Blind teacher and on the top of that, a deaf disciple,How on earth can they grasp the knowledge ofbr ahman?Wayward progeny of a lewd whore,What teaching will bring you to your senses?Not knowing that one’s self is the completebr ahman,He wanders around worshipping others,He maintains pleasures of dreams are true,And he bickers and praises sensuality.Wayward…
What is it about your eyes, love? Tell us, tell us truly!The magic of your eyes makes my mind quiver with joy!Usually, my love, a proud gorgeous girl happens to bewitch man’s mind,But it is you who has enthralled the minds of proud alluring girls!What is it about your eyes, love? Tell us, tell us…
It is after hundreds of millions of lives of penance,That I have attained my Vitthal, my love!Be still, be still, O moon, do not make the dawn yet,The life of my life has come to my home!The chatak sweetly sings, `pee yoo! pee yoo! ‘ and cuckoo too sings in honeyed notes,I implore you O…
Just to be where he is!To uphold my beloved devotee King AmbarishI smote the vanity of the sage Durvasa,For sake of my devotees, I cast off my pride and came into the world ten times.For dearer than life is the Vaishnava to me….I rushed on Garuda, my eagle to deliver the Elephant, my loved devotee,I…
You have woken up the whole townWith melodious jingling of your anklets!Fair one, in the middle of the night,How your jingling anklets chime!‘I came back after vainly groping in the bed,For I found my beloved asleep with a girl next door!One after other girl my beloved enjoys!Surely, this is not what we expectFrom some one…
Stealing our hearts!All night long, you rejoice with him and he never puts you asideLike a ruthless arrow, you run through our hearts!Sweet flute, tell us what austerities have you performed?You play on his lips and resonate in the forestsStealing our hearts!From you our beloved gets all the witchcraft he needs!Says Narsinh, how you become…
Leave, leave my wrist, for no longer is it night!Get up now, my lazy lord, my lord of very being!Who is it playing ‘panchama’ at my door?Is he not content playing with me the whole night?See the birds are chirping and it is daylight already,The night has fled, my love, and the day has begun!Who…
Why do you hug me in front of these mean people?Little Hari, my cute one, don’t you know the secret?I am still so young and yet you occupy my heart!Don’t you have any morals?You tug at the sari of someone’s wife the first thing in the morning!Little Hari, my cute one, don’t you know the…
Would I torture my tender body!All the time I’d play the games of love with my beloved!True fulfillment of my birth is in loving my beloved forever!When the final liberation waits on me like a menial servant,Why should I worship someone else?True fulfillment of my birth is in loving my beloved forever!In all our births…
As this little cowherd foolishly totters, the girl becomes fervid!Always up to some prank, this mischievous little Govindji over thereIt’s always I who has to suffer!‘Kum now yoo, vow eye doo’, if you can’t speak properly why do you babble like this?Says Narsaiyyo, stop all these childish pranks, just take us to your place, and…
