Garden of love-light, part 1

Ami Gahi Gan Tumi Gaha Bale

```

Tumi haso bale hasi

Taito hayechhi banshi

Ei mor parichoy

Chinmoyi chinmoy

Translation

```

I smile because You smile.

I have become Your flute.

You are mine, I am Yours.

In one form You are my Mother and Father eternal;

Consciousness-Sun all-pervading.

Alo Alo Alo Mukti Shikha Jwalo

```

Mukti shikha jwalo

Kripa sindhu dhalo

Amaratar bhalo

Laho amar kalo

Translation

```

O Light of the Supreme!

Pour down the ocean of Compassion

You are Immortality’s Divinity.

and death.

Asha Nadi Asha Nadi

```

Dure dure bahu dure

Niye chalo more

Translation

```

Carry me to the ultimate Beyond

Premaloker Kanane Nirabatar Swapane

```

Nirabatar swapane

E hiya alingane

Translation

```

In silence-dream,

This heart of mine is in Your embrace.

Chup Chup Chup

```

Hiyar majhe jwalichhe aji rupantarer dhup

Dyulok bhulok asim sasim mage amar rup

Translation

```

Inside my heart is burning today

Silence, silence, silence!

Are begging for my Transcendental Form.

Tomar Adesh Shunbo Ami Shunbo

```

Tomar nabhe urbo ami urbo

Tumi amar hiyar ratan

Alor sathe hasbo prate

```

Translation

```

In Your Sky I shall fly, I shall fly.

You are my heart’s wealth.

For You at dawn with light I shall smile.

He Karuna Sindhu Ami Taba Bindu

```

Ami taba bindu

Nitya jena pai

Tomai ami hani

```

Translation

```

I am Your tiniest drop.

I know, Mother, I know,

O my Moon of Light-Delight.

Bedanare Bhule Jabo

```

Jedin tomare pabo

Heribona kabhu ar

Amrita parabar

```

Translation

```

The day I get You as my own.

No more shall I see within.

At Your Feet will, before long, be quenched.

Ore Amar Deha Ashru Nadir Geha

```

Ashru nadir geha

Pashan purir gan

Gabhir nishar ban

Bishwa prabhur priya

Translation

```

You are the home of the river of tears.

You are the song of heartless city.

You are the forest of tenebrous night.

You are the love of the World-Lord.

Sure Sure Madhur Sure

```

Aradhanar hriday pure

He asimer mukut mani

Amaratar amar niti

Niye jabe amai jani

Translation

```

In the core of my selfless adoration supreme.

of Your ankle bells,

Your Song, Your Love,

Will carry me, I know, I know,

Bedanai Bhara Chetana Amar

```

Ghor tamasar asim pathar

Tomar charane ebar phuralo

Peyechhe ajike trishita paran

Translation

```

Covers the life of my consciousness,

The light of my life, the darkness of my death —

In the sea of peace, my thirsty heart

Nayane Nayane Gopane Gopane

```

Shayane swapane madhu jagarane

Taba prema lila amar bhubane

Translation

```

You live in my eyes, in my sleep,

In the stupendous mirth of life,

You I behold.

Saphal Habe Swapan Amar Saphal Habe

```

Samarpaner atmahutir mahotsabe

Bijoy ketan amar chetan

Jani amar bhabe

Translation

```

In the great festival of my surrender’s

Your Smile, Your Flute,

In my world shall dance,

Bandhana Bandhana Bandhana

```

Krandana krandana krandana

Ranjana ranjana ranjana

Mohana mohana mohana

Translation

```

Cry, cry, cry!

Delight, delight, delight!

Charm, charm, charm!

Gahana Hiyar Andha Andhar Rati

```

Mora moder ashru nadir sathi

Jwalai mora chhayar badhar bati

Mora habo chirantaner bhasha

Mahakaler rupantarer bhati

Translation

```

We are the comrades of the river of tears.

Crying and smiling we kindle the lamp

Our world is an empty hope, destitute.

Time eternal.

Infinite Nectar-Delight

Jago Amar Swapan Sathi

```

Jago amar praner pran

Rishi kabi murtiman

Jago amar bishal hiya

Jago amar sei chetana

Jago jago jago

Jago amar badha jib

Jago amar mukta Shib

```

Translation

```

Arise, awake, O Breath of my life.

O Seer-Poet in me,

Arise, awake, O vast heart within me.

Which is always transcending the universe

Arise, awake, O Form of my meditation

Arise, awake, O bound divinity in humanity.

And free mankind from its ignorance-sleep.

Sundara Hate Sundara Tumi

```

Nandana bana majhe

Tomari murati raje

Sakali mithya sakali asar

Bedanar sur baje

Ei jibaner majhe

Translation

```

most beautiful,

Day and night may Thy Image abide

Without You my eyes have no vision;

All around me, within and without,

My world is filled with excruciating pangs.

O my Lord of Beauty, in this lifetime,

May I be blessed with the boon to see Thy Face.

Tumi Amai Diyechho Aj

```

Ami tomai sanpechhi mor kusum hriday khani

Moher karar ajanate

Tumi amar jenechhi ma chirantaner rani

Translation

```

The message of surrender.

In the dark night with tears,

In the house of the finite,

I know You are mine.

O Queen of the Eternal.

Prabhu Tomar Hasi Bhalobasi

```

Tomar hasi bhalobasi

Tomar charan bhalobasi

Atma tomar bhalobasi

Tomar sakal bhalobasi

Prabhu tomai bhalobasi

```

Translation

```

Your Smile I love.

Your Feet I love.

Your Soul I love.

Everything that is You I love.

O Lord Supreme, O Lord Supreme,

You are the Flute of my existence.

Tamasa Rate Nayan Pate

```

Herile jadi amar pane

He dayamoy karuna dane

Ekla chali gahan pathe

Bhasiye jena na jai srote

Translation

```

You cast Your benign Eyes upon me.

Offering Your Compassion.

Alone do I walk on a thick, dense path.

Allow me not to be drowned and washed away

Ore Mor Kheya Ore Mor Neye

```

Ore ananda bani

Supta chitta khani

Dhwangsa ashani hane durbar

Chira asimer kripa parabar

Jani aji ami jani

Translation

```

O message of Transcendental Delight,

And it is fast asleep at the same time.

The dance of death I see all around.

O my Inner Pilot, You are mine.

In You I lose myself,

Amar Bhabana Amar Kamana

```

Amar eshana amar sadhana

Moher bandhan hiyar jatan

Halo abasan

```

Translation

```

My aspiration, my life’s disciplines,

The bondage of tempting attachment

The life of darkness and the torture of death,

Jara Jabe Chale Chhale

```

Chhale chhale chhale

Chale jak chale jak

Niye jabe shudhu jani

Asimer amiyer hasi

```

Translation

```

and mischievous pranks, must go.

The Boat of Light of the Supreme

In the depths of their hearts,

And the Flute of fire-pure Transformation.

Jao Chale Jao Chale Jao

```

Ananda nahi tumi chao

Nahi chaho muktir dhup

Mor lagi asimer bhor

Translation

```

You do not want Divine Delight.

You do not want the incense-flame

O dark enemy, away you go!

Rakhal Raja Rakhal Raja

```

Jiban maran alik swapan ebar niye jao

Tomar benu alor bane sangopane baje

```

Translation

```

O King of the cowherds,

My life is a false dream,

Do take them away.

O King of the cowherds,

In the forest of my inner light,

I hear the soul-stirring music of Your Flute.

Sundaratama Antare Mama

```

Chira sundara sundara habo sundare bese bhalo

Bhanguk sakal simar bandhan

Andhar kandichhe alor lagiya asime basiya bhalo

Bindu milabe sindhu salile

Ogo sundara hiranmayer alo alo alo

Translation

```

Do burn the fire of beauty and splendour

By loving You, eternally beautiful I shall be.

destroy all shackles of the finite.

my heart, my heart, my all.

is crying for the bloom of light.

aspiration-cry.

in the heart of the boundless ocean.

O Beauty, O Beauty’s Gold.

Tumi Shudhu Bandhu Amar

```

Tumi amar pran

Gahi jena bhalobese

```

Translation

```

You are my life.

From one country to another,

With all my love.

all my life.

Jibana Nadi Tire Dhire Dhire

```

Oi ase mor priyatama

Praner jata asha jata bhalobasa

Tomai nami

Translation

```

My Beloved slowly is coming to the bank of

In today’s morning sweet.

All my life’s love,

And to You I bow and bow.

Shudhu Seidin Tomai Dekhechi

```

Khelechhi tomar sane

Tabu achhe mor mane

Birajichhe smriti

Kanpichhe amar

Barai bedan sure

Translation

```

I saw You and played with You,

Yet I remember my golden past within

Alas, far, very far, now You are.

with darkest pangs.

Kalo Baran Nai Je Kanu

```

Bishwa ruper rup madhuri jyoti diye bona

Ta nahale priya je mor shudhui ujjwal alo

Sabar sathe habe amar naba parichoy

Translation

```

He is pure gold.

Into the universal Beauty, Light and Splendour.

Because I have spilled the ink of my mind on Him.

He created Light and Darkness.

With this knowledge,

With the world at large.

Dake Amai Dake Dake Akash Dake Batas

```

Dake akash dake batas dake shashi tara

Hasi dake ashru dake dake khina sur

Sabai khunje khelar sathi dake amai ai

```

Translation

```

The wind calls me.

The green and dense groves call me.

Smiles call me, tears call me.

The morn, noon and eve call me.

Everyone is calling me, “Come, come!”

Alas, the Boat of Time sails on.

Shanti Shanti Hridaye Shanti

```

Chira manohar Kanur banshari dyuloke bhuloke baje

Andhar nishar agyana-maya

Akuti amar taba kripa nire nirabadhi santare

Translation

```

Peace within my heart reigns supreme.

is being played

The destruction-shadows of dark demons

Lie long-buried in the depths of my

My aspiration-flames ever swim across

Kalpana Go Kalpana

```

Tumi amar bandana

Kalpana go kalpana

Kurup prane dakbona

Kalpana go kalpana

Atma ami marbona

Kalpana go kalpana

Translation

```

You are my life’s adoration.

Imagination, O Imagination!

I shall not welcome the life of impurity’s

With paltry victory I shall not smile and

Imagination, O Imagination!

The soul am I, no death have I.

wrong path.

Na Pari Tomai Bahite

```

Na pari tomai sahite

Pari shudhu hai bandhite

Translation

```

Suffer You I cannot.

Alas, only bind You I can.

Sukh Chahina Man Chahina

```

Tomar kripa pete kebal jhare chokher bari

Mugdha ami hoy jena ma tomar joya gane

Translation

```

If I want them, I can get them.

And for that I am crying, I am shedding

I am not getting Your Compassion.

But I wish only to be enamoured of Your Victory.

Shesh Kathati Shunbe

```

Sukhe dukhe tomar prane nitya jena nachi

Sukher dine tomai bhule tomar prane hani

Translation

```

With this hope

Let me dance in Your Heart always,

I feel that the torture of happiness is more

For when I am in joy I forget You,

Je Besechhe Bhalo Ei Dharanire

```

Se peyechhe shudhu byetha

Kuruper malinata

Prithir bojha niye

Prabhur charane giye

Translation

```

Has only got excruciating pangs.

filth, dirt and impurity.

Carrying the burden of the entire world.

He will go and stand at the Feet

Ar Katokal Kandbo Mago

```

Andhar ghare ekla base tomai bhalobasbo

Amar hiyar byakulata

Prane amar kare dahan

Tumi amar bishwa mata Jishur jeman Meri

Translation

```

How long shall I cry

You know my secret thought.

Why does dark death torture me every day?

How long will You delay?

So are You my World-Mother.

Tumi Sundara Purushottama

```

Ami je tomar das

Ananta ullas

Labhechhe e pran jani

Tomar bakkhe hani

Nahi kona abhilash

Amiya karuna das

Translation

```

I am Your slave.

My endless rapture.

infinite pangs to know You.

at Your Heart.

No desire have I now.

I am the slave of Your Nectar-Compassion.

Swadhin Ami Amar Prane Sabar Kachhe

```

Purna ami parane mor sabar upahas

Agyanatar andhar nishai sabai shajyashayi

Translation

```

But at the same time I am everybody’s slave.

But everybody laughs at me, ridicules me.

Not only I, but all are bedridden

Nai Je Kichui Nai

```

Dekhabar mato shunabar mato

Sadhan bhajan dhyan aradhan

Charidike achhe shudhu hahakar

Bishai basana swalpe tushti

```

Translation

```

I have nothing to show or tell.

No meditation, no adoration;

Only around me are inner pangs and

Dust, clay and ash.

matter and desire.

very little.

Ekti Katha Ekti Sur Eki Jhankar

```

Nam dhare ke dakchhe jena amai barebar

Ghumer ghare karchhi shudhu ami becha kena

Hiya khani dhekechhe mor andhar sarbanasha

Jyotir dhara bahan kare namo amar shire

Bandhi je mor paran khani ekti andhar ghare

Prane amar rekhona ar ektu andhar kalo

Translation

```

Who calls me ever and anon?

I know not whither I shall go.

Myself I buy, myself I sell.

All I hope to be mine, mine alone.

destruction-night.

With your glowing and flowing flames

You are calling me to climb up and fly into

But how can I?

of a tiny room.

O Bird of Light Supreme,

Bharat Dulal Bharat Dulali

```

Jagichhe abar agni mantre

Abahan giti gabhira mandre

Bajibe Bharata bijay danka

Duribo amara bishwa shanka

Rajibe achire charama shanti

Bharat hridaye phutibe kanti

Translation

```

with incantation-fire.

to invoke Mother India.

Once again India’s Victory shall be proclaimed.

the fire-god.

India! India! In this great land of Mother India,

shall reign supreme.

Beauty’s light and delight shall blossom, grow

In the love of India’s heart.

Aghat Hani Bare Bare

```

Tabu ase dake amai bhalobasar gane

He bidhata amar majhe tader hauk joy

Translation

```

Their soft and delicate hearts I hurt,

But they come back to me again and again

The further I throw them out of my

The closer they come to me.

May their victory alone be proclaimed

Amar Sakal Asha Churna Kare

```

Dao shudhu ma ekti asha

Labhi tomar mauna bhasha

Tomar mukta nabhe

Alor mahotsabe

Translation

```

Only keep one hope,

The language of Your inner Silence

In Your clear and free Sky I shall be calm

The bird of my heart is dancing today

Tomar Hasi Dekhte Giye

```

Kichhui mago nahi pelam jyoti nirabata

Tumi bina sabi timir amar manas pure

Translation

```

But I got only sorrow, suffering, blows

I have got nothing, no light, no silence in me.

That is why You are far, very far.

My life is a barren desert;

Hari Jadi Ma Tor Kache Seito Amar Joy

```

Tor hate ma ja diyechhi ta shudhu sanchoy

Piradayi pather bojha kajer kichhui noy

Hale jani pabo ami shreshtha puraskar

Translation

```

That is my only victory.

Is my only savings.

And it only tortures me and stands as

I cannot put it to use.

After I have achieved my full realisation,

Jatri

```

Mora bidhatar asimer patha jatri

Ghor tamasar abachetanar

Dakichhe tarani alor bhorer

Mukti dishari maha ajanar sindhu

Param prabhur pataka bahiya

```

Translation

```

on the Path of Infinity.

Obstruction’s door;

tenebrous darkness, inconscience

The Boat of the Supernal Light’s Dawn

And the World-Pilot of the hallowed bond

The Liberator’s Hands are drawing us

Having conquered the Life-Breath of the

And carrying aloft the Banner of the

We shall return: we, the drops and flames

Bidai Bela Hiyar Khela

```

Ebar suru habe

Bandhan hara nabhe

Asimatar gopan ratan

Dur amarar ashish bani

Jukta moder bhabe

Translation

```

The play of the heart will now begin.

In the boundless sky.

The deathless consciousness,

The World-Lord’s very Feet,

The flood of liberation,

All will be united in the heart of our world.