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311
Such an array of divine sports You know
Such a gamut of games You play with me so
In countless delightful ways You joy-intoxicate my mind.
Nothing is done in secret
For in each act You exist
No thought is private
For to You none is unknown.
In Your play divine
The universe dances
Clinging in eternal adoration
To Your feet.
Floods of laughter You shower
And a deluge of torrential tears
Beams of exuberant joy
And the heart-rending pangs of pain.
I love You
Knowingly, unknowingly
For Your songs of love
Are strewn across the cosmos.
312
Come O Lord, come into my mind
Banish my pain
And inundate me in a torrent of delight.
The world drifts
on the mellifluous tinkling
of Your ankle bells.
With Your lyrical call
I tingle in joy.
Come O Lord
In my meditation
Come claim Your sacred seat in my heart.
Bathed in Your joy all sing Your praise.
Mind's peacock breaks into a prance
Into a hundred-faceted dazzling dance.
Look O my Lord
Look lovingly at my face.
Come my Lord
And claim Your sacred seat in my heart.
313
Come O my Lord in rhythmic dance
Come in my heart, come in my life
Cast at me Your blissful glance
Smile that sweet smile which regales the world
and joy-intoxicates my mind.
Shine golden my life
My desolate life
My stone-like life, so dark, so dry.
Come O Lord in rhythmic dance
Come in my heart, come in my life.
In the stagnant and turbid pool of my life
Release Your fresh flow of waters sweet
Dispel my dark pains in the flood of Your light
and dye me in the radiance of Your dawn.
314
In the realms of countless worlds
in the blinking of every entity
You have scattered Your divine touch.
You bathe the entire universe in unbounded joy.
Your sweetness pervades all
the animate and inanimate
manifest and unmanifest
the known and unknown.
You enter everything, You mingle in everything
You awaken/arouse awareness in all.
Your grace has immortalized in divine effulgence the mortal world.
Your smile beams the moon into her blissful smile
That smile which induces the water's flowtide.
Your effulgence breaks the earth into exurberant joy
and vibrates in blissful strains the air and the sky.
Your compassion infuses heavenly nectar into the three worlds
in ceaseless waves
in ceaseless waves.
315
What heavenly jolt
struck the half-bloomed flower of my mind?
My dormant heart leaps into exuberant delight
from darkest slumber,
her tender shyness removed.
The unknown traveller
brings sweet hidden honey
and today I rush towards him
night and day.
No shyness nor fear
can deter my speed.
Petals enclustered
by mayic spell
suddenly unfold.
With the impact of His touch
the spell of maya is removed.
316
You came
and all around
the world burst
into a brilliant blaze of colour.
The nascent sun shines its sweetest smile
and with that smiling touch
the earth forgets her pain.
In the festive air,
one and all affectionately embrace,
and, forgetting sorrows,
the entire universe bursts forth
into ecstatic harmony --
one rhythm, one resonance, one song.
On a flood of light floats the breeze boat of my mind.
The boatmen, smiling, ply my life boat to this shore.
Here all are drunk with Your golden radiance
and all dance rhythmically in euphoric joy.
317
Jingle jangle ankle bells
amidst colourful floral sprays
in the blissful Spring
You came
counting Your moments and days.
I welcome You in total adoration
with all my vitality
in my recollection, in my contemplation
and in every instant of my ideation.
Your rhythmic dance enchants, Your bliss overwhelms.
With what hypnotic spell You joy-intoxicate the world?
You are the pride of all
You are the quintessence of all
With Your vibrant touch all burst into ecstatic dance.
318
A colourful dream
a mind-inebriating dream
manifested today in beauteous form.
In countless ways, in countless minds
all bondages, dancing,
vanish into void.
I love You Lord, and You alone.
In a secret recess of my mind
I listen spell-bound for Your sweet flute-sound.
Melodies float magically in from far horizons
from the deep serenity of distant skies.
I look to You Lord, and You alone.
Through thunderous squalls
in dark turbulent nights
I crave for Your grace.
Days and nights come and go with Your radiant light.
In a colourful dream, mind-inebriating dream,
You manifested today in beauteous form.
319
Which friend of mine
beckons me from the distant void,
saying,
why are You standing so far?
Come, come
come into my courtyard.
I have woven for You a garland of stars
in numerous colours and forms
through endless enchantments and games.
Just open Your eyes and survey!
Why stay confined in closed-doored rooms
and suffer ceaseless agony and pain?
He beckons me ingeniously.
I listen for His song
and wonder
in how many ways, my friend,
conveys His melodious call to me?
320
Harvesting the garden of paradise
I come, with floral nectar and sandal paste.
Smeared with the pollen of parijata blooms
I pour out the nectar of my life.
The fragrance of jasmine floats in
from the distant sky, on a humid breeze
and the lotus of my mind blossoms
full of vivacity.
I sit amidst this rejoicing world
and secretly weave a garland for You.
Black bees assembled in tomalo trees
in brightness and shade
await, to extend to You a royal welcome
with sandal and chua paste.
Here I sit
amidst this rejoicing world
composing songs of devotion to You.
321
You have lost Yourself in the multitudes
and I cannot find You.
I search for You from dawn till dusk.
Show me Your grace and make me look up to You.
Tell me how can I call You effectively.
I will not remain mute,
I shall certainly find You out.
Out of my genuine love for You
I am rushing headlong towards You,
shattering the walls of all obstacles in my path.
I shall certainly find You.
321
You have lost Yourself in the multitudes
and I cannot find You
though I search from dawn till dusk.
Grace me, gaze into my face,
tell me how shall I call You
for I cannot remain mute,
I must surely find You out.
Intense love drives me towards You,
smashing tall walls of obstacles on my path.
I shall surely find You out.
322
On a rain-drenched night You came
and intoxicated me with the fragrance of pandanas.
You came in the deep dark night
to pour forth nectar-like effulgence.
In the thunderous roar
of the stormy night
while the bamboo crashed against each other
with deafening claps,
You savoured the blossoms of kadamba flowers.
Rain clouds floated on tears of deep melancholy.
Smiling girls danced and amused themselves indoors
by tying up their hair and decorating
it with jasmine and malati flowers.
The fragrance of Your pandanas
remains ever-fresh in my heart.
322
On a rain-drenched night,
beloved, come,
intoxicate me with pandanas perfume.
From the depths of darkest night
pour forth nectarial effulgence.
Savour kadamba blossoms
in thunderous roar,
while bamboo groves
in the stormy night
fight with deafening blows.
Rain clouds shed tears
of deep melancholy.
Girls, smiling
dance
and amuse themselves indoors,
tying up their hair
with sprays of jasmine and malati.
Your perfume of pandanas
remains fragrant still
within my heart.
323
I love You from the core of my heart.
I love You with my whole being,
both within and without.
Entranced by Your winsome smile
and the sweet melody of Your flute,
my mind drifts away.
How did You enchant me so?
How can I not succumb to Your loving bonds,
as delicately engaging as flowers.
323
I love You
from my heart's core deep
with the whole of my being
from without and within
I am enchanted by You.
I am entranced by You
Your flute sound sweet
Your smiling countenance complete
I am enamoured of You.
What magic did You weave
my mind to secretly steal
I cannot but reel
inebriated
in Your floral bonds of love.
324
Because of Your graceful form,
our beautiful earth basks in her splendour.
That's why I see You in everything.
You exist in all expressions,
so nothing in the universe can be lost from You.
I also move in You.
You appear in thoughts and recollections
of all living beings,
and all entities exist within Your mind.
Not even for a moment can I imagine
that anything exists outside You.
324
As You are the embodiment of beauty, grace and charm,
so this earth of ours has assumed her miraculous form.
I perceive You in her all,
in her every existence and flow.
As she moves in You,
so I also move.
In You, nothing can we lose.
You pervade the thoughts of all who are hers,
who are born within Your mind.
Not for a fraction of an instant
can I imagine
that anything exists outside You.
325
You have secured Your safe haven in the minds of all.
None exists save You.
You, the warm illumination of all light,
enlighten our little lamps with Your brilliance.
Our lamps burn with Your very light,
yet our foreheads become stained with sticky soot.
You exist so everyone exists.
You remain in the midst of all.
Our love, affection, kindness,
compassion, learning and intellect,
all result from Your sweet grace,
and under Your benevolent guidance
we will develop them all.
Come gently and take shelter
in the deepest cavity of my mind.
I want to keep You close to my heart.
325
You ensconce Yourself within our minds
You illuminate our lamps with Your brilliant light
Your light ignites our lives,
yet the flames' dark stains still shadow our minds.
Our love and compassion
our kindness and affection
our intellect and erudition
by Your sweet benediction
enlighten our lives.
Come take Your shelter
in the deepest cavern of my mind
and remain always near to me.
326
You, the eternal, ever-pure object of supreme adoration,
have created a tremendous wave the the ocean of effulgence.
You fill the earth with exquisite colours and forms,
and make her vibrant with life.
You have awakened the universe with Your divine touch.
It is full of Your refreshing vigour,
intoxicated with Your joy
and radiant with Your brilliant light.
You are one, yet You have enlivened the world
with Your countless forms.
You have created the vast skies
where millions of stars scintillate their multi-coloured lights.
To those in the depths of dark despair
You appear as the pole star.
You are one, but in Your myriad forms
You have come to bathe each entity
in the eternal waters of liberation.
326
You the eternal, the ever-pure,
the Lord of Supreme Adoration,
bring forth a tumultuous wave in the ocean of effulgence.
You decorate the earth in exquisite array
and make her vibrant with life.
Awakened with Your touch divine
the universe dynamic, joy-intoxicated,
with Your hundred forms enlivened,
radiates Your light.
In azure heavens You scintillate myriad colourful stars
and You appear to the despondent
as the brilliant polestar of their lives.
You, the One,
into a hundred forms divide
to bathe us in eternal seas
and liberate our minds.
327
Ever tranquil, ever blissful,
Pure Consciousness personified,
grant my prayer to be at Your lotus feet.
You are the very hope of the despondent;
You are love to an afflicted heart;
You are the final shelter for a shelterless wanderer.
You exist in all realms, from their origin to their end,
and my bountiful life is ever-bouyant
on the unseen currents of Your love.
Your unbounded grace flows
ceaselessly in all directions.
You are the favourite of all, the most adorable.
You are beyond the ken of human intellect and learning.
You are the respository of all finitude
in the midst of which You sprout.
Yet we cannot know You
who are beyond the limitations of finitude.
When I contemplate You I begin to merge in You;
the casket of my mind,
saturated with the sweet pollen of pandanas,
rushes in total abandon towards You.
327
Ever tranquil, ever blissful
Sublime consciousness incarnate.
Grant my heartfelft prayer
to surrender at Thy feet.
Promise of hope to the despondent
sweet succour to the afflicted
final shelter to the shelterless traveller,
You, who reside in all realms
from beginning to end
from birth to death
keep ever-bouyant my life
on Your unseen current of love.
Your grace unbounded
spreads pauselessly
to the ten realms.
You, the most adored
remain beyond the scope of human ken.
How shall we realise the one
who beyond the boundaries of finitude
sprouts from the midst of finitude
yet is the repository of finitude?
As I contemplate You
I begin to merge in You.
The casket of my mind
saturated with sweet pandanas' pollen
rushes in total abandon to You.
328
You, the throbbing heart at the core of epochal changes,
charm all with Your unarming smile
and bring the whole creation to Your feet.
You saturate the world with divine nectar.
Come to me in rhythmic vibrant dance.
Come to me in Your intoxicating mood
with all the grace and charm of the most attractive one.
Your smile infuses sweetness
into all our memories and dreams,
and Your compassionate gaze vitalises all.
328
Throbbing heart of ephocal changes,
charm all with Your unarming smile.
Creation surrenders at Your feet.
Your love fills all
with divine delight.
Come to me in rhythmic vibrant dance.
Your smile infuses nectar
in my memories.
Come to me
in intoxicating mood
with the grace and charm
of the most attractive one.
Your compassionate gaze
vitalizes the world.
329
Why do You beckon me today
with the melody of the distant?
My mind feels restless at home.
I don't understand why it defys all bonds.
The tightly closed petals of my mind flower
blossomed at the quick notes of Your divine song,
and now they drift contentedly along.
In the garden, black bees buzz Your songs,
whispering Your message in my ears.
At the call of Your song,
the sunflowers stand at attention to salute You.
The sephali tree bows repeatedly down
to decorate the path before You
with a collage of her flowers.
Birds are entranced with Your divine tune
which permeates consciousness throughout the cosmos.
329
Why do You beckon me today
with the melody of the distant?
My mind feels restless at home.
Why does it defy all bonds?
The enclustered petals of mind
suddenly unfold
with the vibrant touch of Your celestial song;
content, they drift along.
In the garden
black bees buzz Your melodies,
whispering Your message in my ears.
Enchanted by Your tune
sunflowers turn to salute;
sephali trees bow repeatedly
decorating Your path
with floral mosaic.
Birds are entranced
with Your music divine
which permeates consciousness
throughout universal skies.
330
You have come,
O Lord, mistakenly in my heart,
mesmerising the world
with Your beauty's magic spell.
You have come
to regale the hearts of all
with intoxicating song and dance.
I light a candle at Your altar
and pour forth the nectar of my life.
Your effulgence has illuminated my whole being.
The Yamuna (holy river) of my mind
breaks into flood tide,
and in Your surging waves,
the diverse currents of my ideation
merge into one tumultuous flow.
331
Seated in Your universal abode
I pass my days
in expectation of Your advent.
At Your footfall
light flashes in the darkest night
in Your rememberance --
with Your colours and forms
with Your incense and candles
with the show of Your grace
with Your bonds of love
with Your sweet song accompanying the music of lyres.
Your constantly beaming smile
revives hope and joy in my despondent life
with the fragrance of flowers
blessed with Your holy touch
my life is filled with exuberant delight.
With joYous intoxication, eloquent discussion,
with rhythmic dance and over-flowing heart-felt joy,
my mind drifts along on a flow of nectar.
332
The garland was woven for You.
Why did You wound me by refusing to wear it?
The eastern horizon is ablaze with crimson rays.
The breeze captured the spirit of colour and love
and my love I wove into a garland in my heart --
a garland drenched with tears.
Now the petals have dropped, one by one, gently down.
You didn't come.
You didn't see me.
You didn't try to understand the deepest yearnings of my heart.
333
My heart craves Your company.
With Your blessed touch
dispell her dirts and dross.
I beseech Your grace.
You are with me always
but I cannot catch hold of You,
I cannot realise You.
Day and night,
in a ceaseless current of melody,
You are mingled
in every particle of my mind.
In the smile of the moon,
in the early dawn,
in the haze of dusk,
in the lightning's flash,
in radiant sun,
in cimmerian dark,
You surround me
inside and out;
with my being
You are inextricably entwined.
I am ever awake,
awaiting Your advent.
334
If I take again a human birth
I shall work and work for You.
I shall devote myself
to Your service,
O Lord of my heart.
At creation's dawn
I was born in You
and now let my life
merge again in You.
On earth's dust
Your footprints guide me
towards my goal.
Through life's crests and troughs
I move towards You.
I cannot forget You,
O Lord
beyond all comprehension.
335
To which unknown world
are You bound, my friend,
drifting upstream with the flowtide,
in the breeze boat of (my) mind?
You have cut Yourself adrift
from the moorings of the shore
and, with a tempest's speed
rush towards mid-sea.
What melody intoxicates You,
tell me, please.
Extinguishing the candle's light
came the tempestuous night,
making You drunk with its song,
carrying You far from the shore.
To which unknown world
are You bound, my friend,
in the breeze boat of my mind?
336
With the melody of Your laughter
and the mystic music of Your flute
You inundate the world.
Wherever I gaze, be it near, be it far
I see nothing but You.
Whatever I think, in the present, in the past
is enmeshed in You.
A sweet smattering of Your sandle-paste fragrance
pervades the garden of paradise.
In this temple of forms
throughout days and nights
You play Your eternal sound
adoring the Formless Divine.
Dispelling darkness
You pierce the secret cavern of my mind
and shatter the tethers of its bondages.
337
I shall never forswear enlightenment's road
I shall strive to make one, mind, body and soul
I shall never be swayed by vice nor by sin.
I shall walk the straight path
Speak the plain truth
Think honest and noble thoughts.
At no place, in no time, this self shall I exalt.
To the earth I have come for Your work, my Lord,
Your gospels are the very breath of my life.
In my sleep, in my dreams, with my wakeful sight
I shall contemplate nothing but You.
338
You decorate all with colourful apparel
You bedeck them in garments of Your choice
You tinge red Your crimson thought on our mental plates
and spread blue in distant sky.
The fresh green of the creepers and trees is Yours
and the beauty of our verdant minds.
You infuse sweetness into the human heart
its affection, its love, its great sacrifice.
By the deftness of Your masterful stroke
You exalt us to the status of Gods.
339
I wonder why in the sombre night
my restless mind
yearns for one.
In the silent night
my life-breath pines
repeatedly
for that unknown entity.
I move heaven and earth
in my search for You.
O where have You hidden Yourself?
I probe the seven spheres.
My sorrowful mind, entrenched in its fears,
strives only to realise You.
340
"I have lived my life in vain
Neglecting to worship the Adorable Lord.
Now I shall lose Him
the All-virtuous, life's rarest gem.
How unfortunate I am
to have not consumed
even a drop
of that ocean of love."
O shame! I have lived my life in vain,
I neglected to serve my Beloved Lord.
He came within my grasp
and yet
I could not attain Him,
I could not contain Him
within my fickle heart's breath.
Cruel fate has meted me out this pitiful lot.
Within my grasp He came
and yet
that Supreme Treasure
I could not attain,
I could not devote myself to Him.
Today I will start anew.
Today I will pledge a vow
to honour Him.
Today I will dedicate my all
to follow Him
to serve Him
to know Him.
341
Tell me Lord,
O merciful Lord,
who endowed You with this name?
Tell my why did You create
the flower stalks with thorns?
Why streams must wend their way
over bumpy pebble stones?
Why fragrant lillies and loti bloom
from turbid, dirty pools?
Why the happy earth, home of all life,
in silent space
rotates alone?
Why the starlit sky
which scintillates
with the light of a billion lamps
must extinguish into oblivion
when the full moon sings her tune?
Why children, fresh as floral blooms,
must cry so loud and long?
Why moonbeams peep
like frightened (captive) sheep
through slits in ominous clouds?
Why the peaceful sky with its gentle breeze
can suddenly transform,
spitting streams of hard and painful hail
with the raucous laughter of a storm?
342
I move forward with Your holy name
ignoring fear
with determined gait
and heart so proud and strong.
From the mountains height
to the sea's dark depths,
none can obstruct
my predestined (forward) march.
With unshakeable zeal and confidence firm
I shall accomplish the task
for which I was born.
I shall never lament
for the days which have gone
and I challenge with exaltant heart
the days which are yet to come.
343
The effulgent and the dark
around You prance
retreat and advance
in Your universal dance.
Enraptured we remain
by Your inscrutable games
without caring to attain
the Causal Supreme
behind these innumerable names.
In the successive waves
of Your joys and fears
our lives are drowned
in a flood of tears.
Come in our hearts,
come, take Your seat,
with our actions be pleased,
enlighten our beings,
don't flee away again.
344
I wish to keep for You, O Lord
a special seat
in a secret recess of my mind,
in my heart, a cavern deep.
But alas,
such a secluded shelter I cannot find
in all my mind,
O Lord,
in all my measureless mind.
If You, O Lord,
would come and stay
through my nights and days
through my dreams and pains,
if You, O Lord, would agree,
please look for any corner of my being
and be seated there.
Then, if my love prove true,
the garden of my mind will surely bloom,
and with those delicate petals
shall I decorate
a special seat for You.
345
Do You realize
how much pain I feel for You?
You never keep account
of the pining of my heart.
In this created world
You keep Yourself engaged
with this important task and that
and never blink a bat
at the wailings of us lowly folk.
From the forests of my mind
shall I glean the choisests blooms
and weave a garland so superb
for You,
and I shall see
if You then will acquiese
to accept my humble gift or not.
Your melodies shall I sing
with the deepest feelings of my heart
and I shall dance, a joYous dance
around You, Lord,
and will You then
just steal a glance
at me, Your devotee?
You do not understand, my Lord,
the pain I deeply feel.
You really do not care to even know
my sorrow.
346
Why, Lord, did You choose to come so late?
Ages have passed
and I waited expectantly
for Your advent.
If You really love,
why these aimless pranks.
I wanted You, Lord
from my heart's deep core,
at Your lotus feet
for shelter to take,
and so I waited expectantly
I dared not miss a single beat.
Between dreams and despair
You always kept me suspended (tossed)
in anxious anticipation,
until ultimately You chose to come,
out of Your sweet grace,
out of Your boundless grace.
347
You are the lamp light
in the sombre night.
You are the beacon light
for souls astray.
Without You none exist.
You are the Lord enthroned
in the hearts of all.
No fear, no shame,
no sadness, no pain,
no hesitation,
before You can stand.
You cause empty hearts to overflow
You merge the minds of the meek
into Your infinite flow.
Make my life successful, Lord
With Your sacred name
in Your sweet strains.
348
Some stay awake for You, Lord,
night and day.
Some maintain a steady faith
in the face of fearsome frustrations.
Some sing optimistic songs
to push away their pains.
Some cry torrential tears, O Lord,
for You.
None can forget
Your blissful form
nor the brilliance of Your effulgence.
Some weave garlands of by-gone days.
Some mingle hope and joy and make the earth alive.
Some play hide and seek with You.
Some have hearts full of love.
349
Look towards me Lord
I stay awake
waiting
with garland in hand
for You to honour my home.
I am immersed in Your name,
engaged in Your work,
I have identified my life with Your tune.
I recognize none without You
and I have mingled my hues
into Your diverse shades.
In the spring's colour festivities
I send
my lost mind
to its true abode.
350
Who else can grace me, Lord,
who else can I accept as my own.
All look to Your for Your grace
Today their minds' lyres harmoniously attuned
their repentent penances merged in Your merciful sea
they do not question Your merits or demerits
they love You, only.
And You cannot hate
You cannot discriminate
between the foolish and the brave.
You are the life of all lives
the veritable goal of all hearts.
All attain fulfilment from You alone.
351
I became tired of calling You, Lord
and fell asleep
when suddenly You appeared in dream
and just as suddenly departed again.
I am not amused, Lord
with Your fickle ways.
Now, if You come in dream
or during my waking state
I will tether You secretly
and never allow You
to desert me again.
352
Now I have attained the Ever New
I will never let Him go
I have captured that Supreme Charmer
within my mind
My delight knows no bounds
My heart exalts in joy.
A withered tree in an arid desert
has succumbed
to the brilliant radiance of emeralds.
I have realised He for whom I have longed
My life has borne fruit today.
I am lost in a stream of melody
drowned in ecstatic waves of total surrender
transported beyond the ocean of forms.
I am merged in this Supreme madness.
My mind freed from the cycles of life and death
knows no bounds.
353
Bathed in crimson rays
You came,
hearlding the new day.
To emancipate the earth You came,
forgetting the pain
inflicted by Your own.
You are the jewel of my soul.
Can You ignore Your child?
Can my heart's desire
remain far from home?
Insurmountable obstacles
with perseverence/patience
are overcome.
Sky castles
have become
the treasures of this dusty earth.
Mind's flower
cannot be contained within the mind
It is alive with smiles.
You have come
for the sake of all
to conquer all with Your equanimity.
354
You make me oblivious, Lord,
endlessly entangled
in Your inscrutable games.
Now, I want You alone.
I want to surrender
at Your crimson feet.
Make me thy instrument
engage me in thy work.
Days pass
and my life is lived in vain.
I while away my time
in useless pursuits and sleep.
355
Dear Mother Earth
with soil more pure
than diamonds or jewels,
whom first I saw
upon coming to this world.
My mind is enamoured
with Your exquisite hues.
In a hundred ways
You provide for me,
with simple sustenance
to quench my thirst,
with nectarial fragrance
to exalt my birth.
I shall serve You well
in this, my universal home.
I shall serve till
Your emancipation
will tear asunder all bondage.
356
You do not know
the sorrow
of the fallen leaves.
You do not feel the pain
of my stream of tears.
I regale hearts
with forms of exquisite grace.
I exude sweet fragrance
and intoxicate my guests
with enchanting play.
Do not crush me in Your negligence.
Forsake me not,
like a lonely bloom
bereft of nectar
in the desert of a desolate heart.
357
Your love is merely by word of mouth.
You heed not my earnest yearnings.
I search the deepest recess of my heart
with the teachings I have learnt from You
and yet
You make restless my mind
and in its turbid waters
You gleefully hide.
You arrange this festivity
of colour and form
and engage Yourself therein,
smiling mischievously behind Your sport.
Without a glimmer Your grace, my Lord,
who can glimpse Your mysterious face?
358
You came
with a gentle smile
on the refreshing fragrance
of a southern breeze.
I shall not forget You.
I shall keep Your memory ever alive.
O king of my mind,
I shall worship You in my inner sanctum
and spread out Your nectar
across the earth.
Be in my mind,
intoxicate me, lovingly.
O Lord of the world beyond idea
transport me to those realms.
Keep me ever at Your feet
removing all shame and fear.
359
You do as You please.
We never question Your ways.
You make us laugh,
You make us weep.
We see it all
with two sealed lips
and never say a word.
Why this creation,
we cannot understand.
Why chariots of destruction run,
we cannot comprehend Your ways.
Why dark invades the light,
what cause behind this childish play,
we cannot know.
Why have You mended mute mouths
that they may glibly debate,
why have You crazed us with Your science
and thereby shadowed Your own existence
with our worldly ways.
Don't try to make us blind, O Lord,
don't fool us with Your colourful games
of successive light and shade.
360
On a rain-drenched night
at a lonely site,
my friend deserted me.
What did that lightning flash portend
amidst such heavy rains?
The pearl necklace is gone;
my friend has deserted me.
My heart has been wrung
to its very core.
What consternation!
He has gone.
Thunder flickers on my eyelids;
it is a sign,
but I cannot fathom His design.
Ah, frustration!
He has gone,
devastating my life
and I yearn for His return.
Day and night
my lonley mind pines
for Him.
He has gone
and I yearn for His return.
361
All nature's creatures sleep at night.
Why does shiuli stay awake?
Mother, kindly tell me why.
All other flowers play by day
laughing and dancing in fragrant array
while around them black bees busily buzz
collecting their hidden delights.
I love too the day
as the flowers do
and so I know them well.
I know them all
so very well,
their colours and sweet smells.
The flowers and the puppies, all,
the black bees and the myna birds,
lay down their heads in sweet repose
during the dark of night.
Shiuli alone defys dusk's call
and proudly proclaims her special role,
"Look I am still awake!"
Kindly tell me mother why
shiuli's special ways?
Out of love for whom
she seranades the night
and shuns the light of day?
Listen close, my darling child
why shiuli loves the night.
She feels so shy in the light of day
and hides away her face.
Shiuli's precious petals fall
at the break of every dawn,
when You, my sweetest little one,
from deepest sleep awake.
362
Dawn's crimson rays
illuminate my eternal longing,
and I pour out songs
from the core of my being
for love
of the Ever-blissful One.
The rose-red sky radiates His presence.
The gentle breeze wafts His sweetness
through the expanses of my mind
as I contemplate
the Formless One.
I have surrendered all.
My heart overflows with joy.
Exalted on the strains of His sacred song
my ecstatic mind merges into
the Infinite One.
363
Flowers wither with the winds of time.
Mind gets despondent.
Tell me, Lord, why this kind of dispensation?
Why did You create this world?
Do You believe the afflicted dance
while crying in the scorching heat
of excruciating pain?
Do You think they long to survive while dying a living death?
I cannot comprehend why the multitudes still depend on You.
Is is so difficult for You, Lord,
to remove their sorrows
and fill their hearts with joy?
364
Which song do the birds keep singing today?
What do the black bees wish to convey?
At the peak of the rains torrential downs
the thunder boom its deep-horn sound,
and lightning flashes momentarily thrill, for whom?
Who makes my heart dance with the tunes of His flute?
O beautiful Lord of beauteous forms,
smeared with compassion
and adorned with sweet love,
appear before me today.
365
O formless Lord
for whom do You wait anxiously
in this temple of forms?
You entangle us in illusory love
for that which will not last long.
For these forms must merge
in Your formlessness
through Your grace.
Why did You so sportingly create
this colourful ephemeral world?
Its movement has its place, no doubt,
in Your circular imaginative flow.
Yet why did You choose to delude our minds
who must ultimately merge in You.
Why did You create this temple of forms,
and for whom do You anxiously wait?
366
Inert humanity has awakened today.
Expression has come to its dumb mouth.
Beacons of light enliven it
and cast away dark staticity.
No looking back.
The eastern sky explodes into brilliant light
and births myriad flowers on the beaming earth.
Consciousness dawns in human minds
and the hypnotic spells of lethargy
of apathy, of soul-destroying vacuity,
have vanished out of sight.
367
On a gracious autumn eve You come
with the golden autumn moon,
bearing smiling sweet sephali blooms
and white endless floating clouds.
Laughing billowing waves of hilarious joy
through the groves of fresh "kash" grass.
Swaying vibrant rhythm in the depths of hearts
flashing joy in graceful dance,
You steal away the love from all
with Your most endearing glance.
Your rosy feet are incomparable,
Your gospels bathed in dew.
Your nectarial flow
and fragrant perfumes
bring tidings from celestial realms.
368
Pour out the contents of Your basket
on this auspicious day of get-together.
Sing no more songs of pain
and lay aside
the miseries of by-gone days.
No longer be dismayed
like the timid forest deer.
Pour out Your heart
in intoxicated bha'va*
to the Ever Blissful One.
Sing songs of melodies ever new
and fill Your life with love.
The Thief Divine
steals the nectar of mind
in the silent stillness of night.
(*idea)
369
Tears welled in my eyes
for You, O heartless Lord.
I felt not to take Your name
nor ask Your grace,
but I discovered
that the world and all her life
exist because of You.
All expression starts in Your mind,
all creation moves in You.
So I take Your name,
I ask emancipation from You.
You have made me aware
that You are my nearest one.
So I constantly contemplate Your holy name,
and I yearn to attain only You.
370
An unknown traveller arrives today
from the world of effulgence.
He comes with a new message
for all realms of this dark world.
Let's go to welcome him.
He'll announce the departure of our dark life.
Let us give him word
that we will not lag behind.
We too shall fight
to oust the evil force.
371
My longing remains bathed in ceaseless waves of tears,
longing hidden secretly in the depths of my mind.
My heart is broken, my mouth dumb.
I have cried and cried for You,
mind's dearest jewel
who disappeared one dark dreary night.
I have suffered unutterable pain,
shedding streams of copious tears.
Let me forget You.
Don't reappear, You,
who have forskaen me.
But alas, I cannot forget You.
I think of You again and again.
I try in vain to remove You from my mind.
Why don't You come
to replace the pangs of this loss
with the ecstatic joy of attainment.
371
Bathed in ceaseless waves of tears
remains, my longing,
secret, hidden deep in the caverns of mind.
My heart lies broken,
my mouth, dumb,
though I cry and I cry
for You, the one,
the dearest jewel of my mind
who disappeared
on a dark and dismal night.
I suffer unutterable pain
shedding silent streams of tears.
Let me forget You!
Don't reappear,
You who have forsaken me once.
But,
alas,
I cannot forget You.
I think of You
again and again
though I try in vain
to remove You from my mind.
Why don't You come?
Why don't You please
replace the pangs of this loss
with ecstatic joy
of attainment.
372
O the pain I have suffered for You.
Do You not want to know?
You, rarest jewel of the sea-bed;
You, star of a distant sky.
Your heart comes not within my reach.
Diving deep into the ocean of form,
I will certainly realise You,
jewel-like formless one.
Floating in the limitless reaches of mind,
I will certainly attain You,
O distant star.
You shall one day come within my reach.
The sadhana of my enitre life will be fruitful.
The ocean of beauteous forms is approachable.
My heart's sky is filled with Your existence.
That's why You have willingly deluded my grasp,
You can no longer make me forgetful;
You can delude me no more.
372
O, the pain I have borne!
Don't You want to know,
rarest gem of the sea bed,
star of a distant sky.
I strive to grasp Your heart.
Diving deep into the ocean of form
I shall realise You,
jewel-like formless one.
In the limitless expanse of mind
I shall reach You,
star of a distant sky.
One day
You shall come within my ken/grasp,
the sadhana of my life
shall bear fruit.
I appraoch
the ocean of beauteous forms,
heart's sky alive
with Your presence,
and yet
You elude me still.
O Lord, remove my forgetfulness,
delude me no more!
373
Who are You who came in my life today
causing a sensation?
Your advent is a flash of lightening,
like the radiance of a million jewels.
In my heart You smile
with the brilliance of innumerable hearts.
You fill the earth with the fragrance of flowers
and make me lose my identity in rapturous melody.
In a sweet honied flow of compassion,
You make me forget all sorrows and pains.
My life dances like a flowing fountain.
You intoxicate me with Your indescribable beauty.
You began to love me suddenly
without knowing anything of me.
You dispell the cimmerian darkness with superb force.
Who are You who came into my life
causing a sensation in this universe?
373
In a flash of lightening
like the radiance of a million jewels
You arrived
causing a sensation in my life.
You smile in my heart
the brilliance of innumerable hearts.
You fill the earth
with floral fragrances
consuming my identity
in rapturous melodies.
You overpower my pain
in a stream of compassion sweet.
In a fountain-like dance
my life spins, entranced
with Your indescribable beauty.
You began to love me
suddenly
without knowing anything of me
dispelling cimmerian dark
with superb force.
Who are You
who have arrived
causing a sensation in my life?
374
I don't want anything from You.
I simply want to love You.
Remain always with me and flash(?) a sweet smile at me.
When the southern spring breeze
wafts the fragrance of flowers,
I will sit beside You,
mingling my heart in You.
I will not accept anything,
even if You wish to give me.
I shall merge my life in You.
In the sweet moonlit night,
I will clasp Your hand in mine.
I will walk beside You in exalted awareness.
I do not want anything,
I shall not accept anything.
Remain always with me
dispelling darkness from my life.
374
Flash Your sweet, sweet smile.
Remain with me.
Dearest, I want only to love You.
Nothing more do I want from You.
When spring's southern breeze wafts
floral fragrances
I will sit by Your side
mingling my heart in You.
I will not accept Your gifts;
I shall merge my life in You.
In the sweet moonlit night
I shall clasp Your hand in mine
and walk beside You in exalted awareness.
I want nothing else;
I will accept nothing more.
Remain with me always
dispelling darkness from my life.
375
Colourful clouds beckon to me.
How can I stay in doors?
The peacock of my mind
with its tail outspread
longs to dance in the blue void.
I want to sing the songs of breaking cycles.
I wish to remove the artificial boundaries around me.
My mind rushes to a distant horizon,
the limitless void,
leaving aside the crude boundaries around me.
That supreme entity sends His call
always to me
through the light rifts in colourful clouds.
I cannot ignore that call.
What a great consternation!
375
Colourful clouds beckon me.
How can I stay indoors?
Mind's peacock
tail in full-spread splendour
dances on the shores of the limitless blue sea.
Singing songs of breaking cycles,
I shall traverse all false boundaries,
rushing mind towards the distant void
dissolving crude bonds in infinitude.
The Supreme One calls
through rifts in colourful clouds.
What an obligation!
I cannot ignore Him.
376
A lotus of shining gold has bloomed today on this earth,
spreading its sweet fragrance all around
to regale my heart and mind.
Come unto me, sweet fragrance floating in the breeze.
Come and see, black bees plunder all pollen.
My restless heart cannot be assuaged.
Look all and see how determined is He to love.
My eyes are downcast with their diffident love.
Bring that lotus unto my heart.
All the honey of my life overflows
with the thought of that supreme one.
376
A lotus
of shining gold
blooms forth today
in the garden of this earth.
Sweet pervasive fragrance
regaling my heart
charming my mind
come unto me
in a friendly floating breeze.
See
the black bees
steal her nectar!
O restless heart
which cannot be assuaged,
see
how determined is he
to love.
With eyes
diffident
downcast
I cry for You
lotus of my heart.
With Your thought
Supreme
the honey of my life
overflows.
377
You came today, O Lord of my mind.
You came today to churn my inner most being
and bind tight my heart.
All beauty is Your beauty.
All radiate Your effulgence.
You illuminated the ideative world of the living.
You poured sweetness into creation
which incarnated as Your forms.
Before You, neither was there bha'va
nor an entity beyond the world of idea.
The three worlds revolved not in the flow of creation.
There was neither existence nor non-existence.
There was neither microcosm nor even this vast cosmos.
There was neither day nor night.
There was only You ever there,
immeasurable, self-created.
377
You came today
Lord of mind
to churn my inner most being
and bind tight my heart.
All beauty is Your beauty,
all radiate Your light.
You illuminate
the living ideative world
and incarnate sweetness
into creative delight.
Before You
there was neither entity
nor idea.
The three worlds revolved not
in existence
nor non-existence.
There was neither microcosm
nor vast macrocosm,
there was neither day nor night.
There was only You alone
immeasurable
self-created.
378
Lives have past in expectation of Your advent,
yet none of my hopes have been realised.
None have come whom I longed for.
They have thronged in my mind
whom I never called.
All love, appearances and passings have drifted
on causing a rift between the present and the past.
While walking in the flower garden,
thorns pricked my feet.
In the whirl wind,
I savoured/sensed a sweet southern breeze.
My hopes are illusive mirages.
Only Your two rosy feet remain
as the last refuge
of my despondent heart.
378
Lives have passed
in expectation of Your advent,
yet my hopes remain
unrealised.
None have come
whom I longed for.
They have thronged in my mind
whom I never called.
All my love,
all my comings and goings
have drifted on
causing a rift
between the present and the past.
While walking in the flower garden
thorns pricked my feet.
In a whirlwind
I savour
a sweet southern breeze.
My hopes are illusive mirages.
Only Your crimson feet remain,
the last refuge
of my despondent heart.
379
You came not in the early partof my life.
I cannot blame You for that.
I did not search for You
and so my repentent heart burns.
You were so close yet I called You not.
My days and nights have passed in vain.
The more I recall in the twilight of my life,
the more pain I feel.
All come to this earth for a limited time to work,
and yet, we waste our time is useless pursuits.
No use to blame the Lord for this.
379
You came not
in my early life,
yet, You are not to blame.
I did not seek You;
my repentent heart burns.
You were so close
yet I called You not.
My days and nights have passed in vain.
The more I recall
in the twilight of my life,
the more I feel pain.
All come to the earth
for an alotted time
to complete a work,
and yet,
we waste our time
in useless pursuits.
We cannot blame the Lord
for this.
380
Golden lotus, I want You to remain
entrenched in my heart
and make everything glitter.
Don't remain far from me.
Stay in my heart in rhythm and melody.
Sweet lotus, exude proudly Your sweet fragrance,
manifest Yourself more.
I feel I have known You,
but I am not sure of it.
You are so close, yet You elude me.
It seems I have attained You,
yet I am not sure of it.
You are so sportive,
You, so very pure, so immaculate.
You are like the golden lotus of my mind.
380
Golden lotus
remain ever a flower in my heart,
illuminate my world.
Do not depart,
stay in rhythmic melody,
stay in my heart.
Sweet lotus
exude proudly Your fragrance,
manifest Yourself more.
I feel I know You,
but I am not sure.
You are so close,
yet elude me still.
Perhaps I have attained You,
but I am not sure.
You are so sportive,
so immaculate, so pure.
You are the golden lotus
of my mind.
381
You have come without notice.
Come closer still and sit by me.
I beseech You to play Your flute
in dance and rhythm.
I have listened for Your foot fall,
I have waited anxiously night and day
since immemorial time.
At last You have come in spring
with Your gentle smile
dispelling all my afflictions.
The breeze blows a sweet, silent whisper.
My heart is intoxicated in vibrant contemplation.
You have come today
O Lord of the universe.
Your blissful touch
has made the world resound anew.
381
You have come without notice.
Come closer still and sit by me.
Play Your flute,
I beseech You,
in dance and rhythmic melodies.
I have listened for Your footfall
I have waited anxiously day and night
since immemorial time.
At last You have come, in spring
Your gentle smile dispelling my afflictions.
A sweet breeze whispers silently.
In contemplation
my vibrant heart is entranced.
You have come today
Lord of the universe
Your blissful touch
vibrates the world anew.
382
Come O Lord, come O distant friend, come near.
The lotus of my mind is in full bloom
filled with pollen waiting for You.
I have kept my stainless lotus in turbid streams.
It is waiting for Your rosy feet.
My lotus, full of fragrance, is meant for You alone.
Come, O friend of the distance, come closer to me.
I have kept my white sparkling lotus amidst chilly winds,
radiant with the beauteous rays of the sun.
My lotus filled with nectar awaits You.
382
Come lord,
come distant friend,
come near.
The full bloom lotus of my mind
rich in fragrant pollen
awaits You.
Stainless bloom of turbid streams
awaits Your crimson feet.
She awaits You alone.
Come distant friend
come closer to me.
My sparkling white lotus
amidst chilly winds
radiates the sun's brilliant rays.
Full of nectar sweet
she awaits You.
383
Today all realised the real You.
The providential games,
the divine sports of this universe
are nothing but You.
You are the nave of the cosmic cycle.
You are the holy sound full of rhythm.
You are the supreme object of love.
You are the friend of all at all times.
You hide Yourself in everything,
You remain ever prepared
to be attained by all.
You remain hidden
in the secret corners of every mind.
You are full of incomparable,
unparalleled sweetness,
with Your brilliant radiance
and spell of beauteous forms.
You are always ready to exchange hearts.
383
Today all have realised You,
the universal player of providential games,
nave of the cosmic cycle,
divine rhythmic song,
supreme object of love.
You, eternal friend,
hide in everything
awaiting to be attained.
You hide in the secret depths of mind
brilliant, incomparable,
enchanting spell of beauteous forms.
You are ever ready to exchange hearts.
384
Amidst attainments days pass away in fruitless action.
Sometimes I attain something, sometimes I don't.
Sometimes I feel happy and sometimes sad.
Black bees buzz around the flowers
in expectant anticipation.
You are the dearest of all.
You remain in the inner most heart hidden,
unknown to all.
We fail to seek You within,
but look for You outside,
just like the musk deer search for their own fragrance.
We blindly move around those
who won't stay here long,
expecting something permanent.
Destroy my illusion.
Take me closer to You.
Draw me to You and keep me close.
384
Amidst moments of attainment
time is whiled away in fruitless activity.
I attain; I fail to attain.
I am happy; I am sad.
Around the flowers
black bees buzz
in expectant anticipation.
You, the dearest of all
remain hidden in the inner most heart,
unknown.
We search for You madly
like a musk deer
externally seeking its own fragrance.
We fail to look/seek within.
We blindly hold on
to those who won't stay long
hungry for the permanent.
Destroy my illusion!
Draw me closer to You.
Keep me forever by Your side.
385
Everything in this universe is bathed in Your light,
in Your compassionate love
and resounds with Your melody.
Everything is tinged with Your colour
and vibrates with Your divine melodies of soft mystic songs.
You remain beyond our ken,
on the far side of a dark curtain.
Yet Your sweet nectarlike effulgence
radiates in waves, inundating us.
What is this unique sport of Yours?
Things are painted with light and shade,
yet, from far beyond Your veil of seclusion and silence,
Your resonant melody rings out to us, again and again.
The wheels of Your chariot move with that melody,
regaling the hearts
and intoxicating the minds of all.
385
The universe is enveloped in Your light
bathed in Your compassionate love
resounds with Your melody.
All are tinged with Your colour
and vibrate with the rhythmic sweetness
of Your divine mystic songs.
You remain beyond our ken,
on the far side of a dark curtain
radiating nectar-like effulgence,
in intoxicating waves.
What is this unique sport of Yours?
The world is painted in light and shade
yet, from far beyond Your silent veil,
Your melodies ring out
again and again.
The wheels of Your chariot
move in time
intoxicating the minds of all.
386
After so long my friend has come
illuminating this dark room.
He has come in eloquent joy-intoxicating dance
and sweet exuberant delight
to win the hearts of all.
The beauteous forms of the formless Lord
overflow all limitations of forms.
I can't understand His play,
how just His very name
brings waves of nectarial bliss to this earth.
Human hearts overflow in joy.
He is the sole repository of universal life.
My friend regales all hearts.
The Lord of music comes to vibrate all
with lively melody and rhythm.
386
After long my friend has come
illuminating this dark room.
He comes in eloquence
in joy-intoxciating dance
in exuberant delight
to win the hearts of all.
The beauteous waves
of the formless Lord
break through the boundaries of form.
I cannot comprehend His play;
His very name brings bliss to this earth.
My friend, the repository of universal life
regales all hearts
which overflow with joy.
The Lord of melody
inundates the world
with His vital rhythm.
387
Lord, will You never come within our easy reach?
How long shall we yearn for You?
Is there no end to our anxious expectation of Your advent?
Buffeted by waves of illusion and delusion,
we have lost all the sweet fragrant pollen of mind.
We lie strewn like fallen flowers.
We know not what the future holds.
We have wasted our time running after mirages.
We have pursued the ephemeral.
Catch hold of my hand and turn me around.
Don't allow me to be misguided by the spell of delusion.
387
Lord, will You ever come within our easy reach?
How long shall we yearn for You?
Will our anxious expectation know no end?
Buffeted by spells of illusion and delusion
we have lost the sweet fragrant pollen of mind.
We lie strewn like fallen flowers.
We know not what the future holds.
We have wasted our time running after mirages.
We have pursued the ephemeral.
Catch hold of my head/(hand?) and turn me round.
Don't allow me to succumb to delusion.
388
In a flood of light
the river descends,
playing its eternal game
of building and unbuilding,
flowing endlessly on.
It moves forever forward,
babbling on.
It stops not at any obstacle;
it heeds not day or night.
Its movement is dance,
its language incessant song.
Mingling into the surging waves
of universal life,
it becomes a vast ocean.
388
In a flood of light
the river flows on
playing its eternal game
creating and destroying
endlessly.
It moves ever ahead
babbling on, babbling on.
stopping not at any block
heeding neither night nor day.
Its movement is dance;
its language incessant song.
Merging with the surging waves
of universal life,
it becomes an ocean.
389
In a flower garden a black bee buzzes,
whispering something.
She desires only the flowers' nectar,
shunning all else.
She sucks nectar to its lees,
that treasure secluded with utmost care, secretly,
in the inner most recesses of floral buds.
She has exposed herself,
thief of the pollen's sweet fragrance,
fragrance which has vanished
along with its rich nectarial source.
She has coated herself in thick fragrant pollen
and, thus adorned, announces the news to all.
389
In a garden
a black bee buzzes
whispering.
She seeks only nectarial delight
shunning all other joy.
The flower's secret store
hidden with utmost care
in the inner most recess of its heart,
she enjoys to the lees.
She exposes herself,
thief of floral perfumes.
The fragrance has vanished
with the flower's nectarial heart
and the black bee
adorned with thick fragrant pollen
proudly announces the news to all.
390
Lord, just a touch of Your grace
will be enough
to dispell the dust of my mind.
Graciously You shower upon the earth
the radiance of Your exquisitely beauteous forms.
Water currents swell upstream
in joy-intoxicated resonance.
The Lord of mind removes all its dirt and dross.
Graciously You flood the earth with nectarial streams.
The flow of creation, lost in itself,
will accept the unknown
as the sole desideratum life.
Lord of mind,
remove the last vestige of my impurity.
390
Lord, just a touch of Your grace
will be enough
to dispell the dust of my mind.
You grace cascades
the radiance of beauteous forms
upon earth.
In resounding joy
her waters overflow
and the Lord of mind
removes its dross and dirt.
You grace her with nectarial streams.
Creation, lost in itself,
accepts the unknown goal.
The Lord of mind
removes
my last vestige of impurity.
391
Tears have drenched the garland woven for You.
The sun has set.
Evening has descended.
Words unexpressed retreat into mental oblivion.
He promised to come, but He has gone.
Ages have passed, but my friend has not returned.
Drowsiness has overtaken me.
Night has descended.
Is it that He doesn't understand my sorrows and pain.
Those who come, come to leave again.
Those who go, go with the promise to return.
My friend is hidden everywhere,
in all ages and in all lands.
In all words He hears everything.
391
Tear-drenched
His unworn garland lies.
The sun retires
and the world is enveloped by night.
Words unuttered
retreat into mental oblivion.
He promised to come
but ages have passed
and my friend has not returned.
Drowsiness overtakes me
with encroaching night.
Perhaps He feels not
my painful plight.
He who comes,
comes to leave again.
He who departs,
parts with the promise to return.
My friend is hidden
in all ages, in all lands.
In all sounds He hears
all cries.
392
Mind's peacock spreads out its wings,
upon seeing black clouds afloat beside the moon.
The chords of my life
resound in exuberant delight.
My stolen heart has been returned.
Lost melodies have beem revived.
Mind intoxicating,
heart regaling, joYous vibrations
rend assunder the blue sky.
In lost melodies the body and mind dance;
with the return of lost ideas,
the heart overflows.
The basket of my life is overturned.
A sweet breeze wafts,
carrying the fragrance of flowers.
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The peacock of mind
spreads wide its wings
upon seeing black clouds
afloat by the moon.
In delight
the chords of my life
resound.
My stolen heart
returns.
Lost melodies
are revived.
Currents of joy
vibrate
the blue sky,
intoxicating mind.
In lost melodies renewed
body and spirit dance.
With lost ideas returned
the heart overflows.
The basket of my life
is overturned.
A sweet breeze wafts/transports
fresh floral perfumes.
393
You are as tender as a lotus flower
and as severe as a thunder bolt.
I have understood this supreme truth.
You are fragrant with
sandle paste of the Malaya mountain.
You are more attractive than the garden of paradise.
I have beheld this beautiful sight.
Reflected in the dark water of evening,
golden light shimmers.
Reflected in our minds,
in hearts laden with agony and pain,
Your stream of nectar dances.
When You are refelcted in meditation,
all the three worlds dance in rhythm
intoxicated with Your melody.
I have realised this truth.
No thought is equal to the thought of You.
You are Supreme,
above all else in beauty and majesty.
I have accepted this Supreme Truth.
393
Tender as a lotus flower
severe as roaring thunder,
this Supreme Truth
I have realised.
Fragrant as the sandal paste
of Malayan mountain heights
more glorious than the garden of paradise,
this beauteous sight
I have beheld.
Reflected in the evening's dark streams
a shimmering golden light.
Reflected in our minds
in hearts heavy with sorrow and pain
Your current of nectarial delight.
In the depths of meditation
Your reflection excites
the three worlds to dance
in melodious trance.
I lived this truth.
No thought is equal
to the thought of You.
You are Supreme,
unparalelled in beauty and majesty.
I surrender to Your truth.
394
With the southern breeze,
with the fragrance of flowers,
who is the entity who smiles in my mind?
In floral pollen, with love and attachment,
it is His image which flashes in all actions.
O Lord do not forget to come in my abode.
Come and stay always in my living memory.
Let there be honey in the flower bud of my mind.
With that floral nectar I will please You.
Don't forget Your divine songs O Lord.
You songs are like thunderbolts
in storms and tempests.
Let there be,
fragrant pollen always
ever-new in the flower's heart.
394
With the southern breeze
with the fragrance of flowers
who is the entity
who smiles in my mind?
In floral pollen
with love and attachment
His image emerges
in every action.
O Lord
do not forget
to come to my abode.
Come, stay always with me
remain ever vibrant in my memory.
Let ambrosia overflow
in the flower bud of mind.
With that delectible wine
shall I give You joy.
Sing ever, Lord, Your songs divine
like thunder resounding
in tempests wild.
Let Your sweet nectar
eternally renew
in every flower heart.
395
On the Blue Sea a golden lotus bloomed.
No one knew.
Its scarlet petals remained untouched.
Full of vivacity,
its vital golden pollen
exuded delectible floral nectar.
And yet, no black bees approached
to hover lightly
and savour her bounty.
A colourful fairy from the land of clouds
was enamoured of the beauty of the lotus.
Clutching the golden lotus to her heart
away she flew.
Nobody knew, no one paid heed to it.
395
On the Blue Sea
a golden lotus bloomed.
Her scarlet petals
unbeknown
to any soul.
In the splendour of full life
her vital golden pollen
exuded delectible perfume
and yet,
the black bees alighted not
to savour her bounty.
A colourful fairy
from the land of clouds
fell in love with that golden bloom
and clutching the lotus to her heart
away she flew.
No one knew.
396
The colourful fairy flys far to an unknown land.
Clutching the golden lotus to her breast,
she flys high into the blue sky
to a far off land.
The atmosphere becomes lighter.
The realm of clouds fades away.
The fairy flys, ever increasing speed.
She crosses the boundaries of fairy land.
The stars glitter more brightly here,
and the moon is smiles more than before.
The fairy will dedicate this flower to her God.
396
Far, far away
she flew
to an unknown home
holding the golden lotus bloom
tightly to her breast.