Can I forget Thee?

(1714)  Tomare ceye tomari gan geye

On You having looked, Your song having sung,
Gazing at just Your path, I am awakened.
All good is Thine; You are light in darkness gloomy...
You remove the black hue inside of anxiety.

When I've forgotten You, I have nothing;
But having clung to Thee, I get everything.
You alone are my love and hope and peace;
In hardship and prosperity, You accompany.

In the bloom You are honey, colored-petals-concealed;
On the sky You are the moon, heaven's-nectar-besmeared.
In the three worlds only You exist, oh Sweet Lover Dear,
Thoroughly pervading and circling each and everybody.

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The last answer

(1713)  Amanishar tamisra cire

Having hewn the gloomy ignorance of dark night,
With the light a-buzzing, Who are You that arrived?
Everything I've desired, everything I've obtained–
By means of the last answer that You gave.

From one concern worldly to the final interest,
Psyche has rushed to the outermost limit.
After so much time, with momentous revolution,
Mind You took and made it Yours.

All of my wishes, they have been accomplished;
With bliss of attainment, mind has gotten filled.
A restless wave has become tranquil–
Underneath Your feet, eternal.

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Nothing is negated

(1712)  Kajal kalo ankhir taray

In the pitch-black pupil of the eye,
Lord of Light, do reside.
With rainclouds of powder dyed,
Keep on coloring the mind.

Side by side with the light and ebony
Is free mixing of both joy and grief.
Taking them with me, onward I proceed;
And You observe the movement's speed.

Well-known between You and me
Is heart's message since eternity.
Of crying and smiling, emerald and ruby,
Inside of divine light they also have meaning.

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You got me ready

(1711)  Sei durjog bhara tamasii nishiithe

On that same inclement night of vice,
I have found You in surroundings mine,
Inside mind, Dear, inside mind.

At that time, with daybreak there was much delay;
Mind's consciousness, by sleep was it veiled.
To a terror-stricken life, its thinking impaired,
Decked in smiles, You yielded embrace.

There was not a thing for me to tell;
I had no viaticum for travel.
For me there was no burning hope's quest,
With sweet modesty having been overwhelmed.

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A long-distance relationship

(1710)  Tomake bhalobesechi ami

Yourself I have loved.
Oh Unknown One, I don't know the reason;
I don't know the reason.

I have seen You inside dreams;
I've conceived You through my musing.
I've received You with a mild shivering;
Except for You no other thing do I heed.

In the bud of psyche, You exist;
Dancing with my heart's pulse, You've proceeded.
In the blood of veins, You've remained mixed in it;
But though You are close-by, afar is Your residence.

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My light, my refuge

(1709)  Kane kane kaye jao

In private pray tell
At which place You dwell...
Please say what You want to get!

Day and night You are in my company,
With light and breeze on life's stream.
With tune and mode on the rise and fall of notes,
You don't let me be kept alone!

The pilgrim since times olden,
Nowhere do You desist for a moment.
You alone are the ruby of sweet psyche;
In the darkness You flash brightly!

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Nearer to me

(1708)  Tomari madhura hasi

Only Your honeyed smile,
It drives out of mind
All my grief and need, pain and shame, in a trice.
That magic flute of Yours
It surely does bestir
Those lulled to sleep with its fully sweet rapture.

Memories of joy and songs of pain,
I had saved with their petals upraised...
I never let them get erased.
Whatever type may be the memory,
On its crimson contact it excites greatly.

Oh my dearest Darling,
Please do appear closer to me...
Kindly exude a heart-filling melody,
With its hope of Your attainment only.

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