Shrimad Chaturasi Path — Pad 42 | Chaurasi Ji Ka Path Arth Sahit | रास-लीला — प्रेम की अजेय गति

Original pad (Devanagari)

प्रीति न काहू की कानि विचारै ।
भारग अपमारग विथकित मन, को अनुसरत निवारै ॥
ज्यों सरिता सावन जल उमगत, सनमुख सिन्धु सिधारै ।
ज्यौं नादहि मन दिये कुरंगन, प्रगट पारधी मारे ॥
जै श्रीहित हरिवंश हिलग सारंग ज्यों, सलभ सरीरहि जारै ।
नाइक निपुन नवल मोहन बिनु, कौन अपनपी हारे ॥४२॥

Transliteration

prīti na kāhū kī kāni vicārai.
bhārag apamārag vithakit man, ko anusarat nivārai.
jyauṁ saritā sāvan jal umagat, sanmukh sindhu sidhārai.
jyauṁ nādahi man diye kuraṅgan, pragaṭ pāradhī māre.
jai śrīhit harivaṁśa hilag sāraṁg jyauṁ, salabh sarīrahi jārai.
nāik nipun naval mohan binu, kaun apanapī hāre. (42)

Word-by-word meanings

prīti — love; na — does not; kāhū — of anyone; kī kāni — heed the words; vicārai — consider; bhārag — the right path; apamārag — the wrong path; vithakit — bewildered, distressed; man — the mind; ko — who; anusarat — following; nivārai — can stop; jyauṁ — as; saritā — the river; sāvan — the monsoon; jal — water; umagat — swelling; sanmukh — straight towards; sindhu — the ocean; sidhārai — goes; nādahi — to the sweet sound; man diye — giving its mind; kuraṅgan — the deer; pragaṭ — openly; pāradhī — the hunter; māre — kills; jai śrīhit harivaṁśa — says Śrī Hita Harivaṁśa; hilag — attached; sāraṁg — the deer; salabh — the moth; sarīrahi — its body; jārai — burns; nāik — the hero; nipun — skilled; naval — ever-fresh; mohan — Mohan; binu — without; kaun — who; apanapī — one's own self; hāre — would stake and lose.

Translation

Love does not heed anyone's words or considerations. When the mind is bewildered in love, it cares nothing for the right path or the wrong path, and who can stop it from following? As the river, swollen with monsoon water, goes straight to the ocean; as the deer, giving its mind to the sweet sound, comes openly before the hunter and is killed; as the moth, clinging to the lamp, burns its body — so love is drawn to its goal. Says Śrī Hita Harivaṁśa — without the skilled, ever-fresh Mohan, who would stake and lose his very self?

Explanation

True love keeps no accounts. It does not ask whether the road is right or wrong, and no reasoning can hold it back. Śrī Hita Harivaṁśa gives three images: the monsoon river that no dam can stop on its way to the sea; the deer that hears a sweet tune and walks before the hunter, forgetting fear; the moth that flies into the flame and burns. Śrī Rādhā has staked everything — mind, body, even awareness of Herself — on Mohan alone, and that total surrender is itself the greatest victory.

Summary

In this pad, the unstoppable movement of love, the pull of separation, and complete surrender to Śrī Mohan are described.

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