Mere To Giridhar Gopal, Dusro Na Koi (Mirabai)
Mirabai's immortal pada — "Giridhar Gopal alone is mine, there is no other." A most beautiful expression of undivided devotion.
Original text
मेरे तो गिरिधर गोपाल, दूसरो न कोई ।
जाके सिर मोर मुकुट, मेरो पति सोई ॥
तात मात भ्रात बंधु, आपनो न कोई ।
छाँड़ि दई कुल की कानि, कहा करिहै कोई ॥
संतन ढिग बैठि बैठि, लोक लाज खोई ।
अँसुवन जल सींचि सींचि, प्रेम बेलि बोई ॥
अब तो बेलि फैल गई, आणँद फल होई ।
दूध की मथनियाँ बड़े प्रेम से बिलोई ॥
माखन जब काढ़ि लियो, छाछ पिये कोई ।
भगत देखि राजी हुई, जगत देखि रोई ॥
दासी मीरा लाल गिरिधर, तारो अब मोही ॥
Author: Mirabai (16th century)
Meaning: Giridhar Gopal alone is mine, there is no other. The one who wears the peacock crown — He is my Lord. Father, mother, brother, kin — none of them is truly my own.
I have let go of worrying about family honour; what can anyone do now? Sitting again and again with the saints, I have lost the fear of what people say. Watering it again and again with my tears, I have sown the vine of love; now it has spread and bears the fruit of bliss.
As butter is churned out of milk and someone else may drink the buttermilk, so I have taken the essence — devotion — out of this world. Seeing devotees I rejoice; seeing the state of the world I weep.
Mira, the servant, says: O beloved Giridhar, now carry me across the ocean of life.
The pada is a living picture of the "ananya bhakti" (undivided devotion) of Gita chapter 9, verse 22.
- Author
- Mirabai (16th century)
- Note
- Traditional text; collections differ slightly in wording and in the order of lines.