Translations only

601-700

601

O Lord, please look at me,
and forget my mistake.

I have picked up flowers in offering to You.
I cannot reach You in my meditation.
I continue wandering about in hell.

I am unable to do Your work.
My days pass by wastefully.
I live in thorny shrubs,
sketching colourful pictures in hope.

Yet I stilI call You -
companion of my last days.








602

Loving You, I march forward,
treading Your path.
In whichever direction I look,
no one do I find
that would equal You.

Remembering You in my mind,
with my hands, I keep on working.

In the begining of my life's morning,
Your crimson effulgence conquered my mind.
Daylong and pauselessly,
the rhythm of my life has since
oscillated in Your swing.

Meditating on You and singing Your name,
I have been facing all obstacles,
and attained my cherished one.
Your expression and consciouness,
gave me strength of sa'dhana'.

O companion from time immemorial!
O sympathiser in distress!
Invoking You,
ignoring day and night,
I keep on singing Your name.








603

O Lord, what illusive divine game (liila') of Yours
entered my mind,
oscillating the vessel of my life?

With heartfelt love, You generated melodies.
O Guest, what garland did You bring about?
The song of darkness became filled by Your melody,
the tune of pessimism got lost in the desert.

Today, wearing a colourful dress
in heart and mind, move forward.

Seriousness will not hold,
with tears only I express my salutation.
On a dark night, on a desert path,
the instrument of my heart
became filled with light.






604

The sky and air were filled
with the silent heaven's pain.

With a flute in hand
You stood.

In an atmosphere
of sweet floral fragrance and dewdrops,
You lingered on with red coloured lips.

Vibrating the seven spheres,
You spoke a message of affection.
A song whose tune overflowed with impluse,
reverberated in a sweet breeze.

Your eyes were nectar-smeared.
A heavenly sound rushed out
and fell in surrender unto Your feet.

All those whose voice was lost
gathered together
to express themselves through suggestion.

You were in the softness
that is covered with hardness.






605

O Lord, come!
Come holding the torch of hope!
Resonate with sound,
and fill my heart with nectar!

Come in ever-new love,
and vibrate with fragrance!
Come into the firmament of my heart,
with pollen sweetness-smeared!

The agony of a lost heart,
in events untold,
becomes encompassed by Your love.

Your limitless love,
in songs threaded with melody,
removes all pain and guilt.







606

O Lord, I attained You on a dark lunar fortnight,
while merging with each star.

By submerging into minds,
I have loved and understood pain.

You were the star of the sky
but became the star of eyes
when intution lost itself in You.

All lost hopes
reappeared a hundred times
in my heart.

Filled with Your ideation,
holding Your tune,
I remain intoxicated in Your sweet flow.

O companion from time immemorial,
come in a new form,
with the lamp of life
and the incense of love!

What did You give
to conquer each particle of my being,
pouring into it
the sweetness of heart?







607

O companion!
By applying the ainjan (collyrium) of ideation
on my eyes,
all wonts and lonelyness were removed.

I travelled alone,
crying in dark nights,
wandering to and fro
from path to path.

I could not imagine
that along with me
the untiring wheel
of Your cart was also moving.

With Your own hand
You applied ainjan (collyrium)
and poured love into my heart.

You showed the path
in unending darkness
and bestowed upon me
a touch of love.







608

O dear Lord!
Come into my heart,
come into each molecule of my body!
Absorb my mind
into the sweetness of unison!

How many nights have passed by
in crying, in waiting, in sitting on the balcony,
in looking onto the path You would arrive on!

The secret events of my mind in day and nighttime
were coloured with the love of the sun's red rays.

Throughout ages,
hundreds of times,
have I been requesting You
to continuously kindle the lamp of love
in my heart.

Without shaking in danger
nor forgetting You in happiness,
I continued swinging
in Your melody and rhythm.






609

O Lord, I know You -
this fact I am unable to utter.

Although You are aquainted,
You are unknown.
You play the viin'a' to unknown melodies.

When the lotus blooms in the water of the pond,
when moonlight spreads on particles of dust,
and sleep becomes interrupted by awakening,
I do not forget that sweetness of Yours.

Although You remain hidden
You are in everything.
Your enchanting flute
resounds from secret places.

In uncountable costumes,
names, forms and rhythms
You are unique.






610

O Lord, You are revered throughout the world!
You remain blissfully felicitated in all minds!

You resonate in the sky and in the air
and vibrate the great cosmic sound!

In Your infinite existence,
nothing ever gets lost nor ceases to exist.

Those who existed in past,
exist even now,
absorbed in the sama'dhi (trance)
of Your concsiousness.

To the musical octave
the solitary flute
forever plays in Your mind.

That which has been existing from time immemorial,
still floats on in the stream of melody.
It moves on in rhythmic style
to the flow of bondage and freedom.






611

O Lord, in the flow of the fountain of light,
You bathed everyone's mind.

With a stir from the heavenly arena,
You enlivened the three worlds.

By eliminating the distinction
between near and far,
between close and distant,
You made everyone Your own.

In a single thread,
You tied both good and bad,
both dark and white,
and indeed, all lives.

By the morning effulgence
and the colour of evenings
You engrossed everyone
in conscious love.

By making one cross
the limitations of place,
time and person,
You aroused the vibration
of murmuring melodies.







612

O Lord! You came with the flood of effulgence!
You came at the end of all noose of slander.

Your sweet, enchanting universal form
shines forth in overwhelming majesty.

There is infinite sweetness within You
expressing itself
through beauty, flow, love and song.

A flow of divine life spreads out,
and fills the world.

Infinite nectar
with irresistible affection
longs to satisfy all hunger.






613

O Lord, I have searched You,
on dark days,
during the dullness of dark nights,
with a heart filled with agony.

I wanted You in the spring season of my mind,
in a fragrant flower garden.
In a touch of sandal breeze,
in nicely resonating love songs.

I have searched You
in the rain of soft clouds
when the mental peacock dances and sings.

Sitting on the brance of niip tree,
it calls the unknown distant
from within the pollen of ketakii flowers.

I wanted You on a fullmoon night,
in shining beauty
and a dreamy environment.






614

O Lord, whoever I encountered
that I could draw close to me
and obtain love from
was sent to me by Your grace.

Only You know,
where those who went away
have gone.

O star of my life from time immemorial!
O Lord! You are never lost.
Those who are present now,
will one day fade away
into the realm of infinity.

This temporal world
consists of coming and going.
Distinctions between small and big
so become irrelevant.

Both the most insignificant
as well as the greatest ones,
are equally bound byYour regulation.
Both the living and nonliving
are to move according to Your wish.






615

Could it be that effulgence descended
onto this dusty earth?

Open your eyes, and,
envigoured with earnestness,
observe!

The trees and creepers
have dressed in colours.
Spiritedness fills their minds.

The dance of colours
produces vibrations in land and water
and engenders sweet nights.
Distressed minds
are now intoxicated with rhythm.

Gardens are full of flowers
and a fragrant breeze is in the air.
The vibrant fountain
flows on with flashes of smiling light.








616

O Lord, after a long time
and much wandering about,
I have today recognised You.

You are the cool shade amidst intense heat -
I never knew this fact.

In stormy nights,
when fire threatens,
You accompany us.

During heavy rains,
floods and lightning,
You bestow blessings
with soft hands
and leave a mark on our heads.

On the path of movement,
I have no other means to adopt
except holding on to Your name.
You are the polestar
in intensely dark nights.

Taking Your name, I lose myself.
You are the soothing balm for all my wounds.
In honour, I salute You
both physically and mentally.







617

O Lord, You are secretly hiding
in the corner of my mind.

You are vaster than vast.
You are moist with the honey of love,
detached from the whole world.

You have removed
all staticity and drowsiness.
O Entity beyond thought,
You have come
within the scope of imagination.

You have blossomed
in the lotus of my mind.
O Great One beyond all feelings!

In white snow,
in foggy mountains,
in the mental garland of gems,
within the jewellery casket,
You exist.

O pure essence of intuition,
stream of nectar,
embodiment of truth,
consciousness and bliss!







618

O Lord!
You came bringing fragrance
into my mental garden,
and through songs,
vibrated the instrument of my heart.

My inner voice was lying supressed
with agonies piled up from ages back.
You removed that pile
and aroused expressions
of new melodies within me.

You came in isolation.
The sweetness of affection
was lying dumb,
conceled in the cave of buds.

You removed that veil,
and unfolded my heart.
You came gradually.







619

I have come,
originating from a world of effulgence
to provide love and hope
to those disappointed.

I am floating in an arena of thought
coloured in love and enchanted in You.

I have aspired for You during darkness,
I attained You during a night of distress.

I visualised You in a trace of melody.
My mind became intoxicated
by Your enchanting adornment
and incomparable rhythm.

I wanted You during storms
and, there and then,
obtained You as gentle breeze.

I listened to the lovely flute,
to a collection of heavenly tunes
that elevated me from inertial drowsiness.







620

O Lord!
You came,
removed the darkness
and dried the ocean of sorrows.

You loved,
smiled into the core of my mind,
and made buds bloom.

Clouds that had assembled
in the northeastern sky,
floated away.

You played the flute,
filled all with joy
and spread out floral fragrance.

The agonies of those neglected and dishounored,
those lying aside,
were all removed.

Overwhelming hearts to the brim
with joy,
You flooded this world.






621

O Lord!
You came,
broke my dullness,
and illuminated the darkness
that lay in my heart.

I did not call You,
yet You came
and extended Your causeless grace.

I was lying aside dishounered,
neglected in a corner.
You awakened and aroused me,
keeping Your hand over mine.
You showered upon me sweet words
that were filled with love.

I was lying on the dirty ground,
my head covered with dust.
There was nobody around
to understand my agony.

In the dark night,
merging heart with heart,
You removed the load of pain
and engrossed me
in a sweet and jingling melody.






622

O Lord, if You want to go away,
I shall not utter a word of complain
nor sit on the path to obstruct You.

A carefully threaded garland
have I laid on the path.
If You go stamping over it,
it will be unbearable for me.

I have heard that You love all,
You know that I am not outside of them.

That love of Yours I want to see
and I will not abandon my aspiration
as long as I am alive.

O Lord, You are the life of all lives!
O controller of the world!
You have also given me life.

I wish to keep You bounded by that life,
and I shall not be misled
by any delusion from anyone.







623

O Lord!
Who are You who came into my eyelids,
which were lethargy-fastened
and surrounded by blind attachments?

You came down into my disappointed heart.
You came with eyes marked with the collyrium of love.
You came with sweetness-absorbed affection.

The lotus that never bloomed in my mind,
providing joy
with fragrance and colour
at any time -
You made it bloom and filled it with honey.

O, unseen controller!
You came down without me calling You!

The tune, full of hope,
that never sounded,
the musical octave that never vibrated -
You made them tinkle sweetly
on the strings of the viin'a'.

By forgiving my mistakes,
You filled the firmament of my heart.






624

O Dear Lord,
You came to my home
without caring
for obtaining a reception
of respect nor dignity.

I had not spread the seat of my heart
and the altar was not decorated with incense and lamps.

I placed a garland of gems onto Your neck
and washed Your feet with tears.
I provided a heart-moistening, lost melody
to the affectionful sound of Your flute.

You came on a silent night,
with floral fragrance and a sweet song.
You came unseen,
and unseen You went away.

Unseen, You left my filled heart.






625

O Lord!
Come into my heart, showering Your grace!
Come with eyes full of affection,
marked with collyrium and filled with love!

In what tune do You sing Your song,
and with what melody and rhythm,
do You awaken sweetness?

If You love me,
then come close,
gently with sweet steps.

I have remained awake for ages,
at all times,
with the sole hope of attaining You.

In the water pond of my heart,
You today bloom as a flower.







626

O lotus bud, tell me, for whom do you remain awake?
Why are you silent in this resonating world,
who are you searching in a corner of your mind?

Numerous golden winter nights,
numerous mornings and evenings
have passed by.

The guest who loves came.

You did not come in anybody's fold,
and did not become self-selective.

In your mind only one name was floating,
I feel you had kept the sweetness
of your mind for Him only.

You were not lost in rainstorms,
nor did you lose your direction in darkness.
You have been thinking about Him day and night.







627

Why is there dilemma down Your feet?
Why seems your sleep full of thorns?
Why is there intoxication in your mind
and why are your eyes filled with tears?

The one whom you love,
has He forgotten you?
Is it because of this,
that flood came rushing down
in overwhelming inundation of all hearts?

A powerful one is sheding tears
like a snake having lost its gem.

You know it happens this way,
it is not love.

You have to become selfless
for the work
of One whom you love.






628

O Lord!
You are the satisfaction of the dissatified.
You are the light of the dusty earth.
You are the effulgence in dense darkness.

You love without cause.
You belong to those who have none.
You are the shelter of those who have no home.
You carry the load and pour love unto
those remaining neglected and dishonoured.

For uncountable ages,
hundreds of times,
I have uninterruptedly loved You.

I know that of my life,
You are the essence.
You kindle the light of consciousness.








629

O Lord, when I had forgotten You,
You personally looked towards me.

When I deviated from Your path,
You brought me back on the track.

The planet,
although far from its nucleus star,
can it ever be dispelled away?
The star constantly pulls it towards itself.
Likewise, You too attract me unto You.

The wave of the ocean moves far away,
but, can it ever leave it?
The ocean calls it always.
In the same way, You too call me again and again.








630

O Lord, thinking about You
my days pass by,
and yet, alas, You do not come!

On shores and paths,
when buying and selling in market places,
innumerable people come and go.
My once full river, dries up.

Where are You?

From unknown arenas,
on an unknown boat
when will You come rowing?

For that arrival
I am waiting
with a fainting heart.






631

O Lord!
Floating in tears,
I have called You throughout the ages.

Yet still, O my pole star!
You did not come into my fold.

How many nights have passed by?
How many stars set down?

How many days became filled with pain?
How many songs lost?

With the hope that whatever You do
is done for our good
I remain awake.

In remembering my faults,
I beg Your pardon.
Shower Your grace upon me!

O remover of agonies!
I love You!

Destroy the darkness
and keep me ever awake!

Manifest Yourself in my mental arena
and reside in the lotus of my heart.









632

O Lord!
Come to my home!
I am waiting seated
with a kindled lamp.

In the dense night,
on a dark path,
why do You remain alone,
although I have kindled my light?

Always looking upwards,
I think about You.
I hear about You in the songs of stars
that are spread out throughout the sky.

You are mine and I am Yours,
this essence I have come to understand.

In the corner of my mind
I have spread a seat for You.
I prepared it with insence,
lamps,
bright marks
and flowers,
that were collected in my mental garden.







633

O irresistible effulgence!
You came, crossing the ocean of darkness.

You are majestic,
calm,
ever active,
difficult to understand
and blazing.

With harsh hands,
You remove sins.
To the auspicious intellect,
You provide shelter.

By Your sweet and affectionate attraction,
consciousness aroused throughout the world.

You are the Supreme Consciousness
of infinite intellect.
You reside awakened in all the ten directions
You observe with uncountable eyes.

To innumerable lives
You provide inspiration.
You cause the decay,
of dark slumber.





634

In the intense summer heat,
creepers trembling with affliction,
my flower dried up.

By a simple touch,
You gift rain
and bring about floods
into dried up streams.
You make fountains immensely overflow.

Listen to me, do not give any more pain!
Do not You know
what pain is resonating in my heart?

How harsh are You!
You are without feelings!
Making me cry,
You smile in great joy.

If You would have had a heart like mine,
You could have understood,
how much agony living beings suffer.

With a request
to bestow Your grace upon me,
please accept my hundreds of salutations
directed all unto Your feet!

O stealer of hearts!







635

O companion in pain and pleasure!
O heavenly nectar!

In my eyelids only, You remain.
My heart has been filled with love and hope.

You snatched away my every expression,
as I poured out my life unto You.
For a sweet illumination
I squeezed my heart.

Into my ears
enter from air and sky,
the numerous events
that You tell about.

Amidst all expressions and consciousnesses,
in each particle of dust,
in the great sky,
in pitch darkness,
in the smiling moonlight,
and even in the vacant heart,
You only exist.






636

O Lord!
You vibrate in the rhythm of dance,
and remain blissfully enshrined in the three worlds.

When life gains harmony,
Your Cosmic expression resonates.

You express Yourself in every arena,
and, at every moment,
fill each with greatest thrill.

In the three worlds,
You are to be compared to none.
Ever-awakened,
You remain active in removing darkness.

You kept my mind churned and charmed,
O entity beyond qualities,
tell me, how did it come about?

Come secretly into the depth of my heart!
Come with most cherished rosy feet!
Come with an unassailed Supreme sound
and balanced footsteps!

Terminate
all shyness,
all desire
and all disappointment.






637

O Lord, who are You,
smiling ever so enchantingly?

You shower effulgence,
fulfill hopes,
and in love, fill everyone with life.

Your smile spreads
into each leaf and flower.

As the earth's dust particles
absorb Your sweetness,
the black colour of darkness vanishes.

Your smile touches
the jewelled room of my mind
and by its touch,
provides softness to life.

With floral softness
You tame the hardness in thunderbolts.
and doing so,
take shape in the firmanent of my heart.






638

In the light of beauty,
I attained the formless One!
To my home,
came He who is beyond form!

In the bud of my mind
I held the embodiment of sweetness
when One beyond thought,
came into my fold.

I did not see Him in philosophy,
I could not understand Him
through scientific knowledge
nor did I find Him in theological gospels.

I attained Him by love
and kept Him in the midst of my heart,
when all eyes eagerly looked upon Him.

By a loving sound
so full of rhythm and song,
the earth became filled
with fragrance and contemplation.

By a dreamy voice
full of affection and sweetness,
all entities understood Him
in actual experience.







639

I send out my call
to invite all
onto a journey,
traversing a path of effulgence!

The earth,
swinging in the great universal swing,
has beautified itself.
Today, no discrimination persists.

Come all, forgetting rivalry!
Let us jointly announce
that we are one
and that we will remain one.

All hearts are threaded
in the same garland of gems.
Let us all sing our song
in the same tune!

There is neither
high nor low,
black nor white,
for, in this world,
we are all brothers.

The pain and earnestness of one,
is pain and earnestness to all.

Within the ocean of nectar,
all hearts oscillate
in the same swing
and sing a single song.

Remaining filled with love,
arousing hope in others,
speaking in the same tone,
let us look ahead!

Extending love
to both friend and foe,
singing the song of pardoning,
let us move forward!








640

O Lord!
You are light
in my dark house.
You illuminate
my dark heart.

You are the festival of light
in nights of sorrows.
You are the remover
of total darkness.

You bring about the touch
of a gentle and sweet sandalwood breeze.
You know the importance
of lively and rhythmic tones.

You do not want anything,
You do not get anything,
You extend love only.

The world,
so full of Your forms,
smiles continuously.

How much are You to play the flute,
to remove all agony
and provide happiness to all?

You do not get anything,
and yet, in giving Your everything,
You ignite the flame of life.






641

O Lord!
You are my nearest and dearest!
You are the lost honey of my heart!
Please make me Your own!

You are the protective shade
in the midday sun.
You are the light
in the dark night.

In the roughness of the desert
as well as in green shade,
You pour out Your wholehearted love.

Take away my everything,
and leave nothing but the touch of life.

Amidst roars of thunder,
and the fire of lightning,
You resemble the ketakii flower
that emits fragrance in rain.

In this soft fragrance,
that blows in the cool breeze,
lies assurance to me.

You are the shelter
and pabulum of my mind.
You are my most respected One!







642

O Lord!
You are vibrant restlessness,
and yet,
You are stunned silence.
You reside in total opposites.

Into my mental mirror,
You constantly pour effulgence.

You encourage those
who have been left behind
to move forward.

Awakening sleeping minds,
You bring about a resonating reality.

Those having been awakened by Your light,
ask You for blessings.
They know of both
Your restlessness
and absolute calmness.

These two states
merely connote different names
for the same entity,
from which the intellect
has but to accept defeat.








643

O Lord!
I never thought of You in my life,
but You thought of me always.

Within my small heart,
in the hidden depths,
You have taken Your abode.

You remonved the dark clouds
of ego and vanity
that became concentrated in my mind.
By hundreds of actions of grace,
You pulled me ever closer unto You.

O heavenly light!
Resort of the helpless!
Consciousness of my heart!
Accept my salutations!

You provided expression and containment to me
and, by arousing my consciousness,
gave me intuituion.









644

O Lord!
In Your memory and thought
I pauselessly move
along a path of Your choice.

With sweet love,
come into my heart!
Look just how many thorns
I have stamped upon!

So many storms
did I bear on my head!
So much meteorite heat
did I have to tolerate!
So many disappointments!
So much pain!

By the load of agonies
I became bent.

Time flows away,
the sun continues its setting,
the dark shade of the evening intensifies.

When golden dreams
dissolved into vacuity,
I threaded a garland
with fallen flowers.






645

O eternal companion!
Do not go!
Sit on the lotus of my heart!
Do not leave me alone!

With attentive eyes,
Smilingly talk to me.

During autumn evenings,
when the wind sings along,
indifferent to the game of colourful clouds,
I search You within beauty and melody,
in the light of my heart,
in a perfectly enchanting rhythm.

During spring,
when flowers bloom
and intoxicated bees sing along,
I search You in rhythm and melody,
with the earnestness of love
that lies in the blue sky.







646

O liberator of the world!
Intensified consciousness!
O One beyond thought!
Greatest ocean!

You are the remover of sorrow,
You open eyes,
You are joy to the mind,
You are the greatest treasure!

You were one and became many.
You remain a singular entity amidst multitudes.

Whatever order You may give
is accepted by all with bowed heads.
Your message is thus conveyed.

You have no imperfection
and with conscience,
pauselessly continue performing actions.

Your inspiration and urge
provide acceleration
and destroy all fear.






647

O Lord!
You have come today,
To think about suffering people,
to destroy the darkness in all minds,
and to love all living beings.

The earth was eagerly waiting for Your advent,
marks of injury filled her body.
Under the painful load of afflictions,
all happiness was lost.

On the bosom of the earth,
kindle more light.
Into distressed hearts,
pour more nectar.

Send out Your clarion call to all
to move forward with heads held high.









648
O Lord!
Having come into my home,
please sit down a while
and smile softly.

Let the sparks of Your effulgence radiate plentifully.
Pardon my defects
and the mistakes of my actions.
Forgetting the past,
I have now become Yours.

Take me along,
take me beyond the heap of darkness.
Do not be harsh with me.

You are my closest,
other than You
none is mine.

Into the vibrations of my heart,
You provide bliss.
Continue making me dance
in Your role as stealer of mind.








649

O Lord!
You are the moon in the sky,
You are the brilliant gem
lying hidden in the ocean.

Why I did want You,
I do not know.

Your heart-snatching effulgence,
Your affection-filled mind,
make feelings overflow in me.
You have become, my most beloved.

Why do You keep calling me from afar,
smearing me with sweet nectar,
and pulling me unto You at every moment...
as if You were after my heart?








650

O Lord!
With expectations,
day and night,
I am sitting waitingly for You.

My heart is ever-full of impulse,
yet, my lamp is about to become extinguished.

Tell me who else other than You
knows how to love?

You are the illumination of the earth
You make the core of my heart sing.

If You won't come,
O Dear One,
then rest assured
that I will be disappointed and disheartened,
which won't add to Your glory.

And yet, I know,
by praise or condemnation
You are not affected.






651

O Lord, do not go!
I yet need to talk to You about various matters.
I wish to sing more songs to You.
So many things have been left pending.

An isolated flash of lightning
is calling me from the northeastern sky.
The roar of thunder continues to frighten me.

Remain close to me, stay in my mind.
Do not leave me alone.

On this stormy night
I lost everything that belonged to me .
My perplexed heart does not know
how to move forward on Your path.

Remain in my mind and fill my heart.
Do not crush the petals of my flower.






652

O Lord,
I went to You in order to demand from You
but I returned back ashamed.

I realized that all my neccesitiies and preparations
are within Your imagination.

Much more than what I know about myself,
do You know about me.
And much more do You bestow
than whatever I think is required by me.

O my eternal companion,
You have absorbed me
in the colour of affection.

That garland of love,
with beauty and attachment,
will ever remain for You.

I returned back ashamed
yet in affection,
entered the world of thought.







653

O Lord!
Leaving You, where shall I go?
What exists outside You?

If at all I have to go anywhere,
I shall go under Your feet,
into the nucleus of the universe.

By taking Your name
all fear and shyness vanish.

Effulgence flows out,
illuminating all hearts.
The song of Your love and union
continues resonating always.

By meditating on You,
my mind is satisfied
and the load of my agony alights.

All entities become spirited,
beautified eyes turn tearful.

Your smile and enchanting flute
provides inspiration for all actions to come.







654

O Lord!
How much agony I have in my mind for You!
Do not You want to understand this?

I have lost the gem of my eye,
do You deliberately not see that?

So many eras have passed by crying!
No more sleep is there in my eyes.

O touchstone of mine!
Why do You smile with joy from afar?
Come into my mind,
understand my pain,
do not remain unkind any longer.

On which stormy night,
did my bosom friend go away?
In this painful memory
my heart breaks with intense suffering.

Sit near me and smile lovingly,
do not leave feelings of pain anymore.





655

The bud has bloomed,
bees have come,
and a sweet and gentle breeze is blowing.

My heart searches
that unknown divinity
that snatched away my mind.

In moonlight,
in oblivion of all fear and shyness,
removing all meanness,
my heart has set out in search of Him.

The green coverings of soft grass
continuously call
that unknown stealer of hearts.

Within mountains and oceans,
withing the depths of mind,
a tinkling is aroused
by the touch of consciousness,
vibrating the string (of life).








656

Today, who is singing a song
in this broken heart of mine?

An unknown tune resonates,
filling the sky and air.

He has touched the core of my heart,
churning it without inhibition.

That beautiful effulgence illuminates the earth.
By the nectar of melody
all disappointment vanishes.

Flooding a sweet affection,
who has swayed the heaven,
executing this unparalleled melody?







657

Flying into the air a colourful balloon,
who has come?
What drew my favorite One near?
For a long time, had I been waiting for Him.

This morning He came
with a welcome tray
and a garland in His hand.

He, who did not come in deep thinking,
arrived on His own,
removing darkness
with crimson light and golden rays.









658

O essence of nectar and divine fundamental entity!
In You the whole world is filled!

To all lives, You are the rhythmic song
in encounters of love.
Amidst deserts, You are the spring water
and the cool shade of trees.
You are the soft touch during storms,
You provide strength to broken hearts.

You are the collection of sweet love
that gets lost in the southern wind.
In moonlight, You are the smile of stars,
You are the heap of soft and fragrant flowers.

By entering into drowsy minds,
You bestow inspiration in bad times.










659

With the torch of consciousness,
and a sweet garland in hand,
You came at night.
When that was... I have forgotten.

You applied balm on my darkness-filled eyes.
You came uninvited,
irrespective of my good and bad qualities.

By Your light, the earth became sweetly illuminated.
By Your touch, life found expression.
By Your joy, the world awakened.
All hearts started dancing as one.

Once drowsy eyes, are now absorbed in nectar.
In them, Your considered call
reflects a world thatYou have chosen.








660

O Lord, do not go.
Listen to me,
understand my pain,
do not remain indifferent.

To decorate You,
flowers bloom in my mind.
Do not crush them.

Have You forgotten
that You were with me day and night?

Looking into my eyes,
You had contemplated my mind
and loved me.

Do not forget him,
who was with You
in rhythms, songs and actions.

I have not forgotten
that You are the illumination of daytime
as well as the darkness of the night.

I loved You,
continue pouring Your nectar
onto me day and night.

Even if You ever forgot me,
O entity beyond time,
do not push me away with Your feet.





661

O innocent, Ka'nu (Krs'n'a'),
under what influence of delusion,
did You go to Mathura?

You left all Your playmates
at Gokul and Vrinda'vana.

The milkmaids do not churn curd anymore,
but continuously cry instead.
They say that since the stealer of butter went away
they do not desire to prepare it anymore.

Ka'nu went away ignoring us,
and then forgot about us.
No upstream flow is to be found in the Yamuna' river.
No one plays the flute to that sweet melody.

The cows in the shed face upwards
and throw grass from their mouth.

Ka'nu went away,
became king
and forgot us.







662

O Lord, You enchant and resonate my mind,
You are the very embodiment of affection.

Have mercy on afflicted ones,
I have come into Your shelter.

You are the controller
beyond the web of ma'ya'.
You destroy all adversities
and remove all dirt.

You reside deep within my mind,
and enlighten it.

You are the ultimate object of ideation,
my dearest contemplation
and the best song to listen to.

By Your weapon, the pride of the anti-divine forces,
gets powdered down.

For the welfare of all,
You restrain and integrate the mental arena.

Tingling, pleasing and vibrating,
You pardon my faults.










663

O Lord, with the incense of meditation
and the lamp of life,
I kindled a festival of lights for You.

If You do not come,
the fresh decoration of this twilight
will go in vain.

With Your beauty and colours
You have filled this earth.
Into my mind,
You aroused attachment.

When attachment saturated,
You granted the dust of Your feet,
and filled all hearts
with song and dance.

Into my mind, You poured love.
When affection overflowed,
I held You close.









664

O Lord, today I am lost.
Show me which path I shall follow.

I have forgotten my real home.
With love, please accept me.

In my garden, flowers bloomed.
Yet, no one knows why.

In my mind, secretly sing
a song in the diipak tune.

I have gotten here,
in oblivion of the right path
due to liking wild flowers.

In this shoreless place,
I am without companion.
Please show me signs
of my path.








665

O Lord!
Leaving me alone in isolation,
where are You going?

You float me into tears,
yet, in Your mind,
You keep laughing.
Very well do You know
that I love You.

It would have been better
had You not performed
Your divine game
at each and every moment.

Millions of living beings
dress up in millions of styles
to love You.
Because of that,
no place is there for me
in Your heart,
neither while You are awake
nor while You are asleep.









666

Who are You who came today
with the adornment of a golden lotus?

You came from the calm and cool stream
with consolation-filled eyes.

Your soft and simple smile
appears in the firmament of my heart and pulls me towards some unknown place.

You never remain far and never hate.
Even after knowing all my faults,
You affectionately lift me onto your lap.

I was with You since the dawn of creation,
I am with You now
and will forever remain
under Your loving shade.











667

O Lord!
Your smile,
made flowers bloom.
Bees became attracted
and my mind became coloured.

By overflowing joy
and speedy currents,
the ocean became agitated.

The buds had pulled down their veil
and were restlessly hiding in shyness.
As the light of Your effulgence fell upon them,
they became filled with restless inspiration.

O non-temporal entity!
Now that You have come,
kindle light continuously.

Today, the bee suddenly spoke something
and away it went.
Waves aroused in my heart,
and made it dance in the tune of light.

You have loved me -
that is why I accept You
as the entity par excellence.








668

O Lord!
Thinking of You all the time,
I am unable to think of anything else.

The more I think that I should not think about You,
the more I become engrossed in Your ideation.

You exist and I exist.
I have forgotten the world around me.

In all things
Your beauteous form and love are present.

The star of the far-distant sky,
this green and beautiful earth
are all engrossed in Your ideation
and lose themselves,
in the dance that forever surrounds You.









669

O Lord!
I have never seen anything like You,
nor can I imagine anything like it.

By loving me, You have done so much for me.
You removed hundreds of agonies.

In stormy nights
You provided fearlessness.
During intense rains
You provided shelter.
Amidst volcanic fire eruptions, You provided the green beauty
that is so full of charming sweetness.

Frequently did I forget You,
yet, You always brought me back onto the path.
On this crimson-coloured and enchanting morning,
You provided new vitality and activeness to me.








670

Why did the bee suddenly come into my floral garden?
Who knows? Who knows?

Being surrounded by colourful leaves and petals,
it did not listen to anything.

That is why, today,
I see a new shine in my floral garden.
A sweet breeze carries songs full of love.

The flowers desire that the bee
come and speak buzzingly
and then,
with honey filled in its bossom,
fly away to all places.

There is no obstruction in forward movement;
liberal hearts are attached to one another in rhythm.
The language of songs that is set to tunes -
where does it lie? Where does it lie?

In all gardens and in all hearts
only one image remains hidden.
There is no wavering
in the notes of stringed instruments
nor is there in any mind.










671

You are the delusing southern wind,
and the light of return to reality.

You are the consolation in the night of agony,
and that is why I love You.

During totally dark nights,
with a golden lamp in hand,
You stay with me
and annihilate my darkness.

During sorrow, affliction and pain,
with Your own hands,
You wipe away my tears.

You kindle the lamp of hope,
to remove all filfth and darkness.








672

Pure essence and purifying fire
have awakened Your flame.
Intuitive light, the essence of knowledge,
shines forth in Your illumination.

The unconcsious mind,
under the pressure of inertness,
came to life during pratisaincara
(the returning phase of creation).

Into the arena of pabula where love resides,
You offered final oblation.
Heavenly effulgence descended
and the earth became gracefully decorated.

Both earth and heaven
started swinging to and fro
awakening in it,
cognition of life.





673

O Lord, come!
I have opened up the door of my heart.

You have taken
all the honey that I gathered
from the flower that bloomed for You.

Years after years have passed,
innumerable memories were lost.

Many sweet songs merged into oblivion,
yet, I am still sitting here
looking onto the path You would arrive on.

I have moved forward
singing songs in slow and fast rhythms.
In restless search of Your melody,
I have been thinking about You only.









674

O Lord!
I have kept threading
my floral garland
for You only.

An account of my feelings
and pangs of separation
has been filled in it.

In the intense heat of summer
and the hot wind,
when life cries out at each and every moment,
I tune the viin'a (lyre) of my heart
to Your melody
and float the broken boat of my song
to Your tune.

When the world
is fully intoxicated with the fragrance
of autumn's shefali flower,
I break that totally locked prison,
and, by Your love,
drift away to unknown arenas.








675

O Lord!
You came to me
when I had forgotten the path,
now please stay in my home day and night.

Uninhibited by time or date,
You personally remove the knot of obstruction.

In the outside rain,
a jingling sound is heard.
In my mind,
complete silence prevails.
My lamp glows without flicker.

Come still closer,
sit in my heart
and awaken in me cognition of life.

From hundreds of heavens,
immense collections of nectar
float into life
and express the infinite.

They destroy all darkness
that is left in my heart
and overflow overwhelmingly
in intoxication of my mind.










676

O dear Lord!
You came on a cloudy night,
treading a dark path.

With each sweet tune,
that You played on the strings of the viin'a' (lyre),
to which far-distant arena
did You attract me?

In that total darkness
during fear and panic,
the illumination of Your lightning
provided direction to me.

On that sleepless rain,
when hopes were broken,
my defeated heart found back its speech.

With a thundering declaration and a loud voice,
You provided consciousness to those inert.

O companion during all agonies of the dark night,
silent sympathiser during all pains!
Being so close,
why do You remain so far?

I cannot understand You
by applying the intellect
that You provided.









677

O Lord, You crush vanity!
Hence, people call You "stealer of vanity".

You know all,
yet, You are not known.

O entity existing both inside and outside!

O Lord, You break all distress
and provide joy.

O blissful one,
You are worshipped by the entire world.

Never go far away, leaving me alone.

By Your effulgence, the world is illuminated.

You reside in all minds.
You continue giving stregnth to the distressed ones.
You make us forget past agonies.
You guide us forward with new flow and enthusiasm.










678

O Lord!
Come onto the soft, shy,
and sweetness-moist petals
of the lotus of my heart.

O destroyer of demons!

With a sweet smile and heartfelt love,
O dweller of my heart, come!

You never tolerate vanity
and You cannot forget affection.

I love You.
That is why I request:
"make me Your own".

You remain alone
at the nucleus of the universe.
Why keep me
so distant from You?

Pull me close
and teach me how to serve You.










679

O Lord, loving You
and looking onto Your path,
how many eras and lives passed by?
I do not know this.

The night lily loves the moon
and smiles and weeps for it.
Does the moon not know this
and understand its mind?

The earth, full of flow and rhythm,
is without beauty in Your absence.

Like a jewel-lost serpent
I continue crying,
submerged in agonies.

I am surviving due to hope only,
to which my heart is tightly bound.
Tell me whether this hope of mine
will ever be fulfilled.









680

O Lord!
You are the pole star in the darkness of my life.
You are my life's light.

My days are passing by
while I wait for You.
Yet, I feel pleasure
when thinking of You.

Amidst the dry desert,
You are the delicious fountain.
You are the sweet memory of bygone days.
You are the golden light in pitch darkness.
You are the love-filled song to broken hearts.

You love,
You know how to love,
and You constantly pour
the sweetness of nectar unto me.

You make invalids cross mountain peaks
and fill with language the mouth of dumb.

You know my hundreds of faults and errors
yet, You lift me upon Your lap,
and fill my defeated heart with hope.

Keeping You in front of me,
I go on floating to Your melody.
You ignite the lamp of my life.











681

At that time,
inert drowsyness was not yet over.
The sun had not yet risen in the eastern sky
and the petals of flowers did not yet smile
under the soft breeze of spring.

The dust of heaven
enthusiastically swooshed down
unto the unseen earth.

No sky nor gently smiling air
were there to dance with vivacity.

And yet, the mental viin'a' (lyre),
tuned to the musical octave,
sang numerous songs in Your tune.

Bypassing all dogmas,
a heart longed for Your touch.












682

O Lord!
You scattered heavenly sweetness all around,
You poured it into floral gardens and mental arenas.

The play of lighting in the lap of clouds
continuously calls me.
Even storms, thunder and falling meteorites,
adore You always.

My defeated heart desires You
and today is emerged in dancing.

You took on Yourself
the load of sorrows
in order to bring smiles on faces.

With a sweet voice
You continue announcing:
"I love you."

Arouse with a sweet smile
and say with love:
"Here, no agony persists."











683

O Lord, do not go away!
Many things are yet to be told.

Return back to my home.
In my house, I live alone.

I call You in pain and pleasure.
I work remembering You.

After losing everything,
I just want to love You wholeheartedly.

I do not want consolation nor comfort,
my only wish is that You protect me from staticity.

Come close into my mind,
I have left its doorbolts open.










684

O Lord I searched for You
in the world of knowledge,
but attained You,
time and again,
in the light of ideation.

I never searched for You
in the depths of my mind
but instead in the external world.
That is why
You remained out of reach,
in distant realms.

Dewed with sweet affection,
You fill eveyone's mind.
By impulsive, sentmental expressions,
emotional outbursts and songs
I recognise You
in tunes and melody.

In a drowsy and dreamy stream,
I had forgotten myself,
being intoxicated with blind attachment.

O one who is ever awake!
Holding me by Your hand,
You showed me the direction of movement,
to move on with head held high.










685

O Lord!
Which kingdom of effulgence
have You come from, filling my mind with sweetness?

To pour out the sweetness of affection, You came,
carrying in hand a load of vitality.

Today, in the dry river of my life,
a flood of inexaustible flower pollen aroused.

My heart is filled with melody,
tune and song,
desiring to make all my own.

Today, my peacock and cuckoo,
with overflowing restlessness,
sing along in high pitch.
The stream of melody
flows on
with the nectar of beauty.










686

O Lord!
I recognise You
and I call You.
You are my life.

You are the overwhelming flood,
and loving song
that vanquish all pains.

When approaching You,
I am overcome with false shyness,
as I speaking to one
who knows much more than I do
about what I am worth.

Lightening lamps
on a bright moonlit night,
giving false tax to falsehood,
looking at the bangle of a hand in a mirror
are all but insults to intellect.










687

O Lord,
Smile in a corner of my eye,
come into its fold
and fill it!

In my eyes,
remain comfortably
day and night.
Overwhelm me with Your consciousness.

For You I have remained awake,
waiting throughout the ages.
After a long time
O, stealer of mind,
You finally arrived.

How many hundreds and hundreds
of illusory divine games You know,
I am unable to understand.

Tie me unto You
by the thread of love only.








688

O Lord, tell me!
What do You desire?

Looking at a dumb face,
why do You go on playing Your divine sport (liila')?

I went to pilgrimage in search of You
and carried out many a discussion on the scriptures.

I continued performing breathing
and body-touching rituals.
Why did You not look at me?

Offering the light of my life,
decorating the flowers of my mental arena,
absorbing love-filled sandalwood paste,
I give myself.
Please accept me.








689

O Lord!
I have loved only You,
again and again,
in innumerable ideas,
forms and names.

In the colourful beauty
of the morning sun
I find You
running in the blood of my life.

I see You
in the secluded depth of my heart,
removing pain and obstruction.

When intoxicated by the wine of attachments,
I do not look at You,
even after finding You nearby.
And by forgetting You
I engross myself in non-essence.

You have broken my infatuation.







690

O pioneer of light!
The wheels of Your chariot keep moving on.
None is left behind.

You are everyone's bossom friend.
You know Your path.
On it, there is no inhibition.
You move forward taking all with You.
You awaken consciousness.

You call for a straight path,
without round about nor curvature.

Even after getting injured
by the wounds of sins,
You never forget the welfare of all.








691

O Lord!
You came into my desert-heart.

Whatever honey is stored in it,
I shall offer it unto the sake of Your work.

Not a single flower bloomed
to decorate Your red feet.
Not a single fruit
grew to decorate my tray.

No green beauty
surrounds the shrubs,
to enchant my mind.

I did not fill my dance
with a rhythmic song
nor a flowing tune.

Yet, You neverthless came close to me.







692

O Lord,
on the occasion of the total festivity of light,
why do You remain alone?

When the peacock and cuckoo sing,
full of enthusiasm, in sweet melody.

On the lotus altar of this earth,
You have come to destroy the threefold sorrows.

On dry buds You made flowers bloom
You brought about floods on both sides of the river bank.

You came to provide shelter to orphans,
to aliviate distressed minds,
to arouse strength in the helpless,
and to break the wheels of the carts
of those selfishly proud.









693

Beyond drowsiness,
the early sun has removed
the climax of dark nights.

Those who were half-awake with closed eyes,
now, have them opened up.

The earth came into fold in a new style,
decorating all in new colours.
In a new form and flow, it annonunced
that on this earth everyone has the right to life.

Slumbering minds awakened
and selfish egoism was quelled.

Delirious pride understood
that the conscience of the world
is not too far away.









694

O Lord!
This morning, You suddenly thought about me,
after conducting hundreds of divine games,
throughout ages and ages,
in eternally different ways.

Today, I hear the charmingly resonating
sound of ankle bells.
O Lord, please wait!
I wish to offer You my neverending salutations.

Those days of Vraja passed by invisibly
a long time back.
Into the New Vrindavana You appeared,
unfolding Yourself in the recess of my mind,
unfolding Yourself in all minds.









695

O Lord, when thinking of those most sinful people,
don't be afraid.
If sinners were not there,
what greatness would You have?

Those who always call You with folded hands
and tearful eyes,
O controller of the world,
do You think they are Your only devotees?

Those who are identified as sinners,
in their minds also devotion exists.
They would not want to become light
by giving the load of their sins to You.











696

O Lord,
You are like a golden lotus with a hundred petals.
Nowhere close, do I find such beauty.

You remain surrounded by thorns,
and, due to fear of thorns,
I do not go near You.
Remove all my fear and shyness,
so that, wholeheartedly,
I may feel Your near presence.

I want to talk to You with an open heart.
I wish my hopes to become fulfilled.
I do not want to remain afar from You.

The honey of Your pollen is for everyone,
and for that honey, I am keeping awake.
No language exists
that would describe this greatness and fragrance of Yours.








697

O Lord, in order to attain You
I have been thinking only of You.
And lest this thought should end,
I craft hundreds of imaginations.

I love You,
and I know,
that You too,
love me.

Who loves more,
I dare not make known.

O Lord, I have innumerable faults,
and never wish to think of them.
For, if I thought about my defects and mistakes,
I would forget You.











698

Who do flowers look at,
when opening their petals?

Filling honey into their heart,
they silently swing with the sandal breeze.

Opening wide both eyes,
filled with illusive collyrium mark,
and so full of heavenly desire,
to which far-distant place
do they desire to drift off?

You float me into mental winds,
and make me listen to the call of infinity.

The rays of the moon,
the smile of stars,
that loving flute,
all sing along in unison.










699

O Lord!
I have forgotten
when my journey started.

I do not remember
how many thorns I have stepped on.

In many an intense heat
did I get burned.
In many a heavy rain,
did I get drenched.

In many a beautiful autumn
I remained intoxicated
and sang a song full of earnestness.

In innumerable golden fields
did I smile
when winter passed.

In numerous cold nights
did I shiver
when icy snowfalls descended.

In many a floral heap
did I wander during springtime,
and danced full of impatience.

Much did I cry,
wounded by worries.
I became curved
by loads of pain.

Yet, I continued looking at You.
O my Lord!









700

O Lord, You remain ever-engaged
in the colourful play
of Your nectarial flow.

Without tiredness nor fatigue
You pauselessly carry out work.

By the strength of Your own power
You dancingly rush forward,
from nucleus to periphery
and pull unto Yourself
those entities that lie far off.
You never get deviated by obstruction.

When stars and planets were not existing
and galaxies were not yet moving in cosmic space,
and even history could not record this distant past,
at that time
You existed as timeless entity.
You were present as entity without space,
as entity beyond the operative principle of Ma'ya'.