Poetic Translations of Songs
311-350 by
Avadhutika Ánanda Gaorii Ac.

 

311

Such an array of divine sports you know
Such a gamut of games you play with me so
In countless delightful ways you joy-intoxicate my mind.

Nothing is done in secret
For in each act you exist
No thought is private
For to you none is unknown.
In your play divine
The universe dances
Clinging in eternal adoration
To your feet.

Floods of laughter you shower
And a deluge of torrential tears
Beams of exuberant joy
And the heart-rending pangs of pain.
I love you
Knowingly, unknowingly
For your songs of love
Are strewn across the cosmos.

312

Come O Lord, come into my mind
Banish my pain
And inundate me in a torrent of delight.

The world drifts
on the mellifluous tinkling
of your ankle bells.
With your lyrical call
I tingle in joy.
Come O Lord
In my meditation
Come claim your sacred seat in my heart.

Bathed in your joy all sing your praise.
Mind's peacock breaks into a prance
Into a hundred-faceted dazzling dance.
Look O my Lord
Look lovingly at my face.
Come my Lord
And claim your sacred seat in my heart.

313

Come O my Lord in rhythmic dance
Come in my heart, come in my life
Cast at me your blissful glance
Smile that sweet smile which regales the world
and joy-intoxicates my mind.

Shine golden my life
My desolate life
My stone-like life, so dark, so dry.
Come O Lord in rhythmic dance
Come in my heart, come in my life.

In the stagnant and turbid pool of my life
Release your fresh flow of waters sweet
Dispel my dark pains in the flood of your light
and dye me in the radiance of your dawn.

314

In the realms of countless worlds
in the blinking of every entity
you have scattered your divine touch.
You bathe the entire universe in unbounded joy.

Your sweetness pervades all
the animate and inanimate
manifest and unmanifest
the known and unknown.
You enter everything, you mingle in everything
You awaken/arouse awareness in all.
Your grace has immortalized in divine effulgence the mortal world.

Your smile beams the moon into her blissful smile
That smile which induces the water's flowtide.
Your effulgence breaks the earth into exurberant joy
and vibrates in blissful strains the air and the sky.
Your compassion infuses heavenly nectar into the three worlds
in ceaseless waves
in ceaseless waves.

315

What heavenly jolt
struck the half-bloomed flower of my mind?
My dormant heart leaps into exuberant delight
from darkest slumber,
her tender shyness removed.
The unknown traveller
brings sweet hidden honey
and today I rush towards him
night and day.
No shyness nor fear
can deter my speed.
Petals enclustered
by mayic spell
suddenly unfold.
With the impact of his touch
the spell of maya is removed.

316

You came
and all around
the world burst
into a brilliant blaze of colour.

The nascent sun shines its sweetest smile
and with that smiling touch
the earth forgets her pain.
In the festive air,
one and all affectionately embrace,
and, forgetting sorrows,
the entire universe bursts forth
into ecstatic harmony --
one rhythm, one resonance, one song.

On a flood of light floats the breeze boat of my mind.
The boatmen, smiling, ply my life boat to this shore.
Here all are drunk with your golden radiance
and all dance rhythmically in euphoric joy.

317

Jingle jangle ankle bells
amidst colourful floral sprays
in the blissful Spring
you came
counting your moments and days.

I welcome you in total adoration
with all my vitality
in my recollection, in my contemplation
and in every instant of my ideation.

Your rhythmic dance enchants, your bliss overwhelms.
With what hypnotic spell you joy-intoxicate the world?
You are the pride of all
You are the quintessence of all
With your vibrant touch all burst into ecstatic dance.

318

A colourful dream
a mind-inebriating dream
manifested today in beauteous form.
In countless ways, in countless minds
all bondages, dancing,
vanish into void.

I love you Lord, and you alone.
In a secret recess of my mind
I listen spell-bound for your sweet flute-sound.
Melodies float magically in from far horizons
from the deep serenity of distant skies.
I look to you Lord, and you alone.

Through thunderous squalls
in dark turbulent nights
I crave for your grace.
Days and nights come and go with your radiant light.
In a colourful dream, mind-inebriating dream,
you manifested today in beauteous form.

319

Which friend of mine
beckons me from the distant void,
saying,
why are you standing so far?
Come, come
come into my courtyard.

I have woven for you a garland of stars
in numerous colours and forms
through endless enchantments and games.
Just open your eyes and survey!
Why stay confined in closed-doored rooms
and suffer ceaseless agony and pain?

He beckons me ingeniously.
I listen for his song
and wonder
in how many ways, my friend,
conveys his melodious call to me?

320

Harvesting the garden of paradise
I come, with floral nectar and sandal paste.
Smeared with the pollen of parijata blooms
I pour out the nectar of my life.

The fragrance of jasmine floats in
from the distant sky, on a humid breeze
and the lotus of my mind blossoms
full of vivacity.

I sit amidst this rejoicing world
and secretly weave a garland for you.
Black bees assembled in tomalo trees
in brightness and shade
await, to extend to you a royal welcome
with sandal and chua paste.
Here I sit
amidst this rejoicing world
composing songs of devotion to you.

321

You have lost yourself in the multitudes and I cannot find you. I search for you from dawn till dusk. Show me your grace and make me look up to you. Tell me how can I call you effectively. I will not remain mute, I shall certainly find you out. Out of my genuine love for you I am rushing headlong towards you, shattering the walls of all obstacles in my path. I shall certainly find you.

321

You have lost yourself in the multitudes
and I cannot find you
though I search from dawn till dusk.

Grace me, gaze into my face,
tell me how shall I call you
for I cannot remain mute,
I must surely find you out.

Intense love drives me towards you,
smashing tall walls of obstacles on my path.
I shall surely find you out.

322

On a rain-drenched night you came
and intoxicated me with the fragrance of pandanas.

You came in the deep dark night
to pour forth nectar-like effulgence.

In the thunderous roar
of the stormy night
while the bamboo crashed against each other
with deafening claps,
you savoured the blossoms of kadamba flowers.
Rain clouds floated on tears of deep melancholy.
Smiling girls danced and amused themselves indoors
by tying up their hair and decorating it with jasmine and malati flowers.
The fragrance of your pandanas
remains ever-fresh in my heart.

322

On a rain-drenched night,
beloved, come,
intoxicate me with pandanas perfume.

From the depths of darkest night
pour forth nectarial effulgence.
Savour kadamba blossoms
in thunderous roar,
while bamboo groves
in the stormy night
fight with deafening blows.

Rain clouds shed tears
of deep melancholy.
Girls, smiling
dance
and amuse themselves indoors,
tying up their hair
with sprays of jasmine and malati.

Your perfume of pandanas
remains fragrant still
within my heart.

323

I love you from the core of my heart.
I love you with my whole being,
both within and without.

Entranced by your winsome smile
and the sweet melody of your flute,
my mind drifts away.
How did you enchant me so?
How can I not succumb to your loving bonds,
as delicately engaging as flowers.

323

I love you
from my heart's core deep
with the whole of my being
from without and within
I am enchanted by you.

I am entranced by you
your flute sound sweet
your smiling countenance complete
I am enamoured of you.

What magic did you weave
my mind to secretly steal
I cannot but reel
inebriated
in your floral bonds of love.

324

Because of your graceful form,
our beautiful earth basks in her splendour.
That's why I see you in everything.

You exist in all expressions,
so nothing in the universe can be lost from you.
I also move in you.

You appear in thoughts and recollections
of all living beings,
and all entities exist within your mind.
Not even for a moment can I imagine
that anything exists outside you.

324

As you are the embodiment of beauty, grace and charm,
so this earth of ours has assumed her miraculous form.
I perceive you in her all,
in her every existence and flow.

As she moves in you,
so I also move.
In you, nothing can we lose.
You pervade the thoughts of all who are hers,
who are born within your mind.

Not for a fraction of an instant
can I imagine
that anything exists outside you.

325

You have secured your safe haven in the minds of all.
None exists save you.
You, the warm illumination of all light, enlighten our little lamps with your brilliance.

Our lamps burn with your very light,
yet our foreheads become stained with sticky soot.
You exist so everyone exists.
You remain in the midst of all.

Our love, affection, kindness,
compassion, learning and intellect,
all result from your sweet grace,
and under your benevolent guidance
we will develop them all.

Come gently and take shelter
in the deepest cavity of my mind.
I want to keep you close to my heart.

325

You ensconce yourself within our minds
You illuminate our lamps with your brilliant light
Your light ignites our lives,
yet the flames' dark stains still shadow our minds.

Our love and compassion
our kindness and affection
our intellect and erudition
by your sweet benediction
enlighten our lives.

Come take your shelter
in the deepest cavern of my mind
and remain always near to me.

326

You, the eternal, ever-pure object of supreme adoration,
have created a tremendous wave the the ocean of effulgence. You fill the earth with exquisite colours and forms,
and make her vibrant with life.

You have awakened the universe with your divine touch.
It is full of your refreshing vigour,
intoxicated with your joy
and radiant with your brilliant light.

You are one, yet you have enlivened the world with your countless forms.
You have created the vast skies where millions of stars scintillate their multi-coloured lights.

To those in the depths of dark despair
you appear as the pole star.
You are one, but in your myriad forms
you have come to bathe each entity
in the eternal waters of liberation.

326

You the eternal, the ever-pure,
the Lord of Supreme Adoration,
bring forth a tumultuous wave in the ocean of effulgence.
You decorate the earth in exquisite array
and make her vibrant with life.

Awakened with your touch divine
the universe dynamic, joy-intoxicated,
with your hundred forms enlivened,
radiates your light.

In azure heavens you scintillate myriad colourful stars
and you appear to the despondent
as the brilliant polestar of their lives.

You, the One,
into a hundred forms divide
to bathe us in eternal seas
and liberate our minds.

327

Ever tranquil, ever blissful,
Pure Consciousness personified, grant my prayer to be at your lotus feet.

You are the very hope of the despondent;
you are love to an afflicted heart;
you are the final shelter for a shelterless wanderer.

You exist in all realms, from their origin to their end,
and my bountiful life is ever-bouyant on the unseen currents of your love.

Your unbounded grace flows
ceaselessly in all directions.
You are the favourite of all, the most adorable.
You are beyond the ken of human intellect and learning.

You are the respository of all finitude
in the midst of which you sprout.

Yet we cannot know you
who are beyond the limitations of finitude.
When I contemplate you I begin to merge in you;
the casket of my mind,
saturated with the sweet pollen of pandanas,
rushes in total abandon towards you.

327

Ever tranquil, ever blissful
Sublime consciousness incarnate.
Grant my heartfelft prayer
to surrender at Thy feet.

Promise of hope to the despondent
sweet succour to the afflicted
final shelter to the shelterless traveller,
You, who reside in all realms
from beginning to end
from birth to death
keep ever-bouyant my life
on your unseen current of love.

Your grace unbounded
spreads pauselessly
to the ten realms.
You, the most adored
remain beyond the scope of human ken.

How shall we realise the one
who beyond the boundaries of finitude
sprouts from the midst of finitude
yet is the repository of finitude?

As I contemplate you
I begin to merge in you.
The casket of my mind
saturated with sweet pandanas' pollen
rushes in total abandon to you.

328

You, the throbbing heart at the core of epochal changes,
charm all with your unarming smile
and bring the whole creation to your feet.

You saturate the world with divine nectar.
Come to me in rhythmic vibrant dance.
Come to me in your intoxicating mood
with all the grace and charm of the most attractive one.
Your smile infuses sweetness
into all our memories and dreams, and your compassionate gaze vitalises all.

328

Throbbing heart of ephocal changes,
charm all with your unarming smile.
Creation surrenders at your feet.

Your love fills all
with divine delight.
Come to me in rhythmic vibrant dance.
Your smile infuses nectar
in my memories.

Come to me
in intoxicating mood
with the grace and charm
of the most attractive one.
Your compassionate gaze
vitalizes the world.

329

Why do you beckon me today with the melody of the distant?
My mind feels restless at home.
I don't understand why it defys all bonds.

The tightly closed petals of my mind flower blossomed at the quick notes of your divine song,
and now they drift contentedly along.

In the garden, black bees buzz your songs,
whispering your message in my ears.

At the call of your song,
the sunflowers stand at attention to salute you.

The sephali tree bows repeatedly down
to decorate the path before you
with a collage of her flowers.

Birds are entranced with your divine tune
which permeates consciousness throughout the cosmos.

329

Why do you beckon me today
with the melody of the distant?
My mind feels restless at home.
Why does it defy all bonds?

The enclustered petals of mind
suddenly unfold
with the vibrant touch of your celestial song;
content, they drift along.

In the garden
black bees buzz your melodies,
whispering your message in my ears.
Enchanted by your tune
sunflowers turn to salute;
sephali trees bow repeatedly
decorating your path
with floral mosaic.

Birds are entranced
with your magical music/music divine
which permeates consciousness
throughout the cosmos./throughout universal skies.

330

You have come, O Lord, mistakenly in my heart
mesmerising the world with your beauty's magic spell.
You have come
to regale the hearts of all
with intoxicating song and dance.

I light a candle at your altar
and pour forth the nectar of my life.
Your effulgence has illuminated my whole being.

The Yamuna (holy river) of my mind
breaks into flood tide,
and in your surging waves,
the diverse currents of my ideation
merge into one tumultuous flow.

331

Seated in your universal abode
I pass my days
in expectation of your advent.

At your footfall
light flashes in the darkest night
in your rememberance --
with your colours and forms
with your incense and candles
with the show of your grace
with your bonds of love
with your sweet song accompanying the music of lyres.

Your constantly beaming smile
revives hope and joy in my despondent life
with the fragrance of flowers
blessed with your holy touch
my life is filled with exuberant delight.

With joyous intoxication, eloquent discussion,
with rhythmic dance and over-flowing heart-felt joy,
my mind drifts along on a flow of nectar.

332

The garland was woven for you.
Why did you wound me by refusing to wear it?
The eastern horizon is ablaze with crimson rays.

The breeze captured the spirit of colour and love
and my love I wove into a garland in my heart --
a garland drenched with tears.

Now the petals have dropped, one by one, gently down.
You didn't come.
You didn't see me.
You didn't try to understand the deepest yearnings of my heart.

333

My heart craves your company.
With your blessed touch
dispell her dirts and dross.
I beseech your grace.

You are with me always
but I cannot catch hold of you,
I cannot realise you.

Day and night,
in a ceaseless current of melody,
you are mingled
in every particle of my mind.

In the smile of the moon,
in the early dawn,
in the haze of dusk,
in the lightning's flash,
in radiant sun,
in cimmerian dark,
you surround me
inside and out;
with my being
you are inextricably entwined.

I am ever awake,
awaiting your advent.

334

If I take again a human birth
I shall work and work for you.
I shall devote myself
to your service,
O Lord of my heart.

At creation's dawn
I was born in you
and now let my life
merge again in you.
On earth's dust
your footprints guide me
towards my goal.

Through life's crests and troughs
I move towards you.
I cannot forget you,
O Lord
beyond all comprehension.

335

To which unknown world
are you bound, my friend,
drifting upstream with the flowtide,
in the breeze boat of (my) mind?

You have cut yourself adrift
from the moorings of the shore
and, with a tempest's speed
rush towards mid-sea.
What melody intoxicates you,
tell me, please.

Extinguishing the candle's light
came the tempestuous night,
making you drunk with its song,
carrying you far from the shore.

To which unknown world
are you bound, my friend,
in the breeze boat of my mind?

336

With the melody of your laughter
and the mystic music of your flute
you inundate the world.

Wherever I gaze, be it near, be it far
I see nothing but you.
Whatever I think, in the present, in the past
is enmeshed in you.
A sweet smattering of your sandle-paste fragrance
pervades the garden of paradise.

In this temple of forms
throughout days and nights
you play your eternal sound
adoring the Formless Divine.
Dispelling darkness
you pierce the secret cavern of my mind
and shatter the tethers of its bondages.

337

I shall never forswear enlightenment's road
I shall strive to make one, mind, body and soul
I shall never be swayed by vice nor by sin.
I shall walk the straight path
Speak the plain truth
Think honest and noble thoughts.
At no place, in no time, this self shall I exalt.

To the earth I have come for your work, my Lord,
Your gospels are the very breath of my life.
In my sleep, in my dreams, with my wakeful sight
I shall contemplate nothing but you.

338

You decorate all with colourful apparel
You bedeck them in garments of your choice
You tinge red your crimson thought on our mental plates
and spread blue in distant sky.
The fresh green of the creepers and trees is yours
and the beauty of our verdant minds.

You infuse sweetness into the human heart
its affection, its love, its great sacrifice.
By the deftness of your masterful stroke
You exalt us to the status of Gods.

339

I wonder why in the sombre night
my restless mind
yearns for one.
In the silent night
my life-breath pines
repeatedly
for that unknown entity.

I move heaven and earth
in my search for you.
O where have you hidden yourself?
I probe the seven spheres.
My sorrowful mind, entrenched in its fears,
strives only to realise you.

340

"I have lived my life in vain
Neglecting to worship the Adorable Lord.
Now I shall lose Him
the All-virtuous, life's rarest gem.
How unfortunate I am
to have not consumed
even a drop
of that ocean of love."

O shame! I have lived my life in vain,
I neglected to serve my Beloved Lord.
He came within my grasp
and yet
I could not attain Him,
I could not contain Him
within my fickle heart's breath.

Cruel fate has meted me out this pitiful lot.
Within my grasp He came
and yet
that Supreme Treasure
I could not attain,
I could not devote myself to Him.

Today I will start anew.
Today I will pledge a vow
to honour Him.
Today I will dedicate my all
to follow Him
to serve Him
to know Him.

341

Tell me Lord,
O merciful Lord,
who endowed you with this name?

Tell my why did you create
the flower stalks with thorns?

Why streams must wend their way
over bumpy pebble stones?

Why fragrant lillies and loti bloom
from turbid, dirty pools?

Why the happy earth, home of all life,
in silent space
rotates alone?

Why the starlit sky
which scintillates
with the light of a billion lamps
must extinguish into oblivion
when the full moon sings her tune?

Why children, fresh as floral blooms,
must cry so loud and long?

Why moonbeams peep
like frightened (captive) sheep
through slits in ominous clouds?

Why the peaceful sky with its gentle breeze
can suddenly transform,
spitting streams of hard and painful hail
with the raucous laughter of a storm?

342

I move forward with your holy name
ignoring fear
with determined gait
and heart so proud and strong.

From the mountains height
to the sea's dark depths,
none can obstruct
my predestined (forward) march.

With unshakeable zeal and confidence firm
I shall accomplish the task
for which I was born.

I shall never lament
for the days which have gone
and I challenge with exaltant heart
the days which are yet to come.

343

The effulgent and the dark
around you prance
retreat and advance
in your universal dance.

Enraptured we remain
by your inscrutable games
without caring to attain
the Causal Supreme
behind these innumerable names.

In the successive waves
of your joys and fears
our lives are drowned
in a flood of tears.

Come in our hearts,
come, take your seat,
with our actions be pleased,
enlighten our beings,
don't flee away again.

344

I wish to keep for you, O Lord
a special seat
in a secret recess of my mind,
in my heart, a cavern deep.
But alas,
such a secluded shelter I cannot find
in all my mind,
O Lord,
in all my measureless mind.

If you, O Lord,
would come and stay
through my nights and days
through my dreams and pains,
if you, O Lord, would agree,
please look for any corner of my being
and be seated there.

Then, if my love prove true,
the garden of my mind will surely bloom,
and with those delicate petals
shall I decorate
a special seat for you.

345

Do you realize
how much pain I feel for you?
You never keep account
of the pining of my heart.
In this created world
you keep yourself engaged
with this important task and that
and never blink a bat
at the wailings of us lowly folk.

From the forests of my mind
shall I glean the choisests blooms
and weave a garland so superb
for you,
and I shall see
if you then will acquiese
to accept my humble gift or not.

Your melodies shall I sing
with the deepest feelings of my heart
and I shall dance, a joyous dance
around you, Lord,
and will you then
just steal a glance
at me, your devotee?

You do not understand, my Lord,
the pain I deeply feel.
You really do not care to even know
my sorrow.

346

Why, Lord, did you choose to come so late?
Ages have passed
and I waited expectantly
for your advent.

If you really love,
why these aimless pranks.
I wanted you, Lord
from my heart's deep core,
at your lotus feet
for shelter to take,
and so I waited expectantly
I dared not miss a single beat.

Between dreams and despair
you always kept me suspended (tossed)
in anxious anticipation,
until ultimately you chose to come,
out of your sweet grace,
out of your boundless grace.

347

You are the lamp light
in the sombre night.
You are the beacon light
for souls astray.

Without you none exist.
You are the Lord enthroned
in the hearts of all.

No fear, no shame,
no sadness, no pain,
no hesitation,
before you can stand.

You cause empty hearts to overflow
you merge the minds of the meek
into your infinite flow.

Make my life successful, Lord
With your sacred name
in your sweet strains.

348

Some stay awake for you, Lord,
night and day.

Some maintain a steady faith
in the face of fearsome frustrations.

Some sing optimistic songs
to push away their pains.

Some cry torrential tears, O Lord,
for you.

None can forget
your blissful form
nor the brilliance of your effulgence.

Some weave garlands of by-gone days.

Some mingle hope and joy and make the earth alive.

Some play hide and seek with you.

Some have hearts full of love.

349

Look towards me Lord
I stay awake
waiting
with garland in hand
for you to honour my home.

I am immersed in your name,
engaged in your work,
I have identified my life with your tune.
I recognize none without you
and I have mingled my hues
into your diverse shades.

In the spring's colour festivities
I send
my lost mind
to its true abode.

350

Who else can grace me, Lord,
who else can I accept as my own.

All look to your for your grace
Today their minds' lyres harmoniously attuned
their repentent penances merged in your merciful sea
they do not question your merits or demerits
they love you, only.

And you cannot hate
you cannot discriminate
between the foolish and the brave.
You are the life of all lives
the veritable goal of all hearts.
All attain fulfilment from you alone.