Around You how do my arms go?

(2672)  Tomake peyechi ami

Oh Yourself I've received
In the light's flowing stream.
I've obtained amid psyche,
At home heavenly of deities.

Holding I want to maintain,
For endless time, ever and always.
To forsake, mind does not wish,
Even a bit, by any means.

You have shown compassion;
Any sadhana, it was not.
Having granted unearned mercy,
You descended to permit apprehending.

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A grain of sand at base of sea

(2671)  Sandhyabelay balukabelay

At sundown, on a sandy ocean shore,
Seated on the ground, about You I reflect.
What motley cosmic portrait
Have You gone on painting, hey Providence?

In Your mind's eye You have witnessed
Many times a mountain subsides, star plummets.
Nebulae aplenty go sailing off, unattended;
They keep singing paeans to Your excellence.

The wildly intoxicated elephants,
With what strength how much movement they effect!
Along with them, You listen to spores of flowers,
Butterflies, their chronicles.

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Springtime ornaments

(2670)  Vasanta aj elo vane vane

Spring came today in woodlands aplenty;
It arrived in psyche.
Bud and green leaf have appeared
On invitation of it only.

The branch that was leafless,
Figure lost, it had wept.
With only beauty's wares in heaps,
Every moment does it beam.

Earth, under the snow's cover,
By decay it had been filled.
All inertia disappeared
With the floral jewelry.

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He comes for all and for all time

(2669)  Andhare tumi andhare esecho

In darkness, You have come in darkness;
A flood of light You have brought.
No one knew, no one understood;
Nobody guessed.

In the dark with body, mind, and spirit,
Gloomy, the humankind was aslumber.
On the face of everyone light-rays You lavished;
Termination of a sleep delusory happened.

With a floral wreath and a pleasant swing,
Like a garland of beams on a temporal journey,
Yourself You came, the way You did exhibit;
You maintained a lasting accomplishment.

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You and You only

(2668)  Jeo na jeo na, mor aro katha ache baki

Please don't go, oh please don't go;
I have still more words to say.
If right now You were to leave,
Alive with what do I remain?

How much has a zephyr whispered into ear;
What is the web that the skyline weaves?
Though unmindful was effusive heart to prestige,
Do You know that specific tale?

At scent of night-jasmine on autumn eve,
Psyche has been overwhelmed by happiness sweet.
The mind is replete, ambrosia is gushing;
That, pray tell, with what do I veil?

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My yearning was not strong enough

(2667)  Svarna pradiip jvele ami

Myself, a golden lamp setting alight,
I had sat on that evening.
Then, with the altar's floral necklace,
Wish had been to adorn Thee.

The evening star said to me:
"Getting thus does not succeed.
Lamp, wreath, and altar are external;
In the mind flashes that ruby."

Ineffective passed the night;
Extinguished went my gold light.
At nighttime's end Venus said:
"Again to heaven gone has He;
The lack was in sincerity."

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Gone are winter's clouds

(2666)  Eso eso dhyane

Come please, appear in meditation;
In my life please come.
I am counting days, watching for Your arrival
At the Spring's beginning in this sweet month.

In nighttime's dream I see just Your form's beauty;
On an azure sky rises only Your cloud-pageantry.^[1]
In thoughts of You it goes to some place remote,
The mind seized by a tune, with keynotes of a song.

On moonlit night drifts only Your sweet murmuring;
On my mental firmament Your jangling sound I hear.
At Your implication, the cirrus clouds^[2] shed a glow
In every nook and cranny of heart-core.

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