THE HYMN OF MERCY

                           O’ God,

You are the smile of nature,
you have tied up the nature in two ways,
material and immaterial,
joys and pains are in both,
material relation,
its access is to all, to all the creatures,
but it is perishable.
Immaterial relation is very often in the nature,
material relation ends with destruction,
immaterial relation ends with creation.

For a mortal mind
What is a realisation
A spiritual unfoldment
Finite is never possible.

I woe upon the discreet,
The vagrance and awareness
The joys and greeds
All are misunderstanding

You are the Supreme
And Imperishable
'O' Lord, I think of
your existence.

Some says, You are!
Some says, No!
What can I say
I don't know.

But the mercy

which you shower upon

I feel it.

O' God!
my life must not be filled
with false pride and evil illusion
my head must be bowed down
before the world community
for not completing the assignment
to which I am entrusted to and
consigned before your divine glory
like the school boy who has not
completed his task and kneel down
before the teacher seeking pardon

The task attributed to me

may be abundance
but will be all possible

when you extend your help

to complete them
and thus

to present before world community

At that moment

my heart will blow up

with your divine rescue
and tears of joys will flood my eyes.

Give me your inner strength and vision
to complete my assignment

before
I say good bye to the world community.

 

I am sure

then you will come forward
to take me away

to your divine paradise
may be then I won't be able
to bless the world community or
may be , you won't give me time
to speak with but my tears
will roll down on my cheek
and fall down on earth to kiss
my motherland for the last time
who has given me birth from her womb
and nourished me with her blood
to make me capable
to serve your divine estate.

The Almighty God
who is permeating the earth
supports all Living Beings
You are the indestructible reality
in all living being
by the grace of Yours and Yours only
A man obtain Supreme peace
and the Eternal abode.

I seek for an ampler life
what ought to be
what ought not to be
I do not know

You are the Supreme Authority
You show me the road to perfection
I am a humble pedestrian
You must pursue and come to bless

My steadfastness in sacrifice
and austerity are the gifts of Yours
You are to ascertain
my knowledge and my action
You are the Existent
You manifest yourself
through all living beings
You are the illuminator
and the illumined
Both You are
You are the Judge
You are the convict
and the judgement you are

 

You express Transcendent absolute
or to invoke the universal truth
or to cherish the concept
or the reality to tune my
instrument of action
and chasten all activities

The seven sound of the Vina
are injected with Your
secret than all secret
reflect Your discourses
As You are the Supreme Austerity

Please take me there
where I am free from all anxieties
my head must not bow
for my heedless action

and to make me ensure
the truth of passion
of the Supreme Height

 

Must not I to accept
the penetrance and
forgive me with the rhyme
of Your benevolence

You are the single goal
of all religion
so, whatever is said
appears to be incomplete
in all respect.

My Lord! I can not
distinguish you
by giving
a name or a fame

You are the Omnipotent
You are hidden in all the Holy books
So, bifurcating you in any mean
shall be my foolishness and nothing else.

Nothing in this world is Supreme Command
Nothing in this world appears to be your end
wherever I see
I see only

You and You.

 

You are the Excellency
You are in all action
construction or destruction
but you judge my each action
on the part of joys and sorrows
pain and pleasure
given to the creatures

wherever there is any creation
it is Your blessing
for the universal kind
for the benefit of this world
though destruction is also Your nature
but if it brings any pain
to our fellowmen
naturally, it is the pain given
given to you
so, it is termed as an evil deed
or the destruction made to
any cause
not an operative, not a positive
in all the seamless attitude

Please bless me to act
Not to harm anyone else
as it is Your common nature
reflects the entire universe
so, is Your creation

 

Kabir said
Your name can not be written
why not the seven seas are made ink
and the trees of the world are made pen
Your name and existence cannot be described
because thousands of universe
glitters under your command

So the Almighty is ours!
The faith of the nature
is inherent unto You.

You have given the earth
the different colours
the different caste, creed, race or religion
the different kinds of plants and animals
Your differences are countless
Yet You are one
The only one inner secret
which makes a life
to move or to grow or to die.

'O' God,

You are the smile of the nature
You have tied up the nature in two ways
Material and Immaterial
Joys and Pains are in both

Material relation its access is to all
to all the creatures but it is perishable
Immaterial relation is very often in the nature
Its realization is also scarce
Material relation ends with destruction
Immaterial relation ends with creation

The Bells of the Church or Temple
or the Ajan of the Mosque
or the Gurubani of the Gurudwara
or the recitation of any spiritual Hymn
Expresses only your existence.

May I ask you?
why do you send
some one to this earth
to preach the mercy
The Hymn of Mercy

You are sure
But not I am
'I'
is your creation
you are the perfect

If the entire is yours
what is mine?

You have given me
So a little life
To fulfil your all promises

You have also given me
a lot of obstacle
in my daily life.

These all are your act
only yours and yours
To make me promises
and to fulfill the promises

Like the unconcerned does not move
at any cost, it is self centred
because of the ardent conviction
and the disciplined mind.

The Eshwar, God or Allah
You are one
In the meditation of Lord Buddha
Lord Mahavira or any enlightened one.

You are subtle, you are ominous
You are the nature of the whole.

The planets move on Your order
the sun glitters under your desire
the universal harmony is
ever in existence in your command

You are omnipotent
The Greater zero You are.

Oh God!
Give me the wisdom
to state your estate
the endless estate and the treasure
of joys and sorrows.

Please give me kindness
silence & self-control
and the honesty in my motive
the serenity of mind
and  bigheartedness
and also bless me with
purity of nature.

If there be any obligatory action
make me realise to do it
and help me to get it done.

Save me from all ego
and the evils of life.

Fulfill me with
enduring prosperity
of the successful endeavor
that is nurtured, nourished
guarded and protected by you.

Oh, My Lord!
the steadiness, constancy
and fortitude given by you
should be restrained
by your dynamic will.

 Oh! the reason of all creation

let me be free from
birth, death, decay and pain
and let me attain the eternal spirituality.

 

My sacrifice must not be for obstination
but be for ordinance, with a firm faith

You are the Supreme Lord
Give me your inner light
to see Your existence In all living beings.
To see the unperishing within the perishing

Your Divine charity to all is projected

in Your Ever engaged meditation
In the Dwelling solitude, in the covetousness
and the pervading of all evolution

I say you with different name and fame
but the potentialities of Your
expresses the kindness to all

The entire creation which is
embodied with full of agony
despair and delusion
but I see happiness unto you

You show your mercy to all
so, you are the vigour of
forgiveness & the divine of multitude
I do seek refuge in your bosom

I find a solace
when disappointment stares me
You are the mean of Harmony
within the Divine Law

You are the orders of
transcendent & Empirical
You exhort all to leave all alone
You are the only mean of Renunciation

From you there is memory
knowledge as well as their loss
You are the Eternal goal
which is free from pride and delusion

The man who reaches to your goal
has conquered the evil attachment
has been attached with the divine
and his desire is completely at rest
he is released from pleasure and pain

The supreme abode is that
from where there is no return
the unrefined mind devoid of wisdom
never perceive You.

Because he is self striving

Presiding over falsehood

The things are different
but the feeling in one
either the pain or pleasure
given to an ant or elephant

A person worships a specific
kind of imagination
he feels the pleasure
but when the imagination is destroyed
he feels the pain.

The very uncommon in the nature
which is inherent
when the bells of the church and temple,
the Ajan of the mosque, the speeches of Guruvani,
the recitation of Budhham Sharanam Gachhami,
the silence of the nature
and the melodious utterance of the creatures
which signifies Your existence
assembles with the meditation
of any Enlightened one,
the atmosphere is purified
with the Hymn of Your Mercy.

Oh my Lord!
You manifest Yourself
in each any every moment

Sometimes Your creation
becomes the Guideline for the Mankind.

Lord Rama gives us the lesson of
obedience and brotherhood
he teaches how to rule and
love his countrymen
His sacrifice is known to the worldwide,
He tells us not to bow before tyrants

Lord Krishna gives us the lesson
of rights and duties
His spiritual unfoldment
is a mysterious achievement
Is still knocking the door of every soul
He describes the indestructible nature
of Soul and Super soul
He expresses the true sense of Love

Lord Mahavira teaches us
about the Non-violence
And to attain the Super Eternity of the life.

Lord Budhha has shown
How to get rid of the suffering
of our daily life

Jesus Christ preaches us
the lesson of forgiveness and compassion

Hazrat Mohammad gives us the lesson of
Religious harmony and brotherhood

And several Preachers have come to this world
to make our life happy and pleasant
 Still the man is fluttering
over the recycling nature
of pains and sorrows.

 

Unable to detach with the objects
the cause of desire, anger and delusion.
the consequence to confusion of memory
and the destruction of intelligence
And is perished long life.

Oh my Lord!
Who enjoys the real mystic of life
One who is ever attached with the physical world
or whose body is torn with the days toil

 

Oh, my Lord!
why does a man run behind
to get a little name, fame and pride
being proud of his ancestral deed

O My Lord!
Let me be away from
such mischievous deeds

The Lord, The Super Eternity
to reach you, Yogis and Munis
spend their whole life
in meditation and concentration
some achieves, some fails

 

But the best achievement
I find in forgiveness of any one
not thousand times thousand
but to the goal of realisation

 

Some says, You are!
Some says, No!
What can I say
I do not know.

But the Mercy which you
shower upon,
I feel it.

The earth is not,
The moon is not,
The sun is not,
The planets are not.

But the gesture of your Mercy
is Always and Always
In every moment of life
To all the creatures.

 

I feel nervous,
when I do think without you
Then what happens,
If you are not.

The flower blossoms every day,
The life breeds every day,
But you breed
In every moment of life.

Oh! My Lord,
I remember you,
Is it my weakness.
But the weakness are gone
when you come forward.

Silence and chaos,
Death and Life,
Joys and sorrows,
All are your pageant.

The earth has tolerated
Numerant Tyrants,
But still it is survived
with the grace of Yours.

The Hindu says, 'OM TAT SAT'
The Muslim says, 'ALLAH HO AKBAR'
The Christian adores, ' the CRUCIFIED CHRIST'
The Sikh says, 'SAT SHREE AKAL'
The Buddhist says, 'BUDHHAM SHARANAM GACHCHHAMI',

What are the differences
All behind
The Hymn of Mercy,
Goes to all alike.

If the Hindu breaks,
The Mosque or Church,
If the Muslim breaks
The Church or Temple,
The Taliban breaks
The Idol of Lord Buddha.

I feel your pain
in all respect
because all are only
Your and Your creation.

'O' Mighty,
Please let them be excused
For their arrogant deed
because they did not know
what they did

I think in
All of your actions
Your desire
to purify the universe
with the dust of particles.

To sublime the impurities
You expresses your oath
which you might have given
before creation of the whole

But I am a man
made of Panchtatwa
So, I cannot bear
given to desire.

I perform my duties
As a Human Beings
You perform
Each moment of the life

Please get me ahead
to make me calm
of the positive attitude
with the endurance power.

 

The man does not keep
The strolling Austerity
can not make the world
of his own kind.

No tarrif walls are raised
Around your treasure
To protect the evil
with the monopoly hymn.

I find you in all the moment
with your merciful Hymn.

Have you ever scolded
The Evil deed
Your paramount is high,
So upon you.

You do never right
You do never wrong
Your mystery of existence
Is unknown to the Mankind.

You are in the violence and chaos
You are in the peaceful delight.

You are the Generator
You are the Operator
You are the Destroyer
So, You are GOD.

 

To Me and to You
the difference is NIL
but more concentric
if you are in Me.

The world is perhaps Yours
surely not mine
If it happens so
why should I incline.

My Lord!
You are the Almiighty
Grace me upon
You fulfil my desire
You fulfil Your promises

The evil deeds are in all respect
wherever do I search
I find it more.

I try to find out the jewels
from the deep ocean of wisdom
for which I have to dive
deeper and deeper

I may not get it once
or then after one another
but surely I am to get it once.

The preponderance temperaments
the dormant potentialities
All are to exhibit
As a misconstrued texture.

Harmlessness, Truthfulness,
Absence of anger & crookedness
Peacefulness and Compassion
Gentleness and Modesty
The absence of fickleness
All are your venture.

The vigour and forgiveness
Fortitude and purity
Absence of hatred and pride
All belong to your Divine Estate.

 

The inner soul is more gleaming
And shinning than thousands universes
Yet covered under veil, paradoxical aspiration.

The inner soul is ever shinning
When encounter darkness of life
It is the spirit of inner soul only
That makes the life to rise and move.

 

NOTE  :  I composed this poem in the year around 2000 and I asked my friend late Joydeep Mukhuty ( who is no more died of COVID 19) to take a view next day he came and told me that after Kaviguru Rabindranath Thakur he was reading only my poem. In the year 2011I posted this poem on POEM HUNTER.Com  I got the same comment from one reader then after one another.