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मैं भी एक प्रवाह में हूँ- लेकिन मेरा रहस्यवाद ईश्वर की ओर उन्मुख नहीं है, मैं उस असीम शक्ति से सम्बन्ध जोडऩा चाहता हूँ- अभिभूत होना चाहता हूँ-
जो मेरे भीतर है। शक्ति असीम है, मैं शक्ति का एक अणु हूँ, मैं भी असीम हूँ। एक असीम बूँद असीम समुद्र को अपने भीतर प्रतिबिम्बित करती है,
एक असीम अणु इस असीम शक्ति को जो उसे प्रेरित करती है अपने भीतर समा लेना चाहता है, उस की रहस्यामयता का परदा खोल कर उस में मिल जाना चाहता है- यही मेरा रहस्यवाद 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
Vishvarupa Darshan
This profound painting captures the climactic moment of the Bhagavad Gita, where Lord Krishna reveals His terrifying and glorious Universal Form to Arjuna. The artist seeks to convey the overwhelming nature of the divine, where time, destruction, and creation coexist within a single luminous body. We see the humble form of Krishna in the foreground, acting as a gateway to the infinite majesty behind him. The work invites the viewer to reflect on the insignificance of the ego in the face of the cosmos, urging a surrender to the eternal spirit that sustains all existence.
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