Thursday, May 15, 2008

Sri Ksanada-gita-cintamani

Moment after moment a young gopi looks from the corners of her eyes.
Moment after moment her cloth becomes dusty.

Moment after moment she smiles, revealing the effulgence of her teeth.
Moment after moment she covers her lips with her cloth.

Childhood and youth meet within her.
I do not know if she is a woman or child.

One moment she covers her head with her cloth.
The next moment she forgets to cover it.

One moment she walks quickly and anxiously.
The next moment she walks slowly and languidly.

She has become a student, carefully studying the books of Kamadeva.

Vidyapati says: O glorious Krsna, do You not see how the marks of childhood and youth are both present within her?

This is one Raga found in Srila Visvanath Chakravaty Thakur's Sri Ksanada-gita-cintamani