Lalasa — Longings

Lalasa, longing, is the largest section in the whole of Prarthana at nine songs — larger than any other section in a book built otherwise almost entirely of one- and two-song units. Coming after several more narrowly titled longing-sections earlier in the book, this one reads as the fullest, least qualified statement of hankering in the whole sequence, before Prarthana narrows its focus again to longing for specific places: the devotee's own spiritual body, then Vrndavana, then Mathura.