शान्त· Shanta
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Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya'
1 verse · ~12 lines · 1 min
Shanta
विदाई का गीत
Vidai Ka Geet
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan 'Agyeya' 1 min read 6 versesविदाईfarewellआलोक
6 verses · ~1 min
यह जाने का छिन आया पर कोई उदास गीत अभी गाना ना। चाहना जो चाहना
पर उलाहना मन में ओ मीत! कभी लाना ना! वह दूर, दूर सुनो, कहीं लहर लाती है और भी दूर, दूर, दूरतर का स्वर,
उसमें हाँ, मोह नहीं, पर कहीं विछोह नहीं, वह गुरुतर सच युगातीत रे भुलाना ना!
नहीं भोर-संझा उमगते-निमगते सूरज, चाँद, तारे, नहीं वहाँ उझकते-झिझकते डगमग किनारे; वहाँ एक अन्तःस्थ आलोक
अविराम रहता पुकारे; यही ज्योति-कवच है हमारा निजी सच, सार जो हम ने पाया गढ़ा, चमकाया, लुटाया: उस की सुप्रीत छाया से बाहर, ओ मीत, अब जाना ना!
कोई उदास गीत, ओ मीत! अभी गाना ना!
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
The Disappearance of Haridas Thakur
This poignant artwork depicts one of the most sublime and spiritually charged moments in Gaudiya Vaishnava history: the sacred transition of Srila Haridas Thakur. Revered as the Namacharya, or the teacher of the holy name, Haridas Thakur spent his final days in Puri chanting the divine names of Krishna with boundless ecstasy. Surrounded by Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and His devoted followers, who are swept up in an ocean of ecstatic kirtan, Haridas leaves his mortal frame while absorbed in remembrance of the Lord. The scene overflows with deep emotional resonance, capturing the bittersweet paradox of divine separation and spiritual triumph as banners flutter and devotees lift their arms in ecstatic surrender.
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Chosen for their rasa and their register, not their popularity. Each one carries some part of what Vidai Ka Geet carries.
