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एक चिकना मौन जिस में मुखर तपती वासनाएँ दाह खोती लीन होती हैं। उसी में रवहीन तेरा गूँजता है छन्द: ऋत विज्ञप्त होता है।
एक काले घोल की-सी रात जिस में रूप, प्रतिमा, मूर्तियाँ सब पिघल जातीं ओट पातीं एक स्वप्नातीत, रूपातीत
पुनीत गहरी नींद की। उसी में से तू बढ़ा कर हाथ सहसा खींच लेता-गले मिलता है।
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
Lord Vishnu Reclining on Ananta Shesha
This profound image depicts the cosmic slumber of Lord Vishnu, the Preserver, as he rests upon the serpent Ananta Shesha amidst the infinite waters of the causal ocean. It is a moment of divine stillness before the creation of the universe, where the Lord awaits the call of time. Beside him, his consort Lakshmi gently massages his feet, an act of eternal devotion that anchors the spiritual weight of the scene. Above, Brahma emerges from a lotus springing from Vishnu's navel, symbolizing the birth of the creator and the cyclical nature of existence. The artist captures a serene transcendence, inviting the viewer to contemplate the silence from which all reality flows.
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