[INDOLOGY] Continuing my Krishna VErses

[Madhav Deshpande]

Continuing my Krishna Verses:

नृत्यन् मे हृदये नित्यं वादयन् मुरलीं मृदु ।

कर्णयो: प्रेषयन् नादमितरेषामगोचर: ।।३७४।।

Always dancing in my heart and softly playing your flute, you send its tune
to my ears, unseen by others.


वाचि मे स्थापयन् शब्दान् मनस्यर्थान् जनार्दन ।

त्वमेव मे चालयसि हस्तौ पादौ च माधव ।।३७५।।

Placing words in my speech and meanings in my heart, you make my hands and
feet move, O Mādhava.


यदि त्वं मे वादयिता कथं ख्यामि वदाम्यहम् ।

यदि त्वं मे चालयिता कथं ख्यामि चलाम्यहम् ।।३७६।।

If you make me speak, how can I say that I am speaking?  If you make me
walk, how can I say that I am walking?


कथं मन्वे स्वयमहं त्वं मनोरथसारथि: ।

हृदये त्वं कविरसि कवयामि कथं हरे ।।३७७।।

How can I think on my own, if you are the driver of my mind?  You are the
poet in my heart.  How can [I say] I write poetry?


त्वयि तिष्ठति जिह्वाग्रे स्वयमायाति भारती ।

मदीया कवितेत्येतदलीकं कथयाम्यहम् ।।३७८।।

When you reside on my tongue, Sarasvatī, the Goddess of Learning, comes on
her own.  I am telling a lie that it is my poetry.


त्वमेव शब्दान् ग्रथ्नासि तवेयं कृष्ण लेखनी ।

करोऽपि मे तवैवायं मदीया कविता कथम् ।।३७९।।

You yourself compose [my] words and this pen is yours.  This hand is also
yours.  Then how can the poem be mine?


तवैव कवितायाति मदीयकरयोर्हरे ।

समर्पयामि तां तुभ्यं सुमनोमालिकामहम् ।।३८०।।

Your own poetry comes into my hands, O Krishna, and, like a garland of
flowers, I offer it to you.


यदा पश्यामि गोविन्द दर्पणे हृदयस्य मे ।

तदा त्वामेव पश्यामि न जाने क्व गतोऽस्म्यहम् ।।३८१।।

O Krishna, when I look in the mirror of my heart, I only see you.  I don’t
know where I have gone.


कीदृशी तव लीलेयं या मां मत्तोऽप्यपाहरत् ।

प्रविश्य मे हृदाकाशं त्वया निष्कासितोऽस्म्यहम् ।।३८२।।

What sort of a play is this that it abducted me from myself.  Entering the
space of my heart, you have exiled me [my ego].


अहन्ता मेऽपनीताद्य हृदि मे त्वमवस्थित: ।

तवायमस्तु प्रासादो मदीयं नाम केवलम् ।।३८३।।

My ego has been removed and you are situated in my heart.  May this palace
be yours.  Mine is only the name.



Madhav M. Deshpande
Professor Emeritus
Sanskrit and Linguistics
University of Michigan
[Residence: Campbell, California]


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