Lord Krishna

श्री बांके बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊं

(Banke Bihari Aarti)

Also known as sri bamke bihari teri arati gau

The aarti sung at the Banke Bihari temple in Vrindavan, and it is a first-person song throughout — I sing your aarti, I would please you, I would be a sacrifice for that sight. The details are the ones anyone standing before that image notices first: the peacock crown at the head, the flute that takes the mind, the feet from which the Ganga came out and carried the whole world across. Then it turns domestic and plain — you are the lord of a servant who has nobody, and you are with me in sorrow and in happiness alike. Its last verse gives the song its address, naming Shri Haridas, whose beloved he is; and the image it leaves is that temple's own, not one figure but two, the paired form, at the sight of which the singer is sacrificed over and over.

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Script: Devanagari (देवनागरी) — also the script of Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and Konkani.

श्री बांके बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊँ,
कुंज बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊँ,
(हे गिरिधर तेरी आरती गाऊं)
आरती गाऊँ प्यारे तुमको रिझाऊं॥
श्री बांके बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊं॥
मोर मुकुट प्रभु शीश पे सोहे,
प्यारी बंसी मेरो मन मोहे।
देख छवि बलिहारी मैं जाऊं,
श्री बांके बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊं॥
चरणों से निकली गंगा प्यारी,
जिसने सारी दुनिया तारी।
में उन चरणों के दर्शन पाऊँ,
श्री बांके बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊं॥
दास अनाथ के नाथ आप हो,
दुःख सुख जीवन प्यारे साथ आप हो।
हरी चरणों में शीश झुकाऊँ,
श्री बांके बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊं॥
श्री हरीदास के प्यारे तुम हो,
मेरे मोहन जीवन धन हो।
देख युगल छवि बलि बलि जाऊँ,
श्री बांके बिहारी तेरी आरती गाऊं॥

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