माई मैनें गोविंद लीन्हो मोल॥
कोई कहे हलका कोई कहे भारी।
लियो है तराजू तोल॥
कोई कहे सस्ता कोई कहे महँगा।
कोई कहे अनमोल॥
ब्रिंदाबन के जो कुंजगलिन में।
लियो बजंता ढोल॥
मीरा के प्रभु गिरिधर नागर।
पूरब जनम के बोल॥
Mai mainen Govind linho mol.
Koi kahe halka koi kahe bhari,
liyo hai taraju tol.
Koi kahe sasta koi kahe mahanga,
koi kahe anmol.
Brindaban ke jo kunjgalin mein,
liyo bajanta dhol.
Mira ke prabhu Giridhar Nagar,
purab janam ke bol.
Meaning
Mother, I have bought Govind.
Some say he is light, some say heavy; I weighed him on the scales before I took him.
Some say cheap, some say costly, some say priceless.
In the bowered lanes of Vrindavan I bought him to the beat of the drum, openly.
Meera’s Lord is Giridhar Nagar; this was promised in a former birth.
About this bhajan
Meera answers the gossip of Chittor with a market song. Let them argue about the price; she has paid it, weighed the goods herself, and bought Govind in the open with the drum beating, the way a village announces a done deal. The last line touches the belief, common in her padas, that she was a gopi of Braj in an earlier birth. The Kavita Kosh text marks it as a dhruvapada with the refrain after each line.
Meera padavali; text as on Kavita Kosh