Out of body...

(3562) Tuke bhalbo hami nayan bhare

Having filled the eyes, I will hold You dear,
Today when You arrive, oh when You're at my residence.
With flowers I'll decorate, the mind will I delight;
I'll dance round and round, forgetting fear and shyness.

In daytime when light appears,
At eastern sky Your face beams.
On mahua's pungent smell floats the air in my dwelling;
Oh the Cowherd King, toward You my mind races.

Behind western mountain^[1] the sun of evening sinks;
Having given swing, it departs, like stalk of waterlily.
Having quit the coast, my mind goes far on a shoreless sea;
No more pastoral, between us there's not any obstacle.

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Krsna, we miss You

(3561) Vrndavaner manik kanu

Oh Kanu,^[1] the ruby of Vrndavan,
You went where, ourselves having left–
Father Nanda and Ma Jashoda,
Milch cow and reed pipe, having forgotten.

Today, the Jamuna races unaccompanied;
Blooms not the kadamba, blossom and tree.
Underneath the tamal at a Gokul moody,
No longer sways the light-ray of duskiness.

Our life, only You are the Dark King;^[2]
With You gone, goes away everything.
Today at Govardhan, in the bamboo forest,
No one looks with eyes open.

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You renew me

(3560) Ei alokojjvala prabhate

On this same resplendent morning,
You came and You made blooms appear,
The earth to make sweet-smelling.

To receive You granting boon arrived everybody,
A bud of trust in their hand at this festivity.
They accorded all respect; any pride is useless
In one with beguiled mind, having gotten Thee.

There's no day, there's no night– all the time,
Dearest, You accompany, oh Consciousness Personified.
Under Your love's lamp at thought's kadam tree,
In a static world arrived zeal.

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Smoke gets in my eyes

(3559) Anute anute nece jay

In each molecule He Who goes on dancing,
He Who goes on dancing,
Always externally, at any time inside of me,
He gives a swing amid psyche.

I can't know, and even understood I fathom not;
To hold on to learning I cannot.
Ever in desperation, always with my hope unrealized,
Mind wants to get Him nearby.

That One Wizard has created through sorcery;
Arrayed has He a realm of beauty, heavenly.
What He does and when He does it, who can conceive?
Despite that, in cogitation He flashes light.

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Life and death

(3558) Asa ar jaoya caoya ar paoya, ei niye shudhu bence thaka

Coming and going, wanting and getting,
Staying alive is with these only.
Insensate and sensate, any atomic mind,
Everybody's life is traced by this scheme.

I can't say: I did not desire to come
Or that anyone remaining must not go off.
By this frequent-visiting's everlasting sport,
Horse-bells and chariot-wheels proceed;
They're cloaked by the fancy of Cosmic Psyche.

A tree's verdancy and the sun's color ruddy,
Upon hope's sky moonlight's honeyed beauty–
To give them speech there's no frontier.
That Master, He creates this obscurity:
Staying-and-not-staying's mystery.

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Like a sherpa

(3557) Cidambare mor tumi ke

Who are You upon my mental sky?
You arrived in person, today in person You arrived.
With damru beat, in a trice,
Having danced, You made rise.

I grasped not what I want, what is my requirement;
A mound of renowned had been, so much unneeded.
In a wink all those things having pulverized,
You took on lap, lifting high.

The Master of Truth and Welfare, oh You are lovely;
Beyond psyche, in a realm ever mind-enchanting.
Learning's very heavy burden, having set aside,
The load You did take and minimize.

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Finally

(3556) Ei kishalaye rauna prabhate

With these fresh, green leaves on a crimson morning,
You had arrived, You'd appeared.
Giving pleasure with a mild breeze,
You had smiled, You had beamed.

On the cosmic lower lip, a heavenly smile;
Along with it had been Your magical reed pipe.
Demolishing worldliness at end of crooked, stupid vice,
You had floated on the sky of psyche.

I could not recognize Thee;
Scripture with philosophy did not speak to me.
By each stanza my mentality having pleased,
Purged You disease and deficiency.

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