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Surdas on Krishna as the Formless Brahman

Krishna awoke Yashoda was enraptured To see his face Blooming as a lotus that captures The rising sun’s first rays Taking off the coverlet She said, awake, darling boy, awake, Your loveliness makes me swoon Your bewitching face is like the full moon Seen through the sea’s foam When it was churned for nectar. He for whom the shrutis say ‘not this not this ’ Whose name is chanted by Brahma, Shesha and Shiva That formless Brahma has taken birth In Brij, in human form, so it is heard. Surdas