About This Song
Shri Radhe Rani De Daro Bansuri Mori is one of the most delightful pads of Meera Bai — and one of the most unusual. In nearly every bhajan ever sung, the devotee pleads with Krishna. Here, the roles are turned upside down: it is Krishna himself who pleads. Radha has stolen his flute — the flute in which his very life-breath resides — and the Lord of the universe is reduced to begging at her feet for its return. In this EkOmkaar Musicals rendition, the teasing, the tenderness, and the divine sweetness of Braj come alive around the aching refrain: बाँसुरी मोरी, मेरे प्राण की डोरी — “my flute, the thread of my life.”
The Lyrics | गीत के बोल
श्रीराधे रानी दे डारो बाँसुरी मोरी।
जा बंसी में मेरी प्राण बसत है, सो बंसी गई चोरी॥
काहे से गाऊँ प्यारी काहे से बजाऊँ,
काहे से लाऊँ गईयाँ फेरी।
बाँसुरी मोरी, बाँसुरी मोरी
मेरे प्राण की डोरी
बाँसुरी मोरी, बाँसुरी मोरी
श्रीराधे रानी दे डोरी
मुख से गावो कान्हा हाथों से बजाओ,
लकुटी से लाओ गईयाँ घेरी॥
हा हा करत तेरे पैयाँ परत हूँ,
तरस खाओ प्यारी मोरी।
मीरा के प्रभु गिरधर नागर,
बंसी लेकर छोरी॥
बाँसुरी मोरी, बाँसुरी मोरी
मेरे प्राण की डोरी
बाँसुरी मोरी, बाँसुरी मोरी
श्रीराधे रानी दे डोरी
Meaning of the Lyrics
श्रीराधे रानी दे डारो बाँसुरी मोरी… — “O Radhe Rani, give me back my flute! The flute in which my life dwells — that very flute has been stolen.” Krishna, the enchanter of the three worlds, stands disarmed. His bansuri is not an instrument to him; it is praan ki dori, the thread on which his life is strung. And Radha has it.
काहे से गाऊँ प्यारी काहे से बजाऊँ… — His helplessness spills out in questions: “With what shall I sing, beloved? With what shall I play? With what shall I call my cows home?” The cowherd’s whole world — his music, his gaiyya, his evenings on the Yamuna bank — hangs on that one piece of hollow bamboo.
मुख से गावो कान्हा हाथों से बजाओ… — And Radha? She answers with the most mischievous logic in all of Braj: “Sing with your mouth, Kanha. Play with your hands. Herd your cows with your stick.” In other words: you need nothing, clever one — certainly not this flute. It is divine teasing at its finest, the madhurya (sweetness) that makes Braj bhakti unlike any other devotion on earth.
हा हा करत तेरे पैयाँ परत हूँ… — Defeated, Krishna falls at her feet: “Crying out, I fall at your feet — have mercy on me, my beloved!” Think of it: the one at whose feet all creation bows is bowing at the feet of his devotee. This is the secret the Braj saints sang again and again — love makes God small, and the devotee’s love holds power that even the Almighty cannot resist.
मीरा के प्रभु गिरधर नागर, बंसी लेकर छोरी — Meera signs the pad with her signature: “Meera’s Lord is Girdhar Nagar — and the girl has walked off with his flute.” One can almost hear Meera smiling as she sings it: her all-powerful Girdhar, lifter of mountains, outwitted by Radha’s love.
History & Devotion
This pad belongs to the treasury of Meera Bai, the 16th-century Rajput princess-saint of Mewar whose love for Krishna overrode crown, custom, and even threats to her life. While many of Meera’s songs cry out in viraha — the anguish of separation from her Girdhar — pads like this one reveal her other register: pure playfulness. Meera knew the Braj lore intimately, and the episode of Radha and the gopis stealing Krishna’s flute is one of its most beloved leelas, sung for centuries across Vrindavan and Barsana.
The deeper teaching hides inside the play. The flute is the classic symbol of the surrendered soul — hollow, emptied of itself, so that the Divine breath can make music through it. When Radha takes the flute, the song asks with a smile: who really holds whom? Prema — selfless love — binds even the Supreme. The saints of every tradition have sung this same truth: the Lord becomes the servant of those who love him completely. Meera, who gave up everything for that love, understood it better than anyone.
This EkOmkaar Musicals rendition carries her pad forward in the living stream of Meera bhajans — the princess of Mewar still singing, five centuries on, of a flute, a theft, and a love stronger than God’s own will.
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