While coming to ask for You,
I mistakenly asked for Your boon.

I went to get the ocean,
but instead, I got a drop of salty water only.

I did not understand
the difference between animate and inanimate.
I did not learn to differentiate between
what is pleasure and what is beneficial.

I considered myself wise
for getting the fruit
and leaving aside the tree itself.

Whatever You have given me with Your right hand,
You have taken away with Your left hand.

At the end of all desires and attainments,
on a final check, remains only nil.

You know that today I am with You,
I do not ask for anything,
for, it is Your flute that sings this message.