RAADHAA

 

SAINT ABHIRAMA

(1903-1964)

 

Drink the nectar of Raadhaa’s name

Every day, every moment:

Meditate on Raadhaa,

The world can cause you no pain.

 

That which is called Raadhaa

Is a combination of two forms.

Listen how the flute so sweetly invites Raadhaa!

 

Raa is the individual soul

While Dhaa is the supreme goal,

Realise them through

Twenty-one thousand and six hundred breaths.

 

When Raadhaa and Maadhava

Pine for each other

It is the Maid that brings them together.

 

Says Abhirama, the possessed one.

Take Mohan to Srimati’s grove

And thence shall flow delight undefiled.

–Translated from Oriya by Brajakishore Das

 

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