The lyrics of this bhajan is a brilliant specimen of one of the last song lyrics composed for the mainstream Hindi film/TV industry using unadulterated, graceful Hindi and it thus illustrates that a sufficiently talented poet/lyricist can churn out highly creative, original literary pieces without overburdening them with unnecessary Arabic/Farsi words – half of which actually remain obscure to the Indian audience, who, in their ignorance, take such Urdu songs to be Hindi – thanks to the disingenuous lyricists/poets and directors/producers of our time.
This episode of Sri Krishna’s life actually appears in the Tenth Canto of Maharshi Vyāsa’s Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, which was presumably the source and inspiration of the two episodes in Chopra’s TV production of Mahabharat. Within the context of the plot in those episodes, the song served the purpose of supposedly informing the audience of the contents of Vidarbha Princess Rukmini’s letter to Sri Krishna, which the former had written to the Lord entreating him to save her from a forced marriage to Shishupala. It was aired in episodes 27 and 28 of the epic TV series. Chopra’s hit TV production Mahabharat (1988 – 1990) as part of the background score, set in the sublime and haunting tunes of the Raga Megh. The following is a translation of “ Binati Suniye Nath Hamari”, a popular bhajan written by the renowned Hindi poet and lyricist Pandit Narendra Sharma (1913 – 1989).