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भारत माता का मंदिर यह समता का संवाद जहाँ, सबका शिव कल्याण यहाँ है पावें सभी प्रसाद यहाँ ।
जाति-धर्म या संप्रदाय का, नहीं भेद-व्यवधान यहाँ, सबका स्वागत, सबका आदर सबका सम सम्मान यहाँ । राम, रहीम, बुद्ध, ईसा का, सुलभ एक सा ध्यान यहाँ, भिन्न-भिन्न भव संस्कृतियों के गुण गौरव का ज्ञान यहाँ ।
नहीं चाहिए बुद्धि बैर की भला प्रेम का उन्माद यहाँ सबका शिव कल्याण यहाँ है, पावें सभी प्रसाद यहाँ ।
सब तीर्थों का एक तीर्थ यह ह्रदय पवित्र बना लें हम आओ यहाँ अजातशत्रु बन, सबको मित्र बना लें हम । रेखाएँ प्रस्तुत हैं, अपने मन के चित्र बना लें हम । सौ-सौ आदर्शों को लेकर एक चरित्र बना लें हम ।
बैठो माता के आँगन में नाता भाई-बहन का समझे उसकी प्रसव वेदना वही लाल है माई का एक साथ मिल बाँट लो अपना हर्ष विषाद यहाँ सबका शिव कल्याण यहाँ है पावें सभी प्रसाद यहाँ ।
मिला सेव्य का हमें पुज़ारी सकल काम उस न्यायी का मुक्ति लाभ कर्तव्य यहाँ है एक एक अनुयायी का कोटि-कोटि कंठों से मिलकर उठे एक जयनाद यहाँ सबका शिव कल्याण यहाँ है पावें सभी प्रसाद यहाँ ।
इति
The Poet
मैथिलीशरण गुप्त
Maithili Sharan Gupt
1886 · 1964
The title Rashtriya Kavi National Poet was conferred upon Maithili Sharan Gupt by Mahatma Gandhi, and it was the most accurate literary judgment the Mahatma ever made. At a moment in history when Hindi literature stood at a crossroads between a dying classical tradition and an uncertain modern one, Gupt performed a double act of rescue: he saved the dignity of Khari Boli as a medium worthy of serious literary ambition, and he recovered from the mythology of India the voices that centuries of male centered narrative had buried the Urmilas, the Yashodharas, the women who loved and suffered and persisted at the margins of the great epics while their husbands received all of history's attention. His Bharat Bharati, released in 1912, became the literary proclamation of national self consciousness at a moment when such proclamation was both desperately needed and politically dangerous. He did not write merely about India's past glory he used that past to locate a moral standard against which the present could be measured and found responsible. Gupt was a man of deep humility who built works of imperial scale. He stands at the very origin point of modern Hindi literature, the patriarch in whose shadow all subsequent poets grew.
Paired Painting
Rama Darbar
In this sublime depiction, Raja Ravi Varma captures the eternal assembly of Lord Rama, the ideal king and avatar of Vishnu. Seated upon a majestic throne, Rama is flanked by the graceful Sita and his devoted brothers, while the loyal Hanuman bows in humble adoration. The scene radiates a profound sense of peace and divine order, known as Ram Rajya. Varma utilizes the medium of lithography to bridge the gap between traditional Indian sensibilities and Western academic portraiture, creating a visual language that has defined the modern Hindu imagination for generations. It is an image that breathes with the devotion of millions, serving as a beacon of righteousness, duty, and unconditional love.
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