Hari Hari Gorā Kena Kānde

Alas! Alas! Why does Lord Gaura weep? I do not know. The Lord is now caught in a trap of the ecstasy of spiritual love.

Why did He wish to leave His pastimes in the kadamba grove by the Yamunā’s banks and come to the ocean’s shore?

Why did He who enjoyed the rāsa dance with hunderds and millions of gopīs accept sannyāsa? Why does He now weep?

Why does He whose crooked glances where more enchanting than how many Kāmadevas now weep, how many flooding rivers of tears flowing from His eyes?

Why did He whose graceful hair was a trap that charmed all the worlds shave the hair of His head?

Why did He leave behind His yellow garments and accept the saffron garments of a sannyāsī? Why did He leave behind His dark complexion and suddenly become fair?

Balarāma dāsa says: I do not know the reason why He has done these things. What is the reason He has a fair complexion?