Sunday, April 19, 2009

Aarambh hai Prachand (आरंभ हैं प्रचंड)

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आरंभ हैं प्रचंड - Aarambh hain Prachand


आरंभ हैं प्रचंड बोले मस्तकों के झुंड
आज ज़ंग की घडी की तुम गुहार दो...
आन बान शान या की जान का हो दान
आज एक धनुष के बाण पे उतार दो...

मन करे सो प्राण दे जो मन करे सो प्राण ले
वही तो एक सर्व शक्तिमान हैं
कृष्ण की पुकार हैं ये भागवत का सार हैं
की युद्ध ही तो वीर का प्रमाण हैं
कौरवों की भीड़ हो या पांडवों का नीड़ हो
जो लड़ सका हैं वो ही तो महान हैं....

जीत की हवस नहीं, किसीपे कोई वश नहीं
क्या ज़िन्दगी हैं ठोकरों पे मार दो..
मौत अंत हैं नहीं तो मौत से भी क्यों डरें
ये जाके आसमान में दहाड़ दो..
आरंभ है प्रचंड.....

हो दया का भाव, या की शौर्य का चुनाव
या की हार का हो घाव तुम ये सोच लो
या की पुरे भाल पर जला रहें विजय का लाल
लाल ये गुलाल तुम ये सोच लो
रंग केसरी हो या मृदंग केसरी हो या
की केसरी हो ताल तुम ये सोच लो...

जिस कवी की कल्पना में ज़िन्दगी हो प्रेमगीत
उस कवी को आज तुम नकार दो.
भीगती नसों में आज फूलती रगों में आज
आग की लपट का तुम बघाड दो.
आरंभ हैं प्रचंड....

Poet - Piyush Mishra

Beautiful poetry from movie Gulaal... The first stanza is my personal favorite. Poet beautifully expressses his understanding of Bhagvat-Geeta and Mahabharat in few lines.

Especially the line -

कृष्ण की पुकार हैं ये भागवत का सार हैं
की युद्ध ही तो वीर का प्रमाण हैं
कौरवों की भीड़ हो या पांडवों का नीड़ हो
जो लड़ सका हैं वो ही तो महान हैं

This line beautifully espouses the arguments put forth by Krishna while persuading Arjun to fight. All the arguments of Arjun regarding Wise men (pandit) considering victory and defeat as same thus making the war illogical are negated by these arguments of Krishna.

If Krishna had espoused this message to Duryodhan, perhaps, this is how he would have taken it. Matter of perspective. The Duryodhan's tamasic perspective are seen in final couplet of this poem-

जीत की हवस नहीं, किसीपे कोई वश नहीं
क्या ज़िन्दगी हैं ठोकरों पे मार दो..
मौत अंत हैं नहीं तो मौत से भी क्यों डरें
ये जाके आसमान में दहाड़ दो

Krishna wanted Arjun to invoke his tamasic side and indulge in gory war, instead of being in profound self doubt and waste the opportunity of establishing the reign of Dharma (righteousness) on earth. Arjun was sulking over probable death of the bodies of his cousins and teachers even before the war started. It was as if, he gave up before he even started, assuming that he will win the war.

The dream that he saw of establishing the rightful empire of Pandavas was beautiful as long as it was dream. When time came to convert that dream into reality, profound self-doubt clouded the wisdom of this mighty warrior. He took his own victory over numerically and technologically superior foe, for granted. And procastrinated the grief he will experience in future when he kills his kin.

This is very powerful message of Geeta, IMHO.

अन्तवन्त इमे देहा नित्यस्योक्ता: शरिरिणः अनाशिनो अप्रमेयस्य तस्माद युद्धस्व भारत: - 2.18

- The Aatman (self) is eternal in existence. Body is perishable by default. So don't get attached to something which is perishable, Oh Arjun.. Fight and do your duty...

वेदा विनाशिनम नित्यम या एनमजव्ययम कथं स पुरुष: पार्थ कं घातयति हन्ति कं ? - 2.21

- Oh Arjun, you know that death happens to the material body which is perishable and not to the eternally existent Atman, How can anybody be a cause of death of anybody else? Who has ended? and who ended him? no one.. because death (of body) is not the end for journey of Atman..

हतो वा प्राप्यसि स्वर्गं जित्वा व भोक्ष्यसे महिम तस्मात् उत्तिष्ठ कौन्तेय युद्धाय कृतनिश्चय - 2.37

- If you die, you will attain heaven. If you win, you will rule the earth. So get up, oh Arjun, and Fight.

This message is resonated in the line from the poem -
- मौत अंत हैं नहीं तो मौत से भी क्यों डरें, ये जाके आसमान में दहाड़ दो..

The eternal truth of importance and inevitability of war and struggle in socio-politics of Human affairs resonates in Bhagvat Geeta. This very inevitability of struggle which accompanies human existence resonates in this poem as well.

3 comments:

Chinmay 'भारद्वाज' said...

I think "Hato vaa pryapa si swargam"
captures the essence of war.

The poem is inspiring. Kudos to the poet.

Thanks for sharing :-)

Prashant K. Surtikar said...

J ho ......poet has beautifully explained summary of the teachings of Shri Krishna.....motivational song 😙👨🙏

Unknown said...

I loved the poem. It really is inspiring. JAI HIND!!!