Shashi Kumar Ghosh

[Words to a Bengali song composed on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Shashi Kumar Ghosh, 14 April 1982.]

SHASHI KUMAR GHOSH

Shashi Kumar, Shashi Kumar,    
Shashi Kumar Ghosh —
Tranquillity-eyes, vastness-heart    
Always in satisfaction-light.    
Today we celebrate a hundred springs    
From the core of your Eternal Life    
With stupendous sound-life    
And auspicious silence-soul.    
In one form you are a power-worshipper    
Immensely self-poised in your central being    
And a compassion- and affection-flooded nest,    
Covering the desert-vast    
And transcending the mountain-foibles    
Of your feeble fellow travellers and compeers    
Here on earth.

SHASHI KUMAR GHOSH

Shashi Kumar Ghosh
Shanta nayan bishal hiya    
Nitya paritosh    
Taba sata barshiki aj    
Paramanande saj ar baj    
Ekadhare tumi guru gambhir    
Shakti sadhak karuna sheha nir    
Langhi moru langhi pahar    
Durbar manush dosh

    - Sri Chinmoy

     14 April 1982     


[Source: "Shashi Kumar Ghosh" in Sri Chinmoy,  My Father Shashi Kumar Ghosh, Agni Press, 1992, p. 41.]