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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Like that I'll never know

(3344) Tomake janite bujhite giyachi

I've gone forth to know and understand You;
As often as I have, oh my Dearest Darling,
Forthwith, amid psyche I have viewed:
Unrivaled, You are shining brightly

I have seen You in the morning flowers,
In the arteries and veins on my mental earth...
With a gentle breeze, in chirping of the birds,
My music in the sound of a flight of geese.

To my intellect You don't grant embrace;
My intellect You take away.
My pride, a worldly vanity,
Like dust mixed with dust let it be.
Myself blanketing, the night acute;
Most remote I've made Thee.

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Wanting more

(3343) Kata na jug pare tumi esecho

After many ages You've arrived
At the honeyed Vrindavan of psyche.
You've suffused the mental sky
With cadence and song of sentient feeling.

For You the world had yearned,
As bedrock for our concerns.
That dream having achieved,
In meditation You appeared.

At a remote peak I see Your
Rumbling, tinted love-tryst
With just its hues my colors mingling,
I float in Your company.

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From thread to garland

(3342) Ganer malakhani tomari tare

The garland of songs for You only,
Strung had it been kept.
The day went, evening left; and in tears
The night was spent.

Age after age, hey my Beloved,
Love's thread had been with.
By song-blooms in Gokul of reverie,
Garland's form it did accept.

At far-remote place, wherever You dwell,
Yourself I will never forget.
With love and devotion brimming,
Yours became the mindset.

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For our welfare

(3341) Tumi sabar majhe lukiye rayecho

Amid everyone You've remained concealed,
In the midst of everyone.
Everybody's well-being, for all meditation worthy;
Everything You are suffusing.

Even getting proximate, happens not catching You;
In the act of description, language is consumed.
Mind-exciting, heart-enthralling,
By divine game You have frenzied.

Getting You does not thrive by intellect;
You don't surrender to science.
Humbling all vanity,
Wholesomely, You've held dear.

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This autumnal evening

(3340) E sharada sandhya nace madhuchanda

This autumn evening dances to a sweet cadence;
It is looking in but Your direction.
With fragrance of night jasmine in the white-cloud habitation,
Does anyone know what she yearns for?

Who knows when had been the first sunup;
The last sunset, none has in supposition.
You know everything, everyone You attract;
This evening, that fact it honors.

You bestow supreme devotion, that same tendency
By which strength, oh Lord, we can get totally free.
On even's crimson glow, with night-jasmine affection,
At Your feet I beg this compassion.

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