Tuesday, November 26, 2013

TUKARAM SOME NIRGUNI RACHNA 2

अभंग 

न करी रे संग राहे रे निश्चळ l लागो नेदी मळ ममतेचा ल ll १ ll 
या नाव अद्वैत ब्रह्म ज्ञान l अनुभवावाचून बडबड ते ll २ ll 
इंद्रियांचा जय वासनेचा क्षय l  संकल्पाही न ये वरी मन ll ३ ll 
तुका  म्हणे जाणीव न ये अंतरा l अंतरी या थारा आनंदाचा ll ४ ll 

NA KARI RE SANG RAHE RE NISCHAL l LAGE NEDI MAL MATECHA ll 1 1l
YA NAV ADWAIT BRAHM DYAN l ANUBHAVA VACHUN BADBAD TE ll 2 ll
INDRIYANCHA JAY VAASNECHA KSHAY l SNKALPAHI NA YE VARI MAN ll 3 ll
TUKA MHANE JANIV NA YE ANTARA l ANTARI YA THARA ANANDACHA ll 4 ll

Translation :
Do not give in to attachment .Be steady. Dont be spoiled by self affection..... 1
This is called as Non dual supreme knowledge. Talking about it without experience is futile.....2
Control over organs and desires and not resolving mind to ponder over them ..... 3
Tuka says that when this is accomplished in deep inside, it is filled with bliss ......4.

Commentary :

Line 1
Don't give in to attachment. Every individual is born with different different relations right from the birth.One goes acquiring more and more of relations with age. Not giving in to attachment is not giving up the relations and responsibilities arising out of them. Every relation has its own share of satisfaction and disappointment. To look at both with equal poise is being steady. This is hailed as SamtvaYoga in Bhagvadgeeta (2:48). Such equanimity becomes difficult due to affection towards parents, wife, children and so on. Basically these relations are extension of the self love which is impediment in the path of self query. That is why they are referred to as spoil and dirt to be avoided.

Line 2
The same theory is termed as Brahm Dyan of knowledge of the supreme. It has to experienced more than to talk about. The talk without backing of self realisation is as futile as pranks of an ignorant baby.. Sant Tukaram has come heavily on such glib speakers on many occasions else where.

Line3
Any action of individual is prompted first by resolving to do so. First thought and then action. This process is referred to as SANKALP. This process is recommended to be pushed so much far off that any breeze, wind or storm should not carry it back. The resolve to do is in turn prompted by likes and  dislikes. The likes and dislikes are supposed to be carried over from previous birth as VASANA. To do away with them is going against basic instincts. The performing organs like hands, mouth etc.need to be tamed and trained for this purpose by practicing penance.

Line 4
At the end Sant Tukaram this knowledge does not come from outside but comes from within as self realization. All turmoil is placated as result and blissful happiness fills inside.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

TUKARAM SOME NIRGUNI RACHNA

दुजें खंडे तरी l उरला तो अवघा हरि ll आपणाबाहेरी l न लगे धुंडावा ll १ ll 

इतुले जाणावया जाणा l कोडं करी मने मना ll पारधीच्या खुणा l जाणतेने ची साधाव्या  ll २ ll 

देह आधी काय खरा l देह संबध पसारा ll बुजगावणे चोरा l रक्षणसे भासते ll ३ ll 

तुका करी जागा l नको वासपू वाउगा ll आहेसी तू अंगा l अंगी उघडी डोळे ll ४ ll 

DUJE KHANDE TARI l URLA TO AVAGHA HARI ll APANA BAHERI l NA LAGE DHUNDAVA ll 1 ll
ITULE JANAVAYA JANA l KOD KARI MENE MANA ll PARDHICHYA KHUNA l JANATENECHI SADHAVYA ll 2 ll
DEH ADHI KAI KHARA l DEH SAMBADH PASARA ll BUJGAVANE CHORA l RAKSHANSE BHASTE ll 3 ll
TUKA KARI JAGA l NAKO VASAPU VAUGA ll AHESI TU ANGA l ANGI DOLE UGHADI ll 4 ll 

Translation :

Break the duality and find HARI everywhere. No need to search beyond thyself  ...1
Mind is a puzzle to be solved by the mind to know this small truth. Just as a hunter follows footprints of the prey ...2
So far the physical body and its extent was considered as real. As real as scare crow erected to defend the crop in the field .... 3
Tuka says wake up and refrain from vanity. Open your eyes to realise ultimate reality within thyself......4.

Commentary :

Line 1
The duality takes birth almost at the time of the birth of any individual. The first thing that one instinctively understands is " I , me and mine "  I am " me"  even if I forget my name. This is termed as AHAM BHAV. Instantly understood is what is not me as you and yours or He , she, it and theirs. This is termed as IDAMBHAV. Many times this is referred as the Subjective and Objective thoughts. This is duality referred by Sant Tukaram and urged to break fre from it. He further assures that fall out will be finding HARI every where. No need to search beyond thyself as an object or a person. The term HARI is not to be construed as some mythological GOD.

Line 2
Easy to say than experience. Sant Tukaram is advocating to use the Mind as instrument to solve puzzle of mind. The duality sustains on the acts of  likes and  dislikes of the mind. Only mind can break away from it.
An example is given of the hunter hunting the prey by following it's foot prints to underline self query.

Line 3
At the beginning the physical body is understood as true. Its interaction with the world is also understood as true. Only self query will show that these things are as real as scare crow raised in the field to protect the crop. It appears to be real and serves the limited role but never the person it is personifying.

Line 4
Sant Tukaram says Wake up and refrain from undue extensive actions. Open your eyes and realise the ultimate reality within thyself.

Thursday, November 21, 2013

MINUTE THAN ATOM (अणुरेणूया  थोकडा) 

अणुरेणूया  थोकडा … तुका आकाशा एवढा  ll १ ll
गिळूनी सांडले कलेवर ….  भव भ्रमाचा आकार  ll २ ll
सांडिली त्रिपुटी …  दीप उजळला घटी   ll ३ ll
तुका म्हणे आता … उरलो उपकारापुरता ll ४ ll

Word by word translation :

Minute than Atom yet equating the sky is Tuka
Swallowed and vomited illusion of form as a corpse
Quit three layer ( Experience ) , lit the lamp within
Tuka says now ( I ) remain only for benevolence.

Commentary :

Line one
Saint Tukaram is equating the subtlest and the greatest. One explores subtle, subtler and subtlest within parameters of one's own and known scale. At one point of exploration the subtlest remains only as possibility. So is the case with reaching great, greater and greatest. There also at one point it remains only as possibility. The point at both directions, where imagination ends one feels same degree of reality  and consciousness. Tukaram declares that He is at that degree of reality  and consciousness.

Line two
That point  has no place for the existance of the individual or the world. The Vedic philosophy denounces the world as the field for individual out of various forms and names which exist only as illusion  The physical body of any individual is also transitory and illusion. It's swallowing indicates the birth and vomiting indicates the death. What remains is a corpse.

Line three
The relation and inter-action between an individual and the world needs experience which is three layered. It needs the one who experiences, the object that is to be experienced and the medium for experience like sound for listening to song or sight for seeing the picture. Those three layer arise out of ignorance and that ignorance vanishes when a light of knowledge is lit within.

Line four
Having got this extreme experiences Sant Tukaram declares the purpose of his residual life as benevolence only.


Monday, September 9, 2013

ll SHREE GANRAJ AAJ YENAR ll


श्री गणराज आज येणार l श्री गणराज आज येणार ll

सारेग रेगम गम गाणार l श्री गणराज आज येणार ll

ढोम ढोम ढोलक वाजणार l  श्री गणराज  आज येणार ll

पद चपल चाल चालणार l  श्री  गणराज आज येणार ll

घरोघरी लोक जाणार l  श्री गणराज आज येणार  ll

पथ चौक स्थापणार l  श्री गणराज आज येणार ll

दिन चतुर्थी गाठणार l  श्री गणराज  आज येणार  ll

सालो साल सण होणार l  श्री गणराज आज येणार  ll

शुभ मंगल वितरणार l  श्री गणराज आज येणार  ll

थोर सान हरखणार l  श्री गणराज  आज  येणार  ll

छान सुंदर सजवणार l  श्री  गणराज आज येणार ll

लाडू मोदक बनवणार l  श्री गणराज आज येणार ll

गान नाटक रंगणार l  श्री गणराज  आज  येणार ll

कवि कविरचित रचणार l  श्री  गणराज  आज येणार ll

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

MUSICS AND MUSINGS OF SWABODH PARIVAR ( AMIR KHUSROU )

SWARBODH PARIVAR group was started sometime back on FACEBOOK.  Indian Clasical music is enriched by many contributions from centuries.  It would be educating and enriching experience to remember some of them.  Our endeavor will be to make few mentions of contributions by way of short Article/s. Some search is required for such type of Article and the thanks are due to the sources who made the information freely available. The oldest contribution at very early stage and which is well documented perhaps come from AMIR KHUSROU. So our inaugural Article starts with him.

AMIR KHUSRO

Born as ABDUL HASAN YAMIN AL-DIN KUSROU in 1253 AD at Patilai village in Eta district of Uttar Pradesh he lived  for 72 years and died in Delhi in 1352 AD. He was a multiple facet personality becoming Iconic to Indian Culture. He  was a poet, a philosopher, a historian, a musician all at a time. 

As Historian he was attached to the courts of seven Sultans in succession in his life time and kept record of their courts chronicles , family and fights. Has also accompanied them during their wars. The Alladin Khilaji whose obsession with Maharani Padmini has become subject of folk lore was one of those seven Sultans. He has Poetic history written in Persian like " Khansa-E-Nizami " 

As a philosopher he was spiritual disciple of NIZZAMUDIN AULIA of Delhi. Nizammudin Aulia belonged to SUFIANA lineage broght to India by Khwaja Mahmuddin Chisti in 100 ad. Influenced by him Amir Khusrou had some Sufi style poetry to his credit.

As poet he has composed in both Farsi and Hindavi ( Persian and Hindi ). He has handled various forms like Keh- Mukrani , Paheli, Doha and so on. Here are some of his sample composition.
PAHELI
एक गुनीने यह गुन कीना , हरियल पिन्जरेमे दे दीना II
देखो जादुगरका  कमाल , डाला हरा निकला लाल II   ( तोता }
DOHA
खुसरो दर्या प्रेमका उलटि वाकी धार
जो उतरा सो डूब गया जो डूबा वो पार
KEH-MUKRANI
ऊँची अटरि पलंग बिछावो
मै सोयी मेरे सीरपर आयो
खुल गई अँखियाआनंद भयो
कौन  सखी  साजन ? नहीं  चाँद

As musician he is considered as father of  SUFI Quawali.  A tradition of love leading to devotion which is very popular till date. Some people give him credit as originator of Tarana form of India Classical music, as influence of Persian music.( Some people believe Tarana Bols like Tan, Nan, Tum, Dir, Na etc come from Hindu Hymns.) He is inventor of Tabla created by bifurcating traditional Pakhwaj.
Many of his compositions are hits even today. Ine sample is given here. This form of song is called as CHAITI. or songs sung in the first month of Hindu Callender : Chaitra describing the climate and nature of the time.

सकल बन फूल रही है सरसों l

अंबुवा फुले टेसू फूटे , कोयल बोले डार डार l
और गोरी करत सिंगार , मालनिया गढ़वा ले आई करसो ll

तरह तरह के फूल खिलाये , ले गढ़वा हाथमे लाये l
निज़ाम्मुदिनके दरवज्जेपर, आवन कह गये आशिक रंग l
और बीत गये है बरसों ll

This composition is all ready set to tune by me and hope to record and post here soon.

Arvind Khare







Wednesday, August 28, 2013

जन्माष्टमीच्या शुभेच्छा

हाकारिता आयुष्य गेले साद कशी येईना 
काय चुकले कमी पडले काहिचकी कळेना 

अवचित कळले हाकारीत होतो मीच माझे मला 
कशास केला मज वेगळा कृष्णा असा मी तुला 

मीच राधा मी सुदामा मेळा मीच गोपाळांचा 
उतरंडीचा खेळ कृष्णा एकरूप दोघांचा 

पडणे, चढणे, हंडी फोडणे अवघ्या तुझ्या लीला 
ठेव आम्हा त्या पायरीवरी जिथे पहावे तुला

परतोनी यावे फिरुनी पहावे पुन्हा रमावे तुवा 
खेळ काळांतरी चा  आम्हा असाच चालू हवा

तुच आरंभी तुच शेवटी तुच तू आधी मधीही  
तुझ्या वीना कोणी नाही कुठे आणि केंवाही 

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

MURDER OF DR. NARENDRA DABHOLKAR :-



" BUDHHIPRAMANYAVAD " is the key word popular among intellectual class from Maharashtra. One such intellectual person was killed by fanatics yesterday. Dr. Narendra Dabholkar. Somebody has posted toiday that luckily bullets cant kill thought. Good but not good enough. Bullets are silent killers. The mute thoughts are also like dead thoughts unless they are vocal and have action plan to follow. The life sketch of Dr. Dabholkar amply demonstrates how thoughts are put to use.

Unfortunately like emotions, the intellect too differ from person to person. Aptly described by Aadi Shankaracharya in the words " PINDE PINDE MATI BHINNAH ". Still one thing is said clearly by Jnaeshwar that a mind needs to be controlled by intellect and must progress further for equanimity. Unfortunately most part of the life of a human being or society is governed by likes and dislikes of the mind. In person it can lead to homicide or suicide and in case of community it can lead to wars and terrorist acts.
One may agree or not but killing a thought or movement by bullet is absurd. It is indeed must not only for followers of Dr. Dabholkar but even those who differ with him to condemn the method in madness.

I dont believe that one single murder is capable of taking back the progressive state of Maharashtra . It's  intellectual property is too big for that.

He did not believe in GOD. Still I will pray God to grant eternal peace to his soul.

Arvind Khare
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