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radhegovinda

namo narayana

 

dear bhaagavatas,

after having delighted with the anubhavams of mira, lets turn to surdas once

more.

 

THE PRICELESS GEM OF HARI-DEVOTION

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O Krishna, I could not know

your grace infinite,

as the eye cannot see

the defect in it,

or as the owl sets no store by

the rays of the sun.

 

So too Suradasa did not prize

the preciousness of the gem

of Hari-devotion,

for he is low down,

witless and wanton,

toiling even for a trifle.

 

That name of Hari

which even Shiva treasures

and which is all the world for sages:

that priceless diamond

the great fool, Suradasa,

has bartered away

for the venomous poison of sense-pleasures !

 

 

 

THE VAIN SEARCH

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I believe I went all out

to seek your grace, O God,

yet I could not know

how it is got.

 

I kept going places

to find you there

forgetting that you are

everywhere.

 

I could not enshrine in my eyes

that Divinity which is beyond

thought, speech and sacred rites,

formless and yet with form;

with qualities, yet without,

nameless, yet with a name

by which he is worshipped by the devout.

 

Says Suradasa, my sins are numberless,

and all's going wrong with me,

you are an ocean of mercy

I crave your forgiveness.

 

 

lottsa krishna premai

kalaivani

namo venkateshaya

andal thiruvadigale sharanam

 

 

 

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