Comes the new day

(3525) Tumi amar ciradiner sathii

You are my co-traveler perpetual;
I know, I grasp, with mind and heart.
Under a mild breeze or raging fire,
In tears, we've been familiar.

Intoxicated by winds most high,
So that fragrance of thought not be lost thereby,
Because of You at pitch dark night,
I have obtained the North Star.

Yours is no sunrise or sunset;
At all times singular, the quintessence.
In hope of the One, what's in abstinence?
The many today, awakened we are.  

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He lights the way

(3524) Ashar pradiip niye hate

The light of hope in hand taking,
On a new-moon night, Lord, You'd appeared,
For those who had strayed a lamp to make see.
Pitch dark had been the earth;
It got filled with luster Yours,
By a moment's beckoning.

Earth's surface, still and pacified;
It became restless, throbbing with life...
Full of love, with thoughts spry,
It expressed consciousness instantly.

To be that only, ever You accompany
Molecule and atom, lit dust motes floating
On the current of existence, all-pervasively
With the stream exuding honey.  

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Will You really stay away?

(3523) Tumi jabe nahi ele

When You did not come,
Why had You given anticipation?
Saying You'll return, You went off,
My tears having brushed.

You are heaven's nectar-essence,
The world's emerald jewel...
A sea of affection endless,
Flashing intellect's splendor.

A hundred times Yourself I've wanted
In a hundred fashions hard to check.
Hey the heartbeat of my existence,
In which life You stayed afar?  

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Because I love You

(3522) Tomare dekechi tomare ceyechi

Yourself have I craved, I've invoked Thee;
Save for You I know nothing.
With a notion I've been crazy, I've held dear;
In the universe to only You do I pay heed.

Oh I go floating on a stream of just Your thought;
Oh dance I with just Your corundum.
You are the ocean; I'm a drop;
Only Your love, it has kept tugging me.

Under hailstorm and hot meteor strike,
With southern breeze on moonlit night,
At core of heart it sails, on line of sight it smiles,
Only Your song, apothegm ambrosia-sweet.

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Though I don't know why

(3521) Mor manamukure

On my mirror of psyche,
Why oh Pilgrim Unknown, You don't grant embrace?
Hope's bud is infused in the honeybee,
But You don't demonstrate haste.

Covered by fruits and flowers is this, Your universe;
On the mind of each bud is coated the scent of pollen.
So why is this humble shoot penniless, indigent;
For me why is everything scarce?

My eyes are wet by water mixed with salt;
Grief's night of dejection, won't there be a dawn?
Threadbare are they become, dried have many garlands;
And yet You bring hope-filled wares.

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Proof of Being

(3520) Je tomare ceyeche sei kendeche

Who has longed for You, only they have wept;
I don't comprehend such amazing method.
Through a flood of tears, Yourself inwardly we get;
This too, is it love?

Life goes on flowing, a Sutlej River with hundred streams;
Meteor, thunderbolt, and mountain don't hinder its going.
Except for You, none else remains at its lead;
To it You provide rapid motion.

Its sorrow and joy, jumbled they go on becoming;
In the jewelbox of psyche, no distortion perseveres.
Nebula or drop of dew, there remains no study;
Merged into one, the many songs.

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Never hapless

(3519) Tumi atandra krsna vibhavariite

On the dark night You are sleepless;
You diffused effulgence.
A thunderbolt on dense stone-matter,
Moonlight You exuded.

From body, speech, mind, and spirit,
What by thought's ascent I could not offer,
In a wink exactly that You made off with,
By amazing strength mantric!

There is nothing that's not in Your custody;
I find You alone as the gist of every entity.
In worship are You, You're the Revered and votary;
You dance through the ruse of Liila.

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