Maybe, my dear

(3134)  Mrganayana more balo na

Doe-eyed one, to Me won't you say
For whose sake night and day so much you weep,
Telling He will come, oh Who has departed,
Thenceforth has forgot; Who is He, lacking empathy?

Upon the sky fly your curling tresses;
Shiva^[1] of mind is inside, with clouds' rain-shower.
Nonetheless He did not look, fathomed not the pain.
He went on staying distant; how is He severe?

You are gazing listlessly at the remote heavens;
Your mind goes on floating with extended breaths.
Though He'll not come, will not understand Your pain,
His heart, won't it melt... that One ever a mystery?

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Petty me

(3133)  Amake tumi bholoniko

You did not forget me,
Yourself have I ignored.
Neath Your shelter having dwelt,
I've not looked in Your direction.

In my own mind, jungle dense,
I've not gone in search of sweetness.
Hurt by stones, on being wounded,
Crying, Thee I've summoned.

In summer's heat like stroke of death,
Under reproach with mind distressed,
To console on mourning intense,
I have got You proximate.

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In service to Thee

(3132)  Amar ami bhese geche

Gone afloat has my sense of 'I',
Like a blossom upon current's water.
Keeping it close by did not thrive
Under endless bondage of matter.

In diverse ways both day and night,
Knowledge had I desired
On a thought-stream's dearth entire,
The dyes applied, many hundreds.

That same golden-caged 'I'-sense,
When it You did request,
You abducted and then kissing head
Said: "Color you did vanquish."

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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,
Ever 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 wished 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 on obtaining happiness;
I have been inundated by a thought-current.
From thinking and reflection, That I have 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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