Song of the lord's Queens
कुररि विलपसि त्वं वीतनिद्रा न शेषे स्वपिति जगति रात्र्यामीश्वरो गुप्तबोधः।
वयमिव सखि कच्चिद्गाढनिर्भिन्नचेता नलिननयनहासोदारलीलेक्षितेन ॥ १५॥
The queens said 'Oh kurari, you are lamenting! Deprived of sleep you can't rest, while the Controller tonight is sleeping somewhere in the world at an unknown place. Can it be that your heart, just like ours, oh friend, was deeply pierced by His smiling & the munificent, playful glance of His lotus eyes?
नेत्रे निमीलयसि नक्तमदृष्टबन्धु- स्त्वं रोरवीषि करुणं बत चक्रवाकि।
दास्यं गता वयमिवाच्युतपादजुष्टां किं वा स्रजं स्पृहयसे कबरेण वोढुम्॥ १६॥
Oh cakravaki, having closed your eyes for the night, you nevertheless are crying pitifully for your unseen friend. Or do you perhaps, after having attained the servitude, just like us desire to carry in your braided hair the garland that was honored by Acyuta's feet?
भो भोः सदा निष्टनसे उदन्व- न्नलब्धनिद्रोऽधिगतप्रजागरः।
किं वा मुकुन्दापहृतात्मलाञ्छनः प्राप्तां दशां त्वं च गतो दुरत्ययाम् ॥ १७॥
Oh dear, dear ocean, you are always making such a noise, never getting any sleep. Are you suffering from sleeplessness? Or were, maybe, your personal qualities stolen by Mukunda, so that you also ended up in this hard to cure [diseased] condition?
त्वं यक्ष्मणा बलवतासि गृहीत इन्दो क्षीणस्तमो न निजदीधितिभिः क्षिणोषि।
कच्चिन्मुकुन्दगदितानि यथा वयं त्वं विस्मृत्य भोः स्थगितगीरुपलक्ष्यसे नः॥ १८॥
Oh moon, are you, in the grip of the fell disease of consumption, so emaciated that you can't dispel the darkness with your rays? Or are you maybe dumbstruck, oh dearest, because you, just like us, can't remember what Mukunda all said?
किन्त्वाचरितमस्माभिर्मलयानिल तेऽप्रियम्।
गोविन्दापाङ्गनिर्भिन्ने हृदीरयसि नः स्मरम् ॥ १९॥
Oh wind from the Malaya mountains, what have we done that displeased you, so that our hearts are led by Cupid, hearts that are already torn apart by Govinda's sidelong glances?
मेघ श्रीमंस्त्वमसि दयितो यादवेन्द्रस्य नूनं श्रीवत्साङ्कं वयमिव भवान् ध्यायति प्रेमबद्धः।
अत्युत्कण्ठः शबलहृदयोऽस्मद्विधो बाष्पधाराः स्मृत्वा स्मृत्वा विसृजसि मुहुर्दुःखदस्तत्प्रसङ्गः॥ २०॥
Oh honorable cloud, you surely are a friend most dear to the Chief of the Yadavas with the Srivatsa on His chest. We are, in our meditation on pure love, just as bound to Him as your good self is. Your most eager heart is just as distraught as ours. We, just like you, remember Him over & over. And that results in torrents of rain with you, just as it time & again makes us shed streams of tears. It can be so hurtful to associate with Him!
प्रियरावपदानि भाषसे मृतसञ्जीविकयानया गिरा।
करवाणि किमद्य ते प्रियं वद मे वल्गितकण्ठ कोकिल॥ २१॥
Oh sweet-throated cuckoo, please tell me what I should do to please you, who vibrate His so very dear sounds, in this voice that is capable of reviving the dead.
न चलसि न वदस्युदारबुद्धे क्षितिधर चिन्तयसे महान्तमर्थम्।
अपि बत वसुदेवनन्दनाङ्घ्रिं वयमिव कामयसे स्तनैर्विधर्तुम् ॥ २२॥
Oh mountain with your broad-minded intelligence, you don't move or speak. Are you preoccupied with great matters, or do you maybe, just like us, desire to hold on your breasts the feet of the darling son of Vasudeva?
शुष्यद्ध्रदाः कर्शिता बत सिन्धुपत्न्यः सम्प्रत्यपास्तकमलश्रिय इष्टभर्तुः।
यद्वद्वयं मधुपतेः प्रणयावलोक- मप्राप्य मुष्टहृदयाः पुरुकर्शिताः स्म॥ २३॥
Oh [rivers] wives of the ocean, your lakes have alas lost their wealth of lotuses that shriveled away now that they dried up, just like us, who became very thin because of not obtaining the loving glance of our beloved husband, the Lord of Madhu, who so often stole our hearts.
हंस स्वागतमास्यतां पिब पयो ब्रूह्यङ्ग शौरेः कथां दूतं त्वां नु विदाम कच्चिदजितः स्वस्त्यास्त उक्तं पुरा।
किं वा नश्चलसौहृदः स्मरति तं कस्माद्भजामो वयं क्षौद्रालापय कामदं श्रियमृते सैवैकनिष्ठा स्त्रियाम्॥ २४॥
Oh swan, be welcome & sit down, please drink some milk & tell us the news, oh dear one, for we know you to be a messenger of Sauri. Is the Unconquerable One all well? Does He, who is so fickle in His friendship, still remember that He talked to us a long time ago? Why should we [run after Him to] be of worship, oh servant of the campaka? Tell Him who raises the desire, to visit us without the goddess of fortune. Why should that woman have the exclusive right of devotion?
इतीदृशेन भावेन कृष्णे योगेश्वरेश्वरे। क्रियमाणेन माधव्यो लेभिरे परमां गतिम् ॥ २५॥
श्रुतमात्रोऽपि यः स्त्रीणां प्रसह्याकर्षते मनः। उरुगायोरुगीतो वा पश्यन्तीनां कुतः पुनः॥ २६॥
Speaking and acting with such ecstatic love for Krishna, the Master of Yoga masters, the wives of Lord Madhava attained the ultimate goal. He, who in numerous songs is glorified in numerous ways, attracts with force the mind of any woman who but heard about Him. And how much more attractive would He then be to those who directly see Him?
- Ch 90, Canto 10, Srimad Bhagwatam
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