You mystify me

(3300) Aloke andhare eki liila tava

Such is Your liila with light and with darkness,
Staying afar mind permits not; it does not succeed.
In a lotus garden with air full of consciousness,
You made constancy sway; remains nobody.

I have come to this Earth, Your work to attend,
To bind You with affection's thread.
Hey the Peerless One, the most near and dear,
Why don't You understand, having grasped my secret psyche?

You are the dispeller of fear from bondage of samskara,^[1],
Omniscient and all-pleasing, unseen and immaculate.
Please come near, laugh a sweet magic;
I cannot forget the words of You exclusively.

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It's okay

(3299) Tomare ceyechi mane prane ami, sara dile nako mor dake

I have wanted You wholeheartedly;
You gave no reply to my call.
I have searched in holy sites, in woodlands I seek;
In gap after gap of clouds I have sought.

Dearest, multifarious is Your play divine,
Hey, the presiding deity at my shrine.
You are the innermost of my inner mind,
Remaining afar, this fact I have fathomed.

Go on making sport, there's no detriment
When I go on seeing the heavenly sweetness.
Avatar of Consciousness, I crave a speck of Your kindness;
With my every momentary horripilation.

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What's the reason?

(3298) Vrajer kanu bajiye venu

Braja's Kanu,^[1] playing a bamboo flute,
Today why did You appear?
Mind's Jamuna dances no longer
To a melody and beat, thronged by things worldly.

At Vrndavan there is no forest;
High-rise buildings do the mind encircle.
No more do I find that sweetness
Under the kadam tree,
Like You had seen.

Today the Jamuna is shriveled;
There is not the banyan's shelter
There is not tamal's dark magic.
In lap of clouds ebony,
Did the moon-like Krsna hide,
Out of sight, behind a time-screen?

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Your promotion is in vain

(3297) Dosgun karini vicar

Vice and virtue I did not consider;
Only You have I held dear.
The Sea of Love, You're boundless, unlimited;
I've found You only beside me.

In joy You are, in woe You are, mine forever;
Everybody's goal, even though invisible.
You're the aggregate of meditation, wisdom, and reverence–
In every pore of existence, I have perceived.

Welfare's representative, You are the emblem of light;
Darling, in love and devotion You are dearer than life.
But is it not useless, Yourself trying to advertise?
This feeling have I conceived.

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Let me not pursue trifles

(3296) Ei jiivanasaekate ami

I, on this sandy beach of life,
Nacre unaccompanied I reap.
On the sky a star coruscates;
The nebula darts a peek.

Many thoughts come within psyche:
Many facts of past and much deceit.
None knows whereto they've gone missing;
Maybe etched are they on a realm heavenly.

There is no end of reflections mine;
They come and go, throwing me lonely aside.
And so Yourself I yearn to receive nigh,
Good and bad times, the tearful cries, forgetting.

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Just You and I

(3295) Ajana pathik esechilo

The Unknown Pilgrim had entered,
Who knows why, inside the mind-deeps.
With many a rhythm, He delighted;
With sweet scent in the forest of psyche.

Him had I held dear,
Not knowing the reason, to logic not paying heed.
By any other's reasoning I did not proceed;
I had been all on my own in meditation's mien.

That Traveler has endured, even currently;
He has dispensed love at each eye-blink.
The mind's peacock has kept dancing,
Having got Him at a site solitary.

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Even if

(3294) Eso maneri mukure gopane

Privately, please arrive on my mental mirror;
Silently, two ruddy feet will arise blooming
In my lotus, in seclusion.

Toward the path teary eyes remain gazing;
My domestic peacock wakes up, calling frequently.
In reality, in a sleep-free state, though You don't come,
Please come in a dream-vision.

I've no kin or alien; whelmed by You is my all;
In thought of You alone, many nights become dawn.
Look once with eyes of kindness in my direction,
With ankle-bell tintinnabulation.

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