Drink the nectar of the Divine Name

Drink the nectar of the Divine Name, O human! Drink the nectar of the Divine Name!

Leave the bad company, always sit among righteous company. Hearken to the mention of God .

Concupiscence, anger, pride, greed, attachment: wash these out of your consciousness.

My Lord is the Mountain-Holder, the suave lover. Soak yourself in the dye of His colour.

Strange is the path

When you offer your love.

Your body is crushed at the first step.

If you want to offer love

Be prepared to cut off your head And sit on it.

Be like the moth,

Which circles the lamp and offers its body.

Be like the deer, which, on hearing the horn,

Offers its head to the hunter.

Be like the partridge,

Which swallows burning coals In love of the moon.

Be like the fish

Which yields up its life When separated from the sea.

Be like the bee,

Entrapped in the closing petals of the lotus.

My lord is the courtly Giridhara.

Offer your mind To His lotus feet.