Supreme, Teach Me How To Surrender

Ai Ma Shyama Pagli Amar

```

Ami ma tor pagla chele

Sakal bandhan dure phele

E jagate e jibane

Rakhish na ar maya bane

Translation

```

Your mad son is crying for You.

Bondage-shackles.

Is to proclaim Your Victory

Therefore, keep me not in the thick

Akash Bhalobasi Ami

```

Mukti bhalobasi

Nitya ami hasi

Translation

```

Immortal liberation-life I love.

In all human beings

Akash Madhur Batas Madhur

```

Charidike madhu akkhoy

Hayechi je madhumoy

Kari madhu bitaran

Madhu rupe kari rupayan

Translation

```

Sweetness all around me.

Within and without.

All darkness I have destroyed

Alo Alo Alo

```

Antare mor gyaner dipan jwalo

Abishwasi atrahasi hase

Antare mor gyaner dipan jwalo

Translation

```

Of wisdom-light inside my heart.

All around me, the world-laughter of disbelief!

Of wisdom-light inside my heart.

Alo Andhar Amar Jato

```

Tomai sanpe abirata

Sakal asha bhalobasa

Tomai kari dan

Translation

```

By offering my darkness-night

All my hopes and all my love

I shall offer to You,

Alor Sathe Alo Haye

```

Aloi chali mishe

Berai dasha dishe

Translation

```

One I have become.

In the Light divine.

I swim and sport

Amal Dhabal Pal Tulechhe

```

Amar jiban tari

Ei taranir pari

Khule achhi ami pal

Ami achhi nitya tomar kachhe

Translation

```

All the soulful pilgrims have arrived.

Lord Supreme, You are the Pilot Absolute.

The Golden Shore of Perfection-Satisfaction.

Amar Jata Shata Abeg

```

Asha akinchan

Kari samarpan

Translation

```

And all my aspiration-cries

At Your Feet,

My Reality’s Lord Supreme.

Amare Jadi Baso Bhalo

```

Niye jao amare aj

Jiban bhor sanjh

Translation

```

Then take me, my life within

At Your Feet divine

Of morning duty and evening beauty.

Amare Karo Ma Shunya

```

Purna karite antara mor

Amare karo ma adhikar

Jyotite rayeche sakal pratikar

Translation

```

Complete emptiness life

Mother, capture me, my life

I know, I know, Mother,

Only when I far transcend

Ami Adihin Anta Bihin

```

Asimer ek bindu

Dakiche purna indu

Translation

```

No more do I have form-life.

Infinite inner moon.

Ami Akkhoy Ami Abyay

```

Ami chira simahin

Bajai lilar bin

Translation

```

Boundless I am.

The form finite

In the Cosmic Play.

Ami Amar Dhyane Tanmoy

```

Ami akkhoy atma pujai tanmoy

Bahire kebali malinata stup

Ami amari dhyane tanmoy

Translation

```

in my trance-light.

Capture my outer life,

I am Perfection’s height.

Ami Amare Bhalobasi

Ami amare bhalobasi

Ami amare bhalobasi

Ami amare bhalobasi

```

Translation

```

Therefore, I do not get Your Smile.

Therefore, I do not get Your Flute.

Therefore, teeming darkness is all around me.

Ami Ananta Asima Akasha Pratim

```

Sundaro sundaro akkhoy

Shishu kala hashe

```

Translation

```

Of the infinite sky.

I see You within my heart;

Like a child I smile and smile

Ami Herite Chai Amar Swarup

```

Nitya sakal prane

Chaluk tomar pane

Translation

```

Every day in all human souls.

Flow toward You alone

Ami Milate Chai Batase

```

Khulite chai sakal duar mukta praner harashe

```

Translation

```

And fly in the unhorizoned sky.

In the delight of my liberation-life.

Anandamayi Chaitanyamayi Satyamayi

```

Jagrata hao jagate jibane nitya sakala karame

Translation

```

Mother of Consciousness,

O Mother Absolute,

In all my action-performance,

Antara Krandana Tale

```

Tomare pujibo bale

Ogo priyatama majhi

Habo ami nirabata

Translation

```

I desire to worship You,

May my hope-flower blossom

And offer me the height

Antare Mor Ananta Rup

```

Bahire khudra ami

Nikhil bishwa swami

Translation

```

Although in the outer life I am useless

O Lord of the Universe,

As Your own, very own.

Antare Mor Jyotir Plaban

```

Bahire mor alo

Kothao nai kalo

Jyoti shudhu chira akkhoy

Basi shudhui bhalo

Translation

```

Today darkness I see nowhere.

And this Eternity’s Light I love only.

Anute Renute Sakala Tanute

```

Biraje amar pran

Shudhu kari madhu pan

Translation

```

And in human frames

All beauty am I, immutable am I.

Aruper Rupe Phutiche E Phul

```

Phutiche e phul

Shanti shakti

Sundara anuragi

Translation

```

My heart-flower is blossoming

Peace and Power in infinite measure

Also it longs for devoted

With the ever-transcending Beauty.

Asha Ache Tai Achi

```

Shata nirashai buk bhange nai

Kalo megh jabe kete

Asibe akash fete

Translation

```

Countless frustrations have not cowed me.

The black cloud will disappear,

In all its supernal glory.

Asha Niye Chale Sudure

```

Amar bishal nitya swarup

Agyan pabe bigyan

Satyer pabe sandhan

Translation

```

To the farthest land.

I see my beauty's Form Eternal.

Is illumined by my inner wisdom-day.

Will discover the Truth absolute.

Asim Amar Dile Prane Dhara

```

Dile prane dhara

Chetana aj bishwa bhuvanmoy

Ananta akkoy

Translation

```

To be caught by my fleeting life

To flood the entire universe.

Has established its oneness

Bachan Maner Atite

```

Nitya jyotir nadite

Khule geche aj sahasra ankhi

```

Translation

```

Into the river of ever-effulgent Light

Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia,

Basiyacho Bhalo Dharanir Dhuli

```

Ke srijila balo dukkha dainya maran jatana upahas

Translation

```

the Dust of this world.

suffering, wild mockery

Bela Jai Bela Jai Jiban Nadir Mohanai

```

Maramer byatha praner abeg aji sandhyai dube jai

Niyata amar shrabane manane

```

Translation

```

The urge of the heart and the pangs of the heart

Who are they that constantly remind me

Bhalobasi Ami Atal Baridhi

```

Asim sunil ambara

Ruddha supta antara

Translation

```

I love,

I love.

To keep wide open

Bishwa Bhuvan Karite Apan

```

Diyo bhalobasa buke

Tri jagate kotha dukhe

Translation

```

Grant my heart oneness-love

As its own.

In the hearts of all the three worlds.

Bishwaruper Dhyane Tanmoy

```

Jibane jagate heri jena taba bijayer abhijan

Translation

```

That enjoys the Universal Form of the Lord.

Constantly

Chetana Amar Akashe Batase

Chetana amar akashe batase

Ami nai ar ache shudhu ek

Nikhil bhuban amar apan

Bahire amar keha nai ar

```

Translation

```

In the sky and in the air.

Achieved liberation.

Eternal love vibration.

My body in the outer world no stranger,

Chinta Atite Maner Atite Sundara

```

Sarthak karo man pran deha antara

Shri charane diyo ashroy

Translation

```

O beautiful One, You abide.

May I have this sense of fulfilment

Taking shelter at Your Feet divine.

Danto Chahini Datar Haste

```

Mukta hayechi chira jibaner hate jata abhiman

Translation

```

Today I have offered You my aspiration-life.

Dharanire Basi Bhalo

```

Esechi namiya hasiya hasiya

E lila tomar ogo lilamayi

Bhenge sab dor antara mor

```

Translation

```

I have entered into this life of darkness-night

With the hope to transform this sombre world.

I bow to You again and again.

Today capture and claim my heart for good.

Dibya Jiban Asibe

```

Pratiti paran hasibe

Dharanire bhalobasibe

Translation

```

Each human life shall smile.

Loving this world of ours.

Ghumer Deshe Swapne Ese

```

Ar katokal ghurbo miche na jani ei srote

Translation

```

And endlessly walk along.

I shall have to follow this course helplessly.

Jadi Toma Chai Dekha Nahi Pai

```

Dekha nahi pai

Antare theke antaratama

```

Translation

```

I see You not,

I wish You only to remain

In silence,

Japi Madhu Nam Shudhu Abiram

```

Janani amar janani

Tumi amar sarani

Translation

```

O Mother of mine.

You are the only way leading me to my supernal Goal.

Japi Shakti Mantra Shakti

```

Shakti moder sakal karma nitya ache dhari

Shyama moder prane

```

Translation

```

We follow Shakti path.

We need the Power that holds us.

And in our wisdom-light.

To discover the Power Absolute.

Je Jibane Tumi Acho

```

Ar nai kichu

Se dibya jiban

Ar sab ache

Diyona kakhan

Translation

```

Is all I want.

Your Compassion I implore.

Kali Karali Ma Pralaya

```

Pralay nachan rakta banya

abar kena ma abhaya

Translation

```

Mother of the world-transforming

O Mother, You are at once

Of Concern-Light and Compassion-Ocean

Kalpana Eso Nami Kalpe Loker

```

Jyoti dhara sama eso antara jani asim tomar rupe

```

Translation

```

Do descend like the flow of imagination-world.

Do descend with Your Aspiration-Flames

Kande Hiya Toma Lagi

```

Sei mor sukh

Ghuche jai dukh

Ar nai keha

Ache dui deha

Translation

```

Therefore I am happy.

When I obey you, I alone exist

Two outer frames with one

Kari Nirbhar Kari Ashroy

```

Satya amar chira jibaner prana priyatama sanchoi

Niye chale more ananta pane satyer uddeshe

Translation

```

Your Feet of Truth always shelter me.

In my words and deeds, may the Charioteer of Truth

To the Reality unknown.

Karo Sundaro Karo Nirmala

```

Karo nirmala

Sundara chira sundara

Bikashita karo antara

Translation

```

Make my faith unperturbed.

Your Feet are my haven.

To blossom at Your Feet.

Ke Jai Ke Jai Charana Parashe (1)

Ke jai ke jai

Alokito kare antaratal

Ingite bale ai

Translation

```

Blossoming the lotus with the touch

Behold, He illumines my inner world

to dive within.

Ke More Bhulaye Rekheche

```

Ke more hethai eneche

Ke amare bhalobeseche

Translation

```

Who has forced my earth-descent, who?

I also know not where is He and who is He

Kripar Daner Kangal Karona

```

Karona karona karona karona

Jukta rakhiyo chitta amar

```

Translation

```

Helpless and destitute.

Eternally united with

Ma Ma Bale Dakre

```

Shyama mayer charan tale shaber mato pare thak

Sab haye jai shiber mato kandisna ar praner dukhe

Translation

```

Uttering the name Mother, Mother.

Like a vanquished corpse.

On the heart of Her divine consort, Shiva,

I, too, like my Mother,

Ma Tor Ruper Aloi (1)

```

Chokh dhendheche

Tui je amar praner pran

Maner kali praner kali

Tatoi ma tor adar bere jai

Apan kare amai nite

```

Translation

```

Therefore, I see darkness all around.

You are the Light supreme.

The more I offer it to You,

You shower on me.

I shall offer You all my darkness

Ma Tor Ruper Aloi (2)

```

Chokh dhendheche

Tui je amar praner pran

Maner kali praner kali

Tatoi ma tor adar bere jai

Apan kare amai nite

```

Translation

```

Therefore, I see darkness all around.

You are the Light supreme.

The more I offer it to You,

You shower on me.

I shall offer You all my darkness

Madhumoy Usha Deva

```

Antare kare antara tama devarupe karo rupayan

Translation

```

Beautiful day has dawned.

Do make my life

Madhurata Jetha Nai Ami Nai

```

Ami nai tatha ami nai

Madhu aradhana

Tai madhumoy niyata amai

```

Translation

```

I am not there, I am not there.

Sweetness-invocation I always do.

In sweet, ambrosial meditation.

Mago Bara Hale Karbo Ami

```

Tomar Anek kaj

Rakhal daler raj

Khelbo jala khela

Prati sandhya bela

Translation

```

I shall work very hard for You.

I shall be the leader of the cowherds.

I shall play water games.

When the evening sets in

To You, my heart’s home.

Mago Juddhe Jabo Balo Jadi Marbo Asur Raj

```

Juddhe jabo balo jadi marbo asur raj

Balo jadi hate pari sabar sera lok

```

Translation

```

And destroy the formidable foes,

Again, if You want,

And devotedly do Your work.

On earth,

And I shall cast aside sorrow,

At Your express Command.

Mane Prane Dehe Simar Bandhan

```

Ami simahin asimer srote chalechi satata bahe

Jibane amar tomar bijoy kebali niyata chai

Translation

```

And stifles my body, vital and mind.

Flowing toward the endless and infinite Source.

I have none.

But Your complete Victory

Mohalata Mohalata

```

Shuna shuna dakiche amai sudur desher asimata

Jedin tomai mukti gane phulla hiyay chhere jabo

Translation

```

O my world’s attachment-bond,

The Infinity of the farthest clime is beckoning me.

I shall meet with my Beloved Supreme

And liberation-song.

Mrittyu Taran Abhoi Sharan

```

Antare nam japi dina jam jachi shashwata tripti

Translation

```

O my eternal Haven-Lord,

I behold You and have grown into

Mukti Amar Gan

```

Mukti amar chira jibaner ekti matra dhyan

Sakaler prane jena sada pai deba jyoti sandhan

Translation

```

Liberation is my only meditation-peace.

In the near or distant future

In God’s entire creation.

Naba Jibaner Asha Nabatar

```

Mukhe dao naba bhasha

Ananta abhijan

Translation

```

Do grow into a higher and more fulfilling life.

My God-manifestation-life.

Crown my Eternity’s journey with victory’s light.

Nadi Chale Jai

```

Sagarer pane

Paraner tane

Karite jibana dan

Asimer abhijan

Translation

```

I know not what urges the river-heart to flow.

As an insect offers its life to the flame,

To the all-transforming Flame-Beauty.

Nai Nai Nai Ami Ar Nai

Nai nai nai ami ar nai

Sahasa sonali alor jhalake

```

Translation

```

What exists is only a fragile shadow.

In a golden lightning spark.

Nami Parama Satya Sundara

```

Asimer bastaba rup

Chetana amar satya akashe

Niyata kebali ami jena rahi

```

Translation

```

O Reality-Form of Infinity,

Inseparably one, with Yours

In Your boundless sky.

Namiche Aj Ananda Plaban

```

Mridul paban prane kare nanda bahan

Mile geche byetha bhar jato andhakar

Translation

```

Inundates me, my all.

Are smashed and broken.

No more darkness-life.

Nirabata Nirabata

```

Tumi amar atma ushar asimata

Tumi amar deha nishar asha lata

Translation

```

You are the Infinity

Silence, silence,

Of my body’s night.

Nirban Pare Pare Labhechi Janam

```

Jyotir jyotite ananta parabare

Chira jibaner sathi

Nitya dibasa rati

Translation

```

I have taken human incarnation

Peace and power in boundless measure

I long to remain in trance

Nitya Ekhan Jedike Takaye Dekhi

```

Eje sei jan jare khunjitechi eki

Translation

```

Yet I search for You and long for You.

Nitya Jena Chitta Bhare

Nitya jena chitta bhare

Amar praner pran

Antare mor hajar bati

```

Translation

```

Unreservedly and unconditionally.

You are the light of my soul-sun.

In Your Cosmic Game, out of Your Infinity,

Nitya Mukta Asimer Ami

```

Karuna sagare jyotir jyotite hayechi atma hara

Translation

```

In the sea of my Lord’s Compassion-Light,

Niyata Tomare Chahina

```

Ei to amar dukh

Ei to amar dukh

Gopane pariba jhari

Keha rakhibena dhari

Translation

```

Therefore, I suffer excruciating pangs.

In silence, worshipping the fountain-life.

Nobody will bind me.

Oi Shuno Oi Dake Shyama Ma

```

Swapan sathi amar shyama ma

Dake shashi tara

Dake jyochna dhara

Translation

```

The companion of my dream,

The sky, the wind, the stars, the moon

The morning sun and the flow

Pathe Jakhan Chali Shyama

```

Tui je chalis sathe sathe

Ma tor parash mile dinerate

Amai chereche

Dure rekheche

Translation

```

I see You accompanying me.

I feel Your gracious presence.

Yet I know not why I feel You have deserted me.

That I feel You are away from me?

Prane Jata Chila Byethar Bhar Kareche Aj

```

Kareche aj pulak adhikar

Anande aj dube ache chitta atma hara

Translation

```

Has won ecstasy’s Source.

Both my earth-life and my Heaven-life

Prati Chintai Prati

```

Prati kaje ar prati kaje ar

Chali jena sada shudhu toma pane

Simar bandhane jena nahi kheli asime dubite chai

Translation

```

In each little work,

May I feel Your Presence

Your Smile of Nectar-Source.

No longer shall I struggle

I want to lose my existence-life

Purna Kariya Ditechi Sampiya

```

Shunya kariya patra

Britha chesta matra

Ahanger sima rekha

Antare dao dekha

Translation

```

No matter how hard I try, I fail.

Obliterate my ego-life and make me pure

Pushti Amar Tushti Tomar

```

Ke diyechi hai jibane amar kebal akkhamata

Translation

```

And my perfection-light,

All the world’s incapacities.

Rupe Rase Preme Asiyachi Neme

```

Anadi asim hate

Chalechi jibana srote

Translation

```

I came into the world.

For it was in the hoary past.

The course of Eternity’s Life.

Sakal Jiban Amar Apan

```

Keha nahe mor par

Amar apan ghar

Translation

```

Nobody is a stranger to me.

My soul-garment and my own peace-vest.

Sakaler Prane Tomare Heriya Basiya

```

Haye jete chai mane prane dehe rupantarita alo

Translation

```

And loving You in every aspiring heart,

Body, mind and vital —

Sakaler Sheshe Asibo (2)

```

Sakalere bhalo basibo

Sabare bakkhe rakhibo

Translation

```

After all have loved, I shall love.

I shall keep humanity’s life

Sakaler Sheshe Asibo (1)

```

Sakalere bhalo basibo

Sabare bakkhe rakhibo

Translation

```

After all have loved, I shall love

I shall keep humanity’s life

Satya Amar Pran

```

Niyata kebal jena kari shudhu

Satyer par satya rayeche asim nirbishesh

Translation

```

Truth is my meditation.

This Truth knows no end;

Satya Swarup Bhagaban

```

Satyer dhyane tanmoy karo

```

Translation

```

May I lose myself at every moment

Your Compassion-Light.

Shramiker Byatha Shilpi Bujhena

```

Kalpana kare bujheo bujhena ankena hiyar chabi

Translation

```

The pangs of the artist are beyond the poet’s reach.

Because the soul-paintings of heart’s oneness are missing.

Shyama Amai Pagal Kare De

```

Ke bale ma shyama baran

Chandra surya charana tale

Ma tor charan tale raibo pare

```

Translation

```

By granting me divine ecstasy.

You are pure gold.

And also the cosmic gods sing and dance.

Always at Your Feet,

Mad human being.

Sima Mile Jak Asimer Buke

```

Deva jibaner madhu sangit bajuk e bina tare

Translation

```

In the heart of the Ocean of Delight.

Of Transcendence-Height.

Simar Majhare Akash Pratim

```

Asim apar parabar

Taranga sama durbar

Antare ami sthir

Chira bidrohi bir

Translation

```

And the sky.

I have become indomitable wave.

In my inner life, I am the bottom

Simar Majhare Parina Rakhite Dhari

```

Parina rakhite dhari

Niyechi baran kari

Nai kona asha

Parama shunye

Peyechi amar dekha

Translation

```

Alas, I cannot house Infinity.

Long lost have I my reminiscence-light.

Has made me see the great Silence-Light.

Sundara Karo Madhumoy Karo

```

Eso sundara eso madhumoy sri charane dao sharan

Translation

```

O, make me blissful,

O beautiful One, O blissful One,

I desire Your Haven-Feet.

Sundara Madhumoy

```

Eso sundara madhumoy

Eso pratyushe eso sandhyai

Sundara madhumoy

Translation

```

Do enter into my heart’s cry,

Do enter into my purity-dawn,

With new form’s light,

Sundara Shib Mrinmoya Jib

```

Mrinmoya jib

Shraddha bhakti

Antare karo anayan

Translation

```

Earth-children are invoking You,

Do come into my heart

With Your boundless Power-Light.

Sundare Basi Bhalo

```

Sundaratama antare mamo sundare dip jwalo

Jibane marane mileche amar sundar sandhan

Translation

```

Do kindle beauty’s lamp

Today everything is beautiful.

All are beautiful.

Have discovered Eternity's Beauty today.

Sundari Premika Sundari Sevika

```

Sundari sevika

Sundari gahana

Sundari savita

Translation

```

O lover supreme of the Absolute Beauty,

O dancer supreme of the Absolute Beauty,

O world-purifier of the Absolute Beauty,

Swapane Asiya Madhur Hasiya

```

Jeyona swapane chali

E jibane pale pale

Translation

```

You grant me the life-illumining smile.

Do reveal Yourself in and through me

And perfection-whole at every moment.

Swapne Hasi Swapne Kandi

```

Swapne shudhu basiye diy jiban nade bhela

Byartha asha kalpana

Maya tyager jalpana

Translation

```

In my dream-life, I sail my effulgence boat.

Goes back to sleep,

Immediately captures me.

My earth-life-attachments, from illusion.

Tomar Range Rangiye Dao

Tomar range rangiye dao

Dibya jyotir srote

Bhasi ami nayan nire

Bandhana hate

Translation

```

Let me flow with Your Beauty’s waves.

I swim in the sea of my tears.

From bondage chain.

Tomar Range Rangiye Dao

Tomar range rangiye dao amar jato kalpana

```

Translation

```

With Your Beauty’s all transcending Light.

And a deathless heart.