By Your grace

(3528) Sahasa anane mor kanane

In my garden with face smiling,
Oh Who's seated lackadaisically?
Please gaze in my direction, look at me.
I have picked flowers, a garland I have strung
To make You wear privately.

I have no virtues to speak of;
Nor have I actional endeavor's splendor.
Through speech there is not thought's ardor;
There is only love in my thinking.

From age to age by the path am I sitting,
Dyed by sweat-soaked memories.
On a stream of consciousness at depths of psyche,
With many a song awakening.  

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Beyond generosity

(3527) Amar tare akatare kii na diyecho

For my sake what haven't You given abundantly?
What haven't You doled, oh Lord!
In the realm of thought, at a place invisible,
Having come, You've taken seat.

I suffer shame to say a word;
Today what's mine of what had been?
In the dust, I'd been neglected;
You have tugged me near.

Amid the mind had been no form;
Lit I not a perfumed resin or torch.
Fearsome I'd been on a night dismal and dim;
Onto lap You've lifted me.

Today I've realized that all is Thine;
Just You alone, the gist most sublime.
On my one-stringed lyre on a morning quiet, ,
Within song You have beamed.  

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Against the grain

(3526) Bandhan chinre beriye elum

Tearing chains apart, out I came;
Who's aware of when and why?
Oh who knows, who does realize,
Anywhere, does anyone recognize?
By some magic in regard to want-and-gain,
I looked not at any face.

I listened not to the plea of anybody;
No obstruction did I heed.
Those who've said "foolish and frenzied",
I did not take that talk to heart;
I did not pay it any mind.

By paltry means I obtained the Great;
A resident of Truth I became.
All that I'm due I let float away
Upon the cosmic soul's high tide,
In the bud of every trice.  

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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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