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[Apr. 30th, 2009|03:47 am] |
Shri Gändharvä-Samprärthanäshtakam
Shrila Rūpa Gosvämī
1. O Devī Rädhikä! You and Shri Krishna are constantly enjoying Your ambrosial amorous pastimes in the leafy pleasure-groves of Vrindävana, like the intoxicated king of elephants sporting with his queen elephant. Therefore, O Gändharvikä! Be pleased with me and mercifully grant me darshana of Your and Your beloved Krishna’s lotus-like faces.
2. O Devī Gändharvikä! I am suffering greatly, and therefore today I throw myself on the ground like a stick and humbly implore You with a choked voice to be merciful to this fool and please count me as one of Your own.
3. O Shyämä! Your Master is even more charming than Näräyana Bhagavän and His beauty enchants the entire creation. You are always in His arm’s embrace on His left side, and Your beauty can never be equalled, even by that of Lakshmī-devī. When will I properly worship Your beauty?
4. O Devī Rädhikä! When will I become Your sakhī, and, pleasing You by dressing Your transcendental form in a raincloud-colored särī and removing the anklets from Your feet, lead You away to a gorgeous kuñja for a nocturnal rendezvous with Shri Nandanandana?
5. O Devī, within a kuñja You and Shri Krishna lie on a bed of so many kinds of flowers which is a playground for Your sweet amorous amusement. When will I receive the opportunity to serve the lotus feet of You and Your beloved, who together are the very adornment of the three worlds? Oh, when will such an auspicious day come?
6. O Vrindāvanēshvarī, after enjoying love-sports with Shri Krishna on the bank of Your kunda, Your lotus faces brilliantly decorated with drops of perspiration, You will both relax upon a jewelled simhäsana beneath a desire tree. When You are in that condition, when will I be able to soothe You by fanning You with a chämara?
7. O beautiful-eyed Rädhikä, when You playfully hide in a secret place within a kuñja and Shri Krishna comes to know where You are hiding and approaches You, You will ask me, “O Rupa-manjari, why did you show Krishna My hiding-place?” Then I will reply, “No, no, I didn’t tell Him; it was Chitra Sakhi. Therefore please do not frown at me.” When will I speak these entreating words to You, while seeing You standing before Krishna and accusing me? When will such a day come?
8. When You defeat Shri Krishna in a playful war of words, You become immensely joyful and boast of Your victory to Your girlfriends. Then the sakhīs will express their delight by exclaiming, “Jaya Rädhä! Jaya Rädhä!” Oh, when will I become fortunate enough to participate in Your victory chorus?
9. Any surrendered soul who with great faith recites these eight appeals to the daughter of Vrishabhänu Mahäräja will receive direct darshana of Her accompanied by Her beloved Shri Krishna and feel the waves of Her happiness shower upon him. (This ashtaka is recited in the poetic meter known as “Vasantatilakä.”) |
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