Roused from sleep

(3393) Jhainjhavate ghurnivaye tumi esechile

Like a gale, like tornado, You had come;
I had been dozing.
Through cadence and tune on the mental mirror,
Myself You woke up;
I had peered.

All events of the past have I forgotten;
Looking toward a new dawn have I been.
Stories of ancient days, lost memories' torment,
Everything cast adrift I let be.

Stately coming near, words did You utter;
A mental niche hard-to-reach You entered.
Honeyed that contemplation, radiant that awareness,
In that myself I went swimming.

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Our Father Who art on Earth

(3392) Tumi bhalor bhalo sabar mukha ceye

You're better than good, to every look compared;
Crossing the darkness, You have brought light rays.
Through cadence and song, Yourself with smiling face,
By means of love, obstacles You've assailed.

No one is Your stranger, everyone the closest kin;
Everyone the gem of eye, everyone beloved.
In person upon path having alit, thinking of every tale,
With everybody You proceed apace.

Such nocturnal penance on nights of the new moon;
So much pain was repressed, by language refused.
You had been with all, in thought You did pervade;
Those who'd been rolling in dust, upon lap You did take.

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You could, but You don't

(3391) Tumi kii cao jani na

Oh You, what You want I know not.
Through liila's sport, Yourself why,
In the front You come not?

Passionately I hold dear;
Coming, why don't You yield?
Secretly in a corner of psyche,
What You get, You tell not.

Dense darkness of a new-moon night,
Enveloping, Your luster hides.
All the anxiety of an atomic mind,
You don't levitate, but why not?

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Lord, have You forsaken me?

(3390) Tumi bhumajyoti ami khadyotdyuti

You are the Light of God, I am a glowworm's ray;
As to my capacity, what words do I say in Your company?
You are the Brahma Kamal, I am filthy straw;
Dyed am I; about Your hue what do You speak?

When into mind You come, myself You love;
You smile gently in the kadam arbor.
Forgetting my penury, I drift in a thought-stream,
With diverse colors on an existential beach.

When You remain hidden, don't You open orbs?
Though having called a hundredfold, no reply do You accord.
In jeopardy, without a shore I float on the eyes' tears;
Having looked, I see You laugh atop a mountain peak.

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Please prove me wrong

(3389) Tomay ami bhalabasi, ta ki jano na

For You I have a fondness;
That, don't You know it?
You know it not!
Lonesome, in notion and meditation, I desire;
That, don't You grasp it– You fathom not.

You are everybody's gem of diadem,
The diamond mine of a dismal planet.
Constantly I listen to Your chronicles;
That, don't You hear it– You listen not!

Neath stormy winds with falling ice,
Ever with me You abide.
Your thunderbolt's a friend of mine;
That, don't You recognize– You heed it not!

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His blissful advent

(3388) Tumi esecho madhurii jhariyecho

You've arrived, You've made sweetness issue forth;
Heavenly happiness You have brought.
To the gloomy mind, with an air of sensibility
You've infused all things wholesome.

Who can tell the tale of Your qualities?
By hues of Your forms, full is the mind of everybody.
Your love is all defilement-dispelling;
In that You have steeped a song.

Hey the Great Ocean, Thine is no shore, not the least;
Bubbles of Your thought are we, everybody.
With love's cadence and song, with ambrosial throbbing,
Making everybody dance, on You've gone.

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You know it is a big change

(3387) Ami chilum base tomari ashe

I'd been waiting in just Your anticipation;
You did not arrive, not a word did You speak;
Futile was my water-pot's mango leaves;
Vain became all garlands strung of longing.

Toward a cozy nest at glow of dusk the bird speeds;
Seeing the moon, a lily rises neath twilight's reddish gleam.
On this my evening, You fathom the mind's affliction.

Darkness-wrapped the sun, at eastern mountain^[1] it's not there;
But the dawn's crimson streak, forgetting aught did not leave.
As You are listening, You understand anxious confusion.

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Oh my sweet Darling

(3386) Tomake sakalei je cay

Yourself everyone, they request.
With Your qualities, Your poetry,
Under tow of Your gaiety,
Afloat, the world goes ahead.

Oh You are mine, and I am Yours;
All other things are lacking worth.
In mind this is the gist I preserve
Each and every moment.

Upon its own orbit the Earth reels,
Circling e'er Your lotus feet.
Tearfully I entreat
Your divine kindness.

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Lovingly synchronous

(3385) Niilsayarer svarnakamal

The blue sea's gold lotus,
Why she was blooming, did anyone perceive?
No, no, no, she was in my psyche!
She was giving swing, was waking thought,
Was making known her pain secretly.

Humming in a candied anticipation,
Coming was the Bumblebee, taking precaution.
Floral pollen and whatever devotion,
On her Most Beloved she was lavishing.

In my own mind she was speaking;
Those her words, knows she only.
Like a mental peacock, at a distance staying,
Sensing Him, she was dancing, solitary.
With lively delight at remote site in ecstasy,
For no reason with a smile He was rising.

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Beyond distinction

(3384) Aloker oi jharnadharay, snan karate tumi ele

In yon cascade of light rays,
To make bathe, You arrived.
Pate's diadem setting aside,
You blessed with water of sacred site.

Distinction of friend and foe You excised;
You displayed a new life.
Beast, bush, and bird You did familiarize;
Everyone is our own, You advised.

No one is distant, everyone is family;
The cosmos is for the sake of everybody.
Kith and alien, useless is the measuring;
The world moves, taking all alike.

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Such a delight

(3383) Dhulir dharaniite madhurii dhalite

On a dusty earth to confer sweetness
You have come at present...
To give consolation's nectar to a weeping vortex,
Persons mute to make fluent.

Those who'd fallen behind, neglected and necessitous,
You broke their life's utterly gloomy prison.
You attracted everyone, let be forgot their difference;
The many You took and wed.

Who had been in despair, who'd been sinking into gloom,
Receiving with joy and shame, they welcomed You.
Everybody went along, gained the light a generation new,
With the thrill of each moment.

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With Him by our side

(3382) Se din sandhyay smita vasudhay

On a smiling Earth that day at dusk,
You'd come to my dwelling.
In mind there'd been inclination, joy in meditation;
Upon eyes You let be traced antimony.

Hand held on head, You did speak,
All pain removing instantly.
You said: "Came storm and gale, but don't fear;
Around you I am here.

"Rise-and-fall, also contraction-and-expansion
Appear on the journey, but they're as naught.
Your aim having retained, proceed with conviction,
Bringing forth the victory of humanity."

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It's been great

(3381) Amar pather shese esechi

To my road's end I have reached;
No other corridor is there.
Myself on Your path only You impel;
Just along that path I'd proceed.

On my path filled with barbs,
Stricken had I been, incessant.
Wounded by stones each moment,
In vain I've searched for peace.

With no start or end to that path,
In rhythm and in hymn I'll pass.
You will endure with light in hand;
And so a song of love I sing.

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After a lifetime of waiting

(3380) Tomay pavar asha niye

Taking hope of getting Thee,
I have stayed attentive.
Yes I, for Your sake, Gemstone of the Ocean,
I have counted the moments.

Many nights have become morning,
Many fallen stars have disappeared,
So much moonlight has gone missing;
The count I've forgotten.

Not informing, one autumnal evening
Amid psyche, Yourself You appeared
In unfamiliar dress, new and charming;
I have known You nonetheless.

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Why do You toy with me?

(3379) Jeo na jeo na, arale jeo na

Don't go away, please don't leave;
Vanish not behind a screen.
If mayhap I forget,
Please don't neglect me.

Upon young grass, a green carpet alike,
In psychic looking glass, like a floral smile,
At times You come near and at times float afar;
Why don't You understand the mental agony?

Through light and darkness Your Sport is amazing;
From within the mind, it's a game with psyche.
Amid thought, with thought is a merrymaking,
Why do You not rid thought's shortcoming?

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One of us might make no sense

(3378) Amar e kathin hiyay

Into this hard heart of mine,
Will You come or not, I don't know.
If You arrive only by making mistake,
It does not matter even so.

With form's luster altar having adorned,
Endlessly I go on singing songs.
With Your melody, with Your thought,
With Your words, I compose.

In my mind is hope immense,
Ample yearning, ample fondness.
Amid excess, just a bit
Will You or won't You give, that too I don't follow.

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It is peculiar!

(3377) Ruper aloke arup esecho

With form's splendor the Formless You have come;
How is it anybody was not knowing?
The world You've filled with thoughts of love;
That fact, were folks not grasping?

In Braja You've endured, Braja's Krsna;
In the mental sphere, Your Braja You have formed.
With Jamuna abrim to overflowing,
It's astonishing that anyone was not seeing.

That Jamuna, it has been drying up today;
People have gone on to forget Your tale.
A clever heart, Yourself remembering,
It plays upon a lyre solitary.

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The look of love

(3376) Sonar kamal phuteche

A gold lotus has appeared
In the pond of mind this morning.
In the mind exclusively can it be seen;
It exudes honey inside mind only.

Having taken so much pain the arrival is;
Only then, the lengthy hope it fulfilled.
An overflowing love effusive
Wakened, it encircling.

By the light of a jeweled lamp I espy:
Hidden are You, oh what a surprise,
My eyes having tenderized
At psyche's stronghold, hard to reach.

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Now and then I believe

(3375) E ke ajana pathik elo

Who is this Unknown Traveler that arrived?
Why had He been far away, I know not.
Why does He withdraw, not want to pause;
Why does He grant no embrace, I fathom not.

In the wee small hours weeping had I been;
Amid darkness, from fear had I been frightened.
Watching the sunrise I have seen
Whose kindness; this I imagined not.

At midday with the sun's intense heat,
Like a burning flame of dismay raging,
Always I've been looking for relief;
To recognize, pious endeavor I did not.

Underneath the evening-sun's heaven ruddy,
In hope or despair I've gone on struggling.
I proclaim obeisance, there is no prayer;
Anything but grace I crave not.

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Unrequited is this love of mine

(3374) Phulera mala varanadala

Floral garland and a wicker basket,^[1]
They're arrayed for Your sake fruitlessly.
The day goes away, watches^[2] have passed;
It seems that You won't come to my dwelling.

In the crimson color at daybreak You have smiled;
Upon thought You've risen like a bloom, evening's lady of the night.
You have mingled with night's heap of moonlight;
With a pleasing sandal-paste, heart is brimming.

Even so, why don't You hear my words;
Why don't You fathom my heart's anguish?
Why don't You come under my hope's lantern,
In the sun's garments, illuminating.

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A king unique

(3373) Tumi keman raja kei ba jane

What sort of king are You, does anybody perceive?
There is neither minister nor army;
With work always You've stayed engaged or thinking.

Sleeping or awake, in thinking or in dreaming,
With a ringing or a tinkling sound You're alert constantly.
There's no boundary of knowledge, no measure of mind-state;
Through song You have been engrossed in the light's melody.

Day and night, You keep company with everybody,
Singly and jointly, in cadence and in mode of melody.
When I go on pondering, I don't find any bank;
Hey Dearest Darling, You dance alone, solitary.

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I beg a fleeting glance alone...

(3372) Shuni tumi bhalabaso

I hear that You dote;
Why then do You stay remote?
And why, if that be so, myself
In tears, You keep disowned?

With You my acquaintance,
It's not a fact of just a few ages.
It had been before my attachment;
But spurn that attachment, please don't.

Day and night, evening and morn,
Time everlasting You are.
For an instant, all good or bad times ignored,
A brief look at me please throw.

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The power of love...

(3371) Ankhira taray mamata bhara

From pupil of eye full of warmth,
By its invitation You had arrived.
Who is that votary, on whom squeezing heart,
You lavished the sweetness of mind?

What had been good in the world, everything,
Amid You alone it was embodied.
For all those unconscious, through cognition's wine,
The molecule You wakened with a reed pipe.

Into a floral bosom honey You did pour;
All of those seen You simply took with love.
The moon on a dark night, You let it be brought;
By fondness, what did You not realize!

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Who approaches whom?

(3370) Mamata makha nayane

With eyes coated by affection,
At grove of anticipation,
You'd gazed into my own heart.

I don't fathom that which I desire;
I do not want to realize.
Topic of Your kindness I ponder at no time;
I look not in Your eyes' direction.

Hey Abiding Friend, Darling Dearest,
My Companion in both happiness and sadness,
Known easily by every intellect as kin of self,
Having arrived close by and having loved,
You smile at the core in those lonesome.

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Kindly Lord...

(3369) Aloke andhare eki liila, raciya calecho he dayamay

With light and darkness such divine play
You have gone on making, hey Lord full of mercy.
Sometimes You make cry, sometimes You make smile;
Sometimes You make known that You are the Almighty.

Sometimes to Earth's poles You make brought a shine,
And sometimes a flower You make bloom in the wilds.
Sometimes a bunch of clouds having fetched at northeast edge,
Like a nor'wester You become stormy.

In a hundred forms Yourself I have prized;
Age after age You are my hope's light.
Stay either near or far, but please don't hide;
You are the Avatar of Song below mental canopy.  

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Though I never

(3368) Kakhano ami prabhu dakini tomay

Lord, though never You did I invite;
You have held me dear.
Even mistakenly, for Your work I gave no time;
But You have been watching over me.

Like pollen fallen upon the earth dusty,
I have craved matter by way of thoughts worldly.
I did not understand that moves not even a sheaf,
If You did not want it to be.

Daylight arrives, just Your grace thereby;
At night by Your kindness is the moon's smile.
In everyone's tender and loving sense of "mine",
Having filled the universe, You are there.  

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Lord, I am lonely

(3367) Eso hatashay bhara jiivane

In a life filled with despair please appear,
On a sweet and gentle breeze.
In cadence to raga through dancing,
With Phalgun month's red abeer,
With rise of sensibility...

Everything is discarded–
Any and all tears and laughter
At depths of my craving-and-gaining...

Beneath the lantern lit by liking,
Is a resin-scented wreath
From a forlorn inner sphere...  

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It's not me but just my yearning

(3366) Ami ceye chinu

I had been gazing
At Your path, day and night.
Yourself, playing a pipe of reed,
You arrived with smiling face in garden mine.

My plait of hair from curly tresses,
Tied I not with string of jasmine.
No raginii did I practice;
I've just gone on calling ever inside mind.

With fragrance of faith firm, ardent and sweet,
Swung has my hope, a dangling earring.
Blossom it has effused, fondness-smeared,
Those ruddy feet in reverie to beautify. 

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Not just an impartial witness

(3365) Tumi amay bhalo baso, ami jani go keu jane na

Myself You cherish;
I know it, but no one perceives.
My provisions on the path of journey,
Rather than that be not, You go on giving.

In the gloomy dark a lantern You kindle;
You pour nectar on a heart afflicted.
For all urges everyone's Surabhi,
Off at a distance never do You leave.

I go on blundering, myself You punish;
You infuse only beneficial rhythm.
On my head the diadem, it is only Thee;
Never at any time fallen off You be. 

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At my pleasure grove's gazebo

(3364) Vasante dole mane dola dile

At springtime on a swing, psyche You swung;
On the sky beauty of hue, it goes a-floating.
With mind tranquil for unknown reason,
It's as if a song, unawares, someone makes me hear.

Upon mind reflected is the world of colors;
From outside furtively racing in it comes.
The external came inside, outdoors the inside went;
Plunked between these two, vanity goes missing.

By magic of myrtle in a pleasure grove at month of spring,
Mohan^[1] got embodied through my tiny wreath.
Proximate went remote, distant came into zenana;
The One Who's not near or far, He gives notice smiling.

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It's our little secret

(3363) Bhalabasa elo jiivane, kena ke jane (3363)

Love arrived in my life–
Who knows why–
Having gone on a quest Thine,
With ascent of surmise.

In my world a fair of fruits and blooms had been there;
They've attracted me, as I had been lonely.
I can't comprehend; and so, defeated, I have wept,
With despair in my own mind.

My world today, by Your contemplation is replete;
That abstract central gem having sought, I'm complete.
Absent search there's no path; so, seeking I've proceeded;
Liking in private go I.

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As He has come

(3362) Kusuma shobhar e vitane

Underneath this canopy of flower beauty,
Presently I recollect the morning time.
With resplendent dissipation in atomic thinking,
Boundless is the sport divine

With sweet scent of sandalwood, Who did appear;
Has He yielded to a sweetness gladdening?
Along with dye and music-mode to excite greatly,
He arrived, unaccompanied.

The wine of mind has become overflowing;
Imagination's great ocean has gone on dancing.
For Him none is foreign, no good or bad time be;
Effusive does He make everybody.

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In the end

(3361) Prabhu he, tomar liila bojha bhar

Hey my Lord,
Your sport is hard to comprehend.
Through coming and departing is Creation;
I have understood the essence.

Morning sun's very first advent,
Of the evening hues is a fondness.
In between the two is tied a residence,
This, my worldly existence.

On a mild breeze sweet floral scent
Is filling up the azure firmament.
In Fall are kush, kash, and trees of sadness;
Ultimately, their commencement.

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Wanting You I continue

(3360) Tomake ceyechi ami, jiivaner prati palake

Yourself have I craved
At every existential wink.
Kissing sky, hope's light-ray
Has stretched to realm heavenly.

To execute the atom's musing,
Each pore of core to make brimming,
To eliminate the ebon mist of Northeast,
From honeyed bud of thinking...

Slumping beside the path my sense of I had become,
With garments drenched, indigent and abandoned.
Into Your own presence You did haul,
Coating with sweetness of affection.

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Mission accomplished

(3359) Ei shubha arunodaye ele

On this same propitious sunrise You arrived;
You exuded light.
Having dissolved new moon's mountain, the gloom set aside,
Upon the mental mirror You did smile.

The weight of earthly pain You let me leave behind;
With unshaken state of awareness, You vanquished mind.
From seed to a great tree by thought's ascending rise,
Myself You enticed.

Many times in many forms You have appeared, Lord;
An expedition hundred-edged, never did it pause.
With desire impeccable, with motive inconceivable,
You addressed my plight.

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I am not blind

(3358) Tumi amay bhalo baso, bujheo ami ta bujhi na

Myself You hold dear;
Even having grasped, that I fathom not.
Neath a crimson light You smile sweetly;
Even having seen, at any time I see it not.

On nights of gloom light's stanchion
To show me the path You are.
At morn, like a fall of splendor,
You go on singing, but that too I hear not.

The messenger of only novelty,
You are never obsolete.
In thought's realm, glittering,
Though knowing You, why do I know not?

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Spring is in the air

(3357) Praneri ujane chande gane

On my life's upstream course, with cadence and song,
Lord, kindly do arrive at psyche's pavilion.
My darkness has kept me pervaded with fog;
By intonation, that you dispose of.

The wind carries a scent of lotus;
Snared by infatuation, I have staved it far off.
You opened my eyes, You removed the obstruction,
With this day's newly risen sun.

Ashok and palash trees sway on Falgun's hammock;^[1]
With springtime abir is a gala multi-colored.
A painted earth new garments today has worn;
Having come, the mind You please adorn.

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With everybody happy

(3356) Bhavo bhule giye jata vyathabhar

Forgetting all the load of pain, contemplate
The gaiety on this same earth only.
Like an eye-cosmetic its love does trace,
View with a light-ray of new sensibility.

In the kadam grove a peacock is dancing
To the horizon's golden dream.
The whole universe has gotten whelmed, is in concert
With both thought and thinking, instantly.

The gates of mind are opening;
In accord, merged have thought, language, and melody.
With a singular will and singular inspiration,
Everyone and everything floats away upon one stream.

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Absolutely necessary

(3355) Kanu binu thaka nahi jay

Staying without Kanu^[1] does not succeed;
The One Who glitters within heart is He.

Day and night His reed pipe,
Every moment penetrating life,
Tells me: "Cherish do I,
And so I summon thee."

My Jamuna of existence,
By only His rumination overwhelmed,
Contending with a mist dark and dense,
In a hundred ways it races upstream.

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Am I in Heaven?

(3354) Ei madhu nisha jena na phuray

So this same honeyed night may not cease,
That it might not disappear,
With argent moon at peak of moonlight,
Mind goes on surging.

Love had been replete inside the mind;
Nevertheless existence found no springtime.
Sweet night came and gained You prompt;
In mood is fondness fainting.

From Your smile a pearl did drop;
By Your flute deluged the sky got.
With rhythm and song You arrived in every life,
The earth with Heaven blending.

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Just see

(3353) Alor shatadal phuteche

A luminous lotus has blossomed
In a large and deep lake ebon,
Gloomy night's restless craving's
Curtain in back of.

The hope of God for unit psyche:
He will make home in your mind only.
He will lavish His fond doting,
Per just your disposition.

Light of the endless domain,
Hold color, the lake's breast it made.
All of the blackness, it went away
In a single moment short.

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A play for sympathy

(3352) Kalasayarer balukabelay

Upon the sea of time's sandy shore,
Waiting and waiting I count the minutes.
Inwardly I contemplate if on lyre is cognition;
About You there I hear a bit.

Having come from afar, it goes floating far off,
Those lute-strings excite an atom.
By that great rhythm, in the highest happiness,
A web of fancy do I knit.

How fine if once it comes and leaves,
For instant brief You stand before me.
I concede that mine are no pious austerities;
I summon a mood sympathetic.

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Though His design might seem tragic

(3351) Purvakashe raun dhareche

On eastern sky color has clung,
As this time light-rays did come.
In hope of splendor creatures have been aroused;
Upon the lotus flower a smile has blossomed.

A verdant leaf by ebony concealed,
Has lifted head, illumined brightly.
A partridge, ignoring mental agony,
On bough of tree goes on giving summons.

Everybody with own expectation,
By means of salve in language of ideation,
They are looking in the sky's direction,
Half-awakened everyone,
In fresh attire by your actions,
Those that came down from days prior.

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Myself why did You forsake?

(3350) Jyotsnaloke tomar hasi

Like moonbeams is Your smile,
Welkin and wind made replete.
It goes to which distant place;
Oh it goes, it goes away.
Imagined fancy of a mental cranny,
Painted in color does it let be.

With a formless magic unrestrained,
With unhindered speed's matchless shade,
The scent of a flower on sluggish air,
Wings opened it craves.

When You'd smiled initially,
You lit up a lustrous wreath...
Life's touch You had bequeathed...
With implication of mind-state
At love's Providential place.

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Your loss I rue

(3349) Mara jamunay van ene dile

Brought to dried-up Jamuna, a flood You let be,
At a Gokul of my psyche.
Native and foreign distinctions ignoring,
You consoled the human beings.

In the dust has wept human mentality;
It has stayed far removed from lack of amity.
Tear-soaked is that history,
Told into every ear.

This world of form, it is for everybody;
One and all hope for the light of morning.
Your neck like a conch-shell, this dictum holy
You did profess with confidence smiling.

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Once, You had given that

(3348) Andhar e bhuvane chande gane

Onto this dark earth with rhythm and song,
Thrilling greatly, You had come.
What hadn't been, what thoughts were not occurring,
Also that, along You brought.

You had brought the first light's lantern,
A blazing cadamba of warm consciousness.
With floral smile, with a flute winsome,
You had floated in with existential love.

In Your presence, I request nothing, Lord;
What else is there, do tell, for taking more?
You have dwelt in molecule and in every pore;
Hey Deity, You had given what all!

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With You I have a bone to pick

(3347) Golaperi vane ke tumi vijane

"In My rose-garden, who are you, sad and lonely,
Amid thorns seated lackadaisically?
Though having wanted, unseeing, you came not nigh;
Not one word spoke you with Me."

Oh Unkind One, such a game is Yours;
You keep making sport ever new and newer.
With love and affection always novel,
Please arrive inside heart with face smiling.

In convo with fantail on peacock of psyche,
Incessantly You make dance to rhythm and melody,
Sometimes from proximate but often very distantly;
For what reason do You float away, laughing?

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Lord, You make sport with me

(3346) Tumi phuleri buke madhu dhalile

From the floral bosom nectar You did cascade;
To blossom with thorns the rose You made.
In winter through fire comfort You gave;
In summer You applied the sandal paste.

You go on doing work as You like;
Sometimes You make cry, elsewise You make smile.
Sometimes with affection You drag nigh;
Sometimes though craved, You did not gaze.

Like heat of the fire You've remained in hiding;
Upon sky You have soared like the water's steam.
You have gone on dancing with the peacock of psyche,
A game of light-and-shade having played.

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Though physically You went

(3345) Caincala cetanate ele

You came with a fickle awareness;
But You went, a lasting line in mind left.
Lavished You affection and sweetness;
You made heard the words of faith permanent.

It was inconceivable what had pertained to me:
Everything made, sustained, and erased– the entirety,
The great ocean shoreless and immeasurably deep,
That same You came close, my adjacent.

I have obtained You in my thinking;
Thought I've filled with You, a hundred streams.
I have understood, hey Lord, I belong to Thee;
You've brought me by a sportive stratagem.

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