A blog in Sanskrit: A verse on youth and oldage

तदार्थहीनस्तरुणो निरामयः।

अशक्त आसीत् खलु मिष्टभोजने।

धनीत्विदानीं स्थविरश्च रुग्णः

पथ्यं हि भुङ्क्ते स विधेर्विपाकः ॥

 

Then he was young and healthy but lacked money and was not capable of indulging in good food. Now he is wealthy but old and sick and he is on diet. That is how fate wills!

svarajaalam

स्वरजालम्

(गुरुदेवस्य रबीन्द्रनाथठाकूरस्य “তুমি কেমন করে গান কোরো” गीतस्य संस्कृते अनुरणनम् आर्याछन्दसि बद्धम्)

 

अहो! तव गानं कियत्

हृदयङ्गमं हे सद्गुणसंपन्न।

अहं विस्मितः शृणोमि

अवाक् भवन् केवलं शृणोमि॥ १ ॥

स्वरभा भुवनं व्याप्ता

तव स्वरप्राणाः विहायसि प्रसृताः।

तव स्वराणां गंगा

द्रुतं वहति शिलाः भिन्दन्ती ।। २ ॥

अहमपि त्वया सार्धं

गायानीति मम मनस्यभिलाषा।

परं तु मे स्वनस्तव

स्वरे न परिणमति न समेति।। ३ ॥

स्वरजालं प्रसारितं

मम परितस्त्वयास्मिन्विनिबद्धोऽस्मि।

अहं विस्मितः शृणोमि

गुणशालिन् केवलं शृणोमि॥ ४ ॥

 

Below is Gurudev’s rendering of song in English:

 

I know not how thou singest, my master

I ever listen in silent amazement.

Thy light of thy music illumines thy world.

The life breath of thy music runs from sky to sky.

The holy stream of thy music breaks through

On stony obstacles and rushes on.

My heart longs to join in thy song,

But vainly struggles for a voice. I would speak,

But speech breaks not into song, and I cry out baffled.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive

In the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

 

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मुक्तकः

harShasphIte bandhujane rudannahamavaataraM |
rudiShyati priyajane mRutirme&stu hasiShyatah  ॥

हर्षस्फीते बन्धुजने रुदन्नहमवातरम्।

रुदिष्यति प्रियजने मृतिर्मेऽस्तु हसिष्यतः॥

I descended crying while my relatives expanded with happiness. May my end be when I will be laughing and my loved ones will be crying.

This is a rendering in Sanskrit of an Urdu couplet.