హృదయాలాపనము

Prenote: The translation in English of this highly sanskritized Telugu poem is given below. This poem is about a small self-discourse in the heart. One can club very complex emotions within few words in Sanskrit, which is not possible in English.

మోముగాంచితె మనోల్లాసభరిత మందహాసజనక చంద్రబింబము

తేనెపలుకులువిన్న మృదుమనోహరోద్దీపిత శ్రావ్యమాధురీగోచరము

బాధానందకదంబ రుచినిగొల్పుతు మానసమందిరాన రసభోజ్యమగు

తలపులేమో రక్షాబంధిత హృదయగవాక్షములను తెరిచెడి విరహవీచికలే

అభావమో మరింక భరింపరాని నిశాకూప తిమిరాంధకర భయోత్పన్నము

హే ఆపద్బాంధవ కృష్ణా! ఏమిటీ మృగతృష్ణ!! త్రాహిమాం దేవదేవ!!!

- కృష్ణచైతన్య (పరి, 10/12/2014) 

English translation:

Glance at face makes the heart flutter with symphony and its like a moon that can bring a pleasant smile

hearing those honey dripping tender words; steal the exalted heart with sonority and delicacy

thoughts in the mind are like breezes of wind that can open hitherto locked heart

reminding a dish that was a mélange of bliss and pain with its tantalizing taste

absence is untenable by inducing a fear as if in a well of blind darkness during night

Oh my Lord! what is this illusion!!!God of gods, Save me!!! 

- Krishna Chaitanya (Paris, 10/12/2014)

English Transliteration:

Mōmugān̄cite manōllāsabharita mandahāsajanaka candrabimbamu

tēnepalukuluvinna mr̥dumanōharōddīpita śrāvyamādhurīgōcaramu

bādhānandakadamba rucinigolputu mānasamandirāna rasabhōjyamagu

talapulēmō rakṣābandhita hr̥daya gavākṣamulanu tericeḍi virahavīcikalē

abhāvamō mariṅka bharimparāni niśākūpa timirāndhakara bhayōtpannamu

hē āpadbhāndava kr̥ṣṇā! Ēmiṭī mr̥gatr̥ṣṇa!! Trāhimāṁ dēvadēva!!!