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Song Name: Namaste Sri Radhe Namaste Sri Syama

Official Name: None

Author: Rupa Goswami

Book Name: Padyavali

Language: Sanskrit

LYRICS:

(Refrain)

namas te sri radhe namas te sri syama

(1)

priyah so ’yam krsnah saha-cari kuru-ksetra-militas

tathaham sa radha tad idam ubhayoh sangama-sukham

tathapy antah-khelan-madhura-murali-pancama-juse

mano me kalindi-pulina-vipinaya sprhayati

(2)

su-gandhau makanda-prakara-makarandasya madhure

vinisyande vandi-krta-madhupa-vrndam muhur idam

krtandolam mandonnatibhir anilais candana-girer

mamanandam vrnda-vipinam atulam tundilayati

(3)

kvacid bhrngi-gitam kvacid anila-bhangi-sisirata

kvacid valli-lasyam kvacid amala-malli-parimalah

kvacid dhara-sali karaka-phala-pali-rasa-bharo

hrsikanam vrndam pramadayati vrndavanam idam

(4)

balad aksnor laksmih kavalayati navyam kuvalayam

mukhollasah phullam kamala-vanam ullanghayati ca

dasam kastam astapadam api nayaty angika-rucir

vicitram radhayah kim api kila rupam vilasati

TRANSLATION

Refrain: I offer my obeisances to you, Sri Radhe. I offer my obeisances to You, Sri Syama.

1) Srimati Radharani said, “My dear friend, now I have met My very old and dear friend Krsna on this field of Kuruksetra. I am the same Radharani, and now We are meeting together. It is very pleasant, but still I would like to go to the bank of the Yamuna beneath the trees of the forest there. I wish to hear the vibration of His sweet flute playing the fifth note within that forest of Vrndavana.”

2) The sweet, fragrant honey oozing from newly grown mango buds is again and again attracting groups of bumblebees, and this forest is trembling in the softly moving breezes from the Malaya Hills, which are full of sandalwood trees. Thus the forest of Vrndavana is increasing My transcendental pleasure.

3) My dear friend, this forest of Vrndavana is giving great pleasure to our senses in various ways. Somewhere bumblebees are singing in groups, and in some places mild breezes are cooling the entire atmosphere. Somewhere the creepers and tree twigs are dancing, the mallika flowers are expanding their fragrance, and an overabundance of juice is constantly flowing in showers from pomegranate fruits.

4) The beauty of Srimati Radharani’s eyes forcibly devours the beauty of newly grown blue lotus flowers, and the beauty of Her face surpasses that of an entire forest of fully blossomed lotuses. Her bodily luster seems to place even gold into a painful situation. Thus the wonderful, unprecedented beauty of Srimati Radharani is awakening in Vrndavana.

REMARKS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

Verse 1 is also found in the Caitanya Caritamrta, Madhya Lila, Chapter 1, Verse 80.

This song was popularized by the Los Angeles Temple Bhajana Band.