My direction

(3334) Tomar katha bheve, din cale jay

About You thinking,
The days vanish.
My Lord in elation and grief,
Please do come down, stooping
To this dusty earth,
Your constructed mortal sphere.

I'm a man of clay, Master,
Your fabricated, tinged sky lantern.
To obtain a touch of the heavenly,
I run fast, upward facing.

I don't grasp right or wrong time's difference;
Amid Your interior, I search for calmness.
At heart-core please come near;
With a light stationary.

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Proof of devotion...

(3333) Tumi jake bhalo baso

The one whom You hold dear,
Behind a screen why does he stay?
The praise from smiling-face,
Oh why does he keep far away?

To others You give wealth and ability;
Upon the peak of majesty You seat.
You take away the votary's everything;
Devotion gets coated with shame.

Except for You the eight occult powers,
Discrimination-vanquished they make others.
But a devotee, in psyche always
Remains easy, Yourself having gained
With fulfillment's blissful state.

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Wanting You

(3332) Bhalo je base tomay

One who is in love with Thee,
Alas, her story,
Why do You not ponder?
She offered heart's ambrosia,
Forgetting the earth;
Why don't You look at her?

In Your idle time,^[1]
Whether it be day or night,
At a single niche inside the mind,
Someone summoned, why do You not observe?

Someone who unto You everything has consigned,
Who has got along thinking thoughts only Thine,
A lamp she has kindled through surmise;
Don't You keep an eye by that lantern?

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The songs we sing

(3331) Ruper melay base tumi

Seated are You within shape's throng;
Without shape, song You go on singing.
Having bathed inside the sea of form,
At soul a voice You rouse from sleep.

Amid those sensate or unconscious,
Your notes, always they ring forth.
Upon all thought and every action
Tender care You smear.

Atomic dust-motes on a stream of light,
Amid all them You play on a reed pipe.
The tone-body from ages gone by,
Time-and-season You defeat.

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When I am depressed

(3330) Tumi sabar ashar alo

For one and all a ray of hope are You;
You are everyone's life-lantern.
A bright light in pitch-black gloom,
You're the kadam honey-coated.

In a game of light-and-shadow,
By cosmic liila You're displayed.
Formless mid a fair of shapes,
At times frank, oft the reverse.

Yourself do I hold dear;
For You I laugh and I weep.
All of my darkness ridding,
With the mind's ambrosia please come, Master.

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For the life of me

(3329) Tomar priitir aloy

With Your love's light
Came to Earth pulse existential.
Under that light all felt fine;
The mind of everyone by cradle swung.

Bondage You gave, You gave release;
You loved the unit beings.
The formless You in form appeared;
Ascent of sentiment there was.

I know not what isn't there;
You exist, just that I heed.
In a niche of psyche secretly,
Could there be affection's draw?

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We meet only in the mind

(3328) Sathii amar priya amar

My Companion, my Darling,
Listen to my plea.
Due to You, all my life,
I bear separation's agony.

At end of night, in eastern sky
When morning's early sun smiles,
Having thought of You, in fancy Thine,
I compose ballads of Thee.

On evening sky the setting sun,
When paints a portrait full of color,
In a grove of dusk neath wind of mind,
I sing Your history.

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Only one thing I entreat

(3327) Tumi esechile, shephaliir snigdha suvase

You had come
Like a night jasmine's gently fine aroma.
You went, leaving in mind a honeyed intonation,
What You'd told on having loved.

Hey my Beloved, please permit the staying with;
Unspoken is it in my disposition.
Age after age, in course of time, on other occasion,
You please remain, my flank along.

Lord, show me the path, and never may I stray from it,
From the love's bewitching exhibition.
This alone is my prayer, nothing more do I crave;
Stay with me in sorrow and jubilation.

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No matter how You treat me

(3326) Tomar hasi he priya mor

Your smile, hey my Darling,
The tune on psyche's lute it plays.
So why do You go on forgetting;
Myself You keep far, far away.

Please don't go to someplace foreign;
Make me not ignore the weight of my past ages.
Having come near and held dear,
Let anklets upon ruddy feet resonate.

Tired am I, weary the eyes;
I don't see You, is that why?
Maybe You're seated beside me;
Just it I notice not, I am dazed.

You are present, so am I;
Yourself have I prized.
I retain, owing to Thee,
Hope honeyed, crimson-stained.

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In submission

(3325) Tumi jakhan ele, andhar sare gelo

When You came,
Darkness went aside...
In house light arrived.
Fatigue of bygone age,
Forgot did the mind.

The bloom that was never blown –
As bud a-molting did it go –
Touch of Your feet having gained,
It took a look, it opened eyes.

Who's come unsmiling to a world mundane,
Not feeling in good mental state,
He, having thought of You today,
Exuded love and felt fine.

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Even when apart

(3324) Tumi je amar kata apanar

You're the one who is mine, so much my own;
Before I did not know, today I've recognized.
You had been very close, but remote You went;
Held amid core of heart, kept have I.

In my heart had been an icy coldness;
Life-giving fire You let be fetched.
By a vital lamp with heat in winter,
I have filled memory with warm sunshine.

Still today You're not away, oh my Lord;
Even though I'm forgetful You never ignore.
The microcosmic resides amidst the Limitless;
That same 'I' is Your grace, I have realized.

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A wicker tray of gold

(3323) Ganer mala tomar tare

Garland of song for sake of Thee,
Today I've kept it strung since morning.
Please do come, bestowing mercy;
With heart filled, I'll make You wear.

After bath donning a fine cotton,
Carefully making selection,
The gold wicker-tray have I adorned
With rhythm, raag, and melody.

Not from the arbor are my blossoms these;
They unfold within psyche's deeps
Through stream of love by a sweet magic,
Upon veena strings
At a lovers' tryst of mystery.

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Why not me?

(3322) Tumi jadi nahi ele vrtha

When You failed to come, fruitless,
Simply useless, my remaining wakened,
The memory kept held in breast.
A stream of water fell not... wherefore,
Why the peacock-cry in frenzy dances?

On coming of the light, its arrival,
Throbbing came in everybody's heart.
In my mind's dense-deep arbor,
Its stripe painted did not happen.

I hear that You hold dear, that You love...
You float upon the mental sky of everyone.
You smile, a heady-sweet infatuation
Inextricably laminated.

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Unforgettable though inconceivable

(3321) Sasiime asiime tumi

In finitude You are the Limitless;
You don't concede to wish-and-win...
A whirlpool in tone's seven realms,
Both molecule and atom within.

Even ignored, forgetting You does not succeed;
Mind simply chases after Thee.
In abstract thought it craves that beyond fancy,
On this earth form-filled.

You are a stripe of light crimson;
On the moonlit sky, a goose-flight aloft.
Proceed do the wheels of Your chariot
From no birth to no finish.

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It's a mystery to me

(3320) Tomay ami eta daki

I call out so much to Thee;
You don't listen, why?
Eyes filled with misery and tears,
Don't You recognize?

The world gives me fallacy;
That, will You also yield?
Ever in fear, hidden I keep
So that leaked not go delight.

No interest have I in meals mine;
Apparel is serpent-like.
Worst enemy, abed to lie;
Do tell: it happened thus whereby?

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Enigma of a love cosmic

(3319) Tomay ami bhalabasi, kena thako sare dure

Yourself do I cherish;
Why do You stay far away?
Pearl-dropping is Your grin;
It plays a flute in countless strains.

Desire-and-attainment, hey my Beloved,
By Your name remain bewildered.
Flies about the mental partridge,
Toward You ever having fared.

In the endless are You manifest;
Unexpressed, its causal realm...
Kissing my cheek, that dances.
Of distress and happiness, on their far bank,
You are in a sportive mode, yes, playful;
On the mind-mirror You don't grant embrace.

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My sweet Gopal

(3318) Tumi je amar praneri diipak

You're the lamp of my life;
You pour out a steady light.
In my thinking, pulse of thought,
The champak flower with sweet smile.

Come from afar, I go off someplace distant;
Except for You none is my associate.
Abroad and at home, I want You proximate,
Hey, the ceaseless player of a reed pipe.

To pull like a magnet do You know;
The lost heart, You fetch it close.
You know inner thoughts and all that's spoke,
The dye inside of stibnite.

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To a mundane realm absent color

(3317) Tomar rupe jagat alo

With Your beauty is the earthly light;
Is that why all things feel fine?
Gently sweet like southern breeze,
You pour honey amid mind.

The sky and air is pulsating;
Effusive is the unit psyche.
By the play of some strange melody
To a line of water sway You did provide.

The trying night black as ink,
Fog ebony disappeared.
A crimson hope for the dreary,
Upon eastern side dawn arrived.

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Lord I regret

(3316) Tomar carantale prabhu

From beneath Your feet, Lord,
Never did I offer up anything.
What I've given is Your grant,
Your stuff, as mine claiming.

Having been besotted with vanity,
Having set aside humanity,
I have kept a psychic demon
At base of my thought on deeds.

Much much later came sensibility...
I cast a glance around me:
Amassed is a congealed darkness
With a misty mesh of crudity.
Now at blunder's finish, sighing,
I call out to You in tears.

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Your divine conundrum

(3315) Aguner parash diye

By means of a touch of fire,
You did let snow-coldness be set aside.
Imposing lifeless matter upon state of mind,
A rain-soaked Game You devised.

Why this same divine play, not a thing I fathom;
Yet I forget not that nothing is free from sport.
Seeking in the liila-filled is doable endeavor;
This thought You did waken in mind.

Cosmic game exists, hence the living survive;
Amid only liila is all desire-and-find.
In a sportive universe through liila's surmise,
On liila a love-stream You made ride.

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Don't amplify the dark side

(3314) Ankhite badal bhijeche kajal

Rain from eyes has soaked the collyrium;
Oh fair-eyed maiden, kindly state the reason.
The cheek's mole, having gained a dyed resemblance,
Has forgot the whole cosmic affliction.

Black color enveloping, light has got extinguished;
In the darkness good and bad have been vanquished.
But still more psychic sweetness you lavish;
Is it that you don't wish this gloom be kept afar?

Your dark braid is fastened with thread ebon,
Black kohl-jar on dark chignon.
Today you merely sing just His narration;
Except Him please think of nothing more.

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The light You did bring

(3313) Nandana shubha prabhate

Today on a happy and auspicious morning,
With light-rays along, Lord, You'd appeared.
Upon this earth the date inscribed did nobody.
Darkness having set aside, that same light,
It raced off, dancing on the thought-stream.

From stellar sky, with no end or beginning,
In all directions went a spark of lightning.
Inaction at an end through vital light-beams,
By that means vociferous became unit beings.

Since then gone away has time aplenty;
Shed have been many stars and nebulae.
Come has a plethora of cadence motley,
With new love and fondness smeared.

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My goal in life

(3312) Man tomakei kache pete cay

Mind yearns to get nearby only Thee,
Lying abed in dream or sleep, and awake...
To the time, good or bad, it pays no heed.

At crimson morning on first rise of daybreak,
In floral lines, in tattler strains,
I search, struck by aerolites and stormy rain,
Through fog a dismal ebony.

You listen to my tale, You fathom my distress,
Unit-psyche's copious anxiousness:
A history writ in tears, kohl-drenched,
Hidden by a smiling beauty.

Now I notice that lost I've gotten;
Where has gone excised all fear and shyness?
Coating with sweetness, You have come, shameless,
Black showers illuminating.

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Remember me

(3311) Tomar ganer malay

Upon Your song's garland,
I am just a single blossom.
With Your tune, raag, and beat,
I sway to and fro, a pendulum.

In Your presence I don't want a thing;
In Your rocking cradle is everything.
Life's pollen is a smiling fondness,
A love crimson.

Please keep me very near;
At heart this mercy I entreat.
Under stormy winds and sleet,
Please give a peerless tremor.

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Admittedly I did not recognize Thee

(3310) Tumi esechile diipika jvele

Igniting a lamp, You had come;
You gave a touch of love.
I didn't know You, I understood not Thee;
With a gentle breeze upon sky-blue color,
That love-stream goes on flowing.

You've arrived with a fest of light;
At mental depths, neath open tent You've smiled.
Thoughts abstract You've infused mid empty mind;
That thing to whom, who makes clear?

In the gloomy darkness the frightened persons,
Fearless You made and drew them all along.
You declared: "I'm in existential celebration,
Brightly painted on this mundane sphere."

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Still not convinced

(3309) Asoniko loker bhire

Amid a worldly throng You did not arrive;
Came You on an avenue of mind.
You came on an avenue of mind.
You arrived through tears from eyes;
Wiping of eyes You did provide.

Non-stop is a living being's coming and going;
Hence they think it's same for Thee.
This very feeling, a sense of Your visiting,
Living beings get, themselves being mobile.

By Your radiant splendor, of me
All the load of weariness You are removing.
You are mine, oh Dearest Darling;
If a kindness occurred, I will realize.


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