LINKS to MUSIC
Messenger of Love
ROBBED HEART - The Song
of Gadadhara Pandit
GOLDEN EMBRACE
Challenged
to Love - The Song of Rukmini
DEBT OF LOVE
JUST A MILK_FED BOY
GIVE
ME LOVE
- The
Ballad of the Madman
Miming
under the Hill
Doomed
by Freedom
Guru
Purnima
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 you 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!
You
don’t know how intense love can be …..do You?
(
R ) The moon of Your dreams, She knows
You don’t
know....what love is.
Take
Radha’s heart
That’s
all you need to know
Taste
Her Love
Because
She knows….what love is.
Because
She knows… what love is
No heat
or cold, nor day
or night
No
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 ) You don’t understand the love of
those……..who love You!
You
don’t know how intense love can be …..do You?
(
R ) The moon of Your dreams, She knows
You don’t
know....what love is.
Take
Radha’s heart
That’s
all you need to know
Taste
Her Love
Because
She knows….what love is.
Because
She knows… what love is
Doomed by freedom
(R)
You
have taken the form of Time
To
break down the sense of "mine"…..(2)
A life of strife - And strives for “mine”
Just hands full
of “ends”, As time lent
For the sun rises and sets
Taking life
breath by breath
Fearing to ask who am I (2)
While life scrolled, out - of my control
I deemed myself
free
Living the way I liked to be
Mind chained me
to delusion. (2)
(R)
You
have taken the form of Time
To
break down the sense of "mine" …..(3)
Deluded by loss - and lost illusions
I shed tears and
tears and tears,
On pieces of shattered ego
Ephemeral pivot of joy
In this carousel of "I" (2)
Where playing the player of Your play,
I confused the Self
in reflections of this mirror maze
Dazzled me to seem the Doer. (2)
(R)
You
have taken the form of Time
To
break down the sense of "mine" …..(3)
Doomed, I am doomed by freedom
Doomed yes I’m doomed by freedom
Doomed-doomed I’m doomed by freedom
Doomed yes doomed by freedom.
GURU PURNIMA
O Devas, on this day shower petals of
flowers...
On
my Gurudev
With Druva’s quality he satisfies the Lord
By spreading Bhakti around the world
Every moment of this day, O Devas, chant hymns and
dance
For
my Gurudev
servant of the Lotus Feet of the Lord
He
is my Gurudev
(R) - O
Devas, vibrate in outer space
conchshells, bugles and drums
For
my Gurudev
Conditioned souls are delivered
with a freshly breeze
From the lotus feet
Of
my Gurudev
O Devas, carry from heaven
Fragrant lotuses, flowers and nothing less
To garland in this day the King of my soul
My
Gurudev
O Devas, fly in jubilation
The Sankirtan is on
Chaitanya’s love is freely given to all
By
my Gurudev
(R) - O
Devas, vibrate in outer space
conchshells, bugles and drums
For
my Gurudev
Conditioned souls are delivered
with a freshly breeze
From the lotus feet
Of
my Gurudev
On this day shower petals of flowers
On my Gurudev
Every moment of this day, O Devas, chant hymns and
dance
For my Gurudev
Servant of the Lotus Feet of the Lord
He is my Gurudev
Chaitanya’s love is freely given to all
By my Gurudev
INDULEKHA
I will
roll in dust
Left
by Your wheels
And
bathe in kunds of tears
I’ll
still run the path to the forest
Run the path to the forest
Believing
to hear a melody
I’ll
still peer out the window
To
rediscover the instants of your return
And
hear your voice
And hear your voice
Amidst
a turmoil
Of bellowing and laughter
I’ll
still see Your eyes
‘Cause
I’ll see what You saw
This
valley, these trees and groves
Motionless
at what you gazed
Motionless at what you gazed
The
line where the green earth
Kisses
the blue sky
I’ll
still call Your name
In
the ears of my friends
Because
of irresistible desire
There
are no seasons
There are no seasons
Only
this scorching summer
Without
the rainy cloud of Your skin
Now
giving pleasure to a land
Stranger
to our Love
Stranger to our Love
I’ll still wait for you
to come
I’ll never
leave Vrindavan
I’ll
still peer out that window
I’ll
still see your eyes
I’ll
still call out Your name
I’ll still wait for you
to come
I’ll never
leave Vrindavan
And I’ll still wait for
you to come
I’ll never
leave Vrindavan
I’ll never leave.
Give me love -
The Ballad of the Madman
Every night
he draws a full moon for meeting you
He
makes lakes of flowers
to bloom
And he paints
many dawns in the skies
For remembering
the lotus of your eyes
He cries: Radhe Radhe where are you?
(2)
In many
dresses He comes
in a disguise
As the
gardener or the
laundry-man wife
To touch
your garment or
to garland You,
wanders from
the ghats to the kunds
He calls: Radhe Radhe where are you?
(2)
Roves the roads
rummaging every part
Waiting to see
you walk down the
path
His friends
mock Him when
you pass
His pales
and drops His
flute and sash
His voice chokes: Radhe Radhe, let me see You (2)
The night
He stands behind
the tree,
keen to
see His dream
unseen
when you
bathe upstream, he
swims
where flowers
and water flows
from your skin
He despairs: Radhe Radhe, where are
you? (2)
Roaming restless
through the groves
and the lands
Crying up
the hill and
on the river
banks
Mudded and
maddened, rolls in
the sands,
As a beggar of
your love and
dancer in Your
hands
He pleads: Radhe Radhe give me your love! (2)
Miming
under the Hill
Drowned
by the water of separation
feelings
of burning sensation
I
ask the birds, the flowers and trees
The
One with blue skin have you seen?
Oh
friend, hold your shawl
Over us cover all
In
the way Shyam kept it still
When
He held up the Hill
Keep your cloth
up with one finger
Try to mime His
voice timbre
Smile as He smiles,
He’s in my mind
How the ropes of
love do bind!
(
R )
Night
after night - Day after day
Exchanging
glances you and us
Right
under there
Never
before our love was let free
You
know we could not dare
Return,
come back we can’t bear
Spread open this veil, as the Hill,
give repair
To the hearts soaked in despair
The black curly hair, the red of His lips,
The golden wrapping on His hips.
I ask the river ,the groves and cows
Where’s The lover with His dancing
Eyebrows
O deer, o clouds, up in the sky
Where is our lotus-eyed?
(
R )
Night
after night - Day after day
Exchanging
glances you and us
Right
under there
Never
before our love was let free
You
know we could not dare
Return,
come back we can’t bear
Night
after night - Day after day
Exchanging
glances you and us
Right
under there
Never
before our love was let free
You
know we could not dare
Don’t
hide, come back we can’t bear.
Just a Milk Fed
Boy
I
still survive In this house, As a prisoner of memories
All
exists in this taste of tears And there outside is the same
From
the trees I still hear His voice calling the cows by name
And
on the way to the river
His
footprints are still on the ground.
To
you I ask:
Does
He remember those once He loved?
It
seems you do not see This burning flame of despair
His
absence took away the light And our life air.
His
just a small, tender Boy A simple child, playing a flute
What
you have said is odd
My
child is just a boy, is not God
What
you have said is odd
My
child is just a boy, He’s not God
He is fickle, greedy, a liar
Eats a lot of yogurt, has many
desires
The self-controlled Supreme,
Is
truthful and hunger free
My restless son is a thief of cream.
How
would the Lord, ever carry on his head my shoes?
And
the Almighty God is self satisfied,
While
my helpless son depends on his mother and I.
Yet
yes, it is true I've seen him killing just by a kick,
And
then raising a hill on his tiny fingertip
He has left so to kill wicked kings
But he is a milk fed Kid
He has petal - soft feet
And the sweetest smile you’ve ever seen
He is my son,
“Baba” he calls me!
O Uddhava, my heart is broken,
For the treasure I’ve lost.
Love when unspoken No words can
console
And
your clumsy attempts are doing even worse
Because
along with my son, you are saying, I
have also lost God!
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… (is in me)
There isn’t any other way to repay
But to love them in the same
way (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 (breath for me)
O Queen, how they keep alive gives
pain
They want to see me once again (once again) ↑
You
asked before
Who’s
this love for
Tears
melt my dreams
When
I think of her
She doesn’t know anything else than
me
She lives for me (lives for me)
To know this love I’ll steal Her
heart
And love Her with her love (with her Love)
I’ll
give up pearls and curls one day Love tears is my debt to repay.
I’ll
give up pearls and curls one day Love tears is my debt to repay.
(to
repay)
She
doesn’t know anything else than me She lives for me.
lives
for me, she lives for me
Golden
Embrace
Can
the sun - ever feel
the
warmth of its rays?
why
do you want this love?
why
feel these pains
like
a flame, the others' blame
I
laugh, cry 'n'
faint
↑- in the
dust, on a
rough floor
↑- what do
you want this
love for?
Raised
like a boat at sea
by waves
of hope
I dance
in joy and
sing
but suddenly
dropped
in
a stream of tears, over flown
I sink, forlorn,
↑- in
You I lost
my mind
↑- from
me you want this love, why? (*)
[R] (2) Why do you want to take my love
and make it yours?
it's the only thing I
have
it's the essence of
me. (2)
….. the essence of me.
You
do what you want of Me
take my love, now
but I don't
bear the thought
of You,
distraught
your
petal – soft - like limbs
rolling mad
floundering
↑- in a
bitter - sweet abyss
↑- make my
body your shield. (*)
[R] Your
shield is my golden embrace
So hollow, I’ll chase
like a
shadow of my love
which is
the essence of me.
[R] (2) Why do you want to take my love
and make it yours?
it's the only thing I
have
it's the essence of me.
(2)
.. it's the essence of
me...
...it's the essence of …↓me.
Messenger of Love
When
your heart needed telling
I
was the messenger of love
You
took my hand - in yours to hold
You
spoke a secret never told
Your nights were not the same feeling
love, its waves
Your heart cried - knowing their
pains
When
your heart needed telling
I
did not know the burning of love
Without
you they are lost and lifeless
That
girl raved in hopeless-ness
What she said I can't retell - wise words fell
My soothing attempts – couldn’t
help.
(R) Return to them - my Friend
Your words were mere drops for them
Lost in dunes burning without you
There was nothing, nothing I could
do (could do)
Their
love is in You.
When
your heart needed telling
I
came to know about their love
Light
seemed to be turned off
Sighs
echoed in empty trough
Eyes were staring at a distant point
And all were crying, where were you
When
your heart needed telling
I
was touched by pure love
I
am not the same of the past
I
wish to be a blade of grass
Where the dust from their feet -
falls on me
While they rush to you in love.
(R) Return to them - my Friend
Your words were mere drops for them
Lost in dunes burning without you
There was nothing, nothing I could
do (could do)
Their love
is in You.
When
your heart needed telling
I
was the messenger of love
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