Shrimad Chaturasi Path — Pad 6 | Chaurasi Ji Ka Path Arth Sahit | सखी का विनोद — राज प्रकट

Original pad (Devanagari)

कौन चतुर जुवती प्रिया,
जाहि मिलत लाल चोर ह्वै रैन ।
दुरवत क्यौंऽव दुरै सुनि प्यारे,
रंग में गहिले चैंन में नैन ॥
उर नख चंद्र विराने,
पट, अटपटे से बैन ।
जय श्रीहित हरिवंश रसिक-
राधापति, प्रमथित मैन ॥६॥

Transliteration

kauna catura juvatī priyā,
jāhi milata lāla cora hvai raina.
duravata kyauṁ'va durai suni pyāre,
raṁga meṁ gahile caiṁna meṁ naina.
ura nakha caṁdra virāne,
paṭa, aṭapaṭe se baina.
jaya śrīhita harivaṁśa rasika-
rādhāpati, pramathita maina. (6)

Word-by-word meanings

kauna — who; catura — clever; juvatī — young lady; priyā — beloved; jāhi — whom; milata — you met; lāla — O Lāl (Kṛṣṇa); cora hvai — like a thief; raina — at night; duravata — do you hide; kyauṁ'va — why; durai — can it be hidden; suni pyāre — listen, O dear one; raṁga meṁ — in the colour of love; gahile — drowned; caiṁna meṁ — in peace; naina — the eyes; ura — on the chest; nakha caṁdra — nail-marks like the moon; virāne — shining; paṭa — the clothes; aṭapaṭe se — tangled; baina — words; jaya śrīhita harivaṁśa — says Śrī Hita Harivaṁśa; rasika-rādhāpati — the relisher, Rādhā's Lord; pramathita — churned; maina — by love (Kāmadeva).

Translation

A sakhi asks Śrī Kṛṣṇa with loving teasing: O Lāl, which clever beloved is she, whom you met last night like a thief? O dear one, why do you hide it? Listen — it cannot be hidden. Your eyes are drowned in the colour of love and the peace of union. The nail-marks shine on your chest like the moon, your clothes seem not your own, and your words come out tangled. Says Śrī Hita Harivaṁśa — the heart of the relisher, Rādhā's Lord, is wholly churned by love.

Explanation

Here the sakhi turns her teasing toward Kṛṣṇa Himself. He met His beloved in secret, like a thief in the night — but the signs give Him away: eyes drowned in love, moon-like nail-marks on His chest, another's clothes, tangled words. The verse laughs gently at the idea of hiding love: what the heart has lived, the body confesses. Even the Lord of all relishers is Himself churned and won by love.

Summary

Kṛṣṇa tries to hide His night of love, but His eyes, His dress and His words tell everything.

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