Ashtapadi XI - Nadha Hare - Ode to the Lord


The Active Cause, Purusha
Falls in love with Passive Nature !
Is it Hindu Dialectics?
Is it Great Synthesis undoubtedly !

Does it contain, 
Thesis and Anti Thesis ?
Science and Philosophy
Combined as Truth ?

nAdha harE jagannAdha - SankarAbharaNam - rupaka
SlOkam adhatAngamtu maSaktAm chira manu raktAm latA gruhe drushTvA
tachcharitam gOvindE manasija mandE sakhee prAha ||

Radha's confidante
Goes to Krishna and tells
About Radha's state of passion
Her passion for the Lord !

Which surpasses all
Krishna knoweth this state
The state in which
He Himself is in !


paSyati diSi diSi rahasi bhavantam
tvadadhara madhura madhu ni pibantam
nAdha harE jagannAdha harE
seedati rAdhA vAsa gruhE ||nAdha||

Radha is looking everywhere
For Thee, O Lord of Cosmos !
She is distressed, panicky
At your amorous pastimes !

tvadabhisaraNa rabhasEna valantee
patita padAni kiyanti chalantee||nAdha||

Excited she is
To meet you
To see you steadily
And see you whole !

There she walks
With steps faltering !
She is infront of Thee,
Subtler than the Subtlest !

vihita viSada bisa kisalaya valaya
jeevati paramiha tava rati kalayA||nAdha||
 
To soothe herself
Radha is tying lotus stems,
She wants to unite with Thee,O Beauty Personified ?

Which is the aim
Of all Heavens and Nature !
The Ultimate Union
Which produced the Universe !


muhuravalOkita manDana leelA
madhuripu rahamiti bhAvana SeelA||nAdha ||
 
She decorates herself As Thee
She thinks she is Krishna
Supreme Personality of Godhead !
Hail Prakriti, Infinite in Wisdom !
 
tvarita mupaiti nakadhA mabhisAram
hari riti vadati sakhee manu vAram||nAdha||

She is asking her friends 
Again and again
Why you are not meeting
Her at your rendezvous !

Bhakti is a state,
Where there is no Vibhakti,
Non separation from Self,
None can blame her !
 
Slishyati chumbati jaladhara kalpam
harirupagata iti timira manalpam||nAdha||
 
How crazy she is
Imagining you are
Kissing her entire
She cannot suffer

How can anybody
Who has enjoyed Bliss
Which is Thee entire
Renounce Thee ?
 
bhavati vilambini vigaLita lajjA
vilapati rOditi vAsaka sajjA||nAdha||

There she waits

On her bed
For Thee, O Handsome One !
Shyness holds absolute sway



Sree jayadEva kavErida muditam
rasika janam tanutam atimuditam||nAdha||


 
The poet Jayadeva
Intoxicated with Bliss
The Bliss of Self
Describes Eternal Love

Of Purusha and Prakriti
Of Krishna and Radha
Let them enjoy  
Love and the arts !