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गंधर्व, गीत के ओ! कबसे पुकारता हूँ आओ कि मौत सहमे, गाओ कि जिए जीवन ।
यह निपट अकेलापन, मन की रुई न धुन दे यह मौत कहीं मुझको, दीवार में न चुन दे पाया मुझे अकेला, धमका दिया मरण ने ज़िंदा रखा अभी तक, बस गीत की शरण ने आओ न तुम अगर तो अवसर मिले व्यथा को सब वक्ष के व्रणों की देगी उधेड़ सीवन ।
ईंधन बचा हुआ है, ब़ाकी अभी अगन है हम नित्य गा रहे तो यह ज़िंदगी मगन है वैसे मरण-महावर पर पाँव में रचा है मारा गया बहुत पर, जीवन अभी बचा है अनुपात यह हमेशा, यों ही बना रहे तो हो अश्रु-ताप पर अब चंदन-सुहास लेपन ।
गाओ कि गीत से ही, धरती, गगन, दिशा है स्वर शेष, साँस, स्पंदन, ब़ाकी जिजीविषा है देखो कि गीत वाला स्वर मंद हो न जाए यह द्वार खुला जीवन का, बंद हो न जाए जीते न मौत बाज़ी, हारे न कभी जीवन अर्थी इधर, उधर हो, नव-जन्म-थाल-वादन ।
इति
The Poet
चंद्रसेन विराट
Chandrasen Virat
1936 · 1990s
Chandrasen Virat fundamentally reshaped the architecture of the Hindi Ghazal, proving that the form could carry the cultural nuances of the Hindi language with absolute grace. Born in 1936 in Madhya Pradesh, he emerged as a leading architect of the Navgeet movement and a prolific master of the Ghazal structure. He moved away from the traditional Urdu tropes of wine and the tavern, choosing instead to ground his couplets in the aesthetics of nature, Indian philosophy, and the domestic realities of the middle class. Across a vast body of published work, he demonstrated a meticulous command over meter and rhythm. Virat did not write to impress the literary elite. He wrote to map the delicate emotional landscape of the ordinary individual, ensuring that the Hindi Ghazal achieved a distinct and entirely independent identity.
Paired Painting
Kalantaka Shiva Saving Markandeya
This profound oleograph captures the timeless moment when Lord Shiva emerges as Kalantaka, the conqueror of death, to protect his young and devoted worshipper Markandeya from the clutches of Yama, the lord of justice and mortality. Markandeya, blessed with a destined short life of only sixteen years, clings desperately to the sacred Shiva lingam in absolute surrender and faith. As Yama approaches upon his water buffalo and casts his noose to claim the boy's soul, Shiva bursts forth from the stone pillar with righteous fury, wielding his divine trident and damru to vanquish death itself. Through this masterful work, Raja Ravi Varma bridges the gap between divine mythology and human emotion, immortalizing the ultimate triumph of supreme devotion over mortal fear.
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