Consideration

(801)  Tumi amay bhalobesechile

You have loved me,
But I don't even look Your way.
You gave to me everything,
But I give nothing in exchange.

In the midst of pitch-dark fog,
Holding my hand, You've shielded me;
But on Your wounds from pathway thorns,
No liniment do I smear.

In sorrow and mishap, when my heart is tried,
The nectar of solace You have lavished;
But in Your workshop of cosmic sacrifice,
I don't contribute to Your service.

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My one and only

(800)  Tomare ceyechi sure rupe rage

I've glimpsed You in tune and form and color;
I've got You through devotion.
I've felt You with a thrilling shiver;
I've floated on Your fragrant dust.

On a throne above the known and unknown,
You've been sitting, smiling cheerfully.
All my ambitions, all my acquisitions,
They rise upon Your lyre-strings.

You're the one I hold most near and dear;
In Your absence I have no one else.
With heart and mind, both given by Thee,
For Your grace prays my experience.

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Blissful obsession

(799)  Tumi je amar prabhu

You are mine, Lord–
The quintessence,
The star in my two eyes.
In joy and grief, tears and laughter,
You're the fullness of my heart.

In my life, in its bowered garden,
You are Spring everlasting.
In my heart, in privacy and silence,
Constantly I kneel before Thee.
Coaxing tears and coating with affection,
You leave me consumed by love.

Yielding everything, relinquishing desire,
Engrossed in Thee am I.

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Love, love, love

(798)  Dhele paranera madhu

Pouring out heart's sweetness,
Lover of the Universe,
You I would embellish.

With each and every body, each and every atom,
I will keep attending, I will stay as one.
I'll be one with each and every body;
I'll be one with each and every atom.
So I won't find You've gone elsewhere,
I'll remain in unison with Thee.

You are the life force of earth,
The true worth of this world;
You're the light of the whole universe.
Renouncing everything, for Your sake only,
I'm in love with Thee...
I've loved You exclusively.
Renouncing everything, I have loved;
For Your sake only, I have loved.
So You stay tied to me with a strand of love,
That's why I have been in love with Thee.

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Your humble servant

(797)  Tomare bhalobasi tomari lagiya

I love You; and for Your sake,
To do anything, I am prepared.
In but Your music and Your love sublime,
To invest myself, I've become Your acolyte.

The living's load of troubles borne upon my shoulders,
I proceed along Your path; not even once do I desist.

With life's lamp and Your staff in hand,
The flame I've obtained time and again, to You I pay homage.

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Inferences

(796)  Tomar liilay tumi prabhu

In Your liila, You are the Master;
Still You've come within our grasp.
Perhaps You prefer to keep hidden,
In spite of that, You are beheld.

With You constantly in abode
On earth and sky and heaven,
In worldly dust and celestial realms,
You're pleased to be both seen and known.

A mild wind blows, the moon's arose,
When strewn about are clusters of moonbeams.
Life is pierced by the world of dreams;
You've learned how to make Your existence known.

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Needless tears

(795)  Svapnabhara rate

On that dream-filled night,
Slumber on my eyelids,
I saw You, saw Your light divine.
For Your sitting beside and speaking with,
No one was there that night resplendent.

You pulled back a latch and came inside;
Through a window, my life entered the room.
Alone I'd been sitting in deep, dark gloom;
That was suffused by Your refulgent light.

Everyone is Yours, to me You told...
"No reason is there for sinking into weeping...
Those whose eyes shed tears perpetually,
They cry purely from yearning to realize their goal."

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