Yamihe Kamiha Saranam

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Song Name: Yamihe

Kamiha

Saranam

Official Name: Song 13

Author: Jayadeva

Goswami

Book Name: Gita

Govinda

Language: Sanskrit

 

LYRICS:

(Refrain)

yāmihe

kamiha

śaraṇam ́ sakhī-jana-vacana-vañcitā

 

(1)

kathita-samaye’pi

harir

ahaha

na

yayau

vanam

mama

viphalam

idam

amala-rūpam

api

yauvanam

 

(2)

yad-anugamanāya

niśi

gahanam

api

śilitam  

tena mama hṛdayam

idam

asama-śara-kīlitam  

 

(3)

mama

maraṇam

eva

varam

iti

vitatha-ketanā  

kim

iha

viṣahāmi

virahānalam

acetanā  

 

(4)

mām

ahaha

vidhurayati

madhura-madhu-yāminī  

kāpi

harim

anubhavati

kṛta-sukṛta-kāminī  

 

(5)

ahaha

kalayāmi

valayādi-maṇi-bhūṣaṇam

hari-viraha-dahana-vahanena

bahu-dūṣaṇam  

 

(6)

kusuma-sukumāra-tanum

atanu-śara-līlayā  

srag

api

hṛdi

hanti

mām

ativiṣama-śilayā  

 

(7)

aham

iha

nivasāmi

na-gaṇita-vana-vetasā

smarati

madhusūdano

mām

api

na

cetasā  

 

(8)

hari-caraṇa-śaraṇa-jayadeva-kavi-bhāratī

vasatu

hṛdi

yuvatir

iva

komala-kalāvatī  

 

TRANSLATION

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

 

Hari

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

 

2. Seeking the LordÂ’s shelter, I fled from home in the night to enter this dark forest. Finally upon meeting up with Him, I feel that CupidÂ’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 KrsnaÂ’s

lotus feet, says: “Let this song embrace your heart like a soft, gopi who gives loving pleasure and service to the Lord.”

 

REMARKS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

This song is popularized by M. Balamurali Krishna rendering this song in Ragam

Natabhairavi

(Raga Asavari ) in Talam

Khanda

Chapu .

 

UPDATED: July 4, 2009