Lord, I need Your love

(3217)  Patha ceye achi

The path am I watching;
Threaded have I kept a wreath;
You did not come.
The day has departed;
Also night has ended...
Mental pain don't You fathom?

With the frost, floating off are fallen jasmine heaps;
The smile of kush and kash too has gone missing.
Drawing closer is a gentle vernal breeze,
But it does not talk.

By snowdrifts Earth has got enveloped;
Left without beauty, now She is necessitous.
The cuckoo's song and peacock's call, silence-absorbed,
No sound do they put forth.

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Why I seek refuge

(3216)  Kakhan sahasa tumi ele

When long back suddenly You came;
You left, setting mind asway.
Toward face simply having gazed,
Not a word did You say.

You're the earth's existential pulse,
Echo of the seven lokas' thought.
Surging wave-rows of the ocean,
Love's flow did You let cascade.

Come am I for refuge of Your mercy,
A restricted bubble of Your infinite Divinity.
Amid strange and unknown, mine is the motivity;
As base of my soul please remain.

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Lonely

(3215)  Tomare ceyechi, maneri niipe manidiipe

I have wanted You,
Neath the mind's Cadamba tree, under jeweled lamplight.
You did not appear.
On a pitch-black rainy night,
To stormy winds inducing fright,
You did not yield.

With countless games the nature of rainy season
Had been surrounding me with myriad delusions.
By Your greatness, the best of all,
Enveloping had been such a deceit!

With a slow and halting meter^[1] does the world proceed,
Desolate and timorous, and path-weary.
Just so ever-roaming in hope of You only,
Opening eyes, why don't You see?

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Rejoicing at end of night

(3214)  Aji prabhate chande giite

Today at dawn with both cadence and song,
Through a stream of form Yourself I received.
With power of mantra, from the Eastern Mountain^[1]
Light's flow upon Earth You did bring.

The frown of gloomy darkness has gone off;
Life has been roused in the bosom of an atom.
Filled with rhythm and beside himself,
The peacock of mind races on, dancing.

All apprehension got swept aside;
The right time for coronation did arrive.
With crimson glow and floral beauty,
You dispensed cognition and vivacity.

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You are mine through and through

(3213)  Manera majhare tumi ke

Who are You amid the mind?
You race along dancing.
Today in charming attire
You entice me.

Watching the path I am seated;
Fear and shame I've forgotten.
Every moment with delight,
In memory You bestir meaning.

On sandy beach by sea of time,
Pervasively entwined with my life,
Calling and calling You bring awakening.

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No wonder I hold You dear

(3212)  Svapane peyechi bheve dekhechi

Through dream have I received, I have contemplated
In the fancy casket of mind.
You're the pupil of my eye, You are the Beloved.^[1]
By thinking I have fathomed, with ears have I listened
On the sandy shore of time;
So I know the Limitless.

In the azure firmament is Your majesty;
With star after star is Your superb beauty.
On You speech cannot provide a boundary;
So I tug You into heart in consequence.

Silently and secretly like the floral dust,
You have dwelt with fondness and devotion.
Day and night awake is a sleepless love;
Upon ideation afloat is one's own Self.

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Because He loves

(3211)  Jhainjhavate shravana rate

On Shravan's night with winds stormy,
He had come secretly.
No word did He speak, there'd been a hush;
With love had He peered.

Upon two lips had been a smile,
Ridding the gloom of rainy night,
As if declaring: "Love do I,
And so on night of ruin I've appeared."

Amid clouds of dense ebony,
Unspoken is the sound that peals.
In darkness He is splendor's stream;
Into His flow, He propelled me.

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Not a phony prophet or a stony idol

(3210)  Ashar akashe tumi aso

On hope's sky You appear;
Down why don't You come?
You rise on a gentle breeze;
Why don't You talk?

On life's flow-tide You are high;
With You nigh there's not any right or wrong time.
Torn gets illusion's mesh by rectification Thine;
You are welfare's sadhana.

Toward You runs love's Jamuna River;
Inundating Gokul's shore, it thrills.
With inspiration, wisdom, and sense of good will,
You pay heed to no prohibition.

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Sweetly entangled

(3209)  Tumi je amar praneri priyatama

You are my heart's dearest darling–
In travail's agony, in mood, in thought,
The emerald in my casket of psyche.

In the rose are You, and I find You in the thorn;
Ever I go on seeing You in the floral garden.
Amid buds, You are in a sweet and charming attire,
With each breath like a scented breeze.

Naught have I without You, Love;
Your discernment do I find, Yourself having sought.
With a thrill unworldly at every trice,
In all things contemplated peerless are You only.

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You have Your way with me

(3208)  Jadio nahi ele katha nahi rakhile

Although You did not arrive, did not honor plight,
Even then I hold dear.
In happiness, never I got proximate;
In sorrow, Lord, You kept not distant.
A sweet solace You've provided;
You have smiled tenderly.

You belong to everybody, You did tell;
No one of this world is alone or helpless.
Never ignoring, You go off;
Into ear You sing love songs,
Sitting amid inmost feelings.

In a myrtle garden of my mind,
You've resided on the sly.
To eyes You did not surrender;
But the star of eyes You have been,
Mental sky brightening.

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Dancing with a stranger

(3207)  Tomay ami nahi jani

With You I am not acquainted;
Nonetheless, Yourself I do cherish.
With Your name, with songs Thine,
In Your rhythm and tune I drift.

Beginningless and endless is Your sport;
Your conduct touches heart of everyone.
On a dark path, on stormy nights,
Ridding fear, confidence You give.

Without You I cannot exist;
With the sound of Your lute life I fill.
Mid the mind, in captivating attire,
Day and night, dancing You persist.

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By Your grace I aspire

(3206)  Tomay ami bujhi priya akhanda jiivane

Throughout life, my Darling, Yourself I conceive
From the light-beams' overflying
The sky-touched, hell-washed sounds of my psyche.

What I am unable to imagine, in You that's intrinsic–
All things wanted or unwanted bursting from covering
On chasing Bright, hearing and pondering Your glory.

You are nearer than near, in each pore, amid psyche–
In all thinking, in all deeds, privately in memory,
In tranquil nest, on calm seas, and neath restless breeze.

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Only love can satisfy

(3205)  Asa ar jaoya caoya ar paoya, eder niyei kanda hasa

Coming and going, craving and obtaining,
Tears and laughter are only with these.
Whether staying forgot or retained in memory,
Love is like a gem's shining beauty.

Upon sun-god's banner does the ray arrive,
With evening's zephyr does the satisfaction rise,
Mid lunar splendor does the sweetness smile;
Into cogitation, hope they alone bring.

You are great and noble, I am puny and base;
Your path having taken, to You alone homage I pay;
Never pausing, onward am I moving always
To assuage the desert thirst of psyche.

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Lord, please show Your face

(3204)  Kalo jaladhir belate base

Seated on the shore of ebon sea,
Moments I keep counting, Lord.
Recalling You, just Yourself remembering,
Good times and bad ones mingle with the Supreme;
Nevertheless with honey I fill bosom,
For the sake of You only, just for Thee.

Life's pollen goes on flying far away,
Upon sky-blue unto a certain unknown place.
It knows no obstruction, fatigue it does not heed;
Bounding over difficulties.

Long back why have You dispatched as this same being;
Under some intoxicant, I don't know a thing.
Please let me be told what it is You wish,
Gently whispering in ears.

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Everything good in me

(3203)  Juge juge ami cahiya gechi

I have gone on yearning ages after ages
To keep You at the core of my psyche,
At the core of my psyche...
On my eyes and in deeps of reverie,
To see You in a raiment fascinating.

You are moon and mountain, Love,
Praiseworthy and glorified, fit to be welcomed.
Please take and make me mentally felicitous
In all of my deeds.

Seeking refuge, I am praying for kindness;
You're the font of compassion, always benevolent.
Please remove all the mind's crude attachment;
Like Your ankle-bells, let existence ring.

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I don't need a guarantee

(3202)  Ghora timiraghana nivira nishiithe

Late at night, thick with frightful darkness dense,
You had arrived, Darling, my door opening.
In a closed room I had been, with the window bolted;
So the sound of Your feet I did not hear.

In the sky a host of clouds, within heart a lustrous beauty;
Outside Bhaerav's dancing, locks strewn disorderly.
In this same atmosphere, close to me You came down;
In a trice, You removed the load of all misery.

On my mental sky, any black clouds that had gathered,
Under moonlight's rays, whereto did they vanish?
To a great distance went derision and all sighing;
An atom obtained promise of Your mercy.

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His open heart

(3201)  Tomare ceyechi ami ekante vijane

Alone and in private, Yourself have I wanted,
With cooing of a peacock's call and only sweet floral scent.

I've wanted You both day and night, I had craved at twilight,
With heart full of pain or with an emerald's luster bright.
I wanted not to increase sorrow, I have wished to give joy,
Inside of my mind, in the hidden casket.

You are all my happiness, only You are bliss,
Amid the bud of psyche, essence of ambrosia.
For all those wayward dwells Yourself, a heart satisfied
By a trade of everything in soul, thought or felt.

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With You in mind

(3200)  Manera gabhire cupisare

Into the depths of mind stealthily,
Who are You that entered...
Myself let be told, please tell me.
With smiling face in psychic deeps,
Kissing the lokas seven.
Some tune did You go on singing,
In what melody?

Down to earth came a luster heavenly;
Minds You filled with moonlight sweet.
Atoms and molecules You made dance for everybody,
Preferential treatment rejecting.

You exist and so the world has persevered;
You've infused the universe with a sweet humming.
From floral laughter sweetness has seeped;
Severed has been time's prospect gloomy.

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Dare I aspire

(3199)  Jharer rate andharete

On a stormy night, in the absence of light,
Amid the bower I had cried.
To speak about and understand the pain,
No one had been to me nigh.

Many boughs, broken, have declined;
Dropped down have the young buds slight.
Fruits and blooms have fallen aside,
On tree after tree with mournful sigh.

In my pleasure-garden of mind,
At storm's end with a wind that's mild,
On conclusion of the dark and destructive night,
Will You arrive in charming attire?

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Can nothing be easy?

(3198)  Madhur tomar parasha lagi

For the sake of Your sweet touch,
I am looking toward the path of advent.
Drowsiness renounced, I'm forlorn;
The time I spend counting moments.

The garland, when it was placed upon neck,
Its flowers onto dust You let be shed.
The mind You filled with fondness,
That too, is it dragged down afresh?

Hard it is to comprehend Your methodology–
One minute, a load of grief; the next, a gemmed wreath.
Endless and immense is every little thing;
When and what You will do, does anybody guess?

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In summation

(3197)  Citanandan manorainjan

Psyche's Delight, the Mind-Pleaser,
I have wished You near,
In my heart's inner sphere,
Amid each and every agony.

At daybreak with the blossoms of morning,
With smiling petals' manifestation emerging,
Laughter and love, desire and driving ambition,
They are in all my deeds.

Mine I did not want to make Thee;
Rather, I have wanted to give You my everything.
I have gone on saying: Please come, my Moon,
In ever-novel clothing.

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Even on my deathbed

(3196)  Vrajer gopal hariye geche

Gopal of Vraj, missing has He gone.
In mental Vraj Him I seek,
But spent has been illumination;
Ideation's lamp, just that is the savings.

Days come and go, but me He does not behold;
He notes everything, but nothing He makes known.
The date is sealed, my Welcome Guest is free;
From Him liberation I entreat.

Only unfamiliar stays the Traveler Mysterious;
Even when coming close, knowing Him is tough.
And yet amid existence, through the gaps of thought,
This too might it be: a sneak peek He goes on giving?

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By Your compassion

(3195)  Maner gopal manete rayecho, manabhumi kare alokita

Heart's Gopal, You've remained in psyche,
The mental sphere illuminating,
With sweet touch and sweet delight,
Desired by mind's honeybee.

At Your feet are the seven realms;
By Your cogitation Nature is besotted.
In Your eyes is a love unmerited,
Extending from the heavens to Hades.

As if You're not, I don't find a region;
For You there is no time inauspicious.
Dancing to just Your rhythm is everyone,
Supported by Your Ideology.

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You are just pretending

(3194)  Madhur tomar lagi

For the sake of sweet Thee,
Hope's lamp am I lighting.
To extent this lamp-flame is motionless,
The grimace of impediment goes on trampling.

To move on, all in this world are restless;
Full of sweetness, You are ever-abiding.
Everybody comes and goes in just Your current.
Triumphant over time, You comprise the tiny.
You had been, are at present, and will stay resident,
In and beyond time, all-pervading.

Form and flavor and tones collectively,
Touch and scent– all of them, Your making.
By way of these five, in Play having forgotten,
Sportive Gopal is ignoring.

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Your bazaar cosmic

(3193)  Carana dhariya vinati kari

Catching feet do I stoop–
Me, Lord, don't forget;
A dust-mote, I am Your iota tiny.
Existence suffusing, I remember You–
I cannot forget You ever;
No dilemma mine, there's no quandary.

In fire and wind is Your majesty;
In sky and hell, Your subtlety.
Your limit, there is nothing;
In one and all, Your meaning.

I am trite, You are immense;
Confined am I, You are Godhead.
Amid formless is there form's market?
You go on sketching incessantly.

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Everything is but Your song

(3192)  Tomari deoya sure tomari bhasa bhare

Just Your language filled with melody given by You only,
Hey Lord, on account of Thee, I have sung a song.
In it to claim as my own there is not a thing;
By only Your prowess is this, Your great action.

When bewitched, I've drifted, errantly attached to worldly,
Due to vanity's illusion within my psyche.
At that time only You, You provided clarity:
Nothing have I, any feat to perform.

You've given a floral wreath, a bundle of affection,
Sixteen articles of worship^[1] and a veena's hum.
You told: "Go on viewing, but look inside";
Want or not, this is Your gift of compassion.

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Remember: you are His beloved

(3191)  Kamal kali niirava kena

Oh lotus bud, why are you speechless?
To Me inmost secrets kindly utter.
Why do tears fall upon petals?
At heart-core Who has distressed?

Having gotten plagued by gales aplenty
Coming down on you through waves stormy,
What all does it to a life-force weak?
To Me that information pray tell.

Daybreak's sun confers light-beams;
The setting full moon gleams with oral faculty.
Bumblebee having arrived, what's He saying?
Cherished one, it is sweetness.

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In case You don't remember me

(3190)  Tumi eso tumi eso, amar ghare

Come You, please do arrive
At my dwelling.
With a steadfast gaze hope's lamp shines
For the sake of Thee.

In dream I find Your vision;
Even wakened it is You I think of.
Traced is Your stripe of love
Upon everybody.

Even though forgot, I cannot forget;
You remain at core of heart in thought dense.
With sweetness You keep coated
The cosmos complete.

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Our song is private

(3189)  Je gan chilo mane gaoya

The song had been sung within mind;
That, I sang not amid concert.
Stashed was kept hope and desire;
Abashed, I did not express.

Inner secrets You perceive;
To heart You listen and pay heed.
King of Psyche, there's not any
Indecision in Your presence.

After concert having exited,
All trace of song at an end,
The song unsung arises and I listen.
In a jewel-luster's raiment,
With hope swaying, shame forgotten,
For Your grace only it begs.

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Everywhere

(3188)  Tumi bhese calo priya kon se deshe

In which region, Dear, do You go floating?
In the flower garden at everyone's inmost psyche.
In sky-kissing mountain's frosty snow-heaps,
And in form after form, each one momentarily.

Contemplating You, myself lose I;
From Your flame I ignite the lamp of life.
I sing a song from memory of love Thine,
From heart's tug, having forgotten vanity.

On my mental sky You alone are the moon;
Honey does Your moonlight's splendor exude.
Love, the Bliss-Maker too, it's just You,
Recognized through all earnest longing.

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Absolutely unique

(3187)  Tiirthapati tumi bhare acho manobhumi

Owner of holy sites entire, You are the mind-realm;
A person qualified as You, it can't be imagined.
Master of the seven spheres, You've stayed kissing consciousness;
A sage like unto You, one more does not exist.

In a world beyond speech, a place of radiant thought,
You go on witnessing everything, coated by kohl of love.
Your equal is not there, Yourself do we all desire;
No taboo is heeded by the mind effusive.

In abstract Mathura at a deep niche of heart,
On mental stream of consciousness with frantic implication,
Invisibly thrilled You smile, to everyone with love You float;
In the whole cosmos, You have no equivalent.

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This body comes with limitation

(3186)  Nrtyer tale tale marmer upakule

With many a dance beat upon inmost shore,
Who are You that came today; my heart brims over.
Deep within my sensation, in each layer of thought,
Psyche is inundated, it is made awash.

One cannot know or fathom a person's border;
Away from inner midst the inner self is swung.
My sense of self I forget, I ignite desire's fuel;
In effect, unto mind I sacrifice transcendent.

Language finds no place at existential depths;
Amid sensations, I see, lost also is existence.
Expressed or unexpressed, kissing seven realms are You;
This alone can be said: You descend with consciousness.

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Their rhapsody

(3185)  Bhalabasiyachi tomare ceyechi

I have loved, Yourself have I wanted
In my mental casket.
Proximate You come not, far off why do You bide;
Even realized, my hope You don't comprehend.

Remaining afar, why do You go on smiling;
Even the sweetness in honey You conceal.
In light and dark through Game You're hiding;
Understanding You became a challenge.

Age after age whatever yogiis have come,
They've remained circled by Your thought.
Atom and molecule, nebula and star,
They sing accolade to Your love current.

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Whether or not You answer me

(3184)  Deke jai sara nahi pai

I go on calling, I don't get a reaction;
What a severe heart, so stern a heart!
Sometimes You come close, else remote You grin;
Such a cosmic sport, oh such affectation!

To dance-beat You float on high;
In rows of waves upon my ocean-tide.
A life of dangling on the coast, on the shoreline;
The tale Your sweetness reports!

You are in every age, at every season You abide;
With memories gone missing, with fate of bad times.
In presence and in dearth, at bedrock of all entire
Blended stays Your stream of love.

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Through surrender is the path of bliss

(3183)  E dhulir dharaniite

Upon this earth dusty
There is just preference and fondness.
You're the arbiter of bliss,
All tears and laughter at Your behest.

Pouring light into the mind of everybody,
Having decorated every grove florally,
You go on floating to the fore directly;
instilling amid heart-core confidence.

Rapid One upon a chariot of gold-rayed beauty,
The Unknown Traveler on a path of mystery,
Along with sweetness You continue sailing,
Giving tongue to the glum visage speechless.

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Worldly attractions do not bind

(3182)  Pathapane ceye basiya achi

Looking toward the path I am seated;
Come, oh Darling, to my dwelling.
Renouncing drowsiness alert have I been,
Under moonlight's sorcery.

Dearest One, Earth's ambrosial essence,
Among those near and dear, the most intimate,
Having rid my narrowness,
Like a tree in the desert do appear.

Cosmic vitality and honey of a bud,
The full moon on blue sky of autumn,
Just Yourself alone the psychic bee,
In this very world, wants to go on viewing.

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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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Having found nigh

(3174)  Maya chariye dile akashe

What's this, such magic You scattered upon sky,
With what hope a heart You thoroughly satisfied;
So in my world, apart from You there is none,
There's no one!

All differences vanished between friend and foe;
The ones remote were taken and pulled up close.
Opened went the fastened bolt;
I don't find the limit of Your love.

In Phalgun a fire You applied,
For what merit, on the shriveled leaves of mine.
Somewhere You'd been hidden out of sight;
About this alone I keep musing, having got proximate.

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Abundant generosity

(3173)  Ajana pathik ajike elo

Today appeared the Unknown Traveler.
I could not believe this too can be:
At my hut; oh what happened!

Enter the world, Beloved, come into existence;
Take seat nearby, strewing a smiling sweetness.
Your love floats upon sky and in breeze;
The meaning of life You awaken.

Life's Jamuna, running upstream it went;
All filthiness got vanquished by effulgence.
He welcomed stranger into home, the remote adjacent;
He gave mental sweetness most ample.

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I've come to think

(3172)  Amar bhuvan hariye geche

My world has gone missing
Inside dark mind's recess deep.
In search I roam, weep and make cry,
In everybody's psyche stealthily.

I won't make cry ever again;
Nothing is like night-jasmine's necklace.
Dew-drenched is completely useless
In a residence of emotion lonely.

My Earth, my enclosure,
On days of grief made sorrowful,
Is turned overflowing with upsurge
In ripples of happiness momentary.

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Falling asleep

(3171)  Tandra jakhan cokhe neve elo

Drowsiness, when upon eyes it descended,
Then in mind there'd been darkness.
River of existence, spilled in hundred streams,
I had not realized whereto will it wend.

With emotion tidewaters were overflowing;
They had been resisting gravity.
But I don't see on heavens the sweetness of moon;
Only by moon's halo had they been swollen.

An ebb tide came after life's flood;
The upstream water went far withdrawn.
I look on every side but have no power;
The moon had hauled me adjacent.

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At last

(3170)  Tumi esecho pran dhelecho

You've arrived, heart You've poured forth;
The dark You've let it be withdrawn.
You have wished for welfare, You have loved;
Having made Your own You've carried off.

Do stay please, remain near, far away don't leave;
The peacock of cogitation dances around Thee.
Oh have You closely marked?

Only Your light glows in burnt offering of psyche;
On heart's lotus, fragrance Thine does swing.
Have You managed to ignore?

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You light my way

(3169)  Je alo tumi jharale

The light rays You emanated,
They race dancing upon the horizon.
Mid limitation's circumference, sweet scent You did lavish
By a celestial ballad-composition.

Movement is with coming and going...
Dormant in that only is Your love-story,
With its rhythm and melody sentiment filled,
A unit mind's dazzling effusion.

"Yourself I did not find" can never be claimed...
Coming on Your own, Lord, You've kept granting embrace;
Nevertheless, I don't see through fog of the insensate;
And You keep smiling in a heaven of heart.

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