Age of Bliss

(1210)  Tumi ele tamah sarale alo jvalale

You arrived, removed darkness, lit the light;
Distant ones You drew nigh.
You purged sins, conferred love;
You stirred hope in hearts forlorn.

In fear of darkness flowers did not blossom...
As there was no honey, bees did not assemble.
With effulgence You bathed everybody
In the beauty You did bring, the beauty You did bring.

After the gloom, a radiant age arrived;
Heavenly glow arose on four sides.
On Your own You made happen, managed single-handed...
Graciously You bestowed a flow of ambrosia.

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Distraction

(1209)  Tomar namer ruper melay

With a gala of Your names and forms,
You are cramming the whole universe.
Formless One, in Your play of beauty,
I fail to understand anything.

When I think that something is the finish,
Thereupon I see beginning's image.
Even after the end, there again is inception;
The wheel turns, kissing the vast firmament.

When about which is the best of all
Pondering, I get lost.
Afterward, there's still much more;
It appears, even more precious.

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Rapids

(1208)  Tomar namer ruper bhelay

On the raft of Your name and forms,
Who is that singing a song?
From forms unto formlessness,
The raft floats along.

Many cities and mountain peaks,
Much land surface and chasm deep...
Having crossed all that or overleaped,
Toward the unknown it proceeds.

In one corner of that raft only,
Please spare a solitary place for me.
Having engaged me with Your name wholly,
Do set me a-sailing.

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The silent revolution

(1207)  Alokeri van dekeche

A flood of splendor, it has summoned
All the darkness on this earth.
Those who had been veiled neath ebony,
In light their eyes crave opening.

There was dark and more dark still,
Each and every thing like cinder.
A touch of light, the joy of life,
Awakened those in that plight.

Upon the light came still more light;
It painted both the air and sky.
On yonder light eyes are kept peeled;
The bent knee that we offer is to Thee.

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His timeless light

(1206)  Kon se ajana prabhate

On some unknown morning
You'd ignited a light.
Even now that light is shining,
Minding not restraint of day or time.

In that same light came out life,
Heady-scented woods and gardens.
With the forms and colors from that light,
You'd made earth a celestial nymph.

In that same light is everybody's life;
That very light, great it is making.
With just that light, opened are eyes;
You'd given to the living spiritual awakening.

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Inside and out

(1205)  Ami tomakei bhalabesechi, jatai dure thaka

You alone have I loved.
Whatever distance You maintain,
However hidden You may stay,
You are the breath of life... I have understood.

In blue sky, You are the moon;
You are honey in the bloom.
In the wind You are the cool,
You are unblown flower's jewel.
Superhuman are You... I have realized.

You're the thunder and the lightning,
And the woodland scented sweet.
I am just a speck of Thee... I have understood.

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Drab no more

(1204)  Tumi ele alo jvalale

You came and lit a light;
You have loved effusively.
You opened eyes and gently smiled;
All sorrow You have sent elsewhere.

Neglected and disdained,
How many nights and days are passing!
You discerned the pain, and so You came;
With both hands You have wiped away the tears.

In sky is the moon, in the bloom is nectar;
But in my vicinity, just despair was there.
Then You arrived and applied color;
You've suffused the world with color's beauty.

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