Premambhoja-maranda-stava-raja

The Nectar of the Lotus of Love


Radha Krishna Premambhoja-maranda-stava-raja The Nectar of the Lotus of Love
Radha Krishna Premambhoja-maranda-stava-raja The Nectar of the Lotus of Love

 

Premambhoja-maranda-stava-raja
by Raghunath Das Goswami

(1)
Radha’s body is the embodiment of true love conceived in the most resplendent cintamani gem, anointed with the sweet-smelling love of her girlfriends, and shining with an inconceivable lustrous splendor.

(2)
She bathes in waves of the nectar of compassion, a shower of the nectar of youthfulness, and a flood of the nectar of charming loveliness, so that the Goddess of Fortune languorous in lassitude at her side.

(3)
Her graceful form is hidden by the silken garment of shyness, decorated with the kunkuma of graceful beauty, and dappled with the black musk of erotic sentiments for Shyamasundar.

(4)
She puts on her natural ornaments, fashioned from the best nine jewels: shivering, tears in the eyes,horripilation,becoming stunned, perspiration, faltering of the voice, blushing,madness and inertness.

(5)
She is garlanded with the flowers of wonderful virtues, such as her sweet-tongued speech. She is adorned with perfumed powders smelling of her sometimes sober and sometimes restless moods.

(6)
Her imperceptible amour-propre is concealed within the coils of her hair. Her forehead is brightened with the tilak of her immense good fortune.

(7)
Hearing Krishna's name and qualities are the ornaments
swinging in splendor and jubilation from her ears.
The reddish color of her lips is produced from the betel nut of her obsession for Krishna.

(8)
The black collyrium on her eyes is the crookedness of her loving affairs. Her body is perfumed by the camphor of her sweet smile, the joking words spilling from her.

(9)
Within the inner apartments of her bodily fragrance is a bed of pride upon which she sits, bemused, while wearing the restless necklace of prema-vaicittya, the love-in-separation felt even in union.

(10)
Her breasts are concealed, bound with a bodice of wounded vanity.The sounds of her lute, her fame and beauty, dry up the faces and hearts of her competitors in love.

(11)
She leans with her lotus hands on the shoulder of her friend, adolescent youth personified, just before beginning to distribute the mead of intoxicating love for Krishna,
herself the personification of the erotic sentiment.

(12)
Please bring back to life this very somber nobody, who is bowing down before you with straw between his teeth,
by sprinkling him with the nectar of your servitorship.

(13)
Oh Gandharvika! A truly compassionate person will not reject even a rascal if he is surrendered to him. Therefore please, never abandon this person who is similarly surrendered to you.

(14)
Whoever recites this hymn entitled "the nectar of the lotus of love," produced of her mercy, will surely attain service at her lotus feet.

 

Radha Krishna Premambhoja-maranda-stava-raja The Nectar of the Lotus of Love