He is known by His song

(3131)  Ganeri majhare peyechi tomare

I have got You amid only song;
You rock a cradle of the melody.
You are the aggregate of all cognition;
In streams myriad You move dancing.

At thick of day You're the eyes unsleepy;
You have been strewn like affection's honey.
By rhythm, form, and color, existence is impassioned;
Those born or transcendent are overflowing.

On the outside of You there is nothing more;
The universe is dancing to only Your thought.
Around Your lotus feet, with a sweetness soft,
You raise a sound that's presently severe.

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Due to Your love

(3130)  Tumi andhar nishay dhruvatara

On the dark night You're my Star of North;
From path You don't let me get lost.
In bamboo grove I am nonplussed,
Oh the woodland doe's Cherished One.

Startled by a forest rustle, timorous,
Always afraid, engaged in thought,
Yet You, seeing me, giving heart's affection,
Watching the goings-on, You beckon.

Like the musk deer^[1] I rush about,
Fear of own darkness being roused.
I don't see a ray of light has awakened, stretching out;
On mind's depths it rises in a hundred fashions.

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Heaven is the limit

(3129)  Ami tai bhevechi tai bhevechi

I've mused on that alone, only that have I dreamt,
What the mind cannot consider.
I've wanted to receive the moon in a dark recess,
A waterfall amid the desert.

What I've fantasized, I have gotten in excess;
Assemblage of a hundred moons I have seen in darkness.
A sweet fount in crater's mouth I have witnessed,
That which is a kindness unearned.

Myself, I've gone missing upon obtaining happiness;
I have been inundated by a thought-current.
From thinking and reflection, that I've experienced,
What through scripture can't be learned.

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Life's course

(3128)  Maner e madhuvane

At this pleasure garden of psyche,
You infused songs aplenty.
On the resonance of them only,
I have gone a-floating.

In the world there is no equivalent;
Searching cogitation I don't detect.
Always You have been like my essence;
Into recollection You come smiling.

Oh the One fit for cosmic welcome,
Worthy of the mind's devotion,
Please convey Your great passion
Through the rapt attention filling me.

From love, calling I've remained;
Honey-coating, I have stayed.
There is nothing else to welfare,
Hello Master, in Your proximity.

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One day we must be free

(3127)  Akashe diipake e karttike

In this month of Karttik with its lamp on sky,
The light You did ignite,
Of it there's no likeness, no likeness.^[1]
To make compass known on the dark night,
This is a speck of Your kindness.

If ever I'm forgetting You,
Lord, listlessly to move and move,
Then this Your lamp, love's fragment,
"The goal," it tells, "don't forget."

If the unit life go on forgetting,
By a speck of Your unsought mercy,
Loud and fiercely out it cries:
"Don't deceive yourself."

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Lord, I am weary

(3126)  Tumi dure theko na

Oh You, remote please don't dwell;
A wreath I thread, altar I decorate.
A song I go on practicing for Your sake;
Kindly don't forget.

in search of You, ever roving
Amid forest, hill, and sea...
By all small and large deeds;
From fatigue, I do not lie abed.

Many folk, in diverse ways they speak;
I go on tolerating with a smile's veneer
Through Your name and strength of Thee–
That don't You comprehend?

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Pretense and reality

(3125)  Tandra anka chilo ankhipate

Apathy had been etched on eyelids;
In the mind was a fervent longing.
No other person had been with,
Who had grasped this story.

Psychic speech, only You fathom it;
Purposely, why disguise as stupid?
In- and outside You dwell, just useless it is
If sense of affection did not exist.

By hearing, thinking, and unbroken reverie,
You are my Polaris in meditation and in knowing.
Reposing in bed or dreaming, asleep or awaking,
This fact, who let it be buried?

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