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Post by Guest Tue May 10, 2016 7:43 pm

1. Mother, big brother Daau
teases me a lot.
He tells me that i've been bought.
When did you, Jasumati, give birth
to me?
I tell you, because of this
i don't go out to play.
Again and again, he pesters me
and asks,
Who is your father, and who
your mother?
Why are you, Krishna
so dark, when
Nanda and Yasoda
are both so fair.
All the cowherds snap their fingers
and clap, mocking me.
And Balbir coaches them
to say so.
You only punish me, Mother!
never do you chastise him.
Jasumati enjoys
the anger of Mohan,
deriving great pleasure
looking at him.
O Kanha, listen, your big brother
Balbhadra,
talks a lot of nonsense
he has been a crook
from the very birth.

O Shyam of Surdas
I swear by all the cattle
I am your mother
and you my son.

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2.Jasumati is coaxing Kanha
by saying,
O Shyam, listen, you are
now not a child,
give up the beast feeding
the other boys of Braj
shall laugh at you
if they find you
still suckling.
Won't you be
ashamed?
Besides, your beautiful teeth
shall grow crooked,
listen, O son!
Come, leave it from today;
do what I tell you,
though you may not like it.
Shyam, hearing this, shyly
smiled, and hid his face
in her anchal.

Surdas sings joyfully.

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3.Shyam went to the house of
a milkmaid.
No one was at the door,
looking all around,
he went in.
Seeing Hari come,
she hid herself from him.
In the lonely house, near the butter churner
he sat.
He found the pot filled with cream
and butter.
He took some.
In the gem studded pillar
he saw his own reflection
and was filled with childlike wonder.
I have come here for the first time
to steal butter
and what a nice companion i've found.
He ate some himself, offered some
to his reflection, saying--
if you want, I shall give you
the whole pot.
Why do you throw it around--
isn't it delicious?
I would like to give you more--
Why are you so thoughtful?
The young woman of Braj
became filled with happiness
listening to Shyam's prattle.

Surdas's Lord, Foe of demon Mura,
seeing a glimpse of the gopi,
ran away.

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