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कितनी अतृप्ति है

Kitni Atripti Hai

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2 verses · ~1 min

कितनी अतृप्ति है...

कितनी अतृप्ति है जीवन में? मधु के अगणित प्याले पीकर, कहता जग तृप्त हुआ जीवन, मुखरित हो पड़ता है सहसा, मादकता से कण-कण प्रतिक्षण, पर फिर विष पीने की इच्छा क्यों जागृत होती है मन में? कवि का विह्वल अंतर कहता, पागल, अतृप्ति है जीवन में।

इति

Rasa: Shanta
Stanzas: 2
Lines: 8
Reading time: ~1 min
Form: Free verse
Metre: free verse
Rhyme: irregular

The poem evokes a contemplative and somber emotional atmosphere steeped in shanta rasa, where the initial euphoria of existence gives way to an aching existential void. Visually, a painting of this scene would depict a sprawling, shadowed feast strewn with countless empty golden goblets of wine, while a solitary, restless figure gazes past the revelry toward a dark cup of venom held in their own trembling hands. This imagery symbolizes the eternal human condition of spiritual hunger and the dangerous allure of self-destruction masked as deeper awakening, suggesting a silent, unresolved narrative of a soul that has tasted all earthly pleasures yet remains fundamentally starved. The overall artistic tone is philosophical, melancholic, and quietly piercing, capturing the paradox of an insatiable heart that rejects the illusion of worldly fulfillment in favor of a deeper, albeit poisonous, truth.

कितनी अतृप्ति है (Kitni Atripti Hai), by Gopaldas 'Neeraj' runs to 8 lines across 2 stanzas, set as Single stanza with varying line lengths. Its governing rasa is Shanta, shaded by Karuna. The metre is free verse. Rhyme falls as irregular.

It belongs to the 1925 · 2018 span of Gopaldas 'Neeraj''s working life, and keeps the plain, spoken register that period is known for.

Read it for मानव जीवन की अनंत अतृप्ति and सुख और दुःख का अंतहीन चक्र. 2 words in it carry older or regional senses, so the poem rewards a second pass.

The verse is hung beside Sujata Offering Milk Rice to Siddhartha: Bathed in a warm, ethereal glow of dusty pinks, ochres, and muted olive greens, the scene evokes a mood of profound serenity, reverence, and spiritual transition. A frail Siddhartha Gautama, his head crowned by a soft,…

Words worth pausing on

अतृप्ति: संतुष्ट न होने की अवस्था
मुखरित: प्रकट होना या आवाज़ देना

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The Poet

गोपालदास "नीरज

Gopaldas 'Neeraj'

1925 · 2018

If Hindi poetry possessed a single voice that could dissolve the boundary between the written word and the sung breath, that voice belonged to Gopaldas Neeraj. He moved with rare and uncanny fluency between the high courts of literary poetry and the golden studios of Hindi cinema. Writing film lyrics in the 1960s and 1970s, he achieved something almost impossible by ensuring his songs carried genuine philosophical weight while remaining luminous with melody. His songs for films like Mera Naam Joker and Nai Umar Ki Nai Fasal did not condescend to their popular medium, but rather elevated it entirely. Neeraj understood with the instinct of a true artist that the deepest questions of human existence, the nature of time, the certainty of loss, and the strange beauty of impermanence are not the exclusive property of the academy. They belong to the weeping widow, the dreaming young man, and the farmer watching rain fall on dry earth. Born in Puravali in 1925, he lived until 2018. Through nine full decades, he carried the gift of making the philosophical feel personal and the personal feel universal. He was that rarest of things, a poet whom both the scholar and the ordinary listener claimed as their own.