LYRICS:

(Refrain)

yamihe kamiha saranam sakhi-jana-vacana-vascita

 

(1)

kathita-samaye'pi harir ahaha na yayau vanam

mama viphalam idam amala-rupam api yauvanam

 

(2)

yad-anugamanaya nisi gahanam api silitam 

tena mama hrdayam idam asama-sara-kilitam 

 

(3)

mama maranam eva varam iti vitatha-ketana 

kim iha visahami virahanalam acetana 

 

(4)

mam ahaha vidhurayati madhura-madhu-yamini 

kapi harim anubhavati krta-sukrta-kamini 

 

(5)

ahaha kalayami valayadi-mani-bhusanam

hari-viraha-dahana-vahanena bahu-dusanam 

 

(6)

kusuma-sukumara-tanum atanu-sara-lilaya 

srag api hrdi hanti mam ativisama-silaya 

 

(7)

aham iha nivasami na-ganita-vana-vetasa

smarati madhusudano mam api na cetasa 

 

(8)

hari-carana-sarana-jayadeva-kavi-bharati

vasatu hrdi yuvatir iva komala-kalavati 

 

 

(Refrain) Unto Whom should I surrender to? I have been misled by the sakhis false assurances.

 

1) Hari did not come as He promised My form and figure have become ruined is a waste.

 

2) Seeking the Lord’s shelter, I fled from home in the night to enter this dark forest. Finally upon meeting up with Him, I feel that Cupid’s arrows are shot.

 

3) O what is the use of My life? How can I remain calm in the pangs of separation? O, surely death would be more appropriate!

 

4) This lovely spring night is torturing me, which associate has fortune to get Krsna?

 

5) Oh Krsna! I am nicely dressed in wonderful garments to please you, yet the burning separation is giving Me pain, only!

 

6) This flower garland resting over my hearts stings body, like the arrows of the cruel hunter!

 

7) Tolerating the scratching, thorny thickets of this betasi flower garland, for some reason, My beloved Lord Madhusudana has completely forgotten about Me!

 

8) The poet Jayadeva, who surrenders at Krsna’s lotus feet, says: “Let this song embrace your heart like a soft, gopi who gives loving pleasure and service to the Lord.”