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kalaivani retnavellu • March 2, 2002 


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
**********************************

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
***************

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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