Ask and you shall attain

(3514) E prabhat prabhu tomari krpay

By only Your grace, Lord, this morning
Coruscates a crimson light.
The night, veiling with gloomy darkness,
Had kept up, but in a moment went aside.

The Unknown's ambrosial essence, love's exudation–
Afloat on the southern wind, honey of a blossom.
A sweetly smiling sensation's blissful cognition
Had traced the forehead's sandal stripe.

On geese-flight wings, day comes and leaves;
A stir do memories of yore continue giving.
Who asks Him about getting and not getting
The bounds of vibrated life?

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Love maybe

(3513) Bhalabasi ki na jani na

I don't know if I love You;
It feels good to muse on Thee.
Hope having been launched,
Unto Heaven it spreads wing.

Bashful is my unblown blossom;
It gets mixed with Your color.
Lotus bud opening eyes,
It's as if it looks at sunbeams.

When the moon's light is in profusion,
The world fills with a dreamy infatuation.
Then like a star jasmine of Providence mental,
Your jingling resonance makes entry.

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I think of You only

(3512) Maneri e manikahar

This my mind's ruby garland,
Only for You is it kept.
Coming close and smiling supple,
It You don like charming dress.

What I have strung on the thread,
It gets not offered as a present.
When given it is like my own self;
And then alone, on sight it twinkles.

It gets not torn, this thread of love;
It does not dry up when becoming morn.
In but own thoughts it stays absorbed;
It hears not what who has spoken.

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Everybody's destiny

(3511) Nutaneri samarohe

With the grandeur of just novelty,
Hey the One Who's Ancient,
Much that is new came and retired
Within You, hey the Ever-Fresh.

Many new stars did arrive;
They flashed upon the blue sky...
Then got detached like aerolites,
No record when they came or went.

Many oceans with strings of waves,
All things to swallow do they crave...
Get lost inside You also they,
Hey Mind's Enchanter, ever transient.

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We proceed to wherefrom we came

(3510) Tumi hasate jano tumi kandate jano

You know how to make laugh, how to make cry You know;
In a wink You know how to hide by trickery of Sport.
A mild southern wind blows, beguiles a verdant beauty;
And You go on playing a pipe of bamboo at heart's core.

Immensely vast and deep, You're the universal shelter;
Keeping company with everyone, there is none Your likeness.
Hey the Ocean Supreme, beginningless and endless,
In good times and bad, the greatest Deity You are.

Whatever fear or shame endures, whatever dirt remains,
Instantly it gets removed, Your touch having gained.
Sadhana is of the Cherished One, the dispatch hard to attain;
Steadfastly You permit a pouring of strength from mantra.

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Winding my way to Thee

(3509) Chandahara mor ektara

My one-stringed lute, rhythmless,
Toward You it goes racing.
With rent hope in unspoken tongue,
It wants to get You only.

For getting or not getting of the realm above,
With brightness and a thrill is the lamp of thought.
The jeweler of psyche, illumination's essence,
At Paradise He makes swoon perpetually.

I've gone on mistaking what I've craved, what I've gained;
There's no end of desire, I have known the same.
From where forehead's affixed bindi is kept stored,
Existence and progress pray for nectar of happiness.

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Moving toward Thee

(3508) Kena tumi more deke jao

Why do You continue calling me?
Not for an instant that call do You cease.
Trifling am I, I am insignificant;
Why do You want to get my proximity!

I have come to this place by a flow of light,
On Your imagination's current of desire.
Afloat ever proceeding on a tune of unknown site;
In movement's passage, You provide the speed.

Oh the Unknown Traveler, unfamiliar are You too;
Always with me, You as well, please do move.
On the path of movement, strength kindly infuse;
Then goad me by Your preferred mode of melody.

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All my hope rests in Thee

(3507) Mor din cale jay asha nirashay

My daytime goes away between hope and despair,
Just due to You, Darling, for Your sake only.
Oft I smile with futile dream, oft I cry in pain,
Hey my Ultimate Welfare serene.

On the world above I keep sight;
I stay gazing at the azure sky.
In tears Yourself I invite;
A small reply kindly cede.

Remained has an ebon fog
Amid my psyche's every pore.
In charming raiment having come,
Remove that gloom please.

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Making a fool of me

(3506) Se priya jadi na elo

That Beloved, when He did not come,
Why for naught in the mind kept?
Why made up a floral bed,
Stayed gazing at the path of advent?

Within the frost bathing,
Night jasmine fragrance filling,
On a raft of white clouds mounting,
Why oh why at Fall addressed?

Why believed is a sweet memory;
Why practiced is love's ditty?
Why oh why bending the knee
For Him Who leaves me by myself?

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It's Your sweetness

(3505) Priya tomar tare

For Your sake, Sweetheart,
By Your love's attraction,
I have come with wicker tray
In a new Phalgun month.

All of the flowers mine that had bloomed at mind's forest,
In this tray had been packed their shared scented sweetness.
That alone I have been pouring out, I've no more remaining;
You accept it with a smiling visage.

A bud unblown received Whose fragrance and Whose concept;
With a hope of Whom had waited the nectar of pollen?
At Your footfall, at descent of sweetness envisioned,
He rushed in; who knows the reason?

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Let us celebrate

(3504) Maner madhuvane se esechilo

He had come to the pleasure grove of mind;
Why so, I don't know.
Looking closely He had smiled.

Buds did not bloom at that time;
Blew not the winds of springtime.
By that same vibration pleasing,
Open did anxious eyes.

Sound of lotus feet made flowers rise;
He came, a southern breeze behind.
In a corner of the mind, secretly,
That sweet month^[1] He did provide.

Obsolete departed, and the new arrived;
Ballads of sorrow were defeated by dye.
Through sweet beauty of strings of light-beams,
Drear did the New Year set aside.

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Don't be shy

(3503) Juthika malay kabarii sajay

With string of juhi jasmine a topknot embellishes;
Today, this evening, which is that fair maiden?
With form's Providence in floral dress,
Seated solitary, she deceives herself.

For Whose sake this lovely shape had arrived?
Getting Whose touch had it floated upon eyes?
At the sky she gazes with what tipsiness?
She goes dancing rapidly by Whose encouragement?

In every seed of sesame, a paragon of beauty;
There is not the least time to be seated waiting.
To Earth He dispatched you, hey beloved;
Take note of what He wants each moment.

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My all I give to Thee

(3502) E prabhat amari tare

This morning, it's for me only;
This morning is for only me.
Oh sing will I, hues I'll apply;
Blooms I'll unfold, tier after tier.

Inside my mind's bejeweled hall
Is everything that becomes lost–
One and the many move in accord,
Upon a single lute-string.

Listen, oh Pilgrim Unknown,
The ruby in my gloomy home–
With rhythm and melody, sweetness replete,
I dance, Yourself encircling.

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