Much more than what He seemed

(3694) Cander deshe hathat ese

From Moonland, having come of a sudden, Which sprite went on singing songs? He thrilled with melody, set adrift on ideation; Mind He did abduct, unmentioned. Of thought's house there is no periphery; There's no bar on coming and going. Nothing is the like of its prosperity; It allowed keeping both sides of sport. In a feigned garb He had come; He went, leaving the pollen of love. At azure firmament with hint of Unlimited, He kept sailing on a stream of song. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

With moonbeams on sea and land

(3693) Alo esechilo cand hesechilo

Light had come, the moon had smiled. Alongside dark clouds with lively passion, A peacock had danced; buoyant had been the mind. Gloom's end had been, Darling, I have realized; Despair having rid, hope You give in full supply. My bewitched prostration You acquire; You played on psyche's lyre. My dormant heart, awakened it did rise; Awareness defunct, sense returning, it arrived. With drunken zest, frantic became life; Into one the many, they did unite. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

A mystery

(3692) Vedii sajate diip jvalate

Altar to adorn, a torch to ignite, I have gone on searching for a matchstick all my life. For just Your sake, upon eyes, I've traced collyrium time after time. That matchstick's in just Your hand, I have realized; The wreath I keep seeking, is in company Thine. Match is got with garland, You were kind; The wings of mind's goose,[1] at own nest they alight. How many ages I have sought, that too I know not; In how many forms I am seeing, that too I grasp not. I understand just this much: In life Yourself I seek; Hey the boundless Infinite, unto me awakening You provide. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

May we unite

(3691) Vishva jethay liin haye jay

Wherever the universe gets dissolved, Oh Cosmic Sustainer, it is under Your protection... Hearing of, thinking of, and meditating on the Lord In unison totally harmonious. Amid the many has remained the One; Dances the throng in a single, playful love... At an arbor of the One, in many a collection, Circling lotus feet, bumblebees hum. Having come from the One, into One they get absorbed; Finally becoming one are numerous ruminations... In the many's decoration He reigns with single thought; To that Cowherd King everybody pays attention. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

She gets assisted flight

(3690) Ganer e mala genthechi

This wreath of songs I've threaded, As I'll make You wear it, Dear. I wet it with ambrosial essence, Evening colors, watered by tears. It moves swaying to and fro, like an earring At base of stamen on lotus of psyche. Forgotten is distinction of friend and enemy, Eyes having raised up unblinking. Eyes have opened, having broken sleep; At shrine of mind, light has appeared. A deep-blue sky has spread wing, Feathers of a remote goose beneath. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Honeysuckle wisdom

(3689) Madhumalatiir mane kii maya chilo

What had been the magic in a Rangoon-creeper mind? Knows that not a person. What tale did she tell regarding rays of moonlight? Lunar digits she had fathomed. She had told: "Everybody moves in this Creation; All come and go off, none impedes anyone. Upon everybody emanates Providential love, Like a crimson light lustrous." Yet more she'd told: "There is only one Who is Dearest of all, The smiling, pure, well-intending, Cosmic Source. He is the ever-unseen splendor, His alone the Love Supreme; He is dazzling every second." Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Only so much one can do

(3688) Tumi eso amar ghare priya

Beloved, do come to my residence; Having opened door, I sit waiting. I have lit a torch, I've strung a wreath; An altar, I have kept it neat. I've no one to call my own; Private thoughts, which do I make known? So in plenty and in need, I want You alone; A load of love, poured I've let be. Hey, the ever-sweet One nearest, Stay with me in life, in death. In heat like cremation, with cow-milk as offset, A flower-bud I've kept replete. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

From You everyone gets everything

(3687) Vinati jai kare tava carana dhare

Catching Your feet, I keep paying obeisance; Do come to my house, repeatedly showing kindness. There are countless mansions to satisfy mind; Nonetheless, You alone are this my hut's architect. To only Your beat I dance, in only Your tune I sing; I heed just Your tempo, just Your lute I make ring. I too am but Yours; oh everything is only Thine, Just Your liila; You are this, my worldly existence. In just Your thought I think, in just Your talk I speak; By just Your flute I beam, by just Your goad I proceed. You are the base of all, You alone the quintessence; You're the life of everyone, hey Eternal Lord limitless. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Light pours from Your eyes

(3686) Alasa prahare karunay ankhi bhare

At an idle hour, with a kindly eye, Master, You had gazed in direction mine. With a rumbling wind, with sound nice, On a hill of darkness You'd emanated light. Again and again thunder's roar had happened; Worldly life by lightning strike had been rent. At lonesome retreat sweetly-charming having smiled, With own hand, my eyelids You wiped. Even though puny, I knew I'm not unattended; Abed, dreaming, and awake, You are a friend. Amid my sense of 'I', with regal pomp resides Your ambrosial splendor of limitless time. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Repeatedly

(3685) Jyotsna rate tumi esechile

On a moonlit night You had come; Bright purity making pour, You had gone. Distracted had I been by vain delusion, My secret thoughts and feelings You had fathomed. In life, won't that night re-appear? That full moon at dawn,[1] will it smile again in thinking? That lunar crescent, having withdrawn, Will it make mind's peacock dance by strength of mantra? Phagun's night again having come and disappeared, New affection blazes on the palash tree. With buds newly risen sways a branch of silk-cotton; On earth's surface once more has got left wares of love. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Inextricably entwined

(3684) Tomake bhalobasiyachi

Yourself I've been holding dear, Knowingly in my lifetime. Abed and in dream have I seen; I have gone on seeing when I rise. Why I've loved, I know not; My longing had been non-stop. There had been no ritual sadhana; Nonetheless, I have seen all the while. In Your name, in song Thine, I find a gladness immense. Though trifling, I've kept understanding You alone are everyone's quintessence. When You reside within thoughts, Upon life You apply pollen of love. Finally, it gets mixed with absence of light; Everything is within Thee, Your attribute thereby. Hey Dear, Yourself the people desire; Hence, the vital pulse inside. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

You came

(3683) Andharer parapare

On the dark's other shore, To a tryst lustrous, You did come. No gift did I wish, I did not throw a tiff; You effused an unearned love By God's rise, eastern skies You brightened; Tender leaves of color excited the mind-realm. With the octave You infused a lyre broken, Unobserved everything You performed. For many ages have people yearned for this arrival, Shaping the collective at heart of a Giant Individual. Great's Vortex swirls within molecule and particle; You fulfilled that hope by having come. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Birthright of one and all

(3682) Nikhil manas manthan kari

Churning the mind entire, Oh Lord, You have come. Surging, a geyser of gold alike, You have smiled in form amorphous. Moment, instant, microsecond, You heed not; For mission of welfare You frustrate not. By dictate or self-restraint, lax You're not; Firmness You have taught. Heart's sweetness is the same for everybody; All sing a song on the strings of feeling. Great's pull is felt also by those living; It is held in common, You have mentioned. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Even though my words mean nothing

(3681) Dakate asoniko krpate ele

You came not at my invitation, by grace You appeared; I have gone on calling, my own mind to appease. Via speech You came not, by thought You appeared; Singing praise and flattery cannot make You blink. Nearest and most intimate, You are the sweetest; You know everything, and yet You listen, Dearest. Having rid the misty fog of my egotism, Embrace to grant, You stand ready. Whatever praise or flattery or prayer that I do, It's to please and get You near, my Lord Vishnu. Having grasped my foolishness, view wretchedness too; Upon my consciousness, sweetness kindly smear. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

How they relate

(3680) Tumi jabe chile mane

When You'd been held in mind, Upon sky the moon had been. Won't it come once more? Through Your love's salve for eyes, The moon had been rising. In sound and in thinking You exist; You dance both without and within. You have dwelt in every particle; Yours is no comparison. Golok and Gokul are You in; At every pore do You grin. Lit-up dust motes You have thrilled; The moon's 'You', it's mysterious. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

In absentia

(3679) Ashrusajal mor ankhipate

On my eyelids tear-drenched, You appeared this morning, hey Beloved. You had no invite nor a ride; Having visited, You go off in secret. You smile at the dawn's break of day; On painted tender leaves of speech You sail. With bloodred lips You talk, Heart-Flame; With mind You get acquainted in a moment. Rose-scented is the tint of Your splendor; Beguiles Your lightning in a golden color. Your keen intelligence is world-famous; With each pore and cavity You're inseparable. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

In this very life I will find Him

(3678) Priya jadi na elo phire

If the Beloved did not come afresh, For Whose sake am I, for Whom will I stay resident? Air and sky estranged, ransacked is a planet; Amid molecule, for Whom will I quest. I'll look for Him in nebula; I'll search in moon and star. Ever seeking in heaven afar, Having caught, I will fetch. At a distance He can't dwell; My mental cavern I'll inspect. By love, Himself I'll surely get On the other shore of darkness. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

You can do better

(3677) Amake priya tumi bhuliya gecho

Darling, myself You've forgotten. There are many loving You still more; A petty 'I' You have sounded. My Dear, no intellect, patience, or strength have I; There is no stored-up fruit of samskara benign. Salty water from pain-wet eyes... Is that why far away You've retreated? I am Your place-of-worship's earthen lamp, In trembling breast, asway like half-blown kadam. The ruby dot upon a forehead sweat-dabbed You have forgotten; You've done well. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Hallucinogenic

(3676) Vishvabhuvane dola lagiyecho

You've set asway the universe entire; Dance You've made in body and mind. The moon, star, planet, and nebula... Everyone You've filled with life. Your fondness, ever it sparkles; Rushing out, it frolics on Earth and in Heaven. By a string of waves from the cloud's body, Sweetness You've made betide. Telling Your majesty does not succeed; Concept does not find the language of speech. On coast of wisdom's sea or at heart's core, in depths, With many a color brightly You've dyed. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Don't mind me

(3675) Tahari ashay patha ceye hay

The path is watched, alas, in hope of Him only; Day after day of mine disappears. If someone would console, please ignore this worry; For the person who gets Him, the sky's moon is He. I see my love sprawling neath the splendor of moonlight, Veiled eyes bashfully inviting nigh. Smearing just His pollen on each molecule of mind, Swoons remembrance in a constant reverie. Gracefully, the Stamen of a lotus speaks; "Who, when and where finds the flag, it is by mercy. He blends hue with His, who continues in dhyan calling; In the heart of her alone scintillates He. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Lord, my heart is full

(3674) Ami tomay bhalabasi, janai kii kare bojhai kare

Yourself I adore; How do I describe, I edify whom? Entering inside mind, You fathom My thoughts unexpressed, like the flow of Phalgu.[1] My thought does not find language; All hope is pain-struck. Desert-thirst, summer's corpse, Tears they exude. Like a river spilling o'er the shore, A ballerina dances, churning thought. Surging upwards is effusive heart, Calmly unmoved. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

The crest to my trough

(3673) Saomya ramya prashanta dhiir

You are unruffled, idyllic, tranquil and steady; In a storm-tossed life, You are the southern breeze. The solemn Himalayan mountain, banner of lightning, You're the Black-Curdled Ocean, in thought very deep. On Summer's burning anguish, You are sandal paste; At monsoon's screwpine forest, the fragrant air. In Autumn's kush and kash, the sound chaste; From a white cloud o'er anxiety, the dew refreshing. On Prewinter at close of night, the misty fog; With Winter's fall of ice, the fright awesome. At Phalgun's abode, a green-leaved garland Plays a song of Your veena in the Spring. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

True worth

(3672) Tomar katha bheve din cale jay

Contemplating You daytime goes away; Yourself do I love, oh I hold dear. At Your Gokul of mind, light-rays coruscate; By that light, eyes are kept smiling. Unfamiliar and unknown, You are my own nonetheless: The Master, Eternity's quintessence. Absent You I don't exist, this fact I grasp constantly; Compassion Thine is gloom's undoing. With soul You are mingling, hey the Unseen Godhead; Not having got to see, I cry... this is my foolishness. Rashly discarding knowledge for an oyster-shell silvery, Toward mirages I come racing.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Fearsome Friend

(3671) Sudur ambare meghadambaru

On far-distant firmament a damaru of clouds Sounds Your clarion,[1] and quakes all of Creation. When You dance tandava with furious ideation, All the filth and gloom, demolished it be. Through an infallible trident, Heaps of sin, root and branch, float off whence. Vice You rid, aloud You laugh; By third eye any injustice You sear. Subduing evil, You're protector of the righteous; Beauty of the universe, You're the love of everyone. Who knows whereto it departs by Your darts dreaded; From the earth all depravity retreats.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

So fine on the outside

(3670) Tomake peyechi kata tapasyay

By however much austerity, attained You have I... Inside my heart-core, You remain still more near. To contemplate it feels fine, like a sweet moonlight; Round about You dances my psychic honeybee. The Earth's quintessence, hey Beloved, Everyone's reverend couturier... By action-inclined intellect, fit to be remembered, Hey the Splendor Unseen, everybody prays always to Thee. Your chest of affection, it is endless; Granting compassion, always it goes on and often. Hey the precious Lapis Lazuli, immense mine of diamonds, In life and in death, Your sweetness reigns supreme.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

With You as my Companion

(3669) Ami caini kona kichu tomar kache

I wanted nothing in Your presence; I have simply gone on singing, I have kept singing. I made no declaration, ever having begged; In meditation I've kept seeing, song I've gone on singing. Between You and me the distance is hard to cross; Full of tunes unknown, immense had it been, without shore. Utterly full of desolation, it had been cloaked in fog; And yet I have kept pondering, a song I've gone on singing. Master, You showed unearned kindness; You remained looking toward a face despondent. I am and will continue staying for the whole of time endless; With You I have been in love, a song I've gone on singing.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Wanting is not receiving

(3668) Alo esechilo phul phutechilo

Light had arrived, flower had blossomed; Why did You not come? A cloud had told, the wind had sung: Be known He will come, that One Adored. Mind had believed no more tardiness will be; With night jasmine fragrance those same words speak. The cuckoo coos in my ears two; In them had it said, fetch from cogitation. I don't understand at all why You did not appear; After soul searching, I proceed knowing: This dark home for entrance into, I ignited no lamp, not a one.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Life is replete, because I love You

(3667) Tumi jano kina jani na

Whether You realize, I know not; Yourself love I Whether You look or don't look at me, I see Your sweet smile. If You wish to keep forgetting, go on ignoring; Otherwise, draw me near. If by fog You let be ringed, Stop not Your charming pipe. Nothing for me I desire, Not to be king, even of Kuber's empire. Having contemplated You I become satisfied With life all the time, day and night.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

On a shoreless sea You are my one and only anchor

(3666) Tomar ratul carane more

Toward Your rosy feet, myself unto, Hey Master, grant a love unlimited. I float like blade of straw on water; At lotus feet I crave refuge forever. Floating on a mundane stream I move; In the world I've no tie of roots. Hither and thither do I wander; Peace I find not, station I don't discover. Since when the start of floating; One knows not of its history. For a while You make one see the mind-jewel; For a bit You make heard hymns of fearlessness.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

The thrill is keen

(3665) Gane gane bhariye dile

With many songs did You fill This Your world, hey my Lord. Dances both the atom and molecule; In song's music mode, puny and large. The nebula, on does it dance; The meteor and star do prance. Planet and moon, they caper; Remain dancing, great and small. The peacock, with tail it dances; Autumn, with kush-kash and night jasmine. Honeyed buds and silken shoots, Simultaneous in Spring, dancing they cause.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Only You encourage me

(3664) Jhalamala alote dhara tumi daoni

You did not surrender to glittering light-rays; Upon tears of grief, Bosom Friend, You had come. Toward a decorated altar, You didn't gaze, even by mistake; Upon wails of pain You had granted vision. With Shravan's load of clouds, in life You had appeared; Billowy waves, they had shattered in dream. None were close, all have gone far away in fear; You alone, having come, had said I'm not abandoned. With Neptune's tandav, like a fire's burning, Each moment You were with me, in all my dearth and plenty. Never You withdrew afar, Lord, under shelter You have kept; On a singed forehead You've traced an unbeatable tika.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

By Your grace

(3663) Varasa esechilo bharasa diyechilo

The rains had come, confidence they'd given Earth will get anew lush verdancy. Amid that same faith, in beauty reigned Your song; In it had been Your love replete. Moorhens will call again, pied cuckoos won't covet water; With the peacock's tail will dance a rousing sentiment. In many rhythms and music beats, the screwpine blossoms Will give pollen from a driven psyche. On the bank of lake will rise the sound of frogs; Bumblebees will buzz around the stamen of cadamba. Beyond reach of mind, on the far shore of fog, The Star of North will sparkle brightly. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

I cannot forget

(3662) Tumi chile sukhashayane

You had been upon a bed of ease; I have gone on calling and calling, Beloved. My call did not pierce Your idle ear, But I forsook nonetheless. At Vaekuntha You had been sunk in sleep; Days have passed effort-free on an earth without mercy. Forgetting my direction, You looked not eyes opening; You saw not how much I have wept. Yours alone is everything: water, sunlight, fruit, and blossom; Not a thing belongs to me... I'm a beggar of Your favor. At every pasture You dance, with both lips You grin; In Maya's slumber I have not forgotten. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

When ego's bubble bursts

(3661) Ganer e aunginate

At this courtyard of song You arrived on this same morn. You'd been hid in mind's collyrium; Suddenly You permitted vision. You're the world's quintessence; Yours is all action and knowledge. By vanity becoming drunk, Mind to deceive, I believe to me belong. Absent You none else is there; A bubble Yours is everybody. At Your sea ablution having done, Finally with Thee will I move in unison. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

A snake swallows its tail

(3660) Ele arupa srote ruper paridhite

Came You, the Formless, on stream in form's circumference; Hari, my most Beloved, You remove the dark. With Generation, Operation, and Destruction at fixed residence, Hey the Bliss-Player, You make liila. When You entered into form, the form-free Godhead, Which was that time of yore with a light fest? Vitality, by which elixir did You spread; And how many diadems were retracted from a Kamsa? Never does it happen, Your coming and going; Master, You are not obstructed by an erstwhile territory. Nonetheless, the foolish mind invites Yourself near, Even though You are intralocomotional.  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Only slightly visible

(3659) Tomare ceyechi gopane

Yourself have I wanted privately; Beloved mine, You are everybody's boon companion. You are in an existence, with rhythm and song replete; Though fit for recollection, in fact You're enveloped. Alongside, a lamp of light You've retained, Mid leaves of love a swing You have swayed. Also the one slighted, with You is he placed; No one in the universe You ever make lonesome. Whose someone isn't anywhere, he too calls out to Thee, Through gaps of only cloud external-and-internally. Though dormant in the worldly, in thought You are shining, Exquisite with white moonlight, the full moon at dawn.[1]  Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Even though we don't spot

(3658) Banshari bajiye jay sahasa nayane cay

A bamboo flute He goes on playing, looks with eyes smiling, Today in Gokul He makes sport, Golok's Hari. With painted lower lip He entertains; Ever calling, everyone He tells: "Rush near!" None is not His kindred, distant is nobody; All are family, He finds everyone in thinking. The Jamuna, upstream with waters lively does it race; A string of waves sway like His wreath of rosary peas. For quelling the wicked, the righteous to maintain, Sin's flag of carnage, its collapse to make, He comes frequently, a drumbeat with bow's twang; In this world a store of virtue His like is not there. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Everything I be...

(3657) Je amare jahai baluk

Whatever anyone myself may tell, Yourself I've held dear. Your arrival and Your smile, In my life they play a pipe of reed. All hope of mine relies on Thee; I will go on staying in abode of psyche. Hey the Messenger of Peace, Unruffled Beauty, So it is I come again frequently. You are ever in Vraja's ideation; You've remained coated by the phag of my love. Hey the One by milkmaids adored, For Your sake only, do I laugh, do I weep. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Maybe it won't be today

(3656) Akash balechilo vatas balechilo

The sky had told, the wind had said– They had hinted to everyone: The Sun, You will arrive; You'll abide no privation; Unholy practice will finish on this earth's surface. In the heavens comets fearsome will not dance any more; Golden existence won't permit tails of destruction. Become introspective, heart-filled will be all; Earth's Onus-Remover, every moment they will get Your love. For Your auspicious advent, the world is ready; You allow it be made wholly self-sustaining. Drowsiness dispelled, salvation-road is seen quickly, You let it be lively-made with a mind-strength vigorous. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Help me to help You

(3655) Giitir kanu priitir kanu

Kanu[1] of song, Kanu of love, Kanu of Vraj, this earnest petition, It's in my mind: At a sweet garden, Hey Mohan,[2] do smile with conviction. Searching for that does not finish In a mountain cave or remote jungle. Only that is on mind's floral dais; Please arrive, clad regally, hey Avatar of Sport. To speak of Your merit, To promote Your name's luster, By a string of waves from nectar's ocean, Hey the Lord of Heartcore, show compassion. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

What did You say?

(3654) Tumi kii cao ami janina

What You crave, I know not; What's it You say, I grasp not. Oh Who are You, the Unfamiliar Pilgrim; Just for an instant why don't You stop? Blessing of heaven You have brought; You've effused a heap of love. Risen have You in the mind-pores; To fathom this liila I cannot. Like moonlight's moon You've brightened up; You've overlaid rainbow colors. Wild You've driven with a monsoon song, Hey the One Inchoate and Incog. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Benevolence begins with Him

(3653) Shivashaunkaraha he shubhaunkarah

Shivashankar, hey the Auspicious One, Seed of the world, Master, storehouse of compassion, Like a silver mountain is Candrashekhar, A gem resplendent, welfare's source. You've a battle-axe in hand, with aim to bless and rid fear; E'er I prostrate before Thee, kindly take pity on me. May You be pleased, hey the Perception of Intention, Clad in tiger-skin and wielding bow thunderous. Established in the principle of social equality, Your sea of attributes, by scripture it is not revealed. Particles of dust from Your feet, please give to me; Transcendental and primordial, undaunted Lord. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Kidnapped or eloped

(3652) Niilsayarer svarnakamal phutechilo kabe

When it had bloomed, the golden lotus of blue sea,[1] Who perceives? Amid blue ocean's bosom, with the light's festivity, In a song of sweet amity... Having lifted face underneath the rays of morning, In the wind it was swaying like a dangling earring. To present a scent honeyed it was not forgetting, From just the wine of love and a life cadence-replete. Suddenly, that one fairy, Catching it, off she carried. No taboo did she heed; All pain's while totally mute, in privacy. Sarkarverse article Audio recording