What change a day makes

(2990)  Varasa dine ghana varasa dine

On a monsoon day, a day intensely rainy,
The dark clouds in company,
You've arrived with sound of wind.
Day and night, on lute one-stringed,
Through just its resonance You've made effusive.

The sun has got concealed by the clouds ebony;
With meteoric speed a tempest is blowing.
In the same high velocity the peacock of psyche,
Its talk and tail, with sweetness You have filled.

Today there's green loveliness in the cane forest;
In the bamboo grove enticing are straw-bundles.
Oh my, on water lilies red and white, on lotus,
And on fresh blades of grass, elegance You've lavished.

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All over the place

(2989)  Bhevechilum tumi asibe

I had imagined that You will appear–
Promise having given, promise You will keep...
Fallen on a desert, alike unto dew,
You won't evaporate instantly.

All the defects of an atom, they reside in being–
Owing to that, a liila at time of Supreme.
Promise having given, then word not to keep:
Who will support it, do say please?

Frail am I, my defect is only this;
But to the frail also can abide a wish.
Purposely, distress why did You inflict:
Today with logic, face will You reveal?

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If You permit

(2988)  Kanta haye phutechilum

Become a thorn I had blossomed,
On the lotus stalk of Thee.
Forcefully a torrent had descended;
Me You whelmed with ecstasy.

I had been the pond beneath,
In the midst of water muddy.
Holding You upon my head,
Sorrow I've gone on forgetting.

Blows aplenty, have they not arrived,
The actions-and-reactions of life!
By not getting broken, Yourself
Skyward I have kept on raising.

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That day I asked

(2987)  Ankhite chilo je jal

In the eyes tears had been
The day that You were leaving.
To resist I was not able
On my own that nighttime, me.

Eyes were trained on eyes
When You said: "Soon I arrive."
This world of Yours remains behind;
Oh please don't go, myself forgetting.

Way back then I stated, "You will appear,
But how many ages– to count them will be!"
You declared, "Happen will a meeting
When enticed by love's yearning."

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Don't You see

(2986)  Srsti racecho e kii karecho

A universe You have built, what's this You've made;
Yourself, You've kept veiled!
Not remaining in the shrine,
At depths of mind You've stayed.

Your cosmic play is hard to comprehend;
Defeat, logic and reason tend to accept.
Not having stayed in floral bed,
You've sat on a thorny chair.

You're the Master, the refuge of everybody;
Those created and maintained, they follow You only.
Hence, the win of You alone they all sing;
You've bestowed the fervor theirs.

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What we seek

(2985)  Esecho esecho, tumi esecho kiseri tane

You have arrived, You have arrived,
You have come with which attraction?
Onto Earth's surface-dust, Yourself, You've declined,
Any and all vanity, having ignored.

A temple built with lovely jewels,
A lake adorned by tiirtha's sacred waters,
Not going close to anyone and taking naught,
With empty intent, oh why did You come?

Giving its fiery plume, You ignite the comet;
Dreading that flame, both Rahu and Ketu move in orbit.
Nature true lies in stability; wholly due to this,
Toward that alone You pull everyone.

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I have given You my everything

(2984)  Ei shukla nishiithe sumanda vate

On this clear late-night with a sweetly mild breeze,
Why are You remote, my Love?
Coming with the lower lip dyed and made ruddy,
Please remove my extreme delusion.

Lying abed, in dream, in sleep, or on waking,
Within hearing and cogitation I recall You only.
In absence of You, to me who else belongs,
The string of love to get a garland strung!

Oh the Innermost, You smile inside of me,
Lightening the load earthly.
Whelming with cadence and a lute's jingling,
To the night of existence, You convey the dawn.

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Partial to love

(2983)  Nam na jana mana na mana

Name unknown, revered or not,
Arriving beside, a colorful Fairy.
Eyes traced by golden beams,
He spoke to me, always smiling.

"My home is in splendor's realm;
With work the whole world I travel.
Those who long for Me, I lean toward them,
The persons who love Me.

"Incessantly I roam about;
Without halt I fly around.
Getting bound by love's strings,
I go on rising in a hymn's melody."

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The sweetness of You

(2982)  Jyotsna rate canderi sathe, tumi esechile kar tare

On a moonlit night with the moon along,
For whose sake had You come?
In a recess of the mind, with the wind sonorous,
Stealthily You went on singing a song.

In the depths of my thought I had been lonely;
When has gone the full moon at early morn, I didn't see.
Like a golden streak on gray cloud's body,
Traced upon that gloom light had become.

Musing on that, with a shiver mind thrills;
Divine realm descends to this dusty earth.
All sense-perception gets this realization:
Surrounding me day and night You are.

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Had He stayed longer

(2981)  Kon se ajana pathik esechilo

Which is that Unknown Pilgrim Who'd appeared;
Light He lit in a dark dwelling.
There had been no speech; a mouth with gentle grin,
The smile of lower lip, it went on lavishing.

Silently He had come from which unknown place;
Work accomplished, by what strange mode went He away.
Coming for an instant, a transitory love,
Why did it trace a line long-lasting?

At that time to know His particulars I did not wish;
Even still, acquaintance the mind does not imagine.
Simply, in thought of Him is honey-smeared intoxication;
What was given, forever it enticed me.

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Opened was a chink

(2980)  Je diiper shikha jvele diyecho tumi

The lamp-flame that You've ignited
In this dark cosmos,
Under just its light they flickered,
Refulgent the atoms.

In a wink, inert sleep was broken,
Fatigue and delusion shattered in a moment.
With hues aplenty was illuminated
By a light-stream disrepute's ebon.

What I could not imagine, that alone happened;
Within the gloom arrived an optic sense.
My spark of love's cascade did ascend;
To the new-moon night, perforation.

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Despite all my limitations

(2979)  Tomar patha ceye basechilum ami

Watching Your path, seated had I been;
Your story alone have I contemplated.
Gotten lost is my world's every shape;
I have gone on singing Your hymn.

My coming and going was to decrepit atmosphere;
My pondering was in the same impaired periphery.
But with that meager scope, speculation's web weaving,
I have understood You are everyone's central jewel.

Musing on Thee, diffused into Infinity the limited becomes;
Your hymn having sung, effusive becomes bosom.
Between You and me there's no more obstruction;
At Your lotus feet have I taken shelter.

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Final attainment

(2978)  Tomar saunge mor paricay, kabe pratham hayechilo

With You my acquaintance,
When first it had been,
That is not today!
The year and day I've forgotten;
But shyness and fear, they have waned.

From the fountain of which Unknown Entity,
Had I risen, floating on a thought-stream?
That Strange Being alone, it is You, Lord;
Most assuredly, I have understood the same.

Even still I'm traveling to the Mystery;
Through cadence and song You are calling.
The end of all knowledge is within Thee,
Hey, the Embodiment of Consciousness, beyond shape.

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My one desire

(2977)  Tomar ei bhaver ghare ami eka

I'm alone in this Your notion's abode;
To my home, You please come.
Arriving at my dwelling, make completion;
Do appear in my thoughts.
You've gone on keeping lit the torch;
By that flame, always be brightened up.

I want nothing in Your presence;
I would give all there is, whatever.
What's kept me hemmed by spell of blind attachment,
Through that flame, it as well please exhaust.

What I say from mouth, let me perform in deed;
Having come, may I not shun ordeal.
With every action allow me to recall Thee;
Upon my mind-sky, You please forever soar.

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You came into my life

(2976)  Tomay ami pelum

Yourself did I obtain
On the far shore of a dark ocean,
Like a golden streak of light.
My inertial slumber You broke
By music's sleepless fall and rise.

With much cadence You did come,
Afloat upon a stream of euphoria.
All the gloomy ignorance You got rid of
By an implication sublime.

You effused in all directions;
You infused honey in the bud.
Mind You entered with enchanting thought,
By a myrtle's beauty fine.

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Your prodigal son

(2975)  Sadher malakhani enechi

A selected garland I have brought,
Because, Lord, I will make You wear it.
From the mental realm blooms have I culled;
On string of love in solitude I've threaded.

On that I've smeared the sandal of heart-core;
Lavishly I've conferred all the nectar of my bosom.
Effusive become, I've been waiting at the door
To hear a footfall every single minute.

Don't frustrate me, look with eyes of kindness;
Awaken a fresh flood-tide in a life afflicted.
From my mind obliterate what is good or wicked;
I have come away from the peerless shelter.

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Plan of a simple man

(2974)  Shunini ami prabhu path bhule kabhu

Lord, I did not hear that ever, forgetting path,
You have come to someone's dwelling
Only once momentarily.
Customarily, You proceed in routine series;
Thinking thus, mentally I've wept profusely.

My virtues, they are not accrued;
In store-room has remained a vacuum.
There was no awareness, Your work I did not do;
Tied to matter had I been, in blind-attachment deeps.

I have not philosophy's wisdom;
To scripture never did I pay attention.
Yourself I adore, just for Your smile I pray;
I don't want heaps of grace, a tiny grain please grant me.

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Ignorance and longing

(2973)  Bhuvane raye gecho gopane

Secretly You've remained in the cosmos;
Oh so abstruse is Your sport!
You do not approach, why– who knows;
Game You make of many colors.

With eyes full of hope I pine;
To see somewhere, I don't find.
Like a musk deer, upon woodland path race I;^[1]
I don't know why You make me anxious.

You stay beyond the range of language;
On thought's pollen You coat nectar.
In both joy and sorrow, You keep a constant watch;
How You go on alone, I don't fathom.

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I am Yours anyhow

(2972)  Tomari name gan dharechi

For just Your fame a song have I borne;
On just Your path only, I have gone.
With Your divine thought become overflowing,
Just Your lamp in hand I've brought.

You alone are the quintessence;
Fathoming Your nature is a challenge.
Naught having understood through intellect,
For a trace of Your grace I've implored.

You are always with, mind You have filled;
On earth and in heaven, colors You've affixed.
The Bodiless Guest, You heed not days auspicious,
Hence, I have surrendered my all.

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No more the critic

(2971)  Tomare khunjite giye bare bar

Time after time I have gone in search of You;
I've returned, having become stymied.
For a moment, look on with eyes of compassion;
A tiny speck of mercy I have kept imploring.

To promote myself,
Unknowingly, I achieve only self-wreck.
Henceforth I'll evoke unit mind's development;
Gloomy ignorance I have been rending.

Nothing do I possess, that I know well;
Yet Your things, mine I go on calling them.
I believe naught is there, suffering from indigence;
I don't view closely what I have received.

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A small sacrifice

(2970)  Diip jvele jai andhare sadai

Against darkness a lamp I always set alight;
I would stay forgetting ignorance of mind.
Lord, kindly grant a matchstick in my hand;
Igniting light I go on gliding, skein like.

The ruin of all darkness, to everyone magnanimous,
Ever novel songs Your proximity affords.
Cadence and keynotes it imbues in the whole cosmos;
Speechless and surprised, I look on high.

With Your flame, Lord, just Your lamp I ignite;
It's Your ghee and Your wick, not a thing have I.
Having produced that light, the dark I cast far aside;
Other than You no one do I spy.

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Wanting what I have already

(2969)  Jene na jene ami ceyechi tomay

Knowingly unknowingly Yourself have I spied,
In the casket of my mind.
Nearby You'll appear, on this I had relied;
I am full of hope day and night.

Many days did retire, many evenings came;
Many dyed flowers, neath sunshine fell away.
By many a solar eclipse the sun got veiled;
But this same history, forgotten have I.

Many nights ended, lost was so much moonlight;
Fragrance of the garden flew off to the sky.
By many a lunar eclipse, with gloom the moon combined,
Through ignorance, impervious and unkind.

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I don't know if You'd been sleeping

(2968)  Andharnisha pohalo

Dark night expired;
Light arrived, it arrived.
A florid sun's colored luster,
Atop eastern morn-mountain^{[nb 2]} it did strike.

What I never conceived, it is only that I witness;
So much did it brighten my mind and existence!
By just its complexion, with just its affection,
It coated nectar upon everything of mine.

I don't find a place to stay concealed;
It's as if someone keeps saying: "I want you only".
Due to You alone, a crimson dawn arrived,
The birds called to bid You rise;
By just Your intention, on Your perception,
Love thrived.

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You won't get rid of me so easily

(2967)  Cidakashe tumi esechile

Upon sky of mind You'd appeared,
Strewing sweetness, filling psyche.
At which place hard to reach did You go hiding?

Why continue playing this hide-and-seek game;
Maddening with delight, cry profusely You make.
You beckon only from far away,
Having discarded me through what kind of sorcery!

Not having come near, more calls I'll hear not;
But that, Your beckoning, I will forget not.
Though to hold Your lotus feet, You allowed not,
Each moment I'll keep them bound through thinking.

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With You in my life

(2966)  Gan geye jai tomake shonai, ar keba ache prthiviite

A song I go singing, I sing to You;
On the earth who else is there?
Mine You say, mine You say!
Melody I've practiced, strings I have tuned;
Teeming with Your thinking I remain.

Sweetness of a vernal breeze in my rumination,
It pervades that melody, frequently and more.
In solitude with music modes in my heart,
Restless myself gladness makes.

To strings of the lute I have bound a tune;
How many sounds I have raised in a hundred moods.
Your inspiration, my exploration,
That, they set ablaze.

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A life for You only

(2965)  Ei shephalii surabhita sandhyay

On this jasmine-fragrant evening,
Mind sets out a-sailing
On a raft of white clouds only.
In the realm of moonlight, this same world of disguise,
No obstruction does the psyche want to heed.

Those who call me from behind, I don't want to hear;
For sake of the past, no pullback is there.
I simply go ahead, I proceed,
Footmarks traced on golden beach.

For just me my Bosom Friend, ahead He lies;
On the path, in rows He keeps lanterns alight.
Today for His sake is everything of mine;
Memories of grief and glee, in Him they go missing.

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Oh how gloomy

(2964)  Tumi satata sathe rekho amare

Always with You myself please do keep;
Helpless and to darkness never forsake me.

From the fountain of light I've come;
Ever since Creation's dawn, Yourself have I loved.
You are the élan vital in all existence, down deep.

Sun's emergence and bewitching moonlight,
This earth beauteous and a star's delicious smile,
You are filling all; everything is only Your resonating.

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My happiness and grief

(2963)  Path calite andhara rate

Upon dark night, along the path to proceed,
Lord, You alone are my polestar.
Yourself I see.
It's so when I stay likewise,
On ocean of happiness or with eyes' tears.

What little one fathoms that relates to peace;
In Your midst his everything he does seek.
You're the tranquil ocean, with nectar replete.

In this world mingled are both sorrow and euphoria,
Neither of them self-sustaining, no, not at all.
Alas, alas, they come and go, away someplace,
Past the bank of fantasy.

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As if something is making me

(2962)  Tomay bhule thakite je cai

To stay Yourself forgot I crave;
Why that I cannot, please do state...
Why mind turns back repeatedly
And musing on You it remains.

At work during the day I think I'll leave
Upon a karmic sea, amid people aplenty.
In gaps of activity, as if by whose scream,
Your tidings get relayed.

Fast asleep at night I think I am staying
Totally enveloped by darkness dense and deep.
By the flash of lightrays at each eye-blink,
Your affection is proclaimed.

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The Supreme

(2961)  Malaya parashe kusuma suvase

Now, at touch of southern breeze and flower-scent sweet,
With mental glee the Bee intones.
That flow of song, with tune and tempo filled,
To far azure it moves afloat.

The scope also, it is not His;
And no time limit is supported.
His, the dance in beat and rhythm;
On both crest and trough ambrosia molts.

Glazing honey, come along with that Bee
In acquaintance and perplexity, external and at deeps.
Clutching constantly, Him I hold in thinking
Such that missing never He does go.

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We meet in mind, You guide across

(2960)  Nandanavane manoloke

At paradise in mind-sphere, do appear,
Inundating heart-core with exciting rhythm,
With smiling face sweet and charming.

In Your contemplation, the days go away;
Nights are spent with just Your tale.
On Earth Your superb beauty pervades,
A zest for life with each eye-blink.

This mind of mine is Your accomplishment;
This life, it chants Your triumph's anthem.
Pride having forgotten, on Your way I travel,
Surpassing imagination in the realm of psyche.

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When will my Darling arrive?

(2959)  Se bale giyechilo asibe

He'd left, telling He'll arrive;
Why did He come not?
In a dark home light will ignite;
But turning back, He looked not.

Upon nor'wester's night,
A lamp has got extinguished, the wind by.
The darkness having made bright,
A sighting He permitted not.

Alone in gloom I've stayed waiting;
Each minute and second I've kept counting.
Still now this my numeration,
Its end happened not.

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Begging mercy

(2958)  Bhul kare tumi esecho

Erroneously You've arrived;
At my door You've appeared.
Poor and needy am I very;
At my home there is nothing
To proclaim welcome to Thee.

I could not bedeck my dwelling;
Naught have I, Yourself to please.
An empty heart beseeches:
Come inside, forgiving deficiency.

Abloom, mind's lotus have I kept;
Into it I have poured sweet scent.
Please do bestow touch graciously,
Alike unto the moon and moonbeams.

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Just between You and me

(2957)  Asha niye achi bence

With hope am I living;
On eyelids hope is replete.
All my hope satisfying,
Day and night, stay with me.

In a world devoid of light,
Except for You, black is entire.
Whatever by surmise feels fine,
That also, into gloom it sinks.

Before my eyes, Lord, please appear,
Upon those dreamy lotus feet.
Whisper words into my ear;
On earth will know nobody.

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My love is unrequited

(2956)  Nam janina paricay janina

Name I don't know, particulars I know not;
But I've loved You nonetheless.
Do You know it not?
I have gone on calling You, kindness I've begged;
Could You hear my plight or not?

On the new-moon night, impenetrably dense,
Under sweet moonlight, ray-dripping and love-laden,
I have called night and day, in meditation I have craved;
I have kept performing Your sadhana.

I have yearned for You on happy days;
With bad dreams I have pined on nights of pain.
I've known that I am Yours and imagined You are mine;
To forget this I cannot.

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I can't make it without You

(2955)  Ganeri bhuvane ganeri bhuvane

In the world of my songs, in the realm of song,
Alone there is not, no one is solitary.
With rhythm and melody, in the abode of heart,
Constantly Your meeting I receive.

I go on forgetting identity mine;
Nothing I own, that have I realized.
By having lost everything, on my glee
Nectar is smeared.

Yours I'd been and Yours I am;
By Your songs alone I've stayed buoyant.
From my getting all with taste of honey,
I go on surviving.

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Cause for celebration

(2954)  Tava agamane phul phutiyache

On Your advent flowers have blossomed;
In every garden hues have clung.
The bud of hope has filled with nectar;
In a mute mouth speech has woken up.

Today the southern wind's indifferent;
Where it goes soaring is unknown to it.
Nothing prevents flowing to the Infinite;
In contact with You it wants to come.

With floral pollen in each cloud cirrus,
On lightrays has the realm divine swung.
Deity has come down to the mortal world;
Heartbroken, why be crying any more?

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Such a tease

(2953)  Tomay ami bhalabasi, ekatha ki jeneo jano na

Yourself I hold dear;
This, though known, do You know it not?
In hope of Your advent I stay waiting;
Musing at an idle moment, do You see it not?

Just for You is my life;
With Your tune alone, world of mine.
On the far horizon at thought's frontier,
Only getting You is my sadhana.

What I crave and what I don't request,
In Your presence it is not suppressed.
All my yearning having painted red,
With Your hue the psyche, You fill it not.

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Making His acquaintance

(2952)  Aji manera mukure rupera sayare

Today only, in the mental mirror and on sea of form,
Recognize that Mind-Thief.^[1]
Wiping away all tears and casting aside,
The collyrium of love, give it tracing.

Having been waiting, many an age has gone;
With tears streaming, fallen have many garlands.
Many a night has poured into morn;
Toward days of yore, why do you peer?

Today in life has wakened the spring month;
The Unknown Passerby, to home has He come.
A psychic peacock has run with fantail amok;
Only to His cadence go on dancing.

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A sweet obsession

(2951)  Ganer raja tumi prane esecho

You've arrived inside life, oh the Song King;
Through song You have lavished an ambrosial beauty.
Ever You've gone on racing toward Infinity;
From a flawless realm You have come a-sailing.

Not any bondage did You ever credit;
No obstacle could make You halt even a bit.
Constantly smiling, having loved everyone,
The path You have traversed along with everybody.

Only You are the principal deity at life's festival;
And so unto You alone all make known obeisance.
You've entered the mind of all by everybody's invitation;
Everyone's psychology You have been permeating.

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With a flood of light

(2950)  Nirjan vane tumi ke ele

Into a lonesome grove, oh You, Who did come?
You conveyed light's inundation.
In the dark alone had I been moving;
You revealed path's destination.

As much as I had called, that much had I wept;
Taken aback, oft I'd stood, dejected.
You made me forget affliction.

I had thought that lone and helpless I've remained;
Is there no one fathoming my pain?
You shattered the error.

Days pass, moments pass, I make Your acquaintance;
In this world none is ever unattended, I have grasped.
You keep company each second.

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Once experienced

(2949)  Andhare gabhiire shravane gopane

In a gloom profound and rainy, furtively,
You'd appeared inside my psyche.
Full had been the clouds, a tempest speedy;
Yet You came on silent feet.

At my door there'd been no knocking;
Summons You gave not to waken me.
But on light's touch the latch is freed;
It had elapsed upon Your coming.

Long back did it go away, that night rainy;
Many ages having come, with the past they've married.
But that day's memory, that hymn of dream,
Even still in private it rises routinely.

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Brightness mine

(2948)  Kanda ar hasa ei niye asha

Lamentation and laughter, with same wish;
In this hope, love is mixed.
Catastrophic fire, enraged bolts of thunder;
The moon's glimpse, rays of light adrift.

Crying I am going on for ages aplenty;
Through cloud-chinks exudes weeping.
A light-flash, a smiling moment,
Forgotten is pain's visit.

Your splendor floats on the mirror of psyche,
Sometimes by hint, else crystal clear.
Whenever it goes missing to a realm unknown afar,
Then circling existence arrives a mist.

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No problemo

(2947)  Ashay basechilum je tomar

In the hope of You I'd waited;
Why did You not come, do speak.
I could not express through language
How much the eyes, they'd been teary!

Everything of everyone You remain observing;
What decorates in which place, there You pay heed.
With pollen of psyche, sweetness You smear;
And You go on smiling, inwardly.

Whatever had been possible, it has occurred;
What has remained dormant, it will be in future.
Expressed or absent, that which is obscure,
The flame of wisdom's lamp You cast on everybody.

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Only on account of You

(2946)  Tandra bheunge more jagiye dio

Languor broken, kindly waken me;
Sleep of infatuation, remote do keep.
The lamp of hope, please sustain it blazing;
Steer me along light's street.

In darkness gloomy let me not falter and wait;
Absent thought, may I not state: "I wish, I crave".
You're with the ones for whom nothing is scarce;
Please dismiss the wicked turbidity.

I have gone and I'll go on holding to Your path, Lord;
I won't be despondent in the least, ever onward will I forge.
Nonetheless, when the storm's thunder and lightning come,
Please do simply cast a glance at my heart, smiling.

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Only together we move ahead

(2945)  Sabare kari ahavan

Everybody I invite–
Everyone, my heart's desire–
With one and all I would proceed
To take the bath of light.

That none may remain trailing–
No one may weep below society–
Like just one wave, all in company,
We sing the song of only life.

Between people there's no schism–
Let be told and known one hope, one wish–
Obey the one exemplary inspiration;
It makes great the humankind.

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Walk, run, or crawl

(2944)  Pather alo nive geche

The path's lamp has got extinguished,
I see You via mind's illumination.
Those light-beams You go on pouring,
In affliction, sorrow, and consolation.

You are luster's central gem,
The lotus on a sea of concept.
I deem You the best of best;
And so I beg for Your compassion.

Upon path persists just a stumbling sense,
But by that does my motion halt asudden?
Having scoffed at all impediments,
I'll go on by Your inspiration.

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Blessed ignorance

(2943)  Katha diye giyechile kena

Giving pledge, why had You gone;
Why did You come not?
In hand the floral garland had been strung;
Why did You take it not?

Night and day I am rehearsing a tune,
With heart abrim to sing for You.
The hours went away, day and age drifted off;
My song You overheard it not.

By rhythm I have been engrossed in many dance beats;
Gestures I've composed, Your reverie surrounding.
The tinkling of ankle-bells, oh Beloved Mystery,
Whereto it floated off, I know not.

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We are one

(2942)  Mayaloke eso cittaharii

Alluring One, please come to the realm of maya,
Accepting all sweetness mental,
All the glee of this world and all the grief in any psyche–
Everything's a garland threaded– taking it to heart.

The topic of Infinite's limit, You hear it not;
To notion of dualistic monism, credence You give not.^[1]
On a swollen river-current, on the ocean hard to cross,
With a boat You are ever going onward.

The Chimera of hate and envy You wish not;
Exploitation and oppression You brook not.
Everyone's fulfillment only is Your sádhaná;
So, mingled with everybody's hope You are.

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At Your lotus feet

(2941)  Tumi sabar maner raja aso

You are the king of everybody's mind;
Yourself do I hold dear.
In a dark mine You're the cherished diamond,
The pile of dreamy moonbeams.

You proceed with rhythmic song;
Like the vernal breeze, a touch Thine You afford.
Scorched by the sun and frozen by inertia,
A winsome flute You play to erase mind's misery.

Age after age, place after place, by Your liila
Someone laughs, and someone cries in private.
You are completely free, to You I pay fealty;
A pearl Your honeyed smile secretes.

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