आरती जुगल किशोर की कीजै
Aarti Jugal Kishor Ki Kijai
An aarti addressed not to Krishna alone but to the pair — Radha and Krishna worshipped as one.
समर्पितभगवान कृष्णआरती जुगल किशोर की कीजै,राधे धन न्यौछावर कीजै ॥
रवि शशि कोटि बदन की शोभा,ताहि निरखि मेरा मन लोभा ॥
गौर श्याम मुख निरखत रीझै,प्रभु को स्वरूप नयन भर पीजै।कंचन थार कपूर की बाती,हरि आये निर्मल भई छाती ॥
फूलन की सेज फूलन की माला,रतन सिंहासन बैठे नन्दलाला।मोर मुकुट कर मुरली सोहै,नटवर वेष देखि मन मोहै ॥
आधा नील पीत पटसारी,कुंज बिहारी गिरिवरधारी।श्री पुरुषोत्तम गिरिवरधारी,आरती करें सकल ब्रजनारी ॥
नन्दलाला वृषभानु किशोरी,परमानन्द स्वामी अविचल जोरी।आरती जुगल किशोर की कीजै,राधे धन न्यौछावर कीजै ॥
Cross-checked against Drik Panchang and StarsTell editions
Traditional public-domain Braj devotional composition; BhajanDhara transcription and meanings prepared independently
The two editions agree word for word; only stanza division differs, and Drik Panchang's is followed here. No modern source translation is reproduced.
आरती जुगल किशोर की कीजै का अर्थ
The subject of this aarti is grammatically plural throughout, and that is its whole argument. Jugal Kishor is the pair — Radha and Krishna — treated as a single object of devotion rather than as a deity and his consort. The fourth verse makes the point visually: a robe half blue and half yellow, his colour and hers in one garment. The closing signature belongs to Paramananda Das of the Ashtachhap, the eight poets of the Pushtimarg tradition, and his last two words are avichal jori, the pair that cannot be parted.