Universal Bengal

(3715) Bamla amar desh bamlake bhalabasi

Bengal is my homeland; Bengal I hold dear. In Bengal's grief I weep; in Bengal's joy I beam. Brothers-sisters of Bengal are the pals of play only; Bengal's heart heavenly goes on pouring love constantly. Bengal's flower, fruit, and water are daybreak's[1] smiling lotus, Epoch-making, chagrin-ridding, in fog of despondency. All of the Bengali hope, the language of Bengali love, May it be accomplished through cosmic harmony once more. The Bengali boys and girls, Bengali heaps of wisdom, May it be achieved, hey Lord, thoughts of the Great mixing. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Everybody has need; everyone we must feed

(3714) Jiirna vishiirna

Extremely thin, emaciated, For the living I'll provide. The sick and hunger-stricken, Whatever else, I'll keep alive. Those who are afflicted or uptight, From anguish and disease very tired... Be they bird or beast or humankind... Everybody, we are sired. Even shrubs and ivy, they are life; For them too we must contrive. Those far away I have pulled near; Along I've taken everybody. With both mind and heart I have paid heed; Only for all are riches prized. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

I would bear their burden

(3713) Jhatika jadi ase

When a windstorm may come, Hey Lord, to confront do permit. At the spate of a flood, From me please take service. When earth's strata may budge, And if volcanic craters erupt Or bird-nests, they fly off; In mind stir the sense of kinship. Minuscule am I, wholly bereft; Make me wet with kindness. By cosmic ideation drenched, Relief of those stricken, let me take part in. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

I seek peace of mind

(3712) Ek alo andharer khela

A game of light and gloom, Hey Prabhu, in this, Your Genesis. Everyone moves rapidly when light is detected; Then to envelop it arrives a mist. After moon's smile comes a dark night; A gloomy day follows the nighttime bright. Like a lantern adorned is the star-shine; But hiding it by rain or sun comes quick. Like a flower in bloom is the smile of a child, A rainbow and the autumn moon, incomparably fine. But they don't stay for a long time... off they glide To get lost in a temporal pit; So, in joy and sorrow, I crave Your shelter. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

You cannot forget me

(3711) Canpar kali bale vasanta ele

Magnolia's bud says, "Spring, You came" Hymns You compose through blooms aplenty. I feel love, only a joyous laughter; On canvas of memory You paint a swing of splendid beauty. Life You infuse with heaven's wine; Like a bumblebee humming You haul us nigh. You withdraw winter's inertia, hard to realize; There is not Your liila's peer. Within an atom, Yourself I've obtained; The glamor of Your shape, in nebula it reigns. Your love-song, on lyre-strings it plays; The universe is implication of just Your being. Hey the Unseen Splendor, hey the Supreme Shelter, The sweet emotion past the range of speech's travel. Getting or not getting's ultimate consequence: It's so that You may not ever forget me. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Always a mystery

(3710) Khunje gechi tomay

I have gone searching for You At home and also outside; You came not into fold. To known and unknown places have I gone; I've gone to pilgrim-sites untold. Sought have I on ocean coastlines; I have searched waters of pilgrim sites. I've looked into many shrines; Formless Lord, You'd not been in any mode. In mountain caves I did not find; Nor found I at House of God mine; Lastly, I see inside: You laugh, ever unknown. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Hence we realize

(3709) Juthika viithika periye

A lane of jui jasmine having crossed, That same morning You had come... On restless winds, a course melodious, Eyelids painted with collyrium. All had been deep asleep, abstract the whole creation; From gloomy darkness countless were disgorged. Life had been motionless, velocity blockaded; Nary a sound on the sides four. As if there'd not been cognizance in the shoots speechless, On veena strings no message had been jangled. You arrived, and language came; sensation was vibrated Upon the face of those first living ones. Sarkarverse article Audio recording