Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Could it be?



(3609) Anek vedana diye anek ankhi jhariye

By means of immense agony, too much having wept,
My Hardhearted Lord, You have come.
What You want, that too, I don't know;
What You speak, I don't fathom that also.
I but know, just understand: Myself have You loved.

I know not if greatly remote You dwell;
Is that why pain does not penetrate ear's tunnel?
Or maybe deliberately, You pretend to be deaf;
Else, You don't wish to let know what You've thought.

You paint a portrait of Your divine sport;
Mayhap unawares You sketch, You stay deep in thought.
To start-middle-finish You pay no attention;
At length and irrespective, smiling, on You've gone.

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Monday, March 23, 2026

I seek an unearned grace



(3608) Bhuloke dyuloke eki mayay

On Earth and in Heaven with amazing magic,
You made dance to melody and cadence, Lord.
Each and every instant flashes splendor;
From Creator to blade of grass You infused affection.

Every moment there is such a flow thrilling;
Ever flashing, it comes with a glow, all-pervading.
In thought and contemplation is auspicious gleam;
Through pollen, You scattered impact of love.

Hey my Deity, that You not ignore my story,
I have no biography or any effort holy.
Strength of virtue or awareness, know it isn't there;
But even then, grace does a waiting mind implore.

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Saturday, March 21, 2026

I think of You only



(3607) Tomakei smaran kari

I remember only Thee;
To You alone in thinking I cling.
Why don't You arrive adjacent,
Oh my ruthless Lord Supreme?

My days come and vanish,
Rotating in vain upon an axle.
Absent You, survival is at risk;
A pitcher I infuse with venom deadly.

Day's lustrous rays and magic of moonlight;
A floral garden and a cooling shadow mild...
Lose worth all things of mine;
Yourself alongside, no equal is there.

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Friday, March 20, 2026

I was blind



(3606) Andhakarer antarete

At gloomy dark's inside,
With light-stream You arrived.
I didn't recognize, I could not know
To me You were so kind.

Ever gazing at the path, a bloom fell;
Always singing, the bird slept.
I knew not, I could not follow
Where You hid and why.

Eyes opened, I took note;
What's this: Near and far, it's You alone.
By moonlight, such ambrosia, the desert
To the lees You did provide.

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Thursday, March 19, 2026

What's the deal anyway?



(3605) Pathapane ceye ceye

Ever looking toward the path,
So many nights disappear.
It came not on those nights sweet:
Came not that southern breeze.

My pain do You not realize,
And is that why You're hiding eyes,
Yourself keeping far aside...
Me alone and left behind,
In this rainstorm most severe?

Have You forgot I am a molecule,
My body by Your thought resolute,
I, a firefly; the sun, You...
Yet still You play a bamboo flute,
Having kept far away at this time unpromising?

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Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Life in exile is too harsh a game



(3604) Ekti katha shudhu ekti katha

A single point, just one matter,
From You I inquire,
Hey the Cosmic Lord, adamantly.
To this same earth why bring the living beings
Just to give them misery?

Having come to the world creatures laugh and weep;
Sometimes neath moonlight, sometimes under comets falling.
Easily, with dust they go and unite...
Below a disinterested glance oblique.

Why play a game, this liila heartless–
At times cast adrift in grief, at times fill with happiness.
Sometimes You come imminent, sometimes far off take Yourself...
Between light and darkness, never discriminating.

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Friday, March 13, 2026

Delusion



(3603) Prabhu tumi eso mor manane baso

Lord, You please come, sit within my cogitation;
In meditation Yourself have I yearned to receive.
Taking just Your name, rowing o'er just Your flow,
I've gone on doing just Your deeds.

Unseen and unblemished, You are cherished–
By both mind and heart, worthy to be worshiped.
My own soul's closest kin,
On just Your implication I've stayed replete.

Life comes and goes, resembling a rainbow;
So many things that glow, they all swoon in a mo'.
The sweet and mild breeze, the pleasant shadow–
By a dance amid You only I have gone crazy.

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