Madhava Ki Kahaba Daiba Bipaka
Bhajan | Govinda Dasa Kaviraja
Verse 1
mādhaba ki kahaba daiba-bipāka
patha-āgamana kathā kata nā kahiba he
yadi haya mukha lākhe lākha
Verse 2
mandira teja yāba pada cāri ā-olu
niśi heri kampita ańga
timira duranta patha hera-i nā pāriye
pada-yuga beḍhala bhujańga
Verse 3
eke kula-kāminī tāhe kuhu-yāminī
ghora gahana ati dūra
ā;re tahe jaladhara barakhiye jhara jhara
hāma yā-oba kona pūra
Verse 4
eke pada-pańkaja pańke bibhūṣita
kaṇṭake jarajara bhela
tuyā daraśana āśe kachu nāhi jānalu
cira-dukha aba dūre gela
Verse 5
tohāri muralī yaba śrabaṇe prabeśala
choḍalu gṛha-sukha āśa
pantha dukha tṛṇahu kari nā gaṇalu
kahatahi gobinda-dāsa
Verse 1
O Madhava, what can I say of the cruelty of fate! How much could I tell of the trials of the path I came by, even with a hundred thousand mouths to speak.
Verse 2
Leaving my home, having gone just four steps, seeing the night my limbs trembled; in the impenetrable darkness I could not even see the path — a serpent coiled around my two feet.
Verse 3
I am, on one hand, a woman of a respectable family, and this a moonless night; the forest terribly dense and far; and on top of it the clouds pour down rain without pause — by what path shall I go?
Verse 4
My lotus feet became caked with mud, torn and wounded by thorns; but in hope of the sight of you I paid it no heed at all — now my long-standing sorrow has fled far away.
Verse 5
The moment your flute's sound entered my ears, I gave up all hope of household happiness; I counted the sufferings of the path as less than a blade of grass — so speaks Govinda Dasa.
Verse 1
mādhaba ki kahaba daiba-bipāka
patha-āgamana kathā kata nā kahiba he
yadi haya mukha lākhe lākha
Verse 2
mandira teja yāba pada cāri ā-olu
niśi heri kampita ańga
timira duranta patha hera-i nā pāriye
pada-yuga beḍhala bhujańga
Verse 3
eke kula-kāminī tāhe kuhu-yāminī
ghora gahana ati dūra
ā;re tahe jaladhara barakhiye jhara jhara
hāma yā-oba kona pūra
Verse 4
eke pada-pańkaja pańke bibhūṣita
kaṇṭake jarajara bhela
tuyā daraśana āśe kachu nāhi jānalu
cira-dukha aba dūre gela
Verse 5
tohāri muralī yaba śrabaṇe prabeśala
choḍalu gṛha-sukha āśa
pantha dukha tṛṇahu kari nā gaṇalu
kahatahi gobinda-dāsa
Verse 1
O Madhava, what can I say of the cruelty of fate! How much could I tell of the trials of the path I came by, even with a hundred thousand mouths to speak.
Verse 2
Leaving my home, having gone just four steps, seeing the night my limbs trembled; in the impenetrable darkness I could not even see the path — a serpent coiled around my two feet.
Verse 3
I am, on one hand, a woman of a respectable family, and this a moonless night; the forest terribly dense and far; and on top of it the clouds pour down rain without pause — by what path shall I go?
Verse 4
My lotus feet became caked with mud, torn and wounded by thorns; but in hope of the sight of you I paid it no heed at all — now my long-standing sorrow has fled far away.
Verse 5
The moment your flute's sound entered my ears, I gave up all hope of household happiness; I counted the sufferings of the path as less than a blade of grass — so speaks Govinda Dasa.
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