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I hide in the mind, withdrawn in a moment.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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The magic of music

(3168)  Niiravatate asoniko

You arrived not in silence;
With many a song You came.
Trickery You don't forget,
But to love You grant embrace.

Hey my Most Beloved with smiling pollen,
With bright mementos in a world peerless,
Hope You fulfilled at break of day.

Those remote are moved close, lassoed by a magic net;
Overcome by impurity, teeming with filthiness,
On their mind a coating of sweetness You made.

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In the mood

(3167)  Tomake ghiriya naciche vishva

Circling You, the universe is dancing;
In the midst, You are best and unique.
The singular scenery in everyone's thinking,
In life You're like motivity.

You are not only in thinking but also in concept,
Oh the Wheel-Rim of this cycle of existence,
With a Notion Omnipresent, Consciousness Supreme.

You are in wakened state, in dream, and abed;
All-pervading You are kissing inmost self,
Hope of mine in a heart despairing.

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Better to follow the heart

(3166)  Tomake ceyechi kena nahi jani

I have wanted You, I don't know the reason;
I have craved, this alone am I aware of.
Are You informed?
I've arrived upon Earth, the why I don't comprehend;
I have come– I understand and honor.
Is it that You have brought?

In a cosmic cradle, life goes on swaying,
On hammock of thought, with whiskeyed fantasies.
No looking back achieves, and pause does not succeed;
To this divine game is there reason?

Ever the sun's ray, halloo,
Within gloomy thinking You are the moon.
Yourself forgotten is staying blindfolded;
This book-learning, is it not deception?

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Wherefrom and what for comes this love?

(3165)  Tomar tare mala gantha

For You a garland is strung;
Watch is kept in Your direction.
Decked with blossom, the chignon;
In mind honey is fully stored.

The light of day calls to Thee
Through gaps between night's ebony.
This musing, by what means
I ignore what's smeared at core.

Braids I bind with black string^[1]
'Gainst fearsome thought in arbor sweet.
On lyre strings surreptitiously,
Why do You ignite the flame of love?

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It's fine with me, I strive to please

(3164)  Tumi kata liila kare jao

You go on devising many games,
By what cogitation who will grasp?
You continue dancing in a playful way;
That style makes everybody dance.

From ancient days beginningless,
Sprung forth on thought's current,
All-pervading and delighted,
You've remained with such significance!

Will an atom ever fathom
By own might Yourself, Lord?
Nonetheless I press on, set to chores;
On me that strength bestowed You have.

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Not just an ancient yarn

(3163)  Varasa rate ei varasa rate andhar dharate

On a rainy night like this same rainy night, on dark Earth
A foot did You let fall?
I know You reside in mind, I recognize the king of my mind;
You came outside for what cause?

The external water-stream, within tears it went missing;
Outside a crowd of clouds, in the mind a lightning-series,
None of these accept prohibition.

The water of mind's Jamuna, o'er both banks it spills
From happiness impatient, restless and effusive,
Each moment in search of Gokul's shore.

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Year after year, age after age, am I waiting

(3162)  Pathapane ceye thaki

I remain gazing toward the path
With hopeful eyes.
For many ages, alert am I;
You don't catch sight.

In summer what's worth giving is dry;
It's moistened by the rain in eyes.
The tall grass and reeds, and the blue sky,
Having set afloat, autumn beautifies.

Enticing is a coracle of clouds white
In prewinter's frosty wind and ice.
But in winter after You did not arrive
And in spring, how do I soothe and satisfy?

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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,
To 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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