Don't let me get distracted

(2838)  Kadamba tale tumi esechile

Under a kadam tree You had arrived;
In that same direction repeatedly my psyche races.
Akin to an ocean upon expanse of sky,
By a dancing row of waves everyone is excited.

You had been here, and there was a world of beauty;
Although two, atom and Huge, they had adhered.
Tiny and Great, they had been in harmony;
My heart, dam broken, yielded to no obstacle.

Barricades and blame and social calumny–
All fear I have ditched, the whole calamity.
My wish, just to gain You still more near;
Having come on mind-sky, smile at time of mist.

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Awaiting Your advent

(2837)  Amar malaince phutechilo

In my floral garden there had bloomed
So many flowers, oh don't You know it?
They will drop neath sunlight's heat;
Do You not notice?

Day has departed with hopes aplenty;
Flower-petal colors have gone missing.
Fragrance and nectar have flowed into nothing;
To comprehend are You unable?

When will they arrive, those same months of spring;
They will laugh once more, fruit and bloom thrilling.
Upon a moonlit night on azure sky,
Noting love, You will give in.

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Unearned mercy

(2836)  Kata tapasya pare

After much austerity,
You have come, allowed embrace.
Many ages hope given, caused to fall many a tear;
You have kept Your promise after many, many days.

I could not believe that close by You'll appear,
You will make Your light-rays shine on me.
Happened what I didn't think– heaven's sweetness came;
You've arrived adjacent, hey the One Who fascinates.

Prayer and importunity, to nothing did You listen;
I could not make You melt by efforts one hundred.
You came on Your own, after love's pollen coating;
I've realized that a kindness You have made.

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Bringing light

(2835)  Tomare ceyechi ami duhkher tamasay

I have pined for You in sorrow's gloom;
Upon a moonlit night, in dance and song.
In smiles of a kadam, in spines of a blossom;
Neath a sweet southern wind in gentle reverberation.

I have wanted to witness You in every situation,
On mountain peak lonesome, in fame and psychic perturbation,
On nights of mental anguish, on fine morns brightly colored
By a new crimson glow behind eastern horizon.

Wanting You means going and obtaining You alone;
To finish all desire, into thought of You it goes.
Tier by tier You let the mind be filled with love
In sweet dreams made to brim with emotion.

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But You are here

(2834)  Tumi jadi nahi ele, vrthai mala gantha

If You are not come,
In vain garland threaded,
Fruitless my song practiced.
Day and night I stay absorbed
In Your name, hey Divine Maker.

I see You in surging light;
Your love rushes to the sky.
The Infinite's ambassador,
You are ever legend.

World exists in Your midst;
In grief it weeps, in glee it dances.
Of sorrow and happiness You are above,
A sweetness new forever.

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I am calling always

(2833)  Deke deke cai tomake

Always calling, Yourself I crave.
To listen, You obtain not...
After hearing, back to gaze,
Unable to stay distant.

I call You neath the flames of summer;
Under desert's heatwave unbearable.
With screwpine on nights of rain,
Afloat is pollen, know You not?

On autumn eves with night jasmines
In their kush-kash-colored hymns;
With the prewinter fall of dew,
A soaked earth's reprimand...

Amid the winter's inertia
Prays to You a mind benumbed;
And in garb of the spring blooms,
With You in divers forms pleasant...

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All things considered

(2832)  Kamalvane tumi saorabha priya

In a lotus grove, You are the fragrance, Dear.
Thrilling with light, dancing You move,
Flashing a smile, the One fit to revere.

Of Your beauty no duplicate is there;
In both sky and air, You stay mixed everywhere.
The pollen of love, everybody's soul You smear
With charity's show bit by bit, the One fit to receive.

You consider everybody's plight, what they require:
A cooling breeze in summer, the winter's attire.
Eye to eye, You remain observing everyone;
Just this is my wish: Absolute devotion always give.

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