Mo Man Gadyau Syaam Salone - Shri Nandadas
O sakhī, my mind has become so deeply absorbed in the exquisitely captivating dark form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa that it is completely submerged and lost in the incomparable splendor of His every limb.
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O sakhī, my mind has become so deeply absorbed in the exquisitely captivating dark form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa that it is completely submerged and lost in the incomparable splendor of His every limb.
O Śrī Rādhā! Listen attentively to the melody of the flute; within the nikunja, Śrī Śyāmasundara is singing of Your virtues alone. Whenever the breeze arrives after touching Your sacred limbs, He steps forward to meet it and lovingly embraces it to His heart.
Now my mind is completely surrendered at the lotus feet of Śrī Rādhā Jū. The youthful princess, Śrī Priyā Jū, has mercifully accepted me as Her own.
The divine couple, Śrī Śyāmā Śyāma, are magnificently seated in the nikunja forest. All around them, mālatī, mādhavī, and various kinds of beautiful flowers are in full bloom, beautifying the entire divine abode.
In the vine-arbors of Śrī Vṛndāvana, the supremely delicate divine couple, Śrī Rādhā Kṛṣṇa, are eternally engaged in Their plays of love (nitya vihāra). Relishing the nectar-like sweetness of Their beauty, the bumblebees hum in intoxication (or the rasikas sing Their glories).
All glories to Śrī Rādhā, the beloved daughter of Śrī Vṛṣabhānu Jī! All glories to the charming daughter of Kīrti Jī! All glories to Śrī Jī, who adorns Her head with a beautiful candrikā and drapes Her divine form in blue garments.
The lakes of Śrī Vṛndāvana are beautiful, its forests are enchanting, and its secluded bowers are dense where Śrī Rādhā eternally resides with Her beloved Śrī Lāla Jī (Śrī Kṛṣṇa). These very bowers are the loving abode and resting place of Their divine Nitya-Vihāra. For this reason, Śrī Dhāma Vṛndāvana holds a place of supreme love and affection in the hearts of the rasikas.
O ever-youthful and graceful Śrī Rādhā! You are the very embodiment of an unfathomable ocean of compassion. Please bestow such grace upon me that I may develop supreme faith in the sacred dust of Śrī Vṛndāvana Dhāma, so that this dust becomes supremely sweet and blissful to me.
Perform the *āratī* of the youthful Divine Couple, the sovereign Lords of the *nikuñja*. Gaze upon the incomparable beauty of this ever-fresh Lāḍilī Jī and Her charming Lāl Jī, and let your eyes be completely satisfied.
Wealth, youth, family and relatives, knowledge, and strength- all these are merely the fundamental causes of pride. Śrī Kānta Kiśora Jī says that on the strength of these, one can never attain the blissful 'keli' of Śrī Vṛndāvana.
Śrī Priyā Jī remained awake the entire night beside Her beloved Śyāmasundara, and upon Her golden, radiant cheeks remain the delicate marks of His teeth.
Śrī Priyā Jī is beautifully seated with Śrī Śyāmasundara in the kuñja palace. Reclining against a bolster with Their arms lovingly draped around each other's necks, They embrace, and the sweet touch of Their limbs puts even Kāmadeva himself to shame.
I worship the divine love of Śrī Rādhā and Śrī Hari. Their bodies and minds have merged to become one, saturated with the colors of various līlā-rasas, just as a rāga and rāginī blend harmoniously into one.
O Banavārī! Who else will listen to my plea now? I see no one else as capable and powerful as You; to whom then can I go to express the deep anguish of my heart?
O beloved Kiśorī Jī! May You ever reside within my eyes. You dwell in the nikunja bower of Śrī Vṛndāvana, where Lalitā and the other sakhīs constantly remain by Your side, dedicated to Your service.
In the sacred courtyard of Braja, a magnificent divine swing-festival has been lovingly arranged. As this wondrous celebration unfolds within the secluded bowers of Śrī Vṛndāvana, even Lord Śiva is swept away by the flood of divine bliss and begins to perform His Tāṇḍava dance in divine ecstasy.
The sakhīs repeatedly offer their very lives for Śrī Yugala, waving water over Them and drinking it—a loving and auspicious ritual in which water is waved over the beloved ones so that no obstacle or inauspiciousness may ever touch Them.
Śrī Rādhā and Śrī Kṛṣṇa are both seated on a swing in the kunja, swinging together. At this time, all the trees and creepers of the forest are laden with blossoms, and dense clouds gathering in the sky are showering a beautiful rain.
In the secluded groves of Śrī Vṛndāvana, tender new leaves and blossoming flowers adorn every bower, while a cool, gentle, and fragrant threefold breeze blows softly.
The beloved Śrī Kuñjabihārī, filled with intense yearning, says to Śrī Rādhā, the beloved of His life, "O Pyārījū! What kind of enchanting arrow of attraction have You shot at Me, that this youthful Śyāma, who wanders in the dense nikunjas, has become completely and utterly subservient to You in every way?".