Saturday, August 16, 2025

At a loss?



(3442) Nayane kena aso na vyatha bojho na

Before eyes why don't You come, don't You fathom pain?
What divine sport is Yours?
Still, the spring winds blow, a hawk-cuckoo sings
In ragas ever new.

Constantly I go on calling;
Hope I do not lose, even no response getting.
Privately, in my mental pleasure garden,
What is the offering I will give to You?

With light and shade is a game;
What is Your assemblage of shape?
I won't understand, I can't assimilate;
What song will I sing in this playroom? 

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Friday, August 15, 2025

Love never divides



(3441) Ajana jagat hate alo jhalamala rate

From a strange sphere on night light-flashing,
At this place a nymph celestial had appeared.
To keep her held in the jeweled room of psyche,
Many persons had wished earnestly.

My Caetanya, he let be brought a crimson morn,
Everyone you'd united through mind-threads of love.
The tale of your merit, your sweet humanness,
It's remained still today in memory.

At feet I bow, please come here time and again;
By mankind's benevolence, all darkness you raze.
Yourself I go pondering, no end of thought do I find;
On sky of mind brightly you beam. 

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Love is breaking out



(3440) Vasanta mainjarii eso eso

Spring tulsi[nb 2] please come out, please come out;
A wagtail bird, to you she goes on calling.
Neath the lukewarm air current, fresh leaf please appear,
At the mental mansion with sound of gentle jingling.

Winter makes everything a feather that's been falling;
The guest-birds in your own land, they go off flying.
Why be distant any longer, please come close in a hurry,
Both inside and outside of everybody.

The cuckoo has clung to song... sweet notes from others;
Ignoring all wounded pride, the peacock of mind dances.
Psyche's charming garland, arrayed I've kept a basket,[nb 3]
Hey my Darling, for the sake of You only. 

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

The look of love



(3439) Sonalii bhore kusumanikare

At golden morn, o'er multitude of blossoms,
Who are You Who went on brushing color?
Inwardly I think with You I'm getting familiar;
Hence anon there is recognition.

It's as if well-conversant with the brush's tracing;
It's as if well-acquainted with the style of writing.
Mind looks to obtain, no taboo does it heed;
And You dispensed affectionate cognition.

With atom and molecule such sport is there:
An illustrated game, a movement painted motley.
You never slight or disrespect anybody;
Onto lap You drag everyone. 

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Complicated



(3438) Tomar saunge pratham dekha

Along with You, first appearance,
In which was that hoary yesteryear?
It is not writ in history,
Nor is it in memory.

Back then the world had not been;
Ready were no stars and no planets.
No flower had been there, full of pollen,
Love to pour out lavishly.

There'd not been the passion of vitality;
There'd not been the mind's anxiety.
There'd not been the river's speed,
With music of motivity.

You had been ideal human potential;
In that I had been lying dormant.
There'd not been duality non-dual,
With its complex reasoning. 

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You belong to everybody



(3437) Tumi amar apan sabar svajan

You are my very own, everybody's kin,
Everyone's Darling in the universe,
In the universe.
At a psychic niche, on a throne golden,
Zealously Yourself I've kept.

My wanting is for nothing more;
What lack is his to whom You belong...
A pile of moonlight, mild-sweet smile,
You're lavishing on thought process.

Highest devotion, Lord, You give to me
Upon relinquishing my all to Thee...
Through new cognition at morning-sun's residence
To bestir a fresh existence. 

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Monday, August 11, 2025

You are the object of my desire



(3436) Ajana pathik kache eso

Oh the Unknown Traveler, please do come near;
At my home be seated momentarily,
At my shrine please take a seat.
Yourself alone I desire, that I wish always;
Having imagined You might cherish me.

In thought of You the day arrives and departs;
The night thrills with a sense of love.
Endless a drop and the Sea of Kindness;
With eyes smiling, gently beam.

You are Lord and Master, unseen and spotless;
Never anybody You dishearten.
I've no supplication, for You alone I long;
Having come, integrate with my mind please. 

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Sunday, August 10, 2025

He sees me, He hears me



(3435) Takhan ghana niilakashe

At that time on deep blue sky,
A crescent moon smiles;
Earth glides upon moonlight.
I had been a room inside,
Alone and absent mind;
You'd appeared by my side...
Hearing call, You'd arrived.
After the long wait mine,
Hearing call, You'd arrived.
I had been a room inside,
Alone and absent mind;
You'd appeared by my side.

I could not conceive, in dream I did not see;
I did not understand this event will be.
In scripture and philosophy, or in privy,
This fact none did speak.
What I did not imagine, that alone happened;
Having occurred, beyond dream it went.
In scripture and philosophy, or in privy,
This fact none did speak.

You belong to everyone in olden times,
In course of time, and beyond time;
Filling the world, You've remained.
A moist eye lotion pleasant,
From heart You've been flashing a glance.
At everything a glance You've flashed.
Nobody stays a bit hidden;
At everything a glance You've flashed.
A moist eye lotion pleasant,
From heart You've been flashing a glance.

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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Please come back



(3434) Alake aloke bhuloke dyuloke

In cirrus with light, upon earth and heaven's region,
For Him I search in form's splendor;
Himself oh I look for.
Oh I seek Him in splendor of form.
With star-song at the mind-pavilion,
In welkin, hell, and ocean.

My Gopal, He has been lost,
Unnoticed in the gloomy dark.
My Gopal, He has been lost;
Indignant from non-attention,
Somewhere distant He's gone off.

Won't Gopal come back again?
As much I cry, as much I try,
Won't Gopal come back again?
One time memory has gone; has He expunged?
Hope I have that afresh He will come.

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Friday, August 8, 2025

Ubiquitous and mysterious



(3433) Tumi nayanera jale hiyara atale

You are in the tears of eyes, in heart's abyss;
You've dwelt in the azure of Earth's atmosphere.
Beyond the reach of mind, in the whole universe,
You have floated like a cooling breeze;
You have gone on floating,
Like a cooling breeze You've gone on floating.

I don't find a shore, much as I go contemplate;
I sail upon such shoreless sea!
With this one and same Person in the whole world,
Oh there's no end of not knowing;
His end, lo it's not there,
This very thought's finish, lo it's not there.

From God to grass blade, You've remained filling;
Left over there's not any space.
To hide in fear, to go off fugitive,
I discover there's not any place.
You've remained all-pervading;
Like pupil of eye You've gone on rising.

You had been and You exist, You've gone on staying;
Lord, You have gone on staying.

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Thursday, August 7, 2025

It has been tough



(3432) Se je chilo mor nayaner tara

The apple of my eye had been He,
Morning's splendor, love's conviction;
Limitless the gold-exuding memory.

If anyone remains familiar with Him,
Please tell Him about me.
In Fall, the gaps of my white clouds betwixt,
Destiny has made my sorrow stream.
I don't forget Him, I cannot ignore;
For even now He is my heart complete.

He keeps on giving an unending cradle
At my deepest recess psychic.
Only a delightful honey drops below,
When going to search for Him.
I did not forsake hope, breaking I could not;
By the light of meditation I know He will yield.

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

No more run about



(3431) Tomar tare anek ghure

For Your sake having rambled much,
I resolved no more I'll go anywhere.
On the bank of mind's Jamuna,
To give embrace this time will be.

Upon passageway, a stream of thought,
I will remain in a frenzy Yourself for.
At Thy holy feet crimson,
Fixedly will I go on staying.

I've gone about, heeding vows and sacred days;
Many a pilgrim-site visit I have made.
Unto humanity schism I've conveyed;
Contemplating crux, rubbish have I chased.

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Sunday, August 3, 2025

Worthless?



(3430) Ami tomay bhalabasi, tumi jano na kena

In love with You am I,
Why don't You know this?
For You I laugh and I cry;
It's like You don't listen.

Days after days, they leave;
Nights aplenty, they go missing.
Many stars afar are falling;
Don't You realize it?

I've arrived from the Beginningless;
I drift on stream of the Limitless.
At Your foot a spore of pollen,
Myself, are You not familiar with?

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Friday, August 1, 2025

Oh so dreamy



(3429) Alokatiirthe lasye nrtye

At light's shrine with a dance-pose loving,
You appeared in a dream,
In a dream, oh in a dream.
Transcendent and well-versed in prosody,
With Your anklets ringing.

All things had been colored ebon;
That was giving gloom with a shove.
Removing it from everyone and filling psyche,
You gave a sweet resonating.

With such sweet ideation, every day please arrive,
To abate the filthiness of mine.
Upon the horizon like a blue lotus smiling,
Having brightened the existence of a unit being.

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Thursday, July 31, 2025

What is happening?



(3428) Tumi kabhu kandao kakhano hasao

Sometimes You make cry, sometimes laugh You cause;
What You fancy, I can't comprehend.
Sometimes You observe, other times You ignore;
Having pondered liila, I go on, become speechless.

Summer's bracing jui garland,
Juthika wetted by monsoon exudation,
And the night jasmine smiling upon dusk of Autumn,
Why You bring; the answer I don't get.

By the pre-winter's pallid-pleasant quality,
By wintry inertia honed and quivering,
By the springtime's floral beauty;
What You keep telling, that I only guess.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

My rock and my house



(3427) Ami bhalabesechi tomake

Yourself I have cherished;
I've nobody else.
You are my bud of psyche,
Heart's ambrosial essence.

At the auspicious rise of dawn You endure;
Hidden in the morning star You observe.
Life You coat with love's pollen;
Sorrow's weight You dispel.

At initial footfall You had been;
The whole world, You're pervasive.
Extending the hand on day of finish,
Please go on, my being held.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Ultimately



(3426) Prabhu tumi kata dure

Lord, how far You are,
I cannot perceive.
Having come close, You go and withdraw;
I don't understand this activity.

I hold on to You, I try;
Both scripture and philosophy study I.
With my store atomic, rapt in meditation,
I practice the sadhana of Thee.

My whole life, calling I carry on,
Having clung to hope after expectation.
Hey the Sportive One, e'er Wisdom Personified,
Your kindness I entreat.

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Monday, July 28, 2025

You come today



(3425) Aj sakale alor saje

Today at morning in light's clothing,
You arrived amid the psyche.
Song unsung You went on singing;
Asunder You broke the cliff hindering.

I had craved internally:
I will get You secretly.
You and I, we two will be
Tucked away under a tree.

So happened what I had imagined;
I received You in pleasure's garden.
By arbor's kohl ambrosial smeared,
Affection did You make stream.
You left telling that You will reach
When invoked wholeheartedly.

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Sunday, July 27, 2025

And so I did not see



(3424) Tumi na bale ele na bale gele, sakali liilar chale

You came not telling, left not telling,
All only by liila's trickery–
Like that betwixt sunshine and a frost wintry,
From the sight of time concealed.

Delightful is Your sweetness overflowing,
Like a moonlit night on waters of the sea–
It delivers yearning for that, incessant;
To Earth's surface, a love-stream.

So many games do You know, oh the Sportive Lord;
You are Wisdom's Avatar, screened from everyone.
Everybody's very own and deeply compassionate,
In this whole universe, the Dearest Darling.

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Saturday, July 26, 2025

Everyone first



(3423) Manavatake khanda kare

Human-ness fragmented,
What will be the human benefit?
What exists, that too will not persist;
It will also poison the cosmic wind.

The sun is never a fragment;
Nor a fragment, the dawn's loveliness.
A fragment human, piece molecular,
With ruin's seed it will be filled.

Time will elapse with a speed fiercely rapid;
An ocean of flames, overflow it will.
A floral garland and love's wicker basket,
They'll become the heap of ashes. 

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Friday, July 25, 2025

Transcendental



(3422) Katha jadi na kahile kena

When You spoke not, what's the reason,
Why Yourself You did reveal,
Why not stayed behind a screen?
I'd been waiting with much hope;
Having come, You increased despondency.

Stored had been much expectation;
So much ego-interest had been left undone.
At my mental room bejeweled,
Sparkle afforded disappeared.

Threadbare went the garland strung;
The song rehearsed came to naught.
Unheard was psyche's speech;
Beyond desire You were concealed. 

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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Love of the Supreme



(3421) Eki vahnishikha jvaliya ele

You arrived, lighting an amazing flame;
Like a fire in springtime, in mind a game of phag You played.
On mind all of Earth's nectar You made cascade;
Filling life with love, impetus You gave.

All the sorrow of non-attainment that had been in life,
It left, withdrawing into bliss of contemplation Thine.
You came Yourself, myself close by You yanked;
The blossom of hope with petals, abloom did You make.

At the month of Spring, mind by myrtle You did craze;
In multiple, songs at depth hard-to-reach You sang.
Everyone You vanquished, bright and red You made
With a nonstop serenity's tranquil air. 

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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Floral design



(3420) Maner malii je tumi

You are psyche's florist;
The mind You've kept on pleasing.
You distinguish not far or near;
For everyone You've formed a light-beam.

What had never ever been there;
That too into thinking You bring.
What into hearing did not come,
That You've brought by signing.

By generation, operation, and destruction,
Like the mind's abode You are.
Having been the dwelling of everyone,
With light You dance in ecstasy. 

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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Is it irony?



(3419) Tumi avahela kare esecho

After neglecting me, come You have;
Disregarded, then come You have.
Far off having cast and left in tears,
Presently myself You've pulled proximate.

Much bright light has gone and become ebony;
Withdrawn has many a Spring month prematurely.
As a bud have dropped night jasmines aplenty,
But have You flashed a glance?

By thunderbolts have been shattered so many dreams;
Ridicule and taunting jeers have inflicted injury.
Withered has the evening's malati;
Dwelling at a distance You've but laughed. 

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Monday, July 21, 2025

Prabhat Samgiit



(3418) Jyotsna rate manaviithite

On a moonlit night at an avenue of psyche,
I keep singing into every ear.
This My song is not a load of pain;
It is filled with key-note and melody.

This song of Mine, it is for thee;
It gets not lost in darkness gloomy.
Lives it in mind's cloistered dwelling,
Neath a motley floral canopy.

This song of Mine is exuded, dropping
Upon sands of a golden beach.
All distinction own and other, ignoring,
It goes floating far upstream. 

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Sunday, July 20, 2025

Even when I'm lonely



(3417) Bhuleo jay na bhola tomay

With You even forgot, ignoring does not succeed;
Even forgotten, one cannot ignore.
Within mind You lie hidden;
You have made anxious.

Your life-giving bamboo flute,
Mundanity it makes me indifferent to.
Even not viewing, I still love You;
In mind and heart I get swung.

Often I think I will forget–
Regarding You no more I'll recollect,
From mind I will expunge Yourself;
But I cannot... what is Your cosmic sport
What is this vital secret You permitted?
To remain alone You did not accord. 

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Saturday, July 19, 2025

Solitary



(3416) Tomar tare kata vyatha

Due to You there's so much pain;
Don't You realize?
At the month of springtime waiting I cry;
In the dark I abide.

On the sea of time, I search for peace;
In the gloomy darkness a light I seek.
From a desolate ocean love I beseech;
I don't see what I desire.

In this cosmic play lacking both start and end,
Why am I neglected?
By a game of duality at thought’s residence,
Will You go and hide? 

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Friday, July 18, 2025

Can't be caught



(3415) Tumi kena more dhara dao na

To me why don't You grant embrace;
To me why not capitulate?
You come close by, gently You laugh,
But inside heart don't want to stay.

In tears I'm swimming constantly;
Though starting to forget, I hold dear.
With the Unknown, mind goes on mixing.
Don't You understand this tale?

The lonesome path's Unknown Traveler,
You give target of a golden chariot.
A moonlit night's luster You scatter;
And where stopped, You don't remain. 

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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Pardon me



(3414) Tomara gopana katha, bhavanar vyakulata

Your intimate secret,
An anxious eagerness,
Today go on making heard
In monsoon songs aplenty.

What by mind had been concealed,
What spoke not out of vanity,
Kindly allow its utterance
Through cosmic key and melody.

Whatever had mystified,
What had been pleasant by surmise,
That having brought into hearing,
Its perpetual emission You cede.

Kindly stay afar no more,
A Deity cordoned off.
Suffusing thought, come below please
With kinship's constant tugging. 

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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Psyche gets dyed



(3413) Amar andhar ghare jvalle alo

You ignited light in my dark home;
Myself You love, it You told.
A mental bud did unfold;
With smiling glow, mind-sky also.

Ocean and mount, welkin and sea,
Your adoration do they sing.
The sunflower, facing upward,
Says: "You rise over my bloom unblown."

On this same color-day of Falgun month,[1]
Feet dropped in stealth, You did come.
Through water-flow in hue's spectrum,
Goal engrossed, You laid waste to nature low. 

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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Why tonight?



(3412) Kon se ajana srote

On which unknown tide,
Lamp in hand You had arrived
This very night to shatter slumber mine?
By darkness had it been ringed,
The lotus blossoming
That midnight.

Pained sorrow tear-laden
Had composed a chronicle.
Anxiety of non-attainment
Upon vernal wind has cried.

Many collections gorgeous,
Neglected, have floated off.
Moonlit smiles copious
Have mixed with ignorance and vice. 

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In so much bliss



(3411) Tumi je gan shonale vishve prabhu

The song You sang to the world, Lord,
With it You are married.
From the heart having been beamed,
On azure firmament it goes sailing.

Molecules and atoms dance, dance the stars;
And rapt they dance, ten million nebulas...
Screened from sight of everyone, to Your song's beat
The living being's longing rises passionately.

All created beings are a necklace of song,
A psychic Providence, throbbing and sonorous...
Elated by light's wine at a great festivity,
They know not what He wishes presently. 

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Monday, July 14, 2025

I know You are with me



(3410) Sparshamani tumi priya

Philosopher's Stone are You, oh Darling;
Ridding my defilement,
Make me as You like, and please receive.

To move on the way, upon body dust gets coated;
Flung so far backward by filthy sin it does let.
Yourself having come near and loved a little,
Kindly bathe me in Your waters holy.

Had You not remained, I'd have naught;
Only by Your remaining, I obtain all.
At end of my journey, myself exhausted,
Brighten with Your form and flavor, and melody.[1] 

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Saturday, July 12, 2025

You are everything



(3409) E suprabhate arun alote

On this fine morning with its solar light,
Upon my mind Your greatness bursts.
As much as what comes and goes each juncture,
Enveloping everything, Your call, it gets heard.

Hey the Omnipresent God, You're in every particle;
Hey the Musical One, You dwell in each spore of pollen.
On Your path of movement from recondite, beginningless,
You set off smiling to some unknown berth.

You had been, You exist, You will go on staying, that I see;
The everlasting entity is You only, I concede.
A mote of pollen comes and leaves, it swoons inside of Thee,
At an e'er lonesome spot, a mental recess Yours. 

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I believe



(3408) Cale amar ganer tarii

Sails my boat of song
Along melody of the form-sea.
To no embargo it pays heed;
It does not pause in fear of anybody.

Both night and day it proceeds,
Like far airplane upon wind of psyche.
All unholy practices, path-inhibiting,
Having hurdled, it goes on untiringly.

Straight ahead will it go, it is going,
In a song of humankind, birds, and beasts,
Towed by the Unknown Traveler's appeal,
With hopeful speech for company. 

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Friday, July 11, 2025

He answers love



(3407) Ajana pathik, ar ki ajana acho

Unknown Traveler,
Are You unfamiliar any more?
In existence and in absence, perceptibly,
You have floated on the mental mirror.

I hold that You're arriving from a state beginningless;
I know that You have gone unto a far-away realm.
Yet for a smiling bloom under a newly risen sun at present,
You've descended with mind's providential kingdom.

Psyche's jeweled luster, upon mind You drift;
At the realm beyond mind, You smile in thrill.
Nonetheless, I'd relied on love of the Great;
Hence, with awareness You have come. 

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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Protector of orphans



(3406) Jar ar keu nai

Those who have nobody else,
You are theirs.[1]
Who sing unaccompanied and helpless,
Hearing them You've remained.

The ones who come with others on the journey,
Each and every mental state has its own speed.
But those who move on the path only to gain Thee,
To them You've kept providing all luster and pace.

You're the orphan's guardian, life of the earth;
Amid the small and gargantuan, You are superb.
For everybody's sake is Your unearned allure;
By that pull, grip on the world You've retained. 

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Ever am I vanquished



(3405) Prabhu tomar manera katha

Lord, Your inner thought,
It is known not, fathomed not.
So deep are You, underworld touched;
Thus, to grant hold You want it not?

What little scholarship and intellect I garner,
I search for You, only by that power.
The little I understand through a meager knowledge,
Inside of that my depth I find it not.

In search of Source I lose myself;
By thinking get I lost, seeking the End.
Upon the path of movement, what I can inspect,
Time-borne is that, endures it not. 

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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Ever a mystery



(3404) Ei jalajhara varasa rate

On this same monsoon night, the rain dropping,
With a gloomy darkness and sleet,
In what form did You come, I cannot conceive;
Is this to beguile me?

Liila, when and how You go on making,
I seek reason, logic, the mind but to mislead.
Finally, finding nothing, buoyant do I want to be
On Your kind compassion-stream.

Of You there's no start, middle, or conclusion–
Immense and boundless, not two opposite shores.
At end, the quintessence of intellect and intuition:
All that is or isn't, become one, goes to Thee. 

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Monday, July 7, 2025

He came, He saw, He left His songs



(3403) Dur videsher kanakacanpa

The frangipani of another land, far away,
It had inundated life.
With bright glow on a wind sweet,
Floating in, it's song had arrived.

Light of glee on its cheeks,
In it there's no evil, only weal.
Uninvited, it had come one fine morning;
Having forgotten its any wounded pride.

At late afternoon, silently it dropped on me.
To unknown place it withdrew stealthily.
Left behind was its song with rhythm and melody;
Begun was its new enterprise. 

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Sunday, July 6, 2025

At the party of life



(3402) Tomare dekhechi jabe jiivaner utsave

When I've noticed You at life's festivity,
Upon a stream of light You were laughing.
In a garden blossoming, neath canopy of malatii,
Slowly-slowly You were floating with exquisite beauty.

Amid this restive world You had appeared;
Like ankle-bells jingling, You had heard weeping.
At only that sound, with dispersion sweet,
You had brought vitality to those foolish and worldly.

I've no count of days, there's no periphery of time;
An estimate of Your complete expression I don't find.
Sweetly smiling on an easy seat, with mind musing about weal,
You'd created a multicolored liila, amazing! 

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Saturday, July 5, 2025

Floating on the wind



(3401) Cetana keyur mor manera mayur

An ornament of cognition, my mental peacock,
Dancing, he races in just Your direction, Love.
Even though unfamiliar, strange even when known,
His inmost secrets he tells, song after song.

You alone are every heart-heaven's gem;
Of all jewels I consider You the best.
And so in thought-splendor, there is not Your likeness;
Shattering pride, You continue piercing everyone.

All pay heed to the tales of Your compassion;
Your generosity's ballads the world is aware of.
Greater than everyone, hence Your equal non-existent,
Omni-interlaced, You're in everybody's heart. 

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Friday, July 4, 2025

Extraordinary



(3400) Alokotsave esecho

With a festival of light You've come;
Onto lap You've raised a drained population.
Beyond reach of intellect, by wisdom's kindly decree,
You have lavished affection.

Hey Sovereign, such is Your compassion, incomprehensible;
From multitude just one... You achieved the impossible.
Hope You have infused by letting it be done.

Toward You all are gazing with scrutiny unblinking;
Human, bird, and beast, each minute they are counting.
You have gone ahead, taking love without speaking,
From a bejeweled lamp You've conferred splendor. 

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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Wherever You may journey



(3399) Tumi gan geye geye cale jao

Ever singing a song You go away;
You get lost to remote place.
In a jeweled mental room, the chest of gems,
A lasting line You let be traced.

Your identity I don't know, I cannot realize;
In Your proximity, naught but You I desire.
The Unseen Deity, You grant embrace;
An atomic being You drive insane.

Your passageway I won't defile;
I won't impede Your chariot of light.
Amid the mind You float on, at mirth You gaze;
Along with You my psyche You take. 

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Please let me always look to Thee



(3398) Tomar tare jiivan bhare, geye gechi kata gan priya

Throughout my life, for sake of Thee,
Darling, I've gone on singing many songs.
Perhaps they were not apt in raag or melody;
Maybe they had not been loud enough.

Countless songs I've sung at dawns so many
To draw back the web of night, darkness-replete...
To decorate with morning flowers the mind-sphere,
To make You sit, the One fit to be welcomed.

I've continued singing upon countless evenings
With a lingering sound of Your kind mercy-stream...
Wherever is gotten fused an existential zeal,
There do give me the otherworldly cognition. 

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Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Affection's drug



(3397) Ganer desher bhomra ese

The Bumblebee of Songland having reached,
What were the words that He did say
In every ear?
Mind's nectar with Him did He take,
From the springtime songs aplenty.

To Him a hindrance no one gave;
At no time did He get ashamed.
Into my garden of psyche,
He had come in secrecy.

When the Bee went away,
Faith of the needy He became.
With wet face at a forest empty,
I had wept in His reverie. 

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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Don't turn off the light



(3396) Aloker ei jatrapathe, prabhu tumi saunge theko

On this, the passageway of light,
Oh Lord, stay with me.
If I pause after having set forth,
Alone and helpless, don't leave me.

You'd accompanied in ancient times;
You'd brightened with colors Thine.
At this ill-boding time, girdled by death,
Don't forget this my story.

Also at the path's end You are there;
Existence You have carried per Your liking.
My ego's finish, its peripheral
Borderline's honey, coat that please. 

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Monday, June 30, 2025

Oh Lord it hurts!



(3395) Elo na elo na se ajo

Came He not, came He not, even today;
So did He forget me?
A stream from eyes flows on a hundred ways;
Oh, did He not understand my feelings?

The rain waters are falling without stop;
The mind peacock romps, beholding Him not.
With cloudy boundaries, not His, are daubed
The lines of stibnite like wine love-smeared.

There is not hope in the midst of cloudy collyrium;
There is no light of laughter, there is no tongue.
I beg just His caress, a rhythmic song's affection,
With fest of life in niche of mind hard to reach. 

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