Pole-Star Promise-Light, part 2

Bahirer Hasi Nahi Jachi Mago

```

Jachi antara hasi

Baje taba madhu banshi

Bahire janai nati

Antare shubha mati

Translation

```

I seek only for inner smile.

That it is only in the inner silence

I do not know, alas, why there is such a gulf

And why I always want to bow down to You

Why do I get satisfaction

May I get back the inner devoted will

Sincerely and devotedly, in my inner life.

Swarup Janite Esechhi E Bhabe

```

Na janile nija rup

Rahibo satata chup

Ananda bichi mala

Hriday kariya ala

Translation

```

To discover my self-form.

I shall remain in silence with frustration-night.

Can never abide.

O Beauty Transcendental, do illumine my heart

Shukla Rater Swapane Hasi

```

Jagarane ami gumari kandi

Andhar prane amai bandhi

Translation

```

In the dream of white night I smile,

I try to put an end to my ignorance-life.

While I am trying to free myself.

Jaha Chai Nahi Pai Tabu Asha

```

Phire pabo manakashe

Se bhashar prane raje

Nanda ankhi mani

Sabar Age Habo Ami Tomar Priyatam

```

Tai bujhi ma rakho dure anan manoram

Balbe amai madhur hasi hese

Tomar lagi dharar buke amar asa jaowa

Translation

```

Your dearest child;

If I become victorious

I am sure You will make me

And You will grant me Your transcendental Smile.

Only to see You smiling

Hasi Nahi Jachi Jachi Shudhu Priya

```

Hriday gahane santana

Nahi diyo kabhu kalpana

Translation

```

What I need in the depth of my heart

Keep me always in the heart of Your Reality,

Gyan Parabare Dube Jabe Mor

```

Hingsa dainya abishwas

Hau tumi jani jagat tras

Translation

```

In the wisdom-sea.

May Your Compassion

And make me only a perfect instrument

Sab Abhiman Bhenge Dao Mor

```

Ogo chira dayamoy

Nahi jena kari bhoy

Tumi mor pran pran

Basanar abasan

Translation

```

Do destroy my sulking nature.

Let me not suffer from fear.

Your Victory is my victory, indeed.

I know, when I fulfil You,

In the twinkling of an eye.

Rahiyachho Ati Kachhe

```

Bhabi dure bahu dure

Jage taba banshi sure

Chhale shudhu nija prane

Tomarai jaya gane

Translation

```

Nearer than the nearest,

That You are far, very far,

Lo and behold,

My heart is fully awake

Those who say that You do not exist

I wish to offer my surrender-life

Tomar Dake Diyna Sara

```

Tai bujhi aj sarba hara

Kripamoyi tomai nati

Keman kare dhalbe sudha

Dur karo mor sakal byetha

Translation

```

Therefore, I am all destitute.

Of all those who have nothing,

O Mother of Compassion,

I do not have inner hunger.

How can You feed me?

Do console and illumine my heart of suffering.

Swapane Shuni Hriday Bane

```

Taba nupur dhwani

Ogo nayan mani

Satya hok satya

Rahibe tumi nitya

Translation

```

I heard the jingling of Your ankle-bells.

But alas, when I am awake,

How I wish to see You during the day

May the dream-reality be manifested

O Beauty unparalleled,

In my day-to-day activities

Dukher Dine Nitya Tomai Daki

Dukher dine nitya tomai daki

Dukher majhe bujhbe tomar daya

Ami Khunji Amai Shudhu

```

Amar prati kaje

Bishwa bhuban majhe

Janbo mago jabe

Amar alor bhabe

Translation

```

In all that I do;

In all that I do.

That You are the Doer

On that day all my bondage-shackles

I know, I know.

Urdhe Chhila Sakal Kichhu

```

Hethai ami niswa

Mor puratan bishwa

Gyani amar chaowa

Amar sakal paowa

Translation

```

I had everything,

Absolutely nothing.

I shall regain my own old Friend eternal.

Therefore, I long only for light.

At Your Lotus-Feet.

Nirabadhi Mago More Tumi Karo Khama

Nirabadhi mago more tumi karo khama

Dhara adharar ogo chira manorama

```

Translation

```

Yet again and again

And ruins my life;

O Compassion-Beauty of this world

Do kindle the flame of knowledge

Dhulikana Ami Nikhil Dharar

```

Ati chhota dhulikana

Labhi sada mor santana

Shashwata dinatama

Ami chira manorama

Translation

```

Yet the Mother of the Universe

She is my eternal Companion.

On the one hand, I am the poorest of all.

Of the Mother of the Universe.

In all happiness and sorrows.

Chira Agyata Ogo Dui Shishu

```

Unnati abanati

Heri tai labh khati

Ei katha barebar

Keha nahi shunibar

Translation

```

These two infants abide inside every

And it is they who create in human beings

The Lord Supreme, who is

Resides in every heart,

Eternally sacred and secret message.

Manaber Bhalobasa

```

Nahi hai kabhu sumadhur

Prane baje bishader sur

Narayane jadi basi bhalo

Birajibe shashwata alo

Translation

```

At the end of human love

If we love only the Inner Pilot,

All-illumining and all-fulfilling,

Love-life.

Nahi Jachi More Basanai Bhara

```

Khudra praner joy

Ogo chira dayamoy

Basanar nirban

Mora jagrata pran

Translation

```

O compassionate Lord.

Of Your transcendental Will.

Only to extinguish the flames

To establish Your Victory here on earth

Satya Senani Amara Sabai

```

Satyer hok joy

Badha bipatti bhoy

Achire karibo khoy

Mora chira chinmoy

Translation

```

May the victory of truth be proclaimed.

We have passed through.

The eluding and deluding mind

Our companions are World-Mother

And we are nothing but consciousness-light.

Jachi Mora Hasi Sei Shudhu Mago

```

Je hasir prane raje amarar alo banshi

Translation

```

We cry only for the smile

Flute of light,

Of earth’s fulfilment-day.

Tomar Sneha Jachi Mago

```

Tomar asim sneha majhe nitya jena nachi

Translation

```

Your Affection-Light I desire.

I wish to dance only once

I know it can only be done

Of Your Affection-Light.

Shunya Tumi Maha Shunya

```

Purna tomar antare

Sabar prane santare

Srishti tumi loy

Tumi abhoy bhoy

Translation

```

Inside you is the satisfaction of completeness.

Flows inside the heart-river of all aspiring souls.

In you is the insecurity-heart of earth-existence.

Sukhi Sei Chira Sukhi

```

Je tomare base bhalo

Nahi rakho kabhu kalo

Ogo pita sabakar

Raje taba jaya har

Translation

```

In his heart, O Beloved Supreme,

He worships You at every moment,

In his heart of sanctity and purity

Bhabi Jakhan Tomai Jani

```

Janar amar kichhui baki nai

Balo hese ebar ami jai

Nahi mile bhakti bina

```

Translation

```

completely,

Alas, You strike me, my proud vital,

“Let Me go, let Me go.

You can never do that.

devotion-light.

Only with your devotion-light.”

Akash Amai Dake Nirabadhi Batas

```

Batas dakichhe oi

Priyatama tumi koi

Chahibena jeno priya

Kripa kare tumi niyo

Translation

```

The wind calls me all the time.

Because of my neglect, I have lost them.

I tell You, he whom You consider

Is not Your best instrument.

May Your Compassion-Flood

E Jiban Khani Tomare Sampite

```

Bahubar ami cheyechhi

Byetha duhsaha barechhi

Translation

```

To offer my life to You.

Therefore, excruciating pangs

All in vain I try to please You,

To You alone.

Abhinaba Tomar Mago

```

Baran karuk phullaprane amar jiban bhela

Translation

```

Is Your cosmic Game,

How I wish my life to accept it.

To accept Your Life Divine,

And how I wish it to sail

Sab Chaowa Mor Shesh

```

Khudra prane gyan diye mor hath dharo

Translation

```

Put an end to all my desires.

Make wide.

And make me vast and infinite.

Ogo Amar Maner Baner Nil Pakhi

Ogo amar maner baner nil pakhi

Simar majhe drishti tomar asim lagi kande

Jatra sheshe pabo tomar purna parichoy

```

Translation

```

I close my eyes and draw your beauty.

Your vision cries for the Infinite.

Between earth and Heaven.

I shall know who you truly are

Your Victory and my victory,

Will have no parallel.

Kena Bhase Mor E Khina Parane

```

Akash kusum kalpana

Karite tomar archana

Ashanta ami durbal

Karibe ki more ujjwal

Translation

```

Lofty imaginations fly.

To worship You,

I wish to have

Boundless peace and love.

Will Your golden Dream, O Lord,

Khulo Amar Hriday Duar Khulo

Khulo amar hriday duar khulo

Tomar asim khamar majhe

Tumi bina jiban andhakar

Bhul kareo bhulte nahi paro amar prane

```

Translation

```

O, open my heart’s door.

Has made many mistakes.

Inside Your infinite Compassion

Without You, my life is all darkness.

I know, even by mistake,

Through Your Compassion-Light

My ignorance-i.

Janale Mor Man Gabhire Mahat

```

Sabar prabhu tumi priya tumi sabar shudra

Bipariter sakal lila nritye taba raje

Translation

```

In the depth of my heart

You are at once the finite and the Infinite.

And, at the same time, everybody’s slave.

Are being played inside Your Heart.

The opposites always dance in You.

Hasi Mago Naiba Pelam

```

Oi anan pare madhu makha nitya jyoti rekha

Bishal paran mago tomar joy

Jachi tomar dibya parichoy

Translation

```

But You have stood before me.

I see light in Your Face

My little life, insecure life,

But my big heart wants only Your Victory.

Where are You?

I wish to know You totally, intimately,

Asim Tomar Sima Karagare

```

Akhil manab ruddha

Mora je chhilam Buddha

Translation

```

Inside Your finite prison

Do once let us know who we are.

We were all illumined souls.

Naiba Jani Dibya Bhasha

Naiba jani dibya bhasha

Tumi je mago karunamoyi

```

Translation

```

The language divine.

My true self-form.

You are the Mother of Compassion;

Will not last in me for long.

Will illumine me within and without.

Kotha Tumi Bahudin

```

Moder hriday bin

Eso phire arbar

Habena byartha jani

Taba tanu mandire

Translation

```

The violin of my heart does not

O, do come back once more.

Will bear fruit.

O my soul, come back, come back,

Bishwa Jaha Dite Pare Uchchha Ta Je Ati

```

Swarup shudhu jante chahi haye martya pathi

Translation

```

Is absolutely meaningless,

What I want from my life

And for that I have to become

Walking along the path of Eternity.

Shunya Bakke Biraje Purna

```

Simar bandhan jetha bichurna

Purna ghoshichhe srashta bijoy

Translation

```

Fulness abides.

The bondage of the finite

Once we are there,

Of the Absolute Supreme.

Oi Je Heri Tomar Mago Drishti Manoram

```

Phutao amar hriday kali

Amai karo tomar kabi tomar priyatam

Translation

```

Lo, I behold Your Face of Beauty.

I am all purity now.

Now only make me Your seer-poet

Diner Alo Dakena Jare

```

Ratri kalo tarei chai

Mithya shudhu tarei pai

Translation

```

Precisely because the light of day

Does not want him,

Falsehood invites him,

Inundates him,

By the Truth-Light.

Aghat Haniya Parane Amar (1)

```

Janaile tumi karunamoy

Kiser chinta kiser bhoy

Translation

```

And then made me feel

I wanted to become a hero

Therefore, You have struck me

“Be victorious.

False ideas,

In the world of truth.”

Asimer Dake Nayan Melichhe

```

Amar hriday bhaswar

Nahi ami nashwar

Translation

```

Of the Infinite;

I see the knowledge-sun.

Inside me, I see the cosmic Game

Pritir Bandhane Khina E Parane

```

Bandhite niyata chao

Tai tumi chale jao

Dibya shanti dhara

Hriday na dei sara

Translation

```

You want to bind me, bless me,

Alas, I do not want to give up my

Therefore, You go away.

Into my heart.

And get no response from my closed heart.

Nai Je Keha Mita

```

Khulbe kabe priya amar ruddha hiyar dor

Jachi shudhu tomar paye jiban sheshe thai

Translation

```

All are my enemies,

O Lord, when will You open my heart’s door

I know, I am inferior to everyone,

Only one thing I need:

I want to be at Your Feet divine.

Jani Ami Jani Ami Amar Sandhani

```

Hethai habe sab kichhu mor shekha

```

Translation

```

It is I who have to discover myself.

Here on earth, I shall have to discover everything.

O my Reality’s Form,

Nirabata Nirabata Asimata Asimata

```

Ebar amai nirab karo nirabata

```

Translation

```

O Infinity, O silence,

O Infinity, at last do grant me

Let the restlessness-life

Be transformed into a sea of silence,

Khama Tumi Karbe More Jani Ami

```

Taito prabhu tomar prane nitya aghat hani

Baran kare nibe jani amar sakal kalo

Translation

```

I know You will forgive me;

Consciously or unconsciously

Ignorance-night loves me, I know.

And You will remove all darkness-night from me

Make me beautiful,

Sathi Amar Bipul Hriday

```

Nahi ami khudra jib

Nitya raje mukta Shib

Translation

```

No longer am I a small, feeble creature.

Heart and life

Transcendental Lord Shiva.

Ami Nai Keha Nai Hai Narayan

```

Maha shunya bakkhe ek labhechhi sharan

Susuptir prane raje jagritir thai

Translation

```

Nobody exists save and except

Today a great emptiness

To shelter my inner life and my outer life.

No more in me I see.

The presence of the all-illumining Eye.