A game so strange

(3181)  Ganer mala ganthiyachi

A wreath of song threaded have I
For You, the Most Darling.
Yes You will come, and You will smile;
Unrivaled One, You will hold dear.

With light and shadow is Your sport;
Your cosmic drama, on a lyre of thunder.
You launch my bubble's coracle
Like clump of grass upon Your prosody.

In the dramatic flow everyone You set adrift;
But You go on clutching the nature of liila's flavor.
When You are form-free, what is it You wish
From my heart-core? Kindly make clear.

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The circle of life

(3180)  Tumi esechile alo dhelechile

You'd arrived, You'd poured out light;
You'd observed with open eyes.
On dusty earth, by sweetness of mind,
A flower, You had made it rise.

Nectar of my pollen Earth has received;
Upon Your advent finished has all yearning.
Silently, in seclusion, in a niche of heart mine,
Spreading seat You did alight.

Off went all thought of duality,
My sense of distinction between tiny and lofty.
By One becoming many, from One to many thereby,
Your own self You'd publicized.

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A spiritual nature can turn into conceit

(3179)  Virat tumi anu ami

You are enormous, I am an atom;
Why upon me is there pride?
I have cried, and I have called;
I've done meditation Thine.

In Your devotion I've been absorbed;
On ambrosial fluid have I swum.
With Your thought I've ignored
All fatigue and any slight.

I have moved on the path and off;
But I’ve kept You at my front.
You alone I've taken notice of;
Just Your song I've vocalized.

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Now I realize

(3178)  Bhalabasar alor rathe

On love's chariot of light
Oh You riding, Who arrived?
What I could not imagine,
Now just that You let transpire.

In hope of advent I had waited;
I had called for ages after ages.
Weeping and weeping, I'd expressed:
"Inert and oblivious, useless to abide!"

I had thought: "You don't listen;
Is it that You reside very distant?"
But on life You apply love's pollen
Simply when going Yourself nigh.

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Why did You go away?

(3177)  Dola diye ke go cale jay amay

Having given me a swing, oh Who leaves?
Mid an arbor sweet, in heart-captivating dress,
Both shape and shape-free He makes meet.

In the gloom out of doors, with Him I cannot be acquainted;
Then does He enter mind without psyche's awareness?
In life a fondness immense, in heart a shine invisible;
Forgetting being loved became a difficulty.

Anything I think or will think, I'll not gaze in His direction;
Even if coming close by, of Him I won't ever talk.
But I can't restrain myself, musing on Him alone I'm shattered;
This predicament, to Whom will anyone make clear?

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Sneaky, to say the least

(3176)  Ami golaper buke surabhi bhariya jai

I go on infusing fragrance in the rose's breast;
To my doing this there's no end.
I want to pour radiance on the face of effulgence;
Of my desire I find no end.

I make language bloom in a mute life,
Through a bird's warbling, by a doe's eyes.
Alone and secluded in everybody's mind,
Little by little I make sweetness-coated.

Always I think on the story of everyone;
I rise and fall in a dance of crest and trough.
On a drunken wind all is boisterous;
I hide in the mind, withdrawn in a moment.

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I've realized

(3175)  Tomake kache tani

I draw You near,
Aside all mind-qualms having set.
I know that no one else is there,
Who, after touching heart, myself comprehends.

Many days arrive and go off;
Many nights make eyes give forth.
Many ages to the dark are lost;
Stolen is the sweetness of life.

I have found You in gladness and distress,
In the dejection in a desert's breast.
With nectar is the mind's bewitchment,
Outside of desire when lost I get.

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