Today the Chariot Festival of Lord Jagannath is on,
The route is teeming with crowd, celebrating it with gusto,
Devotees are paying obeisance by bowing down to the road soaking in reverence.
The road thinks that he's God so devotees are paying obeisance to him,
Chariot thinks it's he, the idol things he is God nodoubt,
The omnipresent God simply smiles in amusement, unnoticed!
Translation: RSBhattacharya
Bengali (original) : Rabindranath Tagore
রথযাত্রা, লোকারণ্য, মহা ধুমধাম,
ভক্তেরা লুটায়ে পথে করিছে প্রণাম।
পথ ভাবে আমি দেব রথ ভাবে আমি,
মূর্তি ভাবে আমি দেব—হাসে অন্তর্যামী।
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