Absent Your light

(2879)  Cai jata bhule jete nahi pari bhulite

Much as I want to forget, I cannot ignore;
Rising atop Eastern Mount,^[1] Your luster flashes.
Packing a house with light, the fondness-shrouded body
Goes to Your mountain, to the downpour of sweetness.

What's stayed amid the mind, has stayed behind and in front;
It's there in wealth and penury, oh does that get forgotten?

In the past it had been with, even still it's along;
Having stayed whole life beside, close by it will go on.
In a huff momentary, not looking in its direction,
Having thought to neglect that, oh how hard was it!

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After so much misery

(2878)  Diiner e kutire takao phire

Look anew upon this hut of one who's wretched,
Oh the Savior of the World;
For You only am I waiting,
I am waiting.
On a restless wind at mental garden,
Hey Donor of scent and hue,
Stay not apathetic please.

To the distant azure days go away;
Month and season race to a place where lost are they.
And yet I am alert, awake for ages and ages;
Yourself I hold dear.

I know that pious effort is not without use;
Hey the King of Kings, desire devout You will conclude.
With honeyed wine, please arrive at life's fete,
Annihilating all the gloom in a jiffy.

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It must be love

(2877)  Amanishar tamasa bhediya

Piercing a new-moon night's gloom,
Torch in hand, oh Who came,
Oh Who are You that came?
Do You love, I had mused...
Is that why You've kept dark at bay?

River-like I've moved ahead;
Upon a stream I've set afloat all torment,
Any stigma that to bosom I have taken,
Everything accumulated on the bank.

Toward Your isle this river migrates;
Oft in spate, oft on wane,
Ever wittingly, untroubled always,
The great union's altar, at its base.

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Just thinking of You

(2876)  Niil akashe bhese chilum

I'd been afloat on a blue sky;
Musing on You was I that day,
I that day.
I had obtained amid the mind
The formless You in a garb strange.

Ignoring difference between self and other,
To my throat I took and lifted up,
Unblocking dam of all inertia,
Your song, hey the New Always.

Not a thing do I desire;
Let preference lurch ever behind.
Leaping o'er obstacles, both low and high,
Into untruth wretchedness will fade.

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Tiny though I be

(2875)  Canpar kali bale jeo na more bhule

The champa youngling states: "Don't forget me;
I'll go on scattering scent.
I'm a bud, I'll be a blossom,
Upon branch I will sway back and forth;
On a garland having come, your mind-state I'll make forget.

"Day and night, one story only,
Just one hope, one worry;
I will dance through ever-floating pollen.

"On the edge of forest, my dwelling,
Affection is moving with me;
I will keep you full of beauty and merriment."

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You call, and I comply

(2874)  Amar manane bhaver bhuvane

In the realm of thought, in my thinking,
By name did You summon me.
You told: "Do not cry, don't feel lonesome;
Every moment I accompany.

"Across this world, no one is unattended;
Within life for all time, I am associated...
In the depths of mind, secluded and solitary,
Just by having sought, obtained is My sighting."

Even today I hear the echo of that call;
That, I can't ignore, no, no, not at all...
On moonlit nights or in dense darkness,
On days evil or propitious, good or foreboding.

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A simple person, I

(2873)  Tumi eso gane eso dhyane

Oh You, come in song, come in meditation;
Come at my fervent invitation.
I've composed a hymn, tune I have practiced;
Night and day I am waiting to make it heard.

All the petals of my mental bloom,
Become anxious, in Your meditation are consumed.
Coming near, having grinned, You, the Charming One,
Make complete my ceaseless and deep contemplation.

How to summon is unknown to me;
Hence I fathom not devotion's formalities.
I hold You dear, and affection I'm expecting;
You might not love me, but please dwell in my heart.

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