The eternal conundrum

(3120)  Ke go gan shonale amay

Oh Who are You Who sang to me;
Pray tell what's Your identity?
Enchanting flute and honeyed smile
Bring a flood to Jamuna of psyche.

Age after age a flute plays every day passionately at Braj,
Exciting mind like springtime's red gulal.
Love's fresh-leaved shoot speaks.

Eternally You are the immortal realization;
By endless love-play, a newfangled stream of ideation.
Every instant You dance on with that thrill ubiquitous;
Understanding You is not straight or easy.

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All from love

(3119)  Nihshabda chilo tribhuvan

Silent had been the universe;^[1]
With many songs You arrived.
The veil of fog You set aside;
You filled the world with light.

There had been first rise of dawn;
The eastern sky became colored.
 Upon plants and ivy verdancy did come;
In many dyes all were attired.

On some day hoary had been that Making;
Your new vision a new Earth received.
Lovingly, You conferred the rains of mercy;
Fondness-churned, You contrived.

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You came and took all heartache mine

(3118)  Tumi jakhan pratham ele

Since You first arrived,
The moon had been in the sky;
Upon moonlight the earth glides.
Door of mind You did unbind
With gust of wind not at all shy.

Any and all amassed fatigue,
Who bore it away from psyche?
All pieces of mind gone missing,
They looked on, mesmerized.

Into mind entry You had made ,
You went on giving sway of mind-state..
Hey Welcome Guest, the gem's radiant light,
A sweet scent alike, You satisfied.

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Shy am I

(3117)  Akasher niile malayanile

On the blue hue of sky like gentle breeze,
What music came floating?
Constantly it races, yet spent it gets not,
Bringing a flood from country to country.

Giving sway to unit mind, it goes on;
Shake it gives with Great's vibration.
Missing goes a tiny mind's limitation
In the ecstasy of Whose coming?

Bashful buds watch on with passion;
Withdrawn, they veil nectar poured.
They'd get mixed forevermore
With wish of that Heart-Thief.

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His blissful advent

(3116)  Akashe vatase madhurii dhele

Having lavished sweetness on sky and air;
He had come, He'd arrived.
In nebula with stars in tiers,
Seeing them full of love, He had smiled.

In the mango arbor a sweet scent imbuing,
Veiling plants and creepers with fresh green leaves,
With color the palash and ashok trees greatly exciting,
He had constructed a paradise.

Mounted on a cloud's body once again return will He;
Upon the earth He'll pour out a verdant beauty.
Everybody's expectation satisfying,
This sorcery, where had He acquired?

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Where pleasure is combined

(3115)  Dak diye jai, diye jai

Giving a summons I proceed;
I go on calling.
In My universe no one is foreign to Me;
I impart an invite to everybody.

On sky and air everybody's smile
Rises brightening with zest for life.
When wailing in a fire-like anguish,
Everyone with the same mindset I get to see.

One and all will have to move together,
Only loving, fear and hate forgotten.
Everybody touched by mental happiness,
I desire the making of society.

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Hope springs eternal

(3114)  Tomay daki dine rate

Day and night I call to Thee;
Are You unable to hear?
I call in light and in obscurity,
Awake, in dream, and sleeping.

Days come, and days vanish;
Many nights get lost forever.
By a hope-mirage's magic,
Watching path I stay waiting.

In summer and in monsoon, then in autumn,
In pre-winter and in winter seasons,
Even though fruitless, I remain absorbed;
I think You will arrive in spring.

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A one-pointed mind

(3113)  Ganer sure anek dure

On a song's melody, to a very remote place,
All on my own had I soared.
No more in mind is its day and date;
You alone can say, oh Boon Companion.

The stars had informed me:
"To unknown site are you going.
At that same somewhere disappear
The bright wings of skein in heart.

Down had dropped a flower's smile;
Honey-glazed it had advised:
"As that Mind-Thief had desired;
Hence was got His flame of love."

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Blissfully I can only gasp

(3112)  Mor udvela hrdaye ele

Into my effusive heart You came;
The why You don't say, the reason You don't speak.
All mood and thought You took away;
You did not let me tell a thing.

Your activity I cannot know,
While nothing mine is Yours unknown.
I go on seeing that in every moment in each mode
You don't get tied by any fastening.

Having gone to know, turning back I come cryin';
Having gone in search, I swim on the Infinite.
Though not possible to reach, still I cherish;
Having noticed that, don't You see?

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Privately

(3111)  Ei tandrajarima makha jyotsnay

Neath moonlight but smeared by this inertia sleepy,
Psyche goes on floating, it goes on floating.
It does not manage to fathom anything:
Wherefrom it has come or whereto it proceeds.

With a throbbing fragrance Who is He, goes on calling;
With a pleasing sweetness a song Who does sing?
Like the dew under light He excites with song and beat;
Life, it is sparkling.

Unknown Traveler, today the welcome guest You be;
You came into core of heart, dressed up charmingly.
Only this kindness I pray at Your lotus feet:
Go on staying within me privately.

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Spring rhapsody

(3110)  Vasanteri mainjari

The springtime's youthful blooms,
A hint of freshness they do bring.
A game of hide-and-seek by the Ever-New
Sings through songs aplenty.

Blossoms the smiling garden craves;
A fragrance goes floating in the air.
Upon sky the hawk-cuckoos serenade
With a vibration of novelty.

From Earth's body, a new nectar emanates;
With eyes newness-bright does She gaze.
The Ever-New at core of heart, She faints,
Tugged by a love of the Lofty.

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How to succeed

(3109)  Dekechi juge juge

Age after age called have I;
You heard not my story.
Having been far aside,
You did not divine my grief.

Dismayed by thunder, I have called;
In gentle winds, a-singing I have gone.
Like ocean's roar, with heart and mind,
In vain have I kept summoning.

A belching crater alike
Or like a bee's humming mild,
With a storm's unending cry,
I've wanted to clarify my agony.

By looking toward the mental sky
With a night-jasmine wreath of mind,
By means of hiding my desires,
I've called, and silence You have breached.

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I would sing a hymn...

(3108)  Amar e manoviinay

On this my mental lyre,
Your raga did not come.
Please set my world floating
From the coast of sensory perception.

You are present in a jingling;
Tune and music mode You've kept filling.
On a garland the Gem of Surmise,
You dispensed a flow of compassion.

You've remained inside a beat;
Unrestrained You went on dancing.
On the nacre shore of life,
Alone You'd been, then numerous.

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By Your grace I see

(3107)  Tomare dekhechi ami

Yourself have I observed,
Manifest both outwardly^[1] and inwardly.
However long You'd gone on staying,
You brought a rotation to inert things.

In both light and darkness You smile;
The pleasure of individuals You like.
You float like dye on stellar sky
Every moment within forms aplenty.

In fire and air You reside;
You dance upon the grass spike.
You've kept remaining on the sky of mind,
In the meditation of visionaries.

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A one-stringed lute

(3106)  Tumi dur nabhoniile dhruvatara

On far azure You are the polestar;
Of dusty earth I am an ektara.
You go on calling with the great Om sound;
Getting impassioned, I am lost.

Between You and me there is no comparison;
Only You are my life's sadhana.
My one desire in regard to acquisition,
By Your light satisfied is the heart.

Anything except for You I know not;
To acknowledge something more I want not.
By any blow crippled I am not;
You alone are beloved, exuding ambrosia.

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To everything a season

(3105)  Mor madhumas cale jay

My month of spring goes away;
Green a fresh leaf did become.
The leaf, on getting yellow-tinged,
With dust it totally incorporates.

A cuckoo bird had come;
A flood had called in song.
On advent of the summer,
Somewhere lost is that current.

In the air had been ambrosia;
Upon sky the moon had been.
By monsoon clouds opaquely thick,
Their veiling is given.

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Just let me comprehend

(3104)  Alaker ananda tumi

You are the heavenly bliss;
Down to earth You have come.
Pouring out honeyed fondness,
Dried cow-dung You've made soft.

The world-bewitching grin,
The charming flute of lower lip,
They inform everyone "I cherish";
Why have You kept me far off?

Whether You want or don't want me,
Myself ignoring, please don't leave.
Acquaint me with just this one thing:
In mind You've gone on making sport.

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Though physically apart

(3103)  Amar kanu jay

My Kanu^[1] is going–
He leaves, leaves, leaves–
In Vrndavan's groves aplenty,
Optic flood having made stream.
For being Surasena's king,
To Mathura does He speed.

Yourself, Kanu, I won't forget,
Regardless how remote You may dwell.
From altar of my psyche,
Does anyone remove Thee?

Kindly come to Braj anew;
Sweetly smile with notes of flute.
A forest-doe and mental peahen,
They yearn for Your lotus feet.

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Gracious and abundant love

(3102)  Aman kariya deke calo

Like so You go on calling for what reason?
Water from a well You doled in waves,
Surging with a passionate emotion.

I had been alone on coast of sea;
The daytime has passed, shell gathering.
With sands a game I've gone on making;
I saw not the inundating ocean

"Guru" the ocean howls aloud;
In that it keeps blending every sound.
A puny life's heady tininess-power,^[1]
Tremulous, on that great sonance.

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Inference of His presence

(3101)  Banshii bajiya uthilo jamunay

A flute rose playing at Jamuna river.
Ever and anon it plays, ignoring domestic chores;
Unto shore of that stream the mind races.

A peacock has walked fanning its tail
To make the forest doe exclaim.
A bumblebee hums; a sweet exchange
Why does he go on making with the cuckoo bird?

On which account so many flowers keep on blooming,
Being swayed by the pollen of psyche?
Imagination's herd of cows, in a rhythm keen,
Continues dancing by which implication?

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Love by remote control

(3100)  Tomari tare prabhu

For the sake of only You, Lord,
Many ages have elapsed...
Many sleepless nights
And many tears have passed.

Like a stream of Shravan
My tears, they have fallen...
Like unto the screwpine pollen
With the rain they've floated a great distance.

Despite the fact You did not come
And never did it ring out at heart-core...
On the strings of this my veena,
That song has moved along buoyant.

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The Krsna of heart

(3099)  Maner gopal manete rayecho, manamajhe liila kare calecho

Gopal of mind, You've remained in psyche;
Amid the mind, You've gone on making liila.
In the depths of mind, in a secret universe,
You've raised the sound of Your bansuri.

To see the charming flute I am not able;
By its resonance I go on being overwhelmed.
Pose having struck with dyed lower lip,
My world You have defeated.

Of Your divine play there's no end;
But in the Braj of heart I find no estrangement.
In life's Gokul the shyness of lineage is forgotten;
Into Your proximity You have drawn me.

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When You we see

(3098)  Ei caincala pavane liilayita

On this same restless wind, striking an attitude,
Oh Who are You that arrived?
My mental inertia setting aside,
You made bright with stream of light.

Yourself I can't recognize, no, no not ever;
But I had heard that You are everybody's Master.
Nonetheless, my surrender did not happen;
Now You allowed that to arise.

You are the star of eye, everybody's darling;
The world's enraptured on account of Thee.
However much the cosmic nectar, inside You it's complete;
You appeared upon life's riverside.

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A blissful dynamic

(3097)  Ajike prate ashabhara alote

Today at dawn, full of hope from splendor,
Psyche wants You with the morning breeze.
Close or remote, in tunes various,
Your song both mind and heart sing.

Never does it get restrained, this light's velocity;
The speed of this song, no prohibition does it heed.
Light and song move at the base of cosmic platform;
Taking what they find, on the way they will proceed.

Sway to the universe this song keeps providing;
This song makes one self-forgetting.
Casting off the time-worn, it goes ahead new-born;
Forward it races in a hundred ways, a hundred streams.

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Ever my muse

(3096)  Andhakarer majhe alo elo

Amid a gloomy darkness light appeared;
Arrived the first morning.
In a breast naught remaining, came everything;
The world got infused with vitality.

Into emptiness the universe had fallen;
To get itself filled rapidly it went ahead.
Into unit mind came hope's intoxicant;
The world rose, awakening.

With diverse modes and music, this gala of light;
It rose shining on the sky, spreading sight.
Bird-warbling began with pulse of life;
There was a veena jingling.

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Songs multifaceted

(3095)  Nistabdha chilo mahakash

Silent had been the heavens;
Entered You with many songs.
With vital pulse trembled the wind,
On auspicious coming of cognition.

Broken was the long-time sleep;
Earth became garrulous with chirping.
By a lustrous exposition appeared liberty;
Life arrived magnanimous.

Blossoms bloomed in hues diverse and many;
With honey of bosom the earth was replete.
All understood everybody's joy and grief
By summons of the Great One.

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Tit for tat

(3094)  Vishvamanase dola dile

To cosmic mind You gave a swing;
Yourself You went on spreading.
None estranged, everyone family,
Everybody You drew near.

In myrtle's echo with the black bee You abide;
Ever You summon the mental peacock nigh.
Affectionate sweetness You coat upon mind;
With luster You suffused everybody.

Having dwelt alone inside every psyche,
Every moment, at each time, in each country,
For all combined You're the sole thing:
Giving love, You got love from everybody.

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In Your arena

(3093)  Tomar maner aunginate

In the courtyard of Your mind,
Everybody's sportive exercise.
With all are You occupied;
Morning and evening-time.

Sun rises upon eastern sky,
At Your mind's just one side.
Onward drift waves of but light;
With rays You make a game divine.

Sun sets in reddish hues of eventide;
For buds, through Your attraction kind.
The pollen drifts afar to endless site,
A raft of slumber's disguise.

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From You I come, please pick me up

(3092)  Amar ghare tomar alor nimantran

At my house is Your light's invitation:
Arrive without fail endured a humble submission.

My whole life through I've rehearsed Your melody;
Existential flame ignited, I have lit a dwelling.
I've continued thinking on You amid every deed;
Knowing this, for a moment gaze in my direction.

For my lamp, Lord, You alone are the matchstick;
Only You are the ghee, and You are the single wick.
On just Your path I move; that path is not crooked;
My tiny mind is the dust from Your ambulation.

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My enemy, my friend

(3091)  Sukhe ele nako

In happiness You came not;
Sorrow to console You appeared.
My own I never told,
Yet mine You went on becoming.

I'd been overwhelmed by grief;
By mouth nothing did I speak.
Having seen a sketch of psyche,
You poured out affection's beauty.

In gladness I could not identify;
In sorrow have I recognized You.
In mental agony, love by affording,
You removed all ignorance and gloom.
Having kept suffusing my I-feeling,
Every moment on all sides You went on staying.

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Have a little sympathy

(3090)  E madhu jyotsnay aloy bhese jay

Neath this sweet moonlight, with a lamp floats on
The sky and earth united.
Close by will You arrive, will You surrender,
Like a gentle breeze on this night sweet scented?

I am waiting and watching path for many ages,
With hope in breast, day and night alert.
You did not appear, hope was unrequited;
What use this wreath of malati threaded?

You know the heart's secrets, don't be obstinate;
Being sympathetic, don't make liila.
Having entered core of heart, with open eyes laugh;
The injury of nobody's therein.

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Taking life in stride

(3089)  Megher pare megh jameche, asarher akash

Clouds atop clouds have convened
On the Asarh^[1] heavens.
Rain falls down greatly stormy;
Furious, the wind.

Bird-nests are floating away;
A haven the drenched traveler craves.
In paddy fields from water-stream
Is the ocean's hint.

Steering boat a sailor proceeds;
The shoreline he goes on ignoring.
Not obtaining depth in waters deep,
His perspective is stoic.

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Truth and light

(3088)  Jiivanabelay alora melay

Upon life's shore with an exhibition of light,
Who are You that arrived, oh Unknown Pilgrim.
I cannot identify, but in thought all the time,
It's as if by mind recognition mine had been.

At splendor's festivity a song You sing;
All of heart's nectar You lavish ungrudgingly.
In the whole universe like Your giving nothing is.

You halt for no impediment, You heed no taboo;
While traveling on the path You pursue the Truth.
What is there that can't exist, should You wish!

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