This world..of happiness..

আনন্দলোকে মঙ্গলালোকে
Anondoloke Mongolaloke

This world.. of happiness..
This world.. of well-being
Grace.. this with your presence
You who.. are the ultimate truth..
You who.. are the ever beauteous..

Your majesty.. manifests..
Across the vast.. firmament..
Like an anklet studded.. with
Precious.. stones.. and prized jewels..
Lies the cosmos.. at Your feet..

The sun.. moon.. stars.. and planets..
With eagerly anxious.. haste..
Bask in Your iridescence
Soak Your boundless.. radiance..

Cascades of your soft sweet.. grace..
Gush forth and deluge.. the earth..
In a kaleidoscope of
Flowers.. leaves..
Songs..  sonnets..

Life.. flows on ever anew
Your compassion caressing..
Our lives.. from cradle.. to grave..

Love.. affection..mercy..
Piety.. hope.. faith.. untold..
Mellow and soften.. our souls..
A downpour of sweet.. solace..
You rain to pacify pain..

What festivities and joy..
Reign forever.. in Your realm
The world sings.. Your glory great..
In fearless.. refuge at Your feet..
You who.. are our treasure and wealth..
You who.. encompass all of this earth..

(Another attempt rendition in English  by Anandamayee Majumdar  English rendition.. yet another bilingual rendition..)

In the land of joy.. in the heart.. of love..
I see your seat.. true.. exquisite.

Glory.. love.. light up
sky.. and beyond.
The universe..
bedecked.. with stars..
at your feet.

Sun.. and earth..
moon.. and stars..
dancing to the beat..
Drinking light..
Bathing light..
Immortality..

Fountain spring..
Splendor green..
Streaming creation..
beats.. bowers..
songs.. flowers..
vibrant melodies..

Night.. and day..
Life.. in sway..
Re-invigorated
Compassion..
Your motion..
Life.. and decease..

Tenderness..
Love.. grace..
Reverence.. devotion..
Touch.. me here.. touch me now..
with serenity..

Celebration..
Jubilation..
Dear.. universe..
Abundance.. your way of dance..
in tranquility..

What is this compelling light

কোন্‌ আলোতে প্রাণের প্রদীপ
Kon aalote praaner prodeep / Kon alote praner prodip
(Audio by Suchitra Mitra)

What is this compelling light
Which burns your spirit, stokes your soul,
Makes you live an earthly life,
My zealous lover, pious monk,
Divinely crazed, my angel-soul?

Each ache and wound in you creates
Winged, wondrous melodies
Quivering quaintly from your strings!

How do you smile in the face of fear
As though you had seen a mother beam?
Who is it you seek, my dear,
Scorning every earthly dream!

Who is it, your secret love
That raises all the tears of urge?
Who is it, your soulful mate,
That walks together on your path?

How do you find the peace of mind
To dismiss death with disregard,
Riding upbeat tides of seas
In endless waves of ecstasies?




Another version by Suman Dasgupta:

Where did you light the flame of your heart
O noble soul before you descended on earth.
You devout, you lover, O you romantic
As you embraced this world, gazed I in frantic.

In this relentless struggle of life,
Every pain and sorrow life did contrive
You can play those in your core
Like sad triads of the Veena encore.
Belying deep distress or any such strife
Yet you succeed to wear that smile as bright
Just like the one, as I've known
Only a beaming Mother could've shown.

I know not for whom you wildly roam around
Why you let go the cosy comfort that you'd found
Why you cry, why inconsolably crave?
Who is she for whom every love you save?

You are confident and your mind is free
Wonder I whose blessings on you could that be
As you defy death and ride on the crests of seas
Swimming through your life with endless ecstasies.

Lavish cascades of sunshine

আলোকের এই ঝর্ণাধারায় ধুইয়ে দাও
Aloker ei jhornadharay
(Audio: Arundhati Holme Chowdhury and Shivaji Chattopadhyay)

Lavish cascades of sunshine
free the cover of my grime
with your gentle sunlit wand
wake my heart, lost in trance.

Clean and dip me in the breeze
limpid with a sunlit kiss
blowing from the universe.
Wash my heart with your delight
heal my pallor and my plight.

I hold a silent seed of song,
it grapples with a lack of words
it aches with a silent lull.
Shake it up with endless joy
blowing with an energy, 
heartbeats of  the universe.

A lustrous sky of young dawn

তরুণ প্রাতের অরুণ আকাশ 
Toruno praater oruno akash

A lustrous sky of young dawn
Eyes sparkling with dew,
The pines near the riverside
Twinkling in the sun --
An image deeply close to my heart
This is how I perceive,
The whole wide world--
Wondrous, wavelike, 
Become one sea of soulfulness.
This is how I know,
I am the lyrics to my poetry
I am the melody to my music
I am the life throbbing in Life,
The sunlight that breaks free
From the depths of dark.

Mother, your love reflects

জননী, তোমার করুণ চরণখানি
Jononi, tomar koruno chorono khani (audio: Kanika Bandyopadhyay)

Mother, your love reflects
In dawn's joyful sunshine.

The sky floods silently
with your voice that
defeating death.

No matter where I am,
or what I do,
my heart softens to you.

With my devotion
my incense burns
I surrender to you
my body, heart and gold.

The music of homecoming

ছুটির বাঁশি বাজল 
Chhutir baanshi bajlo je oi
Audio: Suchitra Mitra

The sky is alive with
The music of homecoming
In gaits of the golden flute.
Why am I alone, I wonder.

Blossoms of Shiuli will soon
Burst out from fetters,
Gardens surge in a spree of buds,
Dewy winds stroke the arbors.
My absent gaze
Ambles away in an open sky,
Tunes lost to me.

Magical hands weave florid yarns
In pathways through the wilderness,
A place where light and shade meet.
Fallen buds of Maaloti steep the grass
With tear-stricken scents,
Waves of Kaash in buoyant whites
Sweep the blue. My absent gaze
Ambles away in open sky
Tracing the melody.

An autumn night on the brink

আমার  রাত পোহালো শারদ প্রাতে
Amar raat pohalo shaarodo praate (audio: Debabrata Biswas)

An autumn night on the brink,
As dawn encroaches
As I ponder
Whom to leave you with, my flute

Your heart exuded songs--
Farewell blues,
Homecoming majesties,
Seasonal vibes of spring, monsoon
Transported tunes of darkness, dawn.

I am riddled as to
How you stole my secret whispers
Each deep echo of my heart,
Melodies that will perish soon
Like ebbing stars of sunrise

So let them die
Our rampant symphony,
Like ephemeral buds of Shiuli

Here is to you companion

ওগো, পথের সাথি, নমি বারম্বার
Pawthero shathi, nomi barombar / Pothero shathi nomi barombar
(audio: Debabrata Biswas)

Companion in my journey,
Here is to you.
Here is to you my farewell,
Here is to you my affliction,
A salute from the safe haven
That gave way to shambles.

Here is to you, radiance of dawn,
Here is to you, breath of life,
Here is to you, guiding energy,
A salute from a seed of hope.

To the one who steers my life,
A charioteer in my endless expedition,
Here is to you for trenchant travels,
A salute of the pathways.