What is Your excuse?

(2597)  Bhalabasi tomay ami, cokher jale more bhasiye diyecho

Yourself I hold dear;
On tears You've cast me adrift.
At core of psyche the honey that's present,
Only that I've kept pouring; rejecting, You've grinned.

Of this hardheartedness, there is no comparison;
You look not back, and even seeing You ignore.
Nonetheless, I invite– I don't stay forgetting Thee;
I remain forgetting only that forgetful You have been.

I am puny, ringed by limitations;
In a scanty area, my perambulation.
You are huge, limitless and great;
Why have You gone on making such a liila?

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The sun also rises

(2596)  Alor pare andhar ase

After luster dark arrives;
With ebon's end comes the light.
Mental peacock that today cries,
Tomorrow, fanning tail he smiles.

This the essence, in mind keep:
Life is not a mere futility.
Dark is there, but there is light;
Sweet is mixed in what is vile.

This same earth ringed by light-beams,
It's packed with balloons motley.
This too is inside heart to gratify,
Arriving from the shadow's other side.

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Common paternity

(2595)  Gane gane mor manavitane

With many songs underneath my psychic canopy,
You brought and brought a rhythmic garrulity.
Those who were remote, with a tune of mystery,
They too got mixed in life, having come near.

Infused with the scent of metric verse,
All of heart's sweetness got dispersed.
With the raga You sang, You made life complete;
But its memory went far away in the forest of psyche.

Lacking You, in the three worlds^[1] there is nobody;
Yourself You did scatter with a jangle of melody.
You were and are, You dance within every atom;
At love's garden in each pore You are here.

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Why so heartlless?

(2594)  Bhulecho amake tumi

Myself You have forgotten;
Can't You understand that?
You visit close-at-hand, I dance in the current;
But in my direction You don't look back.

Watching the path, I await, hoping for Your advent;
Sleepless, with every breath I count the moments.
Why are You so ruthless, myself You've made bereft;
Afflicted's mental anguish, why don't You grasp?

Pay heed to my plight, the cosmic game forget;
Don't pour more pain in a mind, alone and helpless.
By Your grace I exist, ever I pray for compassion;
Although knowing it, are You aware of this fact?

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Thanks be to Thee

(2593)  Je rathe tumi calecho

The chariot on which You've traveled,
With mind-gems that cart is made.
The track that You've selected,
That path's ringed by fixed light-rays.

You don't wish for a thing from anybody;
You go on giving that which they beseech...
Lustrous hair or golden anklets,
Heap of wares, lasting or frail.

What more will I give to Thee?
Of me what's mine, naught is there.
Thinking Your things belong to me,
I'm beaten by vanity, by pride.

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In life sometimes it's best to just accept

(2592)  Prabhu tomar liilay

Master, Your liila,
It is hard to understand.
Sometimes it makes cry, sometimes it makes laugh;
Even when knowing well, not to know it asks.

You arrive, racing from the bosom of heaven;
In a far-flung psychic niche, You sit in silence.
Remaining unseen, You demolish any darkness;
Who thinks, states, or does what– You know that.

The everlasting liila is Your mobile chariot;
In the style that You move, that alone becomes the path.
Inside You merges and emerges all moral doctrine;
Every raag and raginii^[1] chants Your ballad.

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Our universal Dad

(2591)  Niirava carane varane varane

With silent feet and many colors,
Making flowers bloom You had come.
Having swum darkness in firmament's ocean,
On their countenance a smile You poured.

From the south came a temperate air-gust;
And on snow-cloud came a wind from north.
Being called, You received Earth's everyone
At lotus feet, with music-beat, dance, and rhythm.

All who are in the three worlds,^[1] everybody dances
Around You and inside Your psychic midst.
Constantly all beseech Your compassion;
Having known and called You "Dearest".

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