I gave my all, but You came not

(3829) Tumi jadi nahi ele, kiser tare jege thaka

When You did not arrive, For whose sake staying alert? Because of whom a dwelling adorned, The welcome-song kept rehearsed? Having wandered in the mental garden, Plucking blooms and filling basket, A garland gets strung on love's thread, Calling foolishly, Your path observed. Forgetting all, one Entity considered, In thought of a single Goal immersed, Only one color's swiftness inner; Having given all, deficit is covered. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Time for a change?

(3828) Tumi kena aso na balo na

Oh why You don't arrive, tell You don't; You don't say, tell You don't. Ever calling, so many days disappear; A river of tears keeps flowing. Age after age, go they missing; And yet grace, why don't You show? The sun is setting, thickens evening; Moon, it watches in a new atmosphere. But my dark night does not cease; I don't grasp this kind of approach. Many saplings become giant trees; Meteor and star, away by time they wear. What had been, dissolved it is getting; What exists, on and on it does not go. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

The Divine awaits

(3827) Mahaniiradhir opar hate

From the far side of the Great Sea, Which is that strange melody comes floating? Breaking ramparts of opposing danger, To touch my soul, it enters ear. In courtship, neath the crimson rays at morning, With floral pollen the tune of a place remote it sings. Having risen solitary in a mental cranny hard to reach, It goes on saying that He holds me dear. After evening prayers, at fall of night, Myself it tells: "Barricade rending, do arrive! I am waiting... I have brought a golden time; That moon's smile mingles with all Deity." Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Please appear

(3826) Ogo prabhu amar ghare

Oh Lord, to my dwelling Won't You come, way mistaking? Go in vain will a strung wreath; Will fruitless prove the rice painting? A song have I composed, melody I've practiced; Love's offering I have embellished. In a psychic niche privately, I've kept a jeweled lamp blazing. My lute-strings of mind Keep on singing mantra Thine. I am an instrument, and You, the Instrumentalist; Tenderly, will You take, elevating? Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Your liila

(3825) He prabhu tomar liila, ke bujhite pare balo

Hey Lord, Your Divine Play, Who can understand, pray tell please. In the vastness of space it floats on thought, Like an ocean overflowing. In outer space, on water, or onshore, At foot of a tree or upon mountain, In a string of waves or in meteor flames, In phases of the moon, moving. A making-and-breaking Mayic game, A sorrow heap, a pleasure fair, It gets witnessed absent strain: Life's lotus with laughter and tears. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Thinking of You never grows old

(3824) Tumi rajar raja madhuriite bheja

You are the King of Kings, in sweetness steeped; You have no peer. Mid perfume in fruit and bloom, as a bud appearing, Consciousness Personified, sense everlasting. In gemmed necklace of thinking, the One befitting love, An enduring treasure, with hearing's essence of ambrosia. Ever golden in sustained contemplation, The modulation of inmost feelings. You're the jingling sound on lute strings; You are Pranav sounded by the Cosmic Puppeteer... The quintessence that's all-pervading, Import of intellect's surmising. Sarkarverse article Audio recording

Stereotype

(3823) Nayane kena ke jane enkechilo se

Who knows why He had traced upon eyes Only love's coloration. Ah, today, proclaims that fact the air of springtime; It is psyche's recreation. Who is that Playful One, woe He does not realize; Which is that hardhearted One, eyes He does not wipe? He speaks from afar, nearby He does not arrive; Yourself each moment I love. I've recognized Him, with Him I have been acquainted; On the mental mirror I've beheld. I've understood that One Enlightened, He is in my I-sensation. Sarkarverse article Audio recording