আজ বারি ঝরে ঝরঝর
Aj bari jhore jhoro jhoro
A beating, crashing downpour
Today in the fullness of the rains
Where can such
Sky-shattering deluge contain?
The tempest hollers in the Shaal** arbors
In the meadows, streams weave their way.
Who is the angry dancer
That flings open his tresses in his ruthless dance?
My mind is possessed with the rain, and can not be ruled
It gives itself over to the tempest--
My heart is high with gleefully wild waves
Rolling down, touching the feet
Of an unknown love!
Oh, this savage commotion!
Gates crash open everywhere,
A passionate being awakes within!
Within and out who is the soul that rejoices?
Another version by Suman Dasgupta
Heavily it pelts down this unceasing rain from the sky
Seems not a single drop can remain up contained.
Through Saal trees the tempest sweeps and cries
...Chasing little streams in the fields in paths astrayed.
Who has flung open His tethered cloud-like tresses
And started dancing, I wonder, with so much wild disdain?
O' I can't rein my mind as it gushes out with the rain
As it sweeps and pounds within me, like a tempest, in pain.
Can hardly contain my feelings as they spill out in waves
And break at the feet of my beloved insane.
O' my mind is so befuddled, my walls giving in their restraints
Wild impassioned horse in mine suddenly coming alive
In this dark and gloomy monsoon rain
This stir outside and in my within, I wonder, O Lord how you contrive?
Shaal** - A stout tree with large leaves
* - An indication to the mythological deity, Shiva -- the violent One -- He, whose dance indicates destruction and vice versa.
Aj bari jhore jhoro jhoro
A beating, crashing downpour
Today in the fullness of the rains
Where can such
Sky-shattering deluge contain?
The tempest hollers in the Shaal** arbors
In the meadows, streams weave their way.
Who is the angry dancer
That flings open his tresses in his ruthless dance?
My mind is possessed with the rain, and can not be ruled
It gives itself over to the tempest--
My heart is high with gleefully wild waves
Rolling down, touching the feet
Of an unknown love!
Oh, this savage commotion!
Gates crash open everywhere,
A passionate being awakes within!
Within and out who is the soul that rejoices?
Another version by Suman Dasgupta
Heavily it pelts down this unceasing rain from the sky
Seems not a single drop can remain up contained.
Through Saal trees the tempest sweeps and cries
...Chasing little streams in the fields in paths astrayed.
Who has flung open His tethered cloud-like tresses
And started dancing, I wonder, with so much wild disdain?
O' I can't rein my mind as it gushes out with the rain
As it sweeps and pounds within me, like a tempest, in pain.
Can hardly contain my feelings as they spill out in waves
And break at the feet of my beloved insane.
O' my mind is so befuddled, my walls giving in their restraints
Wild impassioned horse in mine suddenly coming alive
In this dark and gloomy monsoon rain
This stir outside and in my within, I wonder, O Lord how you contrive?
Shaal** - A stout tree with large leaves
* - An indication to the mythological deity, Shiva -- the violent One -- He, whose dance indicates destruction and vice versa.
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