AWAKENING
(Bijoylakshmi Das)
Silence all around,
Solitude reigns over the earth;
I sit in my soul's repose -
With visionary eyes cast
Upon a distant immeasurable Vast!
Night descends slow behind her veil,
Soft are her footsteps -
Spreading sweet fragrance.
It adores the dark,
Enlivens Zephyr's touch and
Brown's vernal mirth
Speaks message subliminal
For the fatigued Earth.
Blessed sits my Sweet-heart
Shares the kingdom of Bliss
Of infinite treasures worth.
Betwixt heaven and earth
The line of separation fades slow,
The horizon loses semblance.
A remarkable Mystic significance!
One seeks the One
The Creator and the creation -
Ger united in the greatest communion!
Actor turned into acts;
Dreams and Dreamer are now together -
No more poles apart!
Love is One's yearning for the One
In the Supreme Art!
All is eternal and in eternity all do last.
Infant longings of the past
Toils hard across sands of Time
To meet the long-cherished quest
Since the mortal birth.
In Soul's highest awakening
The seeds sown on memory's clay-bed,
Awaiting to reach the morning rays
Of the golden Dawn.
The Unique Revelation!
Paradise of Union -
Behind the curtain
With azure surprise
With gifts of hope and beautiful surmise,
Sweet hours of the night
Clad in apparel dark
Offers ecstatic smile
To greet the starry firmament stark.
Splendid is the message
Writ on sky's blue page
The ****** vesper Moon
Speak delight pure
Send myriad hues
:Know not why...
All is joy around us
Forever sublime and to admire
The Mystic Fire!
Hid from man merged in mind's mud and mire.
It's tardy process of death and birth.

The Flute of the One sitting above
Sings Muse of Divine Love.
If awakened and awake
"Can hear the never-ending rhyme
Ever sublime
Goes on forever
Since time immemorial
Beyond space and time".
Deaf to ears
Merged in stupor!
Denied to the one
Dipped in mortal fear.

Silence all-pervading
Unending Bliss profound
Makes us spell-bound
In the heavenly play ground!
Be a part of it,
Oh dear mortal Dweller!
Your body is just a mask;
Evolution ceases not
In petty limits of human birth.
Man, not the summit
Infinite is ecstasy
To reveal the Supreme and His Unique Art!
To reach the highest realm of spiritual splendour
Of its summit's gain,
Not in Matter's false glamour and Ego's disdain ;
But in the sojourn of an illumined Vast
To unveil the TRUTH.
Awake and arise
In this wonderful compromise
Meet your Soul -
Omnipotent,
Omniscient,
Omnipresent
In your new Immortal Birth.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Anand Utsav Ashram,
Haridwar.  20.05.2019)

THE SOUL
( Bijoylakshmi Das)
It's when -
The dark veil drops down,
And the vesper Moon speaks not mirth,
Listless lips sing no lullaby
To the tired brown body of the Earth;
I hear You!
Oh Divine Music!
Close to my ears -
In the fatigued spirit's inmost dark.
The lonely night
Can herald the Dawn of
the mightiest Might -
Lying deep within each heart.
Leads to the realm of Light
Shines ever in the firmament blissful and bright.

Do you think -
The Ascetic in the cave
Or on his mountain top
Does nothing,
Just idles away time?
He fills the world with Power sublime -
In greater awakening.
Changes it by his Soul-state in elixir of the Supreme.

Work is done
In solitary sojourn
Alone and unknown!
Unseen by mundane eyes,
It's vague surmise!
Mind can never trek the inaccessible height -
Of Consciousness and Bliss infinite.
As you are always alone
to face feelings of dubious doubt and false compromise.

Thus arduous is thy path
Replete with fictitious pride.
You seek not Him -
The Shelter Supreme
in Ego's blind ken;
The One, ever luminous
Sits in the summit of the highest Illumination:
The ecstatic Paradise -
above matter, spirit and mind,
As every cloud ushers into a silver lining;
Even the Blackhole of despair can have the most glorious Beginning.
Sail on! Oh Lone Sailor!
On the sea of life
In the midst of tempest and strife,
Listen to the clarion Call -
Beyond limits of sky and earth,
There Heaven is ever azar
in its azure mirth,
The Sun sets not
Forever blithe,
.... And no mortal fear
Of death and disease.
Life is endless, green in the Eternal habitat, FREE.
Do you ever long to reach the Height,
Of the Supreme Might?
In your Soul's flight?
Break the bar: your EGO -
You have created -
In the long runway of life
Of fake pleasure and a failing strife.
Then only -
You are One with the Supreme Delight.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, 10 Feb 2019)
02.00 hours. Puri

BEAUTY
(Bijoylakshmi Das)
I will never possess Thee,
You are heavenly!
You long to soar higher
Beyond earthly limits
To Unknown Infinity
Of Felicity.
You are my Love,
You are my Life-
Not of wanton delight.
We are untorn pages of Eternity,
Unseen by blind eyes of humanity.
I leave you free
Forever free
From all worldly clasp
To live at ease
Your Soul's liberty.
To roam free on roads of life,
And enjoy and breathe around you -
The air of grace and dignity.
I love you to blossom
Into the greatest Beauty
Ever admirable
By heavenly angels,
I love you to blossom
Into a divine offering -
Of fulfilment and consecration of celestial summit.
Let none pick you up
And crush your infancy
Of innocence filled with joy and felicity.
Because,
Creation is always evolving if
Untouched by adulthood of hatred and jealousy.
You share your Bliss
With all
Unknown to ignorant minds who crave to possess Thee.

Beauty! You are pure and sanguine,
Your soft sweet footsteps
May enliven the tired brown body of Earth,
With the rapture of your unseen kiss
You alight here
In the murmer of the Zephyr
To herald the Golden Dawn of an unforgettable
Paradise of Union in the Infinite.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Odisha)
14th Jan, 2019.

THE DREAM
When the stealth of the silent night descends upon Earth.
The latter falls asleep fatigued and forlorn in the darkness clasp -
Oh Dream! You dawn upon me with your ever playful mirth.

I know often your purports surreptitious as you -
invade Mind:s invisible reign,
Half-awake, half-asleep the tired body is lain,
Your whispers are heard:
A pretentious smile
To make man victim of your dark design of the while.
So, stay far far away,
Make me not a victim of your frivolous play.

It is when in solitude your footsteps slow advance
With your bewitching smile and a fictitious romance
Mind struggles hard in the impregnable domain of the subconscient -
You, like a clever sorceror cast vile tricks transient
To win the human heart
Deep in stupor in forgotten moments of the infinite Vast.

Invade me no more with your ugly design
To fall into your oneiric snare,8
Oh Elf of Darkness in desolate realm of the idle hour,
Your inane desires to make man's corporeal mind
Subservient to your grotesque design
Of the unworthiest kind.

Invade me not with your errant thoroughfare -
of random thoughts of nether mud and mire,
I aspire to be awakened to the One Distant Call that makes me rise,
I live not in hopes of your false promise and a fake paradise.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Anand Utsav Ashram Haridwar. 24 June 2019)

THE RAPTURE OF RADIANCE
Oh Beauty of the Blue, Beauty of the Vast!
When words fail to speak, eyes fail to cast -
The glance amazing at the silvery hue:
The firmament's attire forever new.

The phantasy of delight on solitude's shoreless shore,
The night whispers untold tales of the forgotten yore,
The glamour enchanting forever enraptured,
Memory's multiple waves knock at my Privacy's door.

Oh Felicity recondite, Heaven's golden treasure,
I fail to hear your inarticulate murmur,
Message of Love from the Empire of the aureate Blue,
Clads me with unknown nuance to make life anew.

Mind forever vagrant, words leave the tenor what to say,
In the stretch of Bliss all ephemeral is in utter dismay,
The gladdening dance of the garment in the gallant breeze,
The beautiful blossoming touch of the sobbing sky.

The Dear departed in haste to reach the celestial Splendour,
With joy and mirth around in sylvan wonder,
I am left forlorn in phantasm's ecstasy,
The inane immensity keeps pouring its solacing mercy.

The helpless Spirit fails to enshrine the Godhead above,
The Soil's sorrow drags me down, makes me not to rove,
The wild wilderness of the Omnipotent's unremembered Bliss,
Reminds me the uninvaded realm of the enchanting Kiss.

The Eternal Vigil looks down upon each activity of Earth,
How we fall victims to desires' Damsel, meet death and birth,
The mortal's ever unsolved paradox kills our time,
Our corporeal mind never seeks the pure Sublime.

Now as the brightening Bridge is built betwixt Earth and the endless Blue,
The glittering glisten midst innumerable hues,
Makes life enlightened, vernal and vast,
To reach the Deathless Supreme transcending all limits of Death and Birth.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Haridwar, Anand Utsav Ashram. 19th Sept 2019) .

HEART
(Bijoylakshmi Das, 1st Jan 2020)
Heart!
Break me apart!
You aren't my mortal part.
Immortal thou art!
Sublime and sacrosanct!
Your blossoming visage
Speaks of immense love,
Always giving,
Never expecting.
Your far-reaching invisible hands
Showers Solace
And Bliss -
Upon aggrieved souls
In distress;
Like a ripple
Making numberless waves
Reaching distant periphery.
Let Love's radiating rays
Reach all,
To enliven and enlighten -
In the larger perspective.
So, love all
Serve all.
Be the successful participant -
In the Supreme Playact.

BLISS
(Bijoylakshmi Das)
Since when you have
Imprisoned me -
In my Delight of Being,
Of existence, life supreme;
All else looked fake
and futile as a
Semblance of appearance
soon disappearing.
I feel myself as if
I am the Monarch of my Soul!
May I worship Thee?
The Ruler of Existence!
The Treasurer of Ecstasy!
Of infinity's Bounty.
Oh Supreme Being!
The Lord of my Soul!
The Eternal Birth beyond death!
My offerings are cast
At Thine Feet,
Till life loses identity in it;to
As you have helped me
to reign over desires unbridled but controlled by Your Will.
The world's grief and mirth,
Sorrows and strife -
Are the faulty outlook
of an erroneous life.
Where reality hidden,
Since when you have
Imprisoned me -
In my Delight of Being,
Of existence, life supreme;
All else looked fake
and futile as a
Semblance of appearance
soon disappearing.
I feel myself as if
I am the Monarch of my Soul!
May I worship Thee?
The Ruler of Existence!
The Treasurer of Ecstasy!
Of infinity's Bounty.
Oh Supreme Fire!
The Lord of my Soul!
The Eternal Birth beyond death!
My offerings are cast
At Thine Feet,
Till life loses identity in it;
As you have helped me
to reign over desires unbridled but controlled by Your Will.
The world's grief and mirth,
Sorrows and strife -
Are the faulty outlook
of an erroneous life.
Where reality hidden,
and forgotten
By ignorance blind
of human mind.
Why turmoil?
Chaos all around?
We are all blind
to the unique design of His hands.
He thus intervenes
When man turns into beast in the bottomless Abyss.
The Lord of Existence awakes,
Gives the Clarion Call
For humans to hear,
Never pay a deaf ear.
If you defy,
End is near -
For the great changes
for a world better.
You are meant for Bliss!
His Hands are at work
In the epoch-making
Apocalypse.
(Bijoylakshmi Das, Puri)
17 Feb 2019.