~~Happy Birthday Kawsi Di~~

Birthday

On the cosmic path of the sun, the cycle of birthdays

Draws to an end.

The sun that daily visited my life

Strung as beads on a thread

Have reached the final stretch

Of sun-burnt days.

Great sage, extend your hand

Accept the offering.

On your fierce seat of meditation,

Where I have addressed you

Daily in complicated prayer

Sometimes by glaring midday sun, sometimes in the midst of storms.

Now, you may descend from your meditations

Appear where your forests grow

Gentle with shade, where your skies glow

Compassionate with a hint of rain.

Where the evening stops to rest

Spreading its spell across the sky

In a myriad colours; where the evening star

In wordless silence

Prepares to shine a votive flame

In honour of the infinite.

Where plentiful green

Blesses the earth

Making it serene and peaceful,

So that it can bestow its endless sweetness

In each life

Through an infinite variety in beauty, song and feeling.

Grant me leave from the world today,

Remove me from the weight of duties.

Let me return today picking up along the way

Flowers blown by the restless breeze

In casual neglect upon the dust,

In the bird's nest

That song that rises each day,

As light plucks gently at the strings of life.

The touch of this earthly soul,

The happiness that hides in the life hidden away in land and on water

That I wish to absorb into me

Into my body, into the blood that courses through me, in my sight, my voice,

In wakefulness, thought and sleep,

On the shores of this restful sea, in the final hours of life.

In the dusk of this life

Let me fill from the well of beauty

And refresh for one last time my heart, body and soul

Let me cast away all striving, all argument, all suspicion,

All fame, all blind ambition,

And say, As I go, I leave behind, my love for all.'

This poem was a gift by Tagore to his granddaughter Nandita.

LET THIS DAY IN YOUR LIFE

COME BACK A HUNDRED TIME

MAY YOU BE BLESSED WITH PEACE AND LOVE

BY THE ALMIGHTY FROM HEAVEN ABOVE

SUBHO JANMODIN...🤗

~~ Kuki ~~