I would behold

(3242)  Kimshuka vane aji nirajane

Today at the palash bower privately,
Who are You that sounds a lyre?
Grant me sight, oh please give sight.
Radiant like a silk cloth on psyche,
Go on emanating elegance of style.

Never do You ask for aught;
Perhaps there is no cause.
From thought's antiquity, alone and secretly,
Oh what message You publicize!

At my mind's empty dwelling,
Will You capitulate, telling naught, unspeaking?
With the moonlight-bathed evening deceased,
Sing a song of boundless sky.

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Lord, it's getting tiresome

(3241)  Ami tomay ceyechi, ele na dekha dile na

For You I have longed;
You did not arrive, no sight did You provide
What crime have I done?

About You day and night I think,
Neath evening hues, on colorful mornings.
On eyelids hope is replete;
Traced there, I have stored.

On bank of the Jamuna in psyche,
At every watch^[1] I roam searching.
Sorrow-stricken, tearfully,
Back again why have I come?

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You did the rest

(3240)  Amar e ganer tarii

This my song's ship,
I launched it toward Thee.
Sail flying, wave grinding,
It will journey to that place far upstream.

No more will I heed any constraint;
Of those who have You, what fear is theirs?
All blocks having forgot, with hope swaying,
Forward I'll proceed with spirit free.

Oh God invisible, You dwell in effulgence;
From remote You call through a dim presence.
The pollen of affection upon life You spread;
You fetch near by an unseen towing.

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Tonight am I waiting for Thee

(3239)  Ami tomay bhalabasi, tomar tarei bence achi

I am enamored with Thee;
Only for You, Dear, am I living.
Mid the sandalwood of Your love,
I dance afloat on a gentle breeze.

In the gloom of a night portentous,
I find You past the extent of perception.
Your smile's moonlight-heap,
Arriving at jalousie, summons me.

To an afflicted life vexatious,
With sweet scented pollen along,
At psyche's blossom-dropping, please appear;
I have brought expectation's commodities.

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If there be one thing I have learned...

(3238)  Tomake cai ami jiivane

Yourself I crave in my life,
Everyplace, under darkness, under light.
With You in company would I dwell;
You are mine, You belong to me.

At one corner of these, my desert-wilds,
The two of us, You and I, will reside.
Except for Thee, I want nothing else;
You are refuge, You are footing.

In the past those who've retired
And those coming at a later time,
Their mental story I go and tell;
Everyone is Yours, no one base or mean.

Anything I do, righteous or vile,
It's as if Yourself on head bear I.
In hearing and thinking, a song out I belt:
You are limitless in virtue, boundless in beauty.

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Catering to my exuberant nature

(3237)  Amar maner udvelatay

To my mind's exuberance
You've caught on, and close You've come.
Restless ripples upon this same river,
You've recognized, and in You've drawn.

You did not maintain any separation,
Like as if the atoms You have tied fast with affection.
Hey the Great Ocean, this drop of water
Having loved, You've cast off.

There's no fear of my getting lost;
In three worlds^[1] with three traits^[2], You're the collection.
Endless without boundary, You're the core of core;
You've allowed this intimation.

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All-pervasive and eternal

(3236)  Je bhalo besecho tumi

The ones whom You've held dear
From molecule to molecule, in atoms,
The existential river kissing,
To perpetuity You've gone on, accustomed.

You are in the floral pollen, in heart's ardor,
In the worldly colors and in mantric realization.
At root of kush and kash You are in the soil luscious;
You are permeating the nebula.

Electrons spin by just Your inspiration;
Mind dances off afar on Your lit-up motes of dust.
You're in fire and in air– on water, land, and sky You are;
You are diffuse in all the elements of Creation.

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