হে পুষ্পচয়িনী,
ছেড়ে আসিয়াছ তুমি কবে উজ্জয়িনী
                   মালিনীছন্দের বন্ধ টুটে।
    বকুল উৎফুল্ল হয়ে উঠে
        আজো বুঝি তব মুখমদে।
               নূপুররণিত পদে।
আজো বুঝি অশোকের ভাঙাইবে ঘুম।
               কী সেই কুসুম
যা দিয়ে অতীত জন্মে গণেছিলে বিরহের দিন।
       বুঝি সে-ফুলের নাম বিস্মৃতিবিলীন
    ভর্তৃপ্রসাদন ব্রতে যা দিয়ে গাঁথিতে মালা
                 সাজাইতে বরণের ডালা।
মনে হয় যেন তুমি ভুলে-যাওয়া তুমি--
                 মর্ত্যভূমি
    তোমারে যা ব'লে জানে সেই পরিচয়
           সম্পূর্ণ তো নয়।
তুমি আজ
         করেছ যে-অঙ্গসাজ
               নহে সদ্য আজিকার।
       কালোয় রাঙায় তার
           যে ভঙ্গীটি পেয়েছে প্রকাশ
              দেয় বহুদূরের আভাস।
       মনে হয় যেন অজানিতে
                       রয়েছ অতীতে।
    মনে হয় যে-প্রিয়ের লাগি
        অবন্তীনগরসৌধে ছিলে জাগি,
               তাহারি উদ্দেশে
    না জেনে সেজেছ বুঝি সে-যুগের বেশে।
           মালতীশাখার 'পরে
       এই-যে তুলেছ হাত ভঙ্গীভরে
           নহে ফুল তুলিবার প্রয়োজনে,
                     বুঝি আছে মনে
               যুগ-অন্তরাল হতে বিস্মৃত বল্লভ
           লুকায়ে দেখিছে তব সুকোমল ও-করপল্লব।
       অশরীরী মুগ্ধনেত্র যেন গগনে সে
                   হেরে অনিমেষে
       দেহভঙ্গিমার মিল লতিকার সাথে
               আজি মাঘীপূর্ণিমার রাতে।
    বাতাসেতে অলক্ষিতে যেন কার ব্যাপ্ত ভালোবাসা
              তোমার যৌবনে দিল নৃত্যময়ী ভাষা।

আমি        বহু বাসনায় প্রাণপণে চাই,
       বঞ্চিত করে বাঁচালে মোরে।
              এ কৃপা কঠোর সঞ্চিত মোর
                            জীবন ভ'রে।
                     না চাহিতে মোরে যা করেছ দান
                     আকাশ আলোক তনু মন প্রাণ,
                     দিনে দিনে তুমি নিতেছ আমায়
                            সে মহাদানেরই যোগ্য করে
                            অতি-ইচ্ছার সংকট হতে
                                   বাঁচায়ে মোরে।
আমি        কখনো-বা ভুলি, কখনো-বা চলি
        তোমার পথের লক্ষ্য ধরে;
              তুমি নিষ্ঠুর সম্মুখ হতে
                                   যাও সে সরে।
              এ যে তব দয়া জানি জানি হায়,
              নিতে চাও বলে ফিরাও আমায়,
              পূর্ণ করিয়া লবে এ জীবন
                     তব মিলনেরই যোগ্য করে
                     আধা-ইচ্ছার সংকট হতে
                                         বাঁচায়ে মোরে।

II.61. grah candra tapan jot barat hai
THE LIGHT of the sun, the moon, and the stars shines bright:
The melody of love swells forth, and the rhythm of love's detachment beats the time.
Day and night, the chorus of music fills the heavens; and Kabir says
'My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.'
Do you know how the moments perform their adoration?
Waving its row of lamps, the universe sings in worship day and night,
There are the hidden banner and the secret canopy:
There the sound of the unseen bells is heard.
Kabir says: 'There adoration never ceases; there the Lord of the Universe sitteth on His throne.'
The whole world does its works and commits its errors: but few are the lovers who know the Beloved.
The devout seeker is he who mingles in his heart the double currents of love and detachment, like the mingling of the streams of Ganges and Jumna;
In his heart the sacred water flows day and night; and thus the round of births and deaths is brought to an end.
Behold what wonderful rest is in the Supreme Spirit! and he enjoys it, who makes himself meet for it.
Held by the cords of love, the swing of the Ocean of Joy sways to and fro; and a mighty sound breaks forth in song.
See what a lotus blooms there without water! and Kabir says
'My heart's bee drinks its nectar.'
What a wonderful lotus it is, that blooms at the heart of the spinning wheel of the universe! Only a few pure souls know of its true delight.
Music is all around it, and there the heart partakes of the joy of the Infinite Sea.
Kabir says: 'Dive thou into that Ocean of sweetness: thus let all errors of life and of death flee away.'
Behold how the thirst of the five senses is quenched there! and the three forms of misery are no more!
Kabir says: It is the sport of the Unattainable One: look within, and behold how the moon-beams of that Hidden One shine in you.'
There falls the rhythmic beat of life and death:
Rapture wells forth, and all space is radiant with light
There the Unstruck Music is sounded; it is the music of the love of the three worlds.
There millions of lamps of sun and of moon are burning;
There the drum beats, and the lover swings in play.
There love-songs resound, and light rains in showers; and the worshipper is entranced in the taste of the heavenly nectar.
Look upon life and death; there is no separation between them,
The right hand and the left hand are one and the same.
Kabir says: There the wise man is speechless; for this truth may never be found in Vedas or in books.'
I have had my Seat on the Self-poised One,
I have drunk of the Cup of the Ineffable,
I have found the Key of the Mystery,
I have reached the Root of Union.
Traveling by no track, I have come to the Sorrowless Land: very easily has the mercy of the great Lord come upon me.
They have sung of Him as infinite and unattainable: but I in my meditations have seen Him without sight.
That is indeed the sorrowless land, and none know the path that leads there:
Only he who is on that path has surely transcended all sorrow.
Wonderful is that land of rest, to which no merit can win;
It is the wise who has seen it, it is the wise who has sung of it.
This is the Ultimate Word: but can any express its marvellous savour?
He who has savoured it once, he knows what joy it can give.
Kabir says: 'Knowing it, the ignorant man becomes wise, and the wise man becomes speechless and silent,
The worshipper is utterly inebriated,
His wisdom and his detachment are made perfect;
He drinks from the cup of the inbreathings and the outbreathings of love.'
There the whole sky is filled with sound, and there that music is made without fingers and without strings;
There the game of pleasure and pain does not cease.
Kabir says: If you merge your life in the Ocean of Life, you will find your life in the Supreme Land of Bliss.'
What a frenzy of ecstacy there is in every hour! and the worshipper is pressing out and drinking the essence of the hours: he lives in the life of Brahma.
I speak truth, for I have accepted truth in life; I am now attached to truth, I have swept all tinsel away.
Kabir says: 'Thus is the worshipper set free from fear; thus have all errors of life and of death left him.'
There the sky is filled with music:
There it rains nectar:
There the harp-strings jingle, and there the drums beat.
What a secret splendour is there, in the mansion of the sky!
There no mention is made of the rising and the setting of the sun;
In the ocean of manifestation, which is the light of love, day and night are felt to be one.
Joy for ever, no sorrow, no struggle!
There have I seen joy filled to the brim, perfection of joy;
No place for error is there.
Kabir says: 'There have I witnessed the sport of One Bliss!'
I have known in my body the sport of the universe: I have escaped from the error of this world.
The inward and the outward are become as one sky, the Infinite and the finite are united: I am drunken with the sight of this All!
This Light of Thine fulfils the universe: the lamp of love that burns on the salver of knowledge.
Kabir says: 'There error cannot enter, and the conflict of life and death is felt no more.'