Wanting more

(3343) Kata na jug pare tumi esecho

After many ages You've arrived
At the honeyed Vrindavan of psyche.
You've suffused the mental sky
With cadence and song of sentient feeling.

For You the world had yearned,
As bedrock for our concerns.
That dream having achieved,
In meditation You appeared.

At a remote peak I see Your
Rumbling, tinted love-tryst
With just its hues my colors mingling,
I float in Your company.

Sarkarverse article
Audio recording

From thread to garland

(3342) Ganer malakhani tomari tare

The garland of songs for You only,
Strung had it been kept.
The day went, evening left; and in tears
The night was spent.

Age after age, hey my Beloved,
Love's thread had been with.
By song-blooms in Gokul of reverie,
Garland's form it did accept.

At far-remote place, wherever You dwell,
Yourself I will never forget.
With love and devotion brimming,
Yours became the mindset.

Sarkarverse article
Audio recording

For our welfare

(3341) Tumi sabar majhe lukiye rayecho

Amid everyone You've remained concealed,
In the midst of everyone.
Everybody's well-being, for all meditation worthy;
Everything You are suffusing.

Even getting proximate, happens not catching You;
In the act of description, language is consumed.
Mind-exciting, heart-enthralling,
By divine game You have frenzied.

Getting You does not thrive by intellect;
You don't surrender to science.
Humbling all vanity,
Wholesomely, You've held dear.

Sarkarverse article
Audio recording

This autumnal evening

(3340) E sharada sandhya nace madhuchanda

This autumn evening dances to a sweet cadence;
It is looking in but Your direction.
With fragrance of night jasmine in the white-cloud habitation,
Does anyone know what she yearns for?

Who knows when had been the first sunup;
The last sunset, none has in supposition.
You know everything, everyone You attract;
This evening, that fact it honors.

You bestow supreme devotion, that same tendency
By which strength, oh Lord, we can get totally free.
On even's crimson glow, with night-jasmine affection,
At Your feet I beg this compassion.

Sarkarverse article
Audio recording

Don't mind me

(3339) Tumi na janiye, niirav paye

Without announcing,
On silent feet
You did appear.
For whose sake and for whose weal?
Secretly, at which place and in whose ears
Words You whispered earnestly?

Never alone are You;
You are with everyone, Prabhu.
By life's veena dignified,
Everybody You invite, strumming.

You whisper in the ear of everyone;
You fathom everybody's perturbation.
But we are deaf, restless we get,
At not hearing Thee.

Sarkarverse article
Audio recording

A special love

(3338) Kata vitandra vibhavarii tomari tare

In eyes the rain had been,
When away You were going.
A tray filled with my flowers
Onto ground You were throwing.

Between You and me, Lord,
Never there's comparison.
You're the heavenly star,
I am but a glowworm earthly.

In whose eyes had been tears?
In the world, knows it everybody.
Although self-born and endless,
Having loved, You'd appeared.

Sarkarverse article
Audio recording

My Desideratum

(3337) Kata vitandra vibhavarii tomari tare

For just Your sake many a sleepless night
Mine has transpired, Lord, mine has gone by.
Nights aplenty filled with gloom
Have wrapped me in absence of light.

From tears my eyelids, they are drenched,
By a lost wayfarer's wails distressed.
Not even once again came You to my residence,
But I keep hearing You are mine.

Though came not, no harm is there if I get amid psyche;
In my world there's no one else but Thee.
Having come in reverie and smiled sweetly charming,
Please go on saying: "I am thine."

Sarkarverse article
Audio recording