Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

Part Two. Translations from Bengali
Section One. Vaishnava Devotional Poetry

Twenty-two Poems of Bidyapati

18

When the young warm Love her heart doth fill

Where is the let stays woman’s will?

Alone to set forth lightly she dares,

Path or pathless not Radha who cares.

She has left her pearlèd carcanet

Her breast’s high towers that hamperèd.

The bracelets fair on her wrists that shone

All by the path has the young girl thrown.

Anklets gemmed on her feet did glow,

She has thrown them far the lighter to go.

The gloom is thick and heavy the night,

But Love to her eyes makes darkness light.

Her every step new perils doth prove,

She has pierced thro’ all with the sword of Love.

Her passionate heart the poet knows.

Another like her not the wide world shows.