Doha is a form of the self-contained rhyming couplet in poetry composed mainly of two lines which are snippets from the writings of Rasik Saints. Dohas in Rasik saints literature are also known as Saakhis.
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Wealth, youth, family and relatives, knowledge, and strength- all these are merely the fundamental causes of pride. Śrī Kānta Kiśora Jī says that on the strength of these, one can never attain the blissful 'keli' of Śrī Vṛndāvana.
The Vedas and Purāṇas, as well as Brahmā and Śiva, continually contemplate and describe His divine glory. Enshrine within your heart the lotus feet of that supremely glorious Nandakiśora, Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
The rasikas beheld Śrī Yugala Sarkāra through the eyes of the Vānīs (devotional words), and with their eyes becoming speech, they described the incomparable sweetness of the divine couple's beauty.
How can I possibly describe the divine beauty and magnificence of the divine couple? Indeed, words utterly fail to capture it. Both, in the same tender, ever-youthful age, are filled with enchanting loveliness, and their beautiful, delicate forms overflow with sweetness.
I offer my obeisances to the supremely divine dust of Śrī Dhāma Vṛndāvana—that supremely sacred dust, out of deep longing for which Śrī Kṛṣṇa assumed the form of a vatsa and wandered from forest to forest, day and night, relishing its taste with His tongue.
Śrī Nārāyaṇa Svāmī says that even those renowned and mighty kings who once ruled fearlessly over the nine realms were ultimately devoured by the all-powerful Time. Therefore, the soul should never harbor pride.
In this world, you can never belong to anyone, nor is anyone truly your own. Therefore, renouncing everything, reside only in Śrī Vṛndāvana Dhāma, where the divine couple, Priyā-Priyatama, will hold you by the arm in every possible way and keep you under Their shelter.
In the lake of divine play that is Śrī Vṛndāvana, Śrī Priyā-Lāla are sporting together like two beautiful swans. They relish the sweet nectar of each other’s lips, while the rasikas, who enhance the beauty of that lake like lotuses, continuously gaze upon Their loving pastimes.
At Kurukṣetra, Śrī Rādhā says to one of Her sakhīs, “O sakhī! Even in this meeting with beloved Śrī Kṛṣṇa, I do not experience the slightest happiness here. How wondrous it is that My heart longs intensely only to return to the banks of the Yamunā in Śrī Dhāma Vṛndāvana, where the enchanting melody of His flute fills the groves".
My mind has become so completely entangled in the incomparable beauty of Śrī Śyāmasundara that there is now no possibility of its ever withdrawing from Him. Its plight has become like that of a weak, lean cow who, having become trapped somewhere, is unable to escape despite all her desperate struggles.
Śrī Raskhān says, “Enraptured by the unparalleled beauty of the nectarean pollen of Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, I have dedicated this Prema-Vāṭikā, this Garden of Divine Love, at those very feet. May countless rasikas, like blissful swarms of bumblebees, roam through this garden, drinking its rasa and becoming filled with bliss.”
May I wander sometimes through the secluded groves of Gahvara Vana in Śrī Barsānā Dhāma and sometimes through Śrī Dhāma Vṛndāvana, forever beholding the most blissful and enchanting divine Couple, the fair-complexioned Śrī Rādhā and the dark-complexioned Śrī Kṛṣṇa.
A devotee should adopt a vow of exclusive devotion, like the single-hearted fidelity of a pativratā wife. Among all sacred vaṭa trees, one should regard Śrī Vaṁśīvaṭa as supreme, and one should revere Gopeśvara Mahādeva as the greatest of benefactors, for there is no well-wisher more gracious and benevolent than him.
O ocean of bliss, Śrī Lāḍilī Kiśorī Jī (Śrī Rādhā)! Just as You, by Your causeless grace, have granted me residence in Śrī Dhāma Vṛndāvana, may all the Brajavāsīs also bestow their natural glance of grace upon me, and may I never commit any offense toward any resident of Braja, even in my dreams.
One should never associate with a worldly brāhmaṇa who is averse to the Lord; in comparison, even the association of a Vaiṣṇava devotee of Lord Hari, though born as an outcaste, is far superior. This is because meeting such a devotee fills the heart with supreme happiness and bliss, as if one has met Śrī Gopāla Himself.
Just as a warrior ordinarily equips both hands with weapons, sādhakas too rely upon the strength of numerous spiritual disciplines and practices. But Śrī Bihārin Deva Jī declares, “I possess only one support, one strength: the single-minded worship of Nitya-Vihāra. My heart knows no other aspiration; forever and always, it yearns only for the divine Nitya-Vihāra.”
O wearer of crowns and armlets, whose lotus feet are adorned with the ankle-bells, who is adorned with many ornaments, O Śrī Rādhikā, please bestow Your grace upon me.
When the dark-complexioned Śrī Kṛṣṇa walks through the lanes of Vraja with an exceedingly beautiful and intoxicated gait like that of a majestic elephant, it is as if a shower of His incomparable beauty rains down at every moment as He moves along.
One should always meditate upon the form of the divine couple, Śrī Rādhā and Brajarāja Śrī Kṛṣṇa. The Lord Himself, while proclaiming the glory of the saints, has declared that they are non-different from Him.
Therefore, in every way and at all times, one should never abandon the remembrance and worship of the lotus feet of the Lord of Gokul, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. This is my firm conviction.
