Don't be shy

(3503) Juthika malay kabarii sajay

With string of juhi jasmine a topknot embellishes;
Today, this evening, which is that fair maiden?
With form's Providence in floral dress,
Seated solitary, she deceives herself.

For Whose sake this lovely shape had arrived?
Getting Whose touch had it floated upon eyes?
At the sky she gazes with what tipsiness?
She goes dancing rapidly by Whose encouragement?

In every seed of sesame, a paragon of beauty;
There is not the least time to be seated waiting.
To Earth He dispatched you, hey beloved;
Take note of what He wants each moment.

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My all I give to Thee

(3502) E prabhat amari tare

This morning, it's for me only;
This morning is for only me.
Oh sing will I, hues I'll apply;
Blooms I'll unfold, tier after tier.

Inside my mind's bejeweled hall
Is everything that becomes lost–
One and the many move in accord,
Upon a single lute-string.

Listen, oh Pilgrim Unknown,
The ruby in my gloomy home–
With rhythm and melody, sweetness replete,
I dance, Yourself encircling.

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Light You bring

(3501) Tumi esechile diipak enechile

You had come, a lamp You'd brought;
You had smiled on the mental mirror.
I had been unconscious, in dense-deep slumber;
You had lifted me up.

What is good and what bad, consideration had not been;
The black color of my mind had been four-sided.
I did not comprehend what is real and what is worthless;
By way of the lamplight, sight You had caused.

Hey the mental casket's splendor diamantine,
In a pervasive manner is Your velocity.
At every pore a song of consciousness You sing,
And by that music myself You colored.

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I've seen the light

(3500) Nutan tomare varan karechi

The New, You, have I welcomed
With a wedding's oblation of honey.
Please come by my side and on the sky of psyche,
Greatly pleasing, like a moonlight smiling.

That which is obsolete, let it be removed,
Like a vanquished nighttime's gloom.
The New has arrived, existence has beamed
In a wave of effulgent wreath.

Forgetting loss-and-win and gain I want to go;
On a raft of novelty I set life afloat.
Along the path of progress with tenacity,
Night and day to proceed, struggling.  

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Reveling in the mystery

(3499) Tumi amar arup ratan

You are my Formless Jewel;
You're in smiling garb, in smiling garb.
Yourself I did not observe,
Ever with shame and fear, with shame and fear.

The fear had been inside my psyche,
Cloaked and kept secretly.
The cover did You free;
I know not by what deed.

Amid petals left, the bashfulness;
You removed its waxen diadem.
Mind's bumblebee, shameless,
Brazen it flies, dancing.  

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On this auspicious occasion

(3498) Anander ei mahotsave

At this same joyous and grand festivity,
You please stay very near, my Darling.
I've composed a song, rehearsed its melody,
With light-ray of hope amid psyche.

There is no consideration of night or day;
All of the time You are unchanged.
With mind's bumblebee comes "deranged",
Getting seen in any deed.

Hey the festivity's Master of Holy Site,
Bowing I proclaim, beseech do I:
Kindly remain in mind with face smiling,
On a cot clothed in flowers motley.  

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Lord, I'm ashamed

(3497) Tomay aro kache ceye

Having wished You still more near,
On myself shame did I heap.
You had been within psyche;
Upon eyelids did I fail to see.

Oh my perpetual companion,
Coming and going and staying's collection,
I sail with no shore, having forgotten Thee,
In a self-made jeopardy.

You remove my delusion leaden;
Unto life a crimson dawn You fetch.
In Your divine play, Your dalliance,
To contend with obstacles I'm willing.  

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