Wednesday, May 18, 2011

गंगा बहती हो क्यूँ?


विस्तार हैं अपार, प्रजा दोनों पार,
करे हाहाकार निशब्द सदा,
ओ गंगा तुम, गंगा बहती हो क्यूँ?? 

नैतिकता नष्ट हुई, मानवता भ्रष्ट हुई,
निर्लज्ज-भाव से बहती हो क्यों??
इतिहास की पुकार करे हुंकार, ओ गंगा की धार निर्बल-जन को
सबल संग्रामी समग्रोगामी बनाती नहीं हो क्यों?? 

अनपढ़जन, अक्षरहीन, अनगिन जन खाद्यविहीन,
नेत्रविहीन देख मौन हो क्यों?
इतिहास की पुकार करे हुंकार, ओ गंगा की धार निर्बल-जन को
सबल संग्रामी समग्रोगामी बनाती नहीं हो क्यों?? 

व्यक्ति रहे व्यष्टि-केंद्रित, सकल समाज व्यष्टित्व-रहित,
निष्प्राण समाजको तोडती न क्यों?
इतिहास की पुकार करे हुंकार, ओ गंगा की धार निर्बल-जन को
सबल संग्रामी समग्रोगामी बनाती नहीं हो क्यों?? 

स्त्रोतस्विनी क्यों न रही? तुम निश्चय चेतन नहीं...
प्राणों में प्रेरणा देती न क्यों?
उन्मत अवनी कुरुक्षेत्र बनी,
गंगे जननी नवभारत में, (तुम) भीष्म-रूपी सूत समरजयी, जनती नहीं हो क्यों? 

कवी - पंडित नरेन्द्र शर्मा
गायक - श्री भूपेन हजारिका


English Translation


Countless commons are crying out on both the banks of your unfathomable expanse,
yet silently Oh Ganga, why do you keep on flowing? - 1

Morality is destroyed, Humanity has been corrupted,
Yet shamelessly why do you continue flowing?
Why don't you empower the weak and make them progressive, in spite of the approaching roaring tides of history? - 2

Countless men, illiterate, uneducated and hungry,
Why do you silently turn a blind eye towards them?
Why don't you empower the weak and make them progressive, in spite of the approaching roaring tides of history? - 3

(in modern times) Individual stays in small circle, entire-society is lacking identity,
Why don't you break and destroy this already lifeless society? (so that new beginning can be made - hint towards prayala)
Why don't you empower the weak and make them progressive, in spite of the approaching roaring tides of history? - 4

Why didn't you remain full of life, (it seems like) for sure you are lifeless..
Why don't you inspire the "life-force" within yourselves and society?
Defiant earth has become Kurukshetra, O mother Ganga why don't you conceive again a victorious son like Bheeshma for New India (to happen)? - 5








Poet - Pandit Narendra Sharma
Singer and Composer - Bhupen Hazarika

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