Sonar Baran Jyotir Toran

Lyrics:

Sonar baran jyotir toran
Jemni gela khule
Paran amar uthla neche
Dodul dolai dule
E je ushar agamani
Jyotir tari beye
Parash kare supta paran
Aloi dila chheye

Translation:

Sri Chinmoy's Translation:

The golden door of light
Opens up,
And my life dances
With the ecstasy of the Beyond.
The dawn-goddess has arrived,
Sailing the boat of light.
It has touched my life of somnolence
And awakened me to the heights of light.

Song in:

Supreme, I Sing Only for You

Satisfaction-Blossoms

Footnotes:

On August 1, 1982, Sri Chinmoy called the song Sonar Baran his "Birthday Song", as he had written the Bengali poem on his birthday while at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in India. In the spring of 1974, he set music to it and translated the Bengali into English. The song was part of 105 Bengali songs learned by various members of the Sri Chinmoy Centre before his birthday in 1974 and who performed them on August 27, 1974. The Bengali poems and translations were first published in 1974 in the book titled "Supreme, I Sing Only For You" and the songs were later published in 1974 in a songbook of the same title.

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