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मातृ वंदना

Matri Vandana

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नर जीवन के स्वार्थ सकल बलि हों तेरे चरणों पर, माँ मेरे श्रम सिंचित सब फल।

जीवन के रथ पर चढ़कर सदा मृत्यु पथ पर बढ़ कर महाकाल के खरतर शर सह सकूँ, मुझे तू कर दृढ़तर; जागे मेरे उर में तेरी मूर्ति अश्रु जल धौत विमल दृग जल से पा बल बलि कर दूँ जननि, जन्म श्रम संचित पल।

बाधाएँ आएँ तन पर देखूँ तुझे नयन मन भर मुझे देख तू सजल दृगों से अपलक, उर के शतदल पर; क्लेद युक्त, अपना तन दूंगा मुक्त करूंगा तुझे अटल तेरे चरणों पर दे कर बलि सकल श्रेय श्रम संचित फल

इति

The Poet

सूर्यकांत त्रिपाठी "निराला

Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'

1899 · 1961

Suryakant Tripathi Nirala lived in the permanent condition of the truly original. He was frequently misunderstood by the very world he transformed. Born in Bengal but claiming Hindi as the medium of his revolution, he dismantled the metrical structures of classical Sanskrit based verse. He introduced what he called mukta chhand, or free verse, into a tradition that had never encountered it and was not at first grateful. His life was a sustained encounter with catastrophe. The plague took his wife, daughter, and brother in the same brutal sweep. Poverty pressed against him without mercy, and critical misunderstanding sometimes shaded into deliberate cruelty. Yet from within this suffering, he produced verse of such concentrated and terrible beauty that it reads not as the product of a broken man, but as the testimony of a spirit that had gone through fire and returned with the fire still alive inside it. His epic Ram Ki Shakti Puja remains one of the supreme poems in the Hindi language. It is a profound meditation on doubt, divine abandonment, and the final trembling choice to go on fighting. Nirala was not a comfortable figure, nor was he praised sufficiently in his lifetime. But he was, in the most absolute sense, free. That freedom cost him everything and produced everything. He remains the patron saint of the uncompromising.

Paired Painting

Tanaji's Vow for the Kondhana Campaign

This painting captures a poignant moment of profound duty and sacrifice in Maratha history. Tanaji Malusare, the brave commander and close companion of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, is depicted kneeling before Jijamata, Shivaji's mother. As Tanaji prepares for his son's wedding, he learns of the urgent need to reclaim the Kondhana fort. True to his warrior spirit, he declares that he shall first complete the marriage of Kondhana, a metaphorical reference to capturing the fort, before proceeding with the wedding of his own son, Rayba. The composition radiates a sense of solemnity, as the figures embody the gravity of their commitment to Swarajya (self-rule), standing as a deeply moving testament to the selfless devotion that defined the Maratha struggle for sovereignty.

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