06 Jun 2018
(Songs of God Krishna On Cowherd Lady)
3) O cowherd lady! all your beauty became
subject of My entire song on My flute. (Chorus)
While the silver anklets sounded in your stylish walk,
The elephants migrated to forest for living there only.
[The walk of a lady is generally compared in epics to the balanced walk of an elephant. The poet assumes that the elephants migrated to the forest due to unbearable pain obtained in the defeat from her balanced walk.]
Your thigh is banana stem, your navel is scented always,
The three wrinkles on your stomach are steps towards Me.
[The three steps in spiritual field are spiritual knowledge, devotion and service with sacrifice.]
Even subtle Brahma Sutra can’t enter between your breasts,
Your both hands are the tie rope to drag Me down to earth.
[Brahma Sutra means the aphorism on spiritual knowledge dealing very subtle points. It also means great thread, which is very subtle. This sounds that spiritual knowledge can’t enter such strong worldly fascination. God coming down is incarnation.]
Your both palms always emit the lights of red lotus flowers,
Your golden bangles are always showering boons to My eyes.
Your throat is the conch shell giving holy water like sweet song.
Your chin is the beautiful footstalk of the glamorous lotus face.
[The holy water after worship is given to devotees with conch shell.]
Your nose is sesame flower, your lip is ripened tindora fruit,
Your cheek is the mirror for Me to put mark on My forehead.
Your eyes are lotus bunches, your hair is spring of black diamonds,
Your ears are tender-tender betel leaves in new semi folded style.
Your talks are rivers of divine nectar with waves like styles,
If the musical instrument, Veena, sounds, I close My ears.
When you sing song, this creation is immersed frequently,
In its sweet styles, even My flute becomes unconscious.
O sugar parrot! When you sing the song sung on My flute,
This creation becomes fruitful by quenching in love-rains.
In the love-moon light of this full moon-Krishna Datta,
Your love-ocean grows fast to immerse all this creation.
O cowherd lady! I lifted huge hill on the nail of My finger,
Now, I am powdered, crying, by falling under your love-hill.
You are the final form of the merge of three divine powers,
Absorbed by My three divine forms, you are the real Datta!
I have become the servant of your lotus feet, leaving this flute,
I will sing on knowledge-flute, you, devotion-peacock, dance.
[God Krishna is appreciating the beauty of His creation, in which, the cowherd lady is a part. The appreciation of the beauty of this world reminds the beautiful talent of the creator. Kaalidasa appreciated the nature or creation of God, thereby, indirectly appreciating its creator. Shankara also described the beauty of divine mother in detail from feet to head through His poetic work called as ‘Saundarya Laharii’. Paramahamsa became unconscious thinking about the creator-God on seeing a row of swans flying in the blue sky, which is a beautiful scene in the creation. A poet is more pleased if you appreciate his poetry created by him than your direct praise to him. If you say that this creation is non-existent and abuse it, God will be very much displeased with you.]
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