What is this sweetness in the breeze?
What is this ecstasy in my mind?
What is this tune the birds are singing?
What is this love that permeates the world?
What is this ecstasy in my mind?

O Lord, fill the universe
With Your colors, forms and ragas.
Spread with affection
Your charming tunes everywhere.
Keep on floating
On the waves of rhythms and melodies.
What is this ecstasy in my mind?

Come into my heart with Your sweet smile,
With the sound of Your flute.
Why do You keep hiding within my mind?
Come forward in dance and song.
What is this ecstasy in my mind?

Translated from Bengali

E KII MADHURATÁ PAVANE
E KII MÁDAKATÁ MANANE
E KII SURE SURE PÁKHI GÁY
E KII BHÁLABÁSÁ BHUVANE
E KII MÁDAKATÁ MANANE

BHARIYE DIYECHO VISHVE PRABHU
TOMÁR RAUṊE RÚPE RÁGE
CHAŔIYE DIYECHO SARVATRA
TOMÁR MOHAN ANURÁGE
TUMI TÁNE TÁNE BHESE JÁO
NIJERI CHANDE GÁNE
E KII MÁDAKATÁ MANANE

MADHUR HÁSITE ESO PRÁŃE
MOHAN BÁṊSHIITE ANURAŃANE
MANER MÁJHÁRE KENA LUKÁO
ESO SAMMUKHE NÁCE GÁNE
E KII MÁDAKATÁ MANANE

04-01-1984