Always remain with me

(3285) Ami cai na hate jinaner pahar

I don't yearn to be a mount of wisdom,
Oh the Sea of Virtue, Merit's Ocean.
Yourself made mine is what I wish,
Every hour,^[1] eve and morn.

Stone of Philosophers, the Formless Gem,
You are all I know and comprehend.
Only by Your enduring everyone exists;
But still then, quality has import.

Please stay in my psychic niche,
Having become mine in secret.
Night and day always be with;
Elsewise, Your caress serves no purpose.

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Came the Unknown Pilgrim

(3284) Nam na jana jagat theke

Unknown Pilgrim came.
He came, He came.
He infused hope and tongue;
Existential touch He gave.

Nothing He craved from anyone;
Not even asking, He has received all.
He took a jot, God in exchange.

Deluded by crude thought are humans;
The man says he'd not been cognizant.
Upon a stormy firmament adrift is a sky lantern;
Earth's contact it obtained.

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Yes we will

(3283) Keu tora jadi bhay pas

Though any of you be afraid,
Still we'll march, yes, we will march.
If loud, awful laughter pervade,
We'll still go forth, we will go forth!

Why look on with distressed eyes;
Let our intent not subside.
Salty desert, pole of ice,
We will traverse, we'll surely cross!

Goddess of fate, even if averse she be,
Heavens broken, bolts of thunder crashing,
To the fore having kept Ideology,
We'll step in, we will take action!

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His holy blessing

(3282) Tandav nace nececho

In a tandav dance You've been engaged,
Hey the Fearsome One,
Kalbhaerav, Kalbhaerav.^[1]
Shiva,^[2] You've opened Your matted hair,
Doling out sacred unction.

Inflamed by rhythm and beat,
A tranquil Earth rose in frenzy.
With a crater's baked heat,
Danced every atom.

Tied with a noose serpentine,
Those bound by grief had been.
To unloose their binding,
You woke the sound of clarion.

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Who is worthy?

(3281) Tumi kon se sure, praner viina bajiye

Oh You, what's that tune by which,
Playing on life's veena,
You go on calling?
You go on calling, You go on calling.
Both sky and air call does suffuse
With rhythm and music-measure;
Spoken, why let it be?

From when was the calling's start?
One knows not of its annals.
A pearl necklace and glamor floral,
None had been there toward whom You peer.

Why You call in this fashion,
Nothing whatsoever can I fathom.
Lone You stay with discomfort;
Playmate do You wish, accordingly?

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Seeing with the inner eye

(3280) Pradiip jvele dekechilum

A lamp having lit, I had called
Tearfully time after time;
Retiring, You gave no reply.

People say Your heart is soft,
A flower-bud's honey-store.
But true it's not in my environs;
Is there one keeps claiming "mild"?

Having set the lamp aside I notice:
You'd been hidden, but what's this!
I am in Your presence, there's no trick;
You had been with, day and night.

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Love is the key

(3279) Tumi bhalabesechile

You'd held dear;
Hence You appeared?
Flower pollen, love, and affection,
You let them be married.

Humans had been in a darkness gloomy,
Pent in room of thoughts worldly.
The door opening and light-rays pouring,
Greatly You excited psyche.

Under Your colored flambeau loving,
Human life arose swaying.
Hope's pennant skyward raising,
You stood waiting in the lead.

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You rang?

(3278) Ei timiravrta nishiithe

On this same gloom-wrapped night,
Light in hand, You arrived.
You arrived.
Pebble-maimed on a path of nettle-spikes,
A message of hope You advertised.

With the dense rain there had been a gale;
Kettle-drums the ferocious lightning had played.
Mind's flight of geese had been confused and impaired;
You displayed the road-signs.

Seated and waiting, the time for that is no more;
There is no floral bed and also no preparation.
Inside ear and mind, Soul's Avatar offers invitation;
That intonation, did You provide?

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