Truth be told

(3308) Tomar priitite phul phote kanane

By Your love a flower blossoms in the forest;
Whereto will I go, Yourself abandoned?
At Your feet my bowing You accept;
Ever will I expect benison.

Without stalk a lotus does not exist;
That flower is its load, even being tarnished.
With Your love my world is filled;
Yourself, how will I ignore?

Mental Lotus, You live in the mind;
Even though infinite, You keep touching confines.
Brightly smiling, lovingly, honey You apply;
Where shall I find a gem analogous?

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He knows me so well

(3307) Kamal kali kandcho kena

Why are you weeping, Lotus Bud?
News of Whom has struck psyche?
Like a frosty wind at evening,
Oh Who has infused grief?

Inmost thoughts please tell to Me.
For Your sake, Who had appeared?
By a speck of love touching thee,
Away has He taken all honey.

In a lotus grove you dwell;
A spotless mind you wrap in scent.
You eschew filthiness.
Who has understood you wrongly?

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Love makes all the difference

(3306) Bhalabasa elo jiivane, kena ke jane

Love came into my life;
Who knows why, who knows why?
Absorbed in meditation sunk have I;
I've been trussed by earnest desire.

In a wink, the thick-cinched ice left melting;
Golden and aglow, thrilling It rose blossoming.
In psyche a sense of kinship came for everybody...
All things Thine... cadence and song thereby.

The clouds abrim on firmament floated off instantly;
With moonlight the mind-sky glistened brightly.
What I imagined not, that came about, getting embodied
By lure of Your sweet-exquisite style.

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Lord, please don't leave me

(3305) Tumi bhalabese esechile

Having loved You had come;
You have gone where,
Please do tell me.
Light's flame You had lit in the dark;
May that lantern not get extinct.

With atom and molecule, Yours is such a liila;
Amid all existence, You are the one aggregate.
In slumber and deep drowsiness, my time has passed;
Having wakened me, whereto do You disappear?

In the cosmos I exist by the wish of You only;
All my coming and going is at Your mercy.
Day and night, why they come, why oh why do they leave;
And why do I arrive, in this world, You alone perceive.

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Take me Lord, I am Yours

(3304) Gane esecho tumi

With songs You've arrived,
You permit contact in life.
With bright thinking and a smiling visage,
You proceed in meditation, having come nigh.

The day has elapsed, contemplating Thee;
On the evening sky a light is scintillating.
When You have come You stay every moment;
You receive and make me Thine.

For all time, may this evening endure,
Accompanied by moonlight and a churned rapture.
With all fervor, honey-filled are recollections,
On just Your melody You make ride.

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Obviously supportive

(3303) Ei bhalo laga phulavane

In this floral garden attractive,
You are the honeyed magnolia.
Day and night I cherish;
Steadfast, I stay observant.

On the wind Your pollen drifts
Unto yon cerulean, the great welkin.
You arise revealed on a mind attachment-filled,
Hey the golden flower-garden.

There is nothing You don't give to this world:
Paternal affection with a love maternal.
On planets and meteors, in the stars of nebula,
Your glitter I discover.

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Oh glorious Lord

(3302) Sabar tapasyay esechile

You had come by everyone's austerities;
You went away to some unknown sphere.
Hey Shiva propitious, hey Merciful One,^[1]
Having conferred wisdom, the path You revealed.

For understanding You, none has the intellect;
For gauging You there is not the prowess.
Thus at Your feet I beseech kindness,
Hey the One pleased easily, always by everybody.

Hey Fearsome Destroyer, the bondage-eradicator;
For misdeeds amassed, a sacrificial fire's combustion.
Ever well-bedecked with trident and with clarion,
Like a silver mountain, sparkling.

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In a mundane prison

(3301) Andhakare ghumiye chilum

In gloomy darkness asleep had I been;
Piercing the ignorance You appeared.
I'd been stricken with a worldly hunger;
The taste of ambrosia You did bring.

Many days have passed, left have nights aplenty
To my darkness there has been no ending.
With thunderous proclamation, smiling and heartening,
You wakened a lukewarm, passionate feeling.

I flash a glance, my gloom's intensity has gone;
In life has arrived a brightly colored dawn.
My narrowness, oh Divine Lord,
You withdrew from me.

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You mystify me

(3300) Aloke andhare eki liila tava

Such is Your liila with light and with darkness,
Staying afar mind permits not; it does not succeed.
In a lotus garden with air full of consciousness,
You made constancy sway; remains nobody.

I have come to this Earth, Your work to attend,
To bind You with affection's thread.
Hey the Peerless One, the most near and dear,
Why don't You understand, having grasped my secret psyche?

You are the dispeller of fear from bondage of samskara,^[1],
Omniscient and all-pleasing, unseen and immaculate.
Please come near, laugh a sweet magic;
I cannot forget the words of You exclusively.

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It's okay

(3299) Tomare ceyechi mane prane ami, sara dile nako mor dake

I have wanted You wholeheartedly;
You gave no reply to my call.
I have searched in holy sites, in woodlands I seek;
In gap after gap of clouds I have sought.

Dearest, multifarious is Your play divine,
Hey, the presiding deity at my shrine.
You are the innermost of my inner mind,
Remaining afar, this fact I have fathomed.

Go on making sport, there's no detriment
When I go on seeing the heavenly sweetness.
Avatar of Consciousness, I crave a speck of Your kindness;
With my every momentary horripilation.

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What's the reason?

(3298) Vrajer kanu bajiye venu

Braja's Kanu,^[1] playing a bamboo flute,
Today why did You appear?
Mind's Jamuna dances no longer
To a melody and beat, thronged by things worldly.

At Vrndavan there is no forest;
High-rise buildings do the mind encircle.
No more do I find that sweetness
Under the kadam tree,
Like You had seen.

Today the Jamuna is shriveled;
There is not the banyan's shelter
There is not tamal's dark magic.
In lap of clouds ebony,
Did the moon-like Krsna hide,
Out of sight, behind a time-screen?

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Your promotion is in vain

(3297) Dosgun karini vicar

Vice and virtue I did not consider;
Only You have I held dear.
The Sea of Love, You're boundless, unlimited;
I've found You only beside me.

In joy You are, in woe You are, mine forever;
Everybody's goal, even though invisible.
You're the aggregate of meditation, wisdom, and reverence–
In every pore of existence, I have perceived.

Welfare's representative, You are the emblem of light;
Darling, in love and devotion You are dearer than life.
But is it not useless, Yourself trying to advertise?
This feeling have I conceived.

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Let me not pursue trifles

(3296) Ei jiivanasaekate ami

I, on this sandy beach of life,
Nacre unaccompanied I reap.
On the sky a star coruscates;
The nebula darts a peek.

Many thoughts come within psyche:
Many facts of past and much deceit.
None knows whereto they've gone missing;
Maybe etched are they on a realm heavenly.

There is no end of reflections mine;
They come and go, throwing me lonely aside.
And so Yourself I yearn to receive nigh,
Good and bad times, the tearful cries, forgetting.

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Just You and I

(3295) Ajana pathik esechilo

The Unknown Pilgrim had entered,
Who knows why, inside the mind-deeps.
With many a rhythm, He delighted;
With sweet scent in the forest of psyche.

Him had I held dear,
Not knowing the reason, to logic not paying heed.
By any other's reasoning I did not proceed;
I had been all on my own in meditation's mien.

That Traveler has endured, even currently;
He has dispensed love at each eye-blink.
The mind's peacock has kept dancing,
Having got Him at a site solitary.

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Even if

(3294) Eso maneri mukure gopane

Privately, please arrive on my mental mirror;
Silently, two ruddy feet will arise blooming
In my lotus, in seclusion.

Toward the path teary eyes remain gazing;
My domestic peacock wakes up, calling frequently.
In reality, in a sleep-free state, though You don't come,
Please come in a dream-vision.

I've no kin or alien; whelmed by You is my all;
In thought of You alone, many nights become dawn.
Look once with eyes of kindness in my direction,
With ankle-bell tintinnabulation.

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Kanu, is that You?

(3293) Agun jvele diye gele

A fire You went on lighting
At the palash grove in this month of spring.
And in a niche of mind secretly,
Who knows why, You brightened with abir.

Your crimson-colored mind
You depleted at this time.
At whose garden of paradise
In song a line of parrots is frenzied by melody?

Hearing tune, in a room psyche does not stay;
Exuberant the heart became.
At this time Vraja's Kanu^[1] came,
In a Spring month under mind's canopy.

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Your first song

(3292) Tumi kon se rage anurager

Oh You, in which raga of fondness,
A song You have sung?
Knows it not anyone.
All existence, vibrated
You have caused.
Nobody fathoms.

What had been gloom-enveloped,
Today it got traced in color.
Written by the nighttime rigors
Is first dawn's allusion.

With same report on stellar firmament,
A stream of life, afloat it went.
Galvanized by it at slumber's end
Came temporality's invention.

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My Alter Ego

(3291) Tomake cine otha day

Having known You becomes hard.
Even though adhering inextricably,
You don't get caught.

In both light and gloom You persevere,
Bathed in scent from the grove of psyche.
You're engrossed in cadence, tune, and beat,
Upon existential shore.

You make laugh and You make cry as You please;
You set adrift on sky-blue's reverie.
As You like, You make dance accordingly,
Through a liila mysterious.

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Long-suffering

(3290) Duhkhe kleshe katar haye

By sorrow and affliction having been aggrieved,
I had called frequently, repeatedly.
You did not respond, Lord;
How had You become unhearing?

By injustice and by tyranny,
Cast off was the golden dream.
Humanity weeps bitterly,
With wailing extreme.

Then in a form fearsome You appeared;
You let be strewn a splendor clear.
Devilry You did sear
With a fire blazing
At the roar of clarion.

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You have come

(3289) Esecho tumi esecho, bhuvan bhariya esecho

You've arrived, You have come,
Filling the world, You have come.
Having expelled age-old fatigue
A stream of light You have brought.

No longer will anyone dwell in darkness;
To action, knowledge, and meditation, You are the set.
A sea of love, You are immense, indeed shoreless;
You have been engrossed in a current of affection.

Generation, operation, destruction are held in You:
Within You the three traits, hey Lord beyond attributes.
Hey the Ageless One, with time a game You execute;
You have danced to rhythm of Divine Sport.

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Please let me believe

(3288) Alokotsave esechile

You had come with gala of effulgence;
Making dark, please don't go off.
You had heard invite of those afflicted,
Even though there'd been no pious, sacred effort.

You've remained pervading both Earth and Heaven;
And to the mind's mirror You have surrendered.
Beauty You've brought in the external realm;
That beauty please do not withdraw.

What You think or don't think, I know nothing;
Musing on welfare You remain, simply this I believe.
Language of hope You infuse, fondness enticing;
Never rend that thread of love!

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Our ultimate triumph is guaranteed

(3287) Akashe aloke bhese jay

Upon sky goes floating
Your tale of only greatness.
On Earth and in Heaven gleams
A ballad of the One forever ancient.

Hey the Ancient One, You are the most novel;
You are with everybody, akin to life-breath.
Deep wisdom, You remain in thought and in concept;
Hence, for Your sake, this eagerness.

By light's expression the mind You make bright;
Seated at the depths of thought You play a reed pipe.
You do not forsake, rather You reveal the signs;
Always on the pathway has remained success.

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I had been inattentive then

(3286) Keu kache peyeo cinte nare

Having got close, some fail to recognize;
And some, from remote, identify...
Even from afar some realize.
Even having gained the touch of life, some bide
In a dreadful, mundane fright;
And some, though not knowing, they still rely.

Under the light of dawn or neath the night's ebon,
On the blue yonder or through glamor of form,
Even viewing, some don't hear the song;
And some hear, though they don't catch sight.

For myself You do so much;
My heart You fill with ambrosia.
Yet with You acquaintance I didn't make;
I had been preoccupied.

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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.
You as 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.
Having infused hope and tongue,
An 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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