for Me

To know this love I’ve to steal Her heart

to love with her love.

I’ll give up pearls and curls, one day
love tears is my debt to repay. 

.

"With that prema they [gopis] have given up everything. [...] By their love, Krishna's promise was broken. His pormise is -'As someone approaches me I reciprocate accordingly' {Bg 4.11} Krishna never becomes indebted, He always repays his debts. But this promise of his was broken by the gopis, because the gopis do not want anything, how will he repay them?

[...] {Bhag. 10.32.22} "I have become completely indebted to you. I cannot pay you back, because you don't want anything. What shall I do?"

To pay back his debt he became Gaura, assuming the mood of Radharani is crying and feeling acute pangs of separation from Krishna. This is Gaura. [...] As Radharani is crying, crying, crying and drowning herself in this unfathomable ocean of separation, similarly Gaura is burning himself with the fire of separations from Krishna." by SGGS

Excerpted from Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu Issue No134

The Canticle of Union

The Canticle of the Creatures written by St Francis in 1225 AD is an ode to theCreation in praise of the Lord as the Creator of the universe. It is poetry of bhakti where St Francis expresses his love for the Lord by revealing his perception of Him in the amazing  harmony of the universe.  This juxtaposition of the Lord of the Universe to the theme of creation in the ode, has inspired this combination between this pastime  of Lord Jagannath, His abode and activities with hints about the esotericism of creation in a wholly Vaisnava flavor.   Since Krishna, in this mood and form as Lord Jagannath - of supreme overflowing Divine Love - reveals that He is the Personality exchanging and  reciprocating the love of the devotees in whatever form they most cherish in their hearts, He is addressed as the Lord of the Universe.

SBB Vol.III 5.211 "His transcendental form, the one source of all incarnations, expands all of His various pastimes.  Whichever of His forms a devotee finds attractive, that form the Lord shows him."

  The Creation is an act of love and therefore is pervaded by His love and attraction for Radha, and expresses metaphysically Their union.  

The heart is not a shore

for the ocean of longing,

the body swayed drunk,

He could not give up

thinking of the dying swan,

of Her agony

as He once saw while she sat

on His lap; ⁽¹⁾

dazed He crossed the night

to the doorway at her bedside,

floating in waves of love,

His eyes opened wide

and full of both joy and surprise

He fainted, mesmerized ~

His love so intense,

that His limbs lignified.

A waft of scent from His cloud-like skin

awoke the Lover,

 touching Her dreams ~

Krishna Krishna!

By seeing the lotus of His face,

at once, of that burning agony

there was no trace,

Radhe Radhe!

the scented breeze roused Him,

Their eyes embraced,

and in rivers of Prem

Their union took place …

and from His mind

reflecting His desire

 it pervaded the universes

in the way all beings unite,

and just as one serves another

as trees give fruits and flowers,

similarly this mood of service

 binds together all lovers.

Union happened that night,

and when the cooing announced

that the sun would shortly rise,

the Sakhis, drumming

and plucking strings, started to sing

the canticle of this Love,

cause and true origin of everything ~

 is the attraction binding the atoms ⁽²⁾

and the variety that attracts all beings.

O languishing souls,

take up this song

chant the names,

of Radha and Shyam

reuniting in Nidhuvan;

it's all about love,

coming in waves, 

into the heart,

 opening wide 

'The Door Ajar' into Puri Dham. ⁽³⁾

^(1) Ref. Pastimes at Prema Sarovara

⁽²⁾ Sri Krishna Samhita 5.18  "In the spiritual world the ever existing attachment extends love up to mahabhava, and in the material world the reflection extends as an inconceivable material attraction that creates variegatedness." 

⁽³⁾ Gopala Campu  ^"As many petals as has a lotus so many are the doors into Vraja Dhama." 

SBB Vol III 5.212 "Eternally as dear to Sri Krsnadeva as His beautiful Mathura-   dhama is that Purusottama-kshetra.  There the Lord displays His supreme opulence and yet charms His devotees by acting like an ordinary person of the world."

~~~

The Story of the First Ratha Yatra – excerpted from the booklet on a lecture of Sri Gour Govinda Maharaja titled “Three logs of wood”.

Krishna in Dwarka feels terrible pains of separation from the Gopis and Radha.  Once He fell unconscious and Narada and Uddhava came to His aid.  Then with Balarama and Subhadra they decided, before Krishna was to regain consciousness, to prepare His chariot to ride Him to Vraja, but Subhadra went ahead in Her chariot followed by Balarama’s to inform the Brijibasis of His arrival.  Radha is on the verge of death, laying on a bed of petals in a secluded place on the banks of the Yamuna.  Krishna came back to His senses by the music of Narada and knowing in His heart the deep pains of love of Radha, intoxicated by love He could barely walk, so is put on the chariot by Uddhava and Narada. He suddenly arrived at the doorway where Radha was lying feebly breathing. He sees her and submerged by love was stunned and fainted like a piece of wood.  But the scent of Krishna reached Radha’s nostrils and Lalita whispered in Her ears : Krishna has come! 

She awoke and seeing Krishna she immediately forgot all her pains, and then Krishna was brought back to consciousness by whispering in His ears :”Radhe Radhe. They looked  in each other eyes and finally there was union.

LOVE NEVER GOES UNHEARD

SB 10.53.2 — "The Supreme Lord said: Just as Rukmiṇī’s mind is fixed on Me, My mind is fixed on her. I can’t even sleep at night. [..]"

In the pastimes with Rukmini, Krishna enjoys to the extreme playing  the part of the human being in so many different ways.

CHALLENGED TO LOVE - The Song of Rukmini ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.60.58 "Sukadeva Goswami said : And so the self-satisfied Supreme Lord of the universe enjoyed with the goddess of fortune, engaging her in lovers' talks and thus imitating the ways of human society."


From Sri Caitanya Mangala Ch.2 : " 'My dear Lord, You are the crest-jewel of all transcendental qualities. Within Your heart You can't know why I'm crying, even though everything else is known to You"


Krishna visits Rukmini in Her palace and she starts to cry profusely.  The Lord wonders what has caused these tears and if He has done anything wrong. Rukmini slightly angry but with an affectionate tone explains to the Lord :

"...You know everything there is to know, but how is it that You don't understand the heart of one who loves Your lotus feet? "

The conclusion of this pastime is that Krishna will take up the advice of Rukmini Devi and announce His appearance as Lord Caitanya by  taking the mood of Radha - as suggested by the Queen - and experience the love of whom loves Him.

"You will understand the intensity of the love I feel if you cultivate Radha-bhava, the mood of Srimati Radharani's selfless love, within Your heart.'

In the poem I refer to Radha as "the One in Your dreams" because Rukmini had witnessed, while Lord Krishna was asleep, that She was coming in His dreams, since He would call Her aloud and cry.

This poetry has been put into music, to listen click :
♫ ♪ ♫ ♪       https://soundcloud.com/mauro-auaro/challenged-to-love    ♫ ♪ ♫ ♪

You know everything, 

all there is to know

but You do not know

what love is,

the one in Your dreams

She knows

It’s a storm

unleashed by Your limbs,

how can you understand

the touch of Your hand

the fragrance of Your skin

a never ebbing tide,

so, this heart now weeps

soon, again - You’ll leave.

The Queen of your dreams

She does know,

Her love owns You,- no,

you do not understand

the love of one who loves You

You don’t know how dense

the honey of this love for You

Have you ever tasted love tears?

It’s a sweeping ocean of emotions

the sweetest of dances

clasped in your glances

no heat or cold, nor day or night

or sense of within or outside

the roads of love for You

become so wide.

the Moon of your dreams 

tastes the intensity of love,

that You need to know, 

take Radha's heart into Your heart

beg Her love, giving Your love,

because She never stops loving You.

Lyrics - Challenged to Love

You know everything there is to know

Can you understand love at all?

You don’t know what love is

The One in your dreams She surely knows

It’s a storm ... unleashed by your limbs

A never ebbing tide of the heart

Now weeps ‘cause you’ll go away again

(1)   You don’t understand the love of those

                                                         ...who love You!

                                         (R) The Moon of Your dreams, She knows

You don’t know ...what love is.

Take Radha’s heart ....

That’s you need to know ...taste Her love

because She knows ...what love is

because she knows...ooohh She knows

...what love is.

Nor heat or cold, nor day or night

Nor sense of in or outside

Roads of love for You are so wide

The Queen of Your dreams She does know

She owns You ... with Her honey-like love for You

a sweeping ocean of joy and tears

The sweetest dances raptured in Your glances.

(1)   + (R)

IN ITALIAN

Tu sai tutto quello che c'è da sapere

ma non riesci a capire l'amore ?

Tu non sai cos'è l'amore

Colei che e' nei tuoi sogni sicuramente sa

Si tratta di una tempesta scatenata

dalle Tue membra

Una marea del cuore  che non scende mai

Ora [il cuore]  piange perche' andrai via di nuovo

(1) Non capisci l'amore di chi ti ama!

 (R) La Luna dei tuoi sogni, Lei sa

Tu non sai ... cosa sia l'amore.

allora prendi il cuore di Radha ....

E' tutto quello che devi sapere ... assaggia il Suo amore

perché Lei sa cosa sia l'amore ...

perché Lei sa ... ooohh lo sa

... cos'è l'amore.

Ne' caldo ne' freddo, nè giorno ne' notte

Né senso di dentro o del fuori

Le strade d'amore per Te sono così ampie

La regina dei tuoi sogni Lei lo sa

Ti possiede ... con il suo amore simile al miele

un oceano travolgente di gioia e lacrime

Le danze più dolci rapite tra i tuoi sguardi.