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तुम हमारे हो

Tum Hamare Ho

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

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नहीं मालूम क्यों यहाँ आया ठोकरें खाते हु‌ए दिन बीते। उठा तो पर न सँभलने पाया गिरा व रह गया आँसू पीते।

ताब बेताब हु‌ई हठ भी हटी नाम अभिमान का भी छोड़ दिया। देखा तो थी माया की डोर कटी सुना वह कहते हैं, हाँ खूब किया।

पर अहो पास छोड़ आते ही वह सब भूत फिर सवार हु‌ए। मुझे गफलत में ज़रा पाते ही फिर वही पहले के से वार हु‌ए।

एक भी हाथ सँभाला न गया और कमज़ोरों का बस क्या है। कहा - निर्दय, कहाँ है तेरी दया, मुझे दुख देने में जस क्या है।

रात को सोते यह सपना देखा कि वह कहते हैं "तुम हमारे हो भला अब तो मुझे अपना देखा, कौन कहता है कि तुम हारे हो।

अब अगर को‌ई भी सताये तुम्हें तो मेरी याद वहीं कर लेना नज़र क्यों काल ही न आये तुम्हें प्रेम के भाव तुरत भर लेना"।

इति

The Poet

सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी "निराला

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

1899 · 1961

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala lived in the permanent condition of the truly original. He was frequently misunderstood by the very world he transformed. Born in Bengal but claiming Hindi as the medium of his revolution, he dismantled the metrical structures of classical Sanskrit based verse. He introduced what he called mukta chhand, or free verse, into a tradition that had never encountered it and was not at first grateful. His life was a sustained encounter with catastrophe. The plague took his wife, daughter, and brother in the same brutal sweep. Poverty pressed against him without mercy, and critical misunderstanding sometimes shaded into deliberate cruelty. Yet from within this suffering, he produced verse of such concentrated and terrible beauty that it reads not as the product of a broken man, but as the testimony of a spirit that had gone through fire and returned with the fire still alive inside it. His epic Ram Ki Shakti Puja remains one of the supreme poems in the Hindi language. It is a profound meditation on doubt, divine abandonment, and the final trembling choice to go on fighting. Nirala was not a comfortable figure, nor was he praised sufficiently in his lifetime. But he was, in the most absolute sense, free. That freedom cost him everything and produced everything. He remains the patron saint of the uncompromising.

Paired Painting

Gopala Krishna

This profound devotional painting captures the eternal charm of Lord Krishna in his tender pastoral form as Gopala, the protector of cows. Seated serenely amidst a quiet twilight grove, his dark azure skin glows against a radiant golden halo, symbolizing the infinite divine light that permeates creation. His gentle gaze evokes a deep sense of peace, inviting the viewer into a timeless space of unconditional love and surrender. Cradled gently by a devoted calf and accompanied by a resting cow, the scene embodies the pure harmony between the divine and nature. As a treasured illustration from the historic 1972 edition of Bhagavad Gita As It Is, this artwork has guided countless spiritual seekers across the world, serving as a visual sanctuary for meditation and remembrance of the Supreme.

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