Sri Aurobindo
Translations
CWSA.- Volume 5
Part Two. Translations from Bengali
Section One.
Vaishnava Devotional Poetry
Selected Poems of Horo Thacoor
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(The soul recognizes the Eternal for whom it has failed in its earthly conventional duties and incurred the censure of the world.)
I know him by the eyes all hearts that ravish,
For who is there beside him?
O honey grace of amorous sweetness lavish!
I know him by his dark compelling beauty;
Once only having spied him
For him I stained my honour, scorned my duty.
I know him by his feet of moonbeam brightness;
Because for their sake purely
I live and move, my name is taxed with lightness.