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उसी एकान्त में घर दो जहाँ पर सभी आवें: वही एकान्त सच्चा है जिसे सब छू सकें। मुझ को यही वर दो उसी एकान्त में घर दो कि जिस में सभी आवें-मैं न आऊँ। नहीं मैं छू भी सकूँ जिस को मुझे ही जो छुए, घेरे समो ले। क्यों कि जो कुछ मुझ से छुआ जा सका- मेरे स्पर्श से चटका-न ही है आसरा, वह छत्र कच्चा है: वही एकान्त सच्चा है जिसे छूने मैं चलूँ तो मैं पलट कर टूट जाऊँ। लौट कर फिर वहीं आऊँ किन्तु पाऊँ जो उसे छू रहा है वह मैं नहीं हूँ: सभी हैं वे। सभी: वह भी जो कि इस का बोध मुझ तक ला सका। उसी एकन्त में घर दो-यही वर दो।
इति
The Poet
अज्ञेय
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'
1911 · 1987
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan, universally known by his pen name Agyeya, completely rewired the circuitry of modern Hindi literature. Born in 1911 in a British archaeological camp in Uttar Pradesh, his life was as fiercely untraditional as his prose. Before he became the architect of the Prayogavaad (Experimentalism) movement, he was an active revolutionary who spent four years in British colonial prisons for attempting to help Bhagat Singh escape. In those prison cells, he began drafting Shekhar: Ek Jivani, a psychological novel that shocked the literary establishment with its unapologetic exploration of the individual ego. He rejected the prevailing romanticism of the era and instead assembled the Tar Saptak series, bringing together a new generation of poets who wrote in free verse about alienation, intellect, and the fractured modern psyche. He won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1964 and the Jnanpith Award in 1978. Agyeya was a novelist, a combatant officer in World War II, a journalist, and a profound existential thinker. He gave Hindi literature the vocabulary to interrogate the inner self without the comfort of traditional morality.
Paired Painting
Vishnu reclining on Shesha
In this sublime depiction, we witness the Lord of Preservation, Vishnu, resting upon the coiled, thousand-headed serpent Shesha amidst the cosmic ocean. Beside him sits Lakshmi, his consort, the embodiment of grace and abundance. They are surrounded by celestial companions, including the divine musician Narada and the faithful Garuda, while Lord Brahma emerges from the lotus rooted in Vishnu's navel to begin the cycle of creation. This work captures a moment of profound cosmic tranquility: it serves as a bridge between the mortal realm and the eternal, inviting the viewer into a space of meditative stillness where time itself seems to dissolve into the divine presence.
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