This necklace of fondness, Yours and mine,
Who had strung... You not I, please confess.
I had been on a world of dust,
Above ground, an earthen lamp clutching,
Morn and eve saluting Thee, my Love.
In my hand had been a string of jasmine,
Coated with exuded nectar and heart's pollen.
Vaejayanti garland upon Your clavicle,
You descended with Kaostubha's splendor.
I'd offered up my sense of 'I' in a wreath,
All boundaries of meanness forgetting.
My entire being arose swaying;
Birth You took from the state of perfection.
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Saturday, February 15, 2025
You had come
Friday, February 14, 2025
Is there aught for which to pray?
Sympathetic to my agony,
Saying that You will see me,
On the surface of this earth, have You appeared?
From a heart full of sweetness,
With Your laugh pearls are shed.
On Your eyes, affection's ink,
An immortal being did You not abide.
Passionately descending, You've arrived
With playful wiles in the bud of psyche.
Name and form is not Thine;
Through a hundred names and forms do I find.
The intellect, if submerging,
Please remain always with me
At all times and beyond time's periphery,
In the psychic lotus with an ideation sweet.
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Thursday, February 13, 2025
Speaking from the heart
Sympathetic to my agony,
Saying that You will see me,
On the surface of this earth, have You appeared?
From a heart full of sweetness,
With Your laugh pearls are shed.
On Your eyes, affection's ink,
An immortal being did You not abide.
Passionately descending, You've arrived
With playful wiles in the bud of psyche.
Name and form is not Thine;
Through a hundred names and forms do I find.
The intellect, if submerging,
Please remain always with me
At all times and beyond time's periphery,
In the psychic lotus with an ideation sweet.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
With You by my side
My Beloved, Dearest Darling, You belong to me.
In the thick darkness, in tempest and storm,
You accompany, the Heart-Thief.
Dispelling calamity, yet unseen and spotless,
Vital pulse and the mind's knowledge-ointment,
Heart is consumed by Your form and quality.
Whom does he fear, the one who obtains You,
Who with threads of affection fastens You;
He cuts through impediments dense and dreary.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2025
To everyone but me
Why do You not grant embrace by me?
Endlessly I call; if hearing You remain,
Of what sort is this affection-stream?
Under fierce summer heat, to malati shrubs at dusk;
Beneath heavy monsoon rains, to ketakii's mites of dust...
With shefali's love and fondness, in the autumn
Upon kush and kash emitted are light-beams.
Through pre-winter's mild frost,
Through harsh snows at winter season...
In springtime, with treacly odor
Suffused are the colors of abeer.
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Monday, February 10, 2025
You abide
Like a smiling jui jasmine on a moonlit night,
Upon the lustrous chariot, Who are You that arrived?
In my company at a lonesome site,
Through this game of hide-and-seek, why did You take delight?
I don't have any possessions,
In exchange for which to get Your love.
What You've given please accept, and look in my direction;
Leaving me alone and helpless, please don't retire.
For many an age is Your multicolored sport,
A game sometimes gloomy and occasionally luminous.
Saying You love, You come with diverse wiles;
But never do You keep me flung far aside.
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Sunday, February 9, 2025
He is beyond reach
Yon, upon a new and striking, indigo sky,
You had appeared; and You had smiled.
On star after star and on galaxy,
You made dance a flow of effulgence.
With divine ruby's splendor, with emerald's luster bright,
From Infinity's fount, on a thought-stream You arrived.
You dance on endlessly at the outskirts of mind;
Reflection with transcendence You combined.
With a trifling intellect, Your attributes' consideration
Is like counting grains of sand on the ocean-shore.
The method is not acquisition, only love succeeds;
Realization is by obtaining kindness.
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