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Who Will Take Shyam? - Meera Bhajans
Satyabhama - Mon, 31 Jan 2005 18:56:29 +0530
Who will take Shyam?
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I saw witchcraft tonight in Vraj.
A wandering gopi came face to face with Shyam.
Sakhi, she is babbling now,
can no longer say "milk."
Come get Shyam, Shyam,
a pot full of Shyam!
In the overgrown lanes of Vrindavan
Shyam Manohar fixed His eye on this girl,
then departed.
Meera's Lord is hot, lovely and dark-
tonight she saw witchcraft in Vraj.
~Meerabai
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Advitiya - Tue, 01 Feb 2005 03:33:49 +0530
I will, and I know, shyam dasi will too.
Satyabhama - Tue, 01 Feb 2005 03:40:24 +0530
I swear that if I find Him, I will share Him with you girls.
I hope you would (if such a thing occured) do me the same courtesy.
Srijiva - Tue, 01 Feb 2005 03:42:46 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Jan 31 2005, 06:26 AM)
Who will take Shyam?
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I saw witchcraft tonight in Vraj.
A wandering gopi came face to face with Shyam.
Sakhi, she is babbling now,
can no longer say "milk."
Come get Shyam, Shyam,
a pot full of Shyam!
In the overgrown lanes of Vrindavan
Shyam Manohar fixed His eye on this girl,
then departed.
Meera's Lord is hot, lovely and dark-
tonight she saw witchcraft in Vraj.
~Meerabai
Now that was
truly a pearl of wisdom. Satyabhama, you get a rascal like me wishing he had some sort of love for this Enchanting Lord of Ours.
Satyabhama - Tue, 01 Feb 2005 03:45:42 +0530
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Now that was truly a pearl of wisdom. Satyabhama, you get a rascal like me wishing he had some sort of love for this Enchanting Lord of Ours.
I don't know about love... I heard Krishna is the kind that if you just look at Him and think "What an attractive young man!" or even "Hmm! Who'd have thought to wear a peacock feather like that?" He thinks you must be in love with Him, and then starts following you... just like He did to that gopi in the song...
Satyabhama - Thu, 03 Feb 2005 03:40:42 +0530
I've Bought Him!
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Sakhi, I went to the market and bought Shyam.
You claim at night, I claim by light of day.
Actually I was beating a drum while I bought him.
You say I paid too much; I say too little.
Actually, I put him on a scale before I bought him.
What I paid was my social body, my town body, my family body,
and all my inherited jewels.
Mirabai says: Shyam is my husband now.
Be with me when I lie down;
you promised me this in a former life.
~Meerabai
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Satyabhama - Thu, 03 Feb 2005 03:40:42 +0530
I've Bought Him!
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Sakhi, I went to the market and bought Shyam.
You claim at night, I claim by light of day.
Actually I was beating a drum while I bought him.
You say I paid too much; I say too little.
Actually, I put him on a scale before I bought him.
What I paid was my social body, my town body, my family body,
and all my inherited jewels.
Mirabai says: Shyam is my husband now.
Be with me when I lie down;
you promised me this in a former life.
~Meerabai
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Talasiga - Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:07:17 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Jan 31 2005, 10:10 PM)
I swear that if I find Him, I will share Him with you girls.
I hope you would (if such a thing occured) do me the same courtesy.
To share him you must first hold him! And how will you divide such a one who multiplies himself beyond your grasp?
Advitiya - Thu, 03 Feb 2005 23:41:57 +0530
That's beautiful! I want my share no matter what...!
Kishalaya - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:44:31 +0530
Satyabhama - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 01:48:55 +0530
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That's beautiful! I want my share no matter what...!
Oh! I will remember that!
Srijiva - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 04:52:05 +0530
I would
gladly repay you Tuesday for a little share of Shyama today?
Satyabhama - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:10:55 +0530
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I would gladly repay you Tuesday for a little share of Shyama today?
Ok! But remember on tuesday you have to post something about Shyam!
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O my friends,
What can you tell me of Love,
Whose pathways are filled with strangeness?
When you offer the Great One your love,
At the first step your body is crushed.
Next be ready to offer your head as his seat.
Be ready to orbit his lamp like a moth giving in to the flame,
To be like the deer as she runs toward the hunter's call,
Like the bird that swallows hot coals for love of the moon,
Like the fish that, kept from the sea, happily dies.
Like a bee trapped for life in the closing of the sweet flower.
Mira has offered herself to her Lord.
She says, the single Lotus will swallow you whole.
~Meerabai
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Srijiva - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 06:54:56 +0530
tomar lagiya, charinu ghor
apono jone, korinu por
jei bhave kadale, braja gopini re
sei bhave kadale, prema sangini re
abhagini mirar, minoti rakho
bhulo bhulo abhiman
syamol, sundara syam
"For Your sake, O Syama, I gave up my home, and I have also given up my own family. In the same way that the gopis of Vraja cried out of separation from You, I also cry as Your loving devotee. Please keep this prayer of Your most unfortunate Mira at Your lotus feet and disregard my false pride."
Mirar Prabhu Eso Giridhari Syamol Sundara Syam
by Mirabai
(I got an advance on Tuesday's Shyam, Thank You!)
babu - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 06:59:50 +0530
Has anyone ever heard that Mirabai was considered an incarnation of the venerated gopi, Lalita?
Sakhicharan - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:07:27 +0530
Aho Re Satya!
Beautiful thread! You are an artiste...
I so much love to see artful posts such as these where images and poems (you know the accent I am using in my mind right now..hehe ) are strung together like garlands. These garland offerings are surely enjoyed by Sri Krishna!
Thanks!
Srijiva - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:16:47 +0530
QUOTE(babu @ Feb 3 2005, 06:29 PM)
Has anyone ever heard that Mirabai was considered an incarnation of the venerated gopi, Lalita?
I myself am just now learning of Mirabai, thanks to Our Satyabhama, who I agree,
is quite an artiste, by how she shares her overflowing love for Our Krishna.
Satyabhama - Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:36:29 +0530
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Has anyone ever heard that Mirabai was considered an incarnation of the venerated gopi, Lalita
I do remember reading that somewhere, but I also heard that Meera had a sakhi who wrote down all her bhajans, and that her sakhi's name was "Lalita." Hmmm....
Then again, she merged with the deity in Dvaraka... oh geez... I guess I would just say Meera is Meera.
Satyabhama - Sat, 05 Feb 2005 04:28:18 +0530
Shyam Won't Speak to Me!
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Sister, Shyam won't speak to me.
Why does this useless body keep breathing?
Another night gone
and no one's lifted my skirt.
He won't speak to me.
Years pass, not a gesture.
They told me
He'd come when the rains came,
but lightning pierces the clouds,
the night drags on
and I feel the old dread.
Meera is Shyam's dasi
Her whole life
is a long night of craving.
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Satyabhama - Sat, 05 Feb 2005 04:33:30 +0530
Sorry, I cannot in good conscience leave Meera (or us) hanging like this... I will post another bhajan now to rectify the situation!
Satyabhama - Sat, 05 Feb 2005 04:36:56 +0530
The Long Drought Is Over!
My Beloved has come home with the rains,
And the fire of longing is doused.
Now is the time for singing, the time of union.
At the first thunderclap,
Even the peacocks open their tails with pleasure
and dance.
Giridhar is in my courtyard, and my wandering heart has returned.
Like a lilly blossoming under the full moon's light
I open to him in this rain: every pore of my body is cooled.
Mira's separation and torment are over.
He who comes to those who love
has remembered his promise.
~Meerabai
Kishalaya - Sat, 05 Feb 2005 13:17:37 +0530
main sAvare ke rang rAchi!
Meera says she has been colored with her beloved!
Satyabhama - Mon, 07 Feb 2005 07:50:27 +0530
There Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Now!
I am true to my Lord!
O sakhis, there is nothing to be ashamed of now
Since I have been seen dancing openly.
In the day I have no hunger
At night I am restless and cannot sleep.
Leaving these troubles behind, I go to the other side;
A hidden knowledge has taken hold of me.
My relations surround me like bees.
But Mira is the servant of her beloved Giridhar,
And she cares nothing that people mock her.
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Gaurasundara - Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:32:59 +0530
Satyabhamaji, I had heard a lot about Meerabai, both positive and negative. But now, thanks to you, I have seen some of her bhajans, and they are very sweet. When I read them, it was almost as if the music started playing in my mind and the words went along with them. Thank you.
Satyabhama - Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:57:32 +0530
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When I read them, it was almost as if the music started playing in my mind and the words went along with them. Thank you.
Good idea, actually! I will try to post some links to audio files to go with bhajans...
but for now:
http://sankeertanam.com/baso.ram
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:12:51 +0530
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mere to giridhara gupāla, dūsarā na koī
jā ke sira mora mukuTa, mero pati soī
tāta, māta, bhrāta, bandhu, apanā nahim koī
chāRa daī, kula kī kāna, kyā karegā koī
santana Dhiga baiThi baiThi, loka lāja khoī
cunarī ke kiyā Tūka Tūka, oRha līnaha loī
motī mūnge utāra bana mālā poī
ansuvana jala sīńci prema beli boī
aba to beli phaila gaī, ānanda phala hoī
dūdha kī mathaniyā baRe prema se biloī
mākhana jaba kāRhi liyo, chācha piye koī
āī maim bhakti kāja, jagat dekha roī
dāsī mīrā giridhara premu tāre aba moī
Giridhar Gopal alone is mine and no other!
On his head he wears the peacock-crown: He alone is my Husband.
Father, mother, brother, relative: I have none to call my own.
I've forsaken both God, and the family's honor: what should I do?
I've sat near the holy ones, and I've lost shame before the people.
I've torn my veil into shreds; now I wrap myself in a sheet.
I took off my finery of pearls and coral, and strung a garland of forest flowers.
With my tears, I watered the creeper of love that I planted.
Now the creeper has grown and spread all over, and borne the fruit of bliss.
The churner of the milk churned with great love.
When I took out the butter, no need to drink any buttermilk.
I came for the sake of loving devotion; seeing the world, I wept.
Mira is the maidservant of Giridhar:
now with love He takes me across to the further shore.
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Talasiga - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:05:33 +0530
QUOTE(Advitiya @ Feb 3 2005, 06:11 PM)
That's beautiful! I want my share no matter what...!
Greed has sullied the Jamuna
And yet we think we can
Share her god !
Kulapavana - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:41:36 +0530
QUOTE(Gaurasundara @ Feb 7 2005, 12:02 PM)
Satyabhamaji, I had heard a lot about Meerabai, both positive and negative. But now, thanks to you, I have seen some of her bhajans, and they are very sweet.
One "negative" comment I have heard was that she was intensly "greedy" to have Shyam for herself, while in our Gaudiya line we strive to become servants of the servants of Srimati Radhika.
To me, that is simply above my ability to process, so I'm not passing any "judgements" and just enjoying the sweet devotional poetry and divine sentiment as expressed by Meerabai.
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:53:59 +0530
Greed is the hallmark of ravenous bhakti!
If your greed for Radha's lotus feet is not selfish, then neither is Meera's (or our) greed for Krishna's
If someone thinks being Radha's dasi is "selfless" then that would mean the joy to be had from being Her servant would be somehow lesser... thus, you would be "selfless" because you are "settling" while letting Her enjoy more.
In reality we know manjaris love Radha, and crave to share the bliss of her bhav! They are not "settling" at all, but that is the perfect expression of devotion for them.
As for me... Mere to giridhar gopala, dusro na koi 
Kishalaya - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:58:55 +0530
QUOTE(Kulapavana @ Feb 8 2005, 07:41 PM)
QUOTE(Gaurasundara @ Feb 7 2005, 12:02 PM)
Satyabhamaji, I had heard a lot about Meerabai, both positive and negative. But now, thanks to you, I have seen some of her bhajans, and they are very sweet.
One "negative" comment I have heard was that she was intensly "greedy" to have Shyam for herself, while in our Gaudiya line we strive to become servants of the servants of Srimati Radhika.
To me, that is simply above my ability to process,
Dear Kulapavan ji,
Why necessarily drag
mIrA into the
gauDIya quagmire.
Non gauDIyas do not necessarily consider "approaching
zyAma directly as "breach of protocol".
Thank you (and enjoying
mIrA's bhajans),
With apologies,
Kishalaya
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:13:14 +0530
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she was intensly "greedy" to have Shyam for herself
may we all someday attain a fragment of that greed!
Kulapavana - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:23:17 +0530
QUOTE(Kishalaya @ Feb 8 2005, 10:28 AM)
Why necessarily drag mIrA into the gauDIya quagmire. Non gauDIyas do not necessarily consider "approaching zyAma directly as "breach of protocol".
no dragging was involved or implied
but I was actually replying to an earlier post, and since this site is frequented by Gaudiya Vaishnavas, some perspective seemed relevant.
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:26:30 +0530
I think Meera's bhajans can be enjoyed by Gaudiyas as well as anyone else.
I also think that sambhogecchamayi devotion, though not "Rupanuga" in the common sense of the word, is certainly "Raaga" and as far as Gaudiyas go I don't see why Meera should be criticized for her Raag, which is totally spontaneous in its greed for Shyam.
Although I have heard such criticisms of "selfishness" in the past, I admit they don't make much sense to me in the context of Raganuga bhakti.
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:45:54 +0530
Aw heck... let's have another bhajan!
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:49:59 +0530
I'll Be With Him In All His Gardens!
No one knows my invisible life.
Pain and madness for Rama.
Our wedding bed is high up in the gallows.
How can I meet him?
If the dark healer comes,
we'll negotiate the hurt.
I love Gopala-
My eyes are drunk,
worn out from making love with him.
We have become one, and I
am now his dark color.
People notice me, point fingers at me.
They see my desire,
since I'm stumbling about like a lunatic.
I'm wiped out, gone;
Yet no one knows I live with my Lord, Gopal.
The palace can't contain me- I leave it behind.
I couldn't care less about gossip
or my royal name.
I'll be with him in all his gardens.
~Meerabai
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 20:53:59 +0530
The Only Cure!
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I am pale with longing for my beloved;
People believe I am ill.
Seizing on every possible pretext,
I try to meet him "by accident."
They have sent for a country doctor;
He grabs my arm and prods it;
How can he diagnose my pain?
It's in my heart that I am afflicted.
Go home, country doctor,
Don't address me by my name;
It's the name of God that has wounded me,
Don't force your medicines on me.
The sweetness of his lips is a pot of nectar,
That's the only cure for which I crave;
Mira's Lord is Giridhar Naagar.
He will feed me nectar again and again.
~Meerabai
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Gaurasundara - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:38:52 +0530
Fantastic and beautiful.
And what a beautiful picture from the cover of the Amar Chitra Katha comic!
This Internet version seems not so nice, but the picture on the cover of the comic looks so nice I can't stop looking at it. And also within the comic, Krsna is painted with the most beautiful blue colour I have ever seen in my life. That particular shade of blue is very rare to see and it is the one I like most, so I always liked to read this comic as a child just to see Krsna in that blue colour.
[I also loved the 'Krishna' comic, but Krishna was too light in that one.
]
Satyabhama - Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:40:07 +0530
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And what a beautiful picture from the cover of the Amar Chitra Katha comic!
We scavenge nectar from wherever we may find it!
Satyabhama - Wed, 09 Feb 2005 01:50:34 +0530
Krishna's Slave
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I go to the house of my one true lover, Giridhar
When I see his beauty, I only crave him more.
At dusk I go to him, at dawn I return.
Whatever his pleasure, day and night I am his.
The clothes he gives me, I wear; his food I eat-
Where he wants me to be, I stay.
If he wants to sell me, I want to be sold.
Mira says, My love for Giridhar has lasted through many births
Without him I can scarcely breathe!
She offers herself to him in all of her lives.
(altered) translation from the book MIRABAI- Ecstatic Poems with translations by Robert Bly and Jane Hirschfield)
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Satyabhama - Wed, 09 Feb 2005 05:30:37 +0530
The Heat of Midnight Tears
LISTEN, SAKHI, this path is about opening your heart,
kissing His feet, resistance broken, tears all night.
If we could reach the Lord through bathing in bodies of water,
I would have asked to be born a fish in this life!
If we could reach Him through eating only fruits and nuts
Then surely the saints would have been monkeys
when they came from the womb.
If we could reach Him by eating only roots and leaves
Then the goats would surely reach Shyam before us!
If the worship of stone statues could bring us all the way,
I would have adored a granite mountain years ago.
Mirabai says: The heat of midnight tears will bring you to God.
Talasiga - Wed, 09 Feb 2005 08:41:36 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Feb 8 2005, 02:43 PM)
QUOTE
she was intensly "greedy" to have Shyam for herself
may we all someday attain a fragment of that greed!
Such greed cannot be fragmented
Unique to each one
Unshareable
Satyabhama - Wed, 09 Feb 2005 19:29:03 +0530
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Unshareable
Greed for Krishna is a highly communicable disease.
Talasiga - Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:58:26 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Feb 9 2005, 01:59 PM)
QUOTE
Unshareable
Greed for Krishna is a highly communicable disease.
Like so many diseases
It can be carried
by the smallest flea ....
Satyabhama - Thu, 10 Feb 2005 04:35:54 +0530
My Only Refuge
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Without my beloved, the festival of Holi is bitter.
The village grieves, the fields grieve,
My bed is empty.
The abadoned one wanders. Absence falls on her like blows.
But hunting him one place after another
just fuels her fear.
Conquerer of Demons, come.
I've counted so many days alone my fingers bleed.
Oh, I hear the kartalas, the drums and flutes.
The plucked ektara sings.
Green spring has arrived. But my beloved has not,
and my pain grows deeper.
Why has Shyam forgotten his lover?
Giridhar, I stand before you, I ask you to lift this shame.
Mira says to her Lord, Return.
You are my only refuge, body and mind.
I have slept with no other, your virgin
from birth to birth.
~Meerabai
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Talasiga - Thu, 10 Feb 2005 07:31:49 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Feb 9 2005, 11:05 PM)
.........
The abadoned one wanders. Absence falls on her like blows.
But hunting him one place after another
.......
~Meerabai
Come, sit still Didi
!He awaits, abandoned and wandering
in your heart .....
Satyabhama - Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:03:47 +0530
Holi Raining Colors Of Bhakti-Ras!
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sīla santoSha kī kesara gholī
prema prīti picakāra
uRata gulāla, lāla bhaye bādala
barsata rang apāra
ghaTa ke saba paTa khola diye haim
loka lāja saba Dāra
mīrā ke prabhu giradhara nāgara
caraNa kamala balihāra
The saffron of happiness
Is dissolved in the water-gun of love and affection.
Pink and red clouds of emotion are flying about,
Limitless colors raining down.
All the covers of the earthen vessel of my body are wide open;
I have thrown away all shame before the world.
Mira's Lord is Giridhar Naagar.
I sacrifice myself in devotion to His lotus feet.
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Satyabhama - Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:27:14 +0530
The Dark One's love-stain is on her,
other ornaments
Mira sees as mere glitter.
A mark on her forehead,
a bracelet, some prayer beads,
beyond that she wears only her conduct.
Make-up is worthless
when you've gotten truth from a teacher
0 the Dark One has
stained me with love,
and for that some revile me,
others give honor
I simply wander the road of the sadhus
lost in my songs.
Satyabhama - Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:42:45 +0530
he rī maim to prema dīvānī!
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he rī maim to prema dīvānī, merā dard na jāne koya
sūlī ūpara seja hamārī, kisa bidha sonā hoya
gagana maNDala pai seja piyā kī, kisa bidha milana hoya
ghāyala kī gati ghāyala jānai, kī jina lāī hoya
jauhar kī gati jauhar jānai, kī jina jauhar hoya
dard kī mārī bana bana Dolūm baida milā nahim koya
mīrā kī prabhu pīra miTaigī jaba baida sāmvaliyā hoya
Oh! I'm love-crazy. No one knows my pain.
My bed is over the gallows. How could I sleep?
My lover's bed is in heaven's mandala. How could I get to Him?
The one who is wounded knows what a wound means, what it means to be burned.
The jeweler knows what it means to be a jeweler, what it means to have a jewel.
Afflicted by pain, I wander from forest to forest. Can't get a doctor.
O Lord, Mira's torment will be wiped out when the doctor is her Dark Lover.
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Sakhicharan - Thu, 10 Feb 2005 08:53:26 +0530
O dear Satyabhama!
Your presentation of Meera's bhajans accompanied by the aesthetically consonant artwork is a delight!
Wow! Greatly appreciated by me.
Talasiga - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 04:54:30 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Feb 10 2005, 03:12 AM)
......
The one who is wounded knows what a wound means, what it means to be burned.
.......
(Meerabai)
Her song rises as smoke reeking of
mustHer wound bleeds tears colourless without lust .....
Satyabhama - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:28:09 +0530
Oh Talasiga, just enjoy the ras!
As Rumi says "He gives this wine to taste, not to talk about..."
Satyabhama - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:44:10 +0530
Finish her pain!
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Hari, hear my plea.
Dark One, I am your daasi,
a vision of you has driven me mad.
Separation eats at my limbs.
I'll become a yogini and ramble
from city to city
scouring the hidden quarters-
pasted with ash, clad in a deerskin
my body wasting to cinder.
I'll circle from forest to forest
wretched and howling-
0 Unborn, Indestructible,
come to your beggar!
Finish her pain and touch her with pleasure!
This coming and going will end,
says Mira,
with me clasping your feet forever!
~Meera
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Talasiga - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 06:05:15 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Feb 10 2005, 11:58 PM)
Oh Talasiga, just enjoy the ras!
As Rumi says "He gives this wine to taste, not to talk about..."
Irony of ironies! When Rumi said that he talked and Meerabai talks of her ras in her lyric.
To engage with Meera is to appreciate. Spiritual life is not a television program and I am not a lounge lizard .....
Satyabhama - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:54:43 +0530
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Spiritual life is not a television program and I am not a lounge lizard .....
Oh Talasiga, you may be Siskel in the world of bhakti but I am rarely able to fulfill the role of devotional Ebert.
I offer to you the poems of meera in translation with pictures.
Multimedia thrist for Krishna on the web!
hehe...
"Smoke reeking of must," is my favorite incense, and I love to see it being offered to our (shared) Venugopala Swamy!
Talasiga - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:05:25 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Feb 11 2005, 02:24 AM)
.......
"Smoke reeking of must," is my favorite insense, and I love to see it being offered to our (shared) Venugopala Swamy!
Meera's Venugopaal is not your Venugopaal and your Venugopaal is not my Venugopaal and our Venugopaal is not divided between us.
Satyabhama - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:00:31 +0530
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Meera's Venugopaal is not your Venugopaal and your Venugopaal is not my Venugopaal and our Venugopaal is not divided between us.
You are correct of course! And I am quite sure from your descriptions that your Venugopaal is certainly not mine!
But then again some girls like to share!
(That's Satyabhaamaa on Krishna's left
)
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Satyabhama - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:33:04 +0530
This is again off-topic, but I was just thinking about Jagat-ji.
He once said a picture I posted of Krishna was "too muscly."
I wonder what he would think of the big round laddu Krishna I just posted!
Talasiga - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:52:07 +0530
QUOTE(Satyabhama @ Feb 10 2005, 03:12 AM)
.......
The jeweler knows what it means to be a jeweler, what it means to have a jewel.
........
(Meerabai)
If your craving is the jewel
Let it be mounted
on Raadha's ring .....
Satyabhama - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:52:29 +0530
QUOTE
If your craving is the jewel
Let it be mounted
on Raadha's ring .....
manjari!
Talasiga - Fri, 11 Feb 2005 19:22:04 +0530
Kalkidas - Sat, 12 Feb 2005 15:26:42 +0530
zyAm terI baMsI pukAre rAdhA nAm
log kareM mIrA ko yUM hI badanAm
sAMvare kI baMsI ko bajane se kAm
rAdhA kA bhI zyAm voto mIrA kA bhI zyAm
1) jamunA kI lahareM baMsIbaT kI chaiyAM
kisakA nahIM hai kaho kRSN kanhaiyA
zyAm kA dIvAnA to sArA bRj dhAm
log kareM mIrA ko ...
2) kaun jAne bAMsuriyA kisako bulAe
jisake man bhAe vo usI ke guN gAe
kaun nahIM baMsI kI dhun kA gulAm
rAdhA kA bhI ...
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(Sorry, I can't translate it into English... I have chosen it simply because it mentions "rAdhA nAm"...
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Satyabhama - Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:52:56 +0530
Approve Me or Disapprove Me!
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The colors of the Dark One have penetrated Mira's body,
all the other colors washed out.
Making love with the Dark One and eating little,
those are my pearls and my carnelians.
A japa mala and the mark on my forehead,
those are my silks and my golden ornaments.
My teacher taught me this:
Approve me or disapprove me
I praise Giridhari night and day.
I take the old ecstatic path.
I don't steal money, I don't hurt anyone.
What will you charge me with?
I have felt the swaying of the elephant's shoulders;
And now you want me to climb on a jackass?
Try to be serious.
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evakurvan - Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:50:40 +0530
Thank you Satyabhama and especially for:
'I saw Witchcraft tonite in Vraj,' from page 1
'I am true to my Lord,' from page 2
and this last one.
p.s. 'too muscly' hahaha
Satyabhama - Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:14:53 +0530
Turn Back?
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This infamy is delicious!
Some revile me, others applaud,
I simply follow my incomprehensible road
A razor thin path
but you meet some good people,
A terrible path but you hear a true word
Turn back?
Because the wretched stare and see nothing?
O Mira's Lord is noble and dark,
and slanderers
rake only themselves over the coals
~Meerabai
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Satyabhama - Thu, 24 Feb 2005 05:20:51 +0530
A Garland of Tears
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When the whole world
rests in slumber, dear love,
I keep vigil, riven from Him.
In a glorious palace of pleasure,
estranged, I sit awake,
and see a forsaken girl,
with a garland of tears on her neck,
passing the night
counting stars
counting the hours
to happiness.
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Gaurasundara - Sun, 03 Apr 2005 07:13:55 +0530
Various nuances exist of the story of the meeting of MIra and JIVa GosvAmI, but one thing that I have heard is that she was considerably influenced by the GosvAmI.
This took the form of one of her padas where she laments the prospect of KRSNa taking sannyAsa, which is a clear reference to Sri Gaurasundar. Does anyone know of this pada and where I can find it with original words and translation?
anuraag - Tue, 12 Apr 2005 18:26:53 +0530
QUOTE(Gaurasundara @ Apr 3 2005, 01:43 AM)
Various nuances exist of the story of the meeting of MIra and JIVa GosvAmI, but one thing that I have heard is that she was considerably influenced by the GosvAmI.
This took the form of one of her padas where she laments the prospect of KRSNa taking sannyAsa, which is a clear reference to Sri Gaurasundar. Does anyone know of this pada and where I can find it with original words and translation?
St. Mirabai's pada, describing her encounter with Lord Krishna,
Who appeared as Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
She had broadcasted to the world her recognition of the Divinity
in the disguise of 'Sanyasi'!
This cherished song is melodiously sung by many famous Indian artists
and enjoyed by the devotees of Lord all over India and abroad.
ab to hari naam lou laagee, saadho!
saba jaga ko yaha maakhan choraa,
naam dharyo vairaagee! ..1..
kita chodi vohu mohan murali?
kita chodi saba gopi?
moond mundaayi dori kati bandhee,
maathe mohan topi ! ..2..
maata yasomati maakhan kaaran
baandhi jaaki paam,
shyaama kishore bhayo nava goraa,
caitanya jaako naam ! ..3..
pitaambar ko bhaava dikhaavai,
kati kaupeena kase,
gora krishna ki daasi meeraa,
rasanaa krishna base ! ..4..
ab to hari naam lou laagee!
(taken from- Foreword of 'Sri Padyavali (Sri Roopa Goswami)' -
Hindi translation by Sri Vanamalidasa Sastri,
Published by Sri Gopinatha Gaudiya Math)
Meaning (Bhaavaartha) -
http://forums.delphiforums.com/jayaradhey/messages?msg=46.64
dasanudas - Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:09:31 +0530
Dandavat anuraag ji,
thank you very much.
Pranam
Yours
Dasanudas
Gaurasundara - Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:42:20 +0530
Wow!
I was under the impression that MIra's pada contained veiled references of sorts, but it is so surprising to see that she is openly declaring her love for the Golden Lord. Ahhhhhh.
WOW again!
Thanks very much Anuraagji and dandavat pranams from me too.
Madanmohan das - Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:36:51 +0530
It was mentioned before how she ( Mira) belongs to parivara of Sri Gadadhara Pandit.
anuraag - Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:52:36 +0530
praNAma to dear dasanudas ji and Gaurasudara ji.
Hope you may also enjoy this song of St. Mirabai on the auspicious occasion of Sri Rama Navami!
"pAyojI maine! "rAma ratan" dhan pAyo!
vastu amolak dIjo mhAre 'SatGuru',
'KIRIPA' kari apanAyo!
janama janama kI pUnjI pAyI
jaga me sabhI khovAyo!
kharacai nahIM cor na levai
dina dina baDhata savAyo!
sat kI nAva kevatiyA 'SatGuru'
bhava sAgara tara jAyo!
'mIrA ke prabhu' giridhara nAgara
harakha harakha yaza gAyo! "from:
http://forums.delphiforums.com/jayaradhey/messages?msg=15.6
ayi nanda-tanuja kiGkaraM patitaM mAM viSame bhavAmbudhau kRpayA tava pAda-paGkaja-sthita-dhUli-sAdRzaM vicintaya 
