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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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