Jiban Kusum Shukaiya Jai

```

Jiban kusum shukaiya jai

Jharibar age phire phire chai

Amito chinina se chine amai

Kato bhabe kato gane

Se je mor prane tane

Chali tar sathe na jani kothai

```

Translation

```

The flower of life withers

Before it properly blossoms.

I do not desire a similar life

But life knows me quite well.

In various ways,

In various songs, it calls me.

It tries to draw me towards it.

Alas, finally I surrender.

And now I do not know,

For I do not know where I am going.

```

From:Sri Chinmoy,Illumination-Song and Liberation-Dance, part 5, Agni Press, 1981
Sourced from https://srichinmoylibrary.com/isls_5