Puratan smriti mane mor jage
    Bahu puratan smriti
E dharar lagi atmatyajiya
    Chahi nai kabhu priti
Nahi jani hai dainya kemane
    Hanila aghat shire
Bishal hriday jachi ami mago
    Phirite shanti nire

Today my old reminiscences take shelter
    in my mind.
I have offered myself to please this world,
Yet I have not asked for its love in return.
I do not know why I am in the poverty-world today.
I need world-appreciation.
O Mother of the Universe, I need a boundless heart.
What for? To enter into the nest,
Illumining and fulfilling, of Yours.