Sakhi Go Kemate Dharibo Paran
AI-drafted translation — pending review
O sakhi, how shall I sustain my life? A single moment has become as long as an entire age.
Streams of tears flow, my eyes rain down; the whole earth has become empty to me. In separation from Govinda my life does not remain — tell me, sakhi, how shall I go on living?
Bhaktivinoda, overcome with restlessness, once again takes shelter of the holy name and calls out to Radha-natha: "Grant me your darshan and save my life — otherwise I shall die."
About Sakhi Go Kemate Dharibo Paran
Bhaktivinoda Thakura (1838-1914), the reformer-poet whose Bengali padas revived the classical viraha idiom for a modern devotional audience, here writes in the voice of a gopi for whom a single moment of separation from Govinda stretches into an entire age. The imagery of streaming tears and an emptied earth echoes the sakhis' own laments in the Bhagavata Purana, but Bhaktivinoda closes by naming himself directly, turning the gopi's cry into his own personal prayer to Radha-natha for a saving glimpse of the Lord.
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Sakhi Go Kemate Dharibo Paran was composed by Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
What is the meaning of Sakhi Go Kemate Dharibo Paran?
O sakhi, how shall I sustain my life? A single moment has become as long as an entire age.
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Sakhi Go Kemate Dharibo Paran has 3 verses.
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