Supreme, I Sing Only For You

Nai Kicchu Nai Tai Bujhi Ma

```

Paina taba sneha

Shudhu gunir deha

Raibo ami boka

Ami tomar khoka

Translation

```

Just because I have nothing to offer You?

Who are blessed with striking capacities?

Of virtues or capacity;

Although You bless me not

I claim myself Your fondest child.

Akaran Name Kripa Akaran

```

Japa tapa puja kripa sadhan

Barishar dhara abanir buke

E je karunar dhan

Translation

```

An austere life, a life of strict discipline

Compassion-Flood from above.

And unconditionally;

Indeed, this is the gift of Compassion-Flood.

Nai Nai Nai Ami Ar Nai

Nai nai nai

Shudhu achhe ek chhaya

Alor jhalake

```

Translation

```

I no longer exist.

And even that shadow

And is transformed

Mago Tomar Charan Tale

```

Ke diyeche phul

Sandhyaratir dip

Ankbe mago tip

Tomar jaya gane

Aji kane kane

Shuddha shanta jib

Brahma Vishnu Shib

Translation

```

Who has kindled the evening lamp before You?

Will You place Your benediction-mark?

By singing Your victory-song?

Who is that beloved of Yours, so pure and silent?

Descended onto earth?

Nami Tomai Ogo Nama

```

Shubhra puta kamal sama

Phutbo ami sabar sathe

```

Translation

```

Like a white lotus of purity,

And bloom with all seekers of the spirit.

Manthare Chale Manthara

```

Druta chale bana sardul

Kabu nahi kare bhul

Translation

```

And fast runs the forest tiger.

And makes no friends with mistakes.

Ami Nahi Chali

```

Shudhu dekhi ami

Kona khobh nai

Achapal ei chitta

Translation

```

I only watch the dance

and lethargy.

I suffer not from attacks of lethargy.

I am not proud of my purity’s flood.

Jachi Sumati

```

Naba arune kari pranati

Eso shripati

Translation

```

And pray for divine thoughts

My dawn worship is over.

Jago Jago Bharater Rishi Kabi

```

Bharater rishi kabi jago

Jagater ashar

Jago priya jyotir adhar

Dharanir glani shata

Oishi labani ani

Karo priya sucharu akkhoi

Translation

```

O seer poet of Mother Ind,

Awake in your new form, knowledge-sea.

Awake, O Beloved, O Source of light.

Transform the long accrued

Into the light of dawn.

And illumine this unlit world

He Mor Kabita Tumi Je Amar

```

Antara shatadal

Amarar parimal

Pran jabe boye jai

Lukai e pran kai

Translation

```

You bring into my heart

When my life flows

May your magic touch

Bhangeni Aji O Bhul

```

Dukher sagare dubitechi tai

Nai kono thai jetha kichu nai

Dukher rajani pohabe ki kabhu

```

Translation

```

Therefore, I am drowning in the sea of sorrow.

No place on earth where there is no depression,

Will ever the night of dole

Dike Dike Taba Mahimar Bani

```

Mukharita karibar

Shaktir sanchar

Kusumer puta prane

Snigdha karuna dane

Translation

```

To inspire the world

From coast to coast.

In me is life’s flower-heart.

With Your Elysian Compassion-Touch.

Amare Peyeche Ghum

```

Charidike kato hasi utsab

Jagi nai tabu

Basi nai kare bhalo

Sandhya pradip alo

Translation

```

Around me endless roaring mirth,

sweet devotion flames.

I hear not the call divine.

My life’s evening has set in,

in my heart room.

Manushi Drishti Kata Je Bhranta

```

Kata je mulyahin

Dhulai hayeche lin

Dike dike alo mala

Pulaka barana dala

Translation

```

How meaningless is human vision!

Are all buried in the dust of oblivion.

From hoisting the victory-banner

And offering heart’s love-world.

Ami Tomar Lagiya

```

Rayechi jagi dibanishi bhalobasiya

Kebal tomar kripar plaban

```

Translation

```

I am wide awake

On my way there is no bondage-obstruction,

Blessed is my life

Khama Karo Khama Karo More Barebar

```

More barebar

Kripa parabar

Ananda chand

Anahata nad

Translation

```

Time and again.

Of Eternity’s ever-unknown Beyond,

And Delight-Moon.

Birthless and deathless soundless sound.

Nami Juga Avatar

Nami juga avatar

Gahite bhajana

Rishi kabi prema avatar

Shata bhabe anki

Mukti dishari manavatar

Maraner glani

```

Translation

```

Will you give me the right to worship You

O Seer-Poet, O Love incarnate!

In hundreds of ways I paint You,

O beckoning hands of humanity’s liberation,

And sweep away the dark disgrace of death.

Shudhu Chali E Chalar

```

Nai je birati

Er labh khati

Ei marubhume

Ar kalo dhume

Translation

```

My walking never ends.

The loss and gain of my journey.

Eternally in vain

Full of dust and sand, thorns and smoke?

Kutil Maner Prabesh Nishedh

```

Amar alor bhuvane

Amar mukti swapane

Amar premer gahane

Translation

```

To my world of light.

To my liberation-dream.

To my love-depth.

Anrita Hate Sat Pathe

```

Niye jao

Smaran nao

Ami jena chali

Mrittyure kari joy

Translation

```

Lead me from darkness to light.

Dauntless I must march

Chetana Amar Akashe Batase

Chetana amar akashe batase

Sagarer jale kheliya berai

Nai kona thai jetha ami nai

Atma jiban ahuti ditechi

```

Translation

```

With boundless sky and air.

And I am on the top of the mountain peak.

Where my consciousness is not.

To the service of the Absolute Supreme.

Keu Je Mor Apan Noi

```

Sabai jani par

Mama e antar

Na rahe jena par

Masi rupantar

Translation

```

All are nothing to me;

My heart welcomes them all.

Will one day become dear to me,

I shall see the transformation

Kusum Komal Parane Amar

```

Sahena jharer haowa

Amar sakal chaowa

Katai kamana kalpana

Pranati arati archana

Translation

```

Therefore, will all my longings fail to bear fruit?

All my imaginations,

All my devoted surrender be in vain?

Aro Kachhe Ese Na Dharile Hath

```

Kemane chalibo pathe

Durgama giri srote

Lage je amar byatha

Nai kona byakulata

Translation

```

How can I walk along the road?

By the flood coursing through the impenetrable mountain?

If not, no concern have I for my own life.

Bishwa Pujya Mahat Habar Asha Diye

```

Khudra chaowa purna nahi karo

Teman kare dharo amai dharo

Chaudike mor kapurush ar nishwa

Sabai amar chirantaner bishwa

Translation

```

Because You want to fulfil

I do not want to be great

Around me all are blind and stupid.

I long for the liberation of all souls;

We comprise Eternity’s universe.

Paran Mama Tomar Kachhe

```

Kata kichhui chai

Tomar ranga pai

Habe na pran tripta

Tomar kachhe lipta

Translation

```

My heart yearns for only one thing:

Mother Divine, even if You give me

My vital will fail to be satisfied.

Has become one with You

Ebar Amai Tano Mago

```

Ebar amai tano

Tibra bhabe hano

Tomar paye abirata

Pabe tomar nirabata

Tumito ma jano

Ebar amai tano

Translation

```

Draw me near You.

The meanness of my life.

I shall always blossom at Your Feet.

Shall receive Your silence-blessing.

My vital is in ignorance-night.

Draw me near You.

Shunya Hate Shunya Hiyai

```

Purnatare dakbo

Bedan rate maran buke

Amar ashar dhan

Translation

```

I shall invoke the life of Infinity’s perfection.

In the night of suffering

I shall grasp the life of plenitude.

Amar Nutan Pran Tomar Kripar Dan

```

Tomar kripar dan

Tomar bhalobasa

Tomar charan khani

Tomar premer chhabi

Translation

```

My new hope is Your Love-Gift.

My new sun is the picture of Your Love-World.

Ami Bholanath

```

Srishtir tras

Ami sundar

Ami chira anupama

Translation

```

I am the world terror;

I am the beauty of the Beyond;

I am Eternity’s excellence.

Amala Dhabala Pathe

```

Je chale kishora hate

Tahar hridaye ese

Nitya niyata ogo hari

Praner basana khata

Tomar ja kichu ache

Tahare tahai shudhu dio

Translation

```

The path of purity

Do descend into his heart,

Delete his life of imperfections,

Bless him with what You have.

Make him Your own, very own.

Jadi Bhabi Toma Dakibona

```

Heribona oi mukh

Tahate paiba sukh

Shune dekhi ankhi khule

Najani kemane bhule

Translation

```

You any more,

My eyes shut

I see You touching my eyes

I know not, Beloved, how and why

Perhaps all this is just a mistake.

Nayane Shudhu Tomar Hasi

```

Tomar hasi

Ei kamana

Andhar nasi

Translation

```

This is my life’s only longing.

Casting aside the pall of gloom.

Keno Bhoi Keno Bhoi

```

Keno karo bhoi

Chiro nirbhoi

Keno karo bhoi

Tumi akkhoi

Keno karo bhoi

Ghose taba jai

Translation

```

For you, in you, is the eternally fearless One.

You are the child of the Absolute Supreme.

Why do you fear, why do you fear?

Is proclaiming your victory supreme.

Shubhra Akash Shubhra Batas

```

Shanta dharar pran

Niyata bhramyaman

Translation

```

And a tranquil earth-heart I feel within me.

With my eternity’s partner-heart.

Ek Khana Banka Path Kantake Ghera

```

Pratipade badha pai bhishan e bera

Bibhishika dekhateche dhare bhima khaya

Bhulegechi ashiyachi ami kotha hate

Translation

```

At every step I encounter dire obstacles.

With a giant body he frightens me.

Long have I forgotten where my source is.

Ananda Hate Sanjata Mora

```

Sanjata mora

Prati bedanar

Ananda ullas

Translation

```

Delight.

At the end of each earth-pang

With ecstasy’s transcendental Height.

Bhakti Amar Kon Sudure

```

Nil akasher se kon nilimai

Bihane tor hriday amar

Abar phire ai

```

Translation

```

In which blue welkin does it lose its existence pure?

Do return.

Ke Jai E Mukhe Hasiya

```

Ke jai e chokhe dekhiya

Bhab jage mane jage je basana

Ke rakhe hisab ke chalai nahi jani

Swaruper sandhani

Translation

```

Who sees through my eyes?

I do not do anything.

I do not account for.

His Dream-Life and Reality-Life.

Ami Kalo Mrinmoy

```

Ei mor parichoy

Ei mor parichoy

Ei mor parichoy

Translation

```

This is my earth-reality.

This is my Heaven-reality.

This is my Absolute Reality supreme.

Jatri Chaleche Durgam Pathe Rikta

```

Ghana andhiyare ashru badale sikta

Chira sahachar bedana bilap shranti

Translation

```

Along the impenetrable road

He sees teeming darkness and lightning tears

Bondage all around him; solution a far cry,

have made him their eternal friend.

Je Ja Chai Diyo Tare

```

More shudhu diyo asha

Pujibo tomare maner gahane

More shudhu diyo akuti

```

Translation

```

Give me only hope-life and love-light.

I shall worship You.

Give me only the aspiration-flame

Amar Anan Bhora

```

Jyotsna dhara

Ei je tomar sneher dan

Nitya aphuran

Mukti shikhar tan

Translation

```

My heart is grown into a song celestial.

O Mother of affection-flood.

You are my expectant heart’s

Andharer Par Alor Sharani

```

Alor sarani

Labhibe jatri

Chaleche niruddeshe

Translation

```

The road of light.

This realisation has blossomed in the heart

Therefore, treasuring this hope,

Their destined goal.

Harabo Ajike Amar Amire

```

Amiya sagara tire

Rahibo hethai nirabata sathe

Jabona kakhano phire

Supta gabhir rate

Translation

```

At the shore of the nectar-sea

I shall stay there

And honey-lustre.

To my dark ignorance-night

Ami Amar Mukti Bhanu

```

Hiyar mahotsabe

Maner kalarabe

Purna loker smriti

Dhangsa chhayar priti

Translation

```

In the great festival of hearts.

In the clamour of my mind.

And my memories of perfection-light.

And my love of destruction-shadow.

Jader Lagiya Tomare Bhulechi

```

Kothai ajike tara

Karechi sarbohara

Hiya mama jena dake nirabadhi

Timir jiban kara

Translation

```

I have totally forgotten You?

I have made myself totally destitute.

O ocean of Forgiveness.

I shall worship You.

Of darkness-life.

Aro Dure Aro Dure

Aro dure aro dure

Jabo ami jabo

Bajai prane alo banshi

Jagai prane chinta udas

Tomai ami pabo

Jabo ami jabo

Translation

```

Into the farthest city of the Beyond.

Are playing their flutes of light within my heart.

Awake within me boundless thought.

Receive You and achieve You in the heart of all.

Jani Tumi Asbe Phire

```

Taita cheye thaki

Amai diye phanki

Thake sada jagi

Nitya jena magi

Translation

```

Therefore, I look around with expectant eyes.

My heart is always awake to catch a glimpse of You.

In my hopeful night.

Eso Sundara Chiro Manohara

```

Eso mor prananath

Amar dibasa rath

Amarar ajanar

Dao aji adhikar

Translation

```

O Lord of my life, do come.

Day in and day out.

Of the Heaven unknown.

At Your Feet divine.

Kata Bedanar Ashru Bahiya

```

Tapta e pran khani

Shunite tomar bani

Herite tomar pane

Bichitra abhinava

Keno tumi tabu

```

Translation

```

I have shed ceaseless tears.

I want nothing but to see You.

You have asked me to glance at You.

You know my failure

Yet I do not know

Ebar Tomai Karechi Jai

```

Bhalobasa diye

Bishwe ami dakbo hese

Jenechi aj ei dharanir

Tomar nirabata

Eseche purnata

Translation

```

With Your Compassion-Flood

With my soul’s smile,

I have learned all secrets of the world.

Therefore, in me I see

Mukta Amar Rath

```

Mukta ajike

Tumi amar paran majhi

Sabar prane basbo bhalo

```

Translation

```

My road is clear of thorns.

I am Your dream-boat.

In the heart of all

Dyuloke Jekhane Gyane O Karme

```

Tumi ami ekakar

Jachi ami barebar

Heriya tomai nayan bari

Narayane mor baran kari

Translation

```

Where You and I are one

This is my constant prayer.

Offers me purity’s light of oneness

In my reality world.

Khama Karo More Ogo Kripamoy

```

Shesh aparadh mor

Dainya jatana ghor

Bhasaye amar prane

Tomar bijoy gane

Translation

```

Forgive me, forgive me

This is my last offence.

Pangs and poverty dark.

The bird of my heart will awake

Nil Jamunar Tire

```

Amar hiyar param amire

Nil jamunar tire

Kanu sathe ami khelechi

Dharar mukti lagiya amara

Nil jamunar tire

Translation

```

Many a time I have seen

At the bank of blue Jamuna

I have played with Krishna.

Together we have opened the door of Heaven

At the bank of blue Jamuna.

Shunya Hate Ebar Ami

```

Jabo tomar kache

Keman madhur nache

Tomar barabhoy

Sakali madhumoy

Translation

```

This time I shall come to You.

My life of nothingness shall dance.

And Compassion supreme.

It is all sweetness-flood.

Shunyata Go Shunyata

```

Tumi ankhir purnata

Shunyata go shunyata

Tumi dharar mugdhata

Translation

```

You are my vision’s plenitude;

Nothingness, O nothingness,

You are the world-appreciation

He Sevak He Sevika

```

He premik he premika

Daki aji bare bare

Tomader darashan

Amarata jagaran

Translation

```

O my love-son and love-daughter,

Today I call you incessantly.

I invoke your presence love.

Eternal and immortal awakening.

Dhara Jadi Tumi Nahi Dite Chao (1)

```

Ei dharanir buke

Marma pirana dukhe

Kamya kichui nai

Pai ekbar thai

Translation

```

In the heart of this world,

And in utter sole misery?

Only one desire have I:

Ami Shudhu Banshi

```

Tumi na bajale

Ei kathatuku likhibe ki mor vale

Amar gopan katha

Charama sarthakatha

Translation

```

I never produce a sound

Will You write down this message

Everyone will come to know

I shall attain to the highest

By adorning Your face.

Dure Dure Ati Dure

```

Kache ati kache

Harai kena apan swarup laje

Amar hate bandhbe kabe

```

Translation

```

Near, very near,

Who do I lose my self-form in shyness?

To tie my hands with Your love cord?

Ami Tomai Bhalobasi Tomar Kripa Lagi

```

Tomar kripa lagi

Gabhir rate jagi

Dan pratidan bhalobasar

Nitya anuragi

Tomar kripa lagi

Translation

```

I worship You when the night is far advanced.

We barter our love-light.

I love You for Your Compassion-Flood.

Amar Dake Debe Sara

```

Ei achhe mor asha

Sneha bhalobasa

Jane sabai jane

Eso amar prane

Translation

```

This hope I treasure.

From You alone.

Invaluable Your love is;

Mother Divine, come in, come in.

Nirab Bhasai Tomai Ami Kahi

```

Ami jena tomar majhe rahi

Amar jiban amar maran

Amar lagi tomar kripa-mahi

Translation

```

I long to remain in the depth of Your Heart.

My earth-life and my earth-death

Your Compassion-Sea is all for me.

Nil Akasher Megher Phanke

```

Oi heri kar alo tari

Sakal byetha baran kari

Maran hiner asha alo

Guchabo mor sakal kalo

Translation

```

In the flights of clouds?

I shall have to appear there

I must receive the hope-light of the deathless world.

And end my life of ignorance-night.

Srashta Amar Jagater Jyoti

```

Atma bijayi bir

Ei janiyachhi sthir

Mukta jyotir dhara

Haiya apana hara

Translation

```

And the supreme Hero-Conqueror of the Self.

Indeed, this is my absolute realisation.

And not earth’s ignorance-dream.

From the freedom of the Beyond,

In the sea of Infinity’s Light.

Sonar Baran Jyotir Toran

```

Jemni gela khule

Dodul dolai dule

Jyotir tari beye

Aloi dila chheye

Translation

```

Opens up,

With the ecstasy of the Beyond.

Sailing the boat of light.

And awakened me to the heights of light.

Tomai Ami Karechi Jai

```

Taito ami nachi

Taito bhabe achi

Agyanatar ghor

Amarata bhor

Translation

```

Therefore, I am dancing today.

Therefore, I exist on earth.

My dark ignorance-life.

Your Immortality’s dawn.

Phul Phul Phul Amra Akash Phul

```

Amra akash phul

Phal phal phal

Mayer charan tal

Pather susambal

Chal chal chal

Alor ashish dal

Translation

```

We are the flowers of the sky.

Fruit, fruit, fruit;

Of our surrender-light.

Our Mother’s Feet

Let us march on, let us march on,

Dauntless are we, the hero-warriors

Prabhat Habe Prabhat Habe

```

Kabe kabe kabe kabe

Kabe kabe kabe kabe

Kabe kabe kabe kabe

Kabe kabe kabe kabe

Translation

```

But when, but when?

But when, but when?

I shall become, I shall become,

Knowledge-sun

But when, but when?

Sukher Katha Balbo Tomai

```

Dukher katha balbona

Maner timir debona

Maran diye dakbona

Ashru diye bandhbona

Translation

```

I shall hide from You my world of sorrow.

Never shall I offer You my tenebrous mind.

I shall bind You with my soul-smile,

Se Je Amai Chaina Kabhu

```

Ami jare daki

Pelam shudhu phanki

Tari lagi baje

Shata dukher majhe

Translation

```

I have received only deception from Him

I always play on my compassion-flute

Alas, Him I can never forget.

Se Chai Tomar Hasi

```

Sneha rasi

Hridaye tomar

Herite khelite

Translation

```

Your affection-wealth.

In the heart of all human beings

Tomar Manushi Tanure Ghiriya

```

Amara lakka prani

Shunite dibya bani

Translation

```

Your divinely physical form

To give life form to Your Message supreme.

Swapane Parash Diye Jao Priya

```

Jagile lukao dure

Heri toma giri chure

Hese jao dure chale

Niyata amare chhale

Translation

```

O Beloved of my dream.

Far, very far, from my vision light.

You I see lost in self-life.

Smiling You run away.

Do You really get joy?

Tumi Jadi Hat Dharo

```

Jabo pare chale

Pabo pale pale

Jadi nahi pai

Shudhu asi jai

Translation

```

I shall reach the shore.

Excruciating pangs shall torture my heart.

In the Infinite and the finite

Into this world beset with difficulty-thorns?

Bahudin Pare Abar Tomare Daki

```

Bahudin pare nehari abar amar nayane jal

Cheyechilo pran bidurite mor samasya kolahal

Dao prabhu more simahin purnata

Translation

```

Today again I see tears in my eyes.

My vital life wanted to cast aside its problem-din.

O Lord, shower me with Eternity’s Infinity.

Tomar Ketan Diyecho Amare

```

Tumi chiro barabhoy

Tai ami nirbhoy

Ogo anandamoy

Tai ami akkhoy

Translation

```

You are Eternity’s Compassion.

Therefore, no fear have I.

O Delight supreme.

Therefore, Immortality’s life I am.

Samadhan Khunje Naba Samasya Ar

```

Kalpana kare rachibona arbar

Shata samasya swarupe niruddesh

Translation

```

By longing for solutions.

I shall not create any more problems.

In tranquillity’s heart

Tumi Amai Dekechile Jaini Tomar Kache

```

Jaini tomar kache

Jaini tomar kache

Jaini tomar kache

Jaini tomar kache

Translation

```

Yet I did not go to You.

Yet I did not go to You.

Yet I did not go to You.

Yet I did not go to You.

Banshi Tomar Nahi Baje

```

Amar ushar hiya majhe

Amar ushar hiya majhe

Amar ushar hiya majhe

Amar ushar hiya majhe

Translation

```

In my barren heart.

In my barren heart.

In my barren heart.

In my barren heart.

Pranami Charane Janaka Janani

```

Jugala murati karunar

Diba je ajike upahar

Dasha dishi hate kariche smaran

Pranamiya barebar

Translation

```

Two Faces of Compassion in one form;

What gifts do we have to offer at Your Feet?

With wealth, virtue and capacities,

Are invoking Your presence divine,

Again and again.

Sabare Diyecho Ananda Sudha

```

Amare diyecho byatha

Aphuran nirabata

Garba amar karecho churna

Ami mor karagar

Samadhan parabar

Translation

```

Me You have given only excruciating pangs.

Infinite silence.

My desire for ego-destruction, too,

I am my somnolent dream and my prison life.

And I have solved my problem sea.

Swapan Tari

```

Kothai tumi thako

Kothai tumi rakho

Amar hiya nadi

Dake nirabadhi

Translation

```

Where do you abide?

Of the world of light?

The river of my heart

Ceaselessly and unconditionally call you.