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radhe krishna!

namo narayana

 

dear bhaagavatas,

having experienced surdas's poems once, lets return to them again...

 

THE WAVERING MIND

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Lord, your inscrutable maya

deludes my mind,

it fails to dwell on you

and I can't pray.

 

The company of sages

steadies it somewhat,

but as an elephant

after bathing

squirts mud on itself again,

my mind's calm

lasts only a moment

and then returns

to the world's unquiet.

 

Calling himself hermit-like

The greedy man

swipes

another's wealth,

as an acrobat

performing for money.

 

Says suradasa, my mind is fickle,

it does not stay on you, Lord,

impenetrable maya

balks my attempt.

 

 

MAYA’S SLAVE

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Krishna,

maya has so possessed my mind

that it can no longer know

what's good for it, what's harmful;

and speeds to its destruction

as a moth to a flame.

 

My home's like an earthen lamp,

wealth its oil,

wife as cotton

and son as a furious fire.

 

Ignorant, out of tune,

I keep attached to these

as a parrot

on a lotus:

with no guru to guide me

I go round and round

tied to the peg of existence.

 

Says Suradasa, how can he

who chants the name of Krishna,

ever fall so low?

 

 

lottsa krishna premai

kalaivani

andal thiruvadigale sharanam

namo venkateshaya

 

 

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