Maternal Love - Vatsalya Rasa of Divine Love

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Jaya Sri Radhey! Namaste.

 

Here is a 'pada' from 'Viraha Madhuri' (Love in Separation) 'Prema

Rasa Madira' (Wine of Divine Love) by Sri Kripaluji Maharaj.

 

 

"Yashodaji apne laala ke viyog se ek pathik se srikrishn

ke liye sandesha bejthi hai.."

 

Mother Yashoda sends a message for her darling Son at Mathura, Lord

Krishna, through a trusted messenger.

 

"pathika tum, itano kahiyo jaaya"

 

O dear kind traveler! Please tell my sweet little Boy, laala, just

this much at least!!

 

The message is as follows:

 

"aba na kabahun kachu kahahun laala som, eka baar aajaaya,"

 

"My dearest Child, laala,

 

Kindly please come home once to see me, just once, is all I ask!

In case, during your visit here, if there is something that upsets

you, you are free to go back immediately."

 

"Ukhala maahin na kabahun baandhihaum, kitai urahano aaya,"

 

She assures him now that here after she will never discipline him for

his naughty pranks nor bind him to the heavy household mortar to stop

his mischief no matter what the envious Gopis have to complain this

time!

 

"maakhana-corI te na rokihaum, kare joyi mana bhaaya,"

 

She promises that she will not do those mistakes of hurting her laala

again. She says she will also not stop him from stealing butter and

he can do as he pleases and spend his time as he wants to.

 

She will place no demands nor restictions on him as before.

 

"jo kovu braja me kaanhahim cheDe, vaako davoom bandhaaya,"

 

Even if anyone bothers her dearmost child or teases him in Vrindavan

she will chase them away or restrain them all so that they don't

come in his way.

 

"moko maaya na maane tabahum, naato maane dhaaya,"

 

She finally pleads him to visit her if not as his real mother but at

least on the grounds of visiting a good old nurse, or a foster mother

or even as his childhood pet cow that provided him milk for his

nourishment and helped him grow since his birth in Gokula.

 

"imi 'kripalu' kahi yazumati bilapai, dRga ansuvana jhari laaya"

 

In the concluding verse, Sri Kripaluji Maharaj reminds us that while

sending this message of Divine Love, Mother Yashodaji was completlely

soaked in the streams of tears of maternal longing and overwhelmed by

the divine emotions of parental love, Vatsalya Prema Rasa.

 

These precious words of the great Rasik Saint pulls the devotees too

into tears of divine joy, churning the irresistable feelings in their

hearts for their Sweet little Lord.

 

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This song of Kripaluji Maharaj from 'Viraha Madhuri of Prema Rasa

Madira' was sung in sweet devotional voice by the Indian vocal artist

Srimati Lakshmi Shankar.

 

To listen to this heart-melting song as the message sent through a

messenger to Lord Krishna at Mathura by Mother Yashoda:

 

just go to this web location clicking below:

 

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/mailsong/index.cgi/3cd97d1457ac0000

 

1008 Songs of 'Prema Rasa Madira' and more are available at:

 

http://www.jkp.org/literature/index.html

 

Jaya Sri Radhey!