Even me

(3277) Andhakare jarer bhiire

In the gloom, with a swarm of things worldly,
Mid infatuation's web I had been asleep.
Shattering the slumber, You appeared;
You infused light-rays aplenty.

Unknown to You there is nothing;
Of the whole Creation You know all entities.
Omnipresent and also omni-transcendent,
You keep none thrown far afield.

Ever You gaze in everyone's direction;
Affectionate vision You don't rescind.
Whether fortune favors or afflicts,
On Your lap is everybody.

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This world You suffuse

(3276) Maner gopal manete hesecho

Mental Gopal, in the mind You have smiled;
Of mind and heart You have deprived.
Fit object of my reverie, with traits countless,
A living being You have prized.

With lower lip dyed, having played a pipe of reed,
Goading heart's Jamuna to flow upstream,
Generation, Operation, and Destruction making shimmy,
By delicious Game You've galvanized.

Inside the mind You are the undercurrent,^[1]
In external world losing Self.
Diffused in Vrndavan's many forests,
Sweetness You've consigned.

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A many-splendored love

(3275) Tomar phager rag legeche

Your gulal's color has been smeared
On this month of Falgun today.
In my garden of psyche
With dyes are the dried branches traced;
They obtained floral array
Upon Your coming.

Cuckoo and peacock have begun cooing a strain:
None is alone, even in a desolate waste;
The pollen of Your love is sprayed
With ankle-bells jingling.

I know that You glance and see:
All who have accepted You are in drunken frenzy,
Effusive on getting Thee
With smiling bath of liberty.

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It doesn't have to be this way

(3274) Tumi kothay ami kothay

Where are You, and where am I...
Why amid obstruction's sea?
To You I call through stream from eyes;
A row of waves that cry conceals.

My very own, You belong to me;
To Your cadence is my being.
On a cosmic lute Your melody
Makes forget distinction twixt friend and enemy.

I desire nothing in Your presence;
Mind simply begs this kindness:
In my thoughts You please dwell
At each watch^[1] in attire charming.

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I don't want temporary

(3273) Cai na kichu tomar kache

I want nothing in Your presence;
You exclusively do I covet.
From that which comes and goes, what will be?
Myself it makes lament, makes forget.

By gold and silver, gems and pearls,
Of seven seas the amassed treasures,
An endless existence they don't endure;
Flashes a smile of gladness.

Having become my own, You linger
In the optic ambit of a mind meager.
The sweet and charming ideation had is
Of the Formless in a shape effulgent.

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Lesson learned

(3272) Ami chilum dhuloy pare

I'd been fallen upon dust;
Onto lap You did lug.
To me You said, dust casting off:
"Abide on Earth, head lifted up."

Many watches^[1] and moon-days have gone;
Quenched has been much hopeful splendor.
Amid Your soul-manifest love,
You kindled a steadfast sun.

For those who have no one just You exist;
The wretched and deprived have You cherished.
You've kept in touch, shadow akin,
Upon time's ocean-shore,
Every minute, Lord, each few seconds.^[2]

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What a strange dream

(3271)  Dekechilum ashruniire

I had called in tears;
Nonetheless, You looked not back, Dear.
The central gem in imagination's realm,
Very far away You went on remaining.

This necklace of love, Yours and mine,
No one from history does realize:
Of rubies and emeralds, of weeping and smiles,
Of hope and despair, composed by that string.

What is this, a glance I flash and lo,
At no time whatsoever I'm alone.
In the realm of imagination, it's not a hoax;
You are filling every hole, every cavity.

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I dare ask

(3270)  Phuler malay ei abelay

At close of day, this same floral garland,
Please don't let it fall in the dust.
Mind's exquisite beauty, a peerless love,
Please don't go on spurning in this fashion.

Little by little blossoms have I gathered,
Combing my mental garden.
Taking pains a garland I've threaded;
That, please don't ignore.

I know that it is trifling in Your presence;
Yours are a myriad other gems.
To that is combining my essence;
Over this I do not mull.

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Come dance with Me

(3269)  Diip jvele jai khushiite bharai

A lamp I go on lighting, with joy I make it please;
I belong to you all, of you all am I.
Nobody is alien, Mine is everybody
From time out of mind.

Eyes drenched with tears I don't want to see;
Love impassioned ever I go on observing.
None of you stay afar, Myself do not misconstrue;
This Cosmic Game is of delight.

Dyed with affection in the tune of lyrics have I dwelt;
Heart replete, I've kept floating on floral pollen.
Girded by song, with love's wreath do I swing
At the coastline of life.

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No complaint

(3268)  Alokeri rathe esechile

On the splendid chariot You had arrived,
Scattering a stream of light.
It mattered not there was no invite;
Unasked sweetness You applied.

All the accumulated weariness,
It moved far aside in a moment.
In a whirlpool of grime
Love awakened.
Familiar or unfamiliar mind does not heed;
Having spread wings of kinship it glides.

Filled with tears is my history;
In a minute, 'twas entwined with ecstasy
At every pore were love's tidings;
Hearing and memory You fully satisfied.

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In my life and in my mind

(3267)  Gan geye geye madhurii charaye

Ever singing, sweetness strewing,
Who are You Who came into the grove of my psyche?
With eyes never did I see;
But by the light of early morning, bad with good
You combined through keynote and melody.

Friend or foe, outer or inner,
Hatred and disregard are not Yours.
In a universal home, taking everybody,
You dance with vibration sweetly smiling.

Unseen Supreme Being, Yours is such a sport;
You give ever-novel sensory perception.
From the manifest state to transcendence, newly fashioned;
Upon cogitation You go on floating.

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I stand in awe

(3266)  Ami tomay bhalabasi, tai manke dilum jeneshune

Yourself do I admire;
Thus the mind I gave knowingly.
Your sweet, delightful smile
Clears away all vanity.

You exist, hence so do I;
Inside Your mind only, home I've confined.
A song of grief and glee have I devised
In a floral garden of Your psyche.

In life do I covet Thee;
Through eyes am I thirsty.
Mind's Jamuna rushes upstream
With Your love throbbing.

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A king like no other

(3265)  Rakhal raja re rakhal raja re

Oh Cowherd King, the Cowherd King,
Flowers whom do You make wear,
For whose sake You play a pipe of reed?

Day and night Your laughter,
Arriving upon pain a salve it gives.
Even though not witnessing I still cherish
Yourself on the mirror of psyche.

You are the tempus perpetual;
The Jamuna of mind You've driven mad.
By creation, maintenance, and destruction You dance,
Outside right and wrong time's periphery.

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You had come

(3264)  Tomar amar priitir e har

This necklace of fondness, Yours and mine,
Who had strung... You not I, please confess.
I had been on a world of dust,
Above ground, an earthen lamp clutching,
Morn and eve saluting Thee, my Love.

In my hand had been a string of jasmine,
Coated with exuded nectar and heart's pollen.
Vaejayanti garland upon Your clavicle,
You descended with Kaostubha's splendor.

I'd offered up my sense of 'I' in a wreath,
All boundaries of meanness forgetting.
My entire being arose swaying;
Birth You took from the state of perfection.

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Is there aught for which to pray?

(3263)  Na bale ele na bale gele, caranacihna rekhe gele

Sympathetic to my agony,
Saying that You will see me,
On the surface of this earth, have You appeared?

From a heart full of sweetness,
With Your laugh pearls are shed.
On Your eyes, affection's ink,
An immortal being did You not abide.
Passionately descending, You've arrived
With playful wiles in the bud of psyche.

Name and form is not Thine;
Through a hundred names and forms do I find.
The intellect, if submerging,
Please remain always with me
At all times and beyond time's periphery,
In the psychic lotus with an ideation sweet.

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Speaking from the heart

(3262)  Amari vyathate gale

Sympathetic to my agony,
Saying that You will see me,
On the surface of this earth, have You appeared?

From a heart full of sweetness,
With Your laugh pearls are shed.
On Your eyes, affection's ink,
An immortal being did You not abide.
Passionately descending, You've arrived
With playful wiles in the bud of psyche.

Name and form is not Thine;
Through a hundred names and forms do I find.
The intellect, if submerging,
Please remain always with me
At all times and beyond time's periphery,
In the psychic lotus with an ideation sweet.

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With You by my side

(3261)  Priya amar priyatama tumi mor

My Beloved, Dearest Darling, You belong to me.
In the thick darkness, in tempest and storm,
You accompany, the Heart-Thief.

Dispelling calamity, yet unseen and spotless,
Vital pulse and the mind's knowledge-ointment,
Heart is consumed by Your form and quality.

Whom does he fear, the one who obtains You,
Who with threads of affection fastens You;
He cuts through impediments dense and dreary.

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To everyone but me

(3260)  Amare dao na kena dhara

Why do You not grant embrace by me?
Endlessly I call; if hearing You remain,
Of what sort is this affection-stream?

Under fierce summer heat, to malati shrubs at dusk;
Beneath heavy monsoon rains, to ketakii's mites of dust...
With shefali's love and fondness, in the autumn
Upon kush and kash emitted are light-beams.

Through pre-winter's mild frost,
Through harsh snows at winter season...
In springtime, with treacly odor
Suffused are the colors of abeer.

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You abide

(3259)  Jyotsna nishiithe smita juthikate

Like a smiling jui jasmine on a moonlit night,
Upon the lustrous chariot, Who are You that arrived?
In my company at a lonesome site,
Through this game of hide-and-seek, why did You take delight?

I don't have any possessions,
In exchange for which to get Your love.
What You've given please accept, and look in my direction;
Leaving me alone and helpless, please don't retire.

For many an age is Your multicolored sport,
A game sometimes gloomy and occasionally luminous.
Saying You love, You come with diverse wiles;
But never do You keep me flung far aside.

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He is beyond reach

(3258)  Oi navaghana niila gagane

Yon, upon a new and striking, indigo sky,
You had appeared; and You had smiled.
On star after star and on galaxy,
You made dance a flow of effulgence.

With divine ruby's splendor, with emerald's luster bright,
From Infinity's fount, on a thought-stream You arrived.
You dance on endlessly at the outskirts of mind;
Reflection with transcendence You combined.

With a trifling intellect, Your attributes' consideration
Is like counting grains of sand on the ocean-shore.
The method is not acquisition, only love succeeds;
Realization is by obtaining kindness.

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You light up my life

(3257)  Tomari tare kata na kendechi

For You only, so much I've lamented;
Nonetheless, You came not to my dwelling..
A wreath I have strung, an altar I've embellished;
Filled with love, a candle I am lighting.

Heart's Deity, whereto did You vanish,
Having left empty my country psychic?
In memory, to You I bow by the hundreds;
Please look back, my salutation to receive.

You can do what You like, whatever is Your desire,
Slighting this existential wine.
By this wine ignited is a splendid festivity,
Presenting a line of lights to Thee.

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Transcendent One

(3256)  Nutan usay se esechilo

With a new dawn, He had come;
To a distant light He floated off.
Heart's precious gem He'd woken up;
Where did He hide, making dark?

Why does He arrive, oh why He leaves;
In cadence He makes laugh, rhythmically He makes weep.
Smiling and crying's, emerald and ruby's,
Memories He traced from behind a curtain.

In this same springtime floral beauty,
Even when granting embrace, He does not yield.
In the month of Falgun with fire of bastard teak,
He drove crazy by color's infatuation.

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Love hurts

(3255)  Tumi jadi nahi ele, kiser tare e mala rakha

In the event You did not come,
For what is this garland kept!
When light of moon did not appear,
Useless are a water-lily's sugar-coated promises.

Alas, a partridge on the new-moon night,
With vain hope does she gaze toward sky.
Hey my everlasting Darling,
Why by dark clouds are You hidden?

You know the unspoken words of psyche,
The unattained, aggregate agony.
If You want to reject a feeling,
Dreading what, in hiding dwelt?

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I am astonished

(3254)  Bhalabese je esechilo

Having loved, the One Who had come,
Why far off did He withdraw...
Who had smiled with the light of dawn,
He blended into evening's ebon.

Let me be told, oh Callous One,
Why on a bloom thorns You make worn...
At break of day the flower had blossomed;
Under ferocious heat, it dried up.

With the heart, what's this Your game divine;
You don't care for good or bad, right or wrong time.
As You prefer I laugh, I cry;
You move not per my volition.

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If not for Thee

(3253)  Indradhanute ruper dalite

On the rainbow like a basket of beauty,
When first You had appeared,
There'd been no animal, creeper, or shrub;
There had been no life with feelings.

Then, sun had been wakened, laying waste to ignorance;
There'd become an ocean, waves in abundance.
Lightning's smile through clouds of ebon
On the first firmament of that day was there.

Prehistoric times have disappeared;
Been created has a new history.
The world's been filled with melodies rippling,
With songs in Your praise by the birds and human beings.

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Have mercy

(3252)  Tandra jakhan bhara chilo cokhe

When drowsiness on eyes had been replete,
Lord, You had been in my vicinity.
Eyes opened, lo I see You did leave;
Only just an anklet-sound rings.

From a far, nebula heavenly,
Persistently a melodic jingling,
I hear it come floating; with eyes unblinking,
Hearing's impulse dances upon psyche.

Such cosmic play is Thine, a game with my heart:
Just a single inattention of atomic cognition!
With a wreath from floral garden I would adorn
Mind's Charming One in the month of spring.

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Is it a dream or reality?

(3251)  Nisha halo bhor svapnera ghor

Night became morning, a dreamy illusion:
Mine, it's got excised today.
The night had been veiled by blind infatuation;
Boundless ignorance had been without bank.

By mist the Polaris, it too had been concealed;
A tempest had blown with furious velocity.
I had been calling You anxiously,
The darkness gloomy to evade.

Thorns had filled the sandal grove;
Decline had quenched aesthetics also.
Wallowed in falsehood had been the marrow;
I received Your causeless grace.

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Just You I have to thank

(3250)  Tomake peyechi maneri niipe ami

At the kadam tree of my mind, Yourself have I received;
With kadam in full blossom and the bee of psyche mine,
I traipse about, the laughing pollen kissing.

What had been beyond my expectation,
In the realm of sensation with unspoken tongue,
That sweet son of Nanda, the bright harvest moon,
You rescued the bud of my psyche.

Naught is obscure to You: name, form, or special traits;
And hence I realize You are everything I crave.
By Your kindness, by Your unearned grace,
I will move along light's journeyway unhalting.

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