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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