Translations only
Selected songs from 1401 - 1900
1401
What an attraction in memory!
What a throbbing in mind!
My mind wants to move without hindrances
unto Your sweet feet.
Today, the pa'piya (singing bird) sings in joy,
in the nectar of Your touch.
What intoxication in Your touch!
Today, my heart forgets all shame and fear.
For whom so much fearlessness?
What infinity in Your bliss!
1419
That sweetness- absorbed Shya'ma Rai (Krs'n'a)
entered the core of my being.
I am unable to remove Him.
His smile spreads bulks after bulks of pearls.
I watched with tears of joy in my eyes,
I am unable to forget Him.
Hearing His enchanting flute,
my restless heart calms down.
All darkness vanishes, in all round illumination.
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He is my sweet Shya'ma Rai.
He entered my innermost heart.
I cannot part from Him anymore.
That sweet smile of His sheds pearls in abundance.
Seeing this, my eyes become filled with tears.
I cannot forget Him.
The sound of His magic flute made my heart restless.
All darkness vanished, drifting away into obscurity.
All around only sparkles of effulgence remain.
1421
O Lord,
amidst all my sufferings,
You came as reliever.
You came with silent footsteps,
with calm eyes,
with a sweet smile
and with a pleasant face.
With feelings of distress
I called You,
anxiously looking for You.
Raising both my hands,
I told You I was now taking Your shelter.
On opening my eyes to see
I found effulgence drifting into the sky.
Singing and chanting Your name,
I caught hold of Your feet.
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In the midst of all sorrows,
You came to me O Lord,
reliever of all agonies,
with silent steps,
with Your sweet smile and pleasing face.
I called You with all my heart.
I looked towards You with all my sincerity.
With hands upraised I said:
"I take shelter in You as the be all and end all of my life."
With open eyes I noticed
that the whole sky was filled
with effulgence radiating from You.
I sang and sang Your songs
and caught hold of Your feet.
1440
O moon,
why do You look at me this way?
I want to forget You,
but alas, You keep me gazing at You.
What dream entered the world of imagination,
to colour mortal dust with hue?
I understand You want to convey everything to me,
yet, You do not let me taste Your honey.
A deserted one cries in solitude.
Looking at the moonlit clouds,
the peacock calls.
In which world of Vrindavana is Kanu (Krs'n'a) to be found?
The milkmaid devotees
keep singing in rhythm and melody.
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O moon,
why do You look at me like that?
I want to forget You,
yet You make me look at You.
In the world of imagination a dream unfolded.
The earth's dust became coloured by that dream.
Into this awareness ,You express Yourself.
Is that how You anoint everything with Your sweetest love?
Somewhere in the lonelyness a lover weeps.
Clouds appear in the moonlit night,
and make my mental peacock dance.
In which world of Vrindavana does the devotees find You,
O Kanu (one of Krs'n'a's nicknames)?
Please sing for me in that world's rhythm and tune.
1441
Expecting to hear Your footsteps,
I attentively wait.
I frenzy in the intoxication of Your sweet fragrance.
Your sweet smile overwhelms and makes me restless.
With Your rhythms and songs, I am filled from ear to ear.
By the enchanting melody of Your flute,
my mind rushes off, beyond this world.
And my sole thought is that love only wins.
1445
I find tears filling your eyes,
O beautiful eyed one,
and I wonder why have not You tied your chignon?
The bush lotus remains half bloomed in the moonlight.
Which unknown traveler has come,
won your heart,
again left
and not returned?
I heard that the same unknown traveler
has again come.
He does not have the courage to come closer.
Yet, you do not stop loving Him.
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Even though your eyes are filled with tears,
you are one with beautiful eyes,
Tell me, why did you not braid Your hair?
Under the moonlight,
The land-lotii remain half-open and half-closed.
Who is that unknown traveller who came
and captured your heart?
After captivating your heart He went away
and did not return again.
I hear that traveller has come again,
but He remains far away avoiding you.
He didn't come near,
He had no courage;
yet you didn't stop loving Him.
Although your eyes are filled with tears,
Your eyes are very beautiful.
1446
My eyes were full of tears
when He went away,
putting the tear drenched garland onto my neck.
I did not see the tears in Your eyes,
I could not understand Your language.
I could not follow the expectation
contained in Your love.
Silently He went, the silence says so.
Whenever I remember Him,
as bodyless entity, He arrives.
He never forgot me
and I have not forgotten Him either.
Yet, I forgot to mention
it was a time of merging.
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There were tears in my eyes when He left.
A tear studded garland was placed on my chest.
I saw His tears but failed to recognise what it meant.
I could not understand whether it was love or not.
He left silently and the deep silence that lingered on
proved He had left.
Whenever I think of Him that bodiless entity comes.
He didn't forget me -
I also did not forget Him.
It would by lying,
if I said I had forgotten Him.
1455
In a world of dreams,
filled with the moonlight of ma'ya',
I am.
In solitude,
I keep listening to Your song.
There, no one should die of starvation.
There, waves of ignorance should not flow.
There, human beings should not kill other human beings
and flow the river of blood.
There, intellect should be free from inertial dogmas.
There, intuition is abundant.
There, under the darkness of vanity,
no one should suppress others.
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In dreamland,
saturated by the moonlight of ma'ya',
I keep on listening to Your song.
There, no one should die of starvation.
There, waves of ignorance should not flow.
There, human beings should not kill
other human beings
and flow the river of blood.
There, intellect should be free
from inertial dogmas.
There, intuition should prevail.
There, under the darkness of vanity,
no one should suppress others.
ma'ya' : colourful divine game
1458
O Lord, You are my ray of hope.
You are the lamp of my life.
You are the jewel of my crown.
You are the niipa tree that provides shelter
during heavy rain.
I decorated my chignon carefully,
with a black thread, secretly.
You are the sandalpaste- decorated mark
on my smiling face.
You come and go secretly, with silent feet.
You flow nectar currents of various hues,
into my dust- filled mind.
You are the lamp,
in which the light- radiating jewel lies embedded.
1462
O Lord,
today, come to my home!
I threaded a garland
and decorated my house for You.
O my most beloved one,
come with a smiling face!
I have nothing to declare as my own.
Whatever belongs to me,
that too, I want to forget.
O incomparable Lord,
I beseech You,
accept those (belongings).
Whatever I considered as my own,
was a delusion,
I did not understand.
Now my mistake is rectified,
and reality has become known.
Now accept me
and make me Your own,
O ever enchanting one!
1476
Who are You, who came that sweet night,
creating a heaven in my dream?
With a sweet face, with sweet feet
and sweetest flute sound?
You came to me in the moonlit night
with light and incense.
You filled my eyes
with Your ever- new song.
When I awoke,
the southern wind was blowing,
carring the fragrance of sandalwood
and a touch of sadness.
The reflection of the face
with the incomparable smile,
lingers on in each and every atom of mine.
1486
What sort of sweetness exists in the wind
and what type of intoxication dominates the mind?
What sort of melodies do the birds sing,
and what style of love overwhelms the world?
O Lord, You filled the whole universe
with Your beauty, flow and colours.
Everywhere, You radiated Your enchanting love.
You float on, through each melody,
in Your own song and rhythm.
Come with a sweet smile into my heart.
Come with resonating flute sounds.
Do not hide within my mind.
Come to the front with song and dance.
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What is this sweetness in the breeze?
What is this this intoxication in my mind?
What is this tune the birds are singing?
What is this love that permeates the world?
O Lord, fill the universe with Your colours,
forms and ragas.
Spread Your charming tunes everywhere.
Keep on floating on the waves of rhythms and melodies.
Come into my heart with Your sweet smile,
with the sound of Your flute.
Why do You keep hiding within my mind?
Come forward in dance and song.
1520
O beautiful eyed one, tell me,
why are Your eyes filled with tears?
Which merciless one has forgotten You
and created such delusion?
The white clouds of the rainy season appeared
and darkness covered the light from the stars.
The heart of a separated one silently continues weeping.
He went away this spring leaving You alone to count time.
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Tell me, O lovely-eyed lady,
for whom are Your eyes
filled with tears?
Tell me, tell me, tell me.
Who is that cruel One who has forgotten You;
who has deceived You again and again?
The white monsoon clouds have gathered.
The starlight is enveloped in darkness.
A lovelorn heart gazes wistfully on,
full of a world of inner thoughts.
He went away in the springtime
and You simply spend Your days marking time.
I wonder with whose thoughts is Your mind filled
with such sweet charms?
Whom are Your thoughts deeply absorbed in?
1550
Open Your eyes and see,
the unknown traveler has come!
Radiating love, He pours out sweet smiles.
All are His most beloved ones;
their hopes are to be fulfilled by Him.
With the flow of His light,
even in darkness,
colourful rose flowers bloom.
Whatever dirt had remained accumulated in the mind,
was removed far away.
Individuals' coming and going
takes place per His dance and rhythm.
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Open Your eyes and see!
The unknown traveller has come.
To give love He has poured His sweet smile.
The darkness that was in my mind drifted away far, far away.
The flood of light, even in the dark dungeon,
has caused the blossoming of a colourful rose.
Everyone is dear to Him.
One gets one's desires fulfilled only with Him by one's side.
One's comings and goings are all moving in His rhythm.
1565
You are as severe as a thunder bolt,
and yet, You are as tender as a flower bud!
O Lord Shiva, holder of the pinaka
(a small, hand held drum), I salute You!
You are like a silver mountain,
holding a (crescent) moon on Your head.
I know You posses all attributes.
You are controller of both the expressed
and the unexpressed worlds.
You are the shelter of distressed people.
You are beginningless and beyond the scope of time,
yet, You remain ever- present in finite objects.
I salute You, O ever tranquil one!
O controlling Lord of animalistic tendencies!
You are the owner of all gems and jewels,
yet, You have relinquished everything.
You are as effulgent as a bright emerald.
You are the very seed and primordial force of this universe.
O Shiva, supreme Lord of all beings,
I salute You!
1599
Who came,
into the corner of my mind?
Coming silently,
sitting silently,
He rekindled the candles
that had become extinguished.
Is that You
whom I was thinking of day and night,
Is that You
whom I loved?
After such a long time,
in silent isolation,
You spread Your pearlsmile.
The unknown traveler,
is He still unknown?
No one knows
about the events of moon and tide.
In the temple of my mind,
in the turbulence of honey,
You have today filled the earth
with beauty and flow.
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Who came into the corner of my mind?
You came silently and sat down silently.
You lit up my extinguished lamp.
Who am I thinking of day and night?
It is You that I have wanted.
After a long time in a lonely forest,
Your laughter was as effulgent as a diamond,
and yet, You remain an unknown traveller.
Who does not know the joy of a moonlit night
and the beauty of a stream?
You sweetly delighted and vibrated my mind
and made me extremely happy.
1637
O Lord, You are the festival of light in the dark night.
O beloved one,
You are the sweet murmuring of the dense forest.
You are the water fountain in the dry desert.
You are the hope- filling ray to dull and dry faces.
By forgetting You, we suffer the agony of loss.
Whatever I do not want, surrounds You.
Whatever I do not get, is abundant in You.
All my attainments, I continue offering unto You.
1682
Spring has come,
unfolding the Earth in her new splendour.
The world has been filled
with movements, shapes & melodies.
O, creator of forms!
Appear before me.
Open Your eyes with a sweet smile.
Let Your charming form
emerge from the mist of the universe.
O! King of kings!
You know how to play.
You are full of love.
Yet today,
why do You make me weep?
O, shameless one!
Come and appear in my ignoble heart
in rhythm & dance.
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On the arrival of spring
the earth is harnessed with new decorations.
The living world is filled
with the sweet flow of love and beauty.
O creator, please come before of me,
opening my eyes and smiling sweetly.
Appear before us with an ever-charming face.
You only know Your divine play.
O Lord of lords,
You are the embodiment of love and affection.
But why do You make my heart cry out for You?
O shameless one,
please come into my shy heart.
1698
O unknown traveler,
pause for a while,
I wish to garland You.
With love and smiles,
I have decorated and brought You
a fragrant floral bouquet.
I continue singing songs to please You;
I rehearse Your songs with melody and rhythm.
With the attraction of love,
and a sweetness absorbed mind,
my mental ornament resonates.
Adoring You,
I dance in rhythms,
in overwhelming bliss
in the stream of nectar.
I do not want to take anything,
I only wish to give You my heartfelt love.
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O unknown traveller, please wait a minute.
I wish to garland You with the fragrance of flowers.
With smiles and love, I have decorated this garland.
I am singing songs for You,
I am trying to understand the rhythm
and melody of Your music.
My restless, complex mind mind wants to go
to Your loving, sweet vibrations.
I dance in rhythm to attract You.
In the changing world, flowing with the river of nectar,
I don't want to take anything, I only want to give.
Just love me and make me full of life.
1717
O Lord,
it is very difficult to understand You.
Sometimes You are harsh,
sometimes You are soft,
sometimes You radiate effulgence.
Light a lamp in my dark house;
destroy the pitch darkness of my mind.
Pour nectar into my dry heart;
Do not make me ask: "Where are You?"
You are the very foundation of all.
You are the basis of all intuition.
You are the topmost smiling sahasrara cakra.
You provide help in all conditions.
1733
O my dear one,
for You,
I shall do anything and everything,
even should You bring about thunders,
storms or meteorites.
By Your name, I came to the path,
and with soft gold, I became enchanted.
With Your song,
I coloured my mind.
I know You are a unique entity.
In the summer heat
or in the intense winter,
under the shade of a tree
or in the desert,
in a lightless dark well...
provide strength to me.
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I shall do everything for You, my Lord.
If You throw a thunder,
if a cyclone appears,
if there comes lightning from the sky,
I will do everything and anything for You.
I have come to the real path by Your name.
I am overawed by Your golden shrine.
I coloured my mind with Your song.
I know that there is only one You.
In the heat of the sun,
in cold weather,
in the shadow of tress,
in the desert,
in the deep whole where no light enters,
I will be waiting for Your help.
1774
O Lord,
in the flow of tears,
and as the smile in flowers,
You remain mingled.
O my sympathizer,
with love, You poured out the essence of nectar.
By Your grace, I have today understood
how much my own You were and are.
Come close into my heart,
why hesitate?
Nobody will know of it.
Births after births take place,
numerous deaths have brought about sweetness.
My revolution around You today became fruitful,
with beauty and flow.
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You exist in drop of tears.
You exist in smiling flowers.
O kind hearted Lord!
In the flow of You nectar
I pour forth my love.
You are very close to me.
By Your grace I can realise this truth.
Come close into my heart.
What prevents You from doing so?
Lives after lives have come and gone.
Series of deaths have brought forth nectar.
My life rotates around You.
My movement around You
finds true meaning in beautious forms and flows.
1784
The colourful angel,
flew and said:
"Come with me.
Do not ask which is my country
and where my journey ends."
Since the time I opened my eyes,
my flying started,
through the path of the flow of light,
at the never ending call of the infinite.
I keep moving forward,
my flying never ends.
I understand the pain of all
and share the solicitude of humanity.
I want to take all with me.
This is my spiritual practice
from time immemorial.
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The colourful fairy flew on, saying:
"Why don't You come with me?"
Where is my country, where is my home?
Don't ask me this!
I started flying since I opened my eyes.
In the path of light and in the unending call of the Infinite -
I moved forward.
My flight has no end.
I understand the pain of all and the lamentation
of the mind.
I want to take all with me.
This is the only desire of the eternal time.
1800
O Lord,
I saw that You came
through the path full of flowers.
You smiled,
with a song- filled throat.
Below the bakula flower tree,
its flowers lie spread.
They are small,
yet incomparable in fragrance.
Taking them,
I threaded the garland,
which You put on.
During a dew- wet winter period,
Shiuli flowers dropped dropped below its tree.
I could not complete threading my garland,
before You went away,
leaving me amidst some delusion.
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I saw You come along the floral avenue.
There was song in Your vocal chord
and a sweet smile on Your face.
The bakul flowers were lying scattered
under the tiny tree
and an unparalleled fragrance arose from them.u,
You never know.
I keep searching day and night,
on every path.
You do not pay heed to me,
You never do.
Since the dawn of the creation,
I started out my journey, propelled by Your attraction.
I do not know anybody else but You,
in sleep, dream and my awakened state of mind.
I search and tread the path
and find You in grasses, bushes, trees and plants.
I know You are hiding there.
Please tell me why You do not come to me.
You have no compassion,
You do not.
1801
With the sweet respiration of the sandal breeze,
who is that who came into my floral garden?
I could not have imagined,
I could not see although I wanted to,
I remained sitting unmindfully.
I could not hear any footsteps.
You did not show any indicating sign either,
and I did not perform any welcoming action.
You arrived uncalled with a smiling face.
It is difficult to understand Your divine play.
You are hard one moment
and loving in another.
You are beyond comprehension,
unlimited and immeasurable.
That is why,
in meditation,
I offer myself to You.
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The world of song is unlimited, listen Sunayona.
There is not end to new ideas,
no matter how You express them.
Beyond the ocean of darkness,
the rhythm of song
is continuously floating along with melodies.
There is not end to new ideas,
no matter how You express them.
From the infinite origin, along a path of light,
songs are continuosly floating along rhythmic vibrations.
None can put an end to it,
no matter what one may think.
1815
Listen,
O colourful tender leaf,
tell me,
who has sent you?
Carrying the message of the new,
for whom,
and what,
have you brought this morning?
Resistances and obstructions
are to come from all sides,
making you a mature leaf
and eventually let you drop.
O brother,
whatever storm and wind may come,
I shall fight against them
and move forward.
This is all what I want.
Today, this morning,
on the path of this journey,
I pay my salutations to all.
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O red coloured, newly opened leaf, please listen.
Tell me who has sent You here.
You - the harbinger of the new,
what have You brought this morning and for whom?
Obstacles and hurdles will encircle me.
The green leaves will fade and drop on the ground
Let the storms and cyclones come as they may.
I'll fight all obstacles and march ahead.
This very morning at the beginning of my journey,
I extend my salutation (pranam) to all.
1826
O dear one,
I have kept my garland decorated
to express my love to You.
I may be momentary,
but my love is the essence of the essence
and it is eternal.
All the tunes,
all that has been rehearsed,
all the ideations and languages that existed,
the essence of it all,
I included in my garland
woven to Your resonating tinkling.
I am but a mere particle of Your mercy,
brought through a golden fountain.
O Lord beyond colours,
by the shower of Your grace,
I have become purified.
Now, please uplift me.
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I have kept my garland arranged,
O Lord, awaiting You.
Our tryst may be only for a moment,
but remember
my nectar-love is eternal.
Of my melodies, of my yearnings,
I have chosen the sweetest.
Of my thoughts, of my words,
I have taken the tendermost.
I collected all these essences
inspired by Your rhythmic resonance
and wove them lovingly into a necklace.
I am just a tiny mote of Your infinite compassion
O colourless one, I am purified,
bathed in the fountain of golden elixir.
Now, by Your grace, lift me up to You.
note: the fountain of golden elixer is an allegory for
the hiranmaya kos'a, the subtlest layer of mind,
and the singer is asking to be raised beyond that,
into Satyaloka, the sphere beyond existence.
1828
From an unknown land
the clouds have brought the message,
that your friend would call on you.
Wrap a colourful scarf around your mind,
and prepare a welcome for Him.
Your night is over,
perhaps dawn will bring a radiant light.
Wipe your eyes, dress in a new garment.
The effulgence of the new will illumine your house.
Forget the pains of old, O lovely-eyed one.
Welcome the new with grand imagination.
Forget your nightmares
and greet Him with a smiling face.
1848
The cloud came from an unknown world and told:
"Your friend will come to your home.
Keep your mind covered with a colourful scarf
and decorate a colourful bouquet for Him.
Your night is going to end
and dawn will bring a colourful environment.
Wipe your tears
and put on a new adornment.
The effulgence of the new
will glow in your home.
O beautiful eyed one,
forget the agony of the past,
and send forth your call
with new imagination.
Do not remember nightmares,
please the new with a smiling face".
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When I saw You, I didn't know Your real identity.
I looked at You and realised
that You are the embodiment of music.
Your smile, Your looks,
fulfilled all the longings of my heart.
In the ocean of melodies,
in the world of ideation,
I attained You.
O Lord of my mind!
In You, I found the necklace of love for humanity.
Due to Your calls there is a sweet rhythm
of emancipated souls.
The lyre of my mind sings Your glories
without reservation.
Goaded by Your love and attraction,
it sings only about You.
