Sri Aurobindo

Translations

CWSA.- Volume 5

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

Selected Poems of Horo Thacoor

(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.

Ah now I know him surely.