ਗੋਪੀ ਬਾਚ ॥

Speech of the Gopi:

SWAYYA

“O mother! This flute has performed many austerities, abstinences and baths at pilgrim-stations

It has received instructions from Gandharvas

“It has been instructed by the god of love and Brahma has made it himself

This is the reason that Krishna has touchéd it with his lips.”234.

Krishna, the son of Nand, is playing on his flute and the poet Shyam says that hearing the sound of the flute, the sages and the beings of the forest are getting pleased

The bodies of the gopis have been filled with lust and they are saying that the mouth of Krishna is like a rose and the voice of the flute seems like the essence of the rose dripping down.235.

Hearing the voice of the flute, the fish, dear and bird all are infatuated, “O people! Open your eyes and see that the water of Yamuna is flowing in the opposite direction

The poet says that hearing the flute, the calves have stopped eating grass

The wife has left her husband like a Sannyasi leaving his home and wealth.236.

The nightingales, parrots and deer etc., all have been absorbed in the anguish of lust

All the people of the city are getting pleased and saying that the moon seems bedimmed before the face of Krishna

All the musical modes are sacrificing themselves before the tune of the flute

The sage Narad, stopping the playing of his lyre, has been listening to the flute of the black Krishna and has got tired.237.

His (Krishna’s) eyes are like those of the doe, the waist is like that of the lion, the nose is like that of the parrot, the neck like that of the pigeon and lips (adhar) are like ambrosia

His speech is sweet like the nightingale and the peacock

These sweetly-speaking beings are now feeling shy of the sound of the flute and are getting jealous in their mids.238.

The rose insipid before his beauty and the red and elegant colour is feeling embarrassed before his comeliness

The lotus and narcissus are feeling shy before his charm

The poet Shyam appears indecisive in his mind about his beauty and says that he has not been able to find a winsome person like Krishna though he has roamed from east to west in order to see one like him.239.

In the month of Maghar all the gopis worship Durga wishing for Krishna as their husband

Early in the morning, they take bath in Yamuna and seeing them, the lotus flowers feel shy

Catching the arms of one another, they sing the songs in Bilawal Raga and relate the story of Krishna

The god of love is increasing its hold on their limbs and seeing all of them even modesty is feeling shy.240.

All the black and white gopis are singing songs and all the slim and heavy gopis are wishing for Krishna as their husband

Seeing their faces, the supernatural powers of the moon seem to have lost their brightness and taking their bath in Yamuna, they appear like a splendid garden in the house.241.

All the gopis are bathing fearlessly

They are singing songs of Krishna and playing the tunes and they are all gathered in a group

They are all saying that such comfort is even not in the palaces of Indra

The poet says that they all look splendid like a tank full of lotus flowers.242.