Passing strange

(1695)  Tomari stutite tomare bhajite

To worship You through Your praise,
Why do I go on, Lord, You please say...
Please do say, please do say.
Homage to embellish with Your flowers,
Why did this become a weakness?

With Your lamp and with Your wick,
Offering Your greeting, what does it accomplish?
Transcending both mind and speech, You do not persist
Within chains of hymnal praise, even for a minute.

For holding You we build shrines
To Him Whom even the vast heavens cannot bind.
Scriptures will not suffice; they cannot describe...
Did He arrive and take leave, idols inside?

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God's grace is all there is

(1694)  Ajhore aj jhare pareche

Now in torrents has rained down
A drop of Your grace, oh Master.
It's Your kindness, it's Your kindness.
Skyward having looked, I exist;
But I cannot think, not a bit.

From the dark-cloud fringe of her saree
Svati's tears in love's stream
To oyster's bosom suddenly
Became pearls well-pleasing.

None brought with them anything,
And nothing leaves on their heels
Nor lingers above or beneath...
What remains is Your implication only.

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A future loving world

(1693)  Sei sonalii svapane ami

I am in that golden dream!
Oh I have seen one country
Where there is no cheating,
And nobody gives misery.

There the blooms are filled with nectar;
Furthermore, there are no thorns.
There, piercing dark-night's gloom,
Sparkles light of the moon.
There, Someone secretly in a region hard to reach
Has sung a song that is unending.

There the river is filled to high-tide,
And in her there is no decline.
There the breast is filled with empathy,
And its stream of amity is overflowing.
In that lustrous kingdom, myself having come,
I have found a faint echoing sound of love.

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When the light came

(1692)  Alor dhara elo neve

A stream of light descended
'Pon this earth tormented.
Dancing, dancing, on it went
Through the human psychic layers.

None was there who was omitted,
Gloomy-faced and trouble-ridden.
Vices seared, hurdles crumbled,
Light proceeded, piercing darkness.

Expectations myriad throughout the ages,
And tender affections wholehearted,
Together mixed with fruits and flowers,
Got infused into all strata.^[1]

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My gracious Lord

(1691)  Bhalabasi tomay ami, cai na kichui vinimaye

I am in love with Thee;
In return I ask for nothing.
But as You are always busy,
Please take rest at my dwelling.

You are my hope's light;
Of all that is auspicious, You are still more bright.
You lay to waste the touchstone-black of mind;
With You is this world of mine.

Hey Rudra,^[1] hey my Dearest,
Your dominion is just like ambrosia.
Your throne is on the topmost pinnacle,
And that is why I keep gazing upward.

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To yearn for Thee

(1690)  Akash jethay sagare misheche

Where sky has met with ocean,
The ocean has wanted it.
Cow's hoofprint wants to catch the moon,^[1]
And mind wants to obtain You.

Unlimited is the tiny-I's wish;
So the horizon it wants to outstrip...
And so it yearns for Ultimate in private,
Yourself inside of own psychic nest.

For all people, You are their dearest
And too their one thought most intimate.
So You're the One Whom everybody wants to get,
Lastingly, by means of own strings of love.

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Come to me on this fine morning

(1689)  Suprabhate ei rauna alote

On this fine morning neath the crimson light,
Who are You that arrived to fill up the mind?
With floral fragrance a wave does smile,
Frenzied by reflected beauty You did supply.

With dance-beats aplenty, oh You have come;
And You've laughed like the dancing gold in opal.
You have risen upon mind with a sapphire's color,
To make very zesty the face that is glum.

There is no impediment, so step forward please;
You rouse and uplift with love's touch only.
Mind wants to go and merge in just You, my Dear,
Through rhythm and song full of heart's intense yearning.

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