Lord, I need You

(3161)  Bhulo na prabhu

Lord, do not forget;
This Your tiny speck, forget not.
From You have I arrived;
Mid You only I survive.
To Your outside, cast me not.

From the Creation's beginning,
Upon stream of thought You accompany.
Like a gentle southern breeze,
With every life You are married.
Yourself distant withdraw not.

With sin and virtue bide the living;
Virtue my sins conceal.
In a realm darkness-ringed,
Bitterly I cry in suffering and in grief.
Unto me, merciless please be not.

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Content to drift

(3160)  Kena elo se je kena gelo

Why came He Who left for unknown reason today?
Flowers having made bloom, light having shed,
Oh why the mind did He intoxicate?

Many questions 'why' come and go within psyche;
None of the solutions are not at His feet.
Having gone on thinking the mind goes missing;
He sent adrift on juice of game!

Musing on Him I receive ecstasy;
All sorrow and pain, that I go on forgetting.
Except Him, I desire nothing;
With such love-colors did He paint!

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His game of bliss

(3159)  Tumi mukuler lukono madhu

You are the bud's hidden sweetness,
Earth's flow of ambrosia.
Amid thought is a recognition,
Brimming with mementos of a lost heart.

You are the fortune in a dawn's sunrise,
Through tempo, tune, and beat enriching life.
Coming nigh, going far, missing, and again to find,
In this game of bliss, emission of love.

The temporal seashore looks toward Thee,
With golden sands neath waves in series,
None lags behind, always You summon all;
Over time that call does not get lost.

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Hardships I welcome

(3158)  Akashe kalo megh bhese jay

Upon sky ebony clouds go on floating;
Peacock on a kadam bough, Whom wants he?

Rain-moist, the soil pours out fragrance with love;
From the sound of wind trees sway and clouds roar.
The Unknown Traveler moves on making such a sport;
He comes near, then afar He goes missing.

Today, bolted are many mansions;
In the mind's northeast niche clouds amass still more.
Opening the bolts please come, I'll mix with the One
Who makes light rain on what is gloomy.

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My Lord

(3157)  Niilakasher acin deshe

From the azure firmament's realm unfamiliar,
Oh Who arrived and smiled at heart's core?
Your method, a boundless sport,
Around dreams it mingles with illusion.

You are the start and end of mine,
The quintessence of all life.
The burden of one after another lifetime,
With it You go to the heavens, soaring off.

You don't want anything;
You dwell above both craving and gaining.
Coat You the heart's psychic honey
From abode moonlit with benign purpose.

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Omnitranscendent

(3156)  Tumi mahesh tumi mahesh

You are Mahesh, the God of gods;
You are Hari, the Sin-Thief.
I pay salutation to Thee.
Yourself, sincerely I receive;
I am catching hold of Your feet.

By light of day You alone are a bosom friend;
Under the night's ebon, the flame of a lantern.
Within the heart in fascinating attire,
You laugh and dance, filling me.

Your coming and then going, it does not happen;
The limits of time, defeat they acknowledge.
With each tune blown on a reed pipe,
From age to age, a boat You send floating.

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What a fool!

(3155)  Ami tomay nahi jani

Yourself I don't realize;
Master, You know me.
To You the Huge I don't pull nigh;
Great, myself I go on making.

My life, ringed by limits given,
Is filled with distinctions of own and other.
Your world's door is unrestricted;
No bolt can persevere.

I come and go here many times over
To manifest my own chronicle.
Having stayed engrossed in endless deeds,
You don't say all You keep doing.

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Why can't I remember Thee?

(3154)  Manke niye eki liila

With the mind such a sport
You have gone on making every moment.
"The mind, it's mine", with this same thought,
Night and day I am in existential torment.

This mind of mine is Your award;
Your merit alone is the source of these notions.
Having gone to stay, Yourself forgotten,
In life I'm insensate, matter-mingled.

Within You is language, on You is ideation;
For Your sake only are the tears and laughter.
Your song is the song celestial;
Let the nectar emanate in secret.

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Nymphs are His agents

(3153)  Acin deshe bhave bhese

Floating on imagination, from an unknown country,
That apsara, she had come.
Pleased was she on the sky of psyche,
She had smiled, a honeyed fascination.

She removed the bleakness all;
Waves of light she made pour.
Through fire flame and gentle breeze,
The path she showed to everyone.

Said You: "I am for everybody;
Let none abide in darkness gloomy.
Still today, the light she lit up,
With you did it go on staying."

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My query

(3152)  Kotha hate asi kotha jai bhasi

From where do I come, whereto am I floating off–
This topic of "where" please inform me.
The source I know not, terminus I don't behold–
Traveling am I upon which sea?

Naught I know regarding my own times of old;
I cannot realize the future also.
Past and future in between,
Who goes on goading me.

In the universe, free of cause is nothing;
Lord, the cause is stored in Your psyche.
What am I, kindly tell me please,
On the ocean-of-time's pebble-beach.

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Defeat has a bright side

(3151)  Shukno patara krame jhare jay

The dry leaves, regularly they get shed;
From the fresh and tender leaves exudes laughter.
Having come new and unhurt, they stand erect;
Lost to a remote place the old ones are defeated.

The tender reddish leaves, green they become;
The grass green, yellow-hued become it does.
In the universe transpiring is a color-game,
Comes crying for a moment, goes where lighthearted?

Upon the earth nothing colored is retained;
Morning sun's crimson glow will surely go away.
Only You had been, are at present, ever will remain;
In consequence, at Your foot I took shelter.

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In me are You...

(3150)  Tumi caracarer priya

Of all created You are dearly prized,
Hey Lord and Master mine.
You exist in fire and wind;
Circling all You have been.
Only You are everybody's source.

In hidden fashion lone are You;
The multitudes You dwell amid.
In heaven and in hell, with quirks You're infused at birth,
Oh the Inner Spirit of everyone.

People think: "I achieve;
I achieve, with family."
But I am Yours, oh the Foot-dust Thief;^[1]
This "I" is a bubble of Your compassion.

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What's the prize?

(3149)  Akashe shunye bhese

Toward an emptiness in the heavens having drifted,
Nymphs Celestial, to which realm do they proceed?
A tune emitted in the mental room bejeweled,
Why does it give a swing?

Floats she upon which longing,
Who knows at Whose beckoning?
What effulgence did she crave?
Whose heart does she want to please?

Oh Who is that Beloved of remote place,
Enticing although very far away?
This same Earth, an ambrosial drink,
Having gone to receive, Himself He goes missing.

Why does He not summon from proximate?
Why has He remained very distant?
Faraway Darling, into heart please take
The gemmed casket of my psyche.

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If You please

(3148)  Shabda sparsha rupa rase bhare acho

Suffusing sound, touch, form, and flavor You are present;
In the mental bud Thou art my honey.
Whether known or not, You have kept abreast;
Of all my wealth You are the totality.

In summer's sultry air-stream unbearable,
Like a cooling fountain You stay ever with.
On the mud-stained path, not rain-saturated,
In the goal of motion are You, like the Goddess Shashti.^[1]

At Your will is knowing or not knowing Thee.
If You wish I will know; if not, You'll stay a mystery.
Pleasing You is the essence of my practice holy;
With that vow I'm praying for Your mercy.

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Nourished perfectly for endurance

(3147)  Je kamal phutechilo sarovare ucchala

The lotus that had bloomed in pond is effusive;
On a morning's wind its fragrance comes floating.
That can't be seen externally, only upon thinking painted;
In the universe sparse it stays, blossomed amid psyche.

Always bright, eyes trained on the sun;
Ever-wakeful it remains, solar rays linked up.
With stem stuck in the mud, it is not smirched.
To smile in delight it bides; from taste of Game is lively.

This psychic lake of mine, it does not evaporate;
Having been fed by frost, in summer also it prevails.
Upon the waves lachrymose, by love it is illuminated,
Age after age and later, free from impurity.

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Somehow there's ignition

(3146)  Je agnisphuliunga dharay charale

The spark of fire on the earth that You've spread,
In its own way it moves ahead.
The flame is both in form and formless,
World-filling, ever like a rocking cradle.

That life-force also, none can quench;
That technique nobody can comprehend.
At core of its existence is Your kindness,
At all times and in every manner.

Alone how do You go on making so much sport?
Upon any hazard or obstacle You continue without pause.
Taking for Yourself a mortal poison, You disburse ambrosia;
So bowing to Your name are all in the universe.

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His song sublime

(3145)  Ganer tarii bhese jay

The boat of song goes a-sailing;
It sails on, it goes on sailing.
It comes from which river-shore;
It speeds toward which sea?

To mortal realm ambrosia's wares it has brought;
Upon Earth a heavenly sweetness it has poured.
By rhythm and beat the cosmos has been stuffed
With a name-unknown meaning.

It has told many anecdotes from days of yore;
It has driven wild with melody's strong emotion.
Those with perturbed psyche, stone-struck,
On a veena's jingle become giddy.

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