1. Jharna-kala... moder bala

Jharna-kala jharna-kala jharna-kala
Moder bala moder chala ujjala
Tumi moder asha hiyar chira mangala
Karma hasir parapare dodul dola

2. Translation

O Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art!
Gold-bright is our journey's voice;
Gold-bright is our journey's goal.
You are our hope-heart’s
Eternally hallowed Consciousness-Light supreme.
You are the delight-swing of silence-height
Beyond the shore of earth-sorrows
And Heaven-smiles.
O Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art!

3. Jharna-kala... dodula

Jharna-kala jharna-kala jharna-kala
Dodula dodula purna purna

4. Translation

Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art!
Perfection's fulness-swing.

5. Jharna-kala… oishi manjula

Jharna-kala jharna-kala oishi manjula
Srishtir asha srashtar bhasha jiban kamala

6. Translation

Fountain-Art, O Heaven-Beauty!
Creation's hope, Creator's words!
You have made my life
All-beauty.

7. Jharna-kala bishwa prabhur

Jharna-kala bishwa prabhur
Shreshtha jaya gan
Shanti shakti jyotir sathi
Pijush aphuran

8. Translation

Fountain-Art is our Lord’s
Supreme Victory-Song.
You are the friend of Peace,
Power, Light and Nectar infinite.

9. Jharna bhati

Jharna bhati nashe rati
Purna nabhe chira sathi

10. Translation

Fountain-Light destroys
Darkness-night.
In the perfection-fulness-sky
Fountain-Light is my eternal Friend.

11. Jharna hiyai

Jharna hiyai manob jiban
Premer jyoti pela dekha

12. Translation

In the heart of the Fountain-Art,
The human life has discovered
Celestial Love-Light.

13. Jharna jharna

Jharna jharna jharna jharna
Chanda chanda nanda nanda
Vidyutparna vidyutparna

14. Translation

Fountain, fountain, fountain, fountain!
Beauty, beauty! Delight, delight!
Lightning-goddess, Lightning-goddess!

15. Jharna jibane

Jharna jibane purna ase
Purna jibane shunya bhase
Shunya jibane parama hase

16. Translation

Into the life of fountain-fulness enter.
In fulness-life
The cosmic zero shines.
Inside the cosmic zero
The Mother Supreme smiles.

17. Alo bhela jharna-kala

Alo bhela jharna-kala
Chira subala suphala

18. Translation

Fountain-Art is the boat
Of Light.
It is eternally
Powerful and fruitful.

19. Jharna-kalar jharna nritya

Jharna-kalar jharna nritya
Mukta kare paran bhritya

20. Translation

The fountain-dance
Of the Fountain-Art
Liberates my slavery-life.

21. Jharna-kala ane kamala

Jharna-kala ane kamala
Nashe parane rati badala
Kamala badala

22. Translation

Fountain-Art brings in
The Beauty of the Supreme.
It silences inside our heart
The thundering night.

23. Jibane mama

Jibane mama jharna rani
Taito ami timir hani
Shamane mama jharna rani
Taito ami parama tani

24. Translation

The Fountain-Queen
Descends into my heart.
Therefore I have the capacity
To destroy darkness-life.
The Fountain-Queen
Descends into my death.
Therefore I invoke
The Absolute Supreme.

25. Jharna jharna tumi ananya

Jharna jharna
Tumi ananya
Debi aparna

26. Translation

Fountain, Fountain!
You are the unparalleled
Goddess Mother Supreme.

27. Jiban chapala

Jiban chapala maran abala
Hese niyeche jharna-kala

28. Translation

Mine is a restless life.
Mine is feeble death.
With a vast smile
Fountain-Art has accepted me and my all.

29. Jharna dyuloke

Jharna dyuloke jharna bhuloke
Jharna asime jharna sasime
Jharna jharna jharna

30. Translation

Fountain-Art in Heaven,
Fountain-Art on earth,
Fountain-Art in the heart of the Infinite,
Fountain-Art in the finite heart.
Fountain, fountain, fountain!

31. Jharna-kala sathi amar

Jharna-kala sathi amar alor pathar
Asimatar amaratar kripa adhar

32. Translation

Boundless Light
Is the friend of Fountain-Art.
It is the Source
Of infinite Compassion eternal.

33. Jago jharna jago

Jago jharna jago
Jago kala jago
Nai kichu ar dainya
Kebal alor banya

34. Translation

Awake, Fountain, awake!
Awake, Art, awake!
Nothing poverty-stricken today.
All-where the flood of Light.

35. Jharna-kala sathi amar

Jharna-kala sathi amar
Jharna kala
Usha jiban tushar maran
Adhar ujjala

36. Translation

Fountain-Art is my friend.
Fountain-Art is
A life full of dawns,
A death full of snow.
A source of bright beauty
It always is.

37. Jharna-kalar arup saje

Jharna-kalar arup saje sajabo
Asha balar hasir srote bhashabo

38. Translation

With the formless beauty unparalleled
Of the Fountain-Art
I shall decorate myself.
I shall float on the smiling waves
Of hope-beauty.

39. Jharna-kala akasher

Jharna-kala akasher ramdhanu
Jharna-kala kanur benu ar dhenu

40. Translation

Fountain-Art is the rainbow
In the sky.
Fountain-Art is Lord Krishna's
Light-cow and delight-flute.

41. Jharna-kala urdhe nache

Jharna-kala urdhe nache nimne nache aj
Samukhe tar rakhal rajar taj

42. Translation

Fountain-Art dances above,
Dances below today.
Before it shines
The crown of the cowherd-King,
Lord Krishna.

43. Fountain-Art

Fountain-Art, Fountain-Art,
Fountain-Art!
Fountain, fountain, fountain,
No chain, no chain, no chain.
Art, art,
Vision's start.
Jharna-kala, jharna-kala, jharna-kala.
Fountain-fuara, fountain-fuara, fountain-fuara
No, no, no , no dry Sahara.
Fuara-fountain, fuara-fountain,
Supreme Victory-Reign.

44. One hundred thousand paintings

One hundred thousand paintings smile,
One hundred thousand paintings cry
To see the face, body and soul
Of Infinity's eternal Goal.
Behold, behold!
Earth's cry, Heaven's Smile
Together fly.

Editor's introduction to first edition

This is the 413th book that Sri Chinmoy has written since he came to the West in 1964. His first book was published in 1970.

C.K.G. is the artistic pen name of the Indian mystic and yogi Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy calls his paintings and drawings Jharna-Kala.

In Sri Chinmoy’s words, “Jharna-Kala is eternal, infinite and immortal. ‘Jharna-Kala’ is a Bengali word. It means ‘Fountain-Art’. This Foutain-Art is the direct revelation of the different states of Consciousness, human and divine, Universal and Transcendental.”

Sri Chinmoy is not only an extraordinary artist, but also an accomplished composer and musician. This songbook contains the twenty-three songs Sri Chinmoy has composed about his Jharna-Kala.