Always with me

(3566) Tomari smarane tomari manane

In just Your recollection, in just Your conception;
Days, they go away by Your grace.
Whether You love or not, close You come or not,
Ever under smiling umbra You've maintained.

Oh I've come to the world to perform Your deeds–
You've given me the means; I stand always ready.
Externally and within, at inmost part in heart,
My ego dances in Your rocking cradle.

I can't bear remaining forgetful of Thee–
Start, stay, and finish of what is traced on psyche,
With its vibration, its ankle-bell sonation,
Living's song continues, on it sails.

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Gone but present nonetheless

(3565) Vrajer gopal cale jay

Vraja's Gopal is leaving–
From where unto where?
To the beat of dance sky You made rumble;
Heaps of memories go on dropping.

I know my Kanu^[1] goes away never;
At the depths of heart He smiles nonetheless.
Eyes not seeing, but recalling in cogitation,
Hard is understanding whether far or near.

Thought goes on merging into such great ideation;
Lack's perception gets lost in its own disposition.
I'm a boat its coast lost, shoreless do I rove,
Like a gem crafted of Gokul mentality.

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I've yearned for Thee

(3564) Tomare ceyechi name rupe rase

I have wanted You in name, shape, and flavor,
In hard-to-reach thinking, in lonesome retreat...
In existential thought, in meaning form-free,
In generation-operation-destruction, in mystery.

What is this Your divine play, oh Mercy's Embodiment?
In an instant much You break, and much You make afresh
How many are the things that arrive, so many that leave,
In the dust at the outskirts of Your feet.

Unseen-Unblemished is Your name;
Obeisance to You is beyond the mind-sense-speech range.
You are source, position, and final state;
You smile on psyche's jeweled swing.

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Afloat on a wave of bliss

(3563) Ei navarune nava jiivane

Neath this same newly-risen sun, with new life,
I have been sailing, Lord, in direction Thine.
My string that is torn, a lyre with lost rhythm,
Nonetheless, by Your song, stayed agog have I.

It's like I've no worth, what I convey to world;
Amid my oyster shell, I don't find a pearl.
Lord, with Your thought, Your pull thereby,
One have I become, in both heart and mind.

I am minuscule, a molecule's tiny portion;
You are God, the Self-made Star, the sun-ray's Sun.
My salvation heavenly, You are fit to be remembered;
Without cause You continue pouring out delight.

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Out of body...

(3562) Tuke bhalbo hami nayan bhare

Having filled the eyes, I will hold You dear,
Today when You arrive, oh when You're at my residence.
With flowers I'll decorate, the mind will I delight;
I'll dance round and round, forgetting fear and shyness.

In daytime when light appears,
At eastern sky Your face beams.
On mahua's pungent smell floats the air in my dwelling;
Oh the Cowherd King, toward You my mind races.

Behind western mountain^[1] the sun of evening sinks;
Having given swing, it departs, like stalk of waterlily.
Having quit the coast, my mind goes far on a shoreless sea;
No more pastoral, between us there's not any obstacle.

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Krsna, we miss You

(3561) Vrndavaner manik kanu

Oh Kanu,^[1] the ruby of Vrndavan,
You went where, ourselves having left–
Father Nanda and Ma Jashoda,
Milch cow and reed pipe, having forgotten.

Today, the Jamuna races unaccompanied;
Blooms not the kadamba, blossom and tree.
Underneath the tamal at a Gokul moody,
No longer sways the light-ray of duskiness.

Our life, only You are the Dark King;^[2]
With You gone, goes away everything.
Today at Govardhan, in the bamboo forest,
No one looks with eyes open.

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You renew me

(3560) Ei alokojjvala prabhate

On this same resplendent morning,
You came and You made blooms appear,
The earth to make sweet-smelling.

To receive You granting boon arrived everybody,
A bud of trust in their hand at this festivity.
They accorded all respect; any pride is useless
In one with beguiled mind, having gotten Thee.

There's no day, there's no night– all the time,
Dearest, You accompany, oh Consciousness Personified.
Under Your love's lamp at thought's kadam tree,
In a static world arrived zeal.

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