I dare ask

(3270)  Phuler malay ei abelay

At close of day, this same floral garland,
Please don't let it fall in the dust.
Mind's exquisite beauty, a peerless love,
Please don't go on spurning in this fashion.

Little by little blossoms have I gathered,
Combing my mental garden.
Taking pains a garland I've threaded;
That, please don't ignore.

I know that it is trifling in Your presence;
Yours are a myriad other gems.
To that is combining my essence;
Over this I do not mull.

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Come dance with Me

(3269)  Diip jvele jai khushiite bharai

A lamp I go on lighting, with joy I make it please;
I belong to you all, of you all am I.
Nobody is alien, Mine is everybody
From time out of mind.

Eyes drenched with tears I don't want to see;
Love impassioned ever I go on observing.
None of you stay afar, Myself do not misconstrue;
This Cosmic Game is of delight.

Dyed with affection in the tune of lyrics have I dwelt;
Heart replete, I've kept floating on floral pollen.
Girded by song, with love's wreath do I swing
At the coastline of life.

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No complaint

(3268)  Alokeri rathe esechile

On the splendid chariot You had arrived,
Scattering a stream of light.
It mattered not there was no invite;
Unasked sweetness You applied.

All the accumulated weariness,
It moved far aside in a moment.
In a whirlpool of grime
Love awakened.
Familiar or unfamiliar mind does not heed;
Having spread wings of kinship it glides.

Filled with tears is my history;
In a minute, 'twas entwined with ecstasy
At every pore were love's tidings;
Hearing and memory You fully satisfied.

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In my life and in my mind

(3267)  Gan geye geye madhurii charaye

Ever singing, sweetness strewing,
Who are You Who came into the grove of my psyche?
With eyes never did I see;
But by the light of early morning, bad with good
You combined through keynote and melody.

Friend or foe, outer or inner,
Hatred and disregard are not Yours.
In a universal home, taking everybody,
You dance with vibration sweetly smiling.

Unseen Supreme Being, Yours is such a sport;
You give ever-novel sensory perception.
From the manifest state to transcendence, newly fashioned;
Upon cogitation You go on floating.

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I stand in awe

(3266)  Ami tomay bhalabasi, tai manke dilum jeneshune

Yourself do I admire;
Thus the mind I gave knowingly.
Your sweet, delightful smile
Clears away all vanity.

You exist, hence so do I;
Inside Your mind only, home I've confined.
A song of grief and glee have I devised
In a floral garden of Your psyche.

In life do I covet Thee;
Through eyes am I thirsty.
Mind's Jamuna rushes upstream
With Your love throbbing.

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A king like no other

(3265)  Rakhal raja re rakhal raja re

Oh Cowherd King, the Cowherd King,
Flowers whom do You make wear,
For whose sake You play a pipe of reed?

Day and night Your laughter,
Arriving upon pain a salve it gives.
Even though not witnessing I still cherish
Yourself on the mirror of psyche.

You are the tempus perpetual;
The Jamuna of mind You've driven mad.
By creation, maintenance, and destruction You dance,
Outside right and wrong time's periphery.

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You had come

(3264)  Tomar amar priitir e har

This necklace of fondness, Yours and mine,
Who had strung... You not I, please confess.
I had been on a world of dust,
Above ground, an earthen lamp clutching,
Morn and eve saluting Thee, my Love.

In my hand had been a string of jasmine,
Coated with exuded nectar and heart's pollen.
Vaejayanti garland upon Your clavicle,
You descended with Kaostubha's splendor.

I'd offered up my sense of 'I' in a wreath,
All boundaries of meanness forgetting.
My entire being arose swaying;
Birth You took from the state of perfection.

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