Translation
How is it that suddenly on this morning
You thought of me
At the end of a myriad cosmic games,
[Played] in age upon age, in diverse ways?
Today I indeed am hearing the sound of ankle bells
More delightful than all else.
Wait, Lord, let me pay my salutations.
Namah, I salute you, I salute you, I salute you.
The days of Vraja have fled
Far into the distance beyond our ken.
Yet in a corner of the mind
You came into a new Vrndávana,
Letting yourself be grasped by all minds.
Translated from Bengali
Latin Sanskrit
ÁJI PRABHÁTE HAT́HÁT KI GO
ÁMÁR KATHÁ PAŔLO MANE,
JUGE JUGE NÁNÁN BHÁVE
SHATA LIILÁR AVASÁNE.
ÁJ JE SHUŃI NÚPURA DHVANI
SABÁR CEYE MANORAMA,
DÁṊŔÁO PRABHU PRAŃÁM KARI
NAMAH NAMAH NAMAH NAMAH.
VRAJER SEDIN ANEK DÚRE
SARE’ GECHE AGOCARE,
TABU TUMI MANER KOŃE
ELE NAVA VRNDÁVANE
DILE DHARÁ SABÁR MANE.
25-07-1983