Time is running out

Time is running out
Get back to where you belong!
(Look at the Sun God
He is homeward, in sunset swansong)

All your life you played around,
wasting your precious time.
Dancing round and round
In life-trappings' chime.

As a child you have abound
in games children prance.
In your youth you fooled around
in love-induced trance.

(The Baul says that you've arrived alone and so you'll depart one day,
So keep walking alone and you'll find something or the other on your way.)

Woe! this mad cap lazed through the day he found rather long
And missed out reciting prayers of the Lord.
The day just passed by like his wandering song
mired in the web, worldly illusions have wrought.

Time is running out
Get Back to where you belong!


(English translation of Baul Song "Bela Gelo". Below is the original Bangla song. Baul literally means "afflicted by the spirit of the wind" .. it is a form of folk-spritual music from certain parts of Eastern India)

Bela gelo; phire cholo aaponar deshe;
(oi dekho surjo deb taar nijer deshe chole geche
aaj osto pothey chollo)

O re korli koto ronger khela, ei bhobher mela-e boshe
bela gelo; phire cholo aponar deshe;

Ballo kaal-e ballo khela
korili obadhey
ore jauban kaale premo lila
korili tui boshe te
bela gelo; phire cholo aponar deshe;

(Baul-o boleche je tumi eka eshechho eka jaabe, tai shudhu eka agie jao, kichhu na kichhu paabe)

Din barun peye bhebhe paagla;holo na re Hari bola,
kete gelo shara bela pore maayar phashe

Bela gelo;phire cholo aponar deshe.


Day 12: 12 Jan 2012

(Thanks to my friends, Gargi for the Bangla text and Shounak for English translation and editing)
(Shot at Harsha's Desk)