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Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'1 verses · ~1 min
केंचुलें हैं, केंचुलें हैं, झाड़ दो। छल मकर की तनी झिल्ली फाड़ दो। साँप के विष-दाँत तोड़ उघाड़ दो। आजकल यह चलन है, सब जंतुओं की खाल पहने हैं- गले गीदड़ लोमड़ी की बाघ की है खाल काँधों पर दिल ढँका है भेड़ की गुलगुली चमड़ी से हाथ में थैला मगर की खाल का और पैरों में जगमगाती साँप की केंचुल बनी है श्रीचरण का सैंडल किंतु भीतर कहीं भेड़-बकरी, बाघ-गीदड़, साँप के बहुरूप के अंदर कहीं पर रौंदा हुआ अब भी तड़पता है सनातन मानव- खरा इनसान- क्षण भर रुको उसको जगा लें। नहीं है यह धर्म, ये तो पैंतरे हैं उन दरिंदों के रूढ़ि के नाखून पर मरजाद की मखमल चढ़ाकर यों विचारों पर झपट्टा मारते हैं- बड़े स्वार्थी की कुटिल चालें साथ आओ- गिलगिले ये साँप बैरी हैं हमारे इन्हें आज पछाड़ दो यह मगर की तनी झिल्ली फाड़ दो केंचुलें हैं, केंचुलें हैं, झाड़ 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
Narasimha Slaying Hiranyakashipu
This powerful depiction captures the climactic moment of divine intervention when Lord Vishnu manifests as Narasimha, the half man and half lion avatar, to protect his devotee Prahlada. The ferocity of the deity is palpable, representing the total destruction of arrogance and evil, embodied here by the demon king Hiranyakashipu. It is a scene that resonates deeply with the eternal struggle between adharma and the protective grace of the Divine. Watching the unfolding tragedy, the young Prahlada stands in quiet devotion, reminding the viewer that even in the midst of cosmic violence, the faithful heart remains anchored in peace. The artwork serves as a profound meditation on the protective nature of God, who appears in any form necessary to restore cosmic balance.
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