Radhika Krsna Radhika Tava Virahe Kesava

Jayadeva Goswami has written this song “Radhika Krsna Radhika Tava Virahe Kesava”. This song is taken from the book Gita Govinda. In this song, Jayadeva Goswami describes the distressed condition of Srimati Radharani when she is separated from her beloved Lord Krishna.

(Refrain)
radhika krsna radhika
radhika tava virahe kesava


(1)
stana-vinihitam api haram udaram
sa manute krsa-tanur iva bharam

(2)
sarasa-masrnam api malayaja-pańkam
pasyati visam iva vapusi sasańkam

(3)
svasita-pavanam anupama-parina;ham
madana-dahanam iva vahati sadaham

(4)
disi disi kirati sajala-kana-jalam
nayana-nalinam iva vigalita-nalam

(5)
tyajati na pani-talena kapolam
bala-sasinam iva sayam alolam

(6)
nayana-visayam api kisalaya-talpam
kalayati vihita-hutasa-vikalpam

(7)
harir iti harir iti japati sakarnam (hare krsna hare krsna)
viraha-vihita-maraneva nikamam

(8)
sri-jayadeva-bhanitam iti gitam
sukhayatu kesava-padam upanitam


(Refrain) Oh Radhika! O Krsna! O Radhika! There is separation without You, O Kesava!

(1) Hey Kesava! In Your separation Radha has become very weak at heart, even the fine necklace that She wears feels burdensome.

(2) Hey Kesava! In Your separation Radhika considers the candan paste used to cool Her bodily fever to be just like poison.

(3) Hey Kesava! In Your separation Radhika has lost all calm nature. She breaths heavily as though Cupid’s arrow was blazing within Her heart.

(4)  Hey Kesava! In Your separation Radhika appears as if a lucked lotus flower drenched in water. While crying pathetically She searches after You in every direction.

(5)  Hey Kesava! In Your separation Radhika’s soft bed of leaf blossoms appears just like a bed of fire!

(6)  Hey Kesava! In Your separation Radhika stares at the ground with Her hand placed over Her cheek. Thus Her pale face looks like the motionless half-moon at sunset.

(7)  Hey Kesava! In Your separation Radhika will soon die. So to attain You in Her next life She feelingly cries: O Hari! O Hari! Hare Krsna!

(8)  Let Sri Jayadeva’s song of Radhika’s separation for Kesava increase the bliss of those surrendered unto His lotus feet.