Translations only
Selected songs from 2001-5018
2001
O Lord,
today, at dawn,
You came
and gave the message
of the approaching new era.
You told me how darkness had faded away
and humanity had enlivened.
Humanity had shrunken
due to demons' excesses.
Today, humanity has developed
the inner strength of consciousness
to cast out those demons.
O guide of the chariot of effulgence!
O cosmic goal!
You brought in hands the water of hope
to shower upon all.
You came with a sweet smile
to fulfill everyone's ultimate desire.
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With today's morning light
You brought the message of a new era
and told that darkness would pass away
and that humanity would be awakened.
By the tyranny of the demons
humanity had been suppressed.
The conscious humanity will, by its might,
today defeat the demons.
You give us direction
and with Your own hand,
bring forth the basket of hope.
You sing with a sweet smile.
Humanity will attain what it deserves.
2036
A mere crescent moon in the sky
is enough to illuminate the earth.
You are the full moon.
Come in Your full form.
and fill my heart with light.
You are the ocean of light
of unbound consciousness.
All microcosms are illuminated by You.
Though clouds may come and go,
You cannot be forgotten.
Knowingly or unknowingly,
all long for You.
By the thread of love only,
all find You close.
Because of Your existence,
I exist in the flow of divine nectar.
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There is a sliver moon in the sky.
By it, the earth becomes flooded with light.
You are the full moon.
You come to us in fullest expression.
You fill my mind with effulgence.
In Your unbroken consciousness,
You are the ocean of effulgence.
All small drops lose themselves in You infinite existence.
No one forgets You, though clouds may come and go.
Knowingly or unknowingly all want You.
All attain You by the force of love.
Because You exist, we all exist in the flow of nectar.
2049
Sitting alone by the window,
I think about Him only.
Who is that stranger,
who, with much love,
covers my sorrows with sweetness?
During leisure hours,
when I am alone,
I see His love in the crimson colour.
Within actions too,
I get absorbed in Him,
as soon as I think about Him.
He does not forget me
even though I may do,
in His viin'a' and His tinkling twang.
My life flows on in hundreds of flows,
expressing a charming awakening.
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Sitting alone beside the window, I think only of Him.
Who is that distant stranger who loves me most,
and envelops my agonies with sweetness?
When left to myself in idle hours,
I see the expression of His radiant love.
When I think of His words I feel His close touch
amidst the whirl of activities.
He does not forget me, even though I,
resonating in His viina (lyre), may do.
My life in sweet eloquence flows on
in a myriad of activities.
2066
O my companion,
O my dear one,
You are eternally with me.
Your love and eternal song
fill my mind.
From which heavenly origin
do You come in an unseen stream?
In what tremendous speed
do You move forward?
You remain unknown in intellect,
but can be realised in ideation.
Only one whom You grace,
knows Your abode.
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O my friend, my dear one,
You are eternally with me,
Your love fills my mind
like an eternal song.
From which origin
have You come in the stream of light?
In what a tremendous speed
are You proceeding forward!
You are beyond intellect,
but can be known in ideation only.
The one whom You have graced,
comes to know You.
2085
O Lord,
You came without telling anybody,
and without informing anybody,
You departed.
I had so many more songs,
in so many rhythms to sing to You.
I could never have imagined
that You would come like this,
and that You would suddenly leave like this,
leaving me amidst tears.
Hundreds of flowers bloom
out of the dust of the earth.
Into the innermost core of each of these flowers,
You have poured sweetest nectar.
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Suddenly, You came without telling anyone;
and You left without notice.
I had so many more song to sing to You,
with so many more rhythms and melodies -
but without telling anyone, You departed.
I could never have imagined
that You would come to me like this,
and that You would leave so suddenly,
leaving me amidst tears.
In however much dust there is on this earth,
thousands and thousands of flowers bloom out of that dust.
Into the innermost core of each of these flowers
You have poured infinite sweet nectar,
filling all beings with on this earth with devotion.
2105
O King of songs,
come into my life.
I love You,
and in Your thought,
I frenzy.
You are present each moment.
The eastern sky is immersed in crimson colours,
the flowers in my garden
spread a sweet fragrance.
New and newer blue loti bloom in my mind.
Come and sit there.
I want to hold and keep You
in the core of my heart,
that I may find You close
in pains and in pleasures.
To this prayer and solicitation
and craving of my heart,
let Your ears listen
by virtue of Your own attributes.
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O king of songs, please come into my life!
I wanted You and became intoxicated by You.
You are everywhere.
When the eastern sky becomes filled with crimson colours
and the flower garden emanates a sweet smell,
a new lotus blossoms in my mind.
Please come and sit on it.
I want to hold You,
and keep You in the core of my heart.
In pains and pleasures I long for You.
This is the humble craving,
the surrender,
the acceptance
and the desire of my mind.
Please have mercy and do not ignore it.
2144
In the forest and on the mountain peak
I have searched and searched for You.
The day passes by and evening darkens.
Yet, You did not respond
nor did You listen to my call.
The burden of my heart is not removed.
(How is Your heart? I cannot understand it.)
I searched for You in flowers and in nectar.
In every particle of pollen I sought You.
I did not find You anywhere
nor could I catch hold of You.
You did not come and tell me where You were.
I wandered through different places of pilgrimage.
How many are lakes, rivers and seas
in which I did not bathe?
With no ritual of immersing my body in water
could I find peace of mind.
My heart still remains unquenched
and my eyes pour out tears.
At last I realised and attained You in my mind.
I saw the sparks of Your light
in the recess of my mind.
You can be realised only within the mind.
In a pure heart only does Your effulgence shine forth.
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I searched for You in the forest
and on the peak of the mountain.
Evening comes and my days pass by.
You did not respond nor did You listen to my feelings.
I cannot understand what sort of heart You have.
I searched for You in flowers,
in nectar and in every pollen of grain.
I could not find You
nor did You appear to me.
Please tell me where You are.
How many places of pilgrimages have I visited?
How many rivers and oceans have I taken holy dips in,
searching You?
In none of these places could I find peace of mind.
My thirsty heart keeps shedding tears.
Finally I understood and found You within my mind.
In a small corner of my mind
I have seen the spark of Your divine light.
It is through a pure mind that Your effulgence shines.
2160
O Lord,
come to me,
come into my small cottage.
I am waiting for You,
sitting with alertness.
You are my hope and cherished achievement.
You are the light and air of my life.
I come and go eternally
for You and You only.
I love You, I cry and laugh for You.
On Your lips lies reflected
the smile of the moon,
of moonlit nights.
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O Lord, come to me!
Come to my small cottage.
I am sleeplessly waiting for You.
You are my hopes and aspirations.
You are the light and air of my life.
I come and go in eternal time
for You, and You only.
I love You.
I cry and laugh for You.
The smile of the moon shines on Your lips.
2192
Let human beings do everything for the sake of all,
and let them also remember
that animals and birds are not distant from them,
and that trees also long to survive.
Losing their way in darkness,
why do humans cry aloud in anguish?
Let our hopes, our love
draw everyone close to one another.
Those who are starving and uneducated, bearing burnt foreheads from
firy heat -
I will take them all and give them shelter.
I will create a heaven on earth.
2209
O Lord,
in my mental lake,
You are the golden lotus.
I dance,
keeping You fixed as my goal.
You are the very hope
in the bubbling vitality of my life.
Your loveliness lies scattered
like the sun's rays
that fill the heavenly garden.
The buzzing bees,
hovering over the shrubs,
find pure honey.
Satisfying You is my spiritual endeavor.
I do not want anything other than You.
O vibrant one of the divine sport,
please fulfill this only desire of mine.
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In my mental lake You are the golden lotus.
I dance on, keeping You fixed as my goal.
You are the hope in the bubbling vitality of my life.
You loveliness overflows,
Your ecstatic expression renders me ever new.
Swarms of honey bees
constantly hover around pure honey.
All my endeavours are but to please You.
Except You, I do not want anything.
O Lord, please fulfill this desire of mine.
O most sportive one, O Lord!
2215
O Lord,
I love You
and do not expect any return.
Your smile and sweet flute
keep my life saturated.
Stay in my mind in all my actions.
In whatever attributes may arise,
just keep an eye on me,
O great one!
I know that I am not alone,
You are my eternal companion.
For the forward movement of my chariot,
O charioteer, provide jerk to me.
In my throat, Your song ever resounds.
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O Lord, I love You unconditionally.
Your smile and Your sweet flute saturate my life.
Stay in my mind.
Be with me in all actions.
Whatever attributes may be displayed,
keep an eye on me, O great Lord!
I know I am not alone,
You are my eternal companion.
For the chariot's forward movement,
provide jerk, O charioteer!
In my throat, Your song is always present.
2229
O brilliant effulgence,
O intense impulse,
O dearest one!
You remain most respectful entity,
even in the form of the moving breeze
or of the vibrant resonance.
How many ropes
have I tried to keep You tied with?
How many ideas
have I been trying to fulfill my shortages with?
I have always remained engrossed and busy
with my own “I” feeling.
Make this “I” feeling of mine Yours.
With my own energy,
I cannot hold You.
I cannot tie You
with my own spider web fibers.
By showing Your grace,
let Yourself be attained.
Just remember this prayer of mine.
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Effulgent light, elation of my life!
You are my dearest, You are my dearest!
In the restless breeze,
in deep memory,
You are eternally welcome.
How much do I want to keep You bound!
In how many thoughts and visions beyond thoughts
do I see Your perfection!
I constantly remain busy with my own ego.
Let this "I" be Yours!
By my own force I won't catch hold of You.
My string cannot bind You.
Please appear graciously before me.
Keep this request of mine in Your mind.
2238
O Lord,
if You had to return so quickly,
why did You come?
This arrival cannot be called coming.
By a very short and deceptive show of love,
will I not be pained on Your departure?
Much time has passed by waiting.
The limits of my patience have broken down.
Having come,
now stay forever.
O timeless entity,
do not reject the flowers of my hope.
A source of kindness cannot be called that way.
Coming close to me, do You forgot Your name?
Between Your greatness and my ego,
do not keep any duplicity.
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Why did You come, if You would go away?
This sort of coming we don't call coming.
Did You not feel sorry
for fascinating and charming my mind
for a short period of time only?
So many ages passed by waiting,
the limits of my patience have broken down.
When once You have come to me,
please always stay.
Do not tear the flowers of my hope.
People say You are the ocean of grace,
but does Your behaviour justify it?
Do You forget Your name when coming close to me?
Your honour and my pride don't permit such duality
to come in between the two of us.
2240
Days are passing by,
evening is getting darker.
The messenger of heaven came rushing down
and said:
"Come to the festival of light.
I wander from county to county,
full of love,
and bring joy to all.
Providing thrills,
with gestures
and flashes of pleasure,
my days pass by.
Filling the whole universe with my lively beauty,
without distinction of small nor big,
I love all.
Thinking of all
and seeing the faces of all,
my mind desires to go forward,
taking all
and overcoming all hindrances."
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Days are passing by,
evening became dark.
The angels of heaven came rushing down saying:
"Come to the festival of light!"
I wander from country to country full of love.
I carry happiness for all.
I bestow the thrill of joy,
dance and laughter,
as my days pass by.
I light up the universe with my loving vibration.
I do not differntiate between small and big.
I love all.
I come to this earth, thinking of all,
and I think, seeing all faces.
My mind desires to march forward
to take all with me,
to overcome all hindrances.
2266
O Lord,
awakening life into my song,
You awakened the world.
By the touch of Your song,
all frenzied with unbound joy.
Since You exist,
we all survive,
dancing blissfully to Your tune.
In the ripples of nectar,
I love only You.
O creator and maker of all forms and melodies,
You are the nearest of all.
You are everyone's closest one.
You are the aggregate of all entities,
in the sweet sound of infinity.
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In song, You were awake.
In Your mind, You awakened the universe.
By the touch of Your song,
all hearts were filled.
Because You exist, do we exist.
In Your melody, I dance in ecstasy.
I love You in the flow of divine nectar.
O Creator of all forms and tunes,
You are related to all souls,
You manifest in the multitudes of existence.
2282
O Lord,
You came into my garden,
ever so untimely.
All my flowers had withered away;
their petals had dried up in the dust.
When, in my garden,
there were flowers full of colours and sweetness,
at that time, You did not come to love me.
It is hard to understand Your play (liila’).
Will not my flowers bloom anymore?
Will not new red colour appear on colourlessness?
Will not the tree of my life become decorated
with tender leaves?
Will not You come with a colourful heaven?
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O Lord,
by Your sweet melodies
You awakenend my mind to Your universe.
By the touch of Your song,
the minds and hearts of all were filled.
Because You exist, I exist too.
to Your delightful tunes,
I keep on dancing eternally.
I continue loving You,
vibrated by the ecstasy of Your bliss.
Creator of all forms and melodies!
Soul of all souls!
In the vast infinity,
all entities are sheltered in You.
2293
O dear one,
You always keep watch
on each and every atom and molecule.
Nothing ever remains hidden from You
whatever the circumstances be.
What a hard duty it is You have!
Even with a soft heart,
You carry a heavy load:
all sam'skaras (reactive momenta)
and all tanmatras (fundamental factors)
at every point in time.
When the universe had not yet been created,
displaying dance, style
and rainbow colours
in the flow of temporal change,
You existed also,
detached from all,
unknown and beyond time.
2300
O Lord,
I am not of exhausted
of continuous movement on the path,
but I am tired and sick of my own repentance.
All my disgrace, all my pride,
destroy it and merge it with the dust.
O Lord,
keep my head lying low
at the dust of Your feet.
Raise my entire being aloft
with the eternal glow of Your glory.
In Your bright effulgence,
I come again and again
and again and again depart.
Don't cast me aside,
making me drift
along the path of negative pratisaincara.
With the gift of Your compassion,
let me move along the positive flow.
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I am not tired of endless waiting.
But I am sick and tired of my own distortions,
all my distortions, the clash of my ego.
O Lord,
bend my head down to the dust of Your lotus feet
and never allow it to rise again.
Raise my enitre being aloft
in the eternal glow of Your glory.
In Your unfading effulgence
I come and depart time after time.
Don't throw me far away from You
and make me drift along the path
of negative pratisaincara (counter evolution).
But with the gift of Your compassion,
let me move along a positive flow.
2409
O Lord,
from which unknown world
did You come
to fill everything with beauty and melody,
and pull the distant ones close?
In the depth of mind,
all want You.
Even without speaking,
all secretly long for You.
You awakened in each pore of my heart
hope, love and language.
Those who were left afar,
came into Your mental mirror,
gently and gracefully,
dancing with rhythm and melody.
Taking all along,
and bestowing love,
You created the universal society.
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From what unknown world, O Lord,
have You descended today
and filled the universe with rhythms and tunes?
You attracted all,
even those who were far from You,
and drew them unto Your cosmic hub.
Every entity of this manifestation wants Your presence
in the inner chamber of its unit mind.
Although not expressed openly,
this desire is cherished secretly in the inner heart.
Today, You awakened hope and love
in every cell of our existence.
Today, every atom and molecule
found language to express.
Those who, for so long, remained far from You,
today found themselves reflected
in the serene glow and divine rhythm
of Your cosmic mental arena.
You remain tied to everybody in bonds of love and affection.
You move with all, along an eternal path,
to build a universal human society.
2460
O Lord,
the garland of my chignon has dried up,
the song in my throat has stopped.
On this tearful evening
my mind seeks only Your grace.
Tell me once:
“There is nothing to fear,
I am with you
and will for ever remain”.
Losing time and again,
I get afraid,
the light of my hope becomes extinguished.
Yet, I shall never become subdued.
By Your ideation,
I shall attain strength.
Into the lamp of hope
that today was about to extinguish,
wick and fuel was poured.
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The flowers in my hair have withered.
The song of my voice has stopped.
In this tear- filled evening my mind craves for Your grace.
You once said,
"Do not fear, I am with You,
I shall always remain with You."
And yet, I feel as if losing You.
The light of my hope begins to dim.
But I shall not lose heart.
The thought of You gives me strength.
With new ghee and wick
I relight this dimming lamp of hope.
2461
My eyes are all forbidding.
They continuously crave for His blissful glimpse.
Whether I be
in caves or in mountains,
or anywhere,
whether within or without,
I always long to keep Him
deep within the innermost recess of my mind.
In the light of the day
and in the darkness of night,
in all the good and evil of creation,
it is His play of light and shade;
it is the spell of His divine sport.
Everything remains moistened
by His charming sweetness.
He took away all my fear and shyness.
I could not grasp what happened.
Everything became lost in the one.
Everything was illuminated
with the effulgence from the one.
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My eyes obey no boundaries.
They want to always see Him.
Whether in mountains or in caves,
whether external or internal,
I want to always feel Him in the depths of my mind.
In daylight and in the darkness of night,
in whatever good or bad prevails in this universe,
He remains ever present.
Under the light of His mystical drama,
we become immersed in His love.
Whatever fear and shame I had,
He removed it up to the last drop.
I don't understand what goes on.
Everything merges into one
and that one encompasses everything.
2486
O my beloved one,
I know that You will come,
that will not remain far.
You know all about the
sincerity compressed within me.
Only for You I survive,
I keep thinking about You day and night.
My restless heart,
leaving behind everything,
wants only You.
With love, You appraoch,
and smile sweetly into the core of my heart.
Tears flow for You,
and shine on the candle base of my life.
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O, beloved one!
Once having come to me,
do not stay afar.
Whatever I have expressed
and whatever pains I have kept suppressed in my heart,
You know all.
I am with You.
I think of You throughout day and night.
Leaving everything else aside,
my yearning heart wants only You.
In love You come near,
and smile in my heart.
It is for You that my tears are shed.
You have lit the lamp of my life.
2505
Victory to Shiva,
who created Himself as Svayambho
and controls the animalistic tendencies as Pashupati.
He is the controller of the primordial
and pre-primordial worlds.
With long, matted locks of hair,
He witnesses all minds
and yet, remains beyond intellect.
Coming from effulgence,
You made the three worlds Your abode
and provide all with a flow of nectar.
You are the Lord of all beginnings,
ancient and eternal,
I salute You, O benefactor!
O attributed and non-attributed controller,
You relinquish everything,
and yet, You control all created objects and entities.
Existing both within and beyond the scope of time,
You smile sweetly,
O controller and maintainer of the three worlds!
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Let the victory be Yours, O Shiva!
Self-created Lord!
Wielder of all animalistic tendencies!
You are the controller of the primordial
and pre-primordial worlds.
With Your long and matted locks of hair,
You witness all minds.
You reside beyond the realm of intellect.
Descending from a realm of effulgence,
You made the three worlds Your abode,
and permeated all with a flow of divine nectar.
You are the Lord of all beginning.
You are ancient and eternal.
I salute You, O supreme benevolence!
You are the controller of the attributional world,
and yet, You remain beyond attributions.
You are the destroyer, controller and creator
of all objects and entities.
You sweetly smile from both within
and beyond the scope of time.
You are the controller and maintainer
of all layers of the cosmic mind!
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Shiva, Svayambhu (the self created Lord),
Pashupati (the Lord of animals),
the first Lord,
the Lord of the beginninglessness,
Dhurjati (one whose matted lock of hair
is always turned upwards),
the witnessing entity of all microcosmic intellect,
the repository of the universal wisdom -
let the victory be Yours!
You originate from the invisible world,
and reside in the three worlds.
You are the one who provides all
with a nectar-like flow of bliss.
You are Adideva Sanatana (imperishable),
Sha'shvata (eternal), Andpuratana (the most ancient).
I salute You, O embodiment of auspiciousness!
You are endowed with all rare qualities.
You are Guna'tiita (beyond attributes),
yet all attributes (sattva, raja and tama) are sheltered in You.
You have no attachment to wealth.
You are the dearest Lord of all created objects and entities.
You are both within and without the scope of time.
You smile in all sweet objects.
You feed the entire creation.
You are the one who maintains all lokas of all created worlds.
2526
Victory to the benevolent wielder of the thunderbolt.
The one with a white complexioned body,
and clad in tiger skin -
'Give me shelter at Your feet.'
Victory to the blower of the long horn,
the remover of all of afflictions.
O supreme entity,
in whom all intellect lies assembled -
'Give me shelter at Your feet.'
Victory to the first father, the first Lord,
the Lord of mantra, the God of gods,
beyond thought, ever new -
'Give me shelter at Your feet.'
One who looks like a silver mountain,
full of sweetness, difficult to attain,
ever-blissful, infinitely radiant -
'Give me shelter at Your feet.'
Victory to the supreme, eternal truth.
2529
O Lord,
the sound of Your flute makes me restless.
It does not heed to any particular tome.
The flute sounds in high pitch,
calling me by name
and I rush along,
forgetting all my shyness.
My mind does no longer adhere to work.
It constantly listens to the melody of Your flute,
which creates utter ruin.
I decided not to pay attention
and respond to it anymore.
But I am unable to ignore it,
and afterwards, I become filled with shyness.
Don't You realise what agony this is!
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The sound of Your flute has made me restless.
My mind cannot tell the difference between time and non-time.
The flute plays to the panchama melody, calling my name.
Without hesitating, I rush towards it.
My mind cannot concentrate on work,
I constantly hear the flute sing its dangerous melodies.
I am determined not to listen to it anymore.
No matter how much it calls, I will turn away.
But alas, I cannot help but to hear it.
And when I do, I become filled with remorse.
How shall I get rid of this bothersome sound?
2562
O Lord,
I love You.
You only reside in my mind.
O dear one,
You alone exist,
as the singular moon in my mental sky.
There is no entity
in this three aspected universe,
whose beginning and end
I do not find.
All come and merge into oblivion,
You only remain.
Night comes after day
and the darkness of night
breaks down in the morning light.
The shine within me
remains alive with expectation,
as long as You keep pouring it into me.
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I have loved only You,
without caring for good nor bad.
I'm like high tides,
moving to the attraction of the moon.
O infinite one,
You are ever calm.
Residing in the very core of my heart,
You are the essence of my life.
O Lord, why don't You speak?
Are You really that heartless?
Don't You understand the agony of my mind?
You are the worthiest of all.
2600
Today, He came as a bee,
not into my floral garden
but into the garden of my mind.
Whispering into the ears of the bud,
He collected honey.
O Lord,
in the hope of Your arrival,
I have remained sitting eagerly,
waiting ages since.
On finding You,
today,
my hope was fulfilled.
You were always in my vicinity,
yet, it was never written down in history.
For You only,
my mind smiles and cries,
and sings and dances.
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He has come in the form of a bee,
not into the garden of flowers,
but into the garden of my mind.
From my mental blossom,
He extracts the sweet nectar.
I had been waiting for You for ages together.
By attaining You today, all my hopes were fullfilled.
You have always been with me,
yet it had never been written down in history.
My mind laughs and cries,
it sings and dances for You only.
2636
O Lord,
O soothing ointment on all my burns!
Come, come closer!
My mind always longs to search You.
Come into my songs,
into all my actions
and into my calm meditation.
Touch my restless heart intimately.
I have no capability;
hence, I beg for Your kind grace.
I am unable to fathom You
by reasoning and logic.
By Your grace,
come to me in charming decorations.
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O Lord,
You are the soothing ointment on all my burns!
Come close, come still closer.
My mind constantly searches You.
Come into my songs,
into all my actions
and into my calm meditation.
Touch my restless heart intimately.
I have no capability
and therefore beg for Your kind grace.
I am unable to fathom You by reasoning and logic.
Grace me and come to me in charming decorations.
2649
Bathed in light,
smiling in bliss,
O Lord,
let this dawn remain with me forever.
In the distant sky
and in the innermost recess of my mind,
may Your effulgence always radiate.
I had been hoping for ages
for this glorious moment.
You fulfilled my wishes today.
Because of Your grace
all of my attempts
- my searching for You -
are now crowned with success.
Let this flow of compassion
flow on and on for ages.
I always knew
You resided in my heart.
Now, today,
You became manifest
in this most beautiful form.
You exist,
therefore I exist.
I exist with all the vitality of life.
I understand that this
is not the end of Your divine sport.
There is still much more to it.
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The dawn is bathing in a delightful smile.
O God, let this dawn remain forever!
In the far sky,
in the corner of my mind,
You are present.
Let Your effulgence ever be expressed!
I have spent ages in the hope of attaining You.
Today, You have fulfilled my desires.
Let the stream of compassion flow on and on for all time.
Be anywhere, be in my heart.
Today, You have manifested in visible form.
You exist - therefore I exist.
With Your heart and soul I have existed.
Today, I realise that Your cosmic play is not the last word.
2677
Suddenly,
from within the world of clouds,
what sort of lightning struck?
You went away without telling Your name,
without letting Yourself be attained in form.
I could not get introduced to You.
I did not even have the curiosity for it.
Due to astonishment,
I could not think anything.
Queries came later.
Enchanting my eyes,
that lighting of Yours hid.
Yet, His divine sport,
His coming and going,
remained engraved in my mind.
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From the arena of clouds,
what sort of lightning suddenly struck?
You went away without mentioning Your name.
You left without me catching hold of Your form.
I could not get introduced to You,
nor did I have the curiosity for it.
Due to astonishment
I was not able think.
Queries came later.
Enchanting my eyes,
that lighting suddenly hid.
And yet,
His divine sport,
His coming and going,
stayed in my mind.
2678
With the fragrance of sandalwood,
intoxicating the world, You came today,
adorned in an enchanting style.
Where were You hidden?
Human beings,
flora and fauna,
have been singing Your praise
from time immemorial.
In which distant heaven were You present?
Now, coming close,
You coloured all.
Nobody possesses any real capability;
all are able to seek You
only due to Your own power.
All want Your grace,
a wee bit of Your love,
to will fill their minds to the brim
and make them dance.
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With the fragrance of sandalwood,
intoxicating the world,
You came today,
adorned in an enchanting style.
Where were You hidden?
Human beings, flora and fauna,
have been ever singing Your praise.
In which distant heaven were You present?
Now that You have come closer,
all are coloured anew.
Nobody possesses any real capability.
Due to Your power, all are seeking You.
They cherish Your grace,
a little of Your love,
which would fill their minds to the brim
and make all dance.
2699
O Lord, for You only
I kindled my lamp and threaded a garland.
I survive by Your thought only.
To attain You, I remain ever restless.
O formless one,
You came into world of forms
and decorated the wicker tray.
You poured love into everything.
Your endless journey thus continues.
Only a wee bit of Your grace suffices
to quench all my desires.
The path You travel on is liberal,
this is what Your divine game shows.
2702
Life after life I have been loving You,
O dear one!
I do not know whether or not You love me,
but I know that You are mine.
The sweetness found within You
becomes a hypnotizing dream to me.
All of life's events encircle You.
Do not stay away any longer.
Come into the core of my mind.
Stay with me forever,
stay with me in songs and melodies.
2737
O Lord,
You came,
You appeared in illumination,
but why did not You come
into the fold of my mind?
I loved You wholeheartedly in meditation,
and yet, why did You not even look at me?
Look at me with merciful eyes;
ever keep me under Your shelter.
I would thus attain absolute tranquility,
if You so desired.
In beauty, You are one without a second,
You remain most revered in attributes.
You are the most respected
and most worshipped one
in the whole universe.
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I hoped You would come
and now You have come.
Why didn't You come to me before?
With all my heart and mind
I wanted to perceive You in my dhya'na (meditation),
yet, You didn't look at me.
Look at me with compassion-filled eyes,
keep me in Your mind.
If You so wish,
I will attain supreme peace.
Your form is incomparable.
You are adorned with all qualities.
Everyone in this universe pays homage to You.
2739
O Lord,
why do You not come closer?
I have heard that You are sweet,
but I do not experience this in actual life.
My days pass by calling You,
my nights are beset with tear- filled eyes.
Are You seeing or listening to this at all?
And yet, on the strings of my mental lyre
tinkling sounds are generated,
as You keep on granting unconditional love.
2746
O Lord, waiting for You,
I have remained awake.
My days pass by in intense heat
and in my nights darkness surrounds me.
I know that I am not alone,
but, unable to catch You,
I turn frantic.
In the vastness of the ocean,
I go on singing the song
which would make my mind oblivious.
My eyes fixed on hope,
I remain absorbed in Your ideation.
The cakor bird of my mind
glides off into the psychic arena,
in search of intuition.
2753
O Lord,
what effulgence have You radiated,
in the garden of my mind?
The restlessly blooming fragrant flowers
have started dancing,
fully absorbed in sweetness.
In the intoxicating wind,
spreading her wings,
the fairy flies on with rhythm and melody,
capturing You secretly
in the colourfully decorated world of her mind.
Do not go,
stay here,
I wish not to leave You.
I have forgotten all wants and achievements,
as I attained You
in the intoxication of my meditation.
2757
The colorful angel came into my life,
and poured love into this world.
Nobody is distant,
all are own.
Small or eminent,
all are to be seated on the same seat.
Pouring illumination into darkness,
He told:
”I see all,
I am always with you,
each and every moment.
Know that humanity will be victorious.
I do not consider microcosms negligible,
I consider the macrocosm
as the aggregate of microcosms.
Wiping out all agonies of the past,
exchange your heart with the cosmic heart”.
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His reflection lit up my life.
He loved all.
I now see that no one is separate.
Big and small all are on the same level.
Everyone's mind is spell-bound.
He makes me understand that no one is separate.
He spreads light in the darkness and says:
"I see all, and I am always with You,
humanity will surely be victorious".
He does not neglect even an atom.
I know the collection of all atoms is the supreme.
Cast off all defects and junk of the past,
and exchange Your heart and mind with Him.
2777
O Lord,
You oscillated the universe with a swing
and made the world dance
with Your illusive game, liila’.
Forgetting the distinction
between own and others,
my doors and windows are kept open.
Now, let there be only forward movement,
forgetting all fear and shyness.
The universe is but the drama
of Your divine game, liila’.
What seems impossible becomes possible
and what is possible becomes impossible.
In the decoration of gesture and flow,
it is useless to cry or pray.
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O Lord, You have swayed the entire world.
By Your divine play the world is dancing.
The world is filled with songs,
in numerous melodies far and near.
The doors and windows are open,
the distinction between thine and mine
has been banished.
Now, only forward movement should prevail,
and fear and shyness should be forgotten.
The world is You enacting the divine play.
Impossible can be made possible
and possible made impossible.
Amidst the display of the cosmic flow,
no such thing as crying and requesting remains.
2788
O Lord,
singing a song,
You moved on the path,
expressing Yourself with resonance.
I stood and watched from a distance,
due to shyness, I did not come closer.
There was fear,
shyness and doubt in me,
and I considered You not my own.
Today, finding You on the path,
my delusion is removed,
and consciousness restored.
I had been searching in forests,
in vast mountains and in snows.
Not attaining You in outer forests and caves,
I today searched within my mind.
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O Lord,
You moved on the path singing,
asking me to sing in tune with You.
Standing afar, I simply looked on
and due to shyness
did not come closer.
I was filled with fear, shame and doubt
and thought You were not my own.
Today, all suspicion has gone.
Conviction to look for You on the path fills me.
I searched You in forests and in vast snowy mountains.
Not finding You in external forests and terrains,
I now search You within my mind.
2800
O Lord,
You came through song after song,
and became mixed in my life.
You came into fold during my meditation
and smiled into my mental mirror.
There exists no comparison to Your attributes;
You are never lost in form.
You are present in everyone and everything,
and yet, You remain above all.
You are the ocean of mercy,
this fact is known to the heavenly and mortal worlds,
to all living and non- living entities.
Though You never desire anything,
You nonetheless hold all.
............................................................
You have come in numerous songs.
You have mingled Yourself in my life.
You have come to me in my dhyana.
You have smiled on the mirror of my mind.
There is no comparison to Your qualities.
You are never lost in the beauty of external objects.
Though You remain covert in each and every entity,
You also remain outside them.
You are the very ocean of mercy.
The heaven and the earth,
the moveable and immovable worlds know this fact.
You never ask for anything,
and yet, You have taken away my all.
2827
O Lord,
You exist,
I exist,
and the world exists too.
Atoms are present,
the Macrocosm is present too,
and small as well as big
are likewise present.
With fruits and flowers,
I keep wandering.
In the hope of honey,
I wander all over.
It is within You
that I have now
found the base of all honey.
Indeed, You are greatest.
In the illumination of moonlight,
You are the honey;
You are the moon in the distant blue sky.
Whatever You do
is due to love only,
Whatever You do
You do irrespective of good and bad.
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You exist, O Lord,
I also exist.
This universe exists.
The atom exists,
the vast cosmos exists.
I move from flower to flower.
I move everywhere to taste Your sweetness.
I find the source of all sweetness in You
and in Your greatness.
You are the sweetness of the moon.
You are the sweetness of the distant stars.
Whatever You do,
You do without attachment to good nor bad.
2828
O Lord,
with an overwhelming impulse,
and the exuding warmth of love,
who are You who came into my mind?
I could neither recognise nor understand You,
but became overwhelmed,
I do not know why.
I never saw or heard,
that I shall find Him so close,
not even in dream
was I able to imagine it.
On the shore
of the ocean of effulgent nectar,
beyond all language,
You intoxicated me
with rhythm and song.
I am unable to understand with my intellect,
what You did.
Why do You make living beings revolve around You
with liila’ after liila’ (divine plays)?
You are beyond reasoning
and beyond form,
but You remain within forms.
In the sweet illumination of my heart,
come and smile in my meditation.
.........................................................
O Lord,
who are You who came into my mind
with a strong impulse
and radiating the warmth of love?
I could not recognize nor understand You.
I became restless.
I do not know why.
I never thought, not even in dream,
that I would find You so close.
Beyond the expression of language,
within the ocean of effulgent nectar,
You intoxicated me with rhythm and song.
I could not understand by my intellect
what You were doing.
Residing beyond this illusory game (liila'),
why do You make living beings dance and play with You?
You are beyond reason.
You are beyond forms,
even though You reside amidst them.
Come into my heart!
Come into my meditation with Your sweet effulgence!
2917
O Lord,
I never tell You to go away,
but rather, ask You to again come.
On this dark earth,
You are everyone's light.
You are everyone's love.
From behind the curtain of darkness,
when I am unable to see,
You pour forth the light of hundreds of moons,
as smile- scattering pearls.
You are everyone's object of meditation.
In the mental world,
You are adorable in speech and rhythm.
Filling me with mental honey,
keep floating in the firmament of my mind.
.................................................................
O Lord,
when I asked You to leave,
I meant that You should again return.
On this earth You are everyone's light.
You love all.
Beyond darkness, when I am unable to see,
You smile with the light of hundreds of moons,
You smile radiating pearls.
You are the object of ideation of all minds.
You are revered with words and rhythms.
Absorbing my mind in sweetness,
graciously enter my mental arena.
2921
O Lord,
I love You.
I continue thinking of You.
Come near me,
nothing else do I cherish.
You were mine in the past.
Why did You throw me away?
Why did You forget me?
Please tell me.
You will be mine again in future.
You won't reject me from Your mind.
Even if You wanted to, You could not.
This fact I know for granted.
2929
O Lord,
I love You time and again,
You are the essence of my life.
This world of mine has lost itself in You.
You are the realisation of my love.
Your song floats into sky and air.
In the tinkling of Your melody,
the love for humanity is present.
Above all,
within all consciousness,
Your sound resonates.
Errors and lapses are present in human beings,
that is why living beings are called microcosms.
Your wealth remains above the cosmos
and beyond all comparison.
...........................................................
O Lord,
I am forever in love with You.
You are the essence of my life.
My world has lost itself in You.
You are the practical and real love.
Your song floats in the sky and in the wind.
In melodies and in tinkling sounds,
You shower love for humanity.
From within an eternal consciousness
Your sound keeps resonating.
Defects and errors are present in human beings only.
This is why living beings are called an'u (smallest).
In this world, You remain beyond comparison,
forever topmost positioned.
2956
O Lord,
I do not know Your name,
neither have I become acquainted with You,
and yet, I love You.
Don't You know this fact?
I kept calling and seeking Your mercy.
Are You in a position to listen to me at all?
In intensely dark nights,
and also in the light- scattering,
love- filled,
sweet moonlight,
I call You day and night.
I aspire for You in my meditation,
and continue performing Your sa’dhana’.
I want You in my happy days
and also in the bad dreams of my painful nights.
I know that I am Yours.
I have known You to be mine.
This fact, I am unable to forget.
...............................................................
O Lord,
I do not know Your name,
I do not know much about You,
and yet, I am in love with You.
Don't You know this truth?
I have been longing for You time and again.
Have You ever heard my call?
In the darkness of the darkest night,
in the sweet effulgence of light,
with all my love,
I have been calling You day and night.
I have aspired for You in my dhyana.
I am continuing Your sadhana.
I yearned for You in the dreams of painful nights.
I know only You.
I experienced You as mine.
I am unable to forget You.
2976
O Lord,
I attained You
across the dark ocean,
on a golden line of light.
My inertial sleep has been broken
by Your ceaseless cadence.
You came through rhythm after rhythm,
floating me into a stream of bliss,
and removing my entire darkness with flawless significance.
Scattering Yourself into all directions,
You filled honey into buds.
You came into my mind with charming feelings,
with the beauty of the ma’dhavii flower.
..................................................................
I have found You at the edge of the dark ocean,
on a golden beam of light.
The slumber of inertia has been banished
by Your ceaseless cadence.
You came in a beautiful rhythm,
glittering with Your flow of bliss,
illuminating darkness
with the radiance of joy.
You are everywhere,
filling stamens with honey.
You came into my mind with irresistible charm,
as the exquisite beauty of the madhavii flower.
3023
You are giving me so much pain,
yet You are not contented.
You dried up my heart
and my eyes are constantly flooded with tears.
People say You are the ocean of kindness,
why then do You behave differently with me?
Why do I keep on carrying the load of pain?
You are always helping others,
but never do You pay attention to me.
I will nevertheless maintain my hope,
and keep it alive day and night,
to attain at least a fraction of Your grace.
3028
O eternal companion,
dearest one,
why do You stay afar?
You are absorbed in a game
of swinging to and fro between
palm and tama'l trees
and the darkness of clouds.
Only for You do I remain
in this dense forest.
Amidst this pitch darkness of thoughts,
why do You call me?
How many lightnings came and went,
appearing for a moment and again disappearing?
The bondage between Your and my heart,
will forever remain.
3054
O Lord,
You are adorable to all.
You are excellence amongst all.
O dear one,
I fill my life with Your effulgence.
Yet, I keep searching You in darkness.
O charming one,
although adorned with internal beauty,
You are beyond beauty.
In whatever I have heard or seen as best,
Your brilliance shines above it all.
That is why,
knowingly or unknowingly,
all express their salutations to You.
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You are embraced by all
and of all, You are the finest.
I loved You without reservation.
Your effulgence fills my life.
Searching You in darkness,
I find beauty inside my mind.
Yet, O Lord,
You are beyond beauty.
In whatever I see,
I see You as greatest.
Your effulgence transcends everything.
Knowingly or unknowingly,
all offer their pranam (salutation) to You..
3065
The melody of Your song came floating into my mind.
It shook my mind.
Why it did, I am unable to understand.
My mind was covered under dust
and could not fly due to lacking wings.
It was engrossed in mean thoughts.
Now, it started flying into the distant sky.
The mind that was confined to home,
now breaks all bondages and floats afar.
The bird of the cage now flies off,
dancing with rhythm towards its one desideratum.
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3028
O eternal companion,
dearest one,
why do You stay afar?
You are absorbed in a game
of swinging to and fro between
palm and tama'l trees
and the darkness of clouds.
Only for You do I remain
in this dense forest.
Amidst this pitch darkness of thoughts,
why do You call me?
How many lightnings came and went,
appearing for a moment and again disappearing?
The bondage between Your and my heart,
will forever remain.
3054
O Lord,
You are adorable to all.
You are excellence amongst all.
O dear one,
I fill my life with Your effulgence.
Yet, I keep searching You in darkness.
O charming one,
although adorned with internal beauty,
You are beyond beauty.
In whatever I have heard or seen as best,
Your brilliance shines above it all.
That is why,
knowingly or unknowingly,
all express their salutation to You.
........................................................
You are embraced by all
and of all, You are the finest.
I loved You without reservation.
Your effulgence fills my life.
Searching You in darkness,
I find beauty inside my mind.
Yet, O Lord,
You are beyond beauty.
In whatever I see,
I see You as greatest.
Your effulgence transcends everything.
Knowingly or unknowingly,
all offer their pranam (salutation) to You..
3065
The melody of Your song came floating into my mind.
It shook my mind.
Why it did, I am unable to understand.
My mind was covered under dust
and could not fly due to lacking wings.
It was engrossed in mean thoughts.
Now, it started flying into the distant sky.
The mind that was confined to home,
now breaks all bondages and floats afar.
The bird of the cage now flies off,
dancing with rhythm towards its one desideratum.
3069
O Lord,
You provided moonlight
and made flowers bloom,
but why did You not come Yourself?
You drenched my mind with devotion but remained far.
Why did You not come within my reach?
You are as clear as the morning sun.
You create the colour of the crimson dawn.
You surpass all qualities.
You have no comparison.
Why do You remain unseen?
Come closer and sit near me
with the sweetness of Your mind.
Smile sweetly with Your charming flute in hand.
Do not stay away from me any longer.
3092
O Lord,
into my home,
I invite Your effulgence to come.
This is my sole prayer.
Throughout my life,
I rehearsed Your tune.
Kindling the flame of vitality,
I kept my home illuminated.
Amidst all my actions,
I ideated on You.
Only so that,
for a few moments,
You would look at me.
O Lord,
in my lamp
You are the the lighting stick,
the ghee, and the wick
all at once.
I move on Your uncurved path.
My unit mind is merely the dust of Your feet.
3110
The bunches of new leaves and buds
appear in spring,
and bring about an indistinct presence of the new.
Song after song,
the hide and seek play
of the ever new is praised.
The flowers in the garden want to smile,
and fragrance floats adrift in the air.
In the sky the nightingale sings along
to the vibration of the new.
Nectar flows afresh on the body of the earth,
whose eyes are filled with a new shine.
On the innermost core of my heart,
the attractive pull of the Great reflects itself.
3161
O Lord,
please do not forget this tiny little entity of Yours.
I have come from You
and remain within You.
Please do not expel me.
Since the beginning of creation,
You are together with me
in the stream of thought waves.
My life is mixed with Yours like sandal breeze.
Do not move me away from You.
In living beings
both good and bad qualities are inherent,
but my defects surpass and engulf my merits.
In this darkness enveloped arena
I die, crying with pain and sorrows.
Please do not be unkind towards me.
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Lord, don't forget this tiny little entity.
I have come from You,
I remain within You.
So, please don't make me distant.
In a sweet ideational flow You are within me
from the beginning of creation.
As spring always brings the sweet sandle breeze,
so my life is caught in Your life.
Please do not remain far from me.
Everybody has good and bad qualities,
but my bad qualities far outshine my good ones.
So, caught in the sorrow of a dark night,
please Lord don't be unkind to me.
3183
O Lord,
on this dusty earth,
everything appears endearing and loving.
You are the symbol of bliss,
within which all cries and smiles lie.
You pour light into everyone's mind.
Flowers decorate each garden.
You keep floating forward,
filling the core of our hearts with hope.
On the speedy chariot of golden light,
as an unknown traveler on an unknown path,
You glide ahead with sweetness,
and bestow language on gloomy and dumb faces.
3207
O Lord,
I do not know You,
and yet, I love You.
In Your name and song,
I float ahead in rhythm and melody.
Your divine play (liila?,
is beginning less and endless.
Your movement touches the core of every heart.
On dark paths during stormy nights,
You provide confidence, O dispeller of fear!
I cannot survive without You.
I fill my heart with the sound of Your viin’a?
In my mind,
You keep on dancing day and night
with charming adornments.
3218
O Lord,
I do not know if You love me or not.
I only know that You forever accompany me.
I do not know whether or not You understand my pain,
but I know You call me from within the core of my heart.
When in cimmerian darkness,
I am unable to see myself,
I see that in my heart nothing but effulgence pervades.
I search You in the external world
and continuously worship You outside.
But when I close my eyes and look within,
I find You living in each atom and molecule.
3228
O Lord,
filling the deep blue sky with all Your being,
You have come today.
The clouds bear the pollen
of ketakii (screwpine) flowers on their bosom,
and the peacocks of my heart started dancing with joy.
The fragrance of jasmine flowers fills in the air.
The deer in the forest glades
are looking up into the sky.
Thinking about Him,
the viin’a?of my mind started playing anew.
The pollen of kadamba flowers
are scattered about in delight,
and drops of water lie traced on them.
My eyes look at the decorations of the niipa trees
and see the world dressed up in celebration.
3238
O Lord,
I want You everywhere in my life,
I want You in both light and darkness.
I want to live with You.
You are mine,
You are mine only.
In the corner of my deserted heart,
both You and I will live together.
I want nothing but You.
You are my shelter and You are my base.
Those who have left in the past,
and those who are to come in the future,
will continue to be spoken of in our minds.
None is inferior, all are Yours.
Whatever I am to do in a right or a wrong way,
I shall do with Your ideation and in total surrender.
I shall sing Your song with concentration and attentiveness.
You are endless in beauty
and unlimited in qualities.
3246
O Shaunkara, Hara, Mahadeva, Shiva, Shambhu -
I salute You.
You are without beginning nor end.
I do not know all Your attributes.
Time does not overpower You,
beautiful forms do not reflect You fully.
Therefore, I remember You as one
beyond the scope of time and form.
You are like honey in a thorny bush,
in difficulty You provide help.
You radiate soft rays of compassion.
You are the self-created Lord of all time.
3261
You are my dear Lord.
You are my dearest.
O stealer of unit minds,
during intense darkness,
in storms and typhoons,
You are with me.
You are ever invisible,
untarnished,
destroyer of calamities,
pulsation of life
and ointment for attaining cognition.
Your beauty and qualities engross my heart.
One who attains You fears none.
Such a person binds You with bonds of love and devotion.
3262
O Lord,
is it that observing my pain,
You melted
and descended onto this earth
to attend to me?
You came with a heart full of sweetness,
with a pearl scattering smile
and with eyes marked with the collyrium of love.
You refused to remain in heaven,
You have descended in divine sport.
You do not have any particular name or form.
I find You in hundreds of names and forms.
In the tender blossom of my mind,
in Your mysterious play,
You drowned my intellect.
Remain with me always
within and beyond the periphery of time,
in sweet ideation,
in the lotus of my heart.
3265
O cowherd prince!
Who do You decorate with flowers
and what for do You play Your flute?
Day and night,
Your smile bestows healing balms on sorrows.
Even without physically seeing You,
I love You
in the mirror of mind.
You exist for all time,
intoxicating the stream of my mental Yamuna?river.
You dance on
in creation, preservation and destruction,
both within and beyond the scope of time.
3269
The Lord says:
I keep kindling lamps,
I ever remain full of joy.
I am Yours and Yours alone.
None is distant from me.
All have been my own since time immemorial.
I don't want to see your tearful eyes.
I wish to always see the moist love of your feelings.
Let no one remain far.
Let no one misunderstand me,
in this blissful game.
I exist in the tunes and melodies of songs.
I keep floating in the pollen of flowers.
I swing the garland of love
and adorn songs on life's shore.
3281
O Lord,
playing on the viina of my heart,
in which tune do You give Your calls?
Why do You fill the sky and air
with rhythm and tempo?
Please tell me.
No one knows the history
about the origins of Your calls.
There were neither pearl necklaces
nor beautiful flowers for You to look at.
Why You keep calling me in this way
I am unable to understand.
Amidst restlessness,
You were alone.
That is why You wanted a playmate.
3282
O Lord Bhaerava,
Lord of time,
You remain ever engrossed
in Your rhythmic Ta’nd’ava dance.
You have untied the knot of Your matted hair,
and scattered Your spiritual wealth unto all.
By Your dance in cadence & rhythm
with vigorous jumps,
the tranquil earth surges.
And, as if caught in the burning heat of fiery volcanos,
all the atoms of the universe begin to dance.
To shatter the bondages
of all those whose minds were bound
by a serpentine noose,
You blew Your long horn.
3283
If ever someone be filled with fear,
we shall bring that person close to us.
Even if raucous laughter may surround us,
we shall surely march ahead.
Why do you keep staring with sorrowful eyes?
Do not be disheartened.
We shall cross the arid deserts
and the snow-capped mountain peaks.
If the goddess of fortune turns away her face,
if the roaring of thunder crashes from the sky,
keeping our ideology fixed before our eyes,
we shall surely march ahead.
3285
O Lord,
I do not want to become a mountain of knowledge
nor an ocean of qualities.
I just want to make You mine
for all time to come,
mornings, evenings etc.
O formless gem!
O touchstone!
I know and understand
that You are everything.
Due to Your existence,
everything else exists.
Due to Your existence,
qualities attain value.
Secretly become my own,
and stay in the recess of my mind day and night.
My respect and adoration shall not prove futile.
3320
O Lord,
I call You so ardently.
Why do You not respond?
My eyes are filled with tears of sorrow.
Do You not know why?
The world deliberately deceives me.
Will You do the same?
I always keep my love hidden
lest it should wither away.
I have lost all interest in food and drink.
Clothes are as repulsive to me as are serpents.
Rest and sleep are like the worst enemies.
Tell me why it all happened.
3333
O Lord,
why do those who You love,
remain hidden?
Why do You keep them away
from the smiling face of praise?
You grant wealth and capability to others,
raising them to the top of attributes,
but You take away everything from the devotees
who are absorbed in modesty.
The eight occult powers
make others devoid of discrimination.
Those who possess them eventually leave You.
The devotees, however,
find You in their mind each moment,
and enjoy the bliss of fulfillment.
3368
O Lord,
I never called You,
and yet, You always loved me.
When even in mistake
I did not spare time for Your work,
You looked after me.
I was lying on the ground like mere dust.
Engrossed in worldly thoughts,
I constantly longed for matter.
I did not understand
that even a blade of grass
could not move without Your will.
The light of the sun during daytime
comes by Your grace,
and in the night
the moon smiles by Your kindness.
In love, affection and compassion,
You pervade the whole world.
3370
O Lord,
in the garden of hope,
with eyes absorbed in compassion,
You looked into Your own mind.
I knew not what to ask,
nor did I endeavour to find out.
I never thought of Your grace,
and not even did I look into Your eyes.
O my friend, my dearest!
You are my eternal companion in weal and woe.
You are the soul of my soul.
You penetrate all intellect.
Please come near,
bestowing Your love and smile
and fill the loneliness
of my innermost heart.
3380
O Lord,
in the hope of attaining You
I have remained awake.
I continue counting time
as if counting gems in an ocean.
How many nights have turned into mornings?
How many stars have set?
How many moonlit nights have passed by?
There is no count to it.
On that winter evening,
without announcement,You came into my mind.
You came in a new and enchanting outfit
but I recognised You.
3383
O Lord,
You came today
to pour sweetness into this dusty earth.
You came to provide nectar-like consolation
to those who had been crying continuously,
and to give speech to the dumb.
You broke the dark imprisonment
of those who were lagging behind
and, disrespected, had lost everything in their life.
You pulled everyone towards You
and made us forget all differences.
Those who had been frustrated
and had sunken into darkness
accepted You with smiles of happiness.
A whole generation attained light
in the joyful forward movement of the moment.
3386
O Lord,
everyone cherishes You.
The world floats on
by the pull of Your attributes,
of Your song,
and of Your smile.
You are mine and I am Yours,
everything else is of no value.
In my mind,
this essence of essence
is preserved each moment.
The earth moves
around Your feet.
And for Your grace,
I pray with tear-filled eyes.
3388
O Lord,
You came showering sweetness,
and bringing about heavenly bliss.
You filled my darkness-enveloped mind,
with whatever good there is
by blowing into it a breeze of consciousness.
Who could ever explain Your qualities?
With Your beauty and colour all minds are filled.
Your love cures all ailments
and carries sweetest music.
O great ocean,
no banks (limitations) contain You,
we are all merely bubbles in Your thought waves.
In a loving song,
with rhythm and sweet vibrations
You make all dance.
3389
O Lord,
I love You,
do not You know that?
I meditate and concentrate on You in solitude.
Do not You understand that?
You are the crowning jewel of everyone's life.
In this dark world, You are the dazzling diamond.
All the time I hear the story of Your glory.
Do not You hear it too?
During storms and lightning,
You are with me.
Your thunderbolt is my friend.
Do not You agree with that?
3393
You came amidst stormy and cyclonic winds.
I was asleep.
With rhythm and melody
You flashed on the mirror of my mind.
I woke up and opened my eyes.
I forgot everything of my past
and looked into the new dawn.
All past events, all painful memories --
everything, I set afloat.
In slow steps You came near me and talked.
You entered deep into the dense corner of my mind.
In sweet contemplation
and to the flow of Your effulgent consciousness
I set myself adrift.
3406
O Lord,
You belong to those who have none.
You listen to one
who sings his/her songs in solitude.
On the path of movement, others join in,
with their own ideas and their own pace.
You provide speed and light to one
who moves on Your path to attain You.
You are the master caretaker of the destitute.
You are the very life of the world.
Amongst all, be they small or big,
You are the greatest .
Your causeless attraction binds all.
With it, You uphold the earth.
3434
In the fringes and in illumination,
on earth and in heaven,
and in the world of forms,
I search You.
In the canopy of my mind,
in the songs of stars,
in sky, in hell and in the ocean,
I search You.
My lost one,
my beloved,
my Gopal in darkness,
my unseen one!
With disrespect and hurting agony,
He left far away.
Will He not come back?
However much I cry and console,
will He not return?
Has he forgotten me once and for all
by going away?
I hope He will again return.
3469
O Lord,
day and night,
the wheels of Your chariot rhythmically advance,
discarding darkness
as the chariot finds its way ahead
in splendid arrangements.
No one lags behind,
even the helpless and distressed ones are moving on.
You lift up all those
who are unable to rise by themselves.
The pilgrims on the path of light
are all related to one another.
Breaking the iron prison of mind,
they find their permanent shelter in You.
3476
Who has secretly come today
into my floral garden?
The tender leaf found an abode.
My mind is coloured and forgetts all its works.
The bulbul bird sings, perched on the branch of a tree.
The mango buds smile in the fragrance that they diffuse.
In a new decoration,
the red beauty of kinshuk flowers shines in the sky.
The distressed bakul flowers
have dropped onto the ground.
The silk cotton tree is defiant.
The trumpet flower, parul,
looks overhead, shaking its golden crown.
3502
This morning belongs to me.
I shall sing, paint
and make flowers bloom layer by layer.
Everything gets lost in the cascade of my mind.
On the tinkling string of a single viin’a?
all merge into one.
O, unkown traveller!
Please listen to me.
You are the gem in my dark abode.
Pouring sweetness in rhythms and melodies,
I keep dancing around You.
3505
O Lord,
for You,
and by the attraction of Your love,
I have come with the decoration of the new spring.
In the sound of my mind,
this decoration was filled
with the sweetness and fragrance
of the flowers that I found blooming.
I have poured out my all.
Nothing else have I got left.
O Lord, accept it with a smiling face.
Whose ideative fragrance do unbloomed buds carry?
With what expectation are they waiting,
keeping honey inside their pollen?
Who knows when Your footsteps shall become audible?
Who knows when Your image shall become visible?
3522
I called You, I yearned for You.
There is none other but You.
I have mentally merged in You and loved You.
In the whole universe,
I accept only You.
I have merged in the flow of Your thought,
I dance within Your Kuruvindha (mental mirror).
You are the ocean,
I am a drop of water.
Nothing but Your love sustains me.
The blazing meteor / nectar strikes,
lightning flashes.
In the cool southern breeze,
in the moonlit night,
Your song and immortal / sweet message
smile on my mental horizon
and dance in my heart.
3527
O Lord,
You offered all to me ungrudgingly.
What have You not given me?
Unnoticed, You took Your seat in my mental arena.
I felt shy talking to You.
I wonder what I had in the past and I have now.
I was lying around in dust, neglected,
and You pulled me close.
I had no mental vision nor object.
I did not kindle any candle nor incense.
I was caught in a dreadful and dark night.
You picked me up onto Your lap.
Now I understand that everything is Yours.
You are the sole fundamental essence.
On my lyre in the calm morning,
You raised a smiling song.
3547
Afer so many days, He has come!
Filling everyone's hearts to the brim.
No more talk today!
Only songs, and more songs,
to celebrate His advent!
The buds of the mainjis’t’a?flowers
dancingly speak to the ma’dhavii buds:
“Your time has come,
do not remain asleep!
Listen to His call?
The bela?and the ma’latii plants,
and the bakul trees too, know He came.
The message of His arrival is also in the sandal breeze.
Hence, no more sitting and lamentation!
Laughingly accept His divine gift.
3570
O Lord,
I know only You in life or death.
I recognize only You in light or darkness.
O formless One, You appeared in the ocean of forms.
O embodiment of consciousness, beyond thought,
You loved me.
I am a meager bubble in You as ocean;
I recognize and follow You only.
I came by Your will and float on Your waves.
I smile by Your impetus and dance in Your light.
My entry, stay and exit are all entranced in Your dream.
Surrounded by that dream,
I weave patterns of colourful webs.
3577
O Lord,
You are the sandal of paradise.
The earth drifts on Your fragrance.
You are the nectar in the lotus flower.
The bees all want to have You close.
You are like the monsoon screwpine flower.
You are the campaka flower in the flow of cognition,
drifting along a maddening sonorous breeze.
The glow of Your beauty sparkles in the unit,
in the Cosmic, in the stars and in jewels.
The string of nebulae in numerous trails
rolls on Your lotus feet overflowingly.
3600
O Lord,
it is Your grace that sustains the eternal flow of creation.
You are unparalleled in the creation of the divine play.
O dearest one,
You dwell invisibly in minds,
You are the panacea for all pain.
Between You and me there are many similarities,
even though I am but a unit and You are the Lord.
By Your blissful vibrations and delightful sandal fragrance
every atom and molecule of my existence
starts dancing in ecstasy.
There is no difference between You and me.
I exist because You exist.
If You were not, I would have drifted away
into the limitlessness of the infinite void.
3613
My mind remains moistened
with the nectar of His holy name.
He is my only one.
In the crimson dawn
as well as in the deep dark night
He is my only refuge.
I cannot forget Him.
In the morning light
it is His smile that plays the flute
in a lonely corner of my mind.
He is merged in the colours of flowers.
Therefore I cannot fathom Him.
In this way He comes and goes,
drifting away invisibly, dispelling darkness.
I recognise Him even without seeing Him.
3628
O Lord,
when the universe was not yet created,
in whose mind did You exist?
Tell me, where were You?
No one was there for You to speak to,
no one to hurt any heart.
I consider You the ocean of this divine game
and I know how harsh it is.
O Lord of this divine game,
listen and talk,
how could You manage in lonelyness?
I know neither philosophy nor scriptures.
I do not accept any entity other than You.
For just a wee bit of Your grace
day and night I beg.
3632
The Unknown Traveler has come today,
Bring for Him
a tray of colours and flowers,
a welcoming garland,
delighting incense
and sandalpaste.
He knows how to love all.
He keeps everyone in the recess of His mind.
He attracts and pulls everyone unto Himself.
He makes all forget their burns.
Nothing is outside Him.
All vows and sa’dhana’s (endeavors)
are directed towards attaining Him.
He does not distinguish between Himself and others.
His causeless love is boundless.
3654
O Lord,
I do not know what You want.
I have no capacity to understand that.
Who are You the unknown traveler
who does not pause even for a moment?
You brought about heavenly blessings.
You made love spread all around.
You shine in the recess of minds.
Your divine game I am unable to understand.
You smile in the moon radiating light.
You are absorbed in the colour of the rainbow.
O formless, unknown one,
You are absorbed in the song of rain.
3673
O Lord,
You are graceful, charming, tranquil and steady.
You are the soothing sandal fragrant breeze
to storm afflicted people.
You are a majestic snowy mountain
constantly lashed by thunder,
You are the deep ocean
and You are the profound ideas.
You are the soothing sandal paste
in the scorching heat of the sun.
You are the refreshing breeze
blowing through the ketakii grove
in the rainy season.
You are the gentle autumn breeze
caressing the grove of kusha and kasha grass.
You are the glistening dewdrops
in the white clouds above.
You are the morning mist
in late autumn
and the terrible snowstorm
in winter.
Your strings echo the melodious sound of spring.
3700
The stream of my life flows on.
It dances on,
aiming towards an unkown destination of immortality.
O unknown guest,
You have no consideration for a date.
You keep moving on with continuous speed,
maintaining a song of love in Your voice.
Tell me, to which unknown world is my life rushing?
Both sides of my life's stream are broken,
and yet, both are coloured in Your colour.
When the mirror of my mind is not broken -
then in that mirror Your effulgence glitters.
3706
O dear Lord,
You came to my home,
but went away without telling me anything.
This arrival is not real coming,
my mind was not satisfied,
I could not express my feelings.
You played the lyre, enchanting my mind
and flowed the fountain of love from the sky.
You instructed to love,
but how could I love, if my mind itself
was in a state of non-existence?
Between You and me,
the distance is hundreds of miles,
and yet, my mind is saturated with Your ideation.
The melodies of diipak and meghmalla'r style are sounding.
Over them You have spread Your divine effulgence.
3712
O Lord,
in this creation of Yours,
the game of light and darkness is going on.
Light rushes around
but fog approaches to cover it.
After a moon's smile, a dark night comes,
after lighted nights, dark times come.
The stars, decorated like lamps in the sky,
suddenly vanish in rain and sunlight.
A baby's smile resembles a blooming flower,
the incomparably beautiful rainbow and the autumn moon;
do not remain for a long time
but lose themselves in the depth of time.
I therefore long for Your shelter in pain and pleasure.
3713
O Lord,
if a storm comes,
let me face it.
At the time of surging floods,
take service from me.
If the earth's layers move,
if a volcano erupts,
if a birds?nests is blown away,
arouse sympathy in my mind.
I am a mere microcosm,
devoid of all,
make me compassionate.
Saturating me with cosmic ideation,
take me to the service of the afflicted.
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Even if a raging storm should come,
O Lord, please give me the strength to fight.
In surging floods and thyphoons
give me the chance to do relief work.
Even if the lithosphere shifts,
even if a volcano erupts,
even if the nest of birds should be blown away
O Lord, please arouse sympathy in my mind.
I am a mere microcosm devoid of everything,
please make me saturated with compassion for all.
Please make me full of cosmic love
and take me to the realm of service of the distressed.
3714
We shall serve all living beings:
the worn-out and emaciated.
Who else will save those
sufferings from hunger and distress?
Those suffering from physical or mental diseases,
humans, animals, and birds are all mine.
Even shrubs and creepers have life.
They are also to be considered.
We pull the distant ones close
and take them all together.
We wholeheartedly accept that the wealth of all is limited.
..............................................................................
We shall serve the impoverished and emaciated.
Otherwise, who else will save the distressed and the hungry?
We are for all human beings,
animals and birds and for all those
who suffer mentally and physically.
Even the plants and creepers have life.
We have to care for them too.
Let us bring the distant ones close to us.
Let us respect all and accept everyone wholeheartedly.
The wealth (of the world) is limited
and to be shared with all.
3720
In this rainy time,
full of darkness,
my mind floats on
in the beauty of the deep green bamboo grove.
I wonder whether that beloved one of mine will come or not.
I wonder whether He will play the flute or not.
I wonder whether He will stir the depth of the soft Yamuna river water.
Will He not enchant me
by tinkling melodious notes on the lyre?
I wonder whether to consider this real love?
Outside, clouds outpour in awakening tunes.
Inside my home, unseen,
tears are pouring from my eyes.
Flooded by the flow of water,
my whole world has become isolated.
Will He ever again return?
..............................................................................
In the staticity of rainfall
my mind floats to the deep green vegetation
and enjoys the beauty of the cane forest.
Will my beloved not come and play His flute?
By the banks of the Yamuna river to my delight?
The scale of the seven notes,
my mind enjoys the flow like this.
I wonder if to consider this real love?
Outside it is raining
and the sound of that rain
shatters my drowsiness.
Unknown to all, inside my house
tears are flowing from my eyes.
3739
O Lord,
You illuminated the world with beauty
and provided rhythm to songs and dances.
You have no comparison.
All alone You have kept the universe maintained.
You move only forward not inclined back.
You do not allow the wheels of Your cart to stop.
Without reservation, You lift all onto Your lap
O Dear, by Your attributes the world is enchanted.
You love and create Your divine game (liila').
You are a combination of both harsh and soft.
You are there for those who have none.
You exist within beginninglessness and endlessness.
3756
Where do songs end?
Would anyone know?
With experiences and feelings songs are swayed
and float on and on, unobstructed.
The sun rises at the tune of songs.
The crimson colour of the sun
reflects their colours.
The love in songs appears in the floral pollen
and brings rhythm to life.
Due to songs, nectar is sustained
and life finds fulfillment.
Creation, sustenance and destruction
are dancing to the expressions
of consciousness in songs.
3768
After a lot of ardous penance,
I have now attained You.
I shall never forget You in any way.
You have bound all the people with the thread of love.
You vibrated all pleasing them of with melody and tunes.
You aroused consciousness in all
by touching the innermost strings of the lyre of hearts.
You have filled every pore
of the universe with music and dance.
In the merciless heat of summer,
in the heavy downpour of rains,
in the shady jasmine (shefa’lii) flowers,
in the dew drops of late autumn,
in the frost of winter,
in the breeze of spring,
You have made Your presence felt.
3769
O Lord,
after a long time
we have been introduced mutually anew.
I came drifting about
from the momentum of begininglessness
and You caught hold of me.
I felt pleasure and pain,
I sometimes smiled
and I became restless at other times.
O unknown traveler, O guest,
I sometimes forgot the count of time,
at other times I remembered.
Having felt Your soft and sweet touch,
I started dancing in utter joy.
O radiation of effulgence,
O embodiment of extreme love,
with Your love only,
I exist on this earth.
3803
O Lord,
You came to my home.
I do not have the power of austerity
to hold You.
This essence of truth I understood
and attained Your grace.
Though my own eyes,
I have seen the darkness of the world.
For eras after eras
I have been keeping in my mind
the fact that I loved You in the distant past.
I kept it hidden silently and secretly,
this time it finally bore flowers.
3806
In the unbarred cosmos,
with the first expression of sound,
creation began to emerge
like a colourful rainbow in the sky,
when You, O my Lord
of creation, preservation and destruction,
woke up.
In the first stage of creation
there was no adjective to describe,
there were no beautiful forms,
there were no decorations,
nor were there the murmuring of leaves
or the warbling of birds.
There was nothing in fact,
O matchless one!
Then there came the water,
the flowers, the fruits,
and there came all-pervading sweetness.
There also came human heart,
the repository of nectar.
There came all the goodness.
The forces of darkness vanished.
You came into the lives of all,
O unmatched one!
3807
O Lord,
with Your arrival,
the dark nights suddenly vanished.
To all the individuals,
wherever they were,
actual experience came about
and the load of their ego was diminished.
While searching You within my mind,
I became absorbed
in the nectar pond of Your ideation
both within and externally.
All differentiations and shortcomings
surrendered at Your feet.
Without trace of fear, untiringly,
my mind was purified.
I discarded all shame and hatred
and became free from worries.
I do not admit any bondage
nor entertain any expectation
so long as Your blessings remain on my head.
3821
O Lord,
we love You only.
We move along the Your path.
We talk about You alone.
We are made up of Your thought waves.
We do not accept distinctions
between high and low,
or small and big.
We believe we are all entwined
in a singular thread of love.
We all hear the call from only one.
Our goal is the same
with You as our polestar.
Individual freedom and collective spirit,
contemplation of the supreme one,
relentless fight against the evils -
with all these,
we grow the huge banyan tree of love
and bring about a paradise on earth.
3856
O Lord,
You gave me everything,
but I failed to recognise You.
Now, I realise how much You loved me.
Please accept my obeisance today.
Today, I realised that You love me.
You gave honey to flowers
and the silver moon to the sky.
You are the ocean of the nectar of love.
You merged my mind into Yours.
You are the supreme entity of the seven worlds.
You pervade all living and non-living entities.
You continue dancing with ankle bells,
surrounding the moon and the stars.
3857
O Lord,
In the external world, You keep eluded our grasp.
You hide Yourself in a corner of my heart.
You do not discriminate
between who loves You and who loves You not.
You keep calling all near You.
The stars, the planets, the sun,
the mountains, the forest,
the dark and decorated pupils of eyes,
the dry desert, the deep green trees,
are all filled with Your sweetness.
This mutual awareness of ours,
I consider eternal.
The immeasurable mountain,
the dust of the earth
and the chirping of birds
are all smeared with Your loving consciousness.
3879
O Lord,
king of the mind,
the entire universe is under Your control.
From nebulae to smallest particles,
all are governed by You.
At Your order, flowers bloom,
at Your command, meteors and comets rush,
the high peaks of mountains
bend unto Your feet
and the wind blows with sound.
You are the most venerable of all beings.
All are dear to You.
So ,please accept my request
and give me shelter at Your feet.
3881
O Lord,
Please do not look at me with such entreating eyes.
I have come to this earth to perform duties.
Please do not hold me back.
In the flow of eternity,
I have been drifting endlessly towards the infinite,
ignoring crashes of meteors and thunderclaps.
Please do not stand in my way
and obstruct my movement
by imploring me in such a manner.
I shall decorate this earth with flowers,
fruits and foliage.
I shall kindle the light of hope
in the recess of every mind.
When will the tireless and sleepless night
come to an end?
All life will one day flow
in the essence of nectar.
3964
The internal melody of deep meditation
comes floating and dancing, full of hopes.
Many time had I heard
His jingling sound of ankle-bells,
and yet, I had never really loved Him.
That unknown traveler
opened the latches of my door and told me:
“Come out this time, I am not far away.
Even unknowingly, all love me,
so who should stay away after knowing me?
Do not sleep anymore in my internal arena,
afflicted by pain?
4000
You are my dear Lord,
You are the dearest.
You are the essence of all essences.
You are the elixir of everything.
You prevade both my good and my bad sides,
my bright and my dark sides.
With the crescent rays of the dawn,
You dispell the blinding darkness of the night.
By removing from my mind all good and bad thoughts,
You relieve my burden.
There is no entity equal to You.
To whichever direction I look,
You are everyone's object of ideation,
in the light of virtue, knowledge
and whatever other attainment.
4001
The unknown traveler is coming on the path.
Whosoever is willing to garland Him,
come, come fast!
There is no golden throne for Him,
with a smile, He goes on floating towards the unknown.
He is unseen, without stain,
the destroyer of worldly fears.
His love is unmanifested
and provides bliss to all.
He moves along the path
full of divine game for all living beings.
No one can stop His movement.
All worship Him from the core of their heart.
In this restless world that knows no repose,
He is everyone's destination.
Come all rushing!
Come still closer towards Him.
Only this will sway the waves
of the mental Yamuna' river.
4021
O Lord,
my entire being longs for You.
My mental bee floats actively in ideation, song
and devotional attraction.
In the beginningless past,
You existed.
You sang songs
in melody and cadence.
With stars and nebulae
as ankle bells
You danced in beats and rhythms.
I lost myself in attaining this world.
But You didn't lose Yourself even once.
You have a permanent abode,
whereas I have none.
I am mere dust
whereas You are the eternal dwelling.
4022
O King!
King of my mind!
I love You.
Like the night jasmine (shiulii),
bathed in dewdrops,
I take shelter at Your feet.
All experiences of the evening,
all pains of the deep night,
all histories of the end of night,
I offer at Your dawn.
All the chirpings in the morning,
all the hot rays of noontime,
all the colourful lights of evening,
I have assembled in a tray to welcome You.
4023
With the trace of the song that concluded,
I keep myself alive.
In the frenzy of the melody,
that floats towards infinity,
I keep dancing.
I practised
individually and collectively present melodies,
that emanated from effulgence.
Although I had not noticed them before,
I had already been playing them.
Silently, through the sandal breeze,
and the colourful dream of the night,
they were whispered into my ears.
These melodies still linger on inside me.
4028
In the mental garden of mine,
why did buds appear?
With what intention did You come
and what did You find
in the shivering of the buds?
You spread Your love all around -
in flowers, in fruits, on land, in water
and also in the rhythms
of the dancing peacocks of the mind
and on the green covers of the verdant fields.
You have loved all.
Creating a storm with colourful winds,
variegated longings and enchantments,
You have ensconced Yourself
in the mirror of minds.
4041
O Lord,
please come to my home,
I continue sitting and waiting,
keeping the door open for You.
With flowers of jasmine and bakul,
I have prepared a garland for You
and marked my eyes with dark decorations.
Please see that my floral offering
on folded palms
does not become dull,
and my well-practiced tune and melody
is not lost.
And also see that my sweet ma’lati flower root,
which I have created in my mind
does not dry up.
With a peacock’s tail in distant sky,
I paint the panorama of the unseen one.
Scattering about love
with the fragrance of campaka flowers,
I am counting the time of Your arrival
each and every moment.
4047
O Lord,
I sought You throughout my life,
I sought You through series of lives.
In forests and groves,
in the depth of my mind,
I continued calling You with tearfilled eyes.
Storms raised,
thunders roared,
but with a tranquil mind,
I heard the footsteps of time
that would remind me of Your mercy.
O supreme Lord,
when due to bursting noise
I forget You,
wake me up with a blow
and pull me unto Your door,
O Controller of the world!
4056
O Lord,
with new feelings,
I attained You today.
By Your vibrant beauty
I remain in ecstasy
day and night.
I have forgotten all my pains,
all humiliations, negligence and miserliness
of my heart,
which had been suppressed in inward crying.
O Lord, stay close to me,
never forget anyone.
I know You know it all,
but I nevertheless wish to tell You
that my mind only wants You.
4057
O Lord,
You are ever present in the Vrnda'vana of my mind.
During storms and thundersqalls,
You pour out a flow of nectar.
You are Lord Hari of the higher arena
but You purposely appear in the world of Gokul
to continue dancing
with melody and rhythms
in numerous divine plays (liila's).
You reside both within and outside of living structures.
You provide pulsation to veins.
You fill the core of my heart with nectar.
4062
A great magician has come from the world of magic.
Look at the riverflow!
What love!
What stamina!
Look how the sea dancing!
Look at the bees hovering around flowers!
How have You done it?
You made sleeping hearts bloom.
You brought about heavenly composure.
You made both my inside and outside resonate.
4063
O Lord,
I have been waiting for You,
why did You not come?
You gave me a time.
But now, even night has passed by.
Today, there is no fragrance in my flower,
there is no moon in the blue sky.
There is no bliss in life.
Do not You understand that?
I am Your worshipper.
To You, I sing my song.
You continue dancing to the tune of Your flute,
without even once looking at me.
4070
O Lord of the world,
You are my Krs'n'a.
I love You day and night.
You are unseen,
without blemish,
full effulgence.
But I am just a meager minute twinkle of a firefly.
In this creation
You are endless and beginningless,
sometimes terribly frightening
and sometimes affectionately kind.
With just one smile of Yours,
the world becomes restless.
With Your joy the ocean swings.
I cannot be compared to You,
for, You are Yourself a perfect example.
I was floating in a stream like a flower.
You lifted me up and sang Your song to me.
4072
O Lord,
take Your position on the throne of my heart.
The buds of the nine plexii
(meditation centers) are blooming.
I continue enjoying their fragrance.
You are present everywhere in the world,
in the forests, in caves and in the sky.
I also exist in Your physical arena.
Please do not forget this small companion of Yours.
Failure and progress
both are embedded in You.
I come and go
whereas You are the ultimate desideratum.
I climb and fall,
You keep on observing me.
This magnanimity of Your eyes kindly continues.
4081
Where have those nights gone, today?
There is no moon in the sky of Vraja
(the childhood place of Krs'n'a).
The water flowing in the
Jamuna river has dried up.
What distress has occured to our Gopal?
We searched all over in the forests of Vrindavan,
no one is seen with a smiling face.
The devotees are crying: "Where is He?"
Now there is no more light,
but only pitch darkness.
There is no peacock dance on the tama'l trees.
There is no flower decoration on the kadamba trees.
A thunderbolt has fallen
on everyone's hopes.
The once smiling sea now carries waves of gloom.
4098
O Lord,
for You so many eras have passed.
So many stars have fallen
and flowers dropped onto the ground.
So many nights went by
and so many mornings ended up in disappointed.
The evening lamps became extinguished
giving way to darkness.
Today only You found time
to remember the pain of the distressed.
The dark night is now over.
The full moon rose anew.
4119
O Lord,
You have brought lasting greenness
over shrubs and creepers.
I see You ,
get absorbed in Your love
and think about You only.
You are the light that eliminates darkness.
In the deep recess of my mind,
during solitude,
You convey to me all events.
You pour life into
days, dates and months.
All exhalations of hopes,
knells of destruction,
the diipak melody,
are filled with Your life.
4129
O Lord,
I have been loving You
in all aspects of life.
You did not come close.
You did not realise my agony.
Why did You stay far away?
My mornings went by in playing and jumping.
Noon passed by in cosmetic activities.
In the evening,
while arranging my garland for You,
darkness came about.
Yet, even now, there is hope in the mind,
and I seek the kindness and grace of my Lord.
Life and death both belong to You only.
I therefore beg for shelter at Your feet.
4134
O land of Aunga!
(the area where Ba'ba' was born,
brought up and served),
You are a land of beauty.
On earth another such a place cannot be found.
In the north, the Himalayas exists,
in the south, the Gidhaku’t’a mountain
touches Your feet,
and in the middle, the river Ganges flows.
It has no comparison in the heaven.
Aungika (the people of Aungabhumi)
are financially poor but mentally rich.
O traveler, visit my home.
Please be seated a while
and listen to my pains and pleasures.
O king of my mind,
You know the truth.
You are my father, I am Your son.
You are my elder, I am Your younger.
I have offered You my body and mind.
My enitre breath now floats into the sky.
My Aungabha’s’a?(the language of Angabhumi)
is as sweet as honey.
Like my mother,
my mother tongue language is also great.
O dear friend,
please come
and listen to my songs.
The whole world accepts
the excellence of the Aungabha’s’a?
4146
O Lord,
I found the world of light.
Darkness has vanished.
I went deep inside
and found You closer.
Crossing barriers of whirlpools,
traversing desolate and extensive fields,
passing through rattling markets,
I finally attained You this morning.
I reached Your abode,
leaving aside many colourful panoramas.
Without discriminating
between what is my own
and what belongs to others,
I attained You in all the strata of life.
4158
O Lord,
I want You close and seek Your compassion.
You are my eternal companion
in pain and pleasure.
Yet, I refrain from admitting it openly.
O Lord of the world,
resort of the helpless,
You spread unwarranted love.
Those coming to You for shelter
revere You and seek to attain You.
You exist uniformly in microcosms
as well as in the macrocosm.
You provide vital energy to both small and big.
Irrespective of whether people want You or not,
You think of all.
You have no comparision.
4166
O stranger!
You are to only move ahead.
You shouldn't wander about in darkness.
Constantly look at Your goal.
There are thousands of negative attractions lurking,
related to eating, drinking and sleeping.
It's a cycle is deaths and births,
of coming, going and weeping.
You are not to stop and worry,
You are to move ahead.
In front of You lies new life,
filled with light.
Your life will be full of honey and sweetness.
Unknowingly, O stranger,
You possess the precious treasure of love
and the string of closeness.
Only one co-traveler is Your own.
You are to recognise Him only.
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O traveler,
keep on moving ahead.
Without guessing in the dark,
keep looking at Your goal.
There are numerous calls
pertaining to comforts like eating,
drinking and sleeping.
The cycle of birth and death
is associated with coming,
going and weeping.
You should not pause
and think anything, but go ahead.
The new life ahead
is full of light and sweetness.
An affectionate string
of precious and unknown love is waiting.
You must recognise
only one entity:
Your only ever companion.
4167
O Lord,
it is getting late, please come quickly.
The sun is sleeping.
Now listen to my heart's desire.
This coming of mine is for a few days only,
my smiles and cries
are also but for some nights.
I keep doing the same work every day.
Tell me what the reality is.
With what an excuse do You make me work?
The moonlight shines for a short time only.
The fragrance of flowers lasts but for a fraction of seconds.
These are just excuses of Yours for avoiding me.
Why did You bring me into the crowd?
Please explain this to me.
4168
O Lord,
I have this petition to You,
why do not You come?
I do not know how I can please You.
Without assurance You came to my soul
and again went away.
Why have You broken the heart,
in which You created a stir?
You are the best presentation in view,
You are the pearl in the oyster,
You are the nectar in the flower;
I don't know why are You unhappy with me.
4170
Who has offered this sympathy,
who is so dear to me?
Why are the sky and the land so
sweetly resonating?
Why are the stars dancing?
My heart was crying in distress,
my life was a thirsty desert.
There was no ray of hope falling into my eyes.
My eyes were tear-filled.
Suddenly a new fragrance awakened my soul,
carrying a message of love.
The desires were fulfilled, good luck came.
He settled in my heart.
4172
Soldiers, blow Your bugle,
mankind is awakening.
The festival of light is to be celebrated
and darkness is to be removed.
The black owls of dark nights are running away,
forgetting their habits.
Save honesty, the most valuable shining light is coming.
Forget the ruins, troubles and the events of distress.
Enemies, forget all enmity, a new philosophy has come.
4174
O Lord,
You are dear to all.
Are not You dear to me?
I love You,
O Lord, please accept the offerings of my love.
You were so closely associated with my mind.
Then in it You hid Yourself.
You are the ruby gem of my mind, matchless in beauty.
You are the gem churned out of the ocean.
Please come and stand before me for a while.
You are the quintessence of all ideation.
Please grant me a wee bit of Your grace.
4183
O Lord,
thinking of You,
my mind loses all its bondages.
Come quickly,
O one who scatters sweetness!
Come back to the banks of the overflowing Yamuna river!
Come back to the grove of Niipa flowers!
Come back to the root of the Tama’l tree!
Forget the land of Vraja and Gokul.
The earth is calling.
I don't know how many ages have passed.
I have shown earnestness in hundreds of ways.
My entire ego is now gone.
You play Your flute
and spread Your sweet, pearl-scattering smile.
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When I think of You,
my mind goes beyond all bondages.
O sweet One, come quickly
to the banks of the overflowing Jamuna river.
The earth is calling -
come back, come back,
to the forgotten land of the devotees of Vraja,
to the grove of Niipa flowers,
to the root of the Tamal tree.
I don't know how many ages have passed.
I have appealed in thousands of ways.
All disappointments have passed.
O Krs'n'a, the brightest jewel of the crown,
You play Your flute and spread Your sweet smile.
4185
Sitting alone,
I keep thinking both morning and evening
that in the whole of three worlds,
no one is my own.
I am alone, absolutely alone.
I continue watching that the sun rises and sets.
The moon comes and smiles, that too I watch.
They never pause for me.
Which entity makes the sun move?
Who makes the moon smile at twilight?
It is that entity that really exists and will remain?
I want only Him.
For Him only I sing the song with full engrossment.
4192
I dance in the fountains.
I drift along
filled with the beauty of the kimshuk flower.
I am the nectar in the buds of flowers.
I make the world mad with impulse.
I have no comparison.
I sing the glories of those who came in the past,
of those who still exist today
and of those who will come in future.
I am the new sun with crimson rays.
I am also the scorching heat of summer.
I am the spring season full of new leaves.
I awaken life with my own effulgence.
4195
O dear Lord,
You have come after eras.
The nightingale, cuckoo and peacock
sing to me of Your arrival.
The day from which Your divine game commenced,
from that very day itself,
my yearning started.
My eyes are weeping, filled with tears.
The minds of all are swinging.
I have no power of austerity.
There is no light, the night is dark.
Now, one ardent desire only is left...
that I may become dust of Your feet.
4245
This red soil of Ra'r'h.
It is like made of pure gold, gems and pearls.
People are sweet, its language is sweet,
and homes are sweet.
It fulfils all aspirations by convention.
Everything of this Ra'rh is good.
It is like a source of light in darkness.
Kindle the lamp of Your life here.
This is not just soil, it is our mother.
4259
O Lord Krs’n’a,
Ghana Shya’m,
please come to my sweet floral garden.
I have kept it decorated with flowers and leaves.
Like the cakor bird waiting for the moonlight,
so do the dearest of the devotees, the gopiis,
await You.
The ma’dhavii flower creeper
is anxious and restless to satiate its beloved.
There is an intense desire to please the beloved
to make Him happy, expecting a glimpse of total surrender.
The flower offering in my palm,
is beset with sweetness, sandal and incense.
My mental garland of vaejayanti flowers is studded with a shining
Kaostubha diamond of Your choice.
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O Lord,
with flowers and garlands,
have I decorated the place kept for You only.
Please come!
It is intoxicated with Your bliss.
In the same way that the cakor bird awaits rain only,
and the canderi bird sees only the moon,
Your gopi awaits You
with an anxious and intense desire.
The madhavi flower blooms so fully.
You can only see flowers,
not a single leaf or stem.
In the same way, I too have opened myself up.
We are waiting with feelings of madness for You.
As the raganuga music incites
feelings of the pain of separation,
we too are feeling pain,
unable to bear separation from You.
Here, in the place I have kept for You only,
there are bunches of flowers,
intoxicated with the fragrance of honey.
There is sandalwood and a'goru fragrance.
From the innermost diamond of our hearts,
we have made garlands for You.
4283
O Lord,
You are the nectar in flowers,
You are the soul within my heart.
Amongst all sounds,
You are the original and fundamental sound.
You are the star in the sky.
From birth to death,
You are the sole entity.
You reside in both heaven and hell.
Though a singular entity,
You stir all.
The entire world is Your physical and mental expression.
We are not the slaves of anybody,
we salute You only.
We accept only one principle -
the appreciation of divine love.
4335
O Lord,
the earth and sky belong to You.
In fact, the whole world belongs to You only.
I am Your follower,
You are my beloved Lord.
The radiation poured forth by the morning sun,
the fragrance spread by the flowers in the garden,
the entity entering into the heart,
in all that, Your star-like effulgence glitters.
You are present in both pleasure and pain.
You sit on the throne of the Soul.
All I can do for You, is to shed tears of love.
4342
The unknown traveller has come today.
Invite Him home!
He has spread the effulgence of light.
Let us bathe our hearts in it.
He has been moving ahead
since time immemorial,
era after era,
on an endless path,
towards the infinite desideratum,
overcoming stroms and obstacles.
He is ever graceful and compassionate,
let us bow our head unto Him.
He comes for you and me,
to love all in all countries.
He weeps at others' pains and sorrows
and smiles at others' happiness.
4344
O Lord,
I know you are mine only.
I strongly hold that.
Your great form charms the world.
Your attributes are unfathomable.
O unknown traveler,
You are foremost on the path of movement.
Remembering You, I keep moving ahead,
even without understanding You.
I feel shy in speaking to You.
I continue doing Your work.
I decorate myself in thousands of ways,
without even understanding why.
4371
O my most beloved one,
You are present in both life and death.
The affection-absorbed sweetness of Yours,
smiles in memory
and appears in meditation.
Your effulgent appearance
from the heavenly abode
provides satisfaction to fervidity
with a touch of sandal.
You are present
within and outside the limit of time
as citi-shakti in mind and consciousness.
The distance between You and me
is difficult to cross.
But by Your grace,
this obstruction of distance vanishes.
Come into my core,
O my inner most,
and fulfill my contemplation.
4404
O Lord,
You came into my life
due to my accumulated virtues of several lives.
You did not tell me in advance,
and I could not decorate my house for You.
Yet, You graced me and sat down.
Many flowers bloomed in my garden
and overwhelmed my mind with fragrance.
Not even a single garland
had I threaded to welcome You.
There were sandalwood and incense to please You,
O preceptor of the world.
Yey, my mind was overwhelmed with bliss,
and forgot all about them.
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You came to my life after lifetimes of good deeds.
You came without telling me
and my house was not decorated to receive You.
In the garden of my heart,
flowers had already blossomed.
Their fragrance was overwhelming my mind.
I made the garland for You
but,
due to being absorbed in bliss,
couldn't give it to You.
4421
O Lord,
if You did not have to come to my garden,
then why did You plentifully decorated it
with flowers and fruits?
Your fair of light,
with colourful divine game,
at this colourful time of life,
makes me forget all fear and shyness.
Through the gaps of dark clouds,
lightning and thunder calls.
Yet, mobs of honeybees come buzzing.
4422
O dear Lord,
I have rehearsed the melody
and sung songs for You.
Please accept my salutation.
You bathed me in the flow of effulgence
and removed the pain of melancholy.
Keep me ever in Your mind, O Lord.
I have come onto this earth to act for You,
amidst hundreds of joys and sorrows.
I ever remember You,
leaving all shyness and fear.
Please allow me to stay at Your feet.
4455
O unknown one!
Who are you?
You suddenly came and broke my slumber.
I do not know why.
I was asleep in deep darkness.
My windows were closed.
I did not open the door
nor asked You to come in.
And yet, You stood before me face to face.
I opened my eyes
and saw You shining in divine effulgence,
pouring Your compassionate mercy upon me.
I do not know where I was and why I came.
You told me about my past
and told not to cry.
The door, the windows,
my sleep and my awakening
were all just my imaginations.
4461
O Lord, come!
O most revered one,
come in the proximity of the day.
For You, tears are flowing
from my eyes day and night.
Surcharged with sweet impulse,
my mind is intoxicated
by that abundantly sweet
and heavenly abode.
Lift and, on a charming smile,
take me with You,
making me forget everything else.
4466
O dear one,
You have forgotten,
the song that You had sung,
but I have not.
The lingering faint resonance
of the ambrosial melody that You composed,
I hear even today.
Day and night,
that song floats up into the sky,
and mixes with the stars
with numerous fruits,
with flowers and with the grass.
That song flows on through rivers,
seas, lands and galaxies.
In the waves of the ocean,
even now, I sometimes I hear it.
4479
O Lord,
come this winter,
stepping with pink feet.
Remove all the accumulated snow
from this floral bed of juhi flowers.
The evening malati flower wants to swing,
the kunda creeper is anxiously looking
for a supporting tree.
The night queen and gandhara'j flowers
keep expressing their agony.
in the evenings,
snow falls on the shrubs of kamala' and on vines.
Candramallika' is full of buds.
They all are pouring forth sweetness.
4521
O Lord Na’ra’yan,
You are my dearest
and You are also everyone else's dearest.
You are with one and all
both individually and collectively.
You enlighten all physically and psychically.
Day and night in my meditation
I search You mentally.
I seek You in dream, in sleep
and in my awakened state,
in each moment of hope and dejection.
You fill the minds of devotees
with the colour of Your mind.
You submerge all
in an all-providing bath of liberation.
4524
O Lord,
I want to hold You in my meditation.
Why do You play hide and seek with me?
My mind wants to merge in You.
Why do You beguile me every moment?
In the infinite sky when clouds appear,
hiding the moon and stars;
when clouds appear in my mental arena,
then, do You forget me?
O presiding deity of all temples,
You are ever shining within and beyond
the periphery of time.
You continue dancing in the groves
of niip and tama'l trees in the govardhana hills,
displaying Your sportive mood.
What a wondrous declaration of love is this?
4529
O Lord,
on a soft and cloudy night,
with rhythm and song,
my only desire is to please You.
I constantly pray for Your grace
to make me pour out my love in selfless service
to this afflicted earth.
You are the single source, illuminating my life.
You are the beacon polestar
to those who lost the path.
You are the bottomless and boundless ocean
of innumverable waves.
I try to fathom Your depths but all goes in vain.
When there was nothing,
You were all alone.
O supreme one,
how and what for did You create this universe?
With what expectation did You become many from one?
To this question there is no answer.
4579
O Lord,
Although You are near,
yet You remain far from me.
Into the inner cavity of my mind,
come quickly during my meditation.
How many lifetimes,
how many years, passed by
in my endeavor to attain You?
How many tears and joys
floated away
in expectation of Your arrival?
O ever new one,
I entreat You to make me Yours today.
I am the same as ever.
My everything belongs to You.
I did not forget You.
I just forgot that I am unable to forget You.
O pardoner of faults,
come near
and sit on the crest of my consciousness.
4582
O Lord,
the sky is shining spotlessly
and darkness has vanished.
Now come to my home.
I have forgotten
The agonies and repentances
of hundreds of ages.
Casting off lethargy,
I am now moving forward.
I have kept restrained the flood of tears.
I found You close,
O distant one!
Let others say what they please.
I do not pay heed to that. You are there,
and there is a path,
and along that path I move.
I never remain oblivious
of the sorrows and sufferings of humanity.
I realised that You have sent me on this earth
to remove sorrows and sufferings.
I am for You and I am for Your mission.
4587
O Lord,
You have forgotten me,
but I have not forgotten You.
Even today,
remembering You,
tears ceaselessly flow from my eyes.
At the time of sunrise in the morning,
when I see the eastern sky,
I find You
surrounding the pupil of my mind.
The evening's sun setting
radiates red effulgence and enchants all.
Amidst it all, Your sweet image appears.
4614
The night has ended.
Colours appeared in the eastern sky.
The rising sun calls and tells:
“Open up your closed doors?
What was unknown and unrecognised,
became known under the rays of light.
The bird of distant sky
spread its wings
and became a close companion.
Today, every home has its doors open.
Windows cannot stop the wind from entering.
Love-based human intellect found nectar.
4635
O Krs'n'a,
I remembered You
looking at the black dark clouds.
I want to keep You in my meditation
by applying the dust of Vraja on my head.
That Gokul or Yamuna is not there any more.
I do not see the boy of Yashoda.
While churning the curd,
the Gopiis do not remember the stealer of butter.
There are no flowers on the tama'l and niipa trees.
Neither are there herds of cows
shaking bells on their neck.
Where has the boy king of cowherds gone to?
To which Gokul?
4641
O Lord,
no one knows
why this cosmic game is embedded
in creation and destruction.
I am unable to understand
why You strike thunderbolts
and again pull me close to You.
You remain in my mind and in my life.
You are in knowledge and in meditation.
In the arena of action,
You swing the core of my heart
by Your coming and going.
My eyes enjoy
both deep darkness and colourful light.
And yet, even by the application
of the ointment of knowledge,
I am unable to grasp
Your beginning nor Your end.
4649
O unknown traveler,
symbol of love,
You have brought light on this earth.
It is difficult to recognise You.
O eternal guest,
Lord of all stars,
You have poured nectar on this earth.
You taught karma-yoga,
the yoga of action;
even the pendulum swings by action.
The distinction between own and alien
is forgotten in the totality of desire for action.
The physical and psychic arenas
are sustained by the yoga of knowledge,
and their darkness is removed
by the light of knowledge.
Attainment of real knowledge
is the fulfillment of devotion
that You have taught us.
4673
O my mind,
chant the holy name of Is’t’a.
All the facets of creation,
preservation & destruction reside in Him.
Only the supreme one who bestowed on us
this immortal name,
knows the secret origin of this ever-new universe.
On this dusty earth,
constantly listen to His song.
He remains in the world of immortality
and from there He breaks all attachments
of this non lasting universe,
and teaches the ego to surrender.
He is the supreme receptacle of all receptacles.
He is the most charming
and ultimate refuge of my mind.
4675
Which unknown traveler
has coloured and intoxicated my mind?
Who was He who momentarily shook the infinite?
That sweet pleasing smile of His destroyed all troubles,
the six internal enemies (ripu)
and the eight bondages (pa'sha).
Which divinity has come
to fill encouragement into hopelessness?
Even today, I go on searching Him.
Yet, I do not find the infinite within limitations.
He is not found in bondages nor in cries.
Where and why does He kept himself hidden?
4677
Please tell me,
O Lord of Goloka,
whose good fortune brought You to Gokula?
You were formless but came
and, with brisk dexterity,
created the world of forms.
I wonder whose austere endeavor made this possible.
From the three worlds
You brought the melody of flute
and played it on earth.
You were full of exquisite sweetness.
You are filled with nectar.
You became ecstatic in surging ideation.
From the beginning You were with me.
O the Lord of three attributes,
You dance amidst Your triple actions
(creation, preservation and destruction).
You drift in the rhythm of Your blissful divine play.
You are radiant in the devotee's dhyana.
4680
Here, the roses are full of fragrance.
in my garden there are no thorns.
Here, clean water is abundant without ebb and flow.
Here, with the touch of white clouds,
the shefali fragrance spreads.
Here, high mountain tops are shining like gold.
Here, all are invited.
Here, decorations for great meetings are made.
Here with the touch vitality,
the tender leaves are getting hued.
In tune with the melody of spring,
the cuckoo affectionately sings.
Here, there is shelter for all.
Here, all heads have matted hair.
4682
Ba'ba',
I will no longer respond to the call of matter.
Trivial, colourful objects call me again and again.
Some are enveloped in dark clouds.
Some are enveloped in a dark cloud.
Some are lost in moonbeams.
Some are spoiled in the whirls of deception.
No one knows the exact way out.
No one understands the secrets of success.
No one wants to tread the path of thorns
that leads to the goal divine.
4684
O Lord,
do not keep me far away from You.
I am Your lyre. To make me
You used hard metal string
to see whether I can produce a good sound.
At Your touch,
rocks are made,
and horns express their joy
by bursting into sweet melodies.
Out of terror of You,
sinners plunge into burning fire.
Prakrti (the supreme operative principle)
is subservient to You.
In the flow of kala', na'da and vindu,
You manifest Yourself.
You have decorated the three worlds.
O, Lord of creation.
That is why I prostrate before You.
In You, both vidya' and avidya' are merged.
4686
We all keep dancing around You, O Lord.
This divine sport has no beginning and no end.
I never search for my Lord in Goloka.
That is why I always strive to find You
amidst Your beauteous expressions.
You are merged in nityanitya viveka.
You are intimately associated
with the practice of Yama and Niyama.
You are the jewel of the ocean.
You produce resonance in veins and arteries.
You remain in the radiance of formlessness.
That is why I do not find You in the outer world.
You are the hidden nectar in blossoms.
Yours is a continuous movement.
Kissing your lotus feet,
the peacock of my mind beseeches You
to grant me para'bhakti (supreme devotion) only.
This is the end of all desires and cravings.
4702
O Lord,
I have been thinking of You
considering You far away
and never looked close by.
You filled me with melody,
but I did not know that You loved me.
You were there and I was also there.
You were honey and I a flower.
Engrossed in matter,
I could not understand my real self.
You made me know that I am Yours.
Now, searching my real self within my mind,
I know it to be closest.
4705
The rose buds in the thorn bush
are blooming.
The missiles and bullets of the demons
are falling on the ground.
Mansions built on sand have crumbled to dust.
The high sounding and decorative false slogans
have proved hollow.
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The high-sounding slogans tutored to the people
and clothed in grand phrases are all empty lies.
People have cried inwardly suppressing their agony.
They have been kept confined in closed rooms.
The materialistic theory,
which has taken heavy toll of millions of lives,
is now being dashed to the ground.
4726
O Lord,
I want to attain You.
All my hopes are centered around You.
For You only, from era to era,
I have been coming again and again.
I wanted to achieve the cosmos,
and listen to its song.
Your moonlight language falls on all.
I get up in the crimson light of the morning sun
and become enchanted with the chirping of birds.
Your eternal love remain bestowed on all.
4733
O Lord,
my eyes always want and search You.
In the forests of Vrinda'vana,
within the minds of Vraja-dwellers,
in the dark water of the Yamuna' river,
only one enchanting Mohan resides.
The cows wander about in search of You,
the flute calls in expectation of You,
the cuckoo cries shamefully,
without moon, darkness prevails.
4761
O Lord,
You are the object of my meditation,
You are my intuitive knowledge,
and You alone are my world.
I cry when losing You
and smile with Your return.
You are the essence of my life.
In the eastern horizon,
I see Your crimson colour.
In the western horizon,
I observe Your reddishness.
In the mid-sky You radiate as intense sunlight.
Your liila? divine game, is unlimited.
At the dawn of life You are the lovely festival,
at its mid-day You are the essence of action.
In the evening, O dear,
You, with new adornments,
attract and pull all closer to Yourself.
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You are the subject of my dhya'na (meditation).
You are the source of my knowledge.
You are my everything.
I weep with longing for You.
Your image makes me smile with joy.
You are the essence of my life, my everything.
In the eastern horizon I see Your crimson dawn.
In the west horizon I see Your glory.
In the midday sun Your force is strongest.
Your game is impossible to comprehend.
In the dawn of my life.
You are my clearest one.
In my adulthood, You are the inspiration for all my actions.
In my twilight years, You reveal Your mystery to me.
Please bring me near to You.
4769
Today, the peacock sings in the intense rain,
and lilies and lotus bloom on the river bank.
Who is that, scattering about ketakii fragrance?
The rays of hope have been extinguished.
Gopa’l, Krs'n'a of Vraja, has hidden Himself.
Yet, even today, in the desolate garden
someone is calling.
The days of Vraja have passed.
The hearts of the devotees are empty and charmless.
The skies of Vraja have turned dull.
Gopa’l has made everyone cry.
4786
Please tell me
why do tears drip down,
as if from dark clouds,
your collyrium-decorated eyes?
Who caused you pain?
Who turned away from you?
The rains have gone far away.
Your only hope now lies in the winter dews.
Whom are those untimely tears shed for?
Who is that most desired one that did not come?
Never accept one as a friend
who fails to keep promises,
who gives pain but does not apologise,
who does not care to laugh in your joy
and weep in your sorrow.
4795
This song will not stop.
This suppression will not continue.
PROUT is the illuminated path to follow.
We have endured suffering for eras.
The limits of tolerance have now broken down.
Up to the present day,
the demons have been browbeating.
The moralists are in unrest.
The sun rises in the east.
The era of darkness is about to end.
Light falls after pain.
We cannot bear any further delay.
4815
O Lord,
You went away,
rejecting and forcing me to stay in the dust,
discarding like a withered and dropped flower.
I was on the altar,
on the crown,
day and night.
I have fallen down soiled in the dust.
I had You in my life and in my mind,
and with me, You will forever remain.
O ocean of infinite qualities.
I do not want anything from You.
Even should You give me something,
I will not take it.
Only one desire have I got:
that You continue smiling in my meditation.
4816
I cannot return along the path I came from.
I can only move ahead.
Looking back is forbidden.
O my pioneer,
I cannot understand Your ways.
You give pain with one hand
and remove it with Your other.
Nothing can be done without Your knowledge.
Into Your ears, I silently whisper my sole prayer:
"Do whatever Your cosmic mind wishes to,
but please never forget this unit entity."
4822
O Lord,
a formless gem,
You came within the periphery of forms.
O formless one,
what made You adopt a form?
I do not know Your policies.
In which procedure should I greet You?
By which song and when
should I remember You,
and in what posture am I to visualise You?
You are the object of my meditation.
You are my dearest one.
You are the supreme benevolence.
You are the essence of all knowable essences
in this illusive world.
4866
O Lord of the world,
You have poured forth unbound kindness.
You have provided rhythm to songs,
love to meditation, and suspension to the mind.
On dark nights,
You shine like a polestar.
On moonlit nights,
You pour forth softness and dance,
and shake the cheeks of time.
There exists nothing but You.
Even a mistuned lyre is Your expression.
On funeral pyres, You bring about life.
4954
Today, I remember the event
of the full-moon night
in the month of shra'van' (rainy season month).
In my mind appeared the play
amidst living and non-living entities.
The sky was pleasantly shadowy,
and overcast with clouds.
The water toads were full of joy.
The wind was blowing with impulse,
and carried the sweet fragrance of the juhi flower.
The impact of consciousness fell on an inert being,
when the divine mantra entered my mind.
A new light was bestowed,
piercing through the dark fog.
4961
My Is't'a mantra is dearer to me
than even my own life.
I will never leave it in exchange for anything else.
I won't leave it even if happines, respect, money
or life are lost.
I won't leave it because it is my only wealth
and ultimate endeavor, my sa’dhana?
Even if the Lord of death appears with an open tuft of hair,
with terribly large teeth,
as the frightening Bhaerava,
I shall tell Him: I love my mantra
and this love will never be drawn away.
O fearful Bhaerava,
I require Your blessing.
O Controller of time,
I await Your grace.
O Paramapurus'a, forever remain with me.
Do not ignore this dust particle of Your feet.
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Remember, I am the dust of Your feet.
4979
O Lord,
where do You go,
where do You stay,
where do You drink and dine?
You occupy the throne of my heart.
Your eyes are wide open overlooking the world.
All hearts offer themselves to You.
You come and go to whichever place You want,
and pour out all of nature's wealth.
O kind Lord, this life of mine is meant for You.
It would not be wrong to assume
that I have become Yours.
Both luck and effort have become one.
How is this miracle and grandeur of Yours
to be explained?
5008
WE LOVE THAT GREAT ENTITY
FROM THE CORE OF OUR HEARTS
WE DO ALL OUR DUTY
AS THE WHEELS OF HIS CART
HE IS BENEVOLENT, UNIVERSAL FRIEND.
WE CARRY HIS VICTORY BANNER
WITHOUT IFS AND BUTS.
HE IS OURS, WE ARE HIS FOR ALL THE HOURS.
BLUE SKY, BLACK HELL OBEY HIM,
REMOVING ALL THE FILTH AND DIRT.
5009
THIS LIFE IS FOR HIM,
THIS MIND IS FOR HIM,
THIS SOUL IS FOR HIM.
HIS UNIVERSE WE WILL SERVE
IN CO-ORDINATING TEAM.
LIGHT BELONGS TO HIM,
NIGHT BELONGS TO HIM,
MIGHT BELONGS TO HIM.
UNDAUNTED IN SMILING FACE
HIS GRACE WE WILL SING.
5011
Clouds!
Today, the whole sky is covered with clouds.
I am sitting at home as if there was no work to do.
The paddy plants and seedlings are drying.
The lemon flowers are withering.
The a'ta?flowers are blackening.
Due to it all,
farmers are enduring terrible headaches.
The world will be green again.
Lakes will be filled with water.
The boatman will again start
rowing his commodities -packed boat.
5017
Our Ánanda Nagar shines with love.
The morning sun brings warmth to it,
and the moon cools it down.
The day arrives with activities,
and engaged in activities,
one goes to sleep.
One forgets all measurements of time
and remains overwhelmed with bliss.
O brothers and companions, come! Come ocean of humanity!
Come and bring a small gift as a token of Your pious love.
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We love our Ánanda Nagar,
which is shining with inimitable glory.
The crimson dawn makes the atmosphere gentle and warm.
The moon makes it pleasantly cool.
When the day arrives, it makes everyone active,
and in action one goes to bed.
One forgets all measurements of time
and remains always absorbed in ineffable bliss.
Come brothers! Come sisters!
Come friends!
Come ocean of humanity!
And offer her a gift as a sweet token of Your pious love.
5018
We shall establish Gurukul (University).
We shall colour with the effulgence of knowledge
each and every bud and flower.
No one will stay behind.
We shall play each string of our lyre.
We shall thread together all with the twine of love,
We shall create an incomparable garland of gems.
No one will be left aside or looked down upon.
All will live as in their own family,
their minds filled with affection and sweetness for all.

