Song 5

(Tarajābandhā-dhanaśī rāga)

Refrain: How did the demigod Brahmā create Lord Gaurāṅga’s handsome form? How can anyone, even a person with a heart hard like stones and wood, gaze at Lord Gaura’s form and not melt with love?

8. Who churned what nectar to make the butter that fashioned Lord Gaura’s limbs? Who kneaded the nectar of the worlds to fashion the nectar of love Lord Gaura feels?

9. Who, mixing together the nectar of love and the yogurt of infatuation, fashioned Lord Gaura’s two eyes? Who, gathering the sweetest honey, fashioned Lord Gaura’s soft, soft words and gentle, gentle smile?

10. Who, stirring togather many flooding streams of sweet nectar, fashioned Lord Gaura’s golden complexion? Who, gathering together many sweet pheṇī candies, fashioned Lord Gaura’s limbs?

11. Who anointed Lord Gaura’s limbs with the paste of lightning? Who anointed Lord Gaura’s face with paste of the moon? What sculptor fashioned Lord Gaura’s wonderful form from the clay of exquisite handsomeness?

12. Overwhelmed by the fragrance of the lotus flowers that are Lord Gaura’s hands and feet, the shining moons of all the full-moon nights weep. The twenty nails on Lord Gaura’s fingers and toes fill the world with light, light that gives eyes to persons blind from birth.

13. Where do I not see Lord Gaura? Gazing at Lord Gaura’s form filled with the wonderful pastimes of ecstatic spiritual love, the women wept. How could they tie up their hearts to keep them safe from Lord Gaura?

14. What heart is not delighted by Lord Gaura’s playful pastimes, which are the sweetest nectar of nectars? Who anointed Lord Gaura’s face with the paste of amorous playfulness? Unable to see His face, I weep.

15. Who placed on Lord Gaura’s forehead the rainbow and the half-moon? Beautiful and saintly girls yearn to touch Lord Gaura’s form with their hands.

16. Who fashioned the jewel palace that is Lord Gaura’s form? Seeing Lord Gaura’s playful pastimes, the saintly girls, overcome with desire, weep.

17. The girls cannot always gaze on Him, even from the corners of their eyes. Now the birds of their eyes fly to Lord Gaura. Seeing their thirst to gaze at His face, graceful Lord Gaura walks very slowly.

18. Saintly girls flee from their homes. The lame run. The atheists and offenders sing Lord Gaura’s glories. Rolling in the dust, everyone weeps. No one is peaceful and composed. Lord Gaura’s glories have sweetness without limit.

19. Some call out: "Run! Run to see Him!" Some embrace in the bliss of spiritual love. Some dance. Some loudly laugh. Attracted by the breeze bearing the fragrance of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s form and glories, many saintly ladies say: "Go to see Him!"

20. Gazing at the moon of Lord Gaura’s face, the girls of Nadīyā’s villages wept, tears again and again streaming from their eyes. Their hearts became filled with love. The hairs of their bodies stood erect. In their hearts they kept a vigil, always thinking of Lord Gaura.

21. Overcome, the kings of the yogīs and sages meditate day and night on Lord Gaura in their hearts. He who is the king of all the planets now rolls in the dust, weeps, and calls out "Rādhā! Rādhā!"

22. Renouncing His pastimes with Goddess Lakṣmī, He now yearns to enjoy pastimes of spiritual love. His two eyes are now red with love. meditating on Rādha. in His heart, He does not reveal His true identity. Now His form is fair like Hers.

23. Look! Look, O people of the world, at the wonderful love the master of the three worlds now manifests. Why is He surrounded by people who have no wealth? I do not know. What treasure does He hope to find? Why, overcome with bliss, does He dance in this way?

24. Glory! Glory! Glory! Lord Gaura Rāya has broken open the treasure house of the nectar of ecstatic spiritual love. Now He distributes that nectar to everyone. He brings life to the lifeless. He gives cripples the power to leap over mountains. Locana dāsa joyfully sings His glories.